Fluid storage container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8979253-B2
Application number	US-201314082749-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 18, 2013
Priority date	Nov 14, 2008
Publication date	Mar 17, 2015
Grant date	Mar 17, 2015

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 cartridge 17 can have an ink storage unit 45 that stores waste ink, an ink inlet/outlet 55 disposed in a frame part 52 that can be the outside wall of the ink storage unit 45, an ink path 53 of which one end 53 a communicates with the ink inlet/outlet 55 and the other end 53 b is disposed opening into the ink storage unit, wall parts 54 that divide the ink storage unit 45 into an upper air chamber 61 and a lower fluid chamber 62 that communicate with each other through a communication path 58, and an outside air channel 87, of which one end 87 a communicates with the air chamber 61 and the other end 87 b enables communication with the outside at a position further from the air chamber 61 than the fluid chamber 62. Other embodiments of fluid storage containers are also disclosed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fluid storage container detachably connected to an apparatus comprising:
a body;
a first opening and a second opening disposed on the body;
a fluid storage unit provided in the body and configured to store fluid fed through the first opening;
an air path having a first end that communicates with the fluid storage unit and a second end that communicates with an outside environment;
a fluid path communicating with the first opening and the fluid stor…

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Yamada Manabu
• Komaki Takeshi

Classifications

• B41J29/02

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/17533 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/185 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• Y10T137/8593

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• B41J2/17513

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic