Mountable apparatus and board having an installation status notifier
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsTaku Ishizawa, Satoshi Shinada
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Abstract
A mountable apparatus, which is adapted for installation in a liquid jetting device when delivering a liquid contained in a liquid container that contains a liquid to the liquid jetting device via a liquid delivery tube connected to the liquid container, includes an installation status notifier portion. In an installed state wherein the mountable apparatus is installed in the liquid jetting device, the installation status notifier portion is able to make the liquid jetting device determine that there exists the installed state, and alternatively to make the liquid jetting device determine, even in the installed state, that there exists a non-installed state wherein the mountable apparatus is not installed in the liquid jetting device.
Claims15
A mountable apparatus adapted for installation in a liquid jetting device, the mountable apparatus adapted to receive liquid from a liquid container via a liquid delivery tube for jetting by the liquid jetting device, the liquid jetting device including a detection device which becomes electrically connected to the mountable apparatus when the mountable apparatus is mounted in the liquid jetting device, the detection device capable of being in an installed state signifying that the mountable apparatus is installed in the liquid jetting device and in a non-installed state signifying that the mountable apparatus is not installed in the liquid jetting device, the mountable apparatus, comprising:
- a controller having an installation status notifier portion that when the mountable apparatus is installed in the liquid jetting device, is adapted to be able to selectively notify the liquid jetting device that there exists the installed state of the mountable apparatus installed therein, and additionally, to selectively notify the liquid jetting device, even in the installed state, that there exists a non-installed state signifying that the mountable apparatus is not installed in the liquid jetting device;
- a memory device adapted to allow the liquid jetting device to read and write liquid information relating to the liquid while the installation status notifier portion notifies the liquid jetting device that the mountable apparatus is in the installed state;
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- the controller also comprising an information rewriting portion that is adapted to rewrite the liquid information in the memory device independently of a read or write operation by the liquid jetting device, wherein the installation status notifier portion is adapted to cause the liquid jetting device to determine that there exists the non-installed state while the information rewriting portion is rewriting the liquid information.
A board for mounting on a mountable apparatus that is adapted for installation in a liquid jetting device, the mountable apparatus adapted to receive liquid from a liquid container via a liquid delivery tube for jetting by the liquid jetting device, the liquid jetting device including a detection device which becomes electrically connected to the board when the board is mounted in the liquid jetting device, the detection device capable of being in an installed state, the installed state signifying that the mountable apparatus is installed in the liquid jetting device and in a non-installed state signifying that the mountable apparatus is not installed in the liquid jetting device, the board comprising:
- a controller having an installation status notifier portion that when the mountable apparatus is installed in the liquid jetting device, is adapted to be able to selectively notify the liquid jetting device that there exists the installed state of the mountable apparatus installed therein, and additionally, to selectively notify the liquid jetting device, even in the installed state, that there exists a non-installed state signifying that the mountable apparatus is not installed in the liquid jetting device;
- a memory device adapted to allow the liquid jetting device to read and write liquid information relating to the liquid while the installation status notifier portion notifies the liquid jetting device that the mountable apparatus is in the installed state;
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- the controller also comprising an information rewriting portion that is adapted to rewrite the liquid information in the memory device independently of a read or write operation by the liquid jetting device, wherein the installation status notifier portion is adapted to cause the liquid jetting device to determine that there exists the non-installed state while the information rewriting portion is rewriting the liquid information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.