US 12,005,715 B2
Printing apparatus
Takuya Hane, Kanagawa (JP); and Takaya Sato, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/401,162.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-142110 (JP), filed on Aug. 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0063285 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/185 (2006.01); B41J 2/195 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17503 (2013.01) [B41J 2/185 (2013.01); B41J 2/195 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a tank configured to store a liquid to be supplied to a print head;
a first supply channel, which opens in the tank through a first supply port, configured to supply the liquid from the tank to the print head;
a first replenishment channel, which opens in the tank through a first replenishment port, configured to replenish the tank with the liquid;
a stirring unit in the tank, the stirring unit being configured to stir the liquid in the tank by rotating in a first rotation direction;
a control unit configured to control operation of replenishing the tank with the liquid through the first replenishment channel without an instruction by a user; and
a detecting unit configured to detect an amount of the liquid to be disposed in the tank,
wherein, in the tank, a first distance from the first supply port to the first replenishment port in the first rotation direction is less than a second distance from the first replenishment port to the first supply port in the first rotation direction.