CN113442595A - Method for recycling chip and consumable chip - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a method for recycling a chip and a consumable chip. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a serial number authentication result sent by a target printer; adjusting the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip according to the serial number authentication result and/or the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip; wherein the current consumable chip is installed in the target printer; and when a reassembling instruction between the current consumable chip and the current consumable of refilling powder is detected, returning to the step of receiving the serial number authentication result sent by the target printer until the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is finished. According to the technical scheme, before the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is not finished, the technical effect that the current consumable chip is continuously used is achieved.
Description
Technical Field
The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of printer consumables, in particular to a method for recycling a chip and a consumable chip.
Background
With the continuous development of science and technology, printers are widely used. Imaging media used for imaging in printers are typically placed in imaging cartridges. Each imaging box is provided with a consumable chip, and the consumable chip is provided with a serial number in advance and used for authentication between the consumable chip and the printer. When the consumable allowance information corresponding to the serial number is exhausted, the data life cycle of the consumable chip is ended, correspondingly, the life cycle of the selenium drum is also ended, and the consumable chip can be discarded along with the selenium drum and cannot be reused. And, the consumable chip stores information about the remaining amount or consumption amount of the consumable itself, and binds the consumable chip and the actual powder amount/ink amount of the consumable by the data information stored in the consumable chip. When the consumable surplus or the consumption of the consumable chip reaches the threshold value, the consumable chip is unavailable, and the consumable chip and the consumable are required to be synchronously replaced at the moment.
Because the actual powder volume of consumptive material/ink volume binds with the data information of consumptive material chip storage for current consumptive material chip consumption is big, use frequently and consume seriously, for disposable chip, when the consumptive material data of consumptive material chip reached the threshold value, the consumptive material chip then was together abandoned with the selenium drum, caused the excessive waste of resource, and reproducibility is than relatively poor. However, the containers such as the selenium drum, the ink box and the like can be circularly filled with powder/ink, namely, the containers can be reused; in addition, in some special safety fields or selenium drum testing environments, chips are inconvenient to replace frequently. Therefore, how to develop a recyclable chip to match with the chip is a problem to be solved.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the present invention provides a method for recycling a chip and a consumable chip, which realizes permanent use of the consumable chip before the hardware life cycle of the consumable chip is finished.
In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for recycling a chip, including:
receiving a serial number authentication result sent by a target printer;
adjusting the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip according to the serial number authentication result and/or the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip; wherein the current consumable chip is installed in the target printer;
and when a reassembling instruction between the current consumable chip and the current consumable of refilling powder is detected, returning to the step of executing the serial number authentication result sent by the receiving target printer until the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is finished.
In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a consumable chip, including:
the receiving module is used for receiving a serial number authentication result sent by the target printer;
the adjusting module is used for adjusting the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip according to the serial number authentication result and/or the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip; wherein the current consumable chip is installed in the target printer;
and the execution module is used for returning to the step of receiving the serial number authentication result sent by the target printer when a reassembly instruction between the current consumable chip and the current consumable of refilling powder is detected until the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is finished.
Method for recycling chip the embodiment of the invention receives the serial number authentication result sent by the target printer; adjusting the current serial number of the current consumable according to the serial number authentication result; and when the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip is consumable exhausted, the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip are adjusted, so that the technical effect that the current consumable chip can be continuously used is achieved before the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is ensured not to be finished.
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FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a method for recycling a chip according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow chart of another method for recycling chips according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of another method for recycling chips according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a consumable chip according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not limiting of the invention. It should be further noted that, for the convenience of description, only some of the structures related to the present invention are shown in the drawings, not all of the structures.
It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures. Meanwhile, in the description of the present invention, the terms "first", "second", and the like are used only for distinguishing the description, and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
In an embodiment, fig. 1 is a flowchart of a method for recycling a chip according to an embodiment of the present invention, and this embodiment is applicable to a situation that a consumable chip is guaranteed to be continuously used.
As shown in fig. 1, the method specifically includes the following steps:
and S110, receiving the serial number authentication result sent by the target printer.
