Asymmetric key features
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11067920B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-20

    申请号:US17047875

    申请日:2018-08-30

    摘要: An example print component includes a container interface with a guide feature to guide rotation and a rotationally asymmetric key feature. An example toner component includes a recess to receive a toner container, a guide feature to guide rotation of the toner container, and an asymmetric key feature embedded in the guide feature to guide a container material interface towards a component material interface upon rotation. An example container may have a periphery with a rotationally asymmetric surface plane to guide rotation of the container and a protrusion extending from the periphery that has a key feature defined by edges rotationally asymmetric with respect to the periphery. An example container may include a mechanical interface including an asymmetrically-located key feature that, upon rotation of the print material container, generates a sealing force substantially perpendicular to the direction of rotation.

    Electrical contacts coupled to guide structures

    公开(公告)号:US11305547B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-19

    申请号:US17047886

    申请日:2018-08-30

    IPC分类号: B41J2/175

    摘要: In an example, a print component includes a guide structure. The example guide structure includes a recess to receive a print material container and a guideway with a guide wall to support rotation of the print material container. Upon rotation of the print material container, an electrical contact of the print material container moves towards an electrical contact coupled to the guide structure of the print component. In another example, a container includes a housing, a material transfer interface, and a mechanical interface. In that example, the mechanical interface includes a guide structure that defines a protrusion and a guideway to allow the container to rotate within a recess defined by a receptacle shell. Upon rotation of the container, an electrical contact coupled to the guide structure moves towards an electrical contact on the receptacle shell.

    Print material transfer mechanisms

    公开(公告)号:US11163244B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-02

    申请号:US17041854

    申请日:2018-05-20

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08

    摘要: Example implementations relate to an apparatus to transfer a quantity of print material to a printing device through a transfer mechanism. In some examples, the apparatus includes a container including the quantity of print material, a transfer mechanism associated with the container, and a sensor associated with the transfer mechanism. In some examples, the sensor is to communicate to the printing device information about the transfer of the quantity of print material through the dispenser mechanism.

    Dispensable substance containers
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11866245B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-09

    申请号:US16978525

    申请日:2018-05-21

    IPC分类号: B65D83/00 B41J2/175

    CPC分类号: B65D83/0022 B41J2/17506

    摘要: A dispensable substance container may include an elongate body encompassing a lumen, wherein the lumen is to contain the dispensable substance; a dispensable; substance dispensing nozzle attached to a first end on the elongate body; a sealing material within the lumen, wherein the sealing material is moveable, by a pushrod, within the lumen to push the dispensable substance out the dispensing tip; and a structurally compromised portion of the elongate body extending along a length of the elongate body, wherein the elongate body is to be severed along the structurally compromised portion by the pushrod.