Liquid supplying reservoir
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorHiroyuki Ootsuka
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Abstract
A liquid supplying reservoir enabling preventing overflow of liquid from a supply opening when a cap covering the supply opening is removed is provided. The ink supplying reservoir includes: a reservoir main body which is filled with a liquid, and at which a supply opening, from which the liquid is supplied to the outside, is formed; a cap which is fixed to the reservoir main body so as to cover the supply opening, and which is separated from the reservoir main body when a force of a predetermined value or greater acts thereon; and a flexible closing member, which is accommodated within the cap at a position or an orientation where the supply opening is not closed by the closing member and so as to be separable from the cap, and which is moved to close the supply opening when the cap is separated from the reservoir main body.
Claims16
A liquid supplying reservoir comprising:
- a reservoir main body which is filled with a liquid, and at which a supply opening, from which the liquid is supplied to the outside, is formed;
- a cap which is fixed to the reservoir main body so as to cover the supply opening, and which is separated from the reservoir main body when a force of a predetermined value or greater acts thereon;
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- a flexible closing member, which is accommodated within the cap at a position or an orientation where the supply opening is not closed by the closing member and so as to be separable from the cap, and which is moved to close the supply opening when the cap is separated from the reservoir main body.
A liquid supplying reservoir comprising:
- a reservoir main body which is filled with a liquid, and at which a supply opening, from which the liquid is supplied to the outside, is formed;
- a cap which is fixed to the reservoir main body so as to cover the supply opening, and which is separated from the reservoir main body when a force of a predetermined value or greater acts thereto;
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- a plate-shaped member at which a through hole whose shape corresponds to a shape of the supply opening is formed, and which is fixed to an inner side of the cap so as to cover the supply opening, a position or an orientation of the through hole not corresponding to a position or an orientation of the supply opening in a state where the cap is fixed to the reservoir main body, and the position or the orientation of the through hole corresponding to the position or the orientation of the supply opening when the cap is separated from the reservoir main body;
- a flexible closing member having a shape corresponding to the shape of the supply opening, which is pushed into the through hole so as to be separable from the through hole, and which closes the supply opening together with the plate-shaped member in a state of being pushed into the through hole;
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- a moving member provided so as to move the closing member toward the reservoir main body, and which moves to separate the closing member from the plate-shaped member and to push the closing member into the supply opening when the position or the orientation of the through hole corresponds to the position or the orientation of the supply opening.
A liquid supplying reservoir comprising:
- a reservoir main body which is filled with a liquid, and at which a supply opening, from which the liquid is supplied to the outside, is formed;
- a cap which is fixed to the reservoir main body so as to cover the supply opening, and which is separated from the reservoir main body when a force of a predetermined value or greater acts thereto;
- a plate-shaped member at which a through hole whose shape corresponds to a shape of the supply opening is formed, and which is fixed to an inner side of the cap such that the plate-shaped member blocks the supply opening at a portion at which the through hole is not formed in a state where the cap is fixed to the reservoir main body;
- a flexible closing member having a shape corresponding to the shape of the supply opening, which is pushed into the through hole so as to be separable from the through hole;
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- a moving member provided so as to move the closing member toward the reservoir main body, and which moves to separate the closing member from the through hole and to push the closing member into the supply opening when the position of the through hole corresponds to the position of the supply opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.