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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:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2001
Winthrop D. Childers, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael L. Bullock, San Diego, CA (US);
Eric L. Gasvoda, Belmont, MA (US);
Norman E. Pawlowski, Jr., Corvallis, OR (US);
Ovidiu Talpos, San Diego, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A large variety of ink delivery systems for an existing ink-jet printing system are provided. The ink delivery systems include ink reservoirs of varying configuration and size which are capable of accommodating a variety of ink use rates. Each ink delivery system also has an electrical connector and an information storage device which are suitable for the various ink use rates. The information storage device may be a memory device circuit that provides enabling information to the printing system.