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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2009
Manabu Yamada, Matsumoto, JP;
Takeshi Komaki, Matsumoto, JP;
Manabu Yamada, Matsumoto, JP;
Takeshi Komaki, Matsumoto, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fluid storage container enables the easy removal of recovered fluid and reuse of the container without incurring the added costs of disassembly and replacing an absorbent material. In one exemplary embodiment, an ink cartridgecan have an ink storage unitthat stores waste ink, an ink inlet/outletdisposed in a frame partthat can be the outside wall of the ink storage unit, an ink pathof which one endcommunicates with the ink inlet/outletand the other endis disposed opening into the ink storage unit, wall partsthat divide the ink storage unitinto an upper air chamberand a lower fluid chamberthat communicate with each other through a communication path, and an outside air channel, of which one endcommunicates with the air chamberand the other endenables communication with the outside at a position further from the air chamberthan the fluid chamber. Other embodiments of fluid storage containers are also disclosed.