CN204431983U - Ink accomodating unit and ink-jet printer - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a kind of black accomodating unit and ink-jet printer, and this ink-jet printer comprises this black accomodating unit.Described black accomodating unit comprises: inlet, and described inlet is used for injecting ink in described black accomodating unit, and described inlet comprises the first inlet and the second inlet; The seal member corresponding with described inlet, the connecting portion that described seal member comprises the first sealing, the second sealing and is connected between described first sealing and described second sealing, wherein said first sealing and described second sealing are respectively used to described first inlet of sealing and described second inlet; And at least one fixed part, at least one fixed part described is arranged between described first sealing and described second sealing, for described connecting portion is fixed to described black accomodating unit.The utility model this black accomodating unit disclosed can avoid seal member arbitrarily place and pollute surrounding enviroment.

Description

Ink accomodating unit and ink-jet printer

Technical field

The utility model relates to black accomodating unit and ink-jet printer.

Background technology

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

An example of existing ink-jet printer is schematically shown in accompanying drawing 1.For the sake of simplicity, the simple and easy schematic diagram of this ink-jet printer is merely illustrated.As shown in Figure 1, ink-jet printer 10 generally comprises black accomodating unit 11 and printer body 12, and described black accomodating unit 11 is fixedly mounted on (such as shown in Figure 1 on right flank) on a certain side of ink-jet printer 10.For convenience of description, ink-jet printer 10 is defined as front towards the direction of user in a state of use, defines left and right directions by ink-jet printer 10 viewed from front.Ink accomodating unit 11 comprises ink tank container (not shown) and is contained in ink tank container for holding the ink tank (not shown) of ink.The ink chamber (not shown) holding ink is formed in ink tank, the upper surface of ink accomodating unit 11 is formed with the inlet 41a of the ink for injecting different colours in ink chamber and inlet 41b (for simplicity's sake, two inlets are only shown in figure, actual black accomodating unit can be different and have more inlet according to ink color kind), protruding outside towards ink chamber of inlet 41a and 41b.The top of inlet 41a and 41b is releasably provided with the sealing 42a and sealing 42b that can seal inlet 41a and 41b, connected by connecting portion 42c (three forms seal member 42) between sealing 42a and sealing 42b, to facilitate, sealing 42a and sealing 42b is loaded and unloaded.Such as, when only taking off sealing 42a to carry out refilling to inlet 41a, can be still positioned at sealing 42b on inlet 41b to support whole seal member 42, and when preventing seal member 42 to be arbitrarily positioned with respect to one another, pollute that other are local or be infected with foreign matter.

But, in the use procedure of ink-jet printer, particularly in the process injecting ink in black accomodating unit 11, following situations may be there is: when user carries out refilling operation, conveniently, sealing 42a on inlet 41a and 41b and sealing 42b all may be taken off and be placed on other place, the accident of seal member 42 may be caused to lose on the one hand, on the other hand due to seal member 42 may be infected with ink, the pollution of seal member 42 placement location periphery may be caused like this, such as pollute ink-jet printer 10, pollute hand or the clothing of user, even pollute blank printing paper or typescripts etc.In addition, seal member 42 being placed on other places also may cause seal member 42 to be infected with upper foreign matter, thus the inkiness in black accomodating unit 11 is caused when being covered on inlet 41a and 41b by seal member 42, even cause blocking ink supply pipeline, damage ink-jet printer 10 etc.

In addition, also there is the corresponding relation obscuring sealing 42a and 42b and inlet 41a and 41b when sealing 42a and 42b all takes off and put back to inlet again by user and then cause the possible of two kinds of ink cross pollutions.Even, when black accomodating unit 11 has more inlet and seal member, or when using plurality of printers simultaneously, exist seal member intersected mixed may.

Utility model content

The utility model completes to overcome the problems referred to above, its object is to, and provides a kind of black accomodating unit for ink-jet printer, and the seal member being infected with ink can be avoided arbitrarily to place and pollute surrounding enviroment.

According to an aspect of the present utility model, the utility model provides a kind of black accomodating unit for ink-jet printer, described black accomodating unit comprises: inlet, and described inlet is used for injecting ink in described black accomodating unit, and described inlet comprises the first inlet and the second inlet; The seal member corresponding with described inlet, the connecting portion that described seal member comprises the first sealing, the second sealing and is connected between described first sealing and described second sealing, wherein said first sealing and described second sealing are respectively used to described first inlet of sealing and described second inlet; And at least one fixed part, at least one fixed part described is arranged between described first sealing and described second sealing, for described connecting portion is fixed to described black accomodating unit.

