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Liquid storage container and liquid jet apparatus

  • US 9,289,999 B2
  • Filed: 10/21/2014
  • Issued: 03/22/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A liquid storage container comprising:

  • a liquid storage section configured to store a liquid;

    a liquid injection section configured to inject the liquid into the liquid storage section;

    a liquid injection port defined as an intersection at which the liquid injection section and the liquid storage section intersect each other;

    an air chamber communicated with air;

    an air introduction path communicated to the air chamber and configured to introduce the air to the air chamber;

    a communicating passage through which the liquid storage section and the air chamber are communicated to each other, the communicating passage being not directly connected with the liquid injection section and the liquid injection port;

    a first connecting port, which is a connecting port between the air introduction path and the air chamber, being located below a position that is lowered by a first distance from an upper end of the air chamber and located above a position that is raised by a second distance from a lower end of the air chamber in a posture where a liquid injection port is oriented upward in the intersecting direction; and

    a second connecting port, which is a connecting port between the communicating passage and the air chamber, in the intersecting direction in the posture,where the first distance is defined as a length of the first connecting port in an intersecting direction intersecting with a horizontal direction in the posture and the second distance is defined as a length of the second connecting port in the intersecting direction in the posture.

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