Liquid storage container
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKyosuke NAGAOKA, Ryoji INOUE, Noriyasu NAGAI, Kenta UDAGAWA, Hideaki MATSUMURA, Taiji MARUYAMA
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Abstract
A liquid storage container includes: a discharge port member including a discharge port through which liquid stored in a storage portion is discharged and a coupling portion in which a male thread portion is arranged on the outside; and a cover portion including a female thread portion on the inside and configured to be attachable to the discharge port member, the female thread portion configured to be screwed to the male thread portion, in which the male thread portion is discontinuous in the coupling portion.
Claims16
An ink bottle for replenishing an ink tank of an inkjet printing apparatus with ink, the ink bottle comprising:
- a storage portion which contains ink;
- a discharge port portion connected to the storage portion and including a discharge port through which ink stored in the storage portion can be discharged and a coupling portion in which a male thread portion is arranged on the outside;
- and
- a cover portion including a female thread portion on the inside and configured to be attachable and detachable to the discharge port portion, the female thread portion configured to be screwed to the male thread portion, wherein
- in the coupling portion, the male thread portion is discontinuous in the coupling portion and the discontinuous male thread portion forms one helical shape as a whole,
- the discharge port portion viewed from an ink discharge direction has:
- a plurality of arc portions including first to fourth arc portions which are along a circle formed by a diameter of a portion of the coupling portion excluding a projecting portion of the male thread portion and include the male thread portion;
- a plane portion including a first plane portion and a second plane portion formed on an inner radial side of the circle and provided rotationally symmetrically by 180° with respect to a center of the circle;
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- a plurality of recess portions including a first recess portion and a second recess portion formed on the inner radial side of the circle,
- the first arc portion, the first plane portion, and the second arc portion are continuously provided in this order,
- the third arc portion, the second plane portion, and the fourth arc portion are continuously provided in this order,
- the first recess portion is provided between the first arc portion and the third arc portion, and
- the second recess portion is provided between the second arc portion and the fourth arc portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.