Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

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Kyoraku Co., Ltd.

Eiichiro Shimizu

Hajime Yamamoto

Hiroki Hayashi

Hiroshi Koshikawa

Kenji Kitabatake

Shozo Hattori

Tsutomu Abe

Tatsuo Nanjo

Masanori Takenouchi

Sadayuki Sugama

Masahiko Higuma

Yasuo Kotaki

Masami Ikeda

Jun Hinami

Naohito Asai

Hitoshi Sugimoto

Masaya Uetsuki

Hiromitsu Hirabayashi

Noribumi Koitabashi

Shinichi Sato

Shigeyasu Nagoshi

Kenjiro Watanabe

Yuji Akiyama

Yukuo Yamaguchi

Fumihiro Gotoh

Nobuyuki Hatasa

Takahiro Mori

Miyuki Matsubara

Kenta Udagawa

Keisuke Matsuo

Teruo Arashima

Wataru Takahashi

Kazuaki Masuda

Shuzo Iwanaga

Hiroyuki Tokuda

Mikio Sanada

Haruyuki Matsumoto

Toshimi Chiba

Hidehisa Matsumoto

Hiromasa Anma

Toshio Kashino

Minoru Nozawa

Yoshinori Kojima

Hiroyuki Ishinaga

Seiichiro Karita

Fumitaka Goto

Hiroki Tajima

Akihiro Yamanaka

Tsuyoshi Orikasa

Masahiko Igaki

Hideki Ogura

Masaru Iketani

Takeshi Kono

Shinichi Miyauchi

Yoshihiko Sugimura

Masao Kato

Seiji Suzuki

Keiichiro Tsukuda

Hiroshi Sugitani

Yuji Hamasaki

Hiroshi Sato

Yoshinori Misumi

Minako Kato

Takayuki Ono

Takeshi Okazaki

Miyuki Fujita

Torachika Osada

Masao Nakamura

Yoshihisa Takizawa

Kazuya Yoshii

Masami Kasamoto

Jun Kawai

Masataka Isomoto

Junji Shimoda

Tetsuya Sekine

Yuji Kamiyama

Shosaku Kawashima

Norihiro Ikebe

Hirofumi Okuhara

Yasunori Senshiki

Takeshi Kohno

Tetsuya Fukumoto

Tsunenobu Satoi

Takatoshi Kitagawa

Tomoyuki Kaneda

Yoshio Koike

Chiyoshi Inoue

Haruo Morita

Tetsuya Hase

Ishigorou Takahashi, Deceased

Koudai Noguchi

A liquid container detachably mountable to first and second locking portions of a mounting portion of an apparatus. The liquid container includes a casing for containing liquid and a supply port for supplying the liquid to an ink jet head. At respective first and second sides of the casing, first and second engaging portions are provided, respectively engageable with the first and second locking portions. A supporting member displaceably supports the second engaging portion, and a contact is contactable to a member provided in the mounting portion to permit of display information relating to the liquid container. The supply port is disposed in a third side of the casing which is between the first and second sides, and the contact is disposed at a corner region between the second and third sides.

Liquid container

Ink tank for printer

The liquid cartridge includes a housing configured to accommodate the liquid container for storing liquid, a groove portion formed on an outer surface of the housing, a liquid lead-out opening, formed on a bottom surface of the groove portion communicating with the liquid container and configured such that the liquid lead-out path for guiding the liquid inside the liquid container to the outside is connected to or disconnected from the liquid lead-out path, a flow path extending toward the inside of the housing from an end of the groove portion in a liquid dripping direction, and a liquid absorbing member provided at an end opposite to the groove portion of the flow path.

Liquid cartridge and liquid jet apparatus

A liquid container detachably mountable to a mounting portion of an ink jet recording apparatus, the liquid container including a casing defining a liquid containing chamber, an electrical contact, a light emitter, a display portion for directing emitted light to an outside of the liquid container, and an information storing portion for storing information relating to the liquid container. First and second engaging portions are engageable with respective first and second locking portions of the mounting portion, and are disposed at opposite first and second sides of the casing. A latch lever displaceably supports the second engaging portion away from the second side. A supply port is provided on a third side of the casing between the first and second sides, the electrical contact is disposed at a corner between the second and third sides, and the display portion is disposed adjacent an upper portion of the second side.

