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US 6,746,110 B2Granted
Liquid container and liquid supply system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroki Hayashi
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Abstract
A liquid container includes a container body; a liquid retaining member, provided in the container body, for absorbing and retaining liquid therein, the liquid retaining member having a surface to be contacted by a filter provided at a free end of liquid receiving means to supply the liquid to an outside, wherein the surface of the liquid retaining member is provided with pits and projections, the pits being out of contact with the filter, and the projections being contacted with the filter when the liquid retaining member and the filter are contacted.
Claims14
A liquid container comprising:
- a container body;
- a liquid retaining member, provided in said container body, for absorbing and retaining liquid therein, said liquid retaining member having a surface to be contacted by a filter provided at a free end of liquid receiving means to supply the liquid to an outside,
- wherein said surface of said liquid retaining member is provided with a pattern of pits and projections, the pits being out of contact with the filter when said liquid retaining member and the filter are contacted, and
- wherein the pits and projections are formed by contacting a contact member to said surface of said liquid retaining member and by heating and melting said surface while in contact with the contact member, wherein the contact member has a surface pattern corresponding to the pattern of pits and projections on said surface of said liquid retaining member, thus transferring the surface pattern.
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A liquid supplying system comprising:
- a liquid container having therein a liquid retaining member for absorbing and retaining liquid;
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- liquid receiving means for receiving the liquid from said liquid container through a filter contacted to said liquid retaining member,
- wherein pits and projections are formed on a surface of said liquid retaining member contactable to said filter or on said filter, the liquid retaining member and the filter being out of contact with each other at the pits and being contacted with each other at the projections, and
- wherein the pits and projections are formed by contacting a contact member to said surface of said liquid retaining member and by heating and melting said surface while in contact with the contact member, wherein the contact member has a surface pattern corresponding to the pattern of pits and projections on said surface of said liquid retaining member, thus transferring the surface pattern.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.