阅读说明：本技术 耗材容器的包装件 (Package for consumable container ) 是由 刘卫臣 于 2020-12-29 设计创作，主要内容包括：本申请公开了一种耗材容器的包装件,所述包装件包括包装盒和耗材容器,所述包装盒具有通信开口和固定部,所述耗材容器设置于所述包装盒内,并且所述耗材容器包括耗材芯片,所述耗材芯片的至少部分通信触点经所述通信开口暴露于所述包装盒之外,所述通信触点的导电区域沿所述耗材容器的非固定方向延伸。本申请在对耗材芯片进行升级时,升级设备通过固定部对耗材容器进行固定,升级设备的探针经通信开口伸入包装盒内与通信触点的导电区域接触,进而实现对耗材芯片的升级,而由于通信触点的导电区域沿耗材容器的非固定方向延伸,使得探针与导电区域的连接更稳定,提高了升级的可靠性。(The application discloses package of consumptive material container, the package includes packing carton and consumptive material container, the packing carton has communication opening and fixed part, the consumptive material container set up in the packing carton, and the consumptive material container includes the consumptive material chip, at least part communication contact warp of consumptive material chip the communication opening exposes outside the packing carton, communication contact's electrically conductive regional edge the non-fixed direction of consumptive material container extends. This application is when upgrading the consumptive material chip, and upgrading equipment fixes the consumptive material container through the fixed part, and upgrading equipment's probe stretches into in the packing carton through the communication opening and contacts with the electrically conductive region of communication contact, and then realizes the upgrading to the consumptive material chip, and because the electrically conductive region of communication contact extends along the non-fixed direction of consumptive material container for probe and electrically conductive regional being connected is more stable, has improved the reliability of upgrading.)

1. A package of consumable containers, comprising:

a package having a communication opening and a securing portion;

the consumptive material container, the consumptive material container set up in the packing carton, and the consumptive material container includes the consumptive material chip, at least partial communication contact warp of consumptive material chip the communication opening exposes outside the packing carton, the electrically conductive regional edge of communication contact the non-fixed direction of consumptive material container extends.

2. The package of claim 1, wherein a length of the communication opening in the non-secured orientation of the consumable container is less than or equal to a length of the conductive region of the communication contact.

3. The package of claim 1, wherein the communication contacts are arranged in a row in a direction perpendicular to a non-stationary direction of the consumable container.

4. The package of claim 1, wherein there are at least two of the securing portions, the communication contact is located between any two of the securing portions, and the conductive region of the communication contact extends perpendicular to a second direction that is a direction of extension of a line between two of the securing portions located on either side of the communication contact.

5. The package of claim 4, wherein the retainer portion has a retainer opening or recess, or the retainer portion comprises a protrusion.

6. The package according to claim 4, wherein the fixing portion is provided with a recognition color or pattern.

7. The package according to claim 4, wherein the distance between the consumable container and the side wall of the package in which the fixing portion is located is zero.

8. The package of claim 1, wherein the package has a first sidewall, a second sidewall, and a third sidewall, the second and third sidewalls being disposed opposite one another, the first sidewall being connected to the second and third sidewalls, respectively;

the communication opening is arranged on the first side wall, and the fixing parts are respectively arranged on the second side wall and the third side wall.

9. The package according to claim 8, wherein there are two of the fixing portions, and two of the fixing portions are provided on the second side wall and the third side wall, respectively, and the position of the fixing portion on the second side wall is provided corresponding to the position of the fixing portion on the third side wall.

10. The package according to any one of claims 1 to 9, further comprising a release sheet, wherein a portion of the release sheet is adhered to the package outer surface and another portion of the release sheet passes through the communication opening and covers the communication contacts of the consumable chip.

11. A package according to any of claims 1 to 9, further comprising a graphical identification code, the graphical identification code being provided on an outer surface of the pack.

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of printing imaging equipment and office supplies, in particular to a package of a consumable container.

Background

In the printing process, printing consumables such as an ink cartridge, a powder cartridge and a toner cartridge are required by a printing device (e.g., an inkjet printer, a laser printer, a multifunction machine, etc.), wherein the ink cartridge contains ink, and the powder cartridge and the toner cartridge contain carbon powder. These printing supplies have a shorter life than the printing apparatus, and therefore require the user to purchase and replace the printing supplies frequently during use. These printing supplies are generally placed in a packaging box, and are packaged and sold in a package.

In order to record the service condition of the printing consumables installed in the printing equipment and identify and authenticate the printing consumables, a detachable consumable chip, such as a toner cartridge chip on a toner cartridge, is installed on the printing consumables, and the toner cartridge chip is used for storing relevant data of the toner cartridge, such as toner color, authentication code, serial number, residual toner amount, page yield (maximum value of printable pages), printed pages, manufacturer, production date and other data.

However, in order to improve the authentication capability of the consumable chip, the original manufacturer may frequently upgrade the firmware of the printing device, for example, for the sold printing device, a new verification manner is applied to the printing device through firmware pushing and user downloading and installing manners; for printers that have not been sold or are in production, the latest firmware is applied to the printing device and then sold. The new authentication mode often includes a new instruction, a black list of serial numbers, reading more data, and the like.

Therefore, if the consumable chip on the sold printing supplies is not correspondingly upgraded, it is likely that the consumable chip cannot be identified by the printing apparatus, which may result in that the purchased printing supplies cannot be used. On the other hand, among the current production standard, the printing consumables generally will place into the packing carton with plastic bag, plastic film parcel encapsulation afterwards earlier, consequently if the printing consumables has already been placed into the packing carton, just can't visit the consumptive material chip on the printing consumables.

Therefore, in the prior art, if the sold printing consumables need to be upgraded, an external packaging box, a plastic bag or a plastic film needs to be removed, so that the consumable chip can be accessed by using upgrading equipment; and after the upgrading is finished, the printing consumables are wrapped and packaged by using plastic bags and plastic films and then placed into a packaging box. However, in the whole upgrading process, the package needs to be removed and then repackaged, which not only makes the upgrading process tedious and increases the labor cost for upgrading, but also wastes a part of packaging materials.

