US 12,304,210 B2
Liquid container
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. 17/823,163.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-141925 (JP), filed on Aug. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0062535 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 29/13 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17509 (2013.01) [B41J 2/175 (2013.01); B41J 2/1754 (2013.01); B41J 2/17553 (2013.01); B41J 29/13 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid container comprising:
a main body in which an internal space configured to store a liquid to be supplied to a tank of a liquid consuming apparatus is formed; and
a cap configured to be attached to the main body, wherein
the main body includes:
an upper surface;
a nozzle projecting upward from the upper surface and having an opening formed in a forward end surface of the nozzle;
a circular wall positioned in a surrounding of the nozzle with a spacing distance with respect to the nozzle, the circular wall projecting upward from the upper surface; and
a key member corresponding to a receiver key member provided on surrounding of a supply port of the tank, and
the cap includes a circular contacting part configured to liquid-tightly make contact with an upper end of the circular wall in an attached state in which the cap is attached to the main body.