Drainage container and recording apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsSatoshi Nakata, Masahito Tatsumi
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Abstract
A drainage container configured to be attached and detached in an attachment/detachment direction to and from an apparatus including a discharge portion to discharge drainage and configured to store the drainage discharged from the discharge portion, includes: a housing that stores the drainage and includes an opening formed in an upper surface of the housing; an accepting portion that accepts the drainage discharged from the discharge portion; and a lid portion configured to open and close the opening, in which the lid portion takes on an open state to open the opening when the drainage container is attached to the apparatus, and the lid portion takes on a closed state to close the opening when the drainage container is detached from the apparatus.
Claims20
A drainage container configured to be attached and detached in an attachment/detachment direction to and from an apparatus including a discharge portion to discharge drainage and configured to store the drainage discharged from the discharge portion, the drainage container comprising:
- a housing that stores the drainage, wherein an opening is formed in the housing;
- an accepting portion that accepts the drainage discharged from the discharge portion;
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- a lid portion configured to open and close the opening, wherein
- the lid portion is positioned in an open state to open the opening when the drainage container is attached to the apparatus, and
- the lid portion is positioned in a closed state to close the opening when the drainage container is detached from the apparatus.
A recording apparatus comprising:
- an apparatus body;
- a recording head that performs recording by ejecting a liquid to a medium;
- a discharge portion that discharges drainage that comes into being inside the apparatus body;
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- an attached portion where a drainage container is attached and detached, wherein
- the apparatus body includes an abutted portion that an abutting portion included in a lid portion of the drainage container abuts on.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.