CN217917304U - Consumable chip assembly and consumable packaging piece - Google Patents

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides a consumptive material chip subassembly and consumptive material package, wherein the consumptive material package includes consumptive material box and packing carton, on the consumptive material box, be provided with the consumptive material chip, the information of the relevant consumptive material box of consumptive material chip storage, the consumptive material chip is including upgrading the contact, on the packing carton, be provided with wireless adapter circuit, wireless adapter circuit includes connecting circuit, battery and communication circuit, the communication circuit electricity is connected to the connecting circuit, wherein, the connecting circuit electricity is connected the upgrading contact, the battery passes through the connecting circuit and supplies power to the consumptive material chip, communication circuit is including the antenna or the coil that are used for receiving wireless communication signal, communication circuit passes through the upgrading signal transmission that connecting circuit will receive is for the consumptive material chip. Utilize the consumptive material package of this application, upgrading equipment can carry out the processing of doing over again to a plurality of consumptive material packages one to many to the efficiency of upgrading has been improved.

Description

Consumable chip assembly and consumable packaging piece

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of printing and imaging, in particular to a consumable chip assembly and a consumable packaging piece.

Background

Printing devices typically require the configuration of a corresponding consumable cartridge during the printing process. For example, an ink jet printer requires an ink cartridge containing ink therein; a powder cylinder is required to be configured in the laser printer, and carbon powder is contained in the powder cylinder; the multifunctional all-in-one machine needs to be provided with a toner cartridge, and carbon powder is contained in the toner cartridge. Consumable cartridges have a shorter life than printing devices, and thus require users to purchase and replace consumable cartridges regularly during use.

In order to record the use condition of the consumable cartridge installed in the printing apparatus and to perform identification and authentication on the consumable cartridge, a consumable chip is generally installed on the consumable cartridge. For example, a cartridge chip is mounted on the cartridge and used for storing data related to the cartridge, such as toner color, authentication code, serial number, remaining toner amount, page yield (maximum value of printable number of pages), printed number of pages, manufacturer, production date, and the like.

In addition, in order to improve the authentication capability of the consumable chip, the printing device manufacturer may frequently upgrade the firmware of the printing device. For the sold printing equipment, applying a new authentication mode to the printing equipment in a firmware pushing and user downloading and installing mode; for printing devices that have not been sold or are in production, the latest firmware is applied to the printing device and then sold. New authentication methods often include new instructions, black lists of serial numbers, reading more data, etc. However, if the consumable chip on the sold consumable cartridge is not upgraded correspondingly, it is likely that the consumable chip cannot be identified by the printing apparatus, and the consumable cartridge cannot be used.

In the existing production standard, before being ready for factory sale, the consumable box is usually wrapped and packaged by a plastic bag or a plastic film and then placed in a packaging box. It can be understood that after leaving the factory, if the printing consumables in the packaging box need to be upgraded, the packaging box, the plastic bag or the plastic film of the consumables box need to be removed, so that the consumables chip can be accessed by using the upgrading equipment. And after upgrading is completed, the consumable box is wrapped and packaged by a plastic bag or a plastic film and then placed into a packaging box. However, in the whole upgrading process, the package needs to be removed and then repackaged, which not only makes the upgrading process tedious and increases the labor cost for upgrading, but also wastes a part of packaging materials.

Another kind of consumptive material chip upgrading mode among the correlation technique is for setting up the window on the packing carton, through this window and consumptive material chip physical contact to upgrade the consumptive material chip. However, in order to upgrade the consumable chip, a larger window may need to be opened, which may cause great influence on the sealing performance and the anti-collision performance of the package. In addition, to the position of consumptive material chip apart from the packing carton outward appearance package far away, upgrading equipment need set up long and thin connector, and the contact on the consumptive material chip is less, brings the difficulty for counterpoint contact and fixed chip.

