US 2017/0282572 A1Published application

Tank and liquid consuming apparatus including the same

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsYoshinori OSAKABE, Masahiro HAYASHI, Taichi SHIRONO, Masako KAWAGOE

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Abstract

There is provided a tank including a case provided with a pair of lateral walls separated in a first direction with the tank in a usable posture, a first chamber and a second chamber retaining a liquid, a liquid channel rendering communication between the second chamber and the outside of the case, a liquid inlet port for filling the first chamber with the liquid, a first communicating port rendering communication between the first chamber and the second chamber, and a second communicating port rendering communication between the second chamber and the liquid channel. If the first chamber and the second chamber retain the liquid at the maximum amount retainable in the tank in the usable posture, then with the tank in such a rotated posture that one of the pair of lateral walls becomes the upper end of the tank along a vertical direction, the first communicating port is positioned above the level of the liquid at the maximum amount.

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Dependent claims

A tank located in an apparatus having a liquid consuming device and configured to store liquid to be supplied to the liquid consuming device, comprising:

a case including a pair of lateral walls separated in a first direction with the tank in a usable posture;
a first chamber and a second chamber configured to store the liquid;
a liquid channel communicating the second chamber and the outside of the case;
a liquid inlet port via which the liquid is poured into the first chamber;
a first communicating port communicating the first chamber and the second chamber;
and
a second communicating port communicating the second chamber and the liquid channel,
wherein under a condition that the first chamber and the second chamber store the liquid at the maximum amount storable in the tank in the usable posture and that the tank is in a rotated posture in which one of the pair of lateral walls becomes the upper end of the tank in a vertical direction, the first communicating port is positioned above a level of the liquid at the maximum amount.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.