TWM639848U - Multicolor ink cartridge - Google Patents

Abstract

A multi-color printing ink box, comprising: a box body, including a body and a partition, the partition is set inside the body to separate four ink chambers and four ink supply channels, and the four ink chambers respectively store cyan (Cyan), magenta (Magenta), yellow (Yellow) and black (Black) ink, and each of the four ink supply channels has a first end and a second end, and the first end corresponds to the ink The chamber is connected, and the ink in the ink chamber is led out from the second end. The printing head assembly includes a printing chip and a flexible interconnection circuit board. The printing chip is arranged under the box body, and the flexible interconnection circuit board is connected to the printing chip, and the flexible interconnection circuit board extends from the bottom of the box body to the The side positioning of the box body. Wherein, the ink supply grooves of the printing chip communicate with the second end of the ink supply channel respectively, and the ink stored in the four ink chambers is used for inkjet printing by the printing chip.

Description

Multicolor Printing Cartridges

This case relates to a printing ink cartridge, especially a multi-color printing ink cartridge suitable for a printing device.

With the advancement of science and technology, printers have been developed to be easy to operate, and can provide various color documents and pictures that are required by offices, schools and individuals to quickly print out. Among them, the finished products printed by inkjet printers not only have With the advantages of bright luster and full color, it can be printed on a variety of papers of different materials. Integrating cost and practicality, inkjet printers occupy an important position in the current market and are widely used by the public.

Inkjet printers currently use four colors to mix and superimpose to achieve full-color printing. The so-called four colors are: cyan (Cyan), magenta (Magenta), yellow (Yellow) and black (Black). Ink-type printers store and supply CMYK four-color ink, extending a variety of ink cartridge structures, which can be roughly divided into two types, one of which is the design of two separate ink cartridges, namely the black ink cartridge and the color ink cartridge , the color ink cartridge has three ink chambers to accommodate the CMY three-color ink; the other type is the design of the four-color separation ink cartridge, and the CMYK four-color inks are independently set in different ink cartridges. In recent years, some Inkjet printers are designed with 5 to 6 color ink cartridges to reduce printing costs.

Generally speaking, ink cartridges are consumables, so after an inkjet printer has been used for a period of time, the ink cartridge must be replaced because the ink in the ink cartridge is exhausted. It is convenient to replace the ink cartridges. It is designed with a snap-in bearing seat to carry the ink cartridges, so that users can quickly replace the ink cartridges that have run out of ink, and to set up multiple sets of ink cartridges for storing ink of various colors, the bearing seat Most of them have multiple accommodating slots. However, the more the number of bearing seats is required, the processing complexity will increase, and the volume of the printer will also increase. Not only the manufacturing and design costs of the printer will increase, but it will also be difficult to meet the requirements. Today's technology development focuses on trends such as thinness, lightness, compactness, and portability. In addition, it is known that the external shape of each ink cartridge is similar. If the user is negligent in the installation, it is easy to mistakenly install the ink cartridge of another color on the bearing seat of the ink cartridge to be replaced, causing ink confusion and making the printing The color accuracy of the printer will be greatly reduced, which will affect the printing quality.

Therefore, how to develop a multi-color printing ink cartridge that can improve the above-mentioned deficiencies of the prior art and can take into account the convenience of use and the saving of manufacturing cost is really an urgent problem to be solved by those in the technical field related to this case.

The main purpose of this creation is to provide a multi-color printing ink cartridge suitable for printing devices, so as to solve the problem that the printing device must be equipped with more than two ink cartridge bearing seats, which makes it easy to use the wrong ink when replacing the ink cartridges. The ink cartridges are installed on the correct bearing seat, and the ink is mixed. On the other hand, by reducing the number of ink cartridge bearing seats, the design and material costs of printing ink cartridges can be saved.

In order to achieve the above purpose, one of the wider implementations of the present invention provides a multi-color printing ink cartridge, comprising: a cartridge body, including a body and a partition, the partition is arranged inside the body and defines a Four ink chambers and four ink supply channels, the four ink chambers are respectively used to store four colors of ink: cyan (Cyan), magenta (Magenta), yellow (Yellow) and black (Black). Each of the ink supply channels has a first end and a second end, the first end communicates with the corresponding ink chamber, and the ink in the ink chamber is led out from the second end; and A printing head assembly includes a printing chip and a flexible interconnection circuit board, the printing chip is arranged under the box body, and the flexible interconnection circuit board is connected to the printing chip, and the flexible interconnection circuit board can Extending from the bottom of the box body to one side of the box body, the ink supply grooves of the printed chip are respectively communicated with the second end of the ink supply channel for supplying the ink stored in the four ink chambers The inkjet printing operation is performed by the printing wafer.

