Ink container and mounting method of the ink container
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNobuyuki Matsumoto, Hajime Kaneko
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Abstract
An ink container capable of being simply mounted in a holder with a small working space includes a rib-like guide portion for determining a mounting path during mounting of the ink container in a head cartridge at a side surface. The head cartridge includes a holder portion provided with a sliding projection which slides in contact with the guide portion. When the ink container is mounted, a user moves the ink container so that a first inclined portion first contacts the sliding projection and thereafter the ink contained is moved in an obliquely below direction toward the head cartridge while sliding the sliding projection along the first inclined portion.
Claims7
An ink container, comprising:
- an ink container main body which is provided with a supply port for supplying ink contained therein to an outside and has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape;
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- a latch lever formed at a first side surface of said ink container main body;
- said ink container being finally fixed in a holder by being moved from above the holder provided to a recording apparatus toward the holder;
- wherein said ink container main body further comprises a guide portion, for determining a mounting path during mounting of said ink container in the holder, at a second side surface of said ink container main body other than the first side surface at which said latch lever is formed;
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- wherein said guide portion has a first guide surface which first contacts a part of the holder during the mounting, the first guide surface being formed continuously over a predetermined length in a shape for bringing said ink container close to the holder in an oblique direction.
A ink container mounting method of mounting in a holder an ink container which comprises an ink container main body which is provided with a supply port for supplying ink contained therein to an outside and has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape;
- and a latch lever formed at a first side surface of said ink container main body;
- wherein said ink container main body further comprises a guide portion, for determining a mounting path during mounting of said ink container in the holder, at a second side surface of said ink container main body other than the first side surface at which said latch lever is formed;
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- said mounting method, comprising:
- a step of moving said ink container toward the holder so as to be close to the holder in an oblique direction by causing a guide surface which is formed as a part of said guide portion and is continuously over a predetermined length, to first contact a part of the holder and by sliding the guide surface in contact with the part of the holder;
- a step of rotationally moving said ink container by sliding another part of said guide portion in contact with the part of the holder;
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- a step of fixing said ink container in the holder by further moving said ink container toward the holder, after being rotationally moved, to engage said latch lever with the holder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.