CN115157869B - Ink residue monitoring method, consumable chip, consumable container and electronic imaging device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides an ink residue monitoring method, a consumable chip, a consumable container and electronic imaging equipment, wherein the method comprises the steps of obtaining an ink low detection signal, modifying ink residue information recorded by a memory into an ink low residue value, and prohibiting execution of ink residue information reset operation; when the consumable container ejects ink drops, acquiring the quantity of the ejected ink drops, and calculating actual ink residue information according to the quantity of the ejected ink drops; and judging whether the actual ink remaining amount information is lower than an ink-out threshold value, and if so, sending out ink-out prompt information. The consumable chip comprises a substrate, an electronic module is arranged on the substrate, the electronic module comprises a processing unit and a memory, and the memory stores ink allowance information; wherein the processing unit cooperates with the electronic imaging device to perform the steps of the ink balance monitoring method described above. The invention can improve the accuracy of monitoring the ink allowance while improving the ink filling amount of the ink box.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of electronic imaging, in particular to an ink residue monitoring method, a consumable chip, a consumable container and electronic imaging equipment for realizing the method.
Background
The electronic imaging device is used as common office equipment, great convenience is provided for modern office, the common electronic imaging device comprises a printer, a copying machine and the like, the existing printer is divided into an inkjet printer and a laser printer, and the inkjet printer uses an ink box containing ink as a consumable container to jet the ink to paper so as to form characters or patterns to be printed on the paper; the laser printer uses a toner cartridge containing toner as a consumable container to form text or patterns on the media to be printed.
Referring to fig. 1, a conventional color inkjet printer has a housing 11, and the inkjet printer shown in fig. 1 omits a pallet of the housing 11. The housing 11 is provided with a cartridge 12 for an ink jet printer and a slide along which a carriage 14 reciprocates under the drive of a motor (not visible in fig. 1). A chip main control circuit board (not visible in fig. 1) is arranged in the printing carriage 14, and the chip main control circuit board communicates with the movement 12 through a flat cable 13.
The carriage 14 is detachably provided with a plurality of ink cartridges 15, and different ink cartridges 15 contain different colors of ink. The structure of the ink cartridge 15 is shown in fig. 2. The ink cartridge 15 has a cartridge body 16, the cartridge body 16 encloses a chamber for accommodating ink, an ink outlet 17 is provided at the lower end of the chamber, and ink in the chamber flows out through the ink outlet 17 and is supplied to an ink supply needle of the carriage 14.
A chip 18 is mounted on the outer wall of the case 16 of the ink cartridge 15, the chip 18 having a substrate provided with a plurality of connection terminals 19 on one side thereof for electrical connection with contact pins on the carriage 14. The other side of the substrate is provided with a memory (not visible in fig. 2), typically a non-volatile memory, such as an EEPROM or FLASH, which stores information related to the ink cartridge, including variable information, which is information that is continuously variable with the printing operation, such as information of the ink margin, the printing duration, the number of printing sheets, etc., and invariable information, which is information that is not variable with the printing operation, such as the type of the ink cartridge, the type of the applicable inkjet printer, the color of the ink, etc.
After the ink cartridge 15 is mounted to the carriage 14 of the ink jet printer, the ink jet printer powers up the chip 18 and reads data stored in the memory of the chip 18 to determine whether the type of the ink cartridge 15 is appropriate, whether the amount of ink remaining in the ink cartridge 15 is sufficient, and the like. The ink jet printer can perform a printing job only after the ink cartridge 15 is judged to be of a proper type and sufficient ink is contained in the ink cartridge 15.