In the existing upgrading mode of consumable chips which leave a factory, only one-to-one upgrading is generally performed, and the upgrading efficiency is low.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of this, this application provides a consumptive material chip subassembly and consumptive material package to do benefit to the problem that the consumptive material chip in the packing carton is not convenient for to upgrade among the solution prior art, especially can realize the one-to-many upgrading, in order to promote the upgrading efficiency of consumptive material chip.

The application provides a consumable chip assembly comprising a consumable chip and a wireless adapter circuit, the consumable chip being adapted to be detachably mounted on a consumable cartridge, the consumable chip storing information about the consumable cartridge, characterized in that,

the consumable chip comprises an upgrade contact, the wireless adapter circuit comprises a connecting circuit, a battery and a communication circuit, the communication circuit is electrically connected to the connecting circuit, wherein,

the connecting circuit is connected with the upgrading contact in a detachable mode, the battery supplies power to the consumable chip through the connecting circuit, the communication circuit comprises an antenna or a coil used for receiving wireless communication signals, and the communication circuit transmits the received upgrading signals to the consumable chip through the connecting circuit.

In other embodiments, the battery is connected to the connection circuit through a switch, which may be in an open or closed state under the control of the communication circuit.

In other embodiments, the consumable chip further comprises a communication module for communicating with a printing device, the communication circuit comprising an antenna, a coil, or a communication contact.

In other embodiments, the upgrade contacts include the communication contacts.

In other embodiments, the connection circuitry comprises a plurality of bump electrodes for contacting upgrade contacts of the consumable chip.

In other embodiments, the protruding electrode comprises a resilient metal claw.

The application also provides a consumable packaging piece, which comprises a consumable box, a packaging box and the consumable chip component, wherein the consumable chip of the consumable chip component is arranged on the consumable box, the wireless adapter circuit of the consumable chip component is arranged on the packaging box, and the wireless adapter circuit is electrically connected with the consumable chip.

The application also provides another consumable package, which comprises a consumable box and a packaging box,

the consumable box is provided with a consumable chip, the consumable chip stores information related to the consumable box and comprises an upgrading contact,

the packaging box is provided with a wireless adapter circuit which comprises a connecting circuit, a battery and a communication circuit, the communication circuit is electrically connected with the connecting circuit, wherein,

the connecting circuit electricity is connected the upgrading contact, the battery passes through connecting circuit to the power supply of consumptive material chip, communication circuit is including the antenna or the coil that are used for receiving wireless communication signal, communication circuit passes through connecting circuit transmits the upgrading signal of receiving for the consumptive material chip.

In this application embodiment, realize the information input to the consumptive material chip through wireless communication signal, need not to set up great window on the packing carton, guarantee the leakproofness of packing carton. In addition, because the wireless distance that can propagate far away to need not accurate counterpoint consumptive material chip when handling in the rework, reduce the position requirement of consumptive material chip in the packing carton. By providing extra power supply for the consumable chip, the one-to-one power supply problem can be overcome, and the one-to-many upgrading of the consumable chip is realized in an active communication mode.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings needed to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without inventive labor.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a wireless adapter circuit according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a consumable chip according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a composition of a consumable chip assembly according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a consumable cartridge provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a package provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a consumable package provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of one-to-many consumable package upgrade with an upgrade apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a flowchart of a method for upgrading a consumable package according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

In order to better understand the technical solution of the present application, the following detailed description is made with reference to the accompanying drawings.

It should be understood that the embodiments described are only a few embodiments of the present application, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments in the present application without making any creative effort belong to the protection scope of the present application.

The terminology used in the embodiments of the present application is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the application. As used in the examples of this application and the appended claims, the singular forms "a", "an", and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

It should be understood that the term "and/or" as used herein is merely a relationship that describes an associated object, meaning that three relationships may exist, e.g., A and/or B, may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. In addition, the character "/" herein generally indicates that the former and latter related objects are in an "or" relationship.

