Printing material container, and board mounted on printing material container

• US 9,505,226 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2016
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Asauchi, Noboru
• Primary Examiner(s): DO, AN H
• Application Number:
  US15/171,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20160271960A1
• Time in Patent Office: 180 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/17503 Ink cartridges
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/1752 Mounting within the printer
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/17526 Electrical contacts to the cartridge
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/1753 Details of contacts on the cartridge, e.g. protection of contacts
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/17546 electronically
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/17553 Outer structure
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/17566 Ink level or ink residue control
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2002/14491 Electrical connection
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2002/17579 Measuring electrical impedance for ink level indication
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 439/9241 Contacts arranged for sequential connection

Abstract

A printing material container detachably attachable to a printing apparatus having apparatus-side terminals. The container can comprise an electrical device, a memory device and a plurality of terminals. First and second terminals can be coupled to the electrical device and a plurality of memory terminals can be coupled to the memory device. Terminal contact portions are present where the terminals contact a respective apparatus side contact forming member. A short detection contact portion can be positioned to contact a contact forming member that itself is coupled to a short detection circuit of the printing apparatus. The terminals can be arranged with the memory terminal contact portions located to the left of the second terminal contact portion and to the right of the first terminal contact portion. The contact portion that is second farthest to the right can be the third contact portion.

Claims

1. A printing material container for mounting in an ink jet printing apparatus, the ink jet printing apparatus having a holder in which the printer material container is mounted and a plurality of apparatus-side contact forming members, the printing material container comprising:

a memory device adapted to be driven by a memory driving voltage;

a terminal group including plural terminals having contact portions arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side contact forming member so that electrical communication is enabled with the ink jet printing apparatus, the contact portions including a plurality of memory contact portions electrically coupled to the memory device, a right contact portion arranged to have applied thereto a voltage higher than the memory driving voltage, and a short detection contact portion arranged for detecting a short between the short detection contact portion and at least the right contact portion; and

displacement preventers that come into contact with or close to a corresponding portion of the holder when the printing material container is mounted in the holder, the displacement preventers being located laterally on both sides of the terminal group.

2. The printing material container according to claim 1, wherein:

the contact portions further including a left contact portion arranged to have applied thereto a voltage higher than the memory driving voltage; and

the displacement preventers are arranged close to the right contact portion and left contact portion among the contact portions.

3. The printing material container according to claim 2, further comprising:

an ink supply opening having an exit on an exterior portion of the printing material container, adapted to supply ink from the printing material container to the printing apparatus; and

wherein;

the contact portions are arranged so that, when the terminal arrangement is viewed from the vantage of the contact forming members, with the terminals oriented as if in contact with the contact forming members so that electrical communication is enabled with the ink jet printing apparatus, and with the printing material container oriented with the exit of the ink supply opening facing downwards;

the contact portion that is farthest to the left is the left contact portion,

the contact portion that is farthest to the right is the right contact portion,

the contact portion that is second farthest to the right is the short detection contact portion, and

the left contact portion, the right contact portion, and two or more of the plurality of memory contact portions are arranged in a row of contact portions that extends in a substantially left-right direction, to define a row direction.