| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6903837 |
Method and device for predicting the quantity of printing product available in a printer and nec |
June 7, 2005 |
| In predicting a quantity of a printing product necessary for printing a document, the document is stored in its entirety as digital data. Each page of the document is divided into bands of the digital data. From the digital data, a table of limited capacity is created, which describes at |
| 6791704 |
Method and device for managing printing product resources available in a printer |
September 14, 2004 |
| Management of resources of at least one printing product available in a printer includes: predicting a quantity of a printing product necessary for printing a document by a computer connected to the printer; creating a table of limited capacity from digital data representing adjacent ban |
| 6407557 |
Process for measuring the electrical resistance of a resistive body for example for checking the |
June 18, 2002 |
| Measuring the electrical resistance of a resistive body, in particular a reservoir containing a printing product such as ink. According to the invention, the resistive body is used to define a capacitance arrangement formed from a capacitive branch which includes a capacitor electrically |
| 6352325 |
Device for determining a quantity of consumable product contained in at least one reservoir and |
March 5, 2002 |
| According to the invention, electrical connection members are provided, arranged between the chassis and the carriage carrying capacitor plates corresponding respectively to the reservoirs, in order to put into service each plate corresponding to a reservoir, at a predetermined position |
| 6351716 |
Method and device for determining the quantity of product contained in a reservoir, for example |
February 26, 2002 |
| Determining the quantity of an electrically conductive product contained in a reservoir made of electrically insulating material having at least one storage cavity. A resonant circuit is formed, including a capacitive arrangement formed at least part from the reservoir. A measurement |
| 6339335 |
Method and device for determining the quantity of product contained in a reservoir, for example |
January 15, 2002 |
| For determining the quantity of an electrically conductive product contained in a reservoir made of electrically insulating material, having at least one storage cavity:a resonant circuit is formed, including a capacitive arrangement comprising at least part of this reservoir;a processin |
| 6310635 |
Device for determining a quantity of consumable product present in a reservoir and corresponding |
October 30, 2001 |
| Determination of the quantity of consumable product, notably of ink, remaining in a reservoir.A capacitor (36) is formed on each side of the reservoir (24) and a resonant circuit including this capacitor is formed with a circuit forming a notional inductor (74), such as a gyrator, and an |
| 6293144 |
Method and device for monitoring the consumption of a product, for example a printing ink, using |
September 25, 2001 |
| In order to monitor the consumption of a normally electrically conductive product contained in a storage chamber of a reservoir made of electrically non-conductive material, the storage chamber is disposed in a capacitive arrangement and a measurement procedure is defined, according to w |
| 6185515 |
Method and device for detecting a filling threshold for an electrically insulating reservoir con |
February 6, 2001 |
| The object of the invention is the detection of a given threshold (optionally zero) for filling, with an electrically conductive product, a reservoir made of electrically insulating material having a storage cavity connected to an outlet channel. An excitation signal is applied to the |
| 6164744 |
Method and device for monitoring the operational state of a reservoir, for example an ink reserv |
December 26, 2000 |
| In order to monitor the state of a reservoir made of electrically insulating material containing a normally electrically conductive product, ink for example, the free end of the outlet channel of the reservoir is connected to a predetermined potential and two measurement procedures are |