To the problem of the consumptive material chip of the packing carton in the prior art upgrading of not being convenient for, this application embodiment provides an upgrading solution of consumptive material chip, need not to set up great window on the packing carton, can accomplish the data input of consumptive material chip, and then accomplish the upgrading of consumptive material chip. When guaranteeing packing carton leakproofness, upgrading equipment also need not strictly to counterpoint the contact of consumptive material chip. The details will be described below.

The upgrading or reworking treatment of the consumable chip refers to writing or transmitting data and instructions to the consumable chip so as to rewrite, delete or newly add programs and/or data stored in the consumable chip, so that the consumable chip can be suitable for printing equipment of a new version (after being upgraded).

In order to upgrade or rework the consumable chip under the condition that the packaging box is not required to be dismantled, the embodiment of the application provides a consumable chip assembly for a consumable box. The consumable cartridge can be removably installed into the printing apparatus for the printing apparatus to complete the output of text and graphics. The consumable chip assembly comprises two parts, wherein one part is a consumable chip arranged on the consumable box, and the other part is a wireless adapter circuit used for assisting a user to upgrade or rework the consumable chip.

In FIG. 2, which shows a consumable chip of an embodiment, a consumable chip 10 stores information about a consumable cartridge, which includes a controller 11, and a plurality of contacts 12-16. The consumable chip also includes a communication module for communicating with an external device such as a printing device, and these contacts 12-16 are one embodiment of the communication module of the consumable chip. For the purposes of this application, these contacts 12-16 are grouped, with contacts 12-14 being upgrade contacts for upgrading a consumable chip, and contacts 15-16 being communication contacts for the consumable chip to communicate with the printing apparatus and for signals to be transmitted therebetween. Although the example of FIG. 2 shows a consumable chip including both upgrade and communication contacts, in other embodiments, the upgrade apparatus may upgrade the consumable chip via the communication contacts, and the consumable chip does not need to additionally provide the upgrade contacts 12-14, but only provides the communication contacts 15-16. Or in yet another embodiment the consumable chip may communicate with the printing device via contacts 13-14, then the consumable chip need not be provided with contacts 15-16 at this point, contacts 13-14 serve as both communication contacts and upgrade contacts, and contacts 12 may be contacts for upgrade purposes only.

The part of the controller 11 connected by the upgrade contact can be a back door protocol circuit part of the consumable chip, and the back door protocol circuit part can realize the switching of new and old firmware data before and after the upgrade of the consumable chip.

In other embodiments, if the consumable chip communicates with the printing device wirelessly, the contacts 15-16 may be replaced by an antenna or coil, i.e., the communication module of the consumable chip 10 includes a communication antenna or coil without communication contacts. The controller 11 may be a memory, or a circuit module such as a single chip, an SOC, a microcontroller, and an FPGA, which is used to store information about the consumable cartridge and process instructions such as reading, writing, and authentication of the printing apparatus.

As shown in fig. 4, the consumable chip 10 can be mounted on the consumable cartridge 30 by means of a detachable fixing method such as adhering, snapping, welding or clamping, and the consumable cartridge 30 includes a housing and a recording material (e.g., ink, carbon powder) contained therein.

Fig. 1 shows a block diagram of a wireless adapter circuit 20, and the wireless adapter circuit 20 includes a connection circuit 21, a battery 23 and a communication circuit 22.

The communication circuit 22 includes an antenna or a coil for receiving a wireless communication signal, and may further include a modulation/demodulation module (or called a decoding circuit), a rectification module, a power supply module, a clock extraction module, a protocol conversion module, a control module, and the like, which are configured and combined as necessary for upgrading or rework processing. The modulation demodulation module is used for demodulating wireless communication signals received by the antenna or the coil to obtain decoded signals, and the protocol conversion circuit can convert the decoded signals into upgrading signals which can be identified by the consumable chip. In one example, the communication circuit 22 may employ an RFID module. Conventional RFID modules may operate in a passive mode, i.e., they may draw power from wireless communication signals without providing a power supply battery to the RFID module. When the RFID module works in a passive mode, the RFID module is limited by a wireless power supply distance and needs to be close to external equipment so as to acquire enough electric quantity from a wireless signal of the external equipment. The RFID module can use the frequency of 13.56MHz or UHF 890 MHz-960 MHz to communicate, and can be identified by the upgrading equipment and awaken the consumable chip within the range of 6 meters at most (the range is adjustable).

