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US 2012/0056957 A1Published application
Adapter and an ink cartridge mounted on an ink-jet printer
AssigneeZhuhai Ninestar Management Co., Ltd.
InventorBIAO XIAO
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AssigneeZhuhai Ninestar Management Co., Ltd.
InventorBIAO XIAO
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The invention relates to an adapter and an ink cartridge mounted on an ink-jet printer. An adapter comprises an inner chamber for accommodating the ink cartridge and a chip set on the adapter, wherein the said chip has a contact surface with the printer, the contact surface provided with an information contact and two electrical detecting contacts; a non-contact trigger switch is set on the back surface of the said chip opposite to the two electrical detecting contacts; the said non-contact trigger switch is electrically connected with two electrical detecting contacts respectively; the said non-contact trigger switch is triggered to become disconnected at least once by the non-contact trigger mechanism on the ink cartridge when the ink cartridge is being inserted into the printer and is not triggered by the non-contact trigger mechanism so as to keep the connected status after the ink cartridge is inserted into the printer.
An adapter mounted on an ink-jet printer, comprising an inner chamber for accommodating an ink cartridge and a chip set on the adapter, wherein said chip has a contact surface contacting with the printer, the contact surface is provided with an information contact and two detecting electrical contacts, and said information contact and two detecting electrical contacts are electrically connected with the printer and connected with a memory, characterized in that said chip is provided with a non-contact trigger switch comprising an elastic component, a ferromagnetic component and contacts, the contacts are electrically connected with said two detecting electrical contacts respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.