US 11,697,288 B2
Liquid supplying apparatus
Yoshinori Osakabe, Seto (JP); Taichi Shirono, Nagoya (JP); Fumio Nakazawa, Okazaki (JP); and Sosuke Kuroyanagi, Nishio (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/488,590.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-164753 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0097401 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17553 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17523 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid supplying apparatus, comprising:
a reservoir section having a reservoir chamber configured to store liquid; and
a communication section connecting the reservoir chamber and a hole, the hole being open to an outside of the liquid supplying apparatus, the communication section having:
a first wall and a second wall, a distance between the first wall and the second wall in an orthogonal direction increasing gradually toward a lower side of the liquid supplying apparatus being in a first rotated posture, in which the liquid supplying apparatus is rotated about a first axis extending along a horizontal direction by a first angle from a usable posture, in which the liquid is suppliable externally from the reservoir chamber, the orthogonal direction intersecting orthogonally with the first axis and a vertical direction in the liquid supplying apparatus being in the usable posture;
a first buffer space configured to store the liquid flowing on the first wall in the liquid supplying apparatus being in the first rotated posture; and
a second buffer space configured to store the liquid flowing on the second wall in the liquid supplying apparatus being in the first rotated posture,
wherein the hole is located at an upper position with respect to a surface of a predetermined maximum amount of the liquid storable in the reservoir chamber in the liquid supplying apparatus being in the usable posture, the hole being open neither to the first buffer space nor the second buffer space, the hole being located in neither the first wall nor the second wall.