The connection circuit 21 is used for connecting the consumable chip 10. The battery 23 is connected to the connection circuit 21 through a switch K, and the battery 23 supplies power to the consumable chip 10 through the connection circuit 21, where the switch K is a controllable switch, and may specifically be a mechanical switch or an electronic switch, an example of the mechanical switch is a relay, an example of the electronic switch is a field effect transistor, a controlled terminal of the switch K is connected to the communication circuit, and the switch K may be in an off-connection state or an on-connection state under the control of the communication circuit. The connection circuit 21 is also connected to the communication circuit 22, so it also has a purpose that the communication circuit 22 can transmit the received upgrade signal to the consumable chip 10 through the connection circuit 21.

The connecting circuit of the wireless adapter circuit can comprise a plurality of protruding electrodes, the protruding electrodes can be used for contacting upgrading contacts of the consumable chip, and the protruding electrodes can be set to elastic pieces, springs and the like as required. FIG. 3 illustrates one embodiment of a consumable chip assembly. In fig. 3, the bump electrode included in the connection circuit 21 is an elastic metal claw 21a, the elastic metal claw 21a is detachably connected to the upgrade contact 12-14 of the consumable chip, when the wireless adapter circuit needs to be electrically connected to the consumable chip, the elastic metal claw 21a can be pressed onto the upgrade contact 12-14 to establish electrical connection, and when the electrical connection needs to be disconnected, the elastic metal claw 21a is separated from the upgrade contact 12-14. In another embodiment, the connection circuit may include an electrode without a bump, and when the consumable chip is connected, the electrode is connected to the upgrade contact of the consumable chip through a conductive adhesive, or when the consumable cartridge is placed in the packaging box, the electrode is pressed by the packaging box so that the connection circuit and the upgrade contact of the consumable chip are in contact connection (refer to the description of fig. 6).

In fig. 3, the controller 11 of the consumable chip may be carried on a circuit board and the upgrade contacts 12-14 may be provided on the circuit board. In the figure, another embodiment of the wireless adaptation circuit is also proposed, i.e. the connection circuit 21 and the communication circuit 22 may be provided in separate components, connected by wires, e.g. the battery 23 and the communication circuit 22 are provided on the same circuit board. This has the advantage that even when the consumable chip is mounted on the consumable cartridge at a position remote from the body of the packaging cartridge, the connection circuit 21 can be extended into or close to the consumable chip, and the battery 23 and the communication circuit 22 can be provided on the body of the packaging cartridge, facilitating communication with an external upgrade apparatus (connection relationship with an external upgrade apparatus will be described later).

Next, the composition of the consumable package is described with reference to fig. 5 and 6. In fig. 5, which is a schematic diagram of a packaging box in an embodiment of the present application, the packaging box 40 includes a box body (i.e. a shell) and a cavity capable of accommodating a consumable box, and the wireless adapter circuit 20 is disposed on the box body of the packaging box. Because the wireless adapter circuit 20 does not need to be in physical contact with external devices during communication, the wireless adapter circuit 20 can be arranged on the inner side of the packaging box body and also on the outer surface of the packaging box body. When the wireless adapter circuit 20 is disposed inside the packaging box, the position of the wireless adapter circuit 20 is known for the convenience of the user, so that the wireless adapter circuit 20 can be approached to wake up/activate the power supply of the battery to the consumable chip during upgrading or rework process (this process will be described later), and a graphic, a text or a label can be pasted or printed on the outer surface of the packaging box 40 at a position opposite to the wireless adapter circuit 20, or a distinguishing structure such as a protrusion or a recess is disposed at the position, so that the user can identify the disposition position of the wireless adapter circuit 20 on the packaging box 40. When the wireless adapter circuit 20 is disposed on the outer surface of the packaging box, referring to fig. 3, the connection circuit 21 of the wireless adapter circuit is disposed inside the packaging box for physical contact connection with the consumable chip, and then passes through the packaging box through a wire to connect with the communication circuit 22 portion disposed on the outer surface of the packaging box 40.