Embodiments for embodying the features and advantages of the invention will be described in detail in the description of the latter paragraph. It should be understood that this creation can have various changes in different forms without departing from the scope of this creation, and the descriptions and illustrations therein are used for illustration in nature, not to limit this creation.

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2A , this invention provides a multi-color printing ink cartridge, which includes a cartridge body 1 , an upper cover 2 and a print head assembly 3 . The inside of the box body 1 has a liquid storage space to store the ink, and the upper cover 2 is sealed above the box body 1, so that the ink liquid is sealed and stored inside the box body 1, and the print head assembly 3 has a printing chip 31 arranged on it. Below the box body 1, there is a flexible interconnected circuit board 32 connected to the printed chip 31, and the flexible interconnected circuit board 32 is arranged under the box body 1 and extends to one side of the box body 1 for positioning, thus forming a multi-color The printing ink cartridge is arranged on the printing device, and is actuated by the printing chip 31 to eject ink to implement printing operation.

Please refer to Fig. 1, Fig. 2A and Fig. 3A to Fig. 4B, the above-mentioned box body 1 comprises a main body 11 and a partition 12, an ink chamber 13 and an ink supply channel 14, wherein the partition 12 is arranged on In the accommodating space inside the main body 11, four ink chambers 13 and four ink supply channels 14 are defined to further divide the accommodating space. The four ink chambers 13 are respectively the first ink chamber 13a and the second ink chamber 13b , the third ink chamber 13c and the fourth ink chamber 13d (as Fig. 2A), in order to be used for storing the ink liquid of at least 4 kinds of colors (CMYK), but the embodiment is not limited to this, and 4 ink supply The flow channels 14 are respectively the first ink supply flow channel 14a, the second ink supply flow channel 14b, the third ink supply flow channel 14c and the fourth ink supply flow channel 14d, and each ink supply flow channel 14 has its own first The end portions 141a, 141b, 141c, 141d and the second end portions 142a, 142b, 142c, 142d make the first end portions 141a, 141b, 141c, 141d of each ink supply channel 14 correspond to the first ink chamber 13a , the second ink chamber 13b, the third ink chamber 13c and the fourth ink chamber 13d communicate (as shown in Figure 3A to Figure 4B), and the second end 142a, 142b, 142c of each ink supply channel 14 , 142d are respectively communicated with the ink supply tanks (not shown) of the corresponding printing chips 31, and are used to guide the ink supply tanks of the corresponding printing chips 31 in the four ink chambers 13, to print.

It should be noted that the shapes of the first ends 141a, 141b, 141c, 141d of the first ink supply channel 14a, the second ink supply channel 14b, the third ink supply channel 14c and the fourth ink supply channel 14d It is a structure that extends vertically and vertically downwards, but is not limited to this.

It is worth noting that, as shown in FIG. 2C, the main body 11 has a plurality of protrusion structures 15 when the printing wafer 31 is inserted into the recessed space, and is correspondingly arranged at the four corners of the printing wafer 31 to provide columns. The printed chip 31 is fixedly combined in the recessed space, so that when it is fixed in the recessed space of the main body 11 by an adhesive, the protrusion structure 15 can abut against the printed chip 31, so that the printed chip 31 can be parallel to the inkjet medium, And maintain a stable distance with the inkjet medium, so that when the ink droplet is sprayed to the surface of the inkjet medium, it can maintain a vertical direction, so that the ink droplet can fly to the inkjet medium or a standard graphic mark, and it can also avoid large The angle of inclination causes the adhesive to be excessively squeezed outward, resulting in blockage of the ink supply flow channel 14, resulting in the inability of the ink to be inked smoothly and the purpose of printing cannot be successfully achieved; The height is fixed, and it is easy to obtain the best conditions no matter in the amount of adhesive coating, the depth of pressing down and the control of time, so that the variability in the ink cartridge production process is reduced.

It is worth noting that in some embodiments, the four ink chambers 13 accommodate inks of different colors, but are not limited thereto. In other embodiments, they can also accommodate part of inks of the same color, It can be changed arbitrarily according to the actual implementation situation.

It is worth noting that the multi-color printing ink cartridge of this invention can also be applied to the printing ink cartridge of the continuous ink supply system. As shown in FIG. Each ink chamber 13 is equipped with an ink guide assembly 16, and the upper part of the ink guide assembly 16 is connected with an ink communication conduit to form a printing ink cartridge of a continuous ink supply system.

