Waste liquid recovery apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorTsutomu Kobayashi
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Abstract
A waste liquid recovery apparatus includes a container body; a liquid absorbing body which is accommodated in the container body and absorbs liquid discharged as a waste liquid; and a sealing member which seals the container body, wherein a first space into which liquid is discharged from a liquid ejecting head and a second space which links with the outside through a ventilation hole formed in the sealing member are formed in a space closed by the container body and the sealing body, and the first space and the second space are connected with each other at the ventilation hole side.
Claims9
A waste liquid recovery apparatus, comprising:
- a container body having a bottom surface and one or more side walls extending from the bottom surface;
- a liquid absorbing body which is accommodated in the container body and absorbs liquid discharged as a waste liquid;
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- a sealing member which covers an opening located in a top portion of the container body that is defined by the one or more side walls and is opposite the bottom surface,
- wherein a first space into which the liquid is discharged from a liquid ejecting head and a second space which is linked with the outside are at least partially defined by the liquid absorbing body, and
- wherein a partition member which extends upward from the bottom of the container body and is located between the first space and the second space in a view of the direction opposed to the bottom surface such that the liquid discharged into the first space diffuses in the direction that goes away from the second space through the liquid absorbing body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.