At good manufacturing consumptive material box, need pack the consumptive material box so that when transportation, selling, the packing carton is put into with the consumptive material box to conventional way to fixed, protection consumptive material box, extrusion when avoiding transporting, collision damage consumptive material box and consumptive material chip. Fig. 6 shows the fixed, packaged consumable package with the consumable cartridge 30 placed in the packaging box 40. The consumable packaging piece comprises a packaging box 40 and a consumable box 30, the consumable chip 10 is arranged on the consumable box 30, the wireless adapter circuit 20 is arranged on the packaging box 40, at the moment, the wireless adapter circuit 20 is electrically connected with the consumable chip 10, the consumable chip 10 can be upgraded through the wireless adapter circuit 20, or the reworking treatment of the consumable chip 10 can be realized through the wireless adapter circuit 20. The structures and functions of the wireless adapter circuit 20 and the consumable chip 10 in fig. 6 are the same as those described above, and will not be described herein again.

When the user need unpack the consumptive material package apart to when installation and use consumptive material box, the consumptive material chip of consumptive material chip can conveniently separate with wireless adapter circuit, and the consumptive material chip remains on the consumptive material box, and wireless adapter circuit remains on the packing carton, therefore wireless adapter circuit can not influence consumptive material box and install on printing apparatus or its use because of reasons such as its volume or consumption. If the user is at the in-process that uses the consumptive material box, printing apparatus is by the long-range upgrading of firm, then the user can put into the packing carton again with the consumptive material box for the consumptive material chip is connected with wireless adaptation circuit electricity again, thereby can utilize the wireless adaptation circuit of this application to continue to carry out the processing of doing over again to the consumptive material chip.

How to implement the upgrade/rework process for the consumable chip using the upgrade apparatus will be described below with reference to fig. 7 and 8. The upgrade apparatus is similar to a burn-in apparatus (or referred to as a data writing apparatus) in the process of manufacturing the consumable chip, and can read data of the consumable chip, write data to the consumable chip, or transmit instructions to modify, add, or delete data or program codes stored in the consumable chip. The difference is that the upgrading device realizes upgrading/reworking processing in a wireless communication mode. The upgrade device 50 in fig. 7, which in one example is a portable device (e.g., a small device that can be held in one hand), may include a display screen, a keyboard for input, a control panel, and wireless communication related circuitry. Due to the wireless communication mode, the upgrading device 50 can complete upgrading of a plurality of consumable packages in a one-to-many mode without dismantling the outer package of the consumable packages.

The upgrade device 50 may have a capability of being online over a network to remotely upgrade itself, for example, a manufacturer of the upgrade device 50 may publish new firmware data at a server thereof, and then a user may operate on the upgrade device 50, and download the newly published firmware data (which may include firmware of consumable chips of various models) into the upgrade device 50 after connecting to the network, and after completing verification, may update consumable chip data or program information stored in the upgrade device 50, so that when the user upgrades a consumable chip using the upgrade device 50, the newly published firmware information may be used, thereby ensuring that the consumable chip is reworked and processed, and may be applicable to the upgraded printing device. The user can input information such as operation instruction, the model of the consumptive material chip that waits to upgrade to upgrading equipment through input module such as keyboard on the upgrading equipment to upgrading equipment can send instruction such as awakening order (the later description), upgrading instruction to near consumptive material package. After the upgrading operation is completed, the upgrading device can display the upgrading result (success or failure), and can detect and check the consumable packaging part after upgrading to check whether the upgrading is really successful.

