CN205130642U - China ink accommodation unit and ink jet printer - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a china ink accommodation unit and ink jet printer, ink jet printer include this china ink accommodation unit and printer body, and black accommodation unit includes that the china ink holds body and frame, accommodation space has in the frame, the china ink holds that the body holds in accommodation space and the first china ink portion of holding embeds mutually in accommodation space with the second china ink portion of holding, the frame has the second opening towards the first opening in the place ahead and orientation side, the first black capacity display surface of the first china ink portion of holding and the first black capacity display surface of the second china ink portion of holding are located first opening part side by side, the second china ink capacity display surface of the first china ink portion of holding and the second china ink capacity display surface of the second china ink portion of holding are located the second opening part side by side. According to the utility model discloses a china ink accommodation unit adopts comparatively simple structure to make the user just can clearly look over the surplus ink volume in every china ink portion of holding from the place ahead, has made things convenient for user's operation.

Description

Ink accomodating unit and ink-jet printer

Technical field

The utility model relates to printer technology field, particularly, relates to a kind of black accomodating unit and the ink-jet printer with black accomodating unit.

Background technology

Ink-jet printer is by spraying ink to print from record head to recording medium (such as paper sheet for printing).

Fig. 1 schematically shows an example of existing ink-jet printer.Fig. 1 is the stereogram of ink-jet printer, and wherein, ink-jet printer 1 comprises printer body 11 and black accomodating unit 12, and black accomodating unit 12 is fixedly mounted in (on the right flank such as, shown in Fig. 1) on a certain side of printer body 11.For convenience of description, ink-jet printer 1 is defined as front towards the direction of user in a state of use, by ink-jet printer 1 viewed from front, definition left and right directions.

Ink accomodating unit 12 generally includes the black accommodation section of the ink accommodating different colours, the side (right flank as shown in Figure 1) of ink accommodation section is provided with transparent or semitransparent black capacity display surface 15 usually, makes to can pass through this display surface 15 and shows residual ink amount in black accommodation section.

Ink accommodation section generally includes the black accommodation section 14 holding black ink and the black accommodation section 16 holding color inks.Existing ink-jet printer 1 is not only provided with black capacity display surface 14a at right flank on the black accommodation section 14 holding black ink, still be provided with black capacity display surface 14b at leading flank, make user when inconvenience checks residual ink amount from the right side of ink-jet printer 1, just directly can check the residual ink amount black accommodation section 14 from the front of ink-jet printer 1, facilitate the operation of user.

But, as shown in Figure 1, existing ink-jet printer 1 only has and holds the black accommodation section 14 of black ink and have black capacity display surface 14b toward the front, and the black accommodation section 16 holding color inks is only towards the black capacity display surface 16a on right side, and the black capacity display surface do not arranged toward the front, causing user when wanting to confirm the residual ink amount in black accommodation section 16, can only check from the right side of ink-jet printer 1.If the right side of ink-jet printer 1 is pasted wall and is placed, user is then inconvenient checks display surface from right side, user is caused to be difficult to confirm residual ink amount, or when user is intended to refilling in the black accommodation section 16 of accommodation color inks, the right side of ink-jet printer 1 of can only standing is to carry out refilling operation.For because of position relationship, inconvenience, from for the ink-jet printer of right side refilling, because user in the refilling of ink-jet printer front, can only cannot check again black capacity display surface during refilling, may cause refilling not enough or excessive, therefore can affect the normal use of user.

Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication TOHKEMY 2015-163462A discloses a kind of fluid Supplying apparatus, and it has the liquid visibility portion towards side and front, but its structure is comparatively complicated, and number of parts is more, processing, assembling more inconvenient.

Therefore, be necessary to propose a kind of black accomodating unit and ink-jet printer, to solve the above problem existed in prior art at least in part.

Utility model content

The utility model completes to overcome the problems referred to above, its object is to, there is provided a kind of black accomodating unit and have the ink-jet printer of this black accomodating unit, this black accomodating unit adopts comparatively simple structure to make user just can check residual ink amount all black accommodation sections from the front of ink-jet printer.