Wherein, the serial number authentication result refers to the authentication result of the serial number between the target printer and the current consumable chip. Illustratively, the serial number authentication result includes the following two types: the machine has been crashed; the machine is not collided.
In the actual operation process, when the target printer detects a reassembly instruction, the target printer determines a serial number authentication result between the target printer and the current consumable chip and sends the serial number authentication result to the current consumable chip. Wherein the current consumable chip is installed in the target printer. It should be noted that each printer may include one or more consumable chips, that is, the target printer may include one or more consumable chips. In the embodiment, the reassembly instruction refers to instruction information in which the current state of the target printer is changed. Illustratively, the reassembly instructions include one of: a power-on command is carried out again; a decapping instruction of the target printer; a close command for the target printer. It can be understood that after the target printer is powered on again or the cover is opened or closed, the serial number authentication process is performed between the target printer and the current consumable chip, and the obtained authentication result is used as the serial number authentication result.
It should be noted that, when the current consumable chip receives a serial number reading request instruction sent by the target printer, the target printer records the serial number and consumable consumption data of the imaging media in the imaging cartridge corresponding to the serial number in its own memory. After the imaging media disposed in the imaging cartridge is depleted, the target printer may mark the serial number as imaging media depleted. Accordingly, even if the serial number is identified again by the printer, the target printer defaults that the imaging media in the imaging box corresponding to the serial number is completely consumed, and the imaging media cannot be used continuously. In the actual operation process, the target printer can determine whether one of the serial numbers recorded in the memory of the target printer is matched with the current serial number of the current consumable chip, and if so, the serial number authentication result between the target printer and the current consumable chip is crash.
And S120, adjusting the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip according to the serial number authentication result and/or the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip.
In the case where the serial number authentication result indicates that the consumable chip has crashed, the consumable remaining amount of the current consumable chip is determined. Wherein. The states of the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip include two types: has been exhausted; not exhausted. In an embodiment, the consumable remaining amount of the current consumable chip can be represented by data which changes along with printing, such as the current consumable consumption, the current ink quantity state change value, the current carbon powder remaining amount, the actual number of printed pages and the like. The current consumable consumption refers to the consumed carbon powder amount of the consumable chip, and is increased continuously after the target printer opens and closes the cover or prints; and the current ink quantity state change value is used for representing the change process of the carbon powder quantity. Wherein the value changes as the amount of toner is consumed, illustratively, 11 indicates full ink, 10 indicates 75% remaining, 20 indicates 25% remaining, and 30 indicates depletion; the current toner remaining amount refers to the toner remaining amount of the imaging box corresponding to the current serial number. Wherein, as the number of printing times increases, the current toner remaining amount is continuously reduced, for example, FFFF indicates full ink, and 0000 indicates full ink; the actual printing page number refers to the actual printing page number of the imaging box corresponding to the current serial number, wherein the actual printing page number is continuously increased along with the continuous increase of the printing times. Note that the current consumption amount of consumables includes an amount of consumed toner other than printing. For example, carbon powder is consumed in the scenes of paper jam, cover opening, cover closing and the like.
In one embodiment, the characterization parameters of the consumable residual amount of the current consumable chip are stored in a first partition of a data backup area of the current consumable chip; the maximum consumption of the consumable of the current consumable chip is stored in the second partition of the data backup area of the current consumable chip. It should be noted that the first partition and the second partition are two different child partitions in the data backup area, respectively. The characterization parameters of the consumable residual quantity of the current consumable chip are variable parameters; the maximum consumption of the consumable is a fixed value. It can be understood that the variable parameters and the fixed parameters of the current consumable chip are respectively stored in different partitions, thereby being beneficial to fully utilizing data and reducing data backup areas.
It can be understood that the process of determining the consumable remainder of the current consumable chip is a process of determining the current consumable consumption, the current ink level state change value, the current toner remainder and the actual number of printed pages, i.e. determining whether the consumable remainder is exhausted according to the current consumable consumption, the current ink level state change value, the current toner remainder and the actual number of printed pages.