Liquid container and manufacturing method therefor

A liquid container detachably mountable to a mounting portion of an apparatus, the mounting portion including a first locking portion and a second locking portion, the liquid container including a casing for containing liquid and a supply port for supplying the liquid to an ink jet head, the liquid container includes a first engaging portion provided at a first side of the casing and engageable with the first locking portion; a second engaging portion provided opposed to a second side of the casing which is opposite the first side, the second engaging portion being engageable with the second locking portion; a supporting member for displaceably supporting the second engaging portion; a contact contactable to a member provided in the mounting portion to permit information display means to display information relating to the liquid container, wherein the supply port is disposed in a third side of the casing which is between the first side and the second side, and the contact is disposed at a corner region between the second side and the third side.

A liquid container detachably mountable to a mounting portion of an ink jet printer including an information storing portion for storing information relating to the liquid container; a controller controls light emission of a light emitting portion, based on individual information corresponding to the ink container, supplied through a container contact from a printer contact, and the discrimination information stored in the memory; a light guide member having a light incident portion and a light emergence portion, the light guide member configured to guide the light entered from the light incident portion to the light emergence portion so as to cause a light receptor to receive the light emerged from the light emergence portion to obtain light reception information used for discriminating properness of position of the ink container mounted in the mounting portion.

A liquid container detachably mountable to a mounting portion of an ink jet recording apparatus, and which includes a liquid chamber, a light emitter, an electrical contact which receives a signal for light emission by the light emitter, and a display portion which directs emitted light from the light emitter toward an outside of the liquid container. A latch lever is elastically deformable and has a latching portion spaced from a first side of the liquid container, the first side being between the latching portion and the liquid chamber. A liquid supply port is disposed at a second side of the liquid container. The electrical contact is disposed at a position which is between the latching portion and the liquid supply port as seen facing both of the first and second sides, and the display portion is disposed adjacent to an upper portion, in use, of the first side.

A recording liquid container for containing liquid for recording to be supplied to recording means, said recording liquid container being detachably mountable to a mounting portion of a recording device, said recording liquid container includes an information memory medium storing predetermined information; wireless sending means capable of wireless sending of a predetermined information in said information memory medium within a predetermined range; a wireless communication antenna for wirelessly sending radio wave; and communication property changing means for changing a communication property of the wireless sending.

Recording liquid container, ink jet recording apparatus, and cartridge collecting apparatus

A packaging structure for a liquid container including a liquid containing portion accommodating liquid, a liquid supply portion for supplying the liquid to an outside and an air vent for fluid communication with an ambience, the packing structure includes a covering member for covering and sealing the liquid supply portion and the air vent; the covering member including; an air vent sealing portion for sealing the air vent and a liquid supply portion sealing portion for sealing the liquid supply portion, and a connecting region for covering a connecting side of the liquid container which connects the air vent sealing portion and the liquid supply portion sealing portion, wherein the liquid supply portion sealing portion effects non-adhering sealing for the liquid supply portion, and the connecting region provides a resistance against unsealing of the liquid supply portion.

Liquid container sealing jacket, and method for unsealing liquid container fitted with liquid container jacket

A liquid container includes a negative pressure producing member accommodating chamber accommodating a negative pressure producing member for absorbing and retaining the liquid, and a liquid containing chamber for containing the liquid. The liquid containing chamber is in fluid communication with the negative pressure producing member accommodating chamber through a communicating portion, and is substantially sealed except for the communicating portion. A partition wall partitions the liquid container into the negative pressure producing member accommodating chamber and the liquid containing chamber except for the communicating portion. The negative pressure producing member is provided with a recess at a position corresponding to the communicating portion, wherein the recess forms a space and a ceiling portion of the space provided functions as a gas introduction surface which is substantially horizontal when the liquid container is in an in-use orientation.

Liquid container for ink jet recording apparatus with structure to promote gas-liquid exchange

A packaging structure for a liquid container including a liquid containing portion accommodating liquid, a liquid supply portion for supplying the liquid to an outside and an air vent for fluid communication with an ambience, the packing structure includes a covering member for covering and sealing the liquid supply portion and the air vent; the covering member including; an air vent sealing portion for sealing the air vent and a liquid supply portion sealing portion for sealing the liquid supply portion and a connecting region for covering a connecting side of the liquid container which connects the air vent sealing portion and the liquid supply portion sealing portion, wherein the liquid supply portion sealing portion effects non-adhering sealing for the liquid supply portion, and the connecting region provides a resistance against unsealing of the liquid supply portion.

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Yokohama, Japan

Eiichiro Shimizu