Attachment and attachment system
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsTakeo Seino, Takahiro Naka, Satoshi Shinada, Hitotoshi Kimura
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Abstract
An attachment is mountable on a carriage in place of a liquid container that contains liquid and that is mounted on the carriage having a liquid jet head for jetting liquid, so that the attachment can supply liquid introduced from outside to the liquid jet head. The attachment has a pressure control means provided in a flow passage which is formed in an attachment body and through which the liquid introduced from the outside is supplied to the liquid jet head.
Claims25
An attachment which is mountable on a carriage in place of a liquid container that contains liquid and that is mounted on the carriage having a liquid jet head for jetting liquid, so that the attachment can supply liquid introduced from outside to the liquid jet head, the attachment comprising:
- a pressure control means provided in a flow passage which is formed in an attachment body and through which the liquid introduced from the outside is supplied to the liquid jet head.
An attachment system for a printer including a print head and a movable carriage which has the print head and on which an ink carriage is mountable to supply ink in the ink carriage to print head, the attachment system comprising:
- an attachment mountable on the carriage in place of the ink cartridge to supply ink in the attachment to the print head;
- an outer ink tank having an ink pack;
- an ink supply tube connected to the attachment and the ink pack to supply ink in the ink pack to the attachment;
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- a valve device disposed in the attachment to control a pressure of ink supplied from the attachment to the print head.
An attachment system for a printer including a print head and a movable carriage which has the print head and on which an ink cartridge is mountable to supply ink in the ink cartridge to the print head, the attachment system comprising:
- an attachment mountable on the carriage in place of the ink cartridge to supply ink in the attachment to the printer head, the attachment including:
- an ink container having an upper wall, a bottom wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall;
- an ink outlet port disposed on the bottom wall closer to the first side wall than the second side wall, the ink outlet port having an axis;
- a retaining member disposed on the first side wall, the retaining member having a protruding engagement portion;
- a convex portion located in a region where a plane of the second side wall and a plane of the bottom wall intersect, the convex portion having a surface lying in a plane that is substantially parallel to the axis;
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- a plurality of electrodes disposed on the surface,
- an outer ink tank;
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- an ink supply tube connected to the attachment and the outer ink tank to supply ink in the outer ink tank to the attachment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.