In order to detect the use condition of the ink in the ink cartridge 15, a detection device for detecting the remaining amount of the ink, for example, a float ball, a detection electrode, or the like is provided in the ink chamber of the ink cartridge 15. Chinese patent application CN101112820a describes a solution in which an electrical measuring electrode is provided in the ink cartridge to detect the remaining amount of ink in the ink chamber. The lower end of the detection electrode is close to the bottom of the ink cavity, when ink exists between the two detection electrodes, the two electrodes are electrically communicated due to the fact that the ink has conductivity, and if the liquid level of the ink is lower than the lower end of the detection electrode, the two detection electrodes are not electrically communicated. The ink jet printer may determine whether the ink remaining in the ink cartridge is below a preset value based on whether there is electrical communication between the two detection electrodes.
On the other hand, as the printing demand increases, the user expects the ink cartridge to hold more ink to avoid frequent replacement of the ink cartridge, and after the ink cartridge increases in capacity, the value of the remaining ink amount read by the inkjet printer increases, and more binary numbers need to be used to represent the value of the remaining ink amount, but the binary numbers are limited by the value of the remaining ink amount that can be identified by the old inkjet printer, and some ink cartridges solve this problem by resetting the remaining ink amount, that is, when the remaining ink amount recorded by the memory is smaller than the preset reset threshold, the reset operation is performed on the remaining ink amount information, for example, the remaining ink amount is modified to the preset ink reset value.
However, if the ink level is continuously reset, the ink in the ink box is about to be exhausted, but the ink level recorded by the memory on the ink box chip is still a large number, which is not consistent with the actual ink level in the ink box, once the user continues to print until the ink in the ink box is exhausted, printing cannot be performed. Therefore, this approach may be confusing to the user that the ink jet printer reads the ink balance to indicate that there is more ink in the ink cartridge, but the ink cartridge will actually be ink-unprinted, which may cause considerable inconvenience to the user if the user is not ready for a new ink cartridge in advance.
In addition, if the remaining amount of ink in the ink cartridge is detected by the detection electrode alone, since the detection electrode is difficult to be provided at the bottommost portion of the ink chamber, accurate detection is difficult to be performed with a small amount of ink remaining in the ink cartridge; if the ink drop quantity ejected by the ink box is calculated only by the ink jet printer, and then the residual ink quantity in the ink box is calculated, because the ink jet printer has a certain error in calculating the ink drop quantity ejected by each ink box, the error is accumulated continuously due to multiple times of calculation, and after long-time printing, the error is very large, and finally the calculated ink quantity of the ink jet printer is inaccurate. Therefore, the conventional ink balance monitoring methods have a problem of inaccurate ink balance monitoring.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the above-described problems, a first object of the present invention is to provide a monitoring method capable of accurately monitoring the ink remaining amount in an ink cartridge.
The second object of the present invention is to provide a consumable chip to which the above-mentioned ink balance monitoring method is applied.
A third object of the present invention is to provide a consumable container using the above consumable chip.
A fourth object of the present invention is to provide an electronic imaging apparatus using the above consumable container.
In order to achieve the first object of the present invention, the present invention provides an ink balance monitoring method comprising obtaining an ink low detection signal, modifying ink balance information recorded in a memory to an ink low balance value, and prohibiting execution of an ink balance information reset operation; when the consumable container ejects ink drops, acquiring the quantity of the ejected ink drops, and calculating actual ink residue information according to the quantity of the ejected ink drops; and judging whether the actual ink remaining amount information is lower than an ink-out threshold value, and if so, sending out ink-out prompt information.
According to the scheme, the ink residual quantity in the ink cavity is detected by the detection device such as the detection electrode or the floating ball, the ink low detection signal sent by the detection device is obtained, and after the ink low detection signal is obtained, the quantity of ink drops ejected by the consumable container is accurately calculated, so that the ink residual quantity in the ink box is accurately calculated.
On the one hand, after the detection device sends out the ink low detection signal, the problem that the detection device cannot monitor the ink residual quantity under the condition of less ink residual quantity can be solved by calculating the quantity of ink drops ejected by the consumable container; on the other hand, since the calculation of the number of ink droplets ejected from the consumable container is performed after the reception of the ink low detection signal, the number of times of calculation from the reception of the ink low detection signal to the exhaustion of ink is small, and even if there is an error in each calculation, the accumulated error is small, so that the accuracy of the ink remaining amount detection can be improved.