The disclosed black accomodating unit for ink-jet printer of the utility model, by the connecting portion of seal member is fixed on black accomodating unit, seal member can either be avoided to be taken off by entirety, and then be randomly placed and pollute placed position, also can avoid when seal member all being taken off and putting back to inlet again, each seal member being obscured.

Alternatively, described fixed part is configured to described connecting portion to be non-rotatably fixed to described black accomodating unit.

According to the program, by connecting portion is non-rotatably fixed to black accomodating unit, the one-to-one relationship between inlet and the sealing corresponding with it can also be ensured, prevent from after completing refilling operation, sealing being obscured and causing the cross pollution of ink.

Alternatively, described black accomodating unit comprises the first fixed part and the second fixed part, and the orientation of described first fixed part and described second fixed part is the length direction of described connecting portion.

According to the program, by arranging at least two fixed parts, and these at least two fixed parts being arranged along the length direction of connecting portion, connecting portion can be realized non-rotatably to be fixed to black accomodating unit, better fixed effect can also be reached simultaneously.

Alternatively, distance between described first fixed part and described first inlet and the distance sum between described first fixed part and described second fixed part be greater than described connecting portion from described second fixed part to the length of described second sealing, and the distance between described second fixed part and described second inlet and the distance sum between described first fixed part and described second fixed part be greater than described connecting portion from described first fixed part to the length of described first sealing.

According to the program, the second sealing can be made cannot to touch the first inlet completely and the first sealing also cannot touch the second inlet completely, thus obscuring between each sealing can be prevented further.

Alternatively, described black accomodating unit comprises the first fixed part and the second fixed part, and the orientation of described first fixed part and described second fixed part is the width of described connecting portion.

According to the program, by arranging at least two fixed parts, and these at least two fixed parts being arranged along the width of connecting portion, connecting portion can be realized non-rotatably to be fixed to black accomodating unit, better fixed effect can also be reached simultaneously.

According to another aspect of the present utility model, the utility model also provides a kind of ink-jet printer, and it comprises above-described black accomodating unit.

According to ink-jet printer of the present utility model, by by fixed thereon for the seal member on black accomodating unit, can avoid, when carrying out refilling operation, the seal member being infected with ink arbitrarily being placed and polluting the environment of institute's placement location periphery.The one-to-one relationship between inlet and the sealing corresponding with it can also be ensured in addition, prevent from after completing refilling operation, sealing being obscured and causing the cross pollution of ink.

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 schematically shows a kind of stereogram being installed with the ink-jet printer of existing black accomodating unit;

Fig. 2 schematically shows the stereogram of the ink-jet printer of the black accomodating unit be provided with according to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model;

Fig. 3 schematically shows the stereogram of the black accomodating unit according to another preferred embodiment of the present utility model;

Fig. 4 is the schematic diagram of the decomposing state in F region in Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 schematically shows the stereogram of the black accomodating unit according to another preferred embodiment of the present utility model; And

Fig. 6 schematically shows the plan view from above of the black accomodating unit according to another preferred embodiment of the present utility model.

Description of reference numerals:

10,100 ink-jet printers

12,120 printer body

11,110,210,310 black accomodating units

41a, 41b, 113,213 inlets

113a, 213a first inlet

113b, 213b second inlet

42a, 42b sealing

117a, 217a, 317a first sealing

117b, 217b, 317b second sealing

42c, 117c, 217c, 317c connecting portion

42,117,217,317 seal members

119 fixed parts

220,320 first fixed parts

221,321 second fixed parts

219a, 319a protuberance

219b, 319b opening portion

Detailed description of the invention

Referring to accompanying drawing, preferred embodiment of the present utility model is described.It should be noted that, term used herein " on ", D score, "front", "rear", "left", "right" and similar statement just 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 " or " vertically " refers to substantially or roughly " parallel " or " vertically ".

Embodiment 1

Fig. 2 diagrammatically illustrates the stereogram of the ink-jet printer of the black accomodating unit be provided with according to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model, and Fig. 3 schematically shows the stereogram of the black accomodating unit of the ink-jet printer in Fig. 2.For simplicity, the simple and easy schematic diagram of ink-jet printer and black accomodating unit is merely illustrated.

Ink-jet printer described in the utility model can have the various functions such as image reading apparatus function, facsimile function, duplicator function and printing function simultaneously, also only can have printing function.As printing function, the dual-side image writing function of the double-sided recording modes image at recording paper can be had, also can only have one-sided image writing function.Wherein, for whether the function had beyond printing function is not restricted.

