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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:
Sep. 10, 1985
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1984
Lawrence G Biggs, Beaverton, OR (US);
Pierre Radochonski, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
This invention includes a method and apparatus for causing ink to be ejected from the ink nozzles for a second selected time period if the printer has not functioned for a first selected time period independent of whether power is or is not applied to the printer during those periods. The first time period is selected to minimize the possibility of ink clogging the ink nozzles and the second time period is selected to dislodge any thickened ink which may have developed in the ink nozzle during the first time period. The first time period for most ink compositions and nozzle sizes will be considerably longer than the second time period.