Liquid supply method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHitoshi Matsumoto, Toshio Kumagai
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Abstract
A liquid ejecting apparatus including a main tank configured to agitate a liquid accommodated in the main tank; a sub tank configured to receive the liquid supplied from the main tank; heads that eject the liquid supplied from the sub tank; and a liquid supply tube having connector tubes that branch off to the heads respectively; a pump that sucks liquid from the main tank and discharges such liquid to the sub tank; and a valve separated from the pump that operates to allow or restrict flow of the liquid between the main tank and the sub tank. The main ink tank may include a drawer assembly, a portion of which is manually movable to agitate the liquid. The main tank may have a capacity that is greater than that of the sub tank.
Claims9
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:
- a main tank configured to agitate a liquid accommodated in the main tank;
- a sub tank configured to receive the liquid supplied from the main tank, the sub tank having a liquid capacity greater than that of the main tank;
- a plurality of heads that eject the liquid supplied from the sub tank;
- a liquid supply tube having a plurality of connector tubes that branch off to the plurality of heads respectively;
- a pump configured to suck the liquid from the main tank and discharge the liquid to the sub tank;
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- a valve separated from the pump, the valve operating to allow or restrict flow of the liquid between the main tank and the sub tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.