Liquid cartridge
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYutao Wang, Naoya Okazaki, Tomohiro Kanbe
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Abstract
A liquid cartridge is configured to be inserted into a liquid consuming apparatus in a first direction along a horizontal direction against an urging force directed in a second direction opposite the first direction, and thereby to be mounted to the liquid consuming apparatus. The liquid cartridge is configured to pivot about a pivot center in the liquid consuming apparatus. The liquid cartridge includes a rear face, and the rear face includes a first portion and a second portion positioned further in an upward direction than the first portion. The first portion includes a portion positioned further in a downward direction than the pivot center, and the first portion is positioned further in the first direction than the second portion.
Claims18
A liquid cartridge configured to be mounted into a printer comprising:
- a liquid chamber configured to store liquid therein;
- a liquid supply portion extending from the liquid chamber in a frontward direction perpendicular to a gravitational direction;
- a locking surface configured to be engaged with the printer;
- an operation surface configured to be operated for locking or releasing of the locking surface with the printer;
- an upper face being provided with the operation surface and the locking surface, the upper face facing upward;
- wherein the upper face comprises a sub upper face positioned at a rear end of the upper face such that the upper face is forward of the sub upper face in the frontward direction and the operation surface is positioned above the sub upper face in the gravitational direction, and
- a space is formed between the operation surface and the sub upper face in the gravitational direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.