Wherein, the changeable configuration refers to the data of the current consumable chip which changes along with printing. Exemplary variable configuration parameters include: current consumable consumption, current ink volume state change value, current toner remaining amount and actual number of printed pages. In the embodiment, under the condition that the changeable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip are adjusted according to the serial number authentication result, whether the serial number authentication result is a crashed machine or not is judged, and if the serial number authentication result is the crashed machine, only the current serial number of the current consumable chip needs to be adjusted; under the condition that the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip are adjusted according to the consumable remainder of the current consumable chip, judging whether the consumable remainder is consumable exhaustion (namely the consumable is exhausted), if so, adjusting the current serial number, the current ink quantity state change value, the current carbon powder remainder and the actual printing page number of the current consumable chip; under the condition that the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip are adjusted according to the serial number authentication result and the consumable remainder of the current consumable chip, judging whether the serial number authentication result is crashed and whether the consumable remainder is exhausted, and if the serial number authentication result is crashed and the consumable remainder is exhausted, adjusting the current serial number of the current consumable chip, the current ink quantity state change value, the current carbon powder remainder and the actual printing page number; if the serial number authentication result is that the machine is crashed and the consumable surplus is that the consumable is not exhausted, adjusting the current serial number of the current consumable chip; and if the serial number authentication result is that the printer is not collided and the consumable surplus is consumed, adjusting the current serial number, the current ink quantity state change value, the current carbon powder surplus and the actual printing page number of the current consumable chip.
In one embodiment, the switching manner of the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip comprises one of the following:
reading new variable configuration parameters from a data backup area of the current consumable chip to a data operation area, and covering the original variable configuration parameters in the data operation area;
and continuously executing an adding operation to point to the new changeable configuration parameters by the address pointer of the data backup area of the current consumable chip.
In an embodiment, the new configuration parameter that can change is directly read from the data backup area to the data operation area, and the new configuration parameter that can change is used to override the original configuration parameter that can change in the data operation area, that is, the address in the data operation area is unchanged, but the internal data (that is, the original configuration parameter) is overridden by the new configuration parameter that can change; of course, the address pointer of the data backup area may continuously point to the new configuration parameters in a +1 cycle, that is, the configuration parameters are switched by changing the address in the data operation area, so as to implement the switching of the configuration parameters.
And the number of serial numbers of the data backup area in the current consumable chip is greater than the number of recordable serial numbers of the target printer. In an embodiment, in order to realize that different serial numbers can be switched circularly to avoid the crash phenomenon, the number of recordable serial numbers of the target printer is less than that of the data backup area. For example, if the number of recordable serial number data of the target printer is N, the number of serial number data of the data backup area may be N + 1.
S130, when a reassembling instruction between the current consumable chip and the current consumable of refilling powder is detected, returning to the step of receiving the serial number authentication result sent by the target printer until the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is finished.
Wherein, the current consumable material for placing the carbon powder is a selenium drum. In the embodiment, after the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip are switched and the carbon powder is refilled in the current consumable, the current consumable chip and the current consumable with the refilled carbon powder are reassembled, and after the assembly is completed, the target printer conducts re-on-machine authentication on the serial number between the target printer and the current consumable chip, namely, the serial number authentication result between the target printer and the current consumable chip is re-determined, and the serial number authentication result is sent to the current consumable chip through the target printer until the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is finished, so that the continuous use of the current consumable chip is ensured. The hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip refers to the total time length of normal work of the hardware of the current consumable chip.
According to the technical scheme of the embodiment, the serial number authentication result sent by the target printer is received; adjusting the current serial number of the current consumable according to the serial number authentication result; and when the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip is consumable exhausted, the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip are adjusted, so that the technical effect that the current consumable chip can be continuously used is achieved before the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is ensured not to be finished.
In an embodiment, fig. 2 is a flowchart of another method for recycling a chip according to an embodiment of the present invention. The present embodiment specifically describes an implementation process of a method for recycling a chip on the basis of the above embodiments. As shown in fig. 2, the method for recycling the chip in this embodiment includes the following steps:
s210, when the target printer detects a reassembly instruction, the target printer determines a comparison result between a current serial number corresponding to the current consumable chip and all serial numbers in a used serial number list corresponding to the target printer.
