Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Akinori Igarashi

Suguru Tomoguchi

Yoshinori Osakabe

Tomohisa Higuchi

Hisaki Sakurai

Akira Shinoda

Masataka Kamiya

Tadanobu Chikamoto

Noritsugu Ito

Hideki Shioya

Shuichi Tamaki

There is provided an ink-jet printer, including a casing, a recording head arranged in the casing and configured to jet the ink, and a tank arranged in the casing and configured to store ink which is to be supplied to the recording head. The tank includes: an ink chamber; a lower wall located lower the ink chamber; an upper wall located upper the ink chamber; an inlet communicating with the ink chamber; a positioning section disposed on the lower wall; and a connecting section provided to project from the upper wall and connected to an ink tube.

Ink-jet printer

There is provided a tank including a liquid storage chamber and an outlet. The liquid storage chamber includes a base portion and a protruding portion, the base portion includes a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall which faces the first lateral wall in a left-right direction, the protruding portion protrudes from the second lateral wall in a direction away from the first lateral wall in the left-right direction, and the left-right direction is defined based on a usable posture in which the tank is disposed such that a lower surface of the liquid storage chamber is located below an upper surface of the liquid storage chamber. A distance between the outlet and the second lateral wall in the left-right direction is smaller than a distance between the outlet and the first lateral wall in the left-right direction.

Liquid discharge apparatus

A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a casing; a tank configured to store liquid and having a first side wall and a second side wall which face each other, a rear wall, an inlet, and a connecting portion; a conveying mechanism configured to convey a recording medium along a conveying path extending in a first direction; a carriage configured to move in a second direction in which the first side wall and the second side wall face each other so as to define a movement area having a range in the second direction, the range of the movement area having first and second ends spaced apart in the second direction; a tube connected to the connecting portion; and a head mounted on the carriage and having a nozzle configured to jet the liquid onto the recording medium conveyed by the conveying mechanism.

Liquid jetting apparatus

There is provided a tank including: a wall defining a liquid storage chamber, the wall including: an upper wall defining an upper end of the liquid storage chamber, a lower wall defining a lower end of the liquid storage chamber, and an erected wall between the upper wall and the lower wall and through which the liquid inside the liquid storage chamber is visible from outside of the tank; an inlet penetrating through the upper wall or the erected wall; and an outlet, wherein the lower wall includes an upper stage wall making contact with the erected wall; a lower stage wall located at a position separated and away from the erected wall and below the upper stage wall; and a connecting wall connecting the upper and lower stage walls; and the outlet is disposed below the upper stage wall.

Tank and liquid droplet jetting apparatus connected to the same

There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus including a casing, a liquid consuming section, and a tank. The tank includes a box-shaped body having a light-transmitting property and having five walls and a partition wall; a film adhered to rear end portions of the walls; and a positioning section disposed at least on an outer surface of each of the upper and lower walls, or of each of the right and left walls. In a state that the liquid consuming apparatus is placed on a horizontal plane, the box-shaped body is positioned at a posture at which the positioning section is brought into contact with the casing to thereby allow the front wall to be exposed from a side surface of the casing which extends in a direction crossing the horizontal plane, and at which the rear end portions are located inside the casing.

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus which includes a tank including a liquid storage chamber, an inlet, a liquid lead-out channel, and an atmosphere communication channel, a conveyance mechanism, a carriage, and a head. A lower end of the inlet is positioned at a lower side of the nozzles, and the liquid storage chamber is arranged at a position shifted from the nozzles, in a first-direction side of the front-rear direction, and shifted from the conveyance route, to a second-direction side of the left-right direction. The liquid storage chamber is connected to the liquid outflow channel at a position on a lower side of a center in a up-down direction of the liquid storage chamber, and in the first direction from a center in the front-rear direction of the liquid storage chamber, and on the second-direction side of a center in the left-right direction of the liquid storage chamber.

A liquid jetting apparatus includes a casing, a tank formed with a liquid storage chamber which stores liquid, an inlet which allows the liquid to be poured into the liquid storage chamber, and a liquid outflow channel which allows the liquid to flow out from the liquid storage chamber, a conveying mechanism which conveys a recording medium along a conveying path extending in a front-rear direction, a carriage which moves in a left-right direction, and a head mounted on the carriage and having a nozzle which jets the liquid onto the recording medium conveyed by the conveying mechanism. The tank, the conveying path, and the carriage are arranged inside the casing, the tank is arranged outside the conveying path in the left-right direction, and at least a part of the tank is arranged inside both ends of a movement area of the carriage in the left-right direction.

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Kasugai, Japan

Akinori Igarashi