US 12,420,554 B2
Printing apparatus and liquid container
Koki Shimada, Kanagawa (JP); Hideaki Matsumura, Tokyo (JP); Yuri Mori, Tokyo (JP); Tsuyoshi Saeki, Kanagawa (JP); Ken Takenaga, Kanagawa (JP); Daiju Takeda, Kanagawa (JP); Shota Asada, Tokyo (JP); Hiromasa Tsutsumi, Kanagawa (JP); Mineyoshi Tomie, Saitama (JP); Takao Kawai, Tokyo (JP); Megumi Ueta, Kanagawa (JP); and Erika Iyama, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/327,858.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-093094 (JP), filed on Jun. 8, 2022; and application No. 2022-169397 (JP), filed on Oct. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0405995 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17513 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17509 (2013.01); B41J 2/17523 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising a liquid container, wherein
the liquid container comprises:
a storage portion configured to store a liquid to be supplied to a discharge head that discharges the liquid;
a first channel configured to be inserted into a replenishing bottle, which is configured to replenish the liquid to the storage portion, and to communicate with the replenishing bottle;
a second channel between the first channel and the storage portion;
a third channel configured to be inserted into the replenishing bottle, and to communicate with the replenishing bottle; and
a fourth channel between the third channel and the storage portion,
wherein the second channel includes, at an end portion on a side of the first channel, a first shape portion having a sectional shape common to a part of a sectional shape of the first channel, and
wherein the fourth channel includes, at an end portion on a side of the third channel, a second shape portion having a sectional shape common to a part of a sectional shape of the third channel.