To need not to demolish the mode that the packing carried out the upgrading, still need carry out pinpointing and fixed to the printing consumables in the packing to make things convenient for upgrading equipment in order to ground electric connection consumables chip steadily, then carry out the upgrading operation. However, when the printing supplies in the packaging piece are fixed by the existing upgrading equipment, the problems of complex structure, insecurity in fixation, long time consumption in fixation, unstable contact and the like exist, so that the upgrading quality and efficiency are not ideal.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to overcome the problems existing in the prior art, the main object of the present application is to provide a package of a consumable container which can be stably connected with an upgrading device when a consumable chip is upgraded.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the following technical solutions are specifically adopted in the present application:

the present application provides a package of consumable container, the package comprising:

a package having a communication opening and a securing portion;

the consumable container is arranged in the packaging box and comprises a consumable chip, at least part of communication contacts of the consumable chip are exposed out of the packaging box through the communication opening, and the conductive area of the communication contacts extends along the non-fixed direction of the consumable container;

when being right when the consumptive material chip upgrades, upgrading equipment passes through the fixed part is right the consumptive material container is fixed, upgrading equipment's probe warp the communication opening stretches into in the packing carton and with the electrically conductive regional contact of communication contact is in order to right the consumptive material chip upgrades.

In a particular embodiment, the length of the communication opening is less than or equal to the length of the conductive area of the communication contact in the non-fixed direction of the consumable container.

In a particular embodiment, the communication contacts are distributed in a row along a direction perpendicular to the non-fixed direction of the consumable container.

In a specific embodiment, the fixing portions are provided with at least two, the communication contact is located between any two of the fixing portions, and the extending direction of the conductive area of the communication contact is perpendicular to a second direction, which is the extending direction of a connecting line between two of the fixing portions located on both sides of the communication contact.

In a particular embodiment, the fastening portion has a fastening opening or a recess, or the fastening portion comprises a projection.

In a specific embodiment, the fixing portion is provided with a recognition color or pattern.

In a specific embodiment, the distance between the consumable container and the side wall of the packaging box where the fixing portion is located is zero.

In a specific embodiment, the package has a first sidewall, a second sidewall and a third sidewall, the second sidewall and the third sidewall are oppositely disposed, and the first sidewall is connected with the second sidewall and the third sidewall respectively;

the communication opening is arranged on the first side wall, and the fixing parts are respectively arranged on the second side wall and the third side wall.

In a specific embodiment, two fixing portions are provided, the two fixing portions are respectively provided on the second side wall and the third side wall, and the position of the fixing portion on the second side wall corresponds to the position of the fixing portion on the third side wall.

In a specific embodiment, the consumable container has a limiting groove, the consumable chip is disposed on a sidewall of the limiting groove, and the conductive region of the communication contact extends from the sidewall of the limiting groove to the bottom.

In a specific embodiment, the consumable chip is made of a flexible circuit board, or the consumable chip is composed of a flexible circuit board and a hard circuit board.

In a specific embodiment, the consumable container has a fixing groove, the consumable chip is disposed on the surface of the body of the consumable container outside the fixing groove, the fixing portion is disposed corresponding to the fixing groove, and the fixing portion has a fixing opening.

In a specific embodiment, the entrance of the fixing groove has a guide slope.

In a specific embodiment, the projection width of the guiding inclined plane in the third direction is L, the width of the movable space between the consumable container and the packaging box is D, and L is less than or equal to D.

In a specific embodiment, the package further comprises a release sheet, wherein one part of the release sheet is adhered to the outer surface of the packaging box, and the other part of the release sheet passes through the communication opening and covers the communication contact of the consumable chip.

In a particular embodiment, the package further comprises a graphical identification code, which is provided on an outer surface of the package.

Compared with the prior art, this application is when upgrading the consumptive material chip, and upgrading equipment fixes the consumptive material container through the fixed part, and upgrading equipment's probe stretches into in the packing carton through the communication opening with the electrically conductive regional contact of communication contact, and then realizes the upgrading to the consumptive material chip, and because the electrically conductive regional non-fixed direction along the consumptive material container of communication contact extends for probe and electrically conductive regional connection are more stable, have improved the reliability of upgrading.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings that are required to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, it should be understood that the following drawings only illustrate some embodiments of the present application and therefore should not be considered as limiting the scope, and for those skilled in the art, other related drawings can be obtained from the drawings without inventive effort.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of upgrading a package by an upgrading apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a package provided in an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a package provided by an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a prior art upgrading device upgrading a package.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of an upgrade to package device provided in another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a prior art upgrading device upgrading a package.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a consumable chip according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of another consumable chip according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of an upgrade to a package device provided in another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 10 is a perspective view of a package provided in accordance with another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 11 is a perspective view of an upgrade to a package device provided in another embodiment of the present application.

The attached drawings are as follows:

1. packaging boxes; 101. a first side wall; 102. a second side wall; 103. a third side wall; 104. a fourth side wall; 105. a bottom wall; 106. a top wall; 11. a communication opening; 12. a fixed part; 121. a fixed opening; 2. a consumable container; 21. a consumable chip; 211. a communication contact; 211a, a conductive region; 22. a limiting groove; 23. fixing grooves; 231. a guide ramp; 3. a separator sheet; 4. a pattern identification code; 100. a package; 200. upgrading equipment; 201. a controller; 202. a test head; 203. a first clamp arm; 204. a second clamp arm; 205. a probe; 206. a positioning column; 207. and a code scanner.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, the present application is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the present application and are not intended to limit the present application.

In the description of the present application, unless explicitly stated or limited otherwise, the terms "first", "second", and the like are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance; the term "plurality" means two or more unless specified or indicated otherwise; the terms "connected," "fixed," and the like are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, integrally connected, or electrically connected; may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.

In the description of the present application, it should be understood that the terms "upper" and "lower" used in the description of the embodiments of the present application are used in a descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. In addition, in this context, it will also be understood that when an element is referred to as being "on" or "under" another element, it can be directly on "or" under "the other element or be indirectly on" or "under" the other element via an intermediate element.

It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures.

The embodiment of the application discloses a package of a consumable container, and the package comprises a packaging box and a consumable container. The packing carton has communication opening and fixed part, and the consumptive material container sets up in the packing carton to the consumptive material container includes the consumptive material chip, and at least part communication contact of consumptive material chip exposes outside the packing carton through the communication opening, and communication contact's conducting region extends along the non-fixed direction of consumptive material container.