When the communication circuit of the wireless adaptation circuit of the application adopts an RFID module, the upgrade device 50 needs to be provided with a corresponding RFID reader, so that the upgrade device can add a secure communication protocol layer on the original function of the RFID reader to encrypt and decrypt the transmitted firmware data; and a one-to-many anti-collision communication mechanism can be added, electromagnetic specifications are considered, and a read-write algorithm for balancing power and anti-interference performance can be increased.

Because the use occasion of consumptive material chip is its installation printing apparatus after, often by printing apparatus to consumptive material chip power supply, the consumptive material chip just begins normal work. Therefore, when the consumable chips in the consumable packaging piece are reworked, the problem of power supply of the consumable chips is solved. The utility model provides a power supply scheme of consumptive material chip, when upgrading equipment transmits radio signal to the consumptive material chip, also to consumptive material chip transmission electric energy, however in the current wireless power transmission scheme, still can't realize remote wireless power supply, perhaps remote wireless power supply's power undersize, can't satisfy the upgrading consumption demand of consumptive material chip, when consequently taking wireless power supply, can only press close to the communication one to one, can't realize the upgrading/doing over again of a pair of many (because partial consumptive material package is put in the position of more remote distance). Therefore, the ideal effect of one-to-many upgrading of the application cannot be realized by adopting a mode of wirelessly supplying power to the consumable chip.

Another solution for supplying power to the consumable chip is to connect a battery to the consumable chip (for example, place the battery in the wireless adapter circuit of the present application), and supply power to the consumable chip by the battery. However, in a practical use scenario, the consumable cartridge may need to be left for a long time to be used due to transportation, distribution, and the like. During this period, if the battery on the wireless adapter circuit keeps supplying power to the consumable chip all the time, the power of the battery will be wasted, and even the power of the battery will be exhausted. If the electric quantity of the battery is exhausted, the consumable chip cannot work, and then the consumable chip cannot be upgraded.

For this reason, referring to fig. 1, the battery 23 is connected to the connection circuit 21 through the switch K, and the switch K can be turned on when power needs to be supplied to the consumable chip, so as to save the power of the battery 23. Therefore, the controlled terminal of the switch K is connected to the communication circuit 22, and the communication circuit 22 can selectively turn on or off the switch K according to the received wireless communication signal. When not upgrading/doing over again the consumptive material chip, switch K can set up to the disconnection, and consumptive material chip and wireless adapter circuit all do not have the power supply this moment, can't carry out work.

The consumable packaging piece can adopt the following upgrading method to realize the upgrading of consumable chips in a one-to-many mode. In fig. 8, the rework process of the consumable package by the upgrading apparatus includes the following steps:

close to step S01, the upgrade device is brought close to the wireless adaptation circuit of the consumable package to be reworked processed, so as to transmit energy and wake-up instructions to the wireless adaptation circuit. Since the wireless adapter circuit is not initially powered by a battery, it needs to be close to the upgrading device to extract the electric quantity from the wireless communication signal of the upgrading device so as to satisfy the work of the wireless adapter circuit.

And a step S02 of activating the battery, wherein after the upgrading device transmits a wireless communication signal to the wireless adapter circuit, the wireless adapter circuit starts to work according to the electric power extracted from the rectification of the wireless communication signal, the wireless adapter circuit can wake up the battery on the wireless adapter circuit according to a received preset wake-up instruction (sent by the upgrading device), and a wake-up protocol adopted by the wake-up instruction can use an EPC-GEN2 protocol, so that one-to-one reading and writing and one-to-many reading and writing are supported. Awakening a battery on the wireless adapter circuit in a specific mode that the wireless adapter circuit outputs a conducting signal to a controlled end of the switch K after receiving an awakening instruction, so that the switch K is connected in a conducting mode, and the battery starts to supply power to the consumable chip. In one embodiment, the battery may also power the communication circuitry (e.g., the RFID module of the foregoing example) of the wireless adaptation circuit after waking up, so that the communication circuitry may operate in an active mode without drawing power from the wireless communication signal transmitted by the upgrade device to maintain its operation. When the communication circuit works in the active mode, the wireless signals transmitted by the upgrading equipment can be only used for transmitting the communication signals, and wireless power does not need to be transmitted, so that the communication distance which can be adjusted is longer, and the wireless communication can be carried out with the communication circuit more remotely, so that the consumable chips can be upgraded/reworked one by one.

