US 12,257,843 B2
Liquid supplying apparatus
Naoya Okazaki, Hashima (JP); Satoru Oki, Nagoya (JP); Nanami Abe, Niigata (JP); and Masahiro Hayashi, Nishio (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Aug. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/823,170.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-141929 (JP), filed on Aug. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0063184 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/175 (2013.01) 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid supplying apparatus comprising:
a liquid container in which an internal space configured to store a liquid is formed, the liquid container including:
an upper surface;
a nozzle projecting upward from the upper surface and having an opening formed in a forward end surface of the nozzle; and
a circular wall positioned in a surrounding of the nozzle with a spacing distance with respect to the nozzle, and projecting upward from the upper surface; and
a tank having a storing chamber configured to store the liquid, the tank further including:
a body including an outer wall having an inner surface defining the storing chamber and an outer surface opposed to the inner surface;
a projecting wall projecting from an upper surface of the body and defining a tank recessed part, the upper surface of the body being an upper portion of the outer surface of the outer wall; and
a communicating tube positioned in the tank recessed part and including a first channel and a second channel communicating the storing chamber with outside, wherein
the circular wall of the liquid container is inserted into the tank recessed part, and the communicating tube of the tank is inserted into the opening of the nozzle so as to allow the liquid to flow out from the internal space of the liquid container to the storing chamber of the tank, and
in a case that the liquid container is connected to the tank, the circular wall is positioned inside the projecting wall.