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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:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2012
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 29/13 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/1753 (2013.01); B41J 29/13 (2013.01); B41J 2/17553 (2013.01); B41J 2/17546 (2013.01);
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a printing material containerincluding a storage device, a plurality of storage device terminals, a first and a second individual mounting detection terminal DT, DT, a first and a second cartridge out detection terminal CO, CO; an individual mounting detection portion; a cartridge out detection portion; a storage portion; and a controller. In an energy-saving mode, the controllersets the individual mounting detection portionto a disabled state and sets the cartridge out detection portionto an enabled state, and if the cartridge out detection portiondetects a cartridge out state, writes that detection result to the storage portion.