公开(公告)号：US06378985B2

公开(公告)日：2002-04-30

申请号：US09769043

申请日：2001-01-24

申请人： Karen McArdle ,  Marcus Scholz ,  Steven R. Card

发明人： Karen McArdle ,  Marcus Scholz ,  Steven R. Card

IPC分类号： B41J2300

CPC分类号： B41J2/17526 ,  B41J2/14024 ,  B41J2/14072 ,  B41J2/17513 ,  B41J2/1752 ,  B41J2/1755 ,  B41J19/20 ,  H05K3/361

摘要： An ink-jet printer includes an ink-jet cartridge having a flexible circuit connecting to a carriage in a relatively movable but movably constrained relationship. The carriage and the flexible circuit cooperatively define an instant center so that an array of electrical contact pads of the flexible circuit is reliably and repeatably positioned relative to the carriage, while manufacturing variabilities and thermal differential expansions between the carriage and flexible circuit, for example, are accommodated without loss of relative positional control of the array of contact pads and the carriage.

摘要翻译： 喷墨打印机包括具有以相对可移动但可移动约束的关系连接到滑架的柔性电路的喷墨盒。 托架和柔性电路协同地限定了一个即时中心，使得柔性电路的电接触焊盘的阵列相对于托架可靠地和可重复地定位，同时制造滑架和柔性电路之间的变化和热差扩展，例如， 被容纳，而不损失接触垫阵列和托架的相对位置控制。