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S.C.C. Issued New Patent for Universal Inkjet Cartridges
Static Control Components, Inc.NewsRx.com
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Engineering — According to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by VerticalNews journalists, a patent by the inventors Huck, Donald D. (Sanford, NC); Causey, Anthony D. (Fuquay Varina, NC), filed on January 25, 2008, was cleared and issued on February 26, 2013.
The assignee for this patent, patent number 8382264, is Static Control Components, Inc. (Sanford, NC).
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Printer cartridges are typically designed to provide the consumer a certain number of print copies before the toner or ink is exhausted. The total number of prints varies depending on the type, quality and density of the print provided by the printer. After all of the toner or ink is spent, the cartridges are either thrown away or recycled.
"Within an inkjet printer, there may be four or more inkjet cartridges. Each of the inkjet cartridges may contain a specific color of ink. There may be up to seven color inkjet cartridges for each color inkjet printer, including black, magenta, yellow and cyan color cartridges. In some inkjet printers, the basic shape of the various inkjet cartridges may be very similar with only slight differences. For instance, all the cartridges may use the same print head or nozzle. The shape of the ink tanks may also be very similar. However, the printer manufacturers have developed a keying system to prevent the wrong inkjet cartridge from being installed into the incorrect cartridge location within the printer. Typically these keys may be a protrusion on the outside of the inkjet cartridge which may match up with a recess or set of recesses in the inkjet cartridge compartment. If a black inkjet cartridge is attempted to be inserted into a cyan location, the cyan keys prevent the black inkjet cartridge from being inserted.
"Additionally, the inkjet cartridges may be designed to fit into one type of printer or family of printers. For instance, the various Hewlett Packard (HP) 83 inkjet cartridges (black, magenta, cyan, light cyan, light magenta, and yellow) may not be compatible for use in with other HP printer types such as the HP Edgeline family of printers, even though the cartridges may look very similar. The printer manufacturers may alter one or more physical characteristics of the inkjet cartridges. In some cases the differences may be an entirely new shape or the printer manufacturer may only change a minor detail such as an indentation or a protrusion in addition to the color keying for the individual color inkjet cartridge.
"Commonly on some inkjet cartridges, there may be color indication tabs indicating the particular color of ink contained within the inkjet cartridge. In addition, there may also be printer identification fins which differentiate which printer or printer family the inkjet cartridge is compatible with. Because the color identification tabs line up with certain recesses within the printer as well as printer identification protrusions that line up with printer identification keys, the printer manufacturer may have to produce a different inkjet cartridge for each color for all of the various printers or printer families. This may be an inefficient way of offering inkjet cartridges when the inkjet cartridges may be very similar."
In addition to obtaining background information on this patent, VerticalNews editors also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: "The present invention recognizes the need for a universal inkjet cartridge that may be configured for use in any of the inkjet cartridge locations within a plurality of printers. The present invention may allow an inkjet cartridge manufacturer or remanufacturer the ability to produce one universal inkjet cartridge that may be configured for use in multiple locations with the same printer or possibly multiple locations with multiple printers.
"A universal inkjet cartridge usable in an inkjet printer the inkjet cartridge having an inkjet tank, the inkjet tank storing ink and having an upper surface and a lower surface is disclosed. Mounted on the lower surface are configurable color identification tabs and mounted on the upper surface are printer identification fins, the configurable color identification tabs are configured to allow the universal inkjet cartridge to be used in multiple inkjet cartridge locations within the inkjet printer identified by the printer identification fins.
"A universal inkjet cartridge usable in an inkjet printer the inkjet cartridge having an inkjet tank, the inkjet tank storing ink and having an upper surface and a lower surface is disclosed. Mounted on the lower surface are color identification tabs and mounted on the upper surface are configurable printer identification fins, the configurable printer identification fins are configured to allow the universal inkjet cartridge to be used in the same inkjet cartridge location in multiple inkjet printers identified by the configurable printer identification fins.
"A universal inkjet cartridge usable in an inkjet printer the inkjet cartridge having an inkjet tank, the inkjet tank storing ink and having an upper surface and a lower surface is disclosed. Mounted on the lower surface are configurable color identification tabs and mounted on the upper surface are configurable printer identification fins, the configurable color identification tabs are configured to allow the universal inkjet cartridge to be used in multiple inkjet cartridge locations within the inkjet printer and the configurable printer identification fins are configured such that the universal inkjet cartridge is compatible in multiple inkjet printers.
"A more complete understanding of the present invention, as well as further features and advantages of the invention, will be apparent from the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings."
For more information, see this patent: Huck, Donald D.; Causey, Anthony D.. Universal Inkjet Cartridge. U.S. Patent Number 8382264, filed January 25, 2008, and issued February 26, 2013. Patent URL: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=107&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=5307&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20130226.PD.&OS=ISD/20130226&RS=ISD/20130226
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