Patent ID: 8079691

Claim:
A reservoir assembly for use in an imaging device, the reservoir assembly including: a back plate including an ink input port configured to receive liquid ink under pressure from an ink source; a front plate including an ink tank configured to hold ink received from the ink source and to communicate the ink to a printhead; a first intermediate plate bonded to the back plate, the first intermediate plate and the back plate enclosing a filter chamber therebetween, the filter chamber being configured to receive ink via the ink input port and to direct the received ink to an ink supply path opening in the first intermediate plate having a first cross-sectional area, the filter chamber including at least one filter positioned between the ink input port and the ink supply path opening in the first intermediate plate; and a second intermediate plate bonded between the first intermediate plate and the front plate, the second intermediate plate including an ink supply path opening that aligns with the ink supply path opening in the first plate, the ink supply path opening in the second intermediate plate having a second cross-sectional area, the second cross-sectional area being less than the first cross-sectional area.