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US 2016/0107449 A1Published application
System and method for determining print yield of remanufactured printheads
AssigneeFunai Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorMichael MARRA
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Abstract
A print cartridge including a cartridge body, a fluid reservoir disposed within the cartridge body that receives and contains fluid, a fluid ejector chip comprising a plurality of heating elements that eject the fluid from the print cartridge, and a memory device that stores first data related to information regarding the number of times the print cartridge was remanufactured and second data related to information regarding the print yield of the print cartridge for each instance of cartridge remanufacture.
Claims14
A print cartridge comprising:
- a cartridge body;
- a fluid reservoir disposed within the cartridge body that receives and contains fluid;
- a fluid ejector chip comprising a plurality of heating elements that eject the fluid from the print cartridge;
- and
- a memory device that stores first data related to information regarding the number of times the print cartridge was remanufactured and second data related to information regarding the print yield of the print cartridge at a time of cartridge remanufacture for each instance of cartridge remanufacture.
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An inkjet printer comprising:
- a housing;
- a carriage adapted to reciprocate along a shaft disposed within the housing;
- one or more printhead assemblies arranged on the carriage so that the one or more printhead assemblies eject ink onto a print medium as the carriage reciprocates along the shaft in accordance with a control mechanism, wherein at least one of the one or more printhead assemblies comprises:
- a printhead cartridge comprising:
- a cartridge body;
- an ink reservoir disposed within the cartridge body that receives and contains ink;
- an ink ejector chip comprising a plurality of heating elements that eject the ink from the ink reservoir;
- and
- a memory device that stores first data related to information regarding the number of times the printhead cartridge was remanufactured and second data related to information regarding the print yield of the printhead cartridge at a time of cartridge remanufacture for each instance of cartridge remanufacture.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.