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US 7,731,326 B2Granted
Storage system
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRaul Perez, Edward P. Maher
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Abstract
Various embodiments of a storage system are disclosed.
Claims30
A storage system comprising:
- a tray;
- and
- storage units within the tray, each storage unit configured to removably store a printing system servicer removed from a printing system and a corresponding cartridge removed from the printing system with nozzles of the cartridge capped by a capping mechanism of the printing system servicer, wherein each storage unit is configured to be removed from the tray while at least one other of the storage units remain within the tray.
A storage unit comprising:
- a lower chamber configured to receive printing system servicer having a cartridge capping mechanism, wherein the lower chamber is configured to contact the printing system servicer while guiding movement of the printing system servicer in a first direction during insertion of the printing system servicer into the lower chamber;
- and
- an upper chamber configured to receive and to contact a corresponding cartridge while guiding movement of the cartridge in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction during insertion of the cartridge into the upper chamber, wherein at least a portion of the upper chamber and the lower chamber are integrally formed with one another as a single unitary body, wherein the lower chamber and the upper chamber are substantially formed from opposite halves joined to one another and wherein each half includes a portion of the lower chamber and a portion of the upper chamber.
A storage system comprising:
- means for removably receiving a printing system servicer having a capping mechanism, wherein the lower chamber is configured to contact the printing system servicer while guiding movement of the servicer in a first direction during insertion of the printing system servicer into the lower chamber;
- and
- means for removably receiving a cartridge with nozzles while contacting the cartridge and guiding movement of the cartridge in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction during insertion of the cartridge into the means for removably receiving the cartridge, the means for removably receiving the cartridge locating the nozzles in contact with the capping mechanism, wherein the means for removably receiving the printing system servicer and the means for removably receiving the cartridge are substantially formed from opposite halves joined to one another and wherein each half includes a portion of the means for removably receiving the printing system servicer and a portion of the means for removably receiving the cartridge.
A method comprising:
- retaining a first printing system servicer in a first storage unit;
- retaining a first cartridge in the first storage unit;
- and
- removably retaining the first storage unit, proximate a second storage unit, from a tray while the second storage unit remains within the tray, the second storage unit retains a second printing servicer and a second cartridge.
1 more element
A storage system comprising:
- a tray;
- and
- storage units within the tray, each storage unit configured to store a printing system servicer and a corresponding cartridge with nozzles of the cartridge capped by a capping mechanism of the printing system servicer, wherein the servicer includes one of a magnet and a magnetic attractable material and wherein each storage unit includes the other of the magnet and the magnetic attractable material, wherein the magnet and the magnetically attractable material are configured to retain the printing system servicer within the storage unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.