As shown in Figure 2, ink-jet printer 100 has the face shaping substantially in box, and alternatively, the distance (width) of the left and right directions of ink-jet printer 100 is 435mm.Ink-jet printer 100 possesses printer body 120 and black accomodating unit 110.Printer body 120 possesses sheet feed section (not shown) and paper discharge unit (not shown) usually.Alternatively, the distance (i.e. width) of the left and right directions of black accomodating unit 110 is 42mm.Alternatively, black accomodating unit 110 is 1:11 to 1:9 with the ratio of the width of printer body 120.Wherein, sheet feed section is arranged on the rear portion of printer body 120 usually, and paper discharge unit is arranged on the front portion of printer body 120 usually, 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 120.Ink accomodating unit 110 can removably be mounted to printer body 120 with conventional connected mode (such as utilizing threaded connector etc.).Certainly, black accomodating unit 110 also can with printer 120 body by integral forming.

Exemplarily, when placing paper on sheet feed section, paper is admitted to from sheet feed section, and after the internal image of ink-jet printer 100 is recorded to the surface of paper, paper is discharged from paper discharge unit.

The balladeur train (not shown) moved around on paper can be provided with in the inside of printer body 120.In the side of balladeur train towards paper, be equipped with the record head (not shown) formed by multiple nozzle.When printing (record), the ink in black accomodating unit 110 is supplied to record head via flexible ink tube (not shown), then sprays ink from record head to paper.

Usually, balladeur train is driven by driving mechanism (not shown), and is guide by guide rail (not shown) and move back and forth above paper.In addition, in printer body 120, being generally provided with the paper feeder (not shown) for transmitting paper, matching with the action moved back and forth of balladeur train, paper is carried step by step, meanwhile, spray ink from record head, on paper, record image thus.

In the present embodiment, black accomodating unit 110 is in cardinal principle rectangular shape.For ease of describing, in a state of use, the direction that the longer limit of the projection of black accomodating unit 110 in horizontal plane extends is called longitudinal direction, the direction that the shorter limit of the projection of black accomodating unit 110 in horizontal plane extends is called horizontal direction.

In the present embodiment, ink accomodating unit 110 is split component, it comprises ink tank container (not shown) and is contained in for holding the ink tank (not shown) of ink in ink tank container, and ink used when printer body 120 is printed can be supplied by this ink tank.Inlet 113 is formed in the upper surface of black accomodating unit 110, and inlet 113 is communicated with ink tank, so that ink is injected into ink tank inside by user.Ink accomodating unit 110 also comprises the seal member 117 corresponding with inlet 113, seal member 117 for sealing inlet 113, to prevent ink leakage in black accomodating unit 110 and evaporation.Alternatively, black accomodating unit 110 also can be integrated component, can forming the container cavity for holding ink, separating between container cavity by dividing plate in the inside of single 110 yuan of ink accommodation.

Particularly, as shown in Figure 2, inlet 113 comprises the first inlet 113a and the second inlet 113b, and seal member 117 comprises the first sealing 117a, the second sealing 117b and connecting portion 117c, wherein the first sealing 117a is for sealing the first inlet 113a, and the second sealing 117b is for sealing the second inlet 113b.Connecting portion 117c is connected between the first sealing 117a and the second sealing 117b, to facilitate the handling of the first sealing 117a and the second sealing 117b.

Continue with reference to figure 2, black accomodating unit 110 also comprises a fixed part 119, and seal member 117 is fixed on black accomodating unit 110 by this fixed part 119.Particularly, connecting portion 117c is fixed on black accomodating unit 110 by this fixed part 119 between the first sealing 117a and the second sealing 117b.Like this, because seal member 117 is fixed on black accomodating unit 110, therefore, the loss of seal member 117 can be prevented on the one hand, on the other hand, user by the first sealing 117a or the second sealing 117b from inlet 113 take off carry out refilling operation time, just the seal member 117 being infected with ink arbitrarily cannot be placed, thus avoid polluting surrounding enviroment, it also avoid the foreign material that seal member 117 is infected with and cause inkiness in black accomodating unit 110.

In the embodiment of Fig. 2, fixed part 119 is trip bolt, and the connecting portion 117c of seal member 117 is non-rotatably fixed on black accomodating unit 110 by it, thus makes seal member 117 be fastened on black accomodating unit 110 and cannot move or rotate.

In the use procedure of existing ink-jet printer 10 (as shown in Figure 1), because seal member 42 is not fixed on black accomodating unit 11, therefore, when user carries out refilling operation, usually seal member 42 can be taken off from inlet 41a and 41b and arbitrarily place, when user completes refilling operation, usually the seal member 42 be placed on such as desktop can be fetched and sealing is re-started to inlet 41a and 41b, because sealing 42a and 42b is normally duplicate on shape design, now probably there is obscuring of sealing, namely, originally the sealing 42a sealing inlet 41a is sealed on inlet 41b, sealing 42b is sealed on inlet 41a simultaneously, thus cause the cross pollution of the ink in black accomodating unit 11.

