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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
May. 27, 2020
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
William Scott Osborne, Corvallis, OR (US);
Kundan Singh, Singapore, SG;
Paul Mark Haines, Corvallis, OR (US);
Sean Bertles, Corvallis, OR (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is drawn to an ink supply tank for a printer. The ink supply tank includes a main chamber to supply a printer with ink. The main chamber includes a fill port to receive ink during filling and an exchange port to release the ink. A chamber separator device is configured with a fill surface and a vent port. An overflow chamber can be configured with a vent to pass air into the overflow chamber, a first portion of air in the overflow chamber passes through the vent port of the chamber separator device to a feeder chamber to replace a second portion of ink leaving the ink supply tank to feed a print head and the vent port of the chamber separator device to pass a third portion of ink and a second portion of air from the feeder chamber to the overflow chamber.