SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model provides a regeneration ink horn, wherein, in regeneration process, need not just not install the face lid and the ink horn casing separation of ink horn the baffle to under the prerequisite of guaranteeing that regeneration ink horn has good leakproofness, reduce the regeneration degree of difficulty of ink horn, for this, the utility model discloses a following technical scheme:
the regeneration ink box comprises a bottom shell and a cover, wherein the bottom shell is combined with the bottom shell, the cover is positioned above the bottom shell, and the bottom shell comprises a first side plate positioned in the front, a second side plate positioned in the rear, a third side plate positioned in the left, a fourth side plate positioned in the right and a fifth side plate positioned below; the first side plate, the second side plate, the third side plate, the fourth side plate and the fifth side plate are enclosed to form a cavity, and the cover covers the cavity; the cavities comprise a first cavity and a second cavity which are adjacent; one of the second side plate, the third side plate, the fourth side plate and the fifth side plate is provided with an opening, and the second cavity is exposed through the opening; the regeneration cartridge also includes an ink reservoir coupled to the bottom case, the ink reservoir entering the second chamber and being in fluid communication with the first chamber.
In the embodiment of the utility model, the ink sac and the bottom shell are combined below the combination surface of the cover and the bottom shell; the bottom shell is provided with a limiting part, and the ink bag is provided with a limited part used for being limited by the limiting part.
When the opening is provided on the second side plate, the ink bag is combined with the first cavity through the opening from back to front in the front-back direction; the panel of the first cavity is provided with a communicating hole, and the ink bag is provided with a communicating protrusion for inserting the communicating hole.
The ink bag is polygonal and has front side board in the front, back side board in the back, left side board in the left, right side board in the right and lower side board below.
The rear side plate comprises a first protrusion protruding leftwards relative to the left side plate, a second protrusion protruding rightwards relative to the right side plate and a third protrusion protruding downwards relative to the lower side plate, and when the ink bag is combined with the first cavity, the first protrusion, the second protrusion and the third protrusion are abutted to the third side plate, the fourth side plate and the fifth side plate of the bottom shell respectively.
The ink bag is polygonal, and has a front side plate located in front, a rear side plate located in rear, a left side plate located in left, a right side plate located in right, and a lower side plate located below, and the rear side plate is provided with a holding part which can be held.
When the opening is arranged on the third side plate or the fourth side plate, the ink bag is combined with the first cavity through the opening along the left-right direction; the panel of the first cavity is provided with a communicating hole, and the ink bag is provided with a communicating protrusion for inserting the communicating hole.
When the opening is arranged on the fifth side plate, the ink bag is combined with the first cavity through the opening along the upward direction from the bottom to the top; the panel of the first cavity is provided with a communicating hole, and the ink bag is provided with a communicating protrusion for inserting the communicating hole.
As mentioned above, the regeneration ink box does not damage the sealing combination structure of the cover and the bottom shell in the original ink box in the regeneration process, and only the part of the ink bag which is communicated with the fluid formed between the first cavity is required to be sealed, thereby realizing the purpose of reducing the regeneration difficulty of the ink box.
Detailed Description
Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an ink cartridge according to the present invention before regeneration; fig. 2 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the ink cartridge according to the present invention after the cap is hidden before the ink cartridge is regenerated.
As shown in fig. 1, for convenience of description, the ink cartridge 100 is first defined as follows: when the ink cartridge 100 is mounted to an inkjet image forming apparatus (inkjet printer), the height direction of the ink cartridge 100 is an up-down direction, the length direction is a front-rear direction, and the width direction is a left-right direction, and the ink cartridge 100 is mounted to the inkjet printer from above to below in the up-down direction.
The ink cartridge 100 before regeneration comprises a bottom case 20 and a cover 10b, wherein the bottom case 20 and the cover 10b are combined with each other, the bottom case 20 comprises a first side plate 21 located in front, a second side plate 23 located in back, a third side plate 22 located in left, a fourth side plate 24 located in right, and a fifth side plate 25 located in lower, the first side plate 21, the second side plate 23, the third side plate 22, the fourth side plate 24, and the fifth side plate 25 enclose to form a cavity 20a, and the cover 10b covers the cavity 20 a. As shown in fig. 2, the chamber 20a includes a first chamber 28 and a second chamber 29 adjacent to and spaced apart from each other, and the ink is received in the first chamber 28.
FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the ink cartridge according to the present invention after regeneration; fig. 4 is a perspective view of an ink bag mounted in the ink cartridge according to the present invention.
In the regeneration process of the ink cartridge 100, the second cavity 29 is also used, so that the capacity of the regenerated ink cartridge is increased. In the present invention, at least a portion of the second side plate 23 of the ink cartridge 100 located at the rear is cut off to form an opening 23a, the second cavity 29 is exposed through the opening 23a, and an ink bag 10a containing ink is mounted to the bottom case 20 through the opening 23a from the rear to the front in the front-rear direction, preferably, the ink bag 10a can just fill the second cavity 29.
In this regeneration process, the ink bag 10a is combined with the bottom case 20 below the combination surface of the cover 10b and the bottom case 20, which means that no operation is required for the cover 10b, that is, the cover 10b remains connected with the bottom case 20 without requiring the cover 10b to be detached as described in the background art, so that the sealing combination structure between the bottom case 20 and the cover 10b is not broken.
Further, a communication hole 28a1 for communicating with the ink bag 10b is provided on the panel of the first chamber 28, and correspondingly, a communication protrusion 17 is provided on the ink bag 10b, and as the ink bag 10b moves from back to front, the communication protrusion 17 enters the communication hole 28a1, and fluid communication is formed between the ink bag 10b and the first chamber 28; meanwhile, a seal ring may be installed on the communication hole 28a1 or the communication protrusion 17 to prevent ink from leaking therebetween. When the end user uses the ink bag 10a, the end user only needs to pull out the ink bag 10a backwards along the front-back direction and then replace a new ink bag 10a to be combined with the first cavity 28 after the ink in the first cavity 28 and the ink bag 10a is consumed.
Preferably, the second side plate 23 of the bottom case 20 is completely cut away, so that the opening 23a is formed at the position of the second side plate 23, which facilitates the installation of the ink bag 10b and also makes full use of the space of the second cavity 29. As shown in fig. 4, the ink bag 10b has a polygonal shape as a whole, and has a front side plate 11 located at the front, a rear side plate 13 located at the rear, a left side plate 12 located at the left, a right side plate 14 located at the right, and a lower side plate 15 located below, the communication projection 17 is provided on the front side plate 11, and correspondingly, the communication hole 28a1 is provided on the rear panel 28a of the first chamber 28. Further, the bottom case 20 is further provided with a stopper 251, the ink bag 10b is provided with a stopped portion 151, and the mounting of the ink bag 10b is guided by the combination of the stopper 251 and the stopped portion 151 in the process of combining the ink bag 10b with the first cavity 28, so that the communicating protrusion 17 can be more precisely combined with the communicating hole 28a1, and the ink bag 10b is prevented from moving relative to the first cavity 28 after the ink bag 10b is combined with the first cavity 28, preferably, the stopper 251 is a stopper groove, and the stopped portion 151 is a stopped protrusion.
As shown in fig. 3 and 4, the rear side plate 13 does not enter the second cavity 29, the rear side plate 13 includes a first protrusion 13a protruding leftward with respect to the left side plate 12, a second protrusion 13b protruding rightward with respect to the right side plate 14, and a third protrusion 13c protruding downward with respect to the lower side plate 15, and when the ink bag 10a is coupled to the first cavity 28, the first protrusion 13a, the second protrusion 13b, and the third protrusion 13c abut against the third side plate 22, the fourth side plate 24, and the fifth side plate 25 of the bottom case 20, respectively, that is, at least a portion of the ink bag 10a is not received by the second cavity 29 and is exposed to the outside of the opening 23 a. So designed, on the one hand, the end user can be made to confirm that the ink bag 10a has been mounted in place by perceiving that the first, second and third protrusions 13a, 13b, 13c abut against the third, fourth and fifth side plates 22, 24, 25 of the bottom case 20, respectively; on the other hand, in the case of replacing the ink bag 10a, the first projection 13a, the second projection 13b, and the third projection 13c provide a graspable portion for the end user, and in this respect, a graspable portion that can be grasped by the end user may be provided on the rear side plate 13, for example, the graspable portion may be a projection projecting rearward from the rear side plate 13, thereby improving the use experience of the end user.
In a modification of the present invention, the joining direction of the ink bag 10a and the first chamber 28 is not limited to the front-back direction, and for example, the joining direction may be a left-right direction or a top-bottom direction. When the ink bag 10a and the first cavity 28 are installed from left to right in the left-right direction, at least a portion of the third side plate 22 of the bottom case 20 corresponding to the second cavity 29 may be cut away to form the opening 23a on the third side plate 22, and the ink bag 10a is combined with the first cavity 28 through the opening 23a from left to right; similarly, when the ink bag 10a and the first cavity 28 are installed from right to left in the left-right direction, at least a portion of the fourth side plate 24 of the bottom case 20 corresponding to the second cavity 29 may be cut away to form the opening 23a in the fourth side plate 24, and the ink bag 10a is combined with the first cavity 23 through the opening 23a from right to left; when the ink bag 10a and the first cavity 28 are mounted from bottom to top in the up-down direction, at least a portion of the fifth side plate 25 of the bottom case 20 corresponding to the second cavity 29 may be cut away to form the opening 23a in the fifth side plate 25, and the ink bag 10a is combined with the first cavity 23 through the opening 23a from bottom to top.
However, no matter how the combining direction of the ink bag 10a and the first cavity 28, the cover 10b is not separated from the bottom case 20, that is, the sealing combination structure between the cover 10b and the bottom case 20 is not damaged, and is sealed relative to the combination surface between the cover 10b and the bottom case 20, in the regeneration ink cartridge 100 of the present invention, the ink bag 10a and the first cavity 28 are combined under the combination surface between the cover 10b and the bottom case 20, and the cartridge regenerator only needs to ensure the sealing between the communication protrusion 17 and the communication hole 28a1, therefore, the sealing process required by the regeneration ink cartridge of the present invention is simpler, and the regeneration difficulty of the ink cartridge is reduced.
Based on the above description, the present invention also provides a method for regenerating the following ink cartridge:
selecting one of a second side plate 23, a third side plate 22, a fourth side plate 24 and a fifth side plate 25 of the bottom case 20, cutting off at least a portion of the selected side plate corresponding to the second cavity 29, and forming an opening 23a in the side plate;
a communicating hole 28a1 is arranged on the rear panel 28a of the first cavity 28 at the rear, and a communicating protrusion 17 communicated with the communicating hole 28a1 is arranged on the ink bag 10 a;
the ink bag 10a is inserted into the second chamber 29 through the opening 23a, and at the same time, the communication projection 17 is engaged with the communication hole 28a 1.
By using the regeneration method, the joint surface of the cover 10b and the bottom shell 20 is not damaged, and the ink sac 10a and the first cavity 28 are combined below the joint surface, so that the sealing problem between the cover 10b and the bottom shell 20 does not need to be considered in the regeneration process of the ink box, and the sealing process requirement of the ink box is favorably reduced.