| US 7,467,852 B2 | ||
| Inkjet printer with printhead cartridge and ink cartridge | ||
| Kia Silverbrook, Balmain (Australia); Norman Michael Berry, Balmain (Australia); Akira Nakazawa, Balmain (Australia); Paul Ian Mackey, Balmain (Australia); and Garry Raymond Jackson, Balmain (Australia) | ||
| Assigned to Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd, Balmain, New South Wales (Australia) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 05, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/293,805. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0126819 A1, Jun. 07, 2007 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. B41J 2/14 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 347—49 | 19 Claims |
| 1. An inkjet printer comprising:
a printer body;
a printhead cartridge for installation in the printer body, the printhead cartridge having a pagewidth inkjet printhead structure
with an array of nozzles;
a plurality of ink cartridges for supplying ink, the ink cartridge having a docking face for engagement with a complementary
face to supply the printhead cartridge with ink,
the complementary face being partially provided by the printhead cartridge and partially provided by the printer body; wherein,
each of the ink cartridges connecting to respective ink inlets, a plurality of resilient connectors form part of the fluid
paths to the nozzles from each of the ink inlets, the ink inlets and the resilient connectors being mounted in a docking frame
for receiving the ink cartridges; such that, longitudinal expansion and contraction of the pagewidth printhead structure relative
to the docking frame is accommodated by the resilient connectors.
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