CN101143517B - Ink supplying container suitable for continuous ink-supplying system - Google Patents
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The intention relates to an ink supply vessel connected with the fill-up ink box of the printer, which is applicable to a continuous ink supply system. The ink supply vessel comprises the ink tank with a low ink level area in the main body used for the storage of ink; a board piece arranged in the ink tank and connected with the side of the main body, which formed a vertical displacement area with the main body; a floating device with a conductive layer, which increases and decreases in the vertical displacement area with the ink level; a plurality of contact bodies in the low ink level adjacent respectively with the main body in the vertical displacement area and the board piece. The contact bodies have a height degree of difference among themselves. When the ink drops to a low ink level area, the floating device will decrease comparatively in the vertical displacement area and send a signal to the printer to inform that the ink has been used up when the conducting layer contacts the contact bodies step by step.
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Technical field
The relevant a kind of ink-feeding container that is applicable to continuous ink-supply system of the present invention refers to a kind of ink-feeding container that is applicable to continuous ink-supply system that ink level detects that carries out especially.
Background technology
Generally speaking; Ink-jet printer is extensively consumed popular the welcome owing to have processing ease and printable in advantages such as multiple ink-jet medium, but when ink-jet printer uses one section in the future; Just can exhaust because of the ink of ink cartridges and must change ink cartridges; Common replacing method is to abandon old ink cartridges brand-new ink cartridges to be installed again so that ink to be provided at present, and this measure not only causes the waste of ink cartridges body, and has intangibly increased user's expense because of costing an arm and a leg of ink cartridges.To print cost and avoid the wasting of resources in order to save, the continuous ink-supply system of reusing same ink cartridges just arises at the historic moment.
Existing continuous ink-supply system is all the external continuous ink-supply system; Mainly utilize the pump or the mode of siphon to utilize the ink supply pipe to guide in the ink cartridges of printer by outer print cartridge ink; Cardinal principle be utilize printer ink cartridges in printing to ink gun continually in the ink delivery; The ink that ink cartridges also need suck equal capacity from outer print cartridge to be to replenish balance, and promptly ink cartridges is transported to how many inks of ink gun are just instant to replenish and get into for how many inks.
And utilize the continuous ink-supply system of siphon mode; Need outer print cartridge is positioned over and the same plane of printer, and the ink level of outer print cartridge need be pushed into ink cartridges inside by siphonage with ink a little less than the nozzle of printer; Yet the outer print cartridge great majority of continuous ink-supply system are main with transparent cubic box or bottle all at present; The consumer generally must look into the situation that ink consumes with visual sight, but and some consumer because of the space arrangement problem, and the situation that consumes of clear view ink at any time; So when the ink of outer print cartridge exhausts; How can the ink in the ink supply pipe be exhausted in the lump, then when replenishing ink again, must consume the ink of constant weight, and very easily in the ink supply pipe, produce bubble and cause ink cartridges ink supply swimmingly.
Moreover; The assembling of ink cartridges, outer print cartridge and pipeline is complicated, if pipeline installs and improperly will influence the motion of ink cartridges load bearing seat and reduce print quality, and pipeline more can cause ink leak once get loose; And the pipeline that twines also can influence the outer aesthetic of ink-jet printer; And ink has backflow phenomenon after ink cartridges leaves standstill a period of time, in case ink cartridges need be wasted the internal pressure balance ink supply smoothly that the ink of some makes ink cartridges when operating again, and this will have a strong impact on very play of ink supply.
Hence one can see that; How stablizing and providing incessantly in ink to the ink cartridges is an important problem using continuous ink-supply system; Therefore how to develop a kind of ink-feeding container that is applicable to continuous ink-supply system that improves above-mentioned prior art disappearance and can carry out the ink level detection, real in pressing for the problem of solution at present.
Summary of the invention
Main purpose of the present invention is to provide a kind of ink-feeding container that is applicable to continuous ink-supply system; It is by forming a vertical displacement area between plate and the body; So that buoyancy aid element height with ink in vertical displacement area descends relatively; When the quantity of ink in the ink container of body drops to the low water level district, the buoyancy aid element will descend relatively in this vertical displacement area and when conductive layer contacts with a plurality of contacts in regular turn, produce a signal and be sent to printer and finish using to inform this ink; In order to do solving prior art because of the space arrangement problem; The consumer can't know at any time to see and look into the situation that ink consumes, and when replenishing ink again, must consume the ink of constant weight, very easily in the ink supply pipe, produces bubble and causes ink cartridges shortcoming such as ink supply swimmingly.
