Print substance gauge authentication
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsKenneth K. Smith, Andrew P. Chick, Pratik Shah, Adam Hornstein, Dustin C. Rosing, Steven Motzkus, Matthew James Storey
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Abstract
In some examples, an apparatus can include a print substance gauge to indicate a quantity of print particles an imaging device is capable of receiving at a particular time, and an authentication mechanism coupled to a locking mechanism, the authentication mechanism includes instructions to: determine a quantity of print particles within a print particle container, and unlock the locking mechanism when the print substance gauge indicates that the imagining device is capable of receiving the quantity of print particles within the print particle container.
Claims15
An apparatus, comprising:
- a print substance gauge to indicate a quantity of print particles that an imaging device is capable of receiving at a particular time;
- and
- an authentication mechanism coupled to a locking mechanism, wherein the authentication mechanism includes instructions to:
- determine a quantity of print particles within a print particle container;
- and
- unlock the locking mechanism based on the print substance gauge indicating that the imaging device is capable of receiving the quantity of print particles within the print particle container.
A print particle apparatus, comprising:
- a print particle reservoir of an imaging device;
- a mating interface coupled to the print particle reservoir to receive a print particle container;
- a locking mechanism coupled to the mating interface to control access to the print particle reservoir;
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- an authentication mechanism coupled to the locking mechanism comprising instructions to:
- determine properties of the print particle container based on the print particle container being received by the mating interface, wherein the properties of the print particle container include a quantity of print particles;
- unlock the locking mechanism based on the properties of the print particle container being within a receivable threshold of the print particle reservoir;
- and
- lock the locking mechanism based on the properties of the print particle container exceeding the receivable threshold of the print particle reservoir.
A system, comprising:
- a housing of an imaging device;
- a print particle reservoir positioned within an interior of housing of the imaging device;
- a mating interface coupled to an exterior of the housing to receive a print particle container to deposit print particles into the print particle reservoir based on the mating interface being in an unlocked position;
- an authentication mechanism coupled to a locking mechanism coupled to the mating interface to allow the mating interface to move from a locked position to the unlocked position, wherein the authentication mechanism includes instructions to:
- determine a quantity of print particles the print particle reservoir is capable of receiving from the print particle container;
- determine a quantity of print particles stored in the print particle container;
- unlock the locking mechanism to allow the mating interface to move from the locked position to the unlocked position based on the quantity of print particles stored in the print particle container being less than the quantity of print particles the print particle reservoir is capable of receiving.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.