Attachment, liquid container, and liquid supply apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsAtsushi Kobayashi, Hitotoshi Kimura
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Abstract
An attachment is mounted on a cartridge holder of a printer as a replacement of an ink cartridge. An ink outlet member having a link passage is separably secured to an attachment body. Ink is supplied from the exterior to the ink outlet member through an ink supply tube. When the attachment is mounted on the cartridge holder, a downstream end of the ink outlet member is positioned with respect to and connected to an ink supply needle of the printer. Accordingly, the attachment is easily and quickly installed in a liquid ejection apparatus. This reduces costs and makes it easy to use the attachment.
Claims9
An attachment that is mountable on a liquid ejection apparatus, a liquid retainer being detachably mounted on a mounting portion of the liquid ejection apparatus, the mounting portion having a liquid inlet portion through which a liquid is introduced from the liquid retainer, the liquid being supplied from the exterior of the liquid ejection apparatus to the attachment through a liquid supply passage, the attachment comprising:
- an attachment body that is mountable on the mounting portion as a replacement of the liquid retainer, the attachment body having a support portion;
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- a link portion that defines a link passage, the liquid in the liquid supply passage flowing into the mounting portion through the link passage,
- wherein the link portion is supported by the support portion of the attachment body in such a manner that, when the attachment body is mounted on the mounting portion, a downstream end of the link passage is positioned with respect to and connected to the liquid inlet portion;
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- wherein a downstream end of the liquid supply passage is connectable to an upstream end of the link passage of the link portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.