CN117590717A - Consumable container, chip replacement method thereof and printing equipment - Google Patents

Consumable container, chip replacement method thereof and printing equipment Download PDF

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CN117590717A
CN117590717A CN202311399366.6A CN202311399366A CN117590717A CN 117590717 A CN117590717 A CN 117590717A CN 202311399366 A CN202311399366 A CN 202311399366A CN 117590717 A CN117590717 A CN 117590717A
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杨晓锋
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    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/17—Ink jet characterised by ink handling
    • B41J2/175—Ink supply systems ; Circuit parts therefor
    • B41J2/17503—Ink cartridges
    • B41J2/17543—Cartridge presence detection or type identification
    • B41J2/17546—Cartridge presence detection or type identification electronically

Abstract

The invention provides a consumable container, a chip replacing method and printing equipment thereof, wherein the consumable container comprises a box body, a main chip mounting position is arranged on the side wall of the box body, a main chip is mounted on the main chip mounting position, and a main contact is arranged on the main chip; the side wall of the box body is also provided with an auxiliary chip mounting position, an auxiliary chip is detachably mounted on the auxiliary chip mounting position, and an auxiliary contact is arranged on the auxiliary chip; a connecting piece is arranged between the main chip and the auxiliary chip, a connecting contact piece is arranged on the connecting piece, a first end of the connecting contact piece is electrically connected with the main contact, a second end of the connecting contact piece is electrically connected with the auxiliary contact, and the connecting contact piece is made of conductive materials. The method is to replace the auxiliary chip after the printing consumable in the consumable container is refilled. The printing equipment comprises a machine body, wherein the consumable container is detachably arranged in the machine body. The invention can conveniently allow the user to replace the auxiliary chip by himself, thereby realizing the reuse of the consumable container.

Description

Consumable container, chip replacement method thereof and printing equipment
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of printing, in particular to a consumable container, printing equipment with the consumable container and a chip replacing method of the consumable container.
Background
The printing equipment is used as common office equipment, great convenience is provided for modern office, the existing printing equipment is divided into ink-jet printing equipment and laser printing equipment, and the ink-jet printing equipment uses an ink box containing ink as a consumable container to jet the ink to paper so as to form characters or patterns to be printed on the paper; the laser printing device uses a toner cartridge containing toner as a consumable container to form text or patterns on a medium to be printed.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a toner cartridge of the prior art has a cartridge body 10, a chip 14 is provided on one side wall 11 of the cartridge body 10, a chip mounting bracket 13 is provided on the side wall 11 for fixing the chip on the cartridge body 10, the chip mounting bracket 13 is provided with a chip mounting position, and the chip 14 is mounted on the chip mounting position. In general, the chip 14 is provided with a plurality of spot electrical contacts 15 and a memory, and the memory stores information related to the toner cartridge, including variable information and invariable information, wherein the variable information is information that can be continuously changed along with the printing operation, such as information of the amount of toner remaining in the toner cartridge, printing duration, number of printing papers, etc., and the invariable information is information that cannot be changed along with the printing operation, such as a type of the toner cartridge, a type of an applicable laser printing device, a color of the toner, etc.
After the toner cartridge is mounted to the laser printing apparatus, the laser printing apparatus needs to read the data stored in the memory of the chip 14, and determine whether the model of the toner cartridge matches, whether the amount of toner remaining in the toner cartridge is sufficient, and the like. Only after the model of the toner cartridge is determined to be matched and sufficient toner is contained in the toner cartridge, the laser printing device can execute the printing work. Once the remaining amount of toner recorded in the chip 14 is insufficient, the laser printing device will stop the printing operation and prompt the need to replace the toner cartridge.
