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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002

Filed:

Dec. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Takao Koyama, Ashikaga, JP;

Kazuhisa Kirita, Gunma, JP;

Atsushi Iwasa, Saitama, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B43K 5/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B43K 5/18 ;
Abstract

A free-ink type writing instrument includes: an ink tank for holding ink; a temporary ink collector for temporarily retaining the ink flowing out from the ink tank; a partitioning wall separating the ink tank and the temporary ink collector; and a pen core disposed from the ink tank, penetrating through the partitioning wall and the ink collector so as to allow ink to flow out from the ink tank, and is characterized in that the storage volume Vc of the ink collector and the ink tank volume Vo satisfy the relation Vc≧0.18 Vo.


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