This application is when upgrading the consumptive material chip, and upgrading equipment fixes the consumptive material container through the fixed part, and upgrading equipment's probe stretches into in the packing carton through the communication opening and contacts with the electrically conductive region of communication contact, and then realizes the upgrading to the consumptive material chip, and because the electrically conductive region of communication contact extends along the non-fixed direction of consumptive material container for probe and electrically conductive regional being connected is more stable, has improved the reliability of upgrading.

Example one

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an upgrading apparatus for upgrading a package according to an embodiment of the present application. The upgrading apparatus 200 includes a controller 201, a test head 202, a first gripper arm 203, a second gripper arm 204 and a probe 205. The controller 201 is used for storing programs and data, and the first clamping arm 203 and the second clamping arm 204 are used for clamping the package 100 so as to fix a consumable container (not shown in the figure) in the package 100. The prober 205 is connected to the test head 202 and an operator can upgrade the package 100 through the test head 202. Specifically, the upgrade of package 100 may include a procedure to upgrade only the consumable chips in package 100, or to upgrade only the data of the consumable chips, or to upgrade both the procedure and the data of the consumable chips. The term upgrading may specifically include modifications, deletions, additions, substitutions, transformations, and the like of data or programs.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a package provided in an embodiment of the present application. The package 100 includes a package 1 and a consumable container (not shown) accommodated in the package 1. The packet 1 has a hexahedral configuration comprising a first side wall 101, a second side wall 102, a third side wall 103, a fourth side wall 104, a bottom wall 105 and a top wall 106. The first side wall 101 and the fourth side wall 104 are both parallel to a plane formed by the Z axis and the Y axis, and the first side wall 101 and the fourth side wall 104 are oppositely arranged; the second side wall 102 and the third side wall 103 are parallel to the plane formed by the Z axis and the X axis, and the second side wall 102 and the third side wall 103 are oppositely arranged; the bottom wall 105 and the top wall 106 are parallel to a plane formed by the X axis and the Y axis, and the bottom wall 105 and the top wall 106 are disposed opposite to each other. At least two fixing portions 12 for fixing the packing box 1 are provided on the packing box 1, for the convenience of identifying the fixing portions 12, each fixing portion 12 may be provided with an identification color or pattern, for example, the fixing portion is provided with an easily identifiable color such as red, yellow, or the like, or the fixing portion is provided with an easily identifiable pattern such as a circle or a square, or the two fixing portions 12 may be provided lower than other places or higher than other places, for example, the two fixing portions may be convex (such as a protrusion) or concave (such as a groove) relative to other places. The two fastening parts 12 for fastening can be designated anyway by some marking that can be visually recognized by a person or by machine. Sometimes, in order to be able to better position with the two fixing portions 12, the two fixing portions 12 may be provided as openings (such as the fixing openings in fig. 2) through which upgrading devices can pass, directly in contact with the consumable containers placed inside the packet 1. At this time, the positions of the consumable container corresponding to the two fixing portions 12 are positions where force can be applied. That is, the fixing portion 12 is provided at a position corresponding to a portion of the housing of the consumable container that can receive a force.

Referring also to fig. 2 and 3, the package 1 is also provided with a communication opening 11. Consumable container 2 in packing carton 1, according to the packing demand of difference, packing carton 1 probably is bigger than normal, also probably just for consumable container 2's size. When the consumable container needs to be wrapped by the plastic bag/plastic film and then put into the packaging box, a certain gap may be needed between the consumable container and the packaging box, so that the wrapped consumable container is conveniently put into the packaging box. In this case, the size of the packing box 1 is larger than that of the consumable container, for example, a gap between the consumable container 2 in fig. 3 and the packing box 1 is formed to allow the consumable container to move, so that a supporting or shock-absorbing material (not shown in fig. 3) such as a paper tray, a plastic tray, foam, an air cushion, etc. may be filled between the consumable container and the inner wall of the packing box to absorb shock or prevent the consumable container from shaking during transportation. To this kind of condition, when having fixed the packing carton, can not ensure that the consumptive material container also is fixed, consequently the fixed part sets fixed opening to on the mode of preferred with the packing carton to can make upgrading equipment can fix the consumptive material container through fixed opening. Under another kind of condition, packing carton 1 is just good for the size of consumptive material container 2, does not have the clearance between consumptive material container and the packing carton this moment almost, after the packing carton was put into to the consumptive material container, the consumptive material container can hardly remove in the packing carton, under such condition, just also fixed the consumptive material container during fixed packing carton, consequently under such condition, fixed part on the packing carton just need not to set up to fixed opening, upgrading equipment only fixed packing carton through the fixed part can. In FIG. 3, the consumable container 2 includes a consumable chip 21, the consumable chip 21 includes a plurality of communication contacts 211, each communication contact 211 has a conductive region 211a thereon, and at least a portion of the conductive region 211a is exposed outside the packaging box 1 through the communication opening 11, so that the upgrade apparatus 200 can contact the conductive region 211a on the communication contact 211 through the communication opening 11 and then communicate with the consumable chip 21.

Upgrading equipment can adopt two fixed parts to fix packing carton 1, then passes communication opening 11 and communicates with consumptive material container 2, and then can upgrade, maintain, reset, detect operation such as consumptive material chip 21 under the condition of not tearing open the packing. In order to keep the upgrading device 200 stable in communication with the consumable chip 21, the upgrading device 200 is stably connected to the conductive regions 211a of the communication contacts 211, so that the upgrading device 200 is accurately contacted with the communication contacts 211, and the upgrading device 200 is precisely positioned with respect to the packaging box 1. If too many fixing portions 12 are used to position the packing box 1 when positioning the packing box 1, the upgrading apparatus 200 is required to be provided with more clamp arms, which greatly increases the cost. Therefore, the two fixing portions 12 are provided on the packaging box 1, and the consumable container in the packaging box is positioned and fixed by the two fixing portions 12, which is a simple scheme. When two fixing portions 12 are adopted to position and fix the packaging box 1, the packaging box 1 can be accurately positioned and fixed in the second direction (the second direction is the extending direction of the connecting line of the two fixing portions 12, and the Y direction in fig. 3), but the packaging box 1 cannot be accurately positioned and fixed in the first direction (the first direction is the direction perpendicular to the connecting line of the two fixing portions 12, and the Z direction in fig. 3), the packaging box or a consumable container therein may have small-range activities, especially when the size of the packaging box mentioned above is larger than the consumable container, the first direction can also be called as a non-fixed direction. In this case, in order to keep the upgrade apparatus 200 stably connected with the communication contacts 211 of the consumable chip 21, the conductive regions 211a on the communication contacts 211 extend in the first direction. Thus, even if the upgrade apparatus/packaging box/consumable container is movable in the first direction, since the conductive regions 211a on the communication contacts 211 extend in the first direction, a stable connection with the communication contacts of the consumable chip can be maintained. In this way, a minimum of two fixing portions 12 can be used to position the packet 1. For better positioning, the second direction is perpendicular to the second side wall 102 and the third side wall 103, that is, the two fixing portions 12 are correspondingly disposed, specifically, oppositely disposed. In this way, the upgrading device can apply a force to the two fixing portions 12, respectively, perpendicular to the second side wall 102 and the third side wall 103, positioning the packet 1 without causing the packet 1 to rotate.

