US 12,441,118 B2
Liquid container and recording device
Satoshi Nakata, Matsumoto (JP); Masanari Tanaka, Shiojiri (JP); Katsumi Yamada, Matsumoto (JP); Masahito Tatsumi, Shiojiri (JP); and Matsutaro Naito, Minowa-Machi (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/176,885.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-032374 (JP), filed on Mar. 3, 2022; and application No. 2022-032375 (JP), filed on Mar. 3, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0278342 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17553 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17509 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid container configured to be refilled with a liquid from outside, the liquid container comprising:
a containing portion that contains the liquid;
an inlet that is in communication with the containing portion and through which the liquid is poured;
a lid portion that has an insertion portion to be inserted into the inlet and is configured to turn around a turning axis between a closed state in which the insertion portion closes the inlet and an open state in which the insertion portion is separated from the inlet;
a cover portion that covers the insertion portion in the open state; and
a lock portion that holds the lid portion in the closed state, wherein
when the lid portion is in the open state, the insertion portion does not project further than the cover portion when viewed in an axial direction of the turning axis.