Quick connect assembly for fluid and electrical connections
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsKeith Allen Bartel, Robert E. Gehrin
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Abstract
A quick connect assembly includes a connector housing and fluid connectors that fluidly couple an ink assembly and a print assembly. The quick connect assembly also includes conductive connectors that conductively couple hardware circuitry in the ink assembly with hardware circuitry in the print assembly. First and second portions of the connector housing mate with each other to couple the fluid connectors and to couple the conductive connectors. The first and second housing portions mate with each other by rotating the first housing portion and/or the second housing portion relative to the other of the first housing portion and/or the second housing portion.
Claims10
A quick connect assembly comprising:
- a connector housing formed from at least separate first and second housing portions;
- one or more fluid connectors disposed in each of the first housing portion and the second housing portion of the connector housing and configured to fluidly couple an ink assembly and a print assembly, the ink assembly storing ink for the print assembly and the print assembly receiving the ink via the one or more fluid connectors for printing onto one or more target substrates;
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- one or more conductive connectors disposed in each of the first housing portion and the second housing portion of the connector housing and configured to conductively couple hardware circuitry in the ink assembly with hardware circuitry in the print assembly, the hardware circuitry in the ink assembly controlling supply of the ink to the print assembly, the hardware circuitry in the print assembly controlling printing of the ink onto the one or more target substrates,
- wherein the first and second housing portions of the connector housing are configured to mate with each other to couple the one or more fluid connectors disposed in each of the first and second housing portions and to couple the one or more conductive connectors disposed in each of the first and second housing portions, the first and second housing portions configured to mate with each other by rotating at least one of the first housing portion or the second housing portion relative to another of the first housing portion or the second housing portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.