For reaching above-mentioned purpose, of the present invention one implements the appearance attitude for a kind of ink-feeding container is provided than broad sense, and it is to be applicable to continuous ink-supply system; And be connected with the filled type ink cartridges that printer is used; It comprises: body is provided with ink container, in order to storage ink and have the low water level district in it; Plate, it is arranged in the ink container of body and with the side of body and is connected, with and body between form vertical displacement area; The buoyancy aid element is provided with in this vertical displacement area and the surface has conductive layer, and it is in vertical displacement area, to rise relatively or descend along with the water level height of ink; A plurality of contacts, the low water level district that it is respectively adjacent to body and the plate setting in the vertical displacement area and is in body; Wherein, Has difference in height between a plurality of contacts; When quantity of ink drops to the low water level district of ink container, the buoyancy aid element will descend relatively in vertical displacement area and when conductive layer contacts with a plurality of contacts in regular turn, produce signal and be sent to printer and finish using to inform ink.
According to conception of the present invention, wherein printer is connected with computer system, produces information signal in order to corresponding signal, need change ink-feeding container to inform the user.
According to conception of the present invention, wherein the buoyancy aid element is the buoy of this conductive layer of surface attachment, in order to rise relatively or to descend along with the water level height of the ink in the vertical displacement area.
According to conception of the present invention, wherein contact is a metallic conductor, contacts to produce signal in order to the conductive layer with the buoyancy aid element, finishes using to inform ink.
According to conception of the present invention, wherein conductive layer is a sheet metal.
According to conception of the present invention, wherein printer is an ink-jet printer.
According to conception of the present invention, wherein plate is not connected with the top with the bottom of body, so that the ink level in the vertical displacement area can descend along with other regional ink level of ink container relatively.
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Fig. 1 is positioned at the structural representation in full-water level district for the buoyancy aid element of the ink-feeding container of preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 drops to the low water level district and the first contact contacting structure sketch map for buoyancy aid element shown in Figure 1.
Fig. 3 for buoyancy aid element shown in Figure 2 descend again and with the second contact contacting structure sketch map.
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Some exemplary embodiments that embody characteristic of the present invention and advantage will be described in detail in the explanation of back segment.Be understood that the present invention can have various variations on different aspects, its neither departing from the scope of the present invention, and explanation wherein and to be shown in be the usefulness of being used as explanation in essence, but not in order to restriction the present invention.
The present invention is a kind of ink-feeding container, is applicable to the affairs machine that uses continuous ink-supply system, for example: ink-jet printer; Ink feeding system in; Can be connected with the filled type ink cartridges that printer is used by ink supply pipe or carrier, required ink when printing with the ink gun that continues to provide ink cartridges, mainly buoyancy and the contact two ends different height by the buoyancy aid element detects; Notify and to change ink cartridges to reach the more stable signal of output, and residual China ink amount is also less.
See also Fig. 1; Its buoyancy aid element for the ink-feeding container of preferred embodiment of the present invention is positioned at the structural representation in full-water level district; As shown in the figure; The ink-feeding container 1 that the present invention disclosed mainly is applicable in the continuous ink-supply system; Can by the ink supply pipe or carrier (not shown) be connected to the filled type ink cartridges (not shown) that printer is used, to ink gun continually in the ink delivery, the ink that ink cartridges sucks equal capacity from ink-feeding container 1 automatically is to replenish balance in printing for the ink cartridges that makes printer.
Ink-feeding container 1 of the present invention mainly is made up of body 11, plate 12, buoyancy aid element 13 and a plurality of contact, and wherein, body 11 is that a hollow housing and its inside have and is used for the ink container 111 of storage ink 16, and definition has a low water level district A.
As for; 12 of plates are arranged in the ink container 111 of body 11 and are fixed on the side of body 11, still, are not connected with the top with the bottom of body 11; Can and the housing of body 11 between form a vertical displacement area 121; Because plate 12 is not connected with the top with the bottom of body 11, so vertical displacement area 121 inner ink 16 liquid levels can descend along with ink container 111 other regional inks 16 relatively.
In present embodiment; Buoyancy aid element 13 can be the buoy of a surface attachment conductive layer 131, and its part is under the liquid level of ink 16, and is a part of then on the liquid level of ink 16; And conductive layer 131 can be a sheet metal; But not as limit, mainly be arranged in the vertical displacement area 121 of ink container 111, can carry out along with the water level of ink container 111 ink inside 16 height relative to rising or the vertical of decline move.
As for; A plurality of contacts of present embodiment are made up of first contact 14 and 15 of second contacts; Wherein, first contact 14 is arranged in the vertical displacement area 121 and a side of contiguous plate 12, and second contact 15 then is to be arranged in the vertical displacement area 121 and another side of adjacent body 11; Have a difference in height h between first contact 14 and second contact 15 and all be arranged in the low water level district A of vertical displacement area 121; As for, first contact 14 and second contact 15 can be a metallic conductor, but not as limit.
