US 12,145,375 B2
Recording apparatus and liquid accommodation body
Takaho Nagumo, Shiojiri (JP); Kazuaki Takahashi, Shiojiri (JP); and Ichiro Yoshioka, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/664,343.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-086726 (JP), filed on May 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0371328 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17566 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17553 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17576 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording apparatus comprising:
a plurality of liquid storage portions, wherein each of the plurality of liquid storage portions is configured to store liquid;
a recording head that ejects the liquid supplied from at least one of the plurality of liquid storage portions onto a medium;
a single light emitting unit configured to emit light;
a light guide portion configured to guide the light from the single light emitting unit; and
a plurality of floats, wherein each of the plurality of floats is configured to float on the liquid in a corresponding liquid storage portion of the plurality of liquid storage portions and to move according to movement of a liquid surface of the liquid while maintaining a posture, wherein
each of the plurality of liquid storage portions includes a visual check surface through which the liquid in the corresponding liquid storage portion is visually checkable from outside the corresponding liquid storage portion,
each of the plurality of floats has a light emitting surface that by receiving the light from the single light emitting unit, appears luminous when viewed from a direction facing the visual check surface, and
the single light emitting unit is provided outside the plurality of liquid storage portions and illuminates the plurality of floats via the light guide portion.