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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2013
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Steve A. O'Hara, Vancouver, WA (US);
Steven P. Downing, Vancouver, WA (US);
Teressa L. Roth, Vancouver, WA (US);
Sierra Lynn Triebe, Vancouver, WA (US);
Brian Mar, Vancouver, WA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A wiping assembly includes a pair of guide elements located at opposite ends of a headland region of a fluid ejection assembly to extend in a second orientation generally perpendicular to a first orientation through which the opposite ends extend. Each guide element includes at least one first portion and a second portion. The at least one first portion selectively receives biased releasable engagement from a non-wiping portion of a wiping element extending along the first orientation to cause a wiping portion of the wiping element to be in generally parallel relation to, and spaced apart from, the headland region. The second portion causes the non-wiping portion to no longer be in biased releasable engagement against the guide element and causes the wiping portion to be biased in wiping relation against the headland region.