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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tse-Chi Mou, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Lin Yung Feng, Chung Ho Shih, TW;
Assignee:
DBTEL Incorporated, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347 33 ;
Abstract
A unitary wiper for a printhead on a print cartridge in an ink-jet printer is disclosed. The wiper is made of an elastomeric material and includes a base mounted in the ink-jet printer, a beam having a pair of approximately opposed substantially planar surfaces each of which terminates in a first wiping edge at a first end of the beam and at the base at a second end of the beam, and a slot formed on the beam, and extending along the second end from a third end of the beam to a fourth end of the beam. The first end is a plane surface and the beam further has at the plane surface a second wiping edge opposed to the first wiping edge.