Liquid container and printing apparatus to which the liquid container is mounted
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNobuyuki Hatasa, Tsutomu Abe
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Abstract
A liquid container for retaining a liquid which is detachably attached onto a main body of a printing apparatus that conducts printing by attaching the liquid onto a print medium, the liquid container includes a convex connecting portion which communicates with the main body of the printing apparatus, and a wall formed around the connecting portion, wherein the connecting portion includes an elastic member, and a leading edge of the connecting portion projected from the wall.
Claims15
A liquid container for storing a liquid to be supplied to a recording head of a printing apparatus, said liquid container being removably mountable to the printing apparatus, said liquid container comprising:
- a main container body defining a space for storing the liquid;
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- a connecting portion provided on a side surface of said main container body, said connecting portion being connectable to a supply route used for supplying the liquid to the recording head,
- wherein a most forward leading edge of said connecting portion is projected outwardly beyond a most forward leading edge of the side surface of said main container body and is elastically displaceable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.