Porous material for channeling ink in an ink cartridge and method for channeling ink
AssigneeNano Dynamics, Inc.
InventorsChing-yu Chou, Ying-ran Tseng
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Abstract
A porous material for channeling ink in an ink cartridge and a method for channeling the ink includes a porous material housed in an ink compartment of the ink cartridge. The porous material includes a body which has a protruding portion located proximate at the bottom. The bottom surface is bucking the ink cartridge according to the required ink gathering location and is squeezed to form an ink gathering zone that has a higher porosity locally to channel ink movement and reduce residual ink.
Claims12
A porous material for channeling ink located in an ink compartment of an ink cartridge, characterized in a body which has a protrusive bottom surface squeezed by the ink cartridge, the squeezed protrusive bottom surface forming an ink gathering zone with a higher porosity than a remainder of the body,
- wherein the distance between a top surface and the bottom surface of the porous material is greater than the height of the ink cartridge.
An ink cartridge contained porous material comprising a porous material for containing ink, wherein the porous material has a body which has a protrusive bottom surface squeezed by the ink cartridge, the squeezed protrusive bottom surface forming an ink gathering zone with a higher porosity than a remainder of the body,
- wherein the distance between a top surface and the bottom surface of the porous material is greater than the height of the ink cartridge.
A method for channeling ink in an ink cartridge through porous material, comprising steps of:
- providing a porous material which has a body, the body having a protrusive bottom surface;
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- housing the porous material in the ink cartridge to contain ink, the protrusive bottom surface being squeezed by the ink cartridge so that the protrusive bottom surface forms an ink gathering zone with a higher porosity than a remainder of the body to distribute capillary force such that the capillary force decreases gradually from the protrusive bottom surface to remote ends and the ink in the ink cartridge converges to the ink gathering zone because of the distribution of the capillary force,
- wherein the distance between a top surface and the bottom surface of the porous material is greater than the height of the ink cartridge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.