US 12,187,044 B2
Ink container
Naoki Naito, Kitaazumi-gun Ikeda-machi (JP); Eiko Yanagida, Shiojiri (JP); and Yoshiharu Mizuno, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/163,639.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-015483 (JP), filed on Feb. 3, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0241899 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17536 (2013.01) 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ink container comprising:
a storage section configured to store an ink;
a supply tube configured to supply the ink stored in the storage section to a printer;
a sealing member disposed in the supply tube; and
a holding member configured to hold the sealing member, wherein
the holding member is detachably attached to the supply tube and has an indication that indicates that a refilling operation was performed, and
the indication is a color of the holding member.