Of course, more than 2 fixing portions 12 may be provided to position the packaging box 1, and the conductive region 211a extends in a direction perpendicular to the connecting direction of two fixing portions 12, so that the requirement for the precision of other fixing portions 12 except the two fixing portions 12 can be reduced, the precision of the other fixing portions can be greatly reduced, and the cost can be reduced.

The two fixing portions 12 may be provided on a different side wall from the communication opening 11, for example, the two fixing portions 12 may be provided on the second and third opposite side walls 102 and 103, respectively, and the communication opening 11 is provided on the first side wall 101. When the package is a cube or a cuboid, the second side wall 102 and the third side wall 103 are parallel, and the first side wall 101 is perpendicular to the second side wall 102 and its third side wall 103. The line of the fixing portion 12 is perpendicular to the second and third side walls 102 and 103 and parallel to the first side wall 101. Like this, after upgrading equipment passed through fixed part 12 and fixes a position packing carton 1, packing carton 1 or consumptive material container are just accurate location in the extending direction of the line of two fixed parts 12. At this time, the probe of the upgrade apparatus may protrude into the communication opening 11 from a third direction (the third direction is the X direction in the drawing) parallel to the second sidewall 102 and the third sidewall 103 and perpendicular to the first sidewall 101, and then contact the communication contact 211 of the consumable chip 21. The conductive region 211a of the communication contact 211 extends in a direction perpendicular to the second direction and parallel to the first sidewall 101. When the packaging box 1 is placed on the platform of the upgrading device, the platform supports the packaging box 1 and is positioned in the second direction, the packaging box is contacted by the probe of the upgrading device in the third direction, the packaging box cannot move in the second direction and the third direction, and the only movable direction is the first direction (namely, the non-fixed direction). When the package 1 is moved in the first direction, the conductive region 211a extends in the first direction, so that the contact between the probe of the upgrading device and the communication contact is still stable.

Of course, the two fixing portions 12 may be on the same side wall, for example, the two fixing portions 12 may be provided on a fourth side wall 104 parallel to the first side wall 101. In the second direction, the distance between the two fixing portions 12 is greater than the width of the communication opening 11, while the communication opening 11 is between the two fixing portions 12. In this way, the upgrading device can still position the package 1 precisely in the second direction, the package 1 still being movable only in the first direction. In this case, in order to enable the upgrading device to better position the package in the second orientation, the fixing portion 12 is provided as a protrusion or a recess, or a hole, on which the upgrading device is provided with a mating engagement structure. For example, where the holding portion 12 is a recess or hole, the upgrading device may have a corresponding projection that may be inserted into the recess or hole. Of course, the two fastening portions 12 may be different, for example, one of the fastening portions 12 is a protrusion, and the other fastening portion 12 is a groove.

The communication opening 11 described above is located between the two fixing portions 12, and this arrangement can ensure the positioning accuracy to the maximum extent. Of course, the communication opening 11 may be not between the two fixing portions 12 but at a position other than them.

When the conductive region 211a extends in the first direction, the extending width is equal to or greater than the width of the communication opening 11, that is, the length of the communication opening 11 in the first direction is less than or equal to the length of the conductive region 211a in the first direction. In this way, no matter how the upgrade apparatus moves in the first direction, since the probe of the upgrade apparatus 200 is inserted in the communication opening 11, it is in contact with the conductive region 211a, and there is no problem of being out of contact. The stability of the connection is further enhanced.

When a plurality of communication contacts 211 are required to be connected with the upgrading device on the consumable chip 21, the positions of the fixing parts 12 are selected such that the connecting line direction of the two fixing parts 12 is substantially the same as the arrangement direction of the communication contacts, that is, the communication contacts 211 are distributed on the substrate of the consumable chip in rows along the second direction. For example, when there are four communication contacts 211, the four communication contacts are arranged in a row along the second direction. Alternatively, four contacts are arranged in a row, and the line connecting the two fixed portions 12 is substantially parallel to the line connecting the contacts in the row. The advantage of setting up like this is that a plurality of contact are arranged into a row, and the direction of one row is with the second direction is parallel basically, and after upgrading equipment passed through fixed part 12 and is fixed a position packing carton 1, packing carton 1 can't move in the second direction, and then the interval that these four communication contacts just can set up is very little, and the width that simultaneously communication contacts also can set up is very narrow, does not worry like this and contact badly. The conductive area of the telecommunications contact extends in a first direction and narrows in a second direction, and accordingly the spacing between the upgrading device and the probes in contact with the telecommunications contact can also be reduced. The upgrade does not require a very large probe assembly, the communication opening is in the second orientation, and it does not need to be too large. The length of the communication contact in the extending direction (first direction) is larger than the width thereof in the second direction. Of course, when there are too many communication contacts, two parallel rows may be provided, which may compromise the arrangement of the conductive areas in both the second direction and the first direction, as well as the size of the communication opening and the upgrading device probe assembly.

The following describes a case where the fixing portion is a fixing opening. Two fixing openings in the fixing portion 12 are used to receive a first clamping arm 203 and a second clamping arm 204 of an upgrading device to fix the consumable container 2 in the packaging box 1.

