Ink cartridge having shielded pocket for memory chip
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorDiana C. Petranek
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Abstract
An ink cartridge includes a housing with an integral pocket, an ink supply bag contained in the housing, and a memory chip supported in a wall opening of the pocket. The housing has an ink blocking shield arranged at a location between the bag and the memory chip to prevent any ink that might leak from the bag from entering the wall opening and contaminating the memory chip.
Claims10
An ink cartridge comprising a pair of housing portions with respective pocket portions including wall opening portions, an ink supply bag contained in said housing portions, and a memory chip supported in said wall opening portions, is characterized in that:
- said housing portions have respective ink blocking shield segments arranged at individual locations between said bag and said memory chip to prevent any ink that might leak from said bag from entering said wall opening portions and contaminating said memory chip.
A method of assembling an ink cartridge to include a memory chip in a single pocket, said method comprising:
- providing a pair of housing portions with respective pocket portions including wall opening portions and with respective ink blocking shield segments extending across the wall opening portions at inner sides of the housing portions;
- mating the housing portions to form a cartridge housing with the pocket portions forming a single pocket including the wall opening portions forming a single wall opening and the ink blocking shield segments abutting edge-to-edge to seal the single wall opening;
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- including a memory chip in the single pocket as the single pocket is formed.
An ink cartridge comprising a pair of housing halves with respective pocket portions including wall opening portions, an ink supply bag contained in said housing halves, and a memory chip supported in said wall opening portions, is characterized in that:
- said housing halves have respective ink blocking shield segments that extend across said wall opening portions at inner sides of said housing halves to prevent any ink that might leak from said bag from entering said wall opening portions and contaminating said memory chip.
A pair of housing halves for containing an ink supply bag and provided with respective pocket portions including wall opening portions for a memory chip, are characterized in that:
- said housing halves have respective ink blocking shield segments that extend across said wall opening portions at inner sides of said housing halves to prevent any ink that might leak from an ink bag contained in said housing halves from entering said wall opening portions and contaminating a memory chip supported in said wall opening portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.