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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. 13, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2005
Applicants:
Cesar Fernandez Espasa, San Diego, CA (US);
Virginia Palacios Camarero, Barcelona, ES;
Santiago Garcia-reyero Vinas, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Cesar Fernandez Espasa, San Diego, CA (US);
Virginia Palacios Camarero, Barcelona, ES;
Santiago Garcia-Reyero Vinas, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/393 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a method to detect ink short in a print head and an apparatus that performs the method. The method provides the steps of obtaining a density profile and a current consumption profile of an image to be printed and using the profiles to detect a low-resistance ink short or a non-low resistance ink short in a print head.