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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2008
Min-hsi Liu, Hsinchu, TW;
Wei-yuan Peng, Hsinchu, TW;
Wei-fong Lin, Hsinchu, TW;
Jui-yi Yu, Hsinchu, TW;
Min-Hsi Liu, Hsinchu, TW;
Wei-Yuan Peng, Hsinchu, TW;
Wei-Fong Lin, Hsinchu, TW;
Jui-Yi Yu, Hsinchu, TW;
Foxlink Image Technology Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A maintenance station of an inkjet printer mounted in a housing of the inkjet printer includes an ink cup rotationally and slidably coupled to the housing about/along an axis of rotation. The ink cup has a basic plate and a columnar rim around the basic plate. The columnar rim respectively defines a plurality of stopping ratchets and driving ratchets with the same gradient direction at a bottom and top thereof. A moving body is slidably disposed in the housing of the inkjet printer. An actuator movably disposed in the moving body moves together with the moving body, a tail of the actuator stretches out from the moving body for matching with the driving ratchets to rotate the ink cup. A plurality of housing ratchets are disposed in the housing of the inkjet printer and arranged into a ring for matching with the stopping ratchets to prevent the ink cup reversion.