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US 7,621,627 B2Granted
Liquid container
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTetsuya Ohashi, Ryoji Inoue, Hideki Ogura, Shogo Kawamura, Yasuo Kotaki
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTetsuya Ohashi, Ryoji Inoue, Hideki Ogura, Shogo Kawamura, Yasuo Kotaki
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A liquid container having a liquid containing portion adapted to contain a liquid, a supplying portion facilitating supplying the liquid from the liquid containing portion to outside, and an agitating member configured to agitate the liquid, in which the agitating member has a bending portion.
A liquid container comprising:
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Ink cartridges: inner structure
Mixing the contents of independent containers, e.g. test tubes: the containers being submitted to a rectilinear movement
Mixers with shaking, oscillating, or vibrating mechanisms: with pendulum stirrers, i.e. with stirrers suspended so as to oscillate about fixed…
Ink cartridges: mounting within the printer
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a liquid container (hereinafter referred to also as ink tank) for use in a recording apparatus which forms an image by discharging a recording agent such as ink. The present invention can be applied to a recording apparatus in general, and other apparatus such as a copying machine, a facsimile which has a communication system, a word processor which has a printing unit, or an industrial recording apparatus which is multiply combined with various processing apparatuses.
1. Description of the Related Art
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of the ink jet recording apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment in the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram for describing the internal mechanism of the apparatus.
Embodiments of the invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.
The ink jet recording apparatus on which the ink tank according to the present exemplary embodiment is mounted, is a non-impact recording apparatus which makes little noise when recording an image. In addition, since the apparatus can record onto various recording media at high speed, it is widely adopted as an apparatus serving as the recording mechanism in printers, word processors, facsimiles, and copying machines.
FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of the ink jet recording apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The recording apparatus mainly includes the apparatus body M1000 which performs the recording onto a recording medium, a paper feed unit M3022 for supplying a recording medium to the apparatus, and a paper ejection tray M1004 which receives the recording medium after the recording is performed.