Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image-recording apparatus including cartridge, tank connectable to the cartridge and detection component
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Application No.: US15881855Application Date: 2018-01-29
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Publication No.: US10556439B2Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Inventor: Masahiro Hayashi , Akinari Ishibe , Yuma Tanabe , Masatake Sato , Akihito Kobayashi
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-Ken
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-Ken
- Agency: Merchant & Gould P.C.
- Priority: JP2017-016379 20170131
- Main IPC: B41J2/175
- IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract:
An image-recording apparatus includes a cartridge including a first storage chamber, a tank including a second storage chamber, a head, and a detection component for detecting a residual amount of liquid in the second chamber. The cartridge is connectable to the tank. The first storage chamber and second storage chamber are both allowed to communicate with an atmosphere. The tank includes a first base portion and a first protruding portion protruding from a lower end portion of the first base portion in a first direction perpendicular to a vertical direction. Internal spaces of the first base portion and the first protruding portion communicate each other to constitute part of the second storage chamber. The detection component is positioned: above the first protruding portion; to overlap with the first base portion as viewed in the first direction; and to overlap with the first protruding portion as viewed in the vertical direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180215164A1 IMAGE-RECORDING APPARATUS INCLUDING CARTRIDGE, TANK CONNECTABLE TO THE CARTRIDGE AND DETECTION COMPONENT Public/Granted day:2018-08-02
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