Ink-jet printer
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAkinori Igarashi
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Abstract
There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus including a casing, a liquid consuming section, and a tank. The tank includes a box-shaped body having a light-transmitting property and having five walls and a partition wall; a film adhered to rear end portions of the walls; and a positioning section disposed at least on an outer surface of each of the upper and lower walls, or of each of the right and left walls. In a state that the liquid consuming apparatus is placed on a horizontal plane, the box-shaped body is positioned at a posture at which the positioning section is brought into contact with the casing to thereby allow the front wall to be exposed from a side surface of the casing which extends in a direction crossing the horizontal plane, and at which the rear end portions are located inside the casing.
Claims7
An ink-jet printer, comprising:
- a casing having an opening;
- a conveying mechanism arranged in the casing and configured to convey an object along a conveying route;
- a recording head arranged in the casing and configured to jet the ink toward the object conveyed by the conveying mechanism;
- a tank arranged in the casing and configured to store ink which is to be supplied to the recording head,
- wherein the tank includes:
- a box-shaped body having at least one space defined by a plurality of walls, the box-shaped body being formed of a resin having a light-transmitting property, the plurality of walls including a rigid front wall;
- a film forming a lateral wall that is different from the rigid front wall;
- and
- a positioning section disposed on an outer surface of at least a part of the plurality of the walls,
- wherein in a state that the ink-jet printer is placed on a horizontal plane, the positioning section is brought into contact with the casing, and thereby the box-shaped body is positioned at a posture at which the box-shaped body is exposed from the opening of the casing but the film is not exposed from the opening of the casing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.