Patent ID: 6652072
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A print cartridge comprising:a cartridge body having a lower portion and a vertical wall; a printhead attached to said lower portion; a contact array disposed on said vertical wall and including a first outboard pair of columnar arrays of contact areas, a second outboard pair of columnar arrays of contact areas, and an inboard pair of columnar arrays of contact areas the columnar arrays of each pair diverging from each other in a direction toward said lower portion; and said pairs of columnar arrays being side by side, and each pair spanning at least 70% of a height of a region enclosing an area occupied by said contact array; wherein each of said columnar arrays includes a lower contact area, and wherein adjacent lower contact areas of adjacent pairs of contact areas are separated center to center by at least about 2.8 millimeters.