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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:
Sep. 06, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 22, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Peter Nedelin, Ness Ziona, IL;

Mark Sandler, Ness Ziona, IL;

Assaf Pines, Ness Ziona, IL;

Shai Lior, Ness Ziona, IL;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/17 (2006.01); B41J 2/18 (2006.01); G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 15/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/17596 (2013.01); B41J 2/175 (2013.01); B41J 2/1707 (2013.01); B41J 2/17566 (2013.01); B41J 2/18 (2013.01); G03G 15/0849 (2013.01); G03G 15/0894 (2013.01); G03G 15/105 (2013.01);
Abstract

A print apparatus is disclosed. The print apparatus comprises a container-receiving unit for receiving a reusable print agent container; a print agent reservoir for storing print agent to be consumed by the print apparatus during a printing operation; a pump for transferring print agent between a reusable print agent container positioned in the container-receiving unit and the print agent reservoir; and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is to operate the pump to transfer print agent of a first concentration from the reusable print agent container to the print agent reservoir; and, responsive to determining that a volume of print agent of the first concentration in the reusable print agent container has fallen below a threshold volume, operate the pump to transfer a volume of print agent of a second, lower concentration from the print agent reservoir to the reusable print agent container. A method and a machine-readable medium are also disclosed.


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