In a preferred embodiment, after the ink level detection signal is acquired, the following steps are further performed: and sending out ink low prompt information.
It can be seen that upon receiving the ink low detection signal, the ink jet printer can send out an ink low prompt message so that the user is ready to replace the ink cartridge.
The further scheme is that after the ink low prompt information is sent out, the following steps are executed: the ink balance reset flag is modified to a disable reset flag.
In this way, after the ink balance reset mark is modified to the reset prohibition mark, before resetting the ink balance, the read ink balance reset mark is the reset prohibition mark, and the ink balance cannot be reset, so that the situation that the ink balance is reset by mistake is avoided.
Further, before the ink low detection signal is acquired, the method comprises the following steps: and judging whether the current ink residual quantity reaches a preset reset threshold value, if so, resetting the ink residual quantity information.
Therefore, before the ink low detection signal is received, the information of the ink residual quantity can be reset, so that the use requirement of the high-capacity ink box is met.
Further, the resetting operation of the ink residue information includes: and modifying the ink allowance to a preset ink reset value.
The further scheme is that before the reset operation is carried out on the ink residue information, the following steps are also executed: and acquiring an ink residue reset mark, and confirming that the ink residue reset mark is an allowable reset mark.
Thus, the reset operation of the ink residual quantity is only executed when the reset of the ink residual quantity is allowed, and the condition that the monitoring of the ink residual quantity is inaccurate due to the error of the reset of the ink residual quantity is avoided.
In order to achieve the second object, the consumable chip provided by the invention comprises a substrate, wherein an electronic module is arranged on the substrate, the electronic module comprises a processing unit and a memory, and the memory stores ink allowance information; wherein the processing unit cooperates with the electronic imaging device to perform the steps of the ink balance monitoring method described above.
In order to achieve the third object, the consumable container provided by the invention comprises a box body, wherein the consumable chip is arranged on the side wall of the box body.
In order to achieve the fourth object, the electronic imaging device provided by the invention comprises a machine body, wherein a consumable container mounting position is arranged in the machine body, and the consumable container is mounted on the consumable container mounting position; after the electronic imaging device acquires the ink low detection signal, when the consumable container ejects ink drops, acquiring the number of the ejected ink drops, calculating actual ink residue information according to the number of the ejected ink drops, and writing the calculated actual ink residue information into a memory of the consumable chip.
In a preferred embodiment, the electronic imaging device displays the ink-out prompt message on the display screen after acquiring the ink-low detection signal.
According to the scheme, through displaying the ink exhaustion prompt information on the display screen, the user can be conveniently prompted about the ink exhaustion condition in the ink box, so that the user can conveniently replace the ink box in time, and the use of the ink-jet printer is not affected.
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Fig. 1 is a structural diagram of a conventional ink jet printer.
Fig. 2 is a structural view of a conventional ink cartridge.
FIG. 3 is a first portion of a flow chart of an embodiment of an ink level monitoring method of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a second portion of a flow chart of an embodiment of an ink level monitoring method of the present invention.
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The electronic image forming apparatus of the present invention is an inkjet printer to which an ink cartridge as a consumable container can be mounted. Specifically, the inkjet printer is provided with an organism, a printing carriage is formed in the organism, one or more ink cartridges are detachably arranged in the printing carriage, each ink cartridge is provided with a cartridge body, the cartridge body encloses an ink cavity for containing ink, an ink outlet communicated with the ink cavity is arranged below the ink cavity, and the ink in the ink cavity can flow out through the ink outlet. A consumable chip is detachably mounted on one side wall of the box body, the consumable chip comprises a base plate, a plurality of electric contacts are arranged on one surface of the base plate and connected with the electric contacts on the printing carriage, an electronic module is arranged on the other surface of the base plate and comprises a processing unit and a memory, and information such as ink allowance and the like is stored in the memory. In the printing process, the ink jet printer can read the information of the ink residual quantity recorded by the memory and can write the updated information of the ink residual quantity into the memory.
