US 11,833,831 B2
Ink-jet printing apparatus
Hiroshi Miyamoto, Kanagawa (JP); and Yasunori Takei, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/045,237.
Application 18/045,237 is a continuation of application No. 17/153,437, filed on Jan. 20, 2021, granted, now 11,498,339.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-011245 (JP), filed on Jan. 27, 2020; and application No. 2020-183922 (JP), filed on Nov. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0116519 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 29/02 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/1752 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17566 (2013.01); B41J 29/02 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17576 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ink-jet printing apparatus comprising:
an ink-cartridge mounting unit configured to include an ink cartridge mounted to the ink-cartridge mounting unit and having a first ink chamber configured to contain ink; and
a second ink chamber configured to store ink supplied from the first ink chamber,
wherein the ink-jet printing apparatus is configured such that, in a case where the ink cartridge is mounted to the ink-cartridge mounting unit, the ink stored inside the second ink chamber can be viewed by a user from outside of the ink-jet printing apparatus through transparency in the second ink chamber, and
wherein 0.5 L≤d≤1.2 L is satisfied, where d is a length of the second ink chamber, and L is a length of the ink cartridge in a direction in which the ink cartridge is inserted into the ink-jet printing apparatus.