Figure 3 shows a perspective view of a package as seen in the direction of the X-axis arrow when it is held by the first and second clamp arms 203, 204 of the upgrading apparatus. Ink or carbon powder (not shown in the figure) can be contained in the consumable container 2, the consumable container 2 comprises a consumable chip 21, and the consumable chip 21 comprises a plurality of communication contacts 211, some of the communication contacts need to communicate with a printing and imaging device, some of the communication contacts need to be connected to an upgrading device to complete upgrading operation, and some of the communication contacts need to be used in the production process, so that not all the communication contacts in the embodiment need to be shaped and arranged like those in fig. 3. The positional relationship between the communication opening 11 and the two fixing openings 121 of the packaging box 1 and the consumable container 2 can be more clearly explained with reference to fig. 2 and 3. When the consumable container 2 is accommodated in the packaging box 1, the position of the communication opening 11 is approximately opposite to the position of the plurality of communication contacts 211 of the consumable chip 21, and the projection of part or all of the conductive regions 211a of the plurality of communication contacts 211 in the third direction falls within the projection of the communication opening 11 in the third direction. The two fixing openings 121 are respectively distributed on two opposite sides of the packaging box 1, as shown in fig. 3, when the first clamping arm 203 penetrates one of the fixing openings 121 and the second clamping arm 204 penetrates the other fixing opening 121, so as to clamp the consumable container 2, the consumable container 2 is firmly fixed in the second direction and cannot move. In the embodiment shown in fig. 3, the connecting line P between the two fixing openings 121 on both sides of the packing box is substantially parallel to the Y-axis.

When the consumable container is fixed by the upgrading device by using the first clamping arm 203 and the second clamping arm 204, after receiving a corresponding operation instruction, the test head 202 may be driven by a motor or a transmission component to move in the direction of an arrow of an X axis in the figure, and press the probe 205 onto the conductive region 211a of the communication contact 211, so as to construct a communication link between the upgrading device 200 and the consumable chip 21. The upgrade apparatus 200 can thus complete the upgrade of the consumable chip 21 through the prober 205. At this time, the consumable container 2 is fixed in the X-axis direction and cannot move in the X-axis direction under the pressure of the probe 205 and the support of the stage.

It can be seen that, when the consumable container 2 cannot move in the directions of the X-axis and the Y-axis, the consumable container 2 can move only in a limited space in the Z-axis direction (i.e., the non-fixed direction) perpendicular to the Y-axis. Based on such fixing manner, in order to make the probe 205 of the upgrade apparatus 200 effectively contact the plurality of communication contacts 211 of the consumable chip 21, in the present application, the conductive region 211a of the communication contact 211 preferably extends in a direction perpendicular to the P axis (i.e., the Q axis direction in fig. 3). When the P-axis is substantially parallel to the Y-axis, the Q-axis is also substantially parallel to the Z-axis. The conductive region 211a satisfying such a requirement has a substantially elongated shape. Therefore, even if the consumable container 2 moves in a limited space in the Z-axis direction, the conductive region 211a extending in the Q-axis direction (i.e., the non-fixed direction) can ensure that the test head 202 can be in normal communication connection with the plurality of communication contacts 211 of the consumable chip 21 without being positionally adjusted in the Z-axis direction.

Under such circumstances, upgrading equipment only need fix consumptive material container 2 in Y axle direction, need not also fix consumptive material container in Z axle direction simultaneously to can reduce upgrading equipment's arm lock's quantity, packing carton 1 also need not to dig more fixed openings. This is advantageous for reducing the complexity of upgrading the device, the manufacturing costs; fewer fixed openings in the packaging are also advantageous for ensuring protection, collision protection and dust protection of the consumable container 2 by the packaging 1.

In the case where three or more fixing openings are cut in the packaging case to fix the consumable container, if the fixing openings are respectively disposed on opposite sides of the packaging case, the conductive regions of the communication contacts also extend in a direction perpendicular to the connecting lines on the opposite sides.

The plurality of communication contacts means two or more contacts.

In this application, the packing carton can be made by corrugated paper, kraft paper, coated paper, foam, plastics, white board paper, ivory board, spool paper etc..

Example two

Referring to fig. 4, fig. 4 is a perspective view of a package upgrade with a prior art upgrade apparatus. The conventional consumable container 2 'includes a consumable chip 21', the consumable chip 21 'is disposed in a cavity 22' of the consumable container 2', and the consumable chip 21' is disposed on a sidewall of the cavity. The probe assembly needs to go deep into the chamber from a direction parallel to the sidewalls and then make contact with the consumable chip 21' on the chamber sidewalls. This arrangement requires the probe assembly to be movable in a direction perpendicular to the side walls or to be flexible or otherwise have poor contact. Most of the existing probes can only be extended and contracted along the length direction of the probe. When the probe is inserted from the direction parallel to the side wall, the probe can only stretch along the length direction of the probe, namely, the probe can stretch parallel to the direction of the side wall, and the probe cannot contact with the consumable chip. In this case, it is necessary to specially design a probe that can be extended or contracted in a direction perpendicular to the depth direction of the probe assembly or that is made elastic, which greatly increases the cost and reduces the versatility of the probe.

Referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is a perspective view of an upgrade apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present application for upgrading a package. In this embodiment, the consumable container 2 has a position-limiting groove 22, and the position of the position-limiting groove 22 corresponds to the position of the communication opening 11. The consumable chip 21 is disposed on the sidewall of the limiting groove 22, and the conductive region 211a of the communication contact extends from the sidewall of the limiting groove 22 to the bottom wall of the limiting groove 22. That is, be provided with the communication contact on the spacing groove 22 diapire with spacing groove 22 lateral wall base plate vertically, the communication contact is connected with the consumptive material chip of installing at the spacing groove 22 lateral wall, can communicate with the consumptive material chip through the communication contact on the spacing groove 22 diapire to rewrite, burn and record, detect, operation such as reset to the consumptive material chip.

Preferably, the base plate of consumptive material chip 21 is flexible circuit board, and flexible circuit board's one end sets up the communication contact, and when consumptive material chip 21 installed in spacing groove 22, the part that is provided with components and parts such as wafer is on the lateral wall of spacing groove 22, and the part that is provided with the communication contact sets up on spacing groove 22 diapire, because flexible circuit board can buckle, so consumptive material chip installation back can become the L shape and set up in spacing groove 22. In order to facilitate the consumable container to be conveniently communicated with the consumable chip by a plurality of probe assemblies penetrating into the limiting groove 22, the communication contacts extend from the side wall to the bottom wall. Like this, have the communication contact on the lateral wall, also have the communication contact on the diapire, no matter probe on the probe subassembly is along stretching into the direction flexible, still along with stretching into the direction perpendicular direction flexible, all can be connected with the communication contact of consumptive material chip. Of course, the part of the components such as the wafer can be arranged on the bottom wall of the limiting groove 22, the bottom wall is provided with the communication contact and the components, and the side wall is only provided with the communication contact.

