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US 8,801,161 B2Granted
Liquid cartridge, image recording device, and substrate
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMutsumi Otobe
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Abstract
A liquid cartridge includes a liquid reservoir, a liquid flow path that selectively places the reservoir in fluid communication with an exterior of the cartridge, a sensor that outputs a signal relative to a position of an object in the liquid flow path, a storage that stores data therein, and a plurality of terminals. The plurality of terminals includes a sensor terminal connected to the sensor, a power terminal connected to at least one of the sensor and the storage, and that receives power, and a data terminal connected to the storage. A distance between a first portion of the power terminal and at least a portion of the data terminal is greater than a distance between a second portion of the power terminal and at least a portion of the sensor terminal.
Claims27
A liquid cartridge comprising:
- a liquid reservoir configured to store liquid therein;
- a liquid flow path configured to selectively allow the liquid reservoir to be in fluid communication with an exterior of the liquid cartridge;
- a sensor configured to output a signal relative to a position of an object other than the liquid disposed in the liquid flow path;
- a storage configured to store data therein;
- a plurality of terminals, wherein the plurality of terminals comprises:
- a sensor terminal connected to the sensor;
- a power terminal connected to at least one of the sensor and the storage, and configured to receive power from an exterior of the cartridge;
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- a data terminal connected to the storage, wherein a distance between at least a first portion of the power terminal and at least a portion of the data terminal is greater than a distance between at least a second portion of the power terminal and at least a portion of the sensor terminal;
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- a substrate, wherein the plurality of terminals is disposed on the substrate,
- wherein the substrate is divided into a rectangular grid along a particular direction and a further direction perpendicular to the particular direction, and wherein each of the plurality of terminals is disposed such that a center portion is positioned within a cell of the rectangular grid, and a cell containing the center portion of the power terminal is aligned with and adjacent to a cell containing the sensor portion in the particular direction, and the cell containing the center portion of the power terminal is not aligned with a cell containing the center portion of the data terminal in either the particular direction or the further direction.
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A liquid cartridge comprising:
- a liquid reservoir configured to store liquid therein;
- a liquid flow path configured to selectively allow the liquid reservoir to be in fluid communication with an exterior of the liquid cartridge;
- a sensor configured to output a signal relative to a position of an object other than the liquid disposed in the liquid flow path;
- a storage configured to store data therein;
- a plurality of terminals, wherein the plurality of terminals comprises:
- a sensor terminal connected to the sensor;
- a power terminal connected to at least one of the sensor and the storage, and configured to receive power from an exterior of the cartridge;
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- a data terminal connected to the storage, wherein a distance between at least a first portion of the power terminal and at least a portion of the data terminal is greater than a distance between at least a second portion of the power terminal and at least a portion of the sensor terminal,
- wherein the sensor terminal comprises a first sensor terminal, and the plurality of terminals further comprises:
- a second sensor terminal, wherein a distance between at least a portion of the second sensor terminal and the first portion of the power terminal is:
- greater than the distance between the portion of the first sensor terminal and the first portion of the power terminal;
- and
- less than the distance between the portion of the data terminal and the second portion of the power terminal,
- wherein the sensor comprises a first sensor, the liquid reservoir comprises a first liquid reservoir, and the liquid flow path comprises a first liquid flow path, the liquid cartridge further comprising:
- a second liquid reservoir configured to store liquid therein;
- a second liquid flow path configured to selectively place the second liquid reservoir in fluid communication with the exterior of the liquid cartridge;
- and
- a second sensor configured to detect another object disposed in the second liquid flow path, wherein the first sensor is connected to the first sensor terminal, and the second sensor is connected to the second sensor terminal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.