Liquid container for ink jet head
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHajime Kishida, Ken Tsuchii
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Abstract
An ink container has a liquid retaining member accommodation chamber for accommodating a liquid retaining member, which is in fluid communication with an ink accommodation chamber for accommodating ink through a fluid communication path. An ink introduction groove extends substantially along an entirety of an inner corner portion of a bottom wall of the ink accommodation chamber to the fluid communication path.
Claims27
An ink container, wherein a liquid retaining member accommodation chamber accommodating a liquid retaining member is in fluid communication with an ink accommodation chamber accommodating ink through a fluid communication path, the improvement comprising:
- an ink introduction groove extending along substantially an entirety of an inner corner portion, in use, of a bottom wall of said ink accommodation chamber, to said fluid communication path.
An ink container comprising:
- a first chamber accommodating a liquid absorbing material and having a liquid supply port for supplying liquid toward an ejection head for image formation and an air vent for fluid communication with ambient atmosphere;
- a second chamber for containing the liquid to be supplied to said first chamber, said second chamber being in fluid communication with said first chamber through a communicating portion provided adjacent a bottom portion, in use, of said ink container, said second chamber being substantially hermetically sealed except for said communicating portion;
- a partition wall for separating said first chamber and second chamber and defining a top end of said communicating portion, wherein said ink container has a substantially flat thin and rectangular parallelopiped configuration;
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- wherein a projected surface is projected toward an inside of said ink container at a part of an inner surface of each of maximum area lateral sides of said first chamber sandwiching a side having said liquid supply port, said projected surface adjacent said liquid supply port, and wherein said second chamber is provided with an ink introduction groove extending along substantially an entirety of an inner corner portion, in use, of a bottom wall of said second chamber to said communicating portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.