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US 10,583,663 · App. 16/363,470 · Granted Mar 10, 2020

Liquid-consuming apparatus

Inventors: Yoshinori Osakabe (Seto, JP); Tomohisa Higuchi (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Patent No.
US 10,583,663
App. No.
16/363,470
Granted
Mar 10, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A liquid-consuming apparatus includes: a tank including a liquid storage chamber which stores a liquid, an inlet formed in a surface of the tank, and an outlet through which the liquid from the liquid storage chamber flows; a cap which is movable between a first position and a second position; a cover which is movable relative to the tank between a closed position and an open position; and a holding member which is connected to the cap and which holds the cap at the second position. The cap at the second position or the holding member is configured to obstruct a movement of the cover from the open position to the closed position.

Claims (8)

1. A liquid-consuming apparatus, comprising:

a tank including a liquid storage chamber, and an inlet;

a cap which is detachably attachable to the inlet; and

an elastic deformation member connected to the cap,

wherein under a condition that the cap is detached from the inlet, the elastic deformation member is configured to hold the cap above the inlet by its resilience.

2. The liquid-consuming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein under the condition that the cap is detached from the inlet, the elastic deformation member is configured to hold the cap away from a virtual line which extends through a center of the inlet along an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a virtual plane including peripheries of the inlet.

3. The liquid-consuming apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein under the condition that the cap is detached from the inlet, the elastic deformation member is configured to hold the cap away from any virtual line which extends through the inlet along the orthogonal direction.

4. The liquid-consuming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein under a condition that the cap is attached to the inlet, the elastic deformation member is configured to be elastically deformed against the resilience.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 25, 2019
From: OSAKABE, YOSHINORI; HIGUCHI, TOMOHISA
To: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-201864 · Sep 30, 2014 · national
Continuity (5)
Continuation 16004668 · Jun 11, 2018
Continuation 15611960 · Jun 2, 2017
Continuation 15263919 · Sep 13, 2016
Division 14854203 · Sep 15, 2015
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