US 11,982,687 B2
IC chip holder
Hidekazu Komiya, Nagoya (JP); and Koji Hayashi, Motosu (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Aug. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/896,816.
Application 17/896,816 is a continuation of application No. 16/752,206, filed on Jan. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,499,991.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-016398 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0413011 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G01R 1/04 (2006.01); H01L 23/32 (2006.01)
CPC G01R 1/0483 (2013.01) [H01L 23/32 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. IC chip holder configured for removable insertion into a chip writer unit provided on a printer having one or more ink tanks refillable, the IC chip holder being further configured to be attached to, and detached from, an ink storage container for filling the one or more ink tanks of the printer with ink, the IC chip holder comprising:
a housing body configured to mount an IC Chip, the housing body having:
a top surface;
a side surface; and
an elastic deformation portion configured to elastically deform toward the inside of the housing body as a direction of elastic deformation, the elastic deformation portion having a protrusion protruding further to the outside than the top surface of the housing body, the elastic deformation portion being positioned between a portion configured to mount an IC Chip and the side surface in a first direction, the top surface being positioned with respect to the elastic deformation portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and the direction of the elastic deformation,
wherein a length of the housing body in the direction of the elastic deformation is less than a length of the housing body in the first direction and less than a length of the housing body in the second direction.