Zhuhai Ninestar Management Co., Ltd.

Yuedan Liang

Zhizheng Jia

Weichen Liu

Lei Qin

Bing Nie

Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for controlling light emission of an ink cartridge. The method includes: an ink cartridge control unit (), configured to receive a light emitting control instruction from an imaging device main body and identifying the instruction; the ink cartridge control unit (), configured to control light emission of a light emitting unit () of the ink cartridge () according to the identified light emitting control instruction and preset control information corresponding to the light emitting control instruction so that the light emitting unit () does not emit light at an adjacent position light detection stage but emits light at an facing position light detection stage.

Method for controlling light emission of ink cartridge, and ink cartridge

The present invention relates to an ink cartridge, an ink cartridge assembly and a method for detecting the installation of the ink cartridge. A plurality of ink cartridges are detachably mounted on an inkjet printer including a light receiver and a plurality of apparatus electrical contacts which are commonly connected with a line, the ink cartridge comprises a container electrical contact electrically connected with corresponding apparatus electrical contact an information storage device, a light-emitting portion configured to emit light towards the light receiver, and a control portion configured to control the light-emitting portion to emit light, wherein, the control portion of the ink cartridge controls the light-emitting portion to emit light when receiving an emission instruction sent by the inkjet printer. Therefore, the stability of the ink cartridge installation detection can be fully guaranteed and the phenomenon of installation detection error can be avoided.

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Yuedan Liang