Image forming apparatus and ink container
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorMasanobu Maeshima
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a container guide and a latch mechanism. The latch mechanism includes a pin and a pin supporting member. The latch mechanism permits an attachment of the ink container to the container guide when the ink container is pushed in an attachment direction and the pin is stored in a first storage part and permits a detachment of the ink container from the container guide when the ink container attached to the container guide is pushed in the attachment direction and the pin is removed from the first storage part. The pin supporting member includes a boss. The boss is stored in a second storage part when the pin is stored in the first storage part, and the boss is removed from the second storage part when the pin is removed from the first storage part.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a container guide which guides an ink container storing an ink supplied to a recording head in a predetermined attachment direction to be attached;
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- a latch mechanism including a pin protruding toward one face of the ink container and a pin supporting member supporting the pin and supported by the container guide in a movable manner in a direction parallel to the one face and crossing to the attachment direction, the latch mechanism permitting an attachment of the ink container to the container guide when the ink container is pushed along the container guide in the attachment direction and then the pin is stored in a first storage part formed in the ink container and permitting a detachment of the ink container from the container guide when the ink container attached to the container guide is pushed in the attachment direction and then the pin is removed from the first storage part,
- wherein the pin supporting member includes at least one boss protruding toward the one face of the ink container, and
- the ink container includes a second storage part formed on the one face of the ink container, and
- wherein the at least one boss is stored in the second storage part when the pin is stored in the first storage part, and the at least one boss is removed from the second storage part when the pin is removed from the first storage part.
An ink container attached to an image forming apparatus,
- wherein the image forming apparatus includes:
- a container guide which guides an ink container storing an ink supplied to a recording head in a predetermined attachment direction to be attached;
- a latch mechanism including a pin protruding toward one face of the ink container and a pin supporting member supporting the pin and supported by the container guide in a movable manner in a direction parallel to the one face and crossing to the attachment direction, the latch mechanism permitting an attachment of the ink container to the container guide when the ink container is pushed along the container guide in the attachment direction and then the pin is stored in a first storage part formed in the ink container and permitting a detachment of the ink container from the container guide when the ink container attached to the container guide is pushed in the attachment direction and then the pin is removed from the first storage part;
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- at least one boss formed in the pin supporting member so as to protrude toward the one face of the ink container,
- wherein the ink container includes:
- a first storage part;
- and
- a second storage part formed on the one face of the ink container,
- wherein the at least one boss is stored in the second storage part when the pin is stored in the first storage part, and the at least one boss is removed from the second storage part when the pin is removed from the first storage part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.