However, since the cartridge body 10 and the chip 14 of the toner cartridge can be reused, if the toner cartridge is discarded at this time, waste is caused and environmental pollution is caused. For this reason, the toner cartridge can be reused in a manner of refilling the toner cartridge. However, since the chip 14 has already recorded that the toner in the toner cartridge has been consumed, it is also necessary to rewrite the data of the chip 14 so that the data of the toner remaining amount sent by the chip 14 to the laser printing apparatus is characterized as the toner filled with toner. However, the data rewriting of the chip 14 requires a special tool, for example, a special reader/writer, but the ordinary consumer often does not have a special tool, and cannot perform the rewriting of the chip 14.
The chip of an existing consumable container is provided with a plurality of different storage areas, different storage areas store different consumable allowance information, and new consumable allowance information is output after the consumable container is refilled with consumable. However, since the consumable container is provided with a limited storage area, the number of uses of the consumable container is limited. The prior consumable container is provided with two different chips, but the operation of replacing the chips by a user is very inconvenient, and the chip replacement by the user is not facilitated.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a first object of the present invention is to provide a consumable container that is convenient for a user to replace a chip by himself.
The second object of the invention is to provide a chip replacing method of the consumable container.
A third object of the present invention is to provide a printing apparatus using the above consumable container.
In order to achieve the first object of the invention, the consumable container provided by the invention comprises a box body, wherein a main chip mounting position is arranged on the side wall of the box body, a main chip is mounted on the main chip mounting position, and a main contact is arranged on the main chip; the side wall of the box body is also provided with an auxiliary chip mounting position, an auxiliary chip is detachably mounted on the auxiliary chip mounting position, and an auxiliary contact is arranged on the auxiliary chip; a connecting piece is arranged between the main chip and the auxiliary chip, a connecting contact piece is arranged on the connecting piece, a first end of the connecting contact piece is electrically connected with the main contact, a second end of the connecting contact piece is electrically connected with the auxiliary contact, and the connecting contact piece is made of conductive materials.
According to the scheme, the auxiliary chip mounting position is arranged on the box body of the consumable container, a user can mount the auxiliary chip on the auxiliary chip mounting position by himself, and the electric connection between the main chip and the auxiliary chip can be realized through the connecting piece. After the consumable container is refilled with the consumable, the user can replace the auxiliary chip, and the main chip can read the consumable allowance and other data from the auxiliary chip and send the consumable allowance and other data to the printing equipment, so that the requirement of printing work is met. And the replacement operation of the auxiliary chip is very simple, so that the auxiliary chip can be conveniently replaced by a user after the consumable is refilled.
In a preferred scheme, a chip mounting frame is arranged on the side wall of the box body, and the main chip mounting position and the auxiliary chip mounting position are arranged on the chip mounting frame.
Therefore, the chip mounting frame is arranged on the side wall, and the main chip and the auxiliary chip can be mounted on the chip mounting frame, so that the mounting operation of the main chip and the auxiliary chip is simple and convenient.
The further scheme is that the chip mounting rack is provided with a rack body, two mutually parallel chip sliding grooves are formed in the rack body, and the main chip and the auxiliary chip are slidably mounted on the chip sliding grooves.
Therefore, by arranging the chip sliding groove, the main chip and the auxiliary chip can be inserted into the sliding groove and the disassembly and assembly of the main chip and the auxiliary chip can be conveniently realized
The connecting piece further comprises a main body part, and the main body part is slidably arranged on the chip chute.
Therefore, the connecting piece can be mounted on the chip rack through the chip chute, so that the connecting piece is very convenient to assemble and disassemble.
Further, the connecting contact piece is fixed on the main body part, and both ends of the connecting contact piece exceed the edge of the main body part along the width direction of the main body part.
Therefore, the two ends of the connecting contact piece can be conveniently abutted to the contacts of the main chip and the auxiliary chip, and the connection between the main chip and the auxiliary chip can be conveniently realized.
In a further aspect, along the thickness direction of the auxiliary chip, the upper surface of the auxiliary contact is recessed from the upper surface of the auxiliary chip.
Therefore, the auxiliary contacts are not protruded on the upper surface of the auxiliary chip, and the auxiliary contacts can be prevented from being damaged due to scratch to the box body in the installation process.
In a further aspect, the end of the connection contact that is connected to the auxiliary contact is provided with a protruding block that extends downward.
