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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
May. 28, 2008
Applicant:
Takaichiro Umeda, Nagoya, JP;
Inventor:
Takaichiro Umeda, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An inkjet printer includes a recording head configured to eject ink onto a recording medium, an ink tank configured to store the ink to be supplied to the recording head, the ink tank having an expandable and contractible bellows portion, and at least one deformation-preventing member configured to contact an outer surface of the bellows portion and configured to prevent the ink tank from deforming in a direction intersecting with an expanding and contracting direction in which the ink tank expands and contracts.