All serial numbers in the serial number list refer to serial numbers that have been used and recorded by the target printer. In the actual operation process, when the current consumable chip receives a command which is sent by a target printer and requests to read a serial number, the current consumable chip reports the current serial number to the target printer, if the target printer can identify the serial number of an imaging box, the target printer records the current serial number and consumable data of an imaging medium in the imaging box corresponding to the current serial number, and after the imaging medium is completely consumed, the target printer marks the current serial number as that the imaging medium is completely consumed, and stores the current serial number into a used serial number list of the target printer.
In the actual operation process, the target printer compares the current serial number of the current consumable chip with each serial number in the used serial number list of the target printer, and determines whether the serial number which is the same as the current serial number exists in the used serial number list of the target printer.
S220, the target printer determines a serial number authentication result between the target printer and the current consumable chip according to the comparison result.
In the embodiment, if the comparison result is that the used serial number list of the target printer has the serial number which is the same as the current serial number of the current consumable chip, the serial number authentication result is crash; on the contrary, if the comparison result is that the serial number which is the same as the current serial number of the current consumable chip does not exist in the used serial number list of the target printer, the serial number authentication result is the crash-free state.
S230, the target printer judges whether the serial number authentication result is crash, if so, S240 is executed; if not, go to S260.
S240, the target printer switches the crash zone bit of the current consumable chip.
In an embodiment, when the current consumable chip crashes, the target printer where the current consumable chip is located may change the crash flag of the current consumable chip, so that the current consumable chip adjusts its current serial number. In the actual operation process, the current consumable chip is informed that the current consumable chip crashes or cannot pass the authentication through the modes of detecting a crash zone bit, a printer power-down instruction or repeatedly sending a large number of commands by the printer and the like.
And S250, the target printer sends the serial number authentication result to the current consumable chip so that the current consumable chip switches the current serial number of the current consumable chip to the next serial number, and the step returns to execute the step S210.
In the embodiment, when the target printer determines that the serial number authentication result is crash, the target printer switches the crash zone bit and sends the serial number authentication result to the current consumable chip in the form of the crash zone bit, and when the current consumable chip receives the crash zone bit and determines that the serial number authentication result marked by the crash zone bit is crash, the current consumable chip switches the current serial number of the current consumable chip to the next serial number and performs serial number authentication with the target printer again according to the switched serial number.
And S260, determining a comparison result between the current consumable consumption of the current consumable chip and the maximum consumable usage by the current consumable chip.
The consumable maximum usage amount of the current consumable chip refers to the maximum usage amount that the current consumable chip can use. It is understood that the maximum consumption of consumables is constant data (i.e., a constant value). In an embodiment, when the current consumption of the consumable is greater than or equal to the maximum consumption of the consumable, or when the difference between the current consumption of the consumable and the maximum consumption of the consumable meets a preset condition, the carbon powder amount of the current consumable chip is considered to be exhausted.
S270, when the consumption of the current consumable supplies is larger than or equal to the maximum consumption of the consumable supplies, the current consumable chip determines the current ink quantity state change value of the current consumable chip.
In an embodiment, when the consumption of the current consumable is greater than or equal to the maximum consumption of the consumable, the carbon powder amount of the current consumable chip is exhausted, and at this time, the current ink amount state change value is analyzed to determine whether the current ink amount of the current consumable chip is exhausted. Illustratively, 00 indicates full ink, 10 indicates 75% remaining, 20 indicates 25% remaining, and 30 indicates depletion, and when the current ink amount state change value is 30, it indicates that the current ink amount of the current consumable chip has been depleted.
S280, when the current ink quantity state change value is that the ink quantity is exhausted, the current consumable chip determines the current carbon powder residual quantity of the consumable chip.
