Tank
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTaichi Shirono
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Abstract
A tank includes: a wall separating a liquid storage chamber, which stores a liquid to be supplied to a liquid consuming part, from an outside; an inlet penetrating the wall; and a liquid outflow part which allows the liquid to flow to the outside of the liquid storage chamber. The wall includes a view wall, which extends upward and downward and allows a user to visually check a liquid level in the liquid storage chamber, and a bottom wall, which defines an inner bottom surface of the liquid storage chamber by being connected to the view wall. The inner bottom surface of the bottom wall includes an inclined part which extends from at least a part of the view wall to incline downward in a direction away from the view wall.
Claims4
A refillable tank, comprising:
- an upper chamber;
- a lower chamber;
- a wall defining the upper chamber and the lower chamber, the wall comprising a front wall, a rear wall, first side wall and second side wall, the front wall having transparency or translucency, the front and the rear walls extending in an up-down direction and a left-right direction, the first and second side walls extending in the up-down direction and a front-rear direction, wherein an area of the front wall is smaller than an area of each of the side walls;
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- another wall which divides the upper chamber and the lower chamber and extends from the front wall,
- wherein the another wall includes an inclined surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.