Patent ID: 6120132
Filing Date: 2000-09-19
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An assembly technique for an ink replenishment system using modular ink delivery components for installation in an inkjet printer having a carriage for holding inkjet printheads, comprising:providing a non-pressurized off-carriage ink supply module with an on-off valve at one end of a supply tube;filling the supply module with some ink;providing an inkjet printhead unit having a collapsible sealed ink reservoir with an inlet port;attaching a modular coupler to the inlet port without opening the inlet port to form a leakproof component; andshipping the portable leakproof component resulting from said attaching step prior to completing a fluid connection of the coupler between the inlet port of the inkjet printhead unit and the on.backslash.off valve, which fluid connection allows ink replenishment from the ink supply module to the ink reservoir during operation of the printhead unit.