US 11,772,382 B2
Liquid supply apparatus and image recording apparatus
Yoshinori Osakabe, Seto (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Apr. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/716,328.
Application 17/716,328 is a continuation of application No. 17/071,371, filed on Oct. 15, 2020, granted, now 11,298,946.
Application 17/071,371 is a continuation of application No. 16/556,933, filed on Aug. 30, 2019, granted, now 10,807,375, issued on Oct. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-163567 (JP), filed on Aug. 31, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0227139 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17513 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17553 (2013.01); B41J 2/17556 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image recording apparatus, comprising:
a casing;
a sheet feed tray;
a recording head configured to eject ink toward a sheet fed from the sheet feed tray and conveyed in a sheet conveying direction;
a tube connected to the recording head; and
a carriage configured to move the recording head between a home position and a remote position both of which are outside a conveyance path of the sheet in a moving direction of the recording head,
wherein the casing has an opening positioned downstream of the home position of the recording head in the sheet conveying direction, and the image recording apparatus further comprising in the opening:
a cartridge having a first storing chamber;
a tank having a second storing chamber, the cartridge being attachable to and detachable from the tank along an attachment and detachment direction, the tube being connected to the tank to supply ink from the tank to the recording head;
a liquid channel communicating with the first storing chamber of the cartridge and the second storing chamber of the tank to supply ink from the first storing chamber to the second storing chamber; and
an air channel communicating with the first storing chamber of the cartridge and the second storing chamber of the tank to supply air from the second storing chamber of the tank to the first storing chamber of the cartridge,
wherein the liquid channel and the air channel are separated from one another, in the opening, in a direction crossing the attachment and detachment direction.