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US 2016/0243841 A1Published application
Ink tank and printer
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsYoshiyuki TANAKA, HiroakI Sakai
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Abstract
An ink tank includes: a reservoir that stores ink; a supply port that supplies ink stored in the reservoir to a printer; a supply port sealing member that seals the supply port; an air port that communicates between an inside of the reservoir and an atmospheric space above an upper side of a liquid surface of the ink; and an air port sealing member which a needle tube is capable of inserting and pulling out of, and which seals the air port in a state where the needle tube is not inserted.
Claims10
An ink tank which is accommodated in an accommodation section of a printer, the ink comprising:
- a reservoir that stores ink;
- a supply port that supplies ink stored in the reservoir to a printer;
- a supply port sealing member that seals the supply port;
- an air port that communicates between an inside of the reservoir and an atmospheric space above an upper side of a liquid surface of the ink;
- and
- an air port sealing member which seals the air port outside the accommodating section,
- wherein the air port sealing member permits an air communication between an inside of the reservoir and an atmospheric space by an atmosphere passage in a lid section of the accommodation section.
4 more elements
A printer comprising:
- a receiving section that receives supply of ink from a supply port of an ink tank;
- an accommodating section that accommodates the ink tank;
- an atmosphere passage which is in a lid section of the accommodating section and which introduces atmosphere into the ink tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.