And an upgrading step S03, after the consumable chip is supplied with the power of the battery, the wireless adapter circuit can receive a signal for upgrading the consumable chip from the upgrading device in a wireless communication mode. Thus, at this point the upgrading device may transmit a modulated wireless signal to the wireless adaptation circuit. The wireless signal may use an exclusive, non-standard communication protocol to improve the security of the wireless communication or to improve the speed of the wireless communication, for example, corresponding to the back door protocol circuit of the consumable chip, and the wireless signal may also be a communication protocol supported by the back door protocol circuit. The wireless signal is used for upgrading the consumable chip, so that the wireless adapter circuit can convert the received signal into an upgrading signal through modes such as demodulation and protocol conversion, and the upgrading signal is transmitted to the consumable chip through the connecting circuit of the wireless adapter circuit. The process of transmitting the upgrade signal to the consumable chip, which can also be called as burning data/program to the consumable chip, burns new firmware data to the consumable chip.

And a power-off step S04, wherein after the upgrading device considers that all procedures of upgrading/reworking processing are completed, a signal for stopping power supply can be transmitted to the wireless adapter circuit, and the function of the signal is just opposite to that of the awakening instruction. When the wireless adaptation circuit receives the power supply stopping signal, the communication circuit can output a disconnection signal to the controlled end of the switch K, so that the switch K is disconnected, and the battery stops supplying power to the consumable chip. If the wireless adapter circuit works in the active mode, the battery stops supplying power to the wireless adapter circuit, so that the battery can save the electric quantity.

Because printing apparatus probably is upgraded by equipment manufacturer many times at any time, consequently the consumptive material package also has the possibility that needs be upgraded many times, consequently after accomplishing the upgrading to the consumptive material chip, in time stops the power supply of battery, is favorable to follow-up can utilize the battery to accomplish the more upgrading to the consumptive material chip.

According to the upgrading scheme, when the wireless adapter circuit needs to communicate with the consumable chip, the wireless adapter circuit controls the battery to supply power to the consumable chip; after communication with the consumable chip is completed, the wireless adapter circuit controls the battery to stop supplying power to the consumable chip, and electric quantity of the battery is prevented from being used in a non-upgrading period.

In this application embodiment, the last battery of wireless adapter circuit just begins to the consumptive material chip after the consumptive material chip produces, but just begins to provide the power to the consumptive material chip when wireless adapter circuit receives predetermined wake-up signal, can save the electric quantity of battery, avoids using the power of battery at the non-upgrading period, guarantees that the consumptive material chip possesses sufficient electric quantity when upgrading, avoids communicating unusually. Simultaneously, adopt this design need not to set up the battery of large capacity in wireless adapter circuit to reduce cost reduces the volume of consumptive material chip subassembly.

Because the consumptive material chip can accomplish the upgrading/handling of doing over again under the power supply of battery, does not rely on the electric quantity that upgrading equipment passes through radio communication transmission, consequently adopts the consumptive material chip subassembly and the consumptive material package of this application, and upgrading equipment can carry out the handling of doing over again to a plurality of consumptive material packages to the efficiency of upgrading has been improved.

And, because this application is on the basis of consumptive material chip, increase wireless adaptation circuit, come to upgrade to the consumptive material chip with cooperation upgrading equipment, consequently, adopt the upgrading scheme of this application, can be on need not to reform transform current consumptive material chip basis (for example, the upgrading contact that connecting circuit connects, be the original communication contact of consumptive material chip, not newly-increased behind the redesign consumptive material chip), it is quick, low-cost ground realizes handling the doing over again of consumptive material chip, the efficiency is promoted, need not redesign and development consumptive material chip, the cost is greatly reduced. In addition, because the consumable chip does not change its mounting means and size, consequently also need not to change the shape and the size of consumptive material box, can be applicable to the consumptive material box of original dress manufacturer for this scheme possesses extensive compatibility.

