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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Daryl E. Anderson, Corvallis, OR (US);

Michael W. Cumbie, Corvallis, OR (US);

James Michael Gardner, Corvallis, OR (US);

Berkeley Fisher, Corvallis, OR (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/175 (2006.01); G01F 23/00 (2006.01); G01F 23/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/17566 (2013.01); B41J 2/1753 (2013.01); B41J 2/17503 (2013.01); B41J 2/17506 (2013.01); B41J 2/17513 (2013.01); B41J 2/17546 (2013.01); G01F 23/0069 (2013.01); G01F 23/248 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example printing cartridge includes a sensing die including a plurality of sensing locations in thermal contact with a fluid container, an on-die controller to select a sensing location of the plurality of sensing locations to activate and to provide a variable threshold voltage, and a voltage comparator to compare a sensed voltage generated at a selected sensing location to the variable threshold voltage, and output time-based information based on the comparison, the time-based information representative of whether a fluid is present at a fluid level associated with the selected sensing location.


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