Thus, one end of the connecting contact piece can be abutted against the auxiliary contact, so that the connection between the connecting contact piece and the auxiliary contact is more reliable.
In order to achieve the second objective, the chip replacing method of the consumable container provided by the invention is applied to the consumable container, and the method comprises the steps of installing a connecting piece and an auxiliary chip on the consumable container after consumable materials in the consumable container are used and added, so that the auxiliary chip is electrically connected with a main chip through a connecting piece.
According to the scheme, after consumable replacement of the consumable container, a user can conveniently and automatically install the auxiliary chip on the consumable container, the auxiliary chip can be provided with a memory with pre-written data, so that after the auxiliary chip is installed on the consumable container, printing equipment can read consumable allowance data of the auxiliary chip, and therefore the printing equipment can normally execute printing operation, and the consumable container is required to be reused.
In a preferred embodiment, the connector and the auxiliary chip are mounted in sequence when the connector and the auxiliary chip are mounted to the consumable container.
Because the connecting piece sets up between main chip and supplementary chip, after reperfusion consumptive material, can not need change main chip, only change supplementary chip, consequently, install the chip mounting bracket with connecting piece and supplementary chip in proper order after, can make the connecting piece be located between main chip and the supplementary chip to realize the electric connection of main chip and supplementary chip.
In order to achieve the third object, the printing equipment provided by the invention comprises a machine body, wherein a consumable container mounting cavity is arranged in the machine body, and the consumable container is mounted in the consumable container mounting cavity.
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Fig. 1 is a structural view of a conventional toner cartridge.
Fig. 2 is a partial enlarged view of fig. 1.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a toner cartridge of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a partial enlarged view of fig. 3.
FIG. 5 is a partial exploded view of an embodiment of a toner cartridge of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is an exploded view of the auxiliary chip and the connector in the toner cartridge according to the present invention.
Detailed Description
The printing apparatus of the present invention may be an inkjet printing apparatus using an ink cartridge as a consumable container, or a laser printing apparatus using a toner cartridge as a consumable container, and the present invention will be described in detail below by taking the laser printing apparatus as an example.
Consumable container embodiment:
the consumable container of this embodiment is a toner cartridge applied to a laser printing apparatus, see fig. 3 and 4, the toner cartridge of this embodiment has a cartridge body 20, a main chip 30 is disposed on a sidewall 21 of the cartridge body 20, see fig. 4 and 5, a chip mounting frame 23 is disposed on the sidewall 21, a main chip mounting position and an auxiliary chip mounting position are disposed on the chip mounting frame 23, and the main chip 30 and the auxiliary chip 50 are both mounted on the chip mounting frame 30.
Referring to fig. 5 and 6, the chip mounting frame 23 has a frame body 24, two sliding grooves 25 are provided on the frame body 24, the two sliding grooves 25 are parallel to each other, and the main chip 30 and the auxiliary chip 50 are slidably mounted between the two sliding grooves 25.
The main chip 30 is provided with a rectangular substrate 31, a plurality of main contacts 32 are arranged on the upper surface of the substrate 31, the plurality of main contacts 32 are not shielded by the chip mounting frame 23, and when the toner cartridge is mounted on the laser printing device, the main contacts 32 are contacted with and electrically connected with the connection contacts on the laser printing device. The lower surface of the main chip 30 is provided with a memory which stores data such as the toner remaining in the toner cartridge, and the laser printing apparatus can read the data stored in the memory through the main contact 32. The edges of the two sides of the base plate 31 of the main chip 30 may be slid into the two slide grooves 25 of the chip mounting frame 23, and preferably, the height of the slide grooves 25 is slightly larger than the thickness of the base plate 31, and the main chip 30 can be relatively fixed in the thickness direction after the main chip 30 is mounted on the chip mounting frame 23.