The consumable chip stores information about the consumable cartridge, which may include data such as chip address ID, date of manufacture, manufacturer, toner color, remaining toner, page yield, limit of number of printed pages, serial number of cartridge, number of toner applications, serial number of used cartridge, and whether or not a cartridge identifier is added. Such information may be stored in the controller of the consumable chip.

The Memory may be, but is not limited to, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a Read Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable Read Only Memory (PROM), an Erasable Read Only Memory (EPROM), an electrically Erasable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), a Flash Memory (Flash Memory), and the like.

In other embodiments, the controller may be an integrated circuit chip with signal processing capabilities. The controller may be a general-purpose Processor including a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Network Processor (NP), and the like. But may also be a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware components. The various methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the controller of the consumable chip of the present application may further comprise a memory for storing program instruction codes and a processor (CPU) for executing the program instruction codes to implement the data processing method applied to the consumable chip in the above embodiments. Embodiments of the present application may be provided as methods, apparatus, or computer program products. Accordingly, embodiments of the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, embodiments of the present application may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and so forth) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

Embodiments of the present application are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims (9)

1. A consumable chip assembly comprising a consumable chip and a wireless adapter circuit, the consumable chip being adapted to be detachably mounted on a consumable cartridge, the consumable chip storing information relating to the consumable cartridge, the consumable chip being characterized in that,

the consumable chip comprises an upgrade contact, the wireless adapter circuit comprises a connecting circuit, a battery and a communication circuit, the communication circuit is electrically connected to the connecting circuit, wherein,

connecting circuit connects with the detachable mode the upgrading contact, the battery passes through connecting circuit to the power supply of consumptive material chip, communication circuit is including the antenna or the coil that are used for receiving wireless communication signal, communication circuit passes through connecting circuit transmits the upgrading signal of receiving for the consumptive material chip.

2. The consumable chip assembly according to claim 1, wherein the battery and the connection circuitry are connected by a switch, which can be in an open or a closed state under the control of the communication circuitry.

3. The consumable chip assembly of claim 2, further comprising a communication module for communicating with a printing device, the communication circuitry comprising an antenna, a coil, or communication contacts.

4. The consumable chip assembly of claim 3, wherein the upgrade contacts comprise the communication contacts.

5. The consumable chip assembly of claim 2, wherein the connection circuitry comprises a plurality of bump electrodes for contacting upgrade contacts of the consumable chip.

6. The consumable chip assembly of claim 5, wherein the bump electrode comprises a resilient metal claw.

7. A consumable package, comprising a consumable box, a packaging box and a consumable chip assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein a consumable chip of the consumable chip assembly is arranged on the consumable box, a wireless adapter circuit of the consumable chip assembly is arranged on the packaging box, and the wireless adapter circuit is electrically connected with the consumable chip.

8. A consumable package comprising a consumable box and a packaging box, characterized in that,

the consumable chip is arranged on the consumable box and stores information related to the consumable box, and the consumable chip comprises an upgrading contact;

the packaging box is provided with a wireless adapting circuit which comprises a connecting circuit, a battery and a communication circuit, the communication circuit is electrically connected with the connecting circuit, wherein,

the connecting circuit electricity is connected the upgrading contact, the battery passes through the connecting circuit and supplies power to the consumptive material chip, communication circuit is including the antenna or the coil that are used for receiving wireless communication signal, communication circuit passes through connecting circuit transmits the upgrading signal of receiving for the consumptive material chip.

9. The consumable package of claim 8, wherein the battery and connection circuitry are connected by a switch that can be in an open or closed state under control of the communication circuitry.

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