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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1998
George T Kaplinsky, San Diego, CA (US);
David W Swanson, Escondido, CA (US);
Tofigh Khodapanah, San Diego, CA (US);
James E Clark, Albany, OR (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for ink-jet printing including providing a collapsible ink reservoir structure to facilitate assembly of a replaceable or refillable printer ink cartridge, the cartridge being formed of a relatively rigid frame (20) and flexible membranes (22, 24) forming an ink reservoir having side walls which collapse to a substantially flat shape to minimize the amount of ink remaining in the reservoir structure after computer generated printing has depleted the ink from the cartridge. The ink reservoir structure is a separate unit which is assembled and mounted in an outer housing (10) to form an ink cartridge and preferably contains an ink pressure regulator (30) which maintains a negative pressure therein.