In order to detect the remaining amount of ink in the ink cartridge, a detection device, such as a pair of electrodes, is provided in the ink chamber, and the lower ends of the electrodes are close to the bottom of the ink chamber, so that the remaining amount of ink is detected by the conductivity of ink. The detection signal of the electrode can be transmitted to the ink-jet printer or the electronic module of the consumable chip.
The following describes a method for monitoring the ink remaining in fig. 3 and 4. After the ink cartridge is mounted to the printer carriage, the ink jet printer may read the information of the ink remaining amount recorded in the memory, and calculate the amount of ink consumed for each printing operation based on the number of printed sheets, thereby calculating the amount of ink remaining in the ink cartridge, thereby obtaining a new value of the ink remaining amount. Of course, since the inkjet printer calculates the ink remaining amount depending only on the number of printed sheets, there may be a large error in the calculated ink remaining amount value. After each printing operation is finished, the ink jet printer writes the updated information of the ink allowance into a memory of the consumable chip.
The consumable chip will execute step S1 to determine whether an ink low detection signal is received. In this embodiment, the ink low detection signal is sent by a detection device disposed in the ink chamber, for example, when the liquid level of the ink is lower than the lower end of the detection electrode, the two detection electrodes are not electrically connected, and then the ink low detection signal is sent. If the ink low detection signal is not received, which indicates that the ink residual quantity in the ink box is sufficient, the processing unit of the consumable chip executes step S2 to read the information of the ink residual quantity recorded by the memory.
Then, step S3 is performed to determine whether the currently recorded ink remaining amount reaches the reset threshold. When the ink cartridge is initially mounted to the ink jet printer, the ink remaining amount is 100%, and the ink remaining amount gradually decreases as the ink cartridge is used. In order to meet the use requirement of the high-capacity ink box, a function of resetting the residual ink is set, namely, when the residual ink reaches a preset reset threshold value, the residual ink is reset. The preset reset threshold may be 50% or 40%, or any other value higher than the corresponding value at which the ink low detection signal is issued. Preferably, when the ink remaining amount reaches the reset threshold, the detection device does not emit the ink low detection signal, that is, indicates that the corresponding ink remaining amount should be lower than the reset threshold when the ink low detection signal is emitted.
If the current ink remaining amount does not reach the reset threshold, the printing operation is continued, the inkjet printer continues to calculate the ink amount consumed by the current printing, updates the information of the ink remaining amount, and returns to execute step S1. If the current ink remaining amount reaches the reset threshold, step S4 is executed to acquire an ink remaining amount reset flag, and to determine whether the ink remaining amount reset flag is an allowable reset flag. In this embodiment, the consumable chip sets an ink balance reset flag, which may be an enable reset flag or a disable reset flag, for example, a binary "0" is used to indicate the enable reset flag, and a binary "1" is used to indicate the disable reset flag. The ink balance reset flag may be stored in a particular location in the memory. In an initial state, for example, when the consumable container is first mounted to a printing carriage, the ink remaining amount reset flag is an enable reset flag.
In step S4, the consumable chip reads the ink remaining amount reset flag, if the ink remaining amount reset flag is a disable reset flag, which indicates that the current state does not allow the operation of resetting the ink remaining amount, the inkjet printer continues to calculate the ink amount consumed by the current printing, updates the information of the ink remaining amount, and returns to execute step S1.