According to an aspect of the present utility model, provide a kind of black accomodating unit for ink-jet printer.Described ink-jet printer comprises printer body, described black accomodating unit comprises ink and holds body, described ink accommodation body configuration is the ink for holding to be supplied to described printer body, described ink holds body and comprises the first black accommodation section and the second black accommodation section, described first black accommodation section has elongation end, described second black accommodation section has the groove that can insert for the elongation end of described first black accommodation section, and described first black accommodation section and described second black accommodation section have the first black capacity display surface and the second black capacity display surface respectively, framework, in described framework, there is spatial accommodation, described ink hold body be contained in described spatial accommodation and described first black accommodation section and described second black accommodation section nested against one another in described spatial accommodation, described framework has the first opening toward the front and the second opening towards side, the described first black capacity display surface of described first black accommodation section and the described first black capacity display surface of described second black accommodation section are positioned at described first opening part side by side, the described second black capacity display surface of described first black accommodation section and the described second black capacity display surface of described second black accommodation section are positioned at described second opening part side by side.

According to black accomodating unit of the present utility model, number of parts is less, and processing, assembling all more for convenience, can adopt comparatively simple structure to make user when wanting to confirm the residual ink amount in black accommodation section, just directly can check from the front of black accomodating unit, facilitate the operation of user.

Alternatively, described black accomodating unit comprises multiple second black accommodation section, the groove that each described second black accommodation section except being positioned at outermost second black accommodation section all has elongation end and can insert for the elongation end of previous black accommodation section, be positioned at outermost described second black accommodation section and there is the groove that can insert for the elongation end of previous black accommodation section, and the volume of described multiple second black accommodation section is equal.This plan of establishment can make the mechanism of black accomodating unit compacter, the volume of multiple second black accommodation section is arranged to equal specification simultaneously, it is more convenient to make, and the ink bottle injecting ink all can be made into equal volume in addition in black accommodation section, convenient production.

Alternatively, each described first black capacity display surface in described first black accommodation section and multiple described second black accommodation section is corresponding putting in order of described second opening part with their described second black capacity display surface putting in order of described first opening part.Black capacity display surface time the program can make user carry out refilling operation corresponding to this black accommodation section of more convenient identification, check more convenient, operation is more convenient.

Alternatively, described ink hold body be by one-body molded and formed parts.The program can make to save operation when manufacture ink holds body.

According to another aspect of the present utility model, provide a kind of ink-jet printer, comprise any one black accomodating unit above-mentioned.

According to ink-jet printer of the present utility model, comparatively simple structure can being adopted to make user when wanting to confirm the residual ink amount in black accommodation section, just directly can check from the front of ink-jet printer, facilitating the operation of user.

Accompanying drawing explanation

Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing in the description of the utility model exemplary embodiment, above-mentioned and other side of the present utility model will become more obviously be easier to understand, in the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is the stereogram of existing a kind of ink-jet printer;

Fig. 2 schematically shows the stereogram of the ink-jet printer according to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model;

Fig. 3 is another stereogram of the ink-jet printer in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is the stereogram that the ink of ink-jet printer in Fig. 2 holds body;

Fig. 5 is the elevational schematic view of the ink accommodation body in Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is the floor map of the ink accommodation body in Fig. 4; And

Fig. 7 shows the schematic diagram of the distribution situation of multiple black accommodation section.

Description of reference numerals:

1,100 ink-jet printers

11,120 printer body

12,110 black accomodating units

111 ink hold body

14,16 black accommodation sections

112 first black accommodation sections

113,117 second black accommodation sections

The black capacity display surface of 112f, 113f first

The black capacity display surface of 112c, 113c second

114 frameworks

115 first openings

116 second openings

112a, 113a elongation end

113b, 117b groove

118 installed surfaces

119 injection units

Detailed description of the invention

Referring to accompanying drawing, preferred embodiment of the present utility model is described.It should be noted that, term "front", "rear" used herein, "left", "right" and similar statement are for illustrative purposes, and unrestricted.

