US 12,409,660 B2
Liquid discharging apparatus and waste liquid tank
Kazushige Saigusa, Nagoya (JP); Shohei Ichikawa, Niwa (JP); Fumiya Nakamura, Nagoya (JP); Kazuma Kobayashi, Nagoya (JP); Masako Kawagoe, Nagoya (JP); Haruhisa Shirai, Kasugai (JP); and Asami Hashimoto, Okazaki (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/192,923.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-062146 (JP), filed on Apr. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0311515 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/165 (2006.01); B41J 2/17 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/16523 (2013.01) [B41J 2/1721 (2013.01); B41J 2/1728 (2024.05)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid discharging apparatus, comprising:
a sheet conveyer path;
a liquid discharging head including nozzles for discharging liquid;
a cap configured to cover the liquid discharging head;
a liquid receiver located at a position different from the cap, the liquid receiver being configured to receive the liquid discharged from the liquid discharging head; and
a waste liquid tank demountably mounted in a housing of the liquid discharging apparatus, the waste liquid tank being configured to store the liquid received by the liquid receiver,
wherein the waste liquid tank is located at a position where the waste liquid tank at least partly overlaps a nozzle surface of the liquid discharging head in a direction intersecting orthogonally with the nozzle surface.