Ink container and mounting method of the ink container
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNobuyuki Matsumoto, Hajime Kaneko
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Abstract
An ink container capable of being simply mounted in a holder with a small working space includes a rib-like guide portion for determining a mounting path during mounting of the ink container in a head cartridge at a side surface. The head cartridge includes a holder portion provided with a sliding projection which slides in contact with the guide portion. When the ink container is mounted, a user moves the ink container so that a first inclined portion first contacts the sliding projection and thereafter the ink contained is moved in an obliquely below direction toward the head cartridge while sliding the sliding projection along the first inclined portion.
Claims4
An ink container mountable to an ink container holder for providing ink in said ink container to an ink jet printer, wherein the ink container holder includes a sliding projection, said ink container comprising:
- an ink container main body which includes a supply port from which ink is supplied to the ink jet printer;
- a rail-like continuous surface formed continuously at a first side surface of said ink container main body;
- wherein said rail-like continuous surface includes at least a first guide surface for guiding said ink container main body to a mounting position of the ink container holder in contact with the sliding projection, and further includes a fixing surface for engaging with the sliding projection of the ink container holder to positionally fix said ink container main body to the ink container holder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.