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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:
Apr. 25, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Makoto Ishii, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroo Ogawa, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347 88 ;
Abstract
An ink pellet formed of solid hot melt ink is movably stored in an accommodating channel section of an ink supplying system relative to a tank section so as to provide a predetermined amount of hot melt ink to the tank section. The ink pellet has an upper portion having a lateral width greater than a channel width of the accommodating channel section, and a pellet main body forming step portions at sides of a lower surface of the upper portion, having a lateral width smaller than the channel width of the accommodating channel section, and having a height smaller than a channel height of the accommodating channel section.