US 12,479,210 B2
Printing material cartridge with identification portion readable by printing apparatus and printing system
Noriyuki Fukasawa, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/387,106.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-178159 (JP), filed on Nov. 7, 2022; and application No. 2023-109818 (JP), filed on Jul. 4, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0149590 A1, May 9, 2024
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01); B41J 2/44 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17523 (2013.01) [B41J 2/2121 (2013.01); B41J 2/442 (2013.01); B41J 2203/01 (2020.08)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing material cartridge mounted by being inserted into a cartridge mounting portion of a printing apparatus, the printing material cartridge comprising:
an identification portion on which identification information for identifying the printing material cartridge is recorded, wherein
the identification portion is at a readable position that is optically readable by a reading portion inside the cartridge mounting portion of the printing apparatus when the identification portion is moved within a predetermined distance of the reading portion during an insertion process of inserting the printing material cartridge into the cartridge mounting portion, and
the predetermined distance is prior to the printing material cartridge being in a mounted state within the cartridge mounting portion.