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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2016
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Gregory N Burton, Camas, WA (US);
Jody L Clayburn, Vancouver, WA (US);
Kurt F Olsen, Vancouver, WA (US);
Steven B Elgee, Portland, OR (US);
Jacob McDonald Smith, Vancouver, WA (US);
Kenneth Williams, Vancouver, WA (US);
Lorraine T Golob, Vancouver, WA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
A drop detector includes a printed circuit board (PCB) including a number of optical channels each formed by a light emitter and a light detector and a number of holes defined in the PCB over which the optical channels pass over and through which a number of ejected drops from a number of printheads pass through wherein each of the number of holes defined in PCB are sized to contour the shape of the number of the printheads.