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US 10,518,542 B2Granted
Liquid ejecting apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsToshiyuki Ochiai, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Takeshi Tanaka
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Abstract
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head which ejects a liquid, a discharge portion which discharges a waste liquid discharged from the liquid ejecting head, and a mounting unit which is provided with the discharge portion and in which is mounted a waste liquid container capable of storing the waste liquid which is discharged from the discharge portion, in which the mounting unit includes a liquid holding portion capable of holding the waste liquid in a periphery of the discharge portion.
Claims13
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:
- a liquid ejecting head which ejects a liquid;
- a discharge portion which discharges a waste liquid discharged from the liquid ejecting head;
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- a mounting unit which is provided with the discharge portion and in which a waste liquid container capable of storing the waste liquid discharged from the discharge portion is mounted,
- wherein the mounting unit includes a liquid holding portion capable of holding the waste liquid in a periphery of the discharge portion,
- wherein the waste liquid container contains a liquid absorbable material,
- wherein the liquid absorbable material has a liquid guiding portion configured to guide the waste liquid into the waste liquid container, and
- wherein at least a portion of the liquid holding portion comes into contact with the liquid guiding portion in the state in which the waste liquid container is mounted on the mounting portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.