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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2012
Yoshinori Kato, Nagoya, JP;
Yoshinori Kato, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-Shi, JP;
Abstract
An ink cartridge includes an ink bag including two flexible sheets disposed to face each other, a plug, a case including a first wall portion and a second wall portion arranged in parallel, a third wall portion arranged perpendicularly with respect to the pair of wall portions, and a penetration portion, the case housing the ink bag such that sheet surfaces of the two sheets respectively face the first wall portion and the second wall portion, and a pressing member including a curved portion toward the outside and a sheet having lower flexibility than that of the two sheets, wherein between the ink bag and the first wall portion, the pressing member is elastically deformed and a restoring force occurs by one section of the curved portion contacting with the first wall portion and another section of the curved portion contacting with one of the two sheets.