CN101049762B - Ink measurement chip, and method for determining ink change in capacity correctly - Google Patents
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An ink metering chip is composed of FLASH, EEPROM, processing unit, register and I/O ports. A method for correctly judging the variation of ink capacity features that a relative program is stored in FLASH. When the variation of ink capacity is greater than a predefined decreasing threshold of ink capacity, said chip can restore the ink residue to that of previous print operation, so preventing the waste of ink.
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The present invention relates to a kind of computation chip and correct method of judging that ink capacity changes that is used for ink in the print cartridge.
Background technology
At present, the signal power that the printer of use intelligent ink cartridge mostly provides by ink remaining amount pressure detecting mechanism, judge the surplus of print cartridge ink inside, when a little less than the signal strength signal intensity that pressure detecting mechanism provides, printer will be judged the ink remaining amount deficiency, and ink remaining amount is write ink box chip for the information of " 0 ", printer will quit work and point out the user to change this print cartridge, because ink remaining amount has deposited the electricallyerasable ROM (EEROM) (EEPROM) of ink box chip in for " 0 " information, when print cartridge is installed on the printer once more, can't normally carry out work.
Yet, owing to install, reasons such as transportation, perhaps print cartridge is sidelong for a long time, after putting upside down, the instantaneous signal strength deficiency of easy build-up of pressure testing agency, the program that correct judgement ink capacity changes is not set in ink box chip, and the signal power that only relies on pressure detecting mechanism reflects under the situation of surplus of ink, cause printer misidentification ink remaining amount deficiency easily, and ink remaining amount write ink box chip for the information of " 0 ", and then also have at print cartridge under the situation of abundant ink, prompting user print cartridge ink uses up, causes print cartridge to be dropped, and causes waste.
Therefore, necessary existing ink box chip is provided with the program that correct judgement ink capacity changes, makes ink box chip accurately to judge, avoid causing waste the volume change of ink.
Summary of the invention
The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of method that can accurately judge the volume change of ink.
The correct judgement ink capacity changing method that the present invention provides is applied on the ink measurement chip, chip comprises flash memory (FLASH), electricallyerasable ROM (EEROM) (EEPROM), processing unit, register and I/O (I/O) port, this method may further comprise the steps: the first step, after powering on, be stored in the program start among the FLASH; Second step, processing unit is waited for the read/write operation order that receives printer, after the read/write operation order that receives printer, processing unit is carried out read/write operation, second step further comprised: processing unit receives printer command, read and be stored in current ink remaining amount data among the EEPROM, or the ink remaining amount data are write among the EEPROM; Current ink remaining amount data are temporarily stored in the register, when the I/O port provides suitable clock signal, the ink remaining amount data that are temporarily stored in the register are delivered to printer from the I/O port, thereby finish read operation, or printer is delivered to register by the I/O port with detected ink remaining amount data, after the ink remaining amount data that processing unit sends printer are changed, write among the EEPROM, thereby finish write operation, simultaneously, processing unit judges whether the ink capacity data variation is normal; In the 3rd step, processing unit judges whether current ink remaining amount REM is " 0 ", if REM is " 0 ", then carries out for the 4th step, if REM is not " 0 ", then REM is stored among the EEPROM, and returns and carried out for second step; In the 4th step, processing unit reads backup printer in EEPROM and carries out the later ink remaining amount REM1 of printing last time; In the 5th step, whether processing unit judges REM1 greater than X%, and wherein X% is predefined ink capacity falling-threshold value, if REM1 greater than X%, then carried out for the 6th step, carries out for second step if REM1 less than X%, then returns; In the 6th step, processing unit reverts to REM1 with REM, and returns and carried out for second step.
Because the program that correct judgement ink capacity changes is set in the ink box chip, make ink box chip accurately to judge to the volume change of ink, if unusual ink capacity takes place to be changed, ink box chip returns to printer with ink remaining amount and carries out the later ink remaining amount of printing last time, thereby can not cause waste.
Ink measurement chip structure and the correct method of judging that ink capacity changes are embodied in the specific embodiment described later.
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Fig. 1 is the hardware structure diagram of ink measurement chip of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the workflow diagram of the method for correct judgement ink capacity variation of the present invention.
Be described in further detail below in conjunction with embodiment and accompanying drawing thereof.
