Patents Assigned to Nu-kote International, Inc.
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Patent number: 7527366Abstract: An ink container has a housing having a chamber formed therein for receiving ink and a first surface containing an outlet passage communicating with the chamber and through which ink is selectively dispensed. An air impermeable, non-porous seal member is received in the outlet passage, and has raised portions on opposite sides of the member. A cap member is provided to compress the seal within the outlet passage to form a seal therein.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2004Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Nu-kote International, Inc.Inventor: Bruce S. Jones
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Patent number: 7488059Abstract: An enclosure for an ink reservoir bag in an ink delivery system for an ink cartridge comprises a tray and a cover for the tray. The tray includes a bottom wall having opposite ends and opposite sides, end walls extending upwardly from said bottom wall at the opposite ends and side walls extending upwardly from the bottom wall along the opposite sides. One of the end walls of the tray has a pair of openings therethrough between the side walls to receive fill and exit ports of the reservoir bag.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2004Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.Inventors: Carl W. Holland, William A. Putman
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Patent number: 7488061Abstract: An ink jet cartridge lid has a body having a first planar side and a second planar side opposite the first side. The first planar side has a raised portion having a first angled end wall and a second angled end wall. A third, side wall and a fourth, side wall each connect the first end wall to the second end wall of the lid. The second planar side has a recess therein with projections for compressing a foam insert. The lid is installed onto an ink jet cartridge having an open-ended cavity and a foam insert disposed therein.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2005Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Nu-kote International, Inc.Inventor: William Allen Putman
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Publication number: 20090010658Abstract: A printing system includes first and second printing devices operable exclusively with respective first and second consumable devices. A third consumable device is provided in the system storing identification data recognizable by both the first and second printing devices whereby the third consumable device is operable with both the first and second printing devices. Further, the universal marking material cartridge is provided for use in associated printing system including first and second printing devices operable exclusively with respective first and second consumable devices. The universal marking material cartridge stores identification data recognizable by both first and second printing devices whereby the cartridge is operable with both of the printing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2008Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicant: NU-KOTE INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventor: Alan K. Chan
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Patent number: 7469986Abstract: A processor is provided for use with a marking material cartridge the processor having configurable logic for configuring the processor for use with an associated printing device. A print cartridge includes a housing defining a chamber for storing a marking material therein and a circuit on the housing. The circuit includes a memory portion storing data related to the marking material, an interface portion in operative communication with the associated printing device for communicating therewith, and a configurable execution unit including a network of gates which are programmable by first set of instruction primitives received into the circuit to define a first set of operation instructions executable by the execution unit during operation of the print cartridge of the associated printing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2005Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.Inventor: Alan K. Chan
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Patent number: 7463838Abstract: A replaceable consumable for use in an associated printing device is provided wherein the consumable includes an electronic member having a memory element storing marking material quantity data corresponding to a quantity of marking material contained in the cartridge body and being responsive to data maintenance signals from the printing apparatus to modify the marking material quantity data in the memory element as a non-linear function of the data maintenance signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2006Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.Inventor: Alan K. Chan
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Patent number: 7413298Abstract: An ink cartridge having an ink chamber including a wall, an outlet port extending from the wall, an outlet passage through the port and communicating with said chamber and an ink absorbing member in the chamber, is provided with a filter member of sintered plastic material between the ink absorbent member and the passage and a wick member of sintered plastic material in the passage. The wick member has a downstream end in the outlet passage and a printer needle passage extends into the wick member from the downstream end thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2004Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Nu-kote International, Inc.Inventor: Bruce S. Jones
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Patent number: 7334887Abstract: An ink container shell for an ink jet cartridge has spaced apart side walls, a front wall, a rear wall, and a bottom wall, a partition in said shell dividing the interior thereof into first and second chambers for respectively receiving an ink and an ink absorbing material, an opening through the partition for communicating ink in said first chamber with ink absorbing material in the second chamber, and which has a height greater than its width. The shell further includes an outlet port in the bottom wall of the second chamber provided with a wick retaining arrangement, and a block of ink absorbing material in the second chamber having an angled surface facing the opening through the partition and having an area greater than the area of the opening. A lever and tongue component for releasably interengaging the container with a holder therethrough has smooth surfaces and edges to facilitate handling of the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2004Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Nu-kote International, Inc.Inventors: Stephen A. Andersen, Dennis M. Lengyel
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Patent number: 7257335Abstract: A printing system includes first and second printing devices operable exclusively with respective first and second consumable devices. A third consumable device is provided in the system storing identification data recognizable by both the first and second printing devices whereby the third consumable device is operable with both the first and second printing devices. Further, the universal marking material cartridge is provided for use in associated printing system including first and second printing devices operable exclusively with respective first and second consumable devices. The universal marking material cartridge stores identification data recognizable by both first and second printing devices whereby the cartridge is operable with both of the printing devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2004Date of Patent: August 14, 2007Assignee: Nu-kote International, Inc.Inventor: Alan K. Chan
