US 12,187,042 B2
Printing apparatus and liquid storing container
Koki Shimada, Kanagawa (JP); Nobuhiro Toki, Kanagawa (JP); Daiju Takeda, Kanagawa (JP); Fumie Kameyama, Tokyo (JP); Shota Asada, Tokyo (JP); Ken Takenaga, Kanagawa (JP); Yusuke Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Yuta Araki, Chiba (JP); Taiji Maruyama, Kanagawa (JP); Atsushi Matsuyama, Kanagawa (JP); Yusuke Naratani, Tokyo (JP); Kousuke Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Koya Iwakura, Kanagawa (JP); Hideaki Matsumura, Kanagawa (JP); and Tetsu Hamano, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/485,004.
Application 18/485,004 is a continuation of application No. 17/375,541, filed on Jul. 14, 2021, granted, now 11,827,024.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-130771 (JP), filed on Jul. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0042769 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17513 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17523 (2013.01); B41J 2/17553 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a carriage configured to move, and on which a first print head for ejecting color ink and a second print head for ejecting black ink are mounted; and
a storing container including:
a first storage chamber configured to store the color ink to be supplied to the first print head, the first storage chamber having an opening, sealed by a sealing member, on a first side of the storing container;
an injection port, detachably capped by a cap, configured to allow the color ink to be injected into the first storage chamber;
a second storage chamber configured to store air therein, and to be communicated with an external air in a state where the injection port is capped by the cap;
an upper limit indicator that indicates an upper limit of an amount of the color ink stored in the first storage chamber;
a communication port configured to communicate with the first storage chamber and the second storage chamber, the communication port being located at a position higher than the upper limit indicator in a case where the printing apparatus is in a posture in use; and
a groove configured to form a channel in which the color ink flows, the groove being formed on a second side, opposite to the first side, of the storing container.