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As shown in Figure 1, ink measurement chip 1 of the present invention adopts commercially available common microcontroller (MCU), comprises FLASH2, processing unit 3, register 4, EEPROM5 and I/O port 6.After powering on, be stored in the program start among the FLASH2, processing unit 3 receives the order of printer, read the current ink remaining amount data that are stored among the EEPROM5, and these data are temporarily stored in the register 4, when I/O port 6 provides suitable clock signal, the ink remaining amount that is temporarily stored in the register 4 is sent to printer from I/O port 6, thereby finish read operation, or printer delivers to register 4 by I/O port 6 with detected ink remaining amount data, after the ink remaining amount data that processing unit 3 sends printer are changed, write among the EEPROM5, thereby finish write operation, simultaneously, processing unit 3 judges whether ink capacity changes normal.Certainly, said structure only is the hardware configuration that comparatively typically is used for ink-cases of printers chip 1, in fact can also do the improvement of some equivalences, for example, ink measurement chip 1 can adopt 8 MCU of complementary metal oxide semiconductors (CMOS) (CMOS) of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) structure, or the MCU of higher operational performance, FLASH2 also can be read-only storage devices such as (ROM), in a word, satisfying the ink measurement chip 1 necessary function that can judge correctly that ink capacity changes own gets final product.
On basic hardware structure shown in Figure 1, Fig. 2 has further clearly revealed the ink measurement chip 1 correct workflow of judging that ink capacity changes of the present invention.In step 21, after powering on, be stored in the program start among the FLASH2; In step 22, processing unit 3 is waited for the order that receives printer, after the order that receives printer, read the current ink remaining amount data that are stored among the EEPROM5, and these data are temporarily stored in the register 4, when I/O port 6 provides suitable clock signal, the ink remaining amount that is temporarily stored in the register 4 is sent to printer from I/O port 6, thereby finish read operation, or printer is delivered to register 4 by I/O port 6 with detected ink remaining amount data, after the ink remaining amount data that processing unit 3 sends printer are changed, write among the EEPROM5, thereby finish write operation; In step 23, processing unit 3 judges whether current ink remaining amount REM is " 0 ", if REM is " 0 ", then execution in step 24, if REM is not " 0 ", then execution in step 231, REM is kept among the EEPROM5, and returns execution in step 22; In step 24, processing unit 3 reads backup printer in EEPROM5 and carries out the later ink remaining amount REM1 of printing last time; In step 25, whether processing unit 3 judges REM1 greater than X%, and wherein X% is predefined ink capacity falling-threshold value, if REM1 greater than X%, then execution in step 26, if REM1 less than X%, then returns execution in step 22; In step 26, processing unit 3 reverts to REM1 with REM, and returns execution in step 22.
Obviously, the present invention is provided with the program that correct judgement ink capacity changes in ink measurement 1, make ink measurement chip 1 accurately to judge to the volume change of ink, if unusual ink capacity takes place to be changed, ink measurement chip 1 returns to printer with ink remaining amount and carries out the later ink remaining amount of printing last time, thereby can not cause waste.
For the professional and technical personnel, the present invention also exists the simple malformation of other.Therefore, the present invention is not limited to shown in above-mentioned detailed description and the embodiment with regard to its more wide form.In addition, just as appended technical scheme and equivalent limit, many distortion can also be arranged and do not depart from the aim of total invention.
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1. correctly judge the method that ink capacity changes, this method is applied on the ink measurement chip, and this chip comprises FLASH, EEPROM, processing unit, register and I/O port;
It is characterized in that:
This method may further comprise the steps:
The first step after powering on, is stored in the program start among the FLASH;
In second step, processing unit is waited for the read/write operation order that receives printer, and after the read/write operation order that receives printer, processing unit is carried out read/write operation;
Described second step further comprises
Processing unit receives printer command, reads and is stored in current ink remaining amount data among the EEPROM, or the ink remaining amount data are write among the EEPROM;
Current ink remaining amount data are temporarily stored in the register, when the I/O port provides suitable clock signal, the ink remaining amount data that are temporarily stored in the register are delivered to printer from the I/O port, thereby finish read operation, or printer is delivered to register by the I/O port with detected ink remaining amount data, after the ink remaining amount data that processing unit sends printer are changed, write among the EEPROM, thereby finish write operation, simultaneously, processing unit judges whether the ink capacity data variation is normal;
In the 3rd step, processing unit judges whether current ink remaining amount REM is " 0 ", if REM is " 0 ", then carries out for the 4th step, if REM is not " 0 ", then REM is stored among the EEPROM, and returns and carried out for second step;
In the 4th step, processing unit reads backup printer in EEPROM and carries out the later ink remaining amount REM1 of printing last time;
In the 5th step, whether processing unit judges REM1 greater than X%, and wherein X% is predefined ink capacity falling-threshold value, if REM1 greater than X%, then carried out for the 6th step, carries out for second step if REM1 less than X%, then returns;
In the 6th step, processing unit reverts to REM1 with REM, and returns and carried out for second step.
2. correct judgement ink capacity changing method according to claim 1 is characterized in that:
Described ink measurement chip is the CMOS 8 8-digit microcontroller MCU of an employing risc architecture, or the microcontroller MCU of higher operational performance.
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