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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2015
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Norman E. Pawlowski, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/155 (2006.01); B41J 2/165 (2006.01); B41J 25/316 (2006.01); B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 2/17 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 25/316 (2013.01); B41J 2/155 (2013.01); B41J 2/165 (2013.01); B41J 2/16508 (2013.01); B41J 2/16511 (2013.01); B41J 2/17 (2013.01); B41J 2/2107 (2013.01); B41J 29/38 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one example, a printer having a rotation mechanism coupleable to a liquid-ejecting printhead in the printer. The printer includes a controller coupled to the rotation mechanism to control the rotation mechanism to intermittently rotate the printhead, during a non-printing time, from a first orientation relative to vertical to a second orientation relative to vertical and back to the first orientation.