When ink container 111 inner stored ink 16 amounts of body 11 drop to the low water level district A of ink container 16; Buoyancy aid element 13 will be along with quantity of ink descends relatively in vertical displacement area 121; And when buoyancy aid element 13 continues to drop to low water level district A; The conductive layer 131 of buoyancy aid element 13 will connect (as shown in Figure 2) with first contact 14 that is arranged at plate 12 sides earlier mutually, at this moment, therefore not have any reaction owing to have only first contact 14 to contact with the conductive layer 131 of buoyancy aid element 13; Then; Buoyancy aid element 13 will constantly descend and one of which side and first contact, 14 contacted relations and make whole buoyancy aid element 13 run-off the straights because of ink 16 liquid levels, and make the conductive layer 131 of buoyancy aid element 13 opposite sides connect mutually with second contact 15 that is arranged at body 11 sides, in case; When first contact 14 all electrically contacts with the conductive layer 131 of buoyancy aid element 13 with second contact 15; To produce a signal, i.e. binding by first contact 14 and second contact 15 and the conductive layer 131 of buoyancy aid element 13 comes conducting by the circuit (figure does not show) that defaults in the ink-feeding container, and then is connected to the loop of printer; To inform that printer stops to print; And printer produces this signal of corresponding institute output one information signal and is sent to computer system, has finished using to inform user's ink-feeding container 1 inner ink, needs to change ink-feeding container 1.
In sum; It is by forming a vertical displacement area between plate and the body for the ink-feeding container that is applicable to continuous ink-supply system of the present invention; So that buoyancy aid element height with ink in vertical displacement area descends relatively; When the quantity of ink in the ink container of body drops to the low water level district, the buoyancy aid element will in this vertical displacement area, descend relatively and in conductive layer in regular turn with after a plurality of contacts that are arranged at differing heights contact, produce a signal and be sent to printer to inform that the ink-feeding container internal ink has been about to finish using; No matter the position that ink-feeding container is placed why consumer can learn that all ink finishes using; And buoyancy and contact two ends different height by the buoyancy aid element detect, and can reach the more stable signal of output and notify and need change ink cartridges, and residual China ink amount is also less; In addition; With contact be arranged at differing heights and when contact all with the mode that just produces signal after the conductive layer of body contacts, in the time of also can avoiding because of user's mobile printer or ink-feeding container, the liquid fluctuating that ink container is inner and cause the problem that produces rub-out signal.
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1. ink-feeding container, it is applicable to a continuous ink-supply system, and is connected with filled type ink cartridges that a printer is used, said ink-feeding container comprises:
One body is provided with an ink container in it, in order to store an ink and to have a low water level district;
One plate, it is arranged in this ink container of this body and with a side of this body and is connected, be able to and this body between form a vertical displacement area;
One buoyancy aid element is arranged in this vertical displacement area and the surface has a conductive layer, and it rises relatively in this vertical displacement area or descend along with the water level height of this ink;
A plurality of contacts, this low water level district that it is respectively adjacent to this body and this plate setting in this vertical displacement area and is in this body;
Wherein, Has a difference in height between these a plurality of contacts; When this quantity of ink drops to this low water level district of this ink container; This buoyancy aid element will descend relatively in this vertical displacement area and when this conductive layer all contacts with these a plurality of contacts in regular turn, produce a signal and be sent to this printer to inform that this ink has been about to finish using; This plate is not connected with the top with the bottom of this body, so that this ink level in this vertical displacement area can descend along with other regional ink level of this ink container relatively.
2. ink-feeding container as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that this printer is connected with a computer system, in order to mutually should signal, and produces an information signal, need change this ink-feeding container to inform the user.
3. ink-feeding container as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that the buoy that this buoyancy aid element is this conductive layer of surface attachment, in order to rise relatively or to descend along with the water level height of this ink in this vertical displacement area.
4. ink-feeding container as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that this contact is a metallic conductor, in order to contact with this conductive layer of this buoyancy aid element to produce this signal, finishes using to inform this ink.
5. ink-feeding container as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that this conductive layer is a sheet metal.
6. ink-feeding container as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that this printer is an ink-jet printer.
7. ink-feeding container, it is applicable to a printer continuous ink-supply system, said ink-feeding container comprises:
One body is provided with an ink container in it, in order to store an ink;
One plate, it is arranged in this ink container of this body, be able to this body between go into a vertical displacement area;
One buoyancy aid element is arranged in this vertical displacement area and the surface has a conductive layer, and it can float on this ink;
A plurality of contacts, it is arranged in this vertical displacement area respectively and a side of contiguous this body and this plate, and is in a predetermined altitude;
Wherein, Form the separation of certain distance between these a plurality of contacts; When this quantity of ink drops to the predetermined altitude of this ink container, this buoyancy aid element will relatively move in this vertical displacement area, when a plurality of contacts of this conductive layer and this all contact; Can produce a signal and be sent to this printer, be about to finish using to inform this ink; This plate is not connected with the top with the bottom of this body, so that this ink level in this vertical displacement area can descend along with other regional ink level of this ink container relatively.
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| BRPI0704571-9A BRPI0704571A (en) | 2006-09-13 | 2007-09-12 | supplemental tank for use in a continuous ink feed system |
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