Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takanori Yashiro

Tatsuo Nanjo

Chiaki Muraoka

Yuji Tamaru

Hirofumi Okuhara

Kazumasa Matsushita

Satoshi Shimazu

Toshiaki Kaneko

Naoya Tsukamoto

A liquid replenishing system includes a liquid tank and a liquid storage bottle for storing liquid to be replenished to the liquid tank. The liquid tank includes a tank body, a cylindrical adapter, and a needle penetrating into the tank body inside the cylindrical adapter. One end of the needle is located outside the tank body and another end of the needle is located inside the tank body. The liquid storage bottle includes a bottle body, a nozzle having an ejection port for ejecting a liquid stored in the bottle body, and includes a slit valve provided at the ejection port. In a case where the nozzle of the liquid storage bottle and the cylindrical adapter of the liquid tank are fitted to each other, one end of the needle is inserted into the slit valve so that the liquid storage bottle is secured to the liquid tank.

Liquid replenishing system

A recording head including: a supporting member including a depression and a peripheral portion in the periphery of the depression; a recording element substrate having an ejection port surface provided with an ejection port opening therein and arranged in the depression; and a tape adhered to the ejection port surface, wherein when viewing the recording head from above in a direction vertical to the ejection port surface, the recording element substrate and the peripheral portion are at least partly apart from each other via a groove, which is part of the depression, and the tape includes a portion located on the peripheral portion and a portion located on the groove at one lateral end thereof.

Recording head

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takanori Yashiro