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Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Printing Ink Cartridge
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 27, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- Toyonori Sasaki of Anjo, Japan, and Shota Iijima of Nagoya, Japan, have developed a printing ink recording device.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink cartridge is used mounted in a recording device with a hollow needle, a lever, a protruding wall, and an optical sensor. The lever and the optical sensor are located on either side of the hollow needle, but closer to the opening through which the ink cartridge is mounted. The ink cartridge is formed with two grooves open to the front and lower surfaces of the ink cartridge at positions that correspond to the protruding wall and the optical sensor."
An abstract of the invention, released by ...