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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:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1999
Winthrop D. Childers, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael L. Bullock, San Diego, CA (US);
Bruce Cowger, Corvallis, OR (US);
John A. Underwood, Vancouver, WA (US);
Susan M. Hmelar, Corvallis, OR (US);
James E. Clark, Albany, OR (US);
Paul D. Gast, Camas, WA (US);
John A. Barinaga, Portland, OR (US);
David O. Merrill, Corvallis, OR (US);
Other;
Abstract
The present invention is an ink container for use in an ink jet printing system. The printing system has a printhead under control of printing system electronics and an ink container receiving station for providing ink to the printhead. The replaceable ink container includes a plurality of container interfacing features positioned on the ink container to engage corresponding ink container receiving station interfacing features. The ink container interfacing features are disposed and arranged to allow a plurality of different sizes of the ink container to be installed at a particular location of the receiving station. The ink container also includes an information storage device that provides information indicative of a volume of ink contained in said ink container.