In the embodiment, under the condition that the carbon powder amount is exhausted according to the current consumption of the consumable item and the maximum consumption of the consumable item, and the ink amount is exhausted according to the current ink amount state change value, the current residual amount of the carbon powder of the current consumable chip is analyzed to determine whether the carbon powder is exhausted. Illustratively, FFFF indicates full ink, 0000 indicates ink is exhausted, and when the current toner remaining amount is 0000, it indicates that the current toner amount of the current consumable chip has been exhausted.
And S290, when the current carbon powder residual amount is the carbon powder amount exhausted, determining the actual printing page number of the current consumable chip.
Under the conditions that the carbon powder amount is determined to be exhausted according to the current consumption of the consumable items and the maximum consumption of the consumable items, the ink amount is determined to be exhausted according to the current state change value of the ink amount, and the carbon powder amount is exhausted according to the previous residual amount of the carbon powder, the actual printing page number of the current consumable chip is analyzed to determine whether the actual printing page number reaches a preset printing page number threshold value.
S2100, when the actual number of printed pages reaches a preset number of printed pages threshold, judging whether the consumable remainder of the current consumable chip is consumable exhaustion or not by the current consumable chip, and if yes, executing S2110; if not, S2130 is executed.
It should be noted that, during the actual printing process, single-sided printing and double-sided printing can be selected, and the amount of the content to be printed on each paper is different, but the amount of the consumable material placed in the cartridge of the target printer is fixed. Accordingly, the preset print page number threshold may be set according to an empirical value, for example, the preset print page number threshold may be set according to a usage scenario of the target printer. In an embodiment, when the actual number of printed pages reaches a preset threshold value of the number of printed pages, whether the consumable remainder of the current consumable chip is exhausted is judged.
In the embodiment, when the consumable remainder of the current consumable chip is consumable exhaustion, it indicates that the current consumable consumption and the maximum consumable usage determine that the carbon powder amount is exhausted, the ink amount is determined to be exhausted according to the current ink amount state change value, the carbon powder amount is exhausted according to the previous carbon powder remainder, and the carbon powder amount is determined to be exhausted according to the actual printing page number, and then the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip are adjusted.
And S2110, adjusting the current serial number, the current ink quantity state change value, the current carbon powder residual quantity and the actual printing page number of the current consumable chip.
In an embodiment, when the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is not finished, in order to realize sustainable use of the current consumable chip, when the consumable remainder of the current consumable chip is exhausted, the current serial number, the current ink quantity state change value, the current carbon powder remainder and the actual printing page number of the current consumable chip are adjusted.
S2120, when the current consumable chip detects a reassembly instruction between the current consumable chip and the refilled current consumable, returning to the step of receiving the serial number authentication result sent by the target printer until the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is finished.
In an embodiment, when the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip is exhausted, in order to realize the sustainable use of the current consumable chip, the configurable parameters of the current consumable chip are adjusted, the carbon powder is filled into the selenium drum again, the current consumable chip with the adjustable and variable configuration parameters and the current consumable of the refilled powder are reassembled, and the serial number of the current consumable chip is authenticated again until the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is finished.
S2130, the target printer executes the print job.
Fig. 3 is a flowchart of another method for recycling a chip according to an embodiment of the present invention. The present embodiment is described as a preferred embodiment, which is a process for realizing sustainable use of current consumable chips. In this embodiment, a process of implementing recycling of the current consumable chip is described by taking the current consumable chip as a toner cartridge consumable chip, a first partition of a data backup area as a data backup area a, and a second partition of the data backup area as a data backup area b.
In order to realize permanent use (which can be understood as recycling use) of the current consumable chip, data of serial numbers, residual amounts of carbon powder, actual printed pages and the like in the current consumable chip, which change along with printing, need to be switched and updated, and the rest of unchanged data can be kept unchanged. Here, the variable configuration parameters may be placed in the same area (e.g., data backup area a) and the non-variable data may be placed in another area (e.g., data backup area b), which helps to make full use of the data and reduce the backup area.
In the actual operation process, there are two cases that need to switch the variable configuration parameters: if the serial number is not authenticated when the serial number is authenticated, the crash condition occurs, and only the serial number of the current consumable chip needs to be switched; if the consumable is exhausted, data that varies with printing, such as a serial number, the toner remaining amount, and the actual number of printed pages, needs to be synchronously switched.
