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A force sensor particularly suited for use in an electronic stylus that senses the contact force on its nib for recording pen strokes and handwriting recognition. The sensor has a housing for a load bearing member for receiving an input force to be sensed and associated circuitry for converting the input force into an output signal indicative of the input force. The bearing member is movably mounted within the elongate body (up to 100 microns). The input force acting on the load bearing member is caused by contact on the nib. The load bearing member is biased against the direction of the input force. The force sensor also has a light source and photo-detector for sensing levels of illumination from the light source. Associated circuitry converts a range of illumination levels sensed by the photo-detector into a range of output signals, so that the illumination level sensed by the photo-detector varies with movement of the load bearing member within the elongate body such that the output signal from the circuitry is indicative of the input force. Using an optical sensor avoids the need to use a delicate piezo-resistive sensor that requires careful tolerancing during production.

A pen with an elongate chassis moulding and a cartridge with a nib and an elongate body. The cartridge is configured for insertion and removal from the elongate chassis moulding from a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the chassis moulding.

A force sensor comprising: a load bearing structure for contact with an input member subject to a force to be sensed; a sensor circuit for converting a force applied to the load bearing structure into a signal indicative of the force; and, a pre-load bias assembly for engaging the input member to bias it against the load bearing structure.

The invention relates generally to the field of inkjet recording media and inkjet printing methods. More specifically, the invention relates to a porous base layer of an inkjet recording element, the base layer comprises precipitated calcium carbonate having scalenohedral morphology and ground calcium carbonate.

To provide a liquid storage container which can prevent a failure that air bubbles are sucked into a liquid guide path even when the amount of liquid remaining in the liquid storage chamber is reduced and which can considerably reduce the amount of liquid discarded without being used.

[Solving Means] A liquid storage container 1 includes liquid storage chambers 370 and 430 from which liquid is guided to a liquid-supplying unit 50 through a liquid guide path and a liquid remaining-amount sensor 31 for detecting the presence/absence of the liquid on the basis of variation in residual vibration that occurs when air bubbles enter the liquid guide path. The liquid storage chambers 370 and 430 have concavities 374 and 434 in the bottom walls thereof. Liquid outlets 371 and 432 that communicate with the liquid guide path are formed at the bottom of the concavities 374 and 434, respectively. Therefore, air layers in the liquid storage chambers 370 and 430 are prevented from coming into contact with the liquid outlets 371 and 432, respectively, before the remaining liquid does.

A printer includes a printing unit including a printing head configured to eject ink onto a sheet and a sheet ejecting portion configured to eject the sheet after the printing head performs a printing operation, a scanner unit located above the printing unit and configured to read an image on a document, and a tank unit located on a lateral side of the printing unit. The tank unit includes a tank storing the ink to be supplied to the printing head and a housing covering the tank. The housing provides at least a front surface, a lateral surface, a rear surface, and an upper surface of the tank unit. A front surface of the printing unit is flush with the front surface of the tank unit when the printing unit has a front surface on a side of the sheet ejecting portion.

A writing instrument includes a front barrel and an ink tank. When, with a rear barrel for accommodating the ink tank removably fitted on the ink tank, a cap formed to cover the front barrel is fitted on the front barrel, the cap is positioned and fastened by abutment of the opening end of the cap. The cap has a hollow for accommodating a point assembly. The inside diameter of the hollow exceeds the outside diameter of the front barrel and the outside diameter of a rear end of the rear barrel. A barrel hold is formed along the circumference on the inner wall portion of the cap, so that the barrel hold grips the outer periphery of the rear end of the rear barrel. A guide portion is formed on the inner wall portion of the cap, closer to the front side than the barrel hold, to restrain over insertion of the rear end of the rear barrel into the cap. A writing instrument cap is assembled of a cap body and a clip by engaging an engaging portion formed on the cap body and a hooking portion formed in the clip, and is constructed so that engagement becomes gradually tight as the clip is slid along the axis from a tacking position.