In this article, the ordinal number of such as " first " and " second " of quoting in the application is only mark, and does not have other implication any, such as specific order etc.And such as, term " first component " itself does not imply the existence of " second component ", and term " second component " itself does not imply the existence of " first component ".In this article, " parallel ", " level " or " vertically " refer to substantially or roughly " parallel ", " level " or " vertically ".

Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 schematically shows the ink-jet printer 100 according to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model, and it comprises black accomodating unit 110.

Ink-jet printer described in the utility model, except having printing function, can also have the various functions such as image reading apparatus function, facsimile function, duplicator function.As printing function, the dual-side image writing function of the double-sided recording modes image at recording paper can be had.Certainly, for whether the function had beyond printing function is arbitrary.

As shown in Figure 2, ink-jet printer 100 comprises printer body 120 and black accomodating unit 110, is mounted to printer body 120 by black accomodating unit 110, so that black accomodating unit 110 is fixedly connected to printer body 120.Printer body 120 is substantially in rectangular shape, and black accomodating unit 110 is arranged on the right flank of printer body 120 and extends to the right from the right flank of printer body 120.Should understand, although black in the illustrated embodiment accomodating unit 110 is arranged on the right side of printer body 120, according to actual needs, black accomodating unit 110 also can be arranged on other position of printer body 120.In addition, although black in the illustrated embodiment accomodating unit 110 is fixedly installed in printer body 120, black accomodating unit 110 also can be configured to removably be mounted in printer body 120.

As Figure 2-3, the ink that the inside of ink accomodating unit 110 is provided with for holding ink holds body 111, for holding the ink to be supplied to printer body 120, black accomodating unit 110 also has framework 114, holds body 111 as its outer packaging for supporting ink.Have spatial accommodation in framework 114, ink holds body 111 and is contained in this spatial accommodation.Framework 114 also has the second opening 116 of the first opening 115 towards the front of ink-jet printer 100 and the side towards ink-jet printer 100.Although in the shown embodiment, framework has the second multiple little opening 116 towards side, and it also only can have corresponding with illustrated multiple the second little opening 116 large second opening.

Ink accomodating unit 110 comprises the first black accommodation section 112 and three the second black accommodation sections 113,117.These four black accommodation sections may be used for the ink holding different colours, and can use the ink-mist recording coloured image (as shown in Figure 7) of such as black, cyan, magenta and yellow four kinds of colors.Certainly, the black accommodation section for holding ink of the varying numbers such as six, eight, 12 also can be set in the inside of black accomodating unit 110, and correspondingly use six, eight, the ink-mist recording coloured image of the different colours such as 12 kind.The upper surface of ink accommodation section 112,113 and 117 be formed protrude from this upper surface, the injection unit 119 (as shown in Figure 4) of opening upwards so that user ink to be injected into black accommodation section 112,113 and 117 inner.

First black accommodation section 112 and multiple second black accommodation section 113 along be parallel to black accomodating unit 110 installed surface 118 direction and in the horizontal direction (i.e. fore-and-aft direction) be arranged in order from front to back.First black accommodation section 112 has the first black capacity display surface 112f and the second black capacity display surface 112c, and multiple second black accommodation section 113 has the first black capacity display surface 113f and the second black capacity display surface 113c respectively.First black capacity display surface 112f, 113f and second black capacity display surface 112c, 113c all vertically extends, and is transparent or semitransparent, makes it possible to the ink capacity in the black accommodation section of display first 112 and the second black accommodation section 113.

First black capacity display surface 112f of the first black accommodation section 112 and the first black capacity display surface 113f of the second black accommodation section 113 is positioned at the first opening 115 place toward the front side by side, make subscriber station when ink-jet printer 100 front, the first black capacity display surface 112f and 113f revealed can be checked by the first opening 115, and the second black capacity display surface 113c of the second black capacity display surface 112c of the first black accommodation section 112 and the second black accommodation section 113 is positioned at towards second opening 116 place on right side side by side, make subscriber station when ink-jet printer 100 side, the second black capacity display surface 112c and 113c revealed can be checked by the second opening 116.