It should be noted that, the id of the consumable chip of the selenium drum is a serial number, when a machine with the same serial number is continuously operated (the same serial number may exist, the former is low ink, and the latter is greater than the former ink amount, so that the phenomenon of machine crash and machine non-recognition occurs) occurs in the upper limit of the serial number of the consumable chip of the selenium drum of the target printer, the consumable chip of the selenium drum may cause that the machine cannot be recognized, at this time, the consumable chip of the selenium drum automatically recognizes whether the running state of the consumable chip itself has the machine crash and machine non-recognition state, and when the crashed state is detected, the next serial number is automatically read from the data backup area to the data running area, so that the normal machine recognition is realized, and the printing operation is performed.
When the toner amount exceeds the upper limit or meets the preset condition, the variable configuration parameters in the data operation area are switched by using the data which changes along with printing, such as the serial number, the toner remaining amount, the actual printing page number and the like in the data backup area, so that the aim of a permanent chip is fulfilled. It can be understood that as long as the hardware life cycle of the consumable chip is not finished, the software life cycle of the consumable chip can always work normally without replacing the consumable chip.
Specifically, there are multiple data areas in the consumable chip code table (i.e., data backup area a), and different data areas have different data storage functions, for example, there are 5 areas of the consumable chip for storing data related to ink amount. The first area is used for storing data a, which represents the initial value of the consumable consumption of the brand-new chip consumable (i.e. the current consumable consumption in the above embodiment), and the data a of the first area is increased when the printer opens or closes the cover or prints. The second consumable chip area is used for storing data B, which represents the maximum consumable usage amount (i.e. the maximum consumable usage amount in the above embodiment) that can be used by the current consumable, and the data B is invariant data. The third area is used for storing data C, which represents the current ink amount change state value, and the data C will change continuously with the consumption of the toner amount, for example, 00 represents full ink, 10 represents the remaining 75%, 20 represents the remaining 25%, and 30 represents exhaustion. The fourth area is used for storing data D, which indicates the current toner remaining amount, for example, FFFF indicates full ink, 0000 indicates full ink, and the data D of the fourth area continuously decreases as the number of printing increases. The area five is used for storing data E indicating the actual number of printed pages, which is increasing as the number of prints increases. If the data in these five areas all show toner empty (i.e., consumable supply empty), the serial number, toner remaining amount, number of actual printed pages, and other data that vary with printing are switched. While the general data of the other area (data backup area b) may remain unchanged.
As shown in fig. 3, the present embodiment includes the following steps:
and S310, starting.
And S320, performing serial number authentication between the current consumable chip and the target printer.
S330, judging whether the current consumable chip and the target printer have crash or not, if so, executing S340; if not, go to S350.
And S340, reading the serial number of the first partition.
S350, judging whether the residual amount of the consumable is consumable exhaustion according to the consumption amount of the current consumable, and if not, executing S360; if yes, go to S3100.
S360, judging whether the residual quantity of the consumable supplies is consumable exhaustion according to the current ink quantity state change value, and if not, executing S370; if yes, go to S3100.
S370, judging whether the residual amount of the consumable materials is consumable exhaustion according to the residual amount of the current carbon powder, and if not, executing S380; if yes, go to S3100.
S380, judging whether the consumable remainder is consumable exhaustion according to the actual printing page number, and if not, executing S390; if yes, go to S3100.
And S390, printing the job.
S3100, reading the serial number of the first partition, the current ink quantity state value, the current toner residual quantity and the actual printing page number, and the general data of the second partition.
In the embodiment, after the target printer is powered on again or the cover is opened or closed and other preset conditions are met, a serial number authentication process is performed between the target printer and the current consumable chip, if the serial number authentication shows that the printer is collided (indicating that the serial number is used), the target printer changes the collision marker bit of the current consumable chip, and when the current consumable chip detects that the collision marker bit is changed, the current serial number is switched to the next serial number, and serial number authentication is performed again. If the serial number authentication shows normal, subsequent ink amount judgment is performed.
