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US 2011/0032318 A1Published application
Solid Ink Stick with Interface Element
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsBrent Rodney-Jones, Darrell Ray Finneman, Brian Walter Aznoe
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Abstract
An ink stick for use in a phase change ink imaging device has a protrusion with a predetermined height that is configured to enable a sensor in an ink loader of the imaging device to detect the height of the protrusion. The predetermined height of the protrusion corresponds to a control parameter for the imaging device.
Claims10
An ink stick for use in an ink loader of an imaging device, the ink stick comprising:
- a three dimensional ink stick body configured to fit within the ink loader of the imaging device, the ink stick body having an exterior surface;
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- an interface element formed in the exterior surface of the ink stick body, the interface element being configured with a protrusion having a predetermined height that corresponds to a control parameter, the protrusion being configured to enable a sensor in the ink loader of the imaging device to detect the predetermined height of the protrusion.
A set of ink sticks for use in an ink loader of an imaging device, the set of ink sticks comprising:
- a plurality of ink sticks, each ink stick of the plurality of ink sticks comprising:
- a three dimensional ink stick body configured to fit within the ink loader of an imaging device, the ink stick body having an exterior surface;
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- an interface element formed in the exterior surface of the ink stick body, the interface element being configured with a protrusion having a predetermined height, the protrusion being configured to enable a sensor in an ink loader of an imaging device to detect the predetermined height of the protrusion, the protrusion of each interface element of the ink sticks in the plurality of ink sticks enabling a control system in the imaging device to identify a control parameter for each ink stick in the plurality of ink sticks.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.