# US 2010/0167786 A1 · Mobile phone with printer and media feed path defined through mobile phone

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- Number: US 2010/0167786 A1
- Document ID: US20100167786A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 12/720,658
- Filed: 2010-03-09
- Published: 2010-07-01
- Earliest claimed: 1998-11-09
- Assignees: Siverbrook Research Pty Ltd
- Inventors: Kia Silverbrook; Tobin Allen King
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20100167786A1

## CPC

- B41J 3/445: {Printers integrated in other types of apparatus, e.g. printers integrated in cameras}
- B41J 2/01: Ink jet
- B41J 3/36: for portability {, i.e. hand-held printers or laptop printers (B41J3/4075 takes precedence)}
- B41J 3/407: for marking on special material
- B41J 13/00: Devices or arrangements {of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers,} specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
- G06F 1/1626: {with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]}
- G06F 1/1632: {External expansion units, e.g. docking stations}
- G06F 1/1656: {Details related to functional adaptations of the enclosure, e.g. to provide protection against EMI, shock, water, or to host detachable peripherals like a mouse or removable expansions units like PCMCIA cards, or to provide access to internal components for maintenance or to removable storage supports like CDs or DVDs, or to mechanically mount accessories (mounting of accessories to a computer display G06F1/1607; display hoods G06F1/1603; cooling arrangements for portable computers G06F1/203)}
- G06F 1/1662: {Details related to the integrated keyboard}
- G06F 1/1686: {the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera}
- G06F 1/1696: {the I/O peripheral being a printing or scanning device}
- H04M 1/21: Combinations with auxiliary equipment, e.g. with clocks or memoranda pads
- H04M 1/72409: by interfacing with external accessories (hands-free H04M1/60)
- H04N 1/00127: {Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture}
- H04N 1/00188: {Printing, e.g. prints or reprints (H04N1/0019, H04N1/00196 take precedence)}
- H04N 1/00307: {with a mobile telephone apparatus (constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00)}
- H04N 1/00326: {with a data reading, recognizing or recording apparatus, e.g. with a bar-code apparatus (arrangements for the associated working of recording or reproducing apparatus with related apparatus G11B31/00)}
- H04N 1/00347: {with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus (circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32)}
- H04N 1/00519: {Constructional details not otherwise provided for, e.g. housings, covers}
- H04N 1/00538: {Modular devices, i.e. allowing combinations of separate components, removal or replacement of components}
- H04N 1/0062: {Removing sheets from a stack or inputting media}
- H04N 1/00631: {Ejecting or stacking (H04N1/00641 takes precedence)}
- H04N 1/04: Scanning arrangements {, i.e. arrangements for the displacement of active reading or reproducing elements relative to the original or reproducing medium, or vice versa}(H04N1/387 takes precedence)
- H04N 1/2154: {the still video camera incorporating a hardcopy reproducing device, e.g. a printer}
- H04N 1/46: Colour picture communication systems
- H04M 1/724: User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
- H04M 1/72439: for image or video messaging
- H04N 1/00278: {with a printing apparatus, e.g. a laser beam printer}
- H04N 1/00281: {with a telecommunication apparatus, e.g. a switched network of teleprinters for the distribution of text-based information, a selective call terminal (details of transmission H04N1/00095; establishing a communication with one of a facsimile machine or another apparatus sharing a single line H04N1/32704; interfacing cordless telephone terminals with an accessory to increase the functionality of user interface H04M1/72409)}
- H04N 1/00525: {Providing a more compact apparatus, e.g. sheet discharge tray in cover}
- H04N 1/12: using the sheet-feed movement {or the medium-advance or the drum-rotation movement} as the slow scanning component, {e.g. arrangements for the main-scanning}({sheet-feed movement by translatory movement of a flat picture-bearing surface H04N1/1008; main-scanning using oscillating or rotating mirrors H04N1/113; } using multi-element arrays H04N1/19)
- H04N 1/193: using electrically scanned linear arrays {, e.g. linear CCD arrays}
- H04N 2101/00: Still video cameras
- H04N 2201/0063: Constructional details
- H04N 2201/0081: Image reader (H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence)
- H04N 2201/0082: Image hardcopy reproducer (H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence)
- H04N 2201/0084: Digital still camera
- B41J: TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08)
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

A mobile phone includes an elongate body defining a transverse print media path there-through; a keypad and display mounted on one side of the body; a camera device including at least one lens mounted to another side of the body opposite said one side, and an image sensor configured to capture an image viewed through said lens; and a printer mounted within the body and including a printhead and ink supply module, the printhead and ink supply module mounted in a replaceable manner to the printer and configured to print the captured image upon print media fed along the path. An entry to the transverse print media path is provided along a first longitudinal side of the elongate body, and an exit to the transverse print media path is provided along a second longitudinal side of the elongate body opposite the first longitudinal side.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A mobile phone comprising:
an elongate body defining a transverse print media path there-through;
a keypad and display mounted on one side of the body;
a camera device including at least one lens mounted to another side of the body opposite said one side, and an image sensor configured to capture an image viewed through said lens; and
a printer mounted within the body and including a printhead and ink supply module, the printhead and ink supply module mounted in a replaceable manner to the printer and configured to print the captured image upon print media fed along the path, wherein
an entry to the transverse print media path is provided along a first longitudinal side of the elongate body, and an exit to the transverse print media path is provided along a second longitudinal side of the elongate body opposite the first longitudinal side.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A mobile phone as claimed in claim 1, wherein the printer includes a print media feed apparatus including a motor and gear train for driving a series of feed rollers to feed the print media into the entry, along the transverse path, and out from the exit.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

A mobile phone as claimed in claim 1, wherein the captured image is printed responsive to print media being manually fed into the body.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

A mobile phone as claimed in claim 3, further comprising a detachable dispenser with a manually operated slider mechanism to manually feed print media into the body, one sheet at a time.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

A mobile phone as claimed in claim 1, wherein the printhead spans the width of the path and remains stationary relative to the body during printing of the image.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

A mobile phone as claimed in claim 1, wherein the printhead and ink supply module includes an ink ejection printhead and an ink supply unit for supplying ink to the printhead.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

A mobile phone as claimed in claim 6, wherein the ink supply unit defines a plurality of separate ink supply chambers incorporating flow control baffles.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

A mobile phone as claimed in claim 7, wherein the ink supply unit further includes a molding defining converging ink flow nozzles that direct the ink to ink supply inlets of the printhead.

### Claim 9 (depends on 4)

A mobile phone as claimed in claim 4, wherein the detachable dispenser defines a cradle portion in which the elongate body is received.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

A mobile phone as claimed in claim 9, wherein the cradle portion is adapted to receive the elongate body such that a dispensing outlet of the detachable dispenser is aligned with the entry to the transverse print media path.

### Claim 11 (depends on 9)

A mobile phone as claimed in claim 9, wherein the cradle portion defines a channel bounded by first and second walls, the channel for receiving the elongate body, and further wherein the second wall is provided lower than the exit from the transverse print media path.