Liquid-consuming apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshinori Osakabe, Tomohisa Higuchi
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Abstract
A liquid-consuming apparatus includes: a tank including a liquid storage chamber which stores a liquid, an inlet formed in a surface of the tank, and an outlet through which the liquid from the liquid storage chamber flows; a cap which is movable between a first position and a second position; a cover which is movable relative to the tank between a closed position and an open position; and a holding member which is connected to the cap and which holds the cap at the second position. The cap at the second position or the holding member is configured to obstruct a movement of the cover from the open position to the closed position.
Claims15
An ink-jet printer, comprising:
- a tank including an ink storage chamber and an inlet;
- a cap which is detachably attachable to the inlet;
- a cover configured to move between a first position and a second position farther from the inlet than the first position;
- and
- an arm configured to locate the cap at an inlet closing position and an inlet opening position,
- wherein under a condition that the cap is in the inlet opening position and the cover is in the second position, the arm holds the cap in a state that the cap does not contact with the cover, and
- wherein under a condition that the cap is in the inlet opening position, a part of at least one of the cap and the arm is in the moving locus of the cover between the first position and the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.