The invention provides an ink box recycling method and a recycled ink box. The ink box comprises a shell and an ink storage chamber located in the shell, wherein the ink storage chamber comprises a first sub-chamber and a second sub-chamber; a first negative pressure control mechanism is arranged in the first sub-chamber; and an ink outlet is formed in the position, corresponding to the first sub-chamber, of the shell and communicates with the first sub-chamber. The ink box recycling method comprises the steps that an opening is formed in the position, corresponding to the first sub-chamber, of the shell; the first negative pressure control mechanism is moved into the second sub-chamber; a second negative pressure control mechanism is arranged in the first sub-chamber through the opening;and the opening is sealed and packaged. The first negative pressure control mechanism and the second negative pressure control mechanism are jointly used for storing ink, and the capacity of the ink box is improved; and meanwhile, the new second negative pressure control mechanism in the first sub-chamber corresponding to the ink outlet has high adsorption force and control force, the ink can still be maintained in the ink storage chamber after the ink capacity is increased, the ink leakage phenomenon is avoided, and the use performance of the ink box is improved.

A cartridge assembly includes a plurality of ink cartridges each having a cartridge case that holds ink therein, and at least one connecting member that connects the plurality of ink cartridges together in a connection direction. The ink cartridges connected by the at least one connecting member are movable relative to each other in the connection direction of the ink cartridges.

The invention provides a printing ink cartridge, which is characterized in that a first partition wall divides an inner cavity of a shell into an ink cavity and a communicating cavity, the ink cavityand the communicating cavity are communicated through a first communicating channel, a buffer cavity is arranged in the communicating cavity, an opening of the buffer cavity is communicated with the first communicating channel through the communicating cavity, a buffer chamber and an air-liquid exchange device are arranged in the buffer cavity, the buffer chamber is located above the air-liquid exchange device, a first air guiding channel is arranged in the shell and communicates the outside air and the buffer chamber, the air-liquid exchange device is provided with a capillary channel, and the buffer chamber is communicated with the opening through the capillary channel. The printing ink cartridge is stable in performance, simple in structure, smooth in printing, large in ink capacity andless in residual ink and reduces the waste and environmental pollution.

The invention provides a printing ink box. The printing ink box comprises a shell, partition walls, an ink cavity, a buffer chamber, an air guide channel, an air-liquid exchange device and an ink outlet device, wherein the partition walls divide an inner cavity of the shell into the ink cavity and the buffer chamber; the ink outlet device is arranged at the bottom of the ink cavity; the air guide channel arranged on the shell communicates with the outside atmosphere and the buffer chamber; the air-liquid exchange device with a capillary channel is disposed in one of the partition walls or between the partition walls and the shell; and the capillary channel communicates with the ink cavity and the buffer chamber. The air-liquid exchange device is further provided with a core, and the capillary channel is disposed in the core. The core can further comprise a first core body and a second core body, and the capillary channel is disposed in the first core body or between the first core body and the second core body. The printing ink box is simple in structure, stable in property, large in ink content and small in residual ink amount, and wastes and environmental pollution are reduced.

A cartridge is provided for supplying print media and ink to an inkjet printhead with which the cartridge is engaged. The cartridge comprises a casing, a core rotatably mounted inside the casing, an ink supply inside the core, a roll of print media supported by the core, and a transport mechanism mounted inside the casing for transporting the print media from the roll of print media to the printhead by rotating the core. The casing is substantially congruent to the arrangement of the transport mechanism and the roll of print media, when full, so as to provide a compact cartridge.

The invention relates to an external ink supply device for a printer, comprising a housing with a front wall, a top wall and a bottom wall, an ink outlet arranged at the lower part of the front wall, a first shielding part arranged at the upper part of the front wall, and The second shielding part on the outside of the middle part of the front wall, the light-transmitting part between the second shielding part and the front wall, is arranged on the housing and the third shielding part is located on the inside of the middle part of the front wall, and is arranged on the housing on the outer surface of the chip. Wherein, the chip includes a memory for storing ink remaining information and a communication part for communicating with the main board of the printer. The advantage is that the external ink supply device of the printer has a relatively simple structure, a high ink capacity, and the shell is easy to process.