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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 03, 2014
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Ning Ge, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Patrick Leonard, Leixlip, IE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/17566 (2013.01); B41J 2/0458 (2013.01); B41J 2/04541 (2013.01); B41J 2/14153 (2013.01); B41J 2002/14354 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a fluid ejection device includes a fluid feed slot formed in a printhead die and a plurality of printhead-integrated ink level sensors (PILS). A fluid ejection device may include a first PILS to sense an ink level of a first chamber in fluid communication with the fluid feed slot, the first PILS to detect an empty ink level of the first chamber when the fluid ejection device is at a first ink level state, and a second PILS to sense an ink level of a second chamber in fluid communication with the fluid feed slot, the second PILS to detect an empty ink level of the second chamber when the fluid ejection device is at a second ink level state, different than the first ink level state.


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