If the judgment result of the step S4 is yes, a step S5 is executed to modify the current recorded ink residual quantity of the memory into an ink reset value. The ink reset value is a value that is preset and stored in the memory, for example, a value of 80%. The operation of resetting the ink balance is performed by the processing unit of the consumable chip, and the inkjet printer does not perform the operation of resetting the ink balance. After resetting the ink balance, the inkjet printer continues the printing operation. The information of the ink remaining amount read from the memory by the ink jet printer is updated information of the ink remaining amount, that is, it is considered that there is still much ink in the ink cartridge.
If the judgment result of the step S1 is yes, which means that the detection device detects that the ink residual quantity in the ink cavity is lower, the step S6 is executed, and the processing unit of the consumable chip modifies the ink residual quantity recorded by the memory to be an ink low residual quantity value. The ink level is a predetermined value, and is an ink level corresponding to the time when the detection device sends out the ink level detection signal, and can be obtained by experiments in advance.
After the ink-jet printer obtains the ink low residual value through communication with the consumable chip, step S7 is executed, and an ink low prompt message is sent out, for example, a prompt statement is displayed on a display screen of the ink-jet printer, or a light with a special color is sent out through an LED lamp, so that the ink residual value in the ink box is indicated to be lower, and a user is required to prepare to replace the ink box. Preferably, if the ink jet printer is provided with a plurality of ink cartridges, when the ink jet printer sends out the ink low prompt information, it is also necessary to indicate which ink cartridge has a low ink remaining amount, for example, which ink cartridge has a low ink remaining amount.
Then, the processing unit of the consumable chip executes step S8 to modify the ink remaining amount reset flag to the inhibit reset flag. Since the ink remaining amount reset flag is an enable reset flag before the ink low detection signal is not received, i.e., once the ink remaining amount reaches the reset threshold, the processing unit resets the ink remaining amount stored in the memory. However, upon receiving the ink low detection signal, it indicates that the amount of ink remaining in the ink chamber is small, and for this reason, it is necessary to prohibit the reset operation of the ink remaining amount, so as to avoid that the ink remaining amount is reset by mistake, resulting in subsequent calculation of the ink remaining amount.
Next, before each execution of the printing operation, the inkjet printer will read the information of the ink remaining amount stored in the memory, and calculate the number of ink droplets ejected from the consumable container at the time of the printing operation, that is, execute step S9. The ink jet printer calculates the number of ink droplets ejected by each ink jet operation in the prior art, and will not be described in detail.
Then, the inkjet printer performs step S10 to calculate actual ink remaining information from the number of ink droplets ejected by the current printing operation. For example, before the current ink jet printing is performed, the ink remaining amount is 20%, the corresponding number of ink droplets is 1000, and if the number of ink droplets ejected by the current operation is 15, the remaining actual number of ink droplets is 985. And the ink jet printer writes the updated ink residue information back to the memory of the consumable chip. When the printing operation is to be performed next, the inkjet printer again reads the information of the ink remaining amount from the memory, and calculates the number of ink droplets consumed by the current printing operation, and again updates the information of the ink remaining amount.
As the ink continues to be used, the ink will gradually run out. After the ink jet printer reads the information of the remaining ink amount stored in the memory each time, step S11 is executed to determine whether the actual remaining ink amount is lower than the ink-out threshold. The ink-out threshold is a preset value, if the ink remaining amount of the ink cartridge is lower than the ink-out threshold, the ink in the ink cartridge is basically exhausted, and the printing operation cannot be executed, so if the judgment result of the step S11 is yes, the step S12 is executed, the ink-jet printer sends out an ink-out prompt message, for example, a prompt statement is displayed on a display screen of the ink-jet printer, or a light with a special color is sent out through an LED lamp, so that the ink in the ink cartridge is basically exhausted, and a user is required to replace the ink cartridge. If the judgment result in the step S11 is negative, a certain amount of ink still remains in the ink box, and the ink box returns to the step S9, and the ink-jet printer continues printing until the ink residual quantity is lower than the ink-out threshold value.
