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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:
Jun. 28, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jon Fong, Coral Gables, FL (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347 86 ;
Abstract
An ink pressure regulator system disposed inside of a flexible ink bag reservoir for a replaceable or refillable computer driven printer ink cartridge comprises a pair of parallel piston plates and a spring system therebetween having a variable spring function relating force to displacement of the spring such that the regulator collapses to a substantially flat shape under decreasing amounts of added spring collapsing force as the plates approach each other to allow substantially complete evacuation of ink from the bag.