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Patent number: 7255433Abstract: The invention relates to a multiple pass printing process for generating MICR-readable indicia using a MICR ink-jet ink composition with a magnetic pigment loading less than that needed to generate the nominal signal level according to the ANSI standard with single pass printing, and to a printed substrate, prepared by the process, which bears MICR-readable indicia having at least two layers of the MICR ink-jet ink composition and which demonstrates a MICR signal level of greater than or equal to the nominal signal value according to the ANSI standard.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2004Date of Patent: August 14, 2007Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. McElligott, Thomas W. Martin, Donald E. Snyder, Jr., Dennis M. Lengyel, Philip Theodore
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Patent number: 7247416Abstract: The invention relates to color toner compositions prepared from a process for the preparation of a dry toner powder from an aqueous pigment concentrate dispersion comprising: blending at least an aqueous-based pigment concentrate dispersion and a resin to produce a paste; charging the paste to an extruder to generate an extruded pigment/resin mixture; dispersing the extruded pigment/resin mixture in a low boiling organic medium to create an organic phase; dispersing the organic phase in an aqueous phase containing a particulate stabilizer and mixing the organic phase and the aqueous phase at elevated temperature and under shear force to form toner particles of a controlled size and shape; removing the organic solvent and particulate stabilizer from the formed particles; and washing, drying, and collecting the particles for use as a dry toner powder.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2004Date of Patent: July 24, 2007Assignee: Nu-kote International, Inc.Inventors: Bing B Hsieh, Richard J. Thompson
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Patent number: 7219987Abstract: An ink jet cartridge comprising an outer housing and an inner ink chamber has adjacent housing and chamber wall portions, and a coupling member for communicating the ink chamber with an external source of ink has an inner end extending through an oversized opening in the housing wall portion and into threaded interengagement with an opening through the chamber wall portion. The outer end of the coupling is outside the housing wall portion for connection to a source of ink.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2004Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Nu-kote International, Inc.Inventors: Carl W. Holland, William A. Putman
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Patent number: 7216964Abstract: An ink jet cartridge for use in a continuous cartridge refill system has a top side, a front side, and a handle at the juncture therebetween. A flexible ink supply tube for connecting the cartridge with an ink reservoir extends through openings in the handle of the cartridge and is connected to a fitting on the top side of the cartridge which communicates the supply tube with the ink chamber of the cartridge. Routing of the tube through the handle provides strain relief for restraining the application of a pulling force on the tubing at the point of connection thereof with the coupling.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.Inventors: Carl W. Holland, William A. Putman, Graham Anthony
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Patent number: 7213489Abstract: An ink container opener having a first member having an opening formed therein; and, a second member received within the opening of the first member. The second member further has an opening for receiving an ink container for separating a top portion from a bottom portion of the ink container.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Nu-kote International, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. VanDerMeid, Martin Finkle, Carl William Holland, Patrick D. Carter
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Patent number: 7159977Abstract: A transport protector is provided for an inkjet cartridge wherein the inkjet cartridge includes a cartridge body, an inkwell extending from the cartridge body and a nozzle on the inkwell. The protector includes a protector body having a recess shaped to receive an inkwell of an inkjet cartridge and cover a nozzle of the inkjet cartridge. The protector further including a lid hingedly connected to the body. The lid pivots between an opened condition and a closed condition and engages the inkjet cartridge to evenly urge the cartridge into the recess when in the closed condition. The lid also includes a lid lock for releasably engaging the protector body to maintain the protector in the closed condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2004Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.Inventors: William Allen Putman, Stephen Abb Anderson
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Patent number: 7146878Abstract: An ink container opener has a base member having an opening for receiving a cap of an ink container and a holder member which is inserted over a body of the ink container. The holder and base member each has a first arm and a second arm substantially perpendicular to said first arm. The holder member first arm has an opening for receiving a second portion of the ink container. The base member opening and the holder member opening are substantially parallel to each other when the ink container is mounted within the opener. Force is applied to the holder member to separate the cap from the ink container body.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2004Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Nu-kote International, Inc.Inventors: Carl William Holland, Donald E. Snyder, Jr., Michael J. VanDerMeid
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Patent number: 7140714Abstract: A flow resistance measuring or black-pressure tester is provided for ink cartridges. A syringe pump extracts fluid at a desired flow rate from an outlet port of an ink cartridge. An ink removal device allows a user to selectively purge air from the system to improve the accuracy of the meassurements. A variety of flow rates are measured to collect as benchmark data and allow new designs to be similarly sized, specified, and materials and pathways selected to control fluid delivery in replacement ink cartridges.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2003Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.Inventor: Dennis M. Lengyel
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Patent number: 7137688Abstract: An ink container shell for an ink jet cartridge has an ink chamber provided with an optical ink detection device in the form of a single or multi-segment prism having interface surfaces for reflecting light in a scan plane from a first to a second exterior area relative to the container shell when an ink level in the chamber recedes to a given level. The multi-segment prism provides for scanning a cartridge in different scanning planes. Either a single prism or the multi-segment prism can be separate from the cartridge and interengaged therewith by a snap-fit.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2004Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.Inventors: Stephen A. Andersen, Dennis M. Lengyel
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Patent number: 7128249Abstract: An ink container opener has a first portion and a second portion which are approximately perpendicular to each other. Each portion has an opening for receiving an ink container cap. The opening of the first portion comprises a plurality of ridges extending along at least one side of the opening. The first and second portions are formed of a unitary construction and form an L-shaped configuration. Force is applied to the container body to separate the cap from the body as the cap is supported by the opener.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2004Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. VanDerMeid, Martin Finkle, Carl William Holland
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Patent number: 7125448Abstract: A non-aqueous ink jet ink for printing lithographic printing plates. The formulation provides for ink jet printing using a solvent based ink in a drop on demand printer. The ink exhibits excellent physical properties and good stability over a range of times and temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2004Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.Inventors: Thomas W. Martin, Michael J. McElligott