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Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Ink Cartridge
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 21, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Takeo Seino, Satoshi Shinada, Hisashi Miyazawa, Yasuto Sakai, Masaki Shimomura and Satoshi Nakata, all from Nagano, Japan, have developed an ink cartridge with a container that accommodates an ink therein.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink cartridge has pivotable levers connected to walls of a container, and both pawls and protruded guide portions formed on the levers. The pawls are engageable with an ink cartridge holder."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The protruded guide portions contact the ink cartridge holder to move the levers in the opening direction. Further, protruded stopper portions are ...