The program can make when subscriber station is when the front of ink-jet printer 100, just can view the residual ink amount in all black accommodation sections 112 and 113 simultaneously, and because all black accommodation sections 112 and 113 all have black capacity display surface 112f and 113f toward the front, therefore user also can stand directly on the front of ink-jet printer 100 is that refilling is carried out in all black accommodation sections 112 and 113, especially for because of position relationship inconvenience to carry out for the ink-jet printer of refilling from right side, the program is comparatively convenient.

Hereafter be described in detail to the concrete structure of the first black accommodation section 112 and multiple second black accommodation section 113.In fact, in each black accommodation section, be provided with the ink supply that ink is provided to the not shown record head be located in printer body via not shown flexible ink tube.But this is known formation for those skilled in the art technically, therefore does not explain at this.

Particularly, as Figure 4-Figure 6, the first black accommodation section 112 has elongation end 112a, and the second black accommodation section 113 has groove 113b, and elongation end 112a and groove 113b is nested against one another, and elongation end 112a is inserted in groove 113b.Correspondingly, each second black accommodation section 113 all has elongation end 113a and groove 113b (except being positioned at outermost second black accommodation section 117, it only has the groove 117b inserted for previous second black accommodation section), elongation end 113a can insert the groove of that the second black accommodation section being positioned at this rear, the second black accommodation section 113, this groove 113b then can (it may be the first black accommodation section 112 being positioned at forefront for that the black accommodation section being positioned at this front, the second black accommodation section, also may be the second black accommodation section 113) elongation end insert, thus, nested structure is formed in the spatial accommodation that first black accommodation section 112 and multiple second black accommodation section 113 are formed at framework 114, elongation end 112a or 113a of previous black accommodation section 112 or 113 and groove 113b or 117b of a rear black accommodation section 113 matches each other.

Can find out, in the shown embodiment, first black accommodation section 112 and multiple second black accommodation section 113 are arranged in order along the longitudinal direction at least partly overlappingly, namely, first black accommodation section 111 and the second black accommodation section 112 are arranged in order along the longitudinal direction, and there is overlapped part, thus each black accommodation section can be had toward the front and towards the black capacity display surface of side simultaneously.

Preferably, as shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4, the shape of the first black capacity display surface 112f with 113f is distinguished identical and is all rectangle, and the shape of the second black capacity display surface 112c with 113c is also distinguished identical and is all rectangle.The program makes the mechanism of ink-jet printer 100 simpler, regular, simultaneously also makes the profile of ink-jet printer 100 more attractive in appearance, also more convenient time user checks black capacity display surface.Certainly, the shape of the first black capacity display surface 112f and 113f or the second black capacity display surface 112c and 113c also can be arranged to mutually different shape according to actual conditions by those skilled in the art, or, such as, can the shape of the black capacity display surface corresponding to that higher for every day use frequency black accommodation section be arranged different from other black capacity display surface, thus make user in use can be more convenient.

With further reference to Fig. 3 and 4, the first each black capacity display surface 112f and 113f in the first black accommodation section 112 and multiple second black accommodation section 113 is corresponding putting in order of the second opening 116 place at second each black capacity display surface 112c and 113c put in order in accommodation section 112 black with first and multiple second black accommodation section 113 at the first opening 115 place.Such as, first black capacity display surface 112f of the first black accommodation section 112 is arranged in first (direction by turning left from the right side) at the first opening 115 place, then correspondingly, second of the first black accommodation section 112 the black capacity display surface 112c is also arranged at the second opening 116 place in first (direction by from front to back).Recognize that black capacity display surface corresponding with corresponding black accommodation section time the program can make user carry out refilling operation or check ink residual capacity more easily, check more convenient, operation more convenient.

In a preferred embodiment, the volume of the first black accommodation section 112 is greater than the volume of the second black accommodation section 113, and the first black accommodation section 112 can be used for holding black ink, and the second black accommodation section 113 can be used for holding color inks.According to this plan of establishment, black ink the highest for every day use rate can be contained in the first black accommodation section 112 by user, can reduce the number of times of refilling like this, facilitate the operation of user.Certainly, if the frequency of the ink of other colors of user's every day use is higher, also the ink of respective color can be contained in and has in the first black accommodation section 112 of larger volume.