To sum up, the multi-color printing ink cartridge in this case mainly divides the accommodating space into four ink chambers by setting a partition in the accommodating space of the cartridge body, and stores a variety of different colors ( For example: CMYK) ink, and set the corresponding connected ink supply channel in the bottom area of the four ink chambers, and then transport the ink from each ink chamber to each corresponding ink supply channel, and then flow to each corresponding row The ink supply tank of the printed chip is used for multi-color printing. Therefore, the multi-color printing ink cartridge in this case can be composed of a single ink cartridge structure to accommodate multi-color inks, not only will not cause the multi-color inks to be mixed. At the same time, it can reduce the design and material cost of the ink cartridge bearing seat, and when the user replaces the ink cartridge, he only needs to replace a single cartridge instead of multiple cartridges, which can increase the user's convenience in use. Convenience, and reduce the waste of consumables. Therefore, the multi-color printing ink cartridge in this case should have industrial value, and an application should be filed in accordance with the law. This case can be modified by Ren Shi, a person familiar with this technology, in various ways, all of which are not deviating from the intended protection of the scope of the attached patent application.

1: box body 11: Ontology 12: Divider 13: ink room 13a: The first ink room 13b: the second ink chamber 13c: The third ink room 13d: The fourth ink room 14: Ink supply channel 14a: the first ink supply channel 14b: The second ink supply channel 14c: the third ink supply channel 14d: the fourth ink supply channel 141a, 141b, 141c, 141d: first end 142a, 142b, 142c, 142d: second end 15 : Convex structure 16:Ink guide assembly 2: Top cover 3:Print head assembly 31:Print wafer 32: Flexible interconnection circuit board A-A, B-B, C-C: hatching

Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the three-dimensional structure of the multi-color printing ink cartridge of this creation. Figure 2A is a schematic top view of the multi-color printing ink cartridge of this invention with the upper cover removed. Figure 2B is a schematic diagram of the bottom of the creative multi-color printing ink cartridge. FIG. 2C is a schematic diagram of the bottom of the cassette in FIG. 2B with the printed wafer removed. Fig. 3A is a schematic cross-sectional view viewed on line A-A in Fig. 2A. Figure 3B is a schematic cross-sectional view viewed along the line B-B in Figure 2A. Fig. 3C is a schematic cross-sectional view viewed on line C-C in Fig. 2A. Figure 4A is a schematic side view of the multi-color printing ink cartridge of this creation. Figure 4B is a schematic cross-sectional view viewed along the line D-D in Figure 4A. Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of the continuous ink guide component used in the creative multi-color printing ink cartridge.

11: Ontology

12: Divider

13: ink room

13a: The first ink room

13b: the second ink chamber

13c: The third ink room

13d: The fourth ink room

14: Ink supply channel

14a: the first ink supply channel

14b: The second ink supply channel

14c: the third ink supply channel

14d: the fourth ink supply channel

A-A, B-B, C-C: hatching

Claims (4)

A multi-color printing cartridge containing: A box body includes a body and a partition. The partition is arranged inside the body and defines four ink chambers and four ink supply flow channels. The four ink chambers are respectively used to store cyan (Cyan) , magenta (Magenta), yellow (Yellow) and black (Black) four colors of ink, and each of the four ink supply channels has a first end and a second end, the first end communicate with the corresponding ink chamber, and then lead out the ink in the ink chamber from the second end; and A printing head assembly includes a printing chip and a flexible interconnection circuit board, the printing chip is arranged under the box body, and the flexible interconnection circuit board is connected to the printing chip, and the flexible interconnection circuit board can Extending from the bottom of the box body to one side of the box body, the ink supply grooves of the printed chip are respectively communicated with the second end of the ink supply channel for supplying the ink stored in the four ink chambers The inkjet printing operation is performed by the printing wafer. The multi-color printing ink cartridge as described in claim 1, wherein the main body of the cartridge has a plurality of protrusion structures in a recessed space where the printing chip is placed, and are four correspondingly arranged on the printing chip. at an end corner. The multi-color printing ink cartridge as described in Claim 1 further includes an upper cover sealed above the cartridge body. In the multi-color printing ink cartridge as described in claim 3, four ink guide components are further arranged on the upper cover, and are individually connected to one of the ink chambers, and an ink communication conduit is connected above the ink guide components to form a Printing cartridges for continuous ink supply systems.

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