US 12,269,272 B2
Liquid discharge apparatus and liquid storage container
Mineyoshi Tomie, Saitama (JP); Hideaki Matsumura, Tokyo (JP); Yuri Mori, Tokyo (JP); Ken Takenaga, Kanagawa (JP); Daiju Takeda, Kanagawa (JP); Koki Shimada, Kanagawa (JP); Tsuyoshi Saeki, Kanagawa (JP); Shota Asada, Tokyo (JP); and Hiromasa Tsutsumi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/064,145.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-201109 (JP), filed on Dec. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0182476 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 29/13 (2006.01); B41J 2/135 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17553 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17509 (2013.01); B41J 2/17513 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid discharge apparatus comprising:
a liquid discharge head configured to discharge liquid to a medium; and
a liquid storage container including:
a reservoir portion configured to reserve the liquid that is supplied to the liquid discharge head,
a liquid injection portion configured to allow a liquid injection container for injecting the liquid into the reservoir portion to be inserted in the liquid injection portion in a first direction,
a liquid holding unit provided at a position spaced apart from the liquid injection portion and capable of holding the liquid, and
a liquid guide portion configured to guide the liquid from the liquid injection portion to the liquid holding unit in a second direction intersecting with the first direction,
wherein the liquid guide portion includes a first protrusion portion provided so as to surround an outer surface of the liquid injection portion,
wherein the first protrusion portion includes a first opening portion on at least a part of a portion that faces the liquid holding unit in the second direction,
wherein the liquid holding unit includes a first liquid holding unit and a second holding unit,
wherein the first liquid holding unit is formed using an absorber capable of absorbing the liquid and provided at a position that faces the first opening portion of the liquid guide portion, and
wherein the second liquid holding unit is provided so as to surround the liquid guide portion therearound and includes a second opening portion on at least a part of a portion that faces the first opening portion of the liquid guide portion.