In another preferred embodiment, the volume of the first black accommodation section 112 equals each volume in multiple second black accommodation section 113, and the volume of multiple second black accommodation section 113 is also equal respectively, that is, four black accommodation sections have equal volume, as shown in Figure 7.In this embodiment, four black accommodation sections are respectively used to hold black ink, cyan, magenta ink and yellow ink, and it is highly all identical.128 grid are occupied in each black accommodation section, namely (area of each grid is identical for 128 unit ares, unit are can be considered as, the length of each grid is considered as unit length, its width is considered as unit width), four black accommodation sections add up to 512 unit ares, and split is formed together length is 32 unit lengths, width is 16 unit widths rectangle.Wherein, the size of each black accommodation section the first black capacity display surface is toward the front all identical, is 4 unit widths, and each black accommodation section is also all identical towards the size of the second black capacity display surface on right side, is 8 unit lengths.This plan of establishment makes the more compact structure of black accomodating unit 110, the ink bottle injecting ink all can also be made into equal volume in black accommodation section simultaneously, therefore there is the facility on making.

Preferably, ink holds body 111 by one-body molded and formed.The program can make to save operation when manufacture ink holds body 111.

Unless otherwise defined, technology used herein is identical with the implication that those skilled in the art of the present utility model understand usually with scientific terminology.Term used herein, just in order to describe concrete enforcement object, is not intended to limit the utility model.Terms such as such as " parts " that occur herein both can represent single part, also can represent the combination of multiple part.The term such as such as " installation ", " setting " etc. occurred herein both can represent that parts were directly attached to another parts, also can represent that parts are attached to another parts by middleware.The feature described in one embodiment herein can be applied to another embodiment individually or with further feature in combination, unless this feature is inapplicable or be otherwise noted in this another embodiment.

The utility model is illustrated by above-mentioned embodiment, but should be understood that, above-mentioned embodiment just for the object of illustrating and illustrate, and is not intended to the utility model to be limited within the scope of described embodiment.In addition it will be understood by those skilled in the art that; the utility model is not limited to above-mentioned embodiment; more kinds of variants and modifications can also be made, within these variants and modifications all drop on the utility model scope required for protection according to instruction of the present utility model.

Claims (5)

1. a black accomodating unit, for ink-jet printer, described ink-jet printer comprises printer body, it is characterized in that, described black accomodating unit comprises:

Ink holds body, described ink accommodation body configuration is the ink for holding to be supplied to described printer body, described ink holds body and comprises the first black accommodation section and the second black accommodation section, described first black accommodation section has elongation end, described second black accommodation section has the groove that can insert for the elongation end of described first black accommodation section, and described first black accommodation section and described second black accommodation section have the first black capacity display surface and the second black capacity display surface respectively;

Framework, in described framework, there is spatial accommodation, described ink hold body be contained in described spatial accommodation and described first black accommodation section and described second black accommodation section nested against one another in described spatial accommodation, described framework has the first opening toward the front and the second opening towards side, the described first black capacity display surface of described first black accommodation section and the described first black capacity display surface of described second black accommodation section are positioned at described first opening part side by side, the described second black capacity display surface of described first black accommodation section and the described second black capacity display surface of described second black accommodation section are positioned at described second opening part side by side.

2. black accomodating unit according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described black accomodating unit comprises multiple second black accommodation section, the groove that each described second black accommodation section except being positioned at outermost second black accommodation section all has elongation end and can insert for the elongation end of previous black accommodation section, be positioned at outermost described second black accommodation section and there is the groove that can insert for the elongation end of previous black accommodation section, and the volume of described multiple second black accommodation section is equal.

3. black accomodating unit according to claim 2, it is characterized in that, each described first black capacity display surface in described first black accommodation section and multiple described second black accommodation section is corresponding putting in order of described second opening part with their described second black capacity display surface putting in order of described first opening part.

4. black accomodating unit according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described ink hold body be by one-body molded and formed parts.

5. an ink-jet printer, is characterized in that, comprises the black accomodating unit described in any one in the claims 1-4.