US 12,263,681 B2
Image recording apparatus, system, and method to perform proper charging after cartridge replacement
Taichiro Kimoto, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/052,279.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-193028 (JP), filed on Nov. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0166514 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/085 (2006.01); B41J 2/14 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17506 (2013.01) [B41J 2/085 (2013.01); B41J 2/14024 (2013.01); B41J 2/17546 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17569 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image recording apparatus comprising:
an attachment case configured to support a cartridge attached thereto of a plurality of different types of attachable cartridges, the plurality of different types of cartridges including a first cartridge and a second cartridge;
a tank configured to store liquid supplied from the cartridge attached to the attachment case;
a head connected with the tank, the head having a nozzle configured to eject the liquid;
a memory; and
a controller configured to:
make a transition of an operational mode of the controller between a first mode and a second mode, the first mode representing an operational state where a contract for a service using the first cartridge has been made, the second mode representing an operational state where the contract for the service has not been made; and
in the first mode, store a first tank liquid volume and a second tank liquid volume in the memory, the first tank liquid volume representing, when the first cartridge is attached to the attachment case, an amount of liquid supplied from the first cartridge and stored in the tank, the second tank liquid volume representing, when the second cartridge is attached to the attachment case, an amount of liquid supplied from the second cartridge and stored in the tank.