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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:
Jul. 05, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2018
Applicants:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Dan Rothenbuhler, Boise, ID (US);
Hao-hua Zhu, Shanghai, CN;
Dean Richtsmeier, Boise, ID (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B65H 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/003 (2013.01); B41J 11/0095 (2013.01); B65H 1/04 (2013.01); B65H 2511/11 (2013.01); B65H 2511/12 (2013.01); B65H 2511/22 (2013.01); B65H 2553/23 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device () includes a sensor () to determine a capacitance between a first metal piece () coupled to a paper tray () of a printing device () and a second metal piece () coupled to a paper width adjuster () of the printing device (). The device () also includes a controlled () coupled to the sensor () comprising a processor () in communication with a memory resource () including executable instructions to determine a size of paper in the paper tray () based on the determined capacitance.