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Liquid container, liquid consuming apparatus, liquid supply system and liquid container unit

US9290001B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 10, 2015
Grant dateMar 22, 2016
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Expiry dateJun 10, 2035

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41J29/13
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A liquid container includes an ink chamber containing an ink to be supplied via a tube to a liquid ejecting head consuming the ink; an outlet port from which the ink contained in the ink chamber flows to the tube side; an injection port through which the ink can be injected into the ink chamber; and an air intake port taking air into the ink chamber from a further vertically upper position than a liquid level of the ink when the ink is contained in the ink chamber. If the ink equal to 5% of containing capacity containable in the ink chamber flows from the outlet port, the liquid container has an area where a fluctuation range of the liquid level of the ink inside the ink chamber becomes 5% or less of the cubic root of the containing capacity.

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