Of course, the substrate of the consumable chip 21 may be a combination of a flexible circuit board and a rigid circuit board, the flexible circuit board is arranged at the position where the side wall and the bottom wall are connected, so that the consumable chip substrate is convenient to bend, and other parts may be all rigid circuits or part of rigid circuit boards.

Of course, in addition to completing the setting of the communication contacts on the bottom wall of the limiting groove 22 by modifying the substrate of the consumable chip 21, the electrical contacts may be set on the bottom wall of the limiting groove 22, and the communication contacts extending from the consumable chip are not set, but only set at one end of the substrate. When the spacing inslot 22 was installed to the consumptive material chip, the consumptive material chip still set up at the lateral wall, but set up the electric contact on the spacing groove 22 diapire and can be connected with the communication contact of consumptive material chip, set up the electric contact on the diapire like this, just equal to the extension of consumptive material chip communication contact.

Referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 is a perspective view of a package upgrade with an upgrade apparatus of the prior art. When the consumable container 2 'is accommodated in the packaging box 1', the communication contact (not shown) on the consumable chip 21 'is opposite to the communication opening 11' on the packaging box 1', and the plane of the communication contact is approximately parallel to the plane of the communication opening 11' or forms an acute included angle α, the probe 205 on the test head 202 of the upgrading device can pass through the communication opening 11 to directly contact with the communication contact. However, when the consumable container is in another shape and the consumable chip is in another position, as shown in fig. 4, when the plane (for example, on the sidewall of the cavity 22 ') where the communication contacts of the consumable chip 21' are located intersects or is approximately perpendicular to the plane where the communication opening 11' is located, it is difficult for the probes 205 on the test head 202 of the upgrade apparatus to directly contact with the communication contacts. In order to upgrade a consumable container such as that of fig. 4, the probes on the test head 202 have to be modified so that they can contact the communication contacts on the sidewalls, but this results in a complicated structure of the probes, and in the case where a plurality of consumable containers are frequently upgraded with the probes, durability is difficult to ensure.

Therefore, in this embodiment, there is the spacing groove on to the consumptive material container, and the lateral wall of consumptive material chip placing in the spacing inslot moreover, when this lateral wall at communication contact place was approximately perpendicular with the plane at communication opening place, this embodiment provides a package that can solve this problem.

Referring to fig. 5, the package of the present embodiment includes a packing box 1 and a consumable container 2 accommodated in the packing box 1, and the packing box 1 includes a communication opening 11. The consumable container 2 includes a position-limiting groove 22, and the communication opening 11 is substantially opposite to the position of the position-limiting groove 22. In order to ensure that the probes 205 on the test head 202 of the upgrade apparatus can be electrically connected to the communication contacts (not shown in the figure) on the consumable chip 21, in this embodiment, the conductive regions of the communication contacts of the consumable chip 21 extend in a direction approximately perpendicular to the consumable chip 21 on the side where the consumable chip is close to the bottom of the limiting groove 22, so as to form the extended conductive regions 211a, so that the probes 205 on the upgrade apparatus can contact the extended conductive regions 211a at an approximately perpendicular angle. The consumable chip 21 and the extended conductive region 211a form an L-shape when fixed in the limiting groove 22. As shown in fig. 7, the conductive portion of the communication contact 211 of the consumable chip 21 on the sidewall can be electrically connected with the electrical contact portion (e.g., probe, contact, spring, etc.) provided in the printing and imaging apparatus when the consumable container 2 is mounted on the printing and imaging apparatus, while the extended conductive region 211a is only used for the probe electrical contact of the upgraded apparatus. When the consumable container is on the printing and imaging device, the electric contact part in the printing and imaging device needs to consider less durability because the user can not frequently insert and mount the consumable container.

In order to realize that the conductive area of the communication contact extends in the direction approximately vertical to the consumable chip 21, one scheme is to adopt a mode of splicing the circuit board, the consumable chip 21 adopts a hard circuit board and is fixed on the side wall of the limiting groove 22 through welding, riveting, bonding and the like, the extended conductive area 211a can be arranged on the flexible circuit board to electrically connect the flexible circuit board to the consumable chip 21, and the flexible circuit board can be bent, so the consumable chip 21 and the extended conductive area 211a can form an L shape shown in figure 7 when being installed on a consumable container; another solution is to use a flexible printed circuit board to realize the whole consumable chip 21, as shown in fig. 8, one part of the consumable chip 21 is fixed on the sidewall of the limiting groove by welding, riveting, bonding, etc., and the other part is fixed at the bottom of the limiting groove, thereby forming an L-shape, so that the communication contact 211 of the consumable chip can not only be electrically contacted with the printing and imaging device, but also be contacted with the probe 205 inserted into the limiting groove 22. Therefore, a complex probe design is not required, the durability of the probe is ensured, and the cost of upgrading equipment is reduced. The communication contacts of the consumable chip on the side walls of the recess may be the same set of contacts as the communication contacts at the bottom of the recess, with the conductive areas extending. Or two groups of communication contacts can be respectively arranged, and any group can realize the communication with the consumable chip.

EXAMPLE III

In the first embodiment, in order to fix the consumable container in the packaging box, two fixing openings need to be cut on two opposite sides of the packaging box, and two fixing clamping arms need to be configured for correspondingly upgrading the device, so as to extend into the fixing openings and clamp the consumable container in the packaging box. This requires the package to be machined twice to form two fixed openings, and the upgrading equipment also needs to be equipped with clamping arms capable of moving in multiple directions, which will undoubtedly increase the size, design cost and manufacturing difficulty, and the upgrading efficiency will be affected by this.

Therefore, in order to solve this series of problems, the present embodiment proposes another method of fixing the consumable container in the packing box.

