CN216610573U - Ink box with ink consumption detection mechanism - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses an ink box with an ink quantity exhaustion detecting mechanism, which comprises a box body and a control panel arranged on the box body, wherein an ink cavity is arranged in the box body, the box body is provided with a light blocking part for blocking detection light of a printer, a liquid level detecting mechanism electrically connected with the control panel is arranged in the box body or the ink cavity, the prior photosensitive principle is abandoned to detect the ink quantity of the ink box, the light blocking part is arranged to ensure that the printer fails to detect the ink quantity of the ink box, the printer considers that the ink box is in an ink inexhaustible state, the liquid level detecting mechanism is arranged in the ink box and converts the ink quantity into an electric signal to be fed back to the control panel of the ink box, after the ink quantity is exhausted, the control panel feeds back a fault signal or stops feeding back the signal to the printer to make the fault judgment of the ink box, the exhaustion detection of the ink quantity under the condition of not changing the original printer is realized, and the requirement of the product on a base material is not high, the detection is accurate and the reliability is high.
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Technical Field
The present invention relates to an ink cartridge, and more particularly to an ink cartridge with a mechanism for detecting the amount of ink consumed.
Background
Referring to fig. 5, in the prior art, the ink consumption is detected by arranging an infrared light source and a receiver on a printer, arranging a transparent photosensitive area on the ink cartridge, after the ink cartridge is installed, the transparent photosensitive area of the ink cartridge is positioned between the light source and the receiver, hinging a light barrier inside the ink cartridge, rotating the light barrier through buoyancy, when ink is available, moving a light shielding part at the upper end of the light barrier to the photosensitive area, blocking infrared light, when no ink is available, the light shielding part moves away, the light of the light source will shoot to the receiver, after receiving the infrared light, the receiver transmits a signal to the printer, the printer gives out no-ink information and appoints to stop the printer, the prior art adopts a photosensitive principle to detect the ink quantity of the ink cartridge, the detection mechanism has high requirements on product color, material transmittance and the like, and if the material does not reach standards or is deteriorated or deformed, problems occur in product storage and other links, the final product can be invalid, the reliability is not high.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the defects of the prior art, the utility model provides an ink box with an ink quantity exhaustion detecting mechanism.
The technical scheme adopted by the utility model for solving the technical problems is as follows:
the utility model provides an ink horn from taking ink volume to exhaust detection mechanism, includes the box body and installs control panel on the box body, be equipped with the china ink chamber in the box body, the box body is provided with the portion of being in the light that is used for blockking that the printer detected the light, in the box body or in the china ink intracavity be provided with the liquid level detection mechanism that the control panel electricity is connected.
The liquid level detection mechanism is including locating the liquid level chamber in the china ink intracavity, the upper end in liquid level chamber is equipped with the water inlet, and the lower extreme is equipped with the delivery port, the water inlet with the china ink chamber communicates with each other, two conducting rods are vertically installed to the liquid level intracavity, the upper end of conducting rod with the control panel electricity is connected, connect through the conductor electricity between the conducting rod.
When the ink in the liquid level cavity is soaked through the lower end of the conducting rods, the conducting rods are electrically connected.
The liquid level intracavity is placed and is floated in the current conducting plate of ink liquid level, works as liquid level intracavity ink water soaks when the lower extreme of conducting rod, the lower extreme of conducting rod with the current conducting plate electricity is connected.
The liquid level detection mechanism comprises a liquid level cavity arranged in the ink cavity, a water inlet is arranged at the upper end of the liquid level cavity, a water outlet is arranged at the lower end of the liquid level cavity, the water inlet is communicated with the ink cavity, a magnet is placed in the liquid level cavity, a floating body is installed at the top of the magnet, a Hall sensor is installed on the lower side of the liquid level cavity corresponding to the inside of the box body, and the Hall sensor is electrically connected with the control panel.
Be equipped with the installation cavity in the box body, hall sensor installs the installation cavity is interior.
The utility model has the beneficial effects that: the utility model abandons the prior art photosensitive principle to detect the ink quantity of the ink box, sets the light blocking part to disable the detection of the printer on the ink quantity of the ink box, the printer considers that the ink box is in the state of not using up the ink, and sets the liquid level detection mechanism in the ink box, the liquid level detection mechanism converts the ink quantity into an electric signal and feeds back the electric signal to the control panel of the ink box, after the ink quantity is used up, the control panel feeds back a fault signal or stops feeding back the signal to the printer, the printer makes the fault judgment of the ink box, the detection on the ink quantity exhaustion under the condition of not changing the original printer is realized, the requirement of the product on the basic material is met, the detection is accurate, and the reliability is strong.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the internal structure of a first embodiment of an ink cartridge;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a first embodiment of the level sensing mechanism of the above embodiment;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a second embodiment of the level sensing mechanism of the above embodiment;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the internal structure of a second embodiment of the ink cartridge;
fig. 5 is a schematic view of the internal structure of a prior art ink cartridge.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with the following detailed description. It should be noted that the embodiments of the present invention and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.