As can be seen, in this embodiment, different ways are used to monitor the remaining ink in different stages, specifically, before the low ink detection signal is not received, the ink remaining amount is monitored by calculating the number of printed sheets by the inkjet printer, and resetting of the remaining ink is allowed, and in this stage, an inaccurate calculation way is used for monitoring the remaining ink. After receiving the ink low detection signal, the ink level is monitored by the ink jet printer in a mode of calculating the number of ink drops actually ejected by the consumable container, and the ink level in the ink box can be accurately calculated in the mode.
In addition, when the ink low detection signal is received, the ink remaining amount is also modified to an ink low remaining amount value, so that a very accurate start value can be used for calculation in the second stage, thereby accurately calculating the amount of ink remaining in the ink cartridge. Since the remaining amount of ink is small from the reception of the ink low detection signal to the exhaustion of ink, the number of times of calculation by the inkjet printer is small, and even if there is a certain error in each calculation of the number of ejected ink droplets, the accumulated error is small, and the accuracy of calculation of the remaining amount of ink can be ensured.
Finally, it should be emphasized that the invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, for example, changes in the structure of the detection device, or changes in the specific values of the reset values of the ink, etc., which are also intended to be included in the scope of the claims.
The above is only a specific embodiment of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and the above is only an embodiment adopted for the purpose of facilitating understanding of the present application, and is not limited thereto. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the application as defined by the appended claims. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the scope defined by the claims.
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1. The ink remaining amount monitoring method is characterized by comprising the following steps:
Acquiring an ink low detection signal sent by a detection device arranged in an ink cavity, modifying the ink residual information recorded by a memory into an ink low residual value, and prohibiting execution of an ink residual information reset operation;
when the consumable container ejects ink drops, acquiring the quantity of the ejected ink drops, and calculating actual ink residue information according to the quantity of the ejected ink drops;
and judging whether the actual ink remaining amount information is lower than an ink-out threshold value, if so, sending out ink-out prompt information.
2. The ink balance monitoring method according to claim 1, characterized in that:
After the ink low detection signal is acquired, further execution: and sending out ink low prompt information.
3. The ink balance monitoring method according to claim 2, characterized in that:
After sending out the ink low prompt message, the following steps are executed: the ink balance reset flag is changed to a disable reset flag.
4. The ink balance monitoring method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that:
Before acquiring the ink low detection signal, performing: and judging whether the current ink residue reaches a preset reset threshold, if so, resetting the ink residue information.
5. The ink balance monitoring method according to claim 4, wherein:
The resetting operation of the ink residue information comprises the following steps: and modifying the ink allowance to a preset ink reset value.
6. The ink balance monitoring method according to claim 5, characterized in that:
Before the resetting operation is performed on the ink residue information, the following steps are further performed: and acquiring an ink residue reset mark, and confirming that the ink residue reset mark is an allowable reset mark.
7. Consumable chip, comprising:
the device comprises a substrate, wherein an electronic module is arranged on the substrate, the electronic module comprises a processing unit and a memory, and the memory stores ink allowance information;
The method is characterized in that:
the processing unit cooperates with an electronic imaging device to perform the respective steps of the ink balance monitoring method according to any one of claims 1 to 6.
8. A consumable container comprising:
a case body;
The method is characterized in that:
the consumable chip of claim 7 is arranged on the side wall of the box body.
9. An electronic imaging device comprising:
the device comprises a machine body, wherein a consumable container mounting position is arranged in the machine body;
The method is characterized in that:
The consumable container mounting position is provided with the consumable container as claimed in claim 8;
After the electronic imaging device acquires the ink low detection signal, when the consumable container ejects ink drops, acquiring the number of the ejected ink drops, calculating actual ink residue information according to the number of the ejected ink drops, and writing the calculated actual ink residue information into a memory of the consumable chip.
10. The electronic imaging device of claim 9, wherein:
And after the electronic imaging equipment acquires the ink low detection signal, displaying the ink out prompt information on a display screen of the electronic imaging equipment.
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