In the actual operation, the determination of the ink amount or the toner amount can be made at least based on one of the 5 data related to the ink amount, and the following describes the case where the 5 data are all used as the basis of the determination, as follows:
in the embodiment, if the four judgments show that the consumable items are exhausted, data changing along with printing, such as the serial number, the residual amount of the carbon powder, the actual printing page number and the like, are switched; while the general data of the other area (data backup area b) may remain unchanged. And after the switching is finished, the machine is assembled with the consumable material for refilling the powder and then the machine is operated again for authentication. In the actual operation, the upper limit of the number of pages of the printer, that is, the maximum number of pages that can be printed, may be stored in the area five. The upper limit of the number of pages of the printer is continuously decreased along with the printing process. Illustratively, when the upper limit of the number of pages of the printer is 0000, it indicates that the target printer has run out of consumables.
Of course, if there is one of the determinations that the consumable is not shown to be exhausted, printing may be continued. In an embodiment, the use of multiple determination modes may enhance the accuracy of the determination.
In the embodiment, if one of the four judgment of the changeable configuration parameters is exhausted, the data of the serial number, the residual quantity of the carbon powder, the actual printing page number and the like which change along with the printing is switched; while the general data of the other area (data backup area b) may remain unchanged. And after the switching is finished, the machine is assembled with the consumable material for refilling the powder and then the machine is operated again for authentication.
The switching of one complete service life exhaustion is realized, and the purpose of a permanent chip is achieved through the circulation.
Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a consumable chip according to an embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is applied to the condition of realizing the sustainable use of consumable chip, as shown in fig. 4, this consumable chip specifically includes: a receiving module 410, an adjusting module 420 and an executing module 430.
The receiving module 410 is configured to receive a serial number authentication result sent by a target printer;
the adjusting module 420 is configured to adjust the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip according to the serial number authentication result and/or the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip; wherein the current consumable chip is installed in the target printer;
and the execution module 430 is configured to, when a reassembly instruction between the current consumable chip and the current consumable of the refilling is detected, return to the step of receiving the serial number authentication result sent by the target printer until the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is finished.
According to the technical scheme of the embodiment, the serial number authentication result sent by the target printer is received; adjusting the current serial number of the current consumable according to the serial number authentication result; and when the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip is consumable exhausted, the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip are adjusted, so that the technical effect that the current consumable chip can be continuously used is achieved before the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is ensured not to be finished.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the characterization parameter of the consumable remaining amount of the current consumable chip includes one of the following: current consumable consumption, current ink volume state change value, current toner remaining amount and actual number of printed pages.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the determination method of the consumable remaining amount of the current consumable chip includes:
and determining the consumable residual amount of the current consumable chip according to at least one of the characterization parameters of the consumable residual amount of the current consumable chip.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the process for determining the consumable remaining amount of the current consumable chip is specifically configured to:
determining a comparison result between the current consumable consumption of the current consumable chip and the maximum consumable usage;
when the consumption of the current consumable is more than or equal to the maximum consumption of the consumable, determining the current ink quantity state change value of the current consumable chip;
when the current ink quantity state change value is that the ink quantity is exhausted, determining the current carbon powder residual quantity of the current consumable chip;
when the current carbon powder residual amount is the carbon powder amount exhausted, determining the actual printing page number of the current consumable chip;
and when the actual number of printed pages reaches a preset number of printed pages threshold, determining that the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip is consumable exhaustion.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the adjusting module is specifically configured to:
when the serial number authentication result is that the machine is crashed and the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip is consumable and is not exhausted, adjusting the current serial number of the current consumable chip;
or when the consumable remainder of the current consumable chip is consumable exhaustion, adjusting the current serial number, the current ink quantity state change value, the current carbon powder remainder and the actual printing page number of the current consumable chip.
