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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. 16, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 12, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Matthew Jason Janssen, Corvallis, OR (US);

James William Ring, Corvallis, OR (US);

James Ronald Cole, Corvallis, OR (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 29/393 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/17566 (2013.01); B41J 2/17556 (2013.01); B41J 2/17596 (2013.01); B41J 29/393 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one example, a method for determining an out-of-liquid condition of a liquid supply for an inkjet printer. The method includes acquiring, during printing, a sequence of data points, each data point comprising a differential liquid/air pressure at the liquid supply measured with a sensor and a corresponding cumulative amount of liquid delivered from the liquid supply. The method further includes generating a curve using the data points. The method also includes determining, from a predetermined characteristic of the curve, whether the out-of-liquid condition exists. The characteristic is independent of at least one of a gain and an offset of the sensor.


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