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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:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark L McCarty, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 ;
Abstract
An ink delivery device is provided for supplying ink via an ink conduit from an ink supply to a print head attached to a manifold, the manifold adapted to route ink into the print head and back to the ink conduit for routing to the ink supply. The ink delivery device comprises a pressure controller operating on the ink conduit between the print head and the ink supply, the pressure controller including a sealing device adapted to seal off the ink conduit and a cap adapted to selectably expose the pressure controller to ambient conditions. The pressure controller is adapted to purge the print head of ink between print jobs.