On the basis of the embodiment, the characterization parameters of the consumable residual quantity of the current consumable chip are stored in the first partition of the data backup area of the current consumable chip; the maximum consumption of the consumable of the current consumable chip is stored in the second partition of the data backup area of the current consumable chip.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the switching manner of the changeable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip includes one of the following:
reading new variable configuration parameters from a data backup area of the current consumable chip to a data operation area, and covering the original variable configuration parameters in the data operation area;
and continuously executing an adding operation to point to the new changeable configuration parameters by the address pointer of the data backup area of the current consumable chip.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the number of serial numbers of the data backup area in the current consumable chip is larger than the number of recordable serial numbers of the target printer.
On the basis of the above embodiment, the reassembly instruction includes one of: a power-on command is carried out again; a decapping instruction of the target printer; a close command for the target printer.
It is to be noted that the foregoing is only illustrative of the preferred embodiments of the present invention and the technical principles employed. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the particular embodiments described herein, but is capable of various obvious changes, rearrangements and substitutions as will now become apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention. Therefore, although the present invention has been described in greater detail by the above embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and may include other equivalent embodiments without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is determined by the scope of the appended claims.
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1. A method for recycling a chip, comprising:
receiving a serial number authentication result sent by a target printer;
adjusting the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip according to the serial number authentication result and/or the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip; wherein the current consumable chip is installed in the target printer;
and when a reassembling instruction between the current consumable chip and the current consumable of refilling powder is detected, returning to the step of executing the serial number authentication result sent by the receiving target printer until the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is finished.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the characterization parameter of the consumable remaining amount of the current consumable chip comprises one of: current consumable consumption, current ink volume state change value, current toner remaining amount and actual number of printed pages.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the determination of the consumable remaining amount of the current consumable chip comprises:
and determining the consumable residual amount of the current consumable chip according to at least one of the characterization parameters of the consumable residual amount of the current consumable chip.
4. The method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the process of determining the consumable remaining amount of the current consumable chip comprises:
determining a comparison result between the current consumable consumption of the current consumable chip and the maximum consumable usage;
when the consumption of the current consumable is more than or equal to the maximum consumption of the consumable, determining the current ink quantity state change value of the current consumable chip;
when the current ink quantity state change value is the ink quantity exhaustion, determining the current carbon powder residual quantity of the current consumable chip;
when the current carbon powder residual amount is the carbon powder amount exhausted, determining the actual printing page number of the current consumable chip;
and when the actual number of printed pages reaches a preset number of printed pages threshold, determining that the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip is consumable exhaustion.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the adjusting the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip according to the serial number authentication result and/or the consumable remaining amount of the current consumable chip comprises:
when the serial number authentication result is that the machine is crashed and the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip is consumable and is not exhausted, adjusting the current serial number of the current consumable chip;
or when the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip is consumable exhaustion, adjusting the current serial number, the current ink quantity state change value, the current carbon powder surplus and the actual printing page number of the current consumable chip.
6. The method according to claim 2, wherein the characterization parameters of the consumable remaining amount of the current consumable chip are stored in the first partition of the data backup area of the current consumable chip; and the maximum consumable consumption of the current consumable chip is stored in a second partition of the data backup area of the current consumable chip.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the switching manner of the current consumable chip's variable configuration parameters comprises one of:
reading new variable configuration parameters from the data backup area of the current consumable chip to the data operation area, and covering the original variable configuration parameters in the data operation area;
and continuously executing an adding operation on the address pointer of the data backup area of the current consumable chip to point to a new variable configuration parameter.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the number of serial numbers of the data backup area in the current consumable chip is larger than the number of recordable serial numbers of the target printer.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the reassembly instruction comprises one of:
a power-on command is carried out again; a decapping instruction of the target printer; a close command for the target printer.
10. A consumable chip, comprising:
the receiving module is used for receiving a serial number authentication result sent by the target printer;
the adjusting module is used for adjusting the variable configuration parameters of the current consumable chip according to the serial number authentication result and/or the consumable surplus of the current consumable chip; wherein the current consumable chip is installed in the target printer;
and the execution module is used for returning to the step of receiving the serial number authentication result sent by the target printer when a reassembly instruction between the current consumable chip and the current consumable of refilling powder is detected until the hardware life cycle of the current consumable chip is finished.
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