Liquid storage container and liquid storage container set
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsTakumi Nagashima, Yoshihiro Koizumi, Shun Oya
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Abstract
A liquid storage container includes: a liquid storage portion including a storage-portion outer shell for storing liquid inside; and an adapter including an adapter outer shell and an insertion opening that is formed in the adapter outer shell and into which a liquid introduction portion of a container attachment portion is inserted, the storage-portion outer shell has a first-type color in a degree that does not allow light to pass through the storage-portion outer shell, and the adapter outer shell has a second-type color having a color difference with respect to a color of the liquid larger than or equal to a threshold.
Claims11
A liquid storage container configured to be detachably attached to a container attachment portion of a printing apparatus, comprising:
- a liquid storage portion including a storage-portion outer shell for storing liquid inside;
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- an adapter including an adapter outer shell and an insertion opening that is formed in the adapter outer shell and into which a liquid introduction portion of the container attachment portion is inserted, wherein
- the storage-portion outer shell has a first-type color in a degree that does not allow light to pass through the storage-portion outer shell, and
- the adapter outer shell has a second-type color having a color difference with respect to a color of the liquid larger than or equal to 12.
A liquid storage container set including a plurality of liquid storage containers, wherein
- each of the liquid storage containers is configured to be detachably attached to a container attachment portion of a printing apparatus,
- each of the liquid storage containers includes
- a liquid storage portion including a storage-portion outer shell for storing liquid inside and
- an adapter including an adapter outer shell and an insertion opening that is formed in the adapter outer shell and into which a liquid introduction portion of the container attachment portion is inserted,
- the storage-portion outer shell has a first-type color in a degree that does not allow light to pass through the storage-portion outer shell,
- the adapter outer shell has a second-type color having a color difference with respect to a color of the liquid larger than or equal to 12, and
- the first-type color is a same color for each of the liquid storage containers regardless of the color of the liquid to be stored in each of the liquid storage containers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.