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US 12,654,457 B2Granted
Liquid storing cartridge and printer
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSosuke Kuroyanagi, Yuma Tanabe, Akinari Ishibe, Satoru Oki, Genki Hoshino
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Abstract
There is provided a liquid storing cartridge including: a liquid container configured to store a liquid, the liquid container having a supply port configured to supply the liquid from the liquid container to an outside of the liquid container; a first positioning part provided in a first side with respect to the supply port in a crossing direction crossing an opening direction of the supply port; and a second positioning part provided in a second side with respect to the supply port in the crossing direction, the second side being opposite side from the first side with respect to the supply port.
Claims16
A liquid storing cartridge comprising:
- a liquid container configured to store a liquid, the liquid container having a supply port configured to supply the liquid, in an opening direction of the supply port, from the liquid container to an outside of the liquid container;
- a first positioning part provided in a first side with respect to the supply port in a crossing direction crossing the opening direction;
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- a second positioning part provided in a second side with respect to the supply port in the crossing direction, the second side being opposite side from the first side with respect to the supply port, wherein:
- the liquid container includes a case having a first surface;
- the supply port, the first positioning part and the second positioning part are provided on the first surface;
- the supply port is provided in a connecting part extending from the first surface in the opening direction of the supply port;
- each of the first positioning part and the second positioning part extends from the first surface in the opening direction;
- each of the first positioning part and the second positioning part is longer than the connecting part in the opening direction;
- the liquid container has a bottom surface crossing the first surface, the bottom surface extending, from the first surface, in a direction opposite the opening direction;
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- the liquid container has at least one side surface crossing the first surface, the side surface extending, from the first surface, in the direction opposite the opening direction.
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A liquid storing cartridge to be detachably installed in a printer, the liquid storing cartridge comprising:
- a liquid container configured to store a liquid to be supplied to the printer, the liquid container having a supply port configured to supply the liquid, in an opening direction of the supply port, from the liquid container to the printer;
- a first positioning part provided in a first side with respect to the supply port in a crossing direction crossing the opening direction, the first positioning part being configured such that a third positioning part of the printer is engaged with the first positioning part in a state that the liquid storing cartridge is installed in the printer;
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- a second positioning part provided in a second side with respect to the supply port in the crossing direction, the second side being opposite side from the first side with respect to the supply port, the second positioning part being configured such that a fourth positioning part of the printer is engaged with the second positioning part in the state that the liquid storing cartridge is installed in the printer, wherein:
- the liquid container includes a case having a first surface;
- the supply port, the first positioning part and the second positioning part are provided on the first surface;
- the supply port is provided in a connecting part extending from the first surface in the opening direction of the supply port;
- each of the first positioning part and the second positioning part extends from the first surface in the opening direction;
- each of the first positioning part and the second positioning part is longer than the connecting part in the opening direction;
- the liquid container has a bottom surface crossing the first surface, the bottom surface extending, from the first surface, in a direction opposite the opening direction;
- and
- the liquid container has at least one side surface crossing the first surface, the side surface extending, from the first surface, in the direction opposite the opening direction.
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A liquid storing cartridge comprising:
- a cartridge;
- a liquid container configured to store a liquid, the liquid container having a supply port configured to supply the liquid, in an opening direction of the supply port, from the liquid container to an outside of the liquid container, the liquid container being accommodated or to be accommodated in the cartridge;
- a first positioning part provided in a first side with respect to the supply port in a crossing direction crossing the opening direction;
- and
- a second positioning part provided in a second side with respect to the supply port in the crossing direction, the second side being opposite side from the first side with respect to the supply port, wherein:
- the liquid container includes a case having a first surface;
- the supply port, the first positioning part and the second positioning part are provided on the first surface;
- the supply port is provided in a connecting part extending from the first surface in the opening direction of the supply port;
- each of the first positioning part and the second positioning part extends from the first surface in the opening direction;
- and
- each of the first positioning part and the second positioning part is longer than the connecting part in the opening direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.