It is to be understood that this description is made only by way of example and not as a limitation on the scope of the utility model.
Referring to fig. 1 to 4, an ink cartridge with a depleted ink volume detection mechanism includes a cartridge body 1, a control board 2 installed outside the cartridge body 1, an ink chamber 3 is provided in the cartridge body 1, an ink outlet tube 4 is provided outside the cartridge body 1, a light blocking portion 5 is provided outside the cartridge body 1, a liquid level detection mechanism electrically connected to the control board 2 is provided in the cartridge body 1 or the ink chamber 3, and in this embodiment, the liquid level detection mechanism has the following structure: the improved ink fountain is characterized in that a liquid level cavity 6 is arranged in the ink cavity 3, a water inlet 7 is arranged at the upper end of the liquid level cavity 6, a water outlet 8 is arranged at the lower end of the liquid level cavity 6, the water inlet 7 is communicated with the ink cavity 3, the water outlet 8 is communicated with the ink outlet pipe 4, two conducting rods 9 are vertically arranged in the liquid level cavity 6, the upper ends of the conducting rods 9 are electrically connected with the control panel 2, and the conducting rods 9 are electrically connected through conductors.
The conductor can be ink, when the ink in the liquid level cavity 6 is soaked at the lower end of the conducting rod 9, the conducting rod 9 is electrically connected, so that the circuit between the control board 2 and the conducting rod 9 is conducted; the conductor also can be the conducting plate, place in the liquid level chamber 6 and float in the conducting plate 10 of ink liquid level, when ink soaks in the liquid level chamber 6 the lower extreme of conducting rod 9, the lower extreme of conducting rod 9 with the conducting plate 10 electricity is connected, makes control panel 2, the circuit between conducting rod 9 and conducting plate 10 switch on.
The bottom of the ink cavity 3 is provided with a water inlet channel 11 communicated with the ink cavity, and the water inlet channel 11 is communicated with the water inlet 7 to ensure that the ink in the ink cavity 3 can be completely used up.
In the above embodiment, the liquid level detection mechanism is a circuit breaker arranged on the control board, when there is ink left in the ink cartridge, the ink flows into the liquid level chamber 6 through the water inlet channel 11 under the action of the printer inflating and pressurizing the ink cartridge, and as the liquid level of the ink in the liquid level chamber 6 continuously rises, and the ink soaks the lower end of the conductive rod 9, the conductive rod 9 is conducted, so that the power supply contact of the control board normally works; when the ink volume is used up, the liquid level in the liquid level cavity 6 is lowered, the conducting rods 9 are disconnected, the control panel stops working, the feedback signal is stopped for the printer, and the printer is enabled to make ink box fault judgment and stop.
The utility model provides an ink horn from taking ink volume to run out detection mechanism, includes box body 1, installs control panel 2 outside box body 1, be equipped with china ink chamber 3 in the box body 1, box body 1 is equipped with out the china ink pipe 4 outward, box body 1 is equipped with the lighttight portion of being in the light 5 outward, be provided with in box body 1 or china ink chamber 3 with the liquid level detection mechanism that control panel 2 electricity is connected, in this embodiment, liquid level detection mechanism structure is as follows: the improved ink box is characterized in that a liquid level cavity 6 is arranged in the ink cavity 3, a water inlet 7 is arranged at the upper end of the liquid level cavity 6, a water outlet 8 is arranged at the lower end of the liquid level cavity 6, the water inlet 7 is communicated with the ink cavity 3, the water outlet 8 is communicated with the ink outlet pipe 4, a magnet 11 is placed in the liquid level cavity 6, a floating body 12 is installed at the top of the magnet 11, the box body 1 corresponds to the lower side of the liquid level cavity 6, a Hall sensor 13 is installed on the lower side of the liquid level cavity 6, and the Hall sensor 13 is electrically connected with the control panel 2.
One side of liquid level chamber 6 be equipped with communicating inhalant canal 11 of water inlet 7, inhalant canal 11's the end of intaking is located the bottom in china ink chamber 3 ensures that the ink in china ink chamber 3 can be used up completely.
A mounting cavity 14 is formed in the box body 1, and the Hall sensor 13 is mounted in the mounting cavity 14.
