US 12,459,272 B2
Liquid container
Masahiro Karasawa, Matsumoto (JP); and Kazuyuki Hirata, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/217,881.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-107640 (JP), filed on Jul. 4, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0001686 A1, Jan. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. B41J 2/19 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/19 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17513 (2013.01); B41J 2/17523 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17516 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid container comprising:
a bag having flexibility configured to store liquid inside;
a liquid outlet member mounted on one end of the bag and having a liquid outlet section to discharge the liquid to a liquid ejecting apparatus;
a gas absorption unit movably disposed in the bag and having (i) a space holding member that forms an internal space of the gas absorption unit, and (ii) a gas transmission film that defines an inside of the internal space and an outside with the internal space decompressed to a pressure lower than an atmospheric pressure; and
a plurality of liquid outlet pipes coupled to the liquid outlet section and disposed in the bag, the plurality of liquid outlet pipes having an inlet, which are configured to allow the liquid introduced from the inlet to flow to the liquid outlet section,
wherein lengths of the plurality of liquid outlet pipes are different,
the bag has the other end opposed to the one end,
an extension direction of the plurality of liquid outlet pipes is a direction from the one end to the other end, and
the inlet of one of the plurality of liquid outlet pipes and the inlet of another one of the plurality of liquid outlet pipes are located at different locations in the extension direction.