The auxiliary chip 50 also has a base plate 51, the base plate 51 being substantially rectangular, and the thickness of the base plate 51 being substantially equal to the thickness of the base plate 31 of the main chip 30, so that the thickness of the base plate 51 is also slightly the height of the rain chute 25, so that the auxiliary chip 50 can be mounted on the chip mounting frame 23 conveniently.
Two auxiliary contacts 52 are arranged on the upper surface of the base plate 51, and along the thickness direction of the auxiliary chip 50, the upper surface of the auxiliary contacts 52 is recessed on the upper surface of the auxiliary chip 50, that is, the upper surface of the base plate 51 is recessed downwards, so that the auxiliary chip 52 cannot protrude on the upper surface of the base plate 51, and damage to the auxiliary chip 52 caused by rubbing the auxiliary chip 50 on the surface of other objects in the process of installing the auxiliary chip 50 can be effectively avoided.
A memory is provided on the lower surface of the substrate 51, and preferably the memory stores data of the toner remaining amount. The data of the auxiliary chip 50 is pre-stored in the memory, for example, the data of the toner residual amount is pre-written into the auxiliary chip 50 by a toner cartridge manufacturer, so that the data of the toner residual amount initially stored in the auxiliary chip 50 represents that the toner cartridge stores enough toner, and when the laser printing device reads the data of the toner residual amount stored in the auxiliary chip 50, the toner residual amount in the toner cartridge is displayed to be 100%.
In order to realize the electrical connection between the main chip 30 and the auxiliary chip 50, the present embodiment provides a connector 40, wherein the connector 40 is installed between the main chip 30 and the auxiliary chip 50, the connector 40 has a main body 41, the main body 41 is rectangular, preferably, the main body 41 is made of plastic, and the thickness of the main body 41 is equal to that of the substrate 31 of the main chip 30 and the substrate 51 of the auxiliary chip 50, so that the connector 40 can slide in the chute 25 smoothly, and the connector 40 is convenient to assemble and disassemble.
The main body 41 is provided with two connection contacts 42, and the two connection contacts 42 are fixed to the main body 41, for example, by welding or bonding, and the like, to the main body 41. The connecting contact pieces 42 are elongated, and both ends of each connecting contact piece 42 extend to the outside of the main body 41 in the width direction of the connecting member 40, that is, both ends of the connecting contact piece 42 extend beyond the edge of the main body 41. A first end of each connection contact 42 is electrically connected to the main contact 32 of the main chip 30, and a second end of each connection contact 42 is electrically connected to the auxiliary contact 52 of the auxiliary chip 50. And, the connection pads 42 are made of a conductive material, for example, a conductive metal.
Since the auxiliary contacts 52 of the auxiliary chip 50 are concave downward, in order to ensure reliable connection between the connecting contact piece 42 and the auxiliary contacts 52, in this embodiment, the two ends of the connecting contact piece 42 are provided with downward extending bumps 43, and the bumps 43 may be protrusions formed by bending the ends of the metal sheet downward during processing of the connecting contact piece 42, or may be bumps formed during injection molding. The bumps 43 at both ends of the contact piece 42 are respectively abutted against the main contact 32 and the auxiliary contact 52, so as to electrically connect the main chip 30 and the auxiliary chip 50.
Chip replacement method embodiment of consumable container:
when the toner in the toner cartridge is used, a user can take the toner cartridge off the laser printing device and recharge the toner cartridge. And, if the toner cartridge initially used is provided with only the main chip 30, after refilling, the main chip 30 does not need to be removed, and only the connector 40 and the auxiliary chip 50 need to be sequentially mounted on the chip mounting frame 23. Since the connection member 40 and the auxiliary chip 50 are both mounted to the chip mounting frame 23 by being inserted into the slide groove 25, the mounting of the connection member 40 and the auxiliary chip 50 is very simple.
When the toner cartridge mounted with the auxiliary chip 50 is reinstalled to the laser printing apparatus, the laser printing apparatus will communicate with the main chip 30, at which time, since the main chip 30 is electrically connected with the auxiliary chip 50, the main chip 30 transmits data stored in the memory of the auxiliary chip 50 to the laser printing apparatus, and data including the toner remaining amount is transmitted to the laser printing apparatus. After the laser printing equipment obtains the toner residue data, the toner cartridge is considered to have enough toner, and the printing operation can be normally executed.
