US 11,745,510 B2
Inkjet recording apparatus and ink tank that prevents ink dripping when ink is injected into an ink tank
Koki Shimada, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/384,192.
Application 17/384,192 is a continuation of application No. 16/829,651, filed on Mar. 25, 2020, granted, now 11,097,547.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-071350 (JP), filed on Apr. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0347178 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 29/13 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17506 (2013.01) [B41J 2/1752 (2013.01); B41J 2/1754 (2013.01); B41J 2/17509 (2013.01); B41J 2/17513 (2013.01); B41J 2/17523 (2013.01); B41J 2/17553 (2013.01); B41J 29/13 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a first tank including:
a storage chamber configured to store printing material to be supplied to a printing unit configured to print an image with the printing material; and
an air communication portion configured to communicate an inside of the first tank with an outside of the first tank,
a first flow path configured to allow the printing material to flow from a bottle to the storage chamber;
a second flow path configured to allow air to flow from the storage chamber to the bottle; and
a communication portion configured to communicate the storage chamber with the outside of the first tank,
wherein an opening of the first flow path, an opening of the second flow path and the communication portion are detachably capped by a tank cap, and
wherein the air communication portion is not capped by the tank cap in a state where the communication portion is capped by the tank cap.