Referring to fig. 9, the present embodiment provides a package including a packing box 1 and a consumable container accommodated in the packing box 1. The package includes a communication opening 11 and a fixing opening 121 (fixing portion). The consumable container 2 includes a consumable chip 21, and a fixing groove 23 may be further formed on the consumable container 2, the fixing groove 23 being formed to correspond to a protrusion (which may be used to guide the installation and positioning of the consumable container) on the printing and image forming apparatus, or designed as needed to facilitate the upgrading of the apparatus to fix the consumable container. The opening of the fixing groove 23 may be circular, triangular, square or other regular or irregular polygonal shape. The positions of the communication opening 11 and the fixing opening 121 on the packing box 1 are approximately set at the positions corresponding to the consumable chip 21 and the fixing groove 23 of the consumable container. Correspondingly, the upgrading device of the present embodiment includes a test head 202 and a probe 205, and further includes a positioning column 206 for fixing the consumable container 2. Since the positions of the fixing groove 23 and the consumable chip 21 are relatively fixed, the position of the consumable chip 21 can be determined when the consumable container 2 is fixed by the positioning column 206, and thus the positioning column 206 can be relatively fixedly disposed on the test head 202 together with the probe 205. After the consumable container 2 is fixed, the probe 205 is inserted through the communication opening 11 and then pressed against the communication contact (not shown) of the consumable chip 21.

It can be seen that when only 1 fixing groove 23 is provided, only one fixing opening 121 needs to be cut out from the packing box 1. In another embodiment, if the fixing groove 23 is adjacent to the position of the communication contact of the consumable chip 21, the communication opening 11 and the fixing opening 121 may be integrated into one body, and the packaging case 1 may be opened only once. In addition, in other embodiments, if a plurality of fixing grooves for fixing the consumable container 2 are all disposed on the same sidewall of the consumable container 2, only one large fixing opening may be dug on the packing box 1 opposite to the fixing grooves, without digging a corresponding fixing opening for each fixing groove.

When inserting the positioning posts 206 into the packaging to fix the consumable container 2, the positioning posts may not be precisely aligned with the fixing grooves 23 on the consumable container 2 in some cases. Therefore, in order to facilitate the insertion of the positioning column 206 on the upgrade apparatus into the fixing groove 23 of the consumable container 2, in the present embodiment, a partial area or a whole area at the entrance of the fixing groove 23 is provided as the guide slope 231, as shown in fig. 9. Therefore, even if the above-mentioned situation occurs, when the positioning column 206 is not accurately aligned with the fixing groove 23, the positioning column 206 applies a lateral force to the guide slope 231 under the traction of the guide slope 231, so that the consumable container 2 in the packing box 1 moves, thereby gradually adjusting the position of the fixing groove 23 to be aligned with the positioning column 206, so that the positioning column 206 can be smoothly inserted into the fixing groove 23, thereby fixing the consumable container 2.

Since the consumable container 2 is not completely tightly wrapped and fixed in the packaging box 1, but has a certain movement space, in order to avoid that the guide slope 231 at the inlet of the pressing fixing groove 23 is larger than the width D of the movement space between the consumable container 2 and the packaging box 1 when the positioning column 206 is inserted into the fixing groove 23, preferably, the projection length L of the guide slope 231 at the inlet of the fixing groove 23 on the vertical plane (i.e. the plane defined by the Z axis and the Y axis) of the probe 205 inserted into the fixing groove 23 (i.e. the arrow direction of the X axis in fig. 9) is not larger than the width D of the movement space, i.e. L is required to be not more than D. In this case, the consumable container 2 has enough space for moving in the packing box 1 to adjust the position of the fixing groove 23 with respect to the positioning post 206.

In order to avoid that the probe 205 of the upgrading device cannot stably communicate with the communication contact of the consumable chip 21, the consumable container 2 should be relatively stably fixed, and the consumable container 2 is prevented from generating displacement movement when the consumable chip 21 of the consumable container 2 is upgraded by the upgrading device. Therefore, it is preferable to fix the consumable container 2 relatively stably before the probe 205 comes into contact with the communication contact of the consumable chip 21.

Therefore, in this embodiment, as shown in fig. 9, the consumable container 2 is fixed and then the communication contacts of the consumable chip 21 are connected. The test head 202 of the upgrade apparatus includes a positioning column 206 and a probe 205 fixed opposite to the positioning column 206, the probe 205 is made of a conductive material, and generally, the probe 205 can elastically extend and contract to elastically contact with the communication contact of the consumable chip 21. The posts 206 of the test head are longer and more convex relative to the probes 205. as can be seen in figure 9, the posts 206 are more forward in the direction of the X-axis arrow relative to the probes 205. Therefore, in the direction in which the positioning column 206 is inserted into the fixing groove 23 of the consumable container 2 (i.e., the arrow direction of the X axis), the positioning column 206 reaches the plane where the consumable chip 21 or the communication contact thereof is located first compared to the probe 205, and the probe 205 contacts the communication contact of the consumable chip 21 after being inserted into the fixing groove 23 with a certain constraint force on the consumable container 2.

Example four

As can be seen by those skilled in the art, in the case of a communication opening on a packaging box, if there is no object to shield the communication opening, the exposed communication contact of the consumable chip is easily touched or directly contacted by static electricity in the air during transportation or use, the consumable chip may be damaged by the breakdown of the contacted static electricity, and the exposed communication contact is also easily contaminated by dust, oil stains, etc., so as to reduce the conductivity during communication. For this reason, this application provides one kind and need not to demolish the consumptive material chip that the packing carton comes the upgrading consumptive material container, can reduce the electrostatic interference of the consumptive material chip in the packing carton moreover, the scheme that the filth is infected with.

Referring to fig. 10, the package provided in this embodiment includes a packaging box 1 and a consumable container 2 accommodated in the packaging box 1, a communication opening 11 is cut in the packaging box 1, a consumable chip 21 is included in the consumable container 2, an opening position of the communication opening 11 is opposite to a position of the consumable chip 21, and a probe 205 on a test head 202 of an upgrade apparatus can communicate with the consumable chip 21 through the communication opening 11. In this embodiment, an easily openable isolation sheet 3 is further covered outside the communication opening 11 of the packaging box 1, and a part of the isolation sheet 3 is adhered to the outer surface of the packaging box 1, and another part of the isolation sheet passes through the communication opening 11 of the packaging box 1 and covers the communication contact of the consumable chip 21. When the consumable chip 21 in the package needs to be upgraded, the packaging box 1 does not need to be dismantled, and the probe 205 of the upgrading device can be inserted into the packaging box 1 from the communication opening 11 only by tearing the isolation sheet 3 at the communication opening 11, so that electric connection is established between the probe 205 and a plurality of communication contacts of the consumable chip 21, and interactive communication is realized. Thus, the consumable chip can be upgraded without dismantling the packaging box 1. In the present embodiment, the separator sheet 3 may be an antistatic film, an electrostatic adsorption film, an insulating film, a plastic film, a thin paper sheet, or the like. Since the release sheet 3 needs to be re-adhered back to its original position after upgrading the consumable chip 21, it can be sealed, taped, plastic film/sheet adhered, or made of a relatively smooth-surfaced material at the outside of the communication opening 11 of the package 1 during manufacture. In this case, when the separator 3 is opened, the separator 3 is easily peeled off from the package 1, and the separator is prevented from being damaged when the separator 3 is opened without damaging the outer surface of the package 1. In other possible embodiments, the probe 205 of the test head has the ability to puncture, pierce, and penetrate the isolation foil 3 (e.g., relatively sharp, relatively hard), and thus, when upgrading the consumable chip 21 in the package, there is no need to remove the packaging 1, nor to tear open the isolation foil 3 at the communication opening 11.

EXAMPLE five

Because each link such as storage, transportation, distribution and retail needs time transfer, and the consumed time is inconsistent when the consumable containers are processed by different dealers, the consumable containers sold on the market are often in different batches and versions, and it is possible that the latest batch of consumable containers have written the upgraded programs and data in the production process, so the latest batch of consumable containers do not need to be upgraded again by using upgrading equipment. But it is possible that a lot earlier may still need to be upgraded with an upgrade facility. The packaging boxes are usually produced in large quantities in the same batch, and on the premise that the packaging boxes are not required to be dismantled, the batch of consumable containers in the packaging boxes cannot be judged, and whether the consumable containers need to be upgraded or not can not be judged.

To this end, the present embodiment proposes a solution that facilitates identifying the lot and version of the consumable container of the package. Referring to fig. 11, the present application provides a package 100 including a packaging box and a consumable container accommodated in the packaging box, wherein a graphic identification code 4 capable of providing a lot, version or other information of the consumable container is printed or pasted on an outer surface of the packaging box of the package 100. The pattern recognition code 4 may be a bar code, a two-dimensional code, other label information, or the like.

Correspondingly, fig. 11 differs from fig. 1 in that a code scanner 207 that can scan, etc. is provided on the upgrade apparatus. Because the packaging box is provided with the graphical identification code 4, before the consumable container in the packaging box is upgraded by the upgrading device, the content of the graphical identification code 4 can be firstly identified by the code scanner 207, so that the batch, version or other information of the consumable container in the packaging box can be known, and according to the identified information, the upgrading device can inform an operator whether the consumable container needs to be upgraded or not through a display unit or a prompt unit (not shown in fig. 11) on the upgrading device. For example, if the consumable container is identified through the packaging box to be unnecessary to be upgraded, an error or alarm sound and light signal is sent through the prompting unit; if it is identified that the consumable container needs to be upgraded, a prompt may be issued that the consumable container can be upgraded; or no prompt is sent out, and the upgrading operation is directly started.

The pattern identification code 4 can also be associated with information such as a serial number of a consumable chip, and since the printing and imaging device can memorize the serial number of a used consumable chip, and the memorized serial number is prohibited from being used on the printing and imaging device (commonly known as "black drawing" and "black list drawing"), in the prior art, the printing and imaging device can black more serial numbers after firmware is upgraded. Therefore, when the package 100 is upgraded, the upgrading device can read the pattern identification code 4 on the packaging box through the code scanner, know the serial number of the consumable chip in the package, and then judge whether the package 100 needs to be upgraded. The upgrade can be used for pertinently replacing the serial number of the consumable chip in the package, namely deleting the original serial number and writing a new serial number.

As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, a consumable chip typically includes, in addition to the communication contacts described above, memory, interface circuitry for processing signals transmitted and received by the communication contacts, and a circuit board carrying the above memory, interface circuitry, and communication contacts. For consumable chips that are somewhat functionally complex, control circuitry or a CPU may also be included for controlling how the consumable chip responds to access thereto by the print imaging apparatus. Data may be stored in the memory, program instructions for execution by the CPU, code, and the like.

The packing carton in this application is used for packing consumptive material container (ink horn, powder section of thick bamboo or selenium drum etc.) to be convenient for transportation and sale. The consumable container can be one of an ink box, a toner cartridge and a powder cylinder, wherein the ink box can contain ink, and the toner cartridge and the powder cylinder can contain carbon powder. Taking an ink box as an example of a consumable container, the ink box generally comprises an air inlet, an ink outlet, a positioning part and a mounting part, and further comprises a consumable chip for recording the use information of the ink box and identifying and authenticating.

For different communication modes, the communication interface of the consumable chip may adopt different circuit forms, in the foregoing embodiment, the consumable chip for contact communication is taken as an example, the communication interface is a signal contact point (contact for short), and if the communication interface is through non-contact communication, the communication interface may include an antenna or a coil for wireless communication. Corresponding non-contact communication's mode, including antenna or coil on the consumptive material chip, then in order to realize the upgrading to this kind of consumptive material chip, need be more changed the probe of upgrading equipment for the antenna, through radio communication's mode, upgrade consumptive material chip.

The data stored in the memory can include data such as chip address ID, production date, manufacturer, toner color, remaining toner amount, page yield, limit value of printed pages, serial number of toner cartridge, number of toner adding times, serial number of used toner cartridge, and identifier of toner cartridge whether to add.

In the present application, the communication contact is used for data access and communication verification of an electrical connection with a print image forming apparatus, and may specifically include, for example, a power supply contact, a clock contact, a data contact, a ground contact, a reset contact, a chip select contact, and the like, or a contact with multiple functions, such as a single bus (1-wire) protocol contact that can transmit power, clock, and data simultaneously.

The Memory may be, but is not limited to, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a Read Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable Read Only Memory (PROM), an Erasable Read Only Memory (EPROM), an electrically Erasable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), a Flash Memory (Flash Memory), and the like.

The control circuit may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. The control circuit may be a general-purpose Processor including a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Network Processor (NP), and the like. But may also be a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware components. The various methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the consumable chip of the present application comprises a memory for storing program instruction codes and a processor (CPU) for executing the program instruction codes to implement the data processing method applied to the consumable chip in the above embodiments. Embodiments of the present application may be provided as a method, apparatus, or computer program product. Accordingly, embodiments of the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, embodiments of the present application may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

Embodiments of the present application are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present application should be covered within the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.