If the auxiliary chip is already installed on the refilled toner cartridge, the original auxiliary chip on the toner cartridge needs to be removed and replaced with a new auxiliary chip after the toner cartridge is refilled. Therefore, a user only needs to purchase the auxiliary chip which is written with the carbon powder allowance data, and can conveniently and automatically replace the auxiliary chip, so that the carbon powder box after powder recharging can be reused, and the convenience of the reuse of the carbon powder box is improved.
Printing apparatus embodiment:
the printing equipment of this embodiment is laser printing equipment, and laser printing equipment is provided with the organism, is provided with cartridge installation cavity in the organism, installs foretell cartridge in the cartridge installation cavity.
Of course, it should be noted that if the consumable container is an ink cartridge, the printing apparatus is an inkjet printing apparatus, the inkjet printing apparatus is provided with a plurality of printing carriages, the printing carriage is a consumable container mounting cavity, the ink cartridge is detachably mounted on the printing carriage, the ink cartridge is provided with a main chip and an auxiliary chip, and the main chip and the auxiliary chip are connected through a connecting piece.
Finally, it should be emphasized that the invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, for example, changes in the specific structure of the chip mount, or changes in the shape of the connectors, or changes in the specific position of the chip mount on the case, etc., which are also intended to be included in the scope of the claims.

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1. A consumable container comprising:
the box body, be provided with the main chip installation position on the lateral wall of box body, the main chip is installed on the main chip installation position, be provided with the main contact on the main chip;
the method is characterized in that:
an auxiliary chip mounting position is further arranged on the side wall of the box body, an auxiliary chip is detachably mounted on the auxiliary chip mounting position, and an auxiliary contact is arranged on the auxiliary chip;
the connecting piece is arranged between the main chip and the auxiliary chip, the connecting piece is provided with a connecting contact piece, a first end of the connecting contact piece is electrically connected with the main contact, a second end of the connecting contact piece is electrically connected with the auxiliary contact, and the connecting contact piece is made of conductive materials.
2. The consumable container of claim 1, wherein:
the side wall of the box body is provided with a chip mounting frame, and the main chip mounting position and the auxiliary chip mounting position are arranged on the chip mounting frame.
3. The consumable container of claim 2, wherein:
the chip mounting frame is provided with a frame body, two mutually parallel chip sliding grooves are formed in the frame body, and the main chip and the auxiliary chip are slidably mounted on the chip sliding grooves.
4. A consumable container according to claim 3, wherein:
the connecting piece also comprises a main body part, and the main body part is slidably arranged on the chip chute.
5. The consumable container of claim 4, wherein:
the connecting contact piece is fixed on the main body part, and two ends of the connecting contact piece exceed the edge of the main body part along the width direction of the main body part.
6. Consumable container according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that:
along the thickness direction of the auxiliary chip, the upper surface of the auxiliary contact is recessed from the upper surface of the auxiliary chip.
7. The consumable container of claim 6, wherein:
and one end of the connecting contact piece, which is connected with the auxiliary contact, is provided with a protruding block extending downwards.
8. A chip replacement method of a consumable container, applied to the consumable container according to any one of claims 1 to 7, comprising:
after the consumable in the consumable container is used and the consumable is added, the connecting piece and the auxiliary chip are mounted on the consumable container, so that the auxiliary chip is electrically connected with the main chip through the connecting contact piece.
9. The method for replacing a chip of a consumable container according to claim 8, wherein:
when the connecting piece and the auxiliary chip are mounted on the consumable container: the connecting piece and the auxiliary chip are sequentially installed.
10. The printing equipment comprises a machine body, wherein a consumable container mounting cavity is arranged in the machine body, and the printing equipment is characterized in that:
a consumable container according to any one of claims 1 to 7 mounted within the consumable container mounting cavity.
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