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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2013
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
David C. Harvey, Portland, OR (US);
Curt Gonzales, Corvallis, OR (US);
Ralph L. Stathem, Lebanon, OR (US);
David Olsen, Corvallis, OR (US);
David Welter, Corvallis, OR (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An ink cartridge for an inkjet printer includes a bottom face and a front face; interfaces on the front face of the ink cartridge for connection to a cartridge receiving structure, the interfaces including an ink interface; a guide interface in the bottom face for guiding the cartridge along a straight line for connecting the interfaces; and a latch stop and a latch track disposed in the bottom face of the ink cartridge to guide and retain, respectively, a latch of the cartridge receiving structure. The latch track includes a locking track and an unlocking track to accommodate movement of the latch with respect to the latch stop, the locking track being at least partly separate from the unlocking track, the movement of the latch being along the locking track into a locked engagement position at insertion, and along the unlocking track into an unlocked position at ejection.