In the above embodiment, the liquid level detection mechanism is a magnetic sensing device disposed in the liquid level chamber 6, when the ink in the ink cartridge is not exhausted, the ink flows into the liquid level chamber 6 through the water inlet channel 11 under the action of the printer inflating and pressurizing the ink cartridge, as the liquid level of the ink in the liquid level chamber 6 continuously rises, the magnet 11 moves upwards under the action of the buoyancy of the floating body 12, and is far away from the hall sensor 13 below, the hall sensor 13 has no feedback signal, and the ink in the ink cartridge is considered to be not exhausted; when the ink amount is used up, the liquid level in the liquid level cavity 6 is lowered, the magnet 11 moves downwards, the Hall sensor 13 is triggered, a signal is fed back to the control board, the control board feeds back a fault signal to the printer, and the printer is judged to be in fault shutdown.
A method for detecting ink consumption of ink box is to make printer fail to detect ink quantity of ink box, the specific implementation mode can replace transparent photosensitive area in prior art ink box with lightproof light blocking part, the prior transparent photosensitive area can be set on top of ink box or set at position corresponding to ink cavity; or the light emitted by the luminous source can be shielded by adopting a sticker or coating mode; when the ink box is installed on the machine, after the light-emitting end of the printer emits light, the receiving end does not receive the light source at all, so that the printer always considers that the ink box is in an ink non-exhausted state and can be normally used, namely the printer cheats a detection mechanism of the printer; the ink box is internally provided with a liquid level detection mechanism, the liquid level detection mechanism converts the ink quantity into an electric signal and feeds the electric signal back to a control panel of the ink box, and the control panel feeds back a fault signal or stops feeding back the signal to the printer after the ink quantity is exhausted; or after the ink amount is exhausted, the control board stops working, and stops feeding back information, so that the printer also judges the failure of the ink box and stops; the ink quantity exhaustion detection is realized without changing the original printer.
Specifically, the method is that a switch circuit is arranged between the control board and the liquid level detection mechanism, and the switch circuit is opened or closed after the ink amount is exhausted, so that the control board feeds back a fault signal or stops feeding back the signal to the printer.
In the present invention, the term "plurality" means two or more unless explicitly defined otherwise. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items. The terms "mounted," "connected," "fixed," and the like are to be construed broadly, and for example, "connected" may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; "coupled" may be direct or indirect through an intermediary. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "mounted to," "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present. The terms "vertical," "horizontal," "upper," "lower," "left," "right," and the like as used herein are for illustrative purposes only and do not denote a unique embodiment.
In the description herein, the description of the terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "specific embodiments," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the utility model. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the utility model, the scope of which is defined in the claims and their equivalents.
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1. The utility model provides an ink horn from taking ink volume to exhaust detection mechanism, includes box body (1) and installs control panel (2) on box body (1), be equipped with china ink chamber (3) in box body (1), its characterized in that box body (1) is provided with the portion of being in the light (5) that is used for blockking the printer and detects the light, be provided with in box body (1) or china ink chamber (3) with the liquid level detection mechanism that control panel (2) electricity is connected.
2. The ink cartridge as claimed in claim 1, wherein the liquid level detection mechanism comprises a liquid level chamber (6) disposed in the ink chamber (3), a water inlet (7) is disposed at an upper end of the liquid level chamber (6), a water outlet (8) is disposed at a lower end of the liquid level chamber, the water inlet (7) is communicated with the ink chamber (3), two conductive rods (9) are vertically mounted in the liquid level chamber (6), an upper end of each conductive rod (9) is electrically connected with the control board (2), and the conductive rods (9) are electrically connected with each other through a conductor.
3. The ink cartridge according to claim 2, wherein the conductive rods (9) are electrically connected when the ink in the liquid level chamber (6) is soaked through the lower ends of the conductive rods (9).
4. The cartridge according to claim 2, wherein a conductive plate (10) floating on the surface of the ink is placed in said liquid level chamber (6), and when the ink in said liquid level chamber (6) soaks the lower end of said conductive rod (9), the lower end of said conductive rod (9) is electrically connected to said conductive plate (10).
5. The ink box according to claim 1, wherein the liquid level detection mechanism comprises a liquid level chamber (6) disposed in the ink chamber (3), a water inlet (7) is disposed at an upper end of the liquid level chamber (6), a water outlet (8) is disposed at a lower end of the liquid level chamber, the water inlet (7) communicates with the ink chamber (3), a magnet (11) is disposed in the liquid level chamber (6), a floating body (12) is mounted at a top of the magnet (11), a hall sensor (13) is mounted in the box body (1) corresponding to a lower side of the liquid level chamber (6), and the hall sensor (13) is electrically connected to the control board (2).
6. The ink cartridge according to claim 5, wherein a mounting chamber (14) is provided in the cartridge body (1), and the hall sensor (13) is mounted in the mounting chamber (14).
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