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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hirofumi Hirano, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/21 ; B41J 2/175 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/21 ; B41J 2/175 ;
Abstract
A recording apparatus is capable of reducing number of ink container, contributing enhancement of gradation, and is inexpensive and compact, and particularly suitable for serial type ink-jet printer. The recording apparatus has recording heads which can eject a plurality of kinds of inks and have ejection orifice arrays arranged in two columns for ejecting respective two kinds of inks per respective arrays, and ink cartridges respectively having integrally formed two ink containers in a direction perpendicular to the ejection orifices arrays.