Tank
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTaichi Shirono
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Abstract
A tank includes: a wall separating a liquid storage chamber, which stores a liquid to be supplied to a liquid consuming part, from an outside; an inlet penetrating the wall; and a liquid outflow part which allows the liquid to flow to the outside of the liquid storage chamber. The wall includes a view wall, which extends upward and downward and allows a user to visually check a liquid level in the liquid storage chamber, and a bottom wall, which defines an inner bottom surface of the liquid storage chamber by being connected to the view wall. The inner bottom surface of the bottom wall includes an inclined part which extends from at least a part of the view wall to incline downward in a direction away from the view wall.
Claims18
A refillable tank configured to store a liquid, comprising:
- a liquid storage chamber;
- a wall defining the liquid storage chamber,
- the wall including a view wall and a bottom wall, the view wall having transparency or translucency, the view wall extending in an up-down direction, and the bottom wall being connected to the view wall to define an inner bottom surface of the liquid storage chamber;
- a refill inlet which penetrates the wall and through which the liquid is refilled into the liquid storage chamber;
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- a liquid outflow part configured to allow the liquid to flow to the outside of the liquid storage chamber,
- wherein the inner bottom surface of the bottom wall includes an inclined surface which is formed in at least a part of the bottom wall connected to the view wall, and which extends downward in a direction away from the view wall, and
- wherein the inclined part includes a groove extending downward from the boundary between the view wall and the inclined part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.