Ink container cartridge
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuo Kotaki, Masanori Takenouchi, Hideo Saikawa, Hisashi Yamamoto, Yuji Hamasaki
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Abstract
An ink container cartridge detachably mountable to an ink jet recording head, includes a main body of ink container cartridge; an ink retaining member, in the main body, for retaining the ink; wherein the ink retaining member is contained in the ink container cartridge so that a compression ratio A of the ink retaining member by a side having an ink supply opening of the ink container cartridge and a side opposite therefrom, and a compression ratio B by other two opposite sides thereof, satisfy A>B, and 1.1.ltoreq.A.ltoreq.1.6.
Claims8
An ink container detachably mountable to an ink jet recording head, comprising:
- a substantially hexahedron casing having a first pair of opposed sides and a second pair of opposed sides, one side of said first pair of opposed sides having an ink supply opening for supplying ink to said ink jet recording head;
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- an ink retaining member, in said casing, for retaining ink;
- wherein said ink retaining member is compressed in said casing so that a compression ratio A of said ink retaining member between said first pair of opposed sides is greater than a compression ratio B between said second pair of opposed sides and so that 1.1.ltoreq.A.ltoreq.1.6.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.