And this implementation method of the present utility model shown in Fig. 2 can avoid the generation of above-mentioned situation.In this embodiment, fixed part 119 is trip bolt, and connecting portion 117c is non-rotatably fixed to black accomodating unit 110 by this trip bolt, thus seal member 117 both cannot be taken off from black accomodating unit 110, cannot rotate again, thus the generation of above-mentioned situation can be avoided.Alternatively, fixed part 119 also can be other securing member with fastening effect, as long as connecting portion 119 non-rotatably can be fixed to black accomodating unit 110, there is no particular restriction for the utility model.

In the present embodiment, the first sealing 117a, the second sealing 117b (hereinafter referred to as sealing) and the projection of inlet 113 in horizontal plane rounded substantially, and the quantity of inlet and sealing is two.Sealing can adopt elastomeric material manufacture, comprises the closure part and superposed handle part that are positioned at bottom.Closure part is for sealing described inlet 113, and its main body is cylindrical substantially, and top is provided with outward extending flange.Handle part is convenient to user and is taken off from inlet 113 in sealing portion and be mounted on inlet 113 in sealing portion.Shape and size and the inlet 113 of sealing are suitable.Such as, the internal diameter of inlet 113 can be set to about 11.5mm, and the external diameter of the bottom of sealing can arrange and be approximately 12mm, is slightly greater than the internal diameter of inlet 113, thus can closely seal inlet 113.

Fig. 2 only provides a kind of example of inlet and sealing, and obviously they can be other suitable shape.Alternatively, inlet and sealing can be polygon, ellipse and circle, oval and polygonal in conjunction with shape.Certainly, quantity and the orientation of inlet are also not limited thereto, such as inlet quantity can be more than two, when there is multiple inlet, the orientation of inlet also can favour the longitudinal direction of black accomodating unit 110 a little, and wherein the orientation of inlet refers to the direction of the line of centres of each inlet.

Embodiment 2

The embodiment 2 of ink accomodating unit is schematically shown in Fig. 3-5.In order to the object simplified, eliminate the description with embodiment 1 same section when describing embodiment 2.Fig. 3 schematically shows the stereogram of the black accomodating unit according to this embodiment of the present utility model, the schematic diagram of Fig. 4 to be F region in Fig. 3 be decomposing state.As in Figure 3-5, embodiment 2 is with the difference of embodiment 1, in the present embodiment, ink accomodating unit 210 comprises the first fixed part 220 and the second fixed part 221, the orientation of the first fixed part 220 and the second fixed part 221 is the length direction (the E direction namely in Fig. 4) along connecting portion 217c, and wherein the orientation of the first fixed part 220 and the second fixed part 221 refers to the direction of the line of centres of the first fixed part 220 and the second fixed part 221.

It is trip bolt different (as shown in Figure 2) from fixed part in embodiment 1 119, in the embodiment of Fig. 3-5, the first fixed part 220 and the second fixed part 221 include the protuberance 219a be arranged on black the accomodating unit 210 and opening portion 219b corresponding with this protuberance 219a be arranged on connecting portion 217c.Be set on two protuberance 219a of the black accomodating unit 210 corresponding with it by the opening portion 219b of two on connecting portion 217c is overlapped respectively, seal member 217 can be fixed on black accomodating unit 210.By arranging the first fixed part 220 and the second fixed part 221 on black accomodating unit 210, even if fixed part is not as the trip bolt in embodiment 1, it also can limit the rotation of seal member 217 on black accomodating unit 210, thus the cross pollution avoided obscuring of sealing occurs and cause ink.Certainly, in this embodiment, the first fixed part 220 and the second fixed part 221 also can for the securing member of such as trip bolt or other be fixedly connected with mode, there is no particular restriction for the utility model.

Further preferably, as shown in Figure 5, distance A between first fixed part 220 and the first inlet 213a and the distance H sum between the first fixed part 220 and the second fixed part 221 are greater than the length C from the second fixed part 221 to the second sealing 217b of connecting portion 217c, like this, because the length C of connecting portion 217c between the second fixed part 221 to the second sealing 217b is less than the distance H+A between the second fixed part 221 to the first inlet 213a, thus make the second sealing 217b cannot touch the first inlet 213a place completely, thus obscuring of sealing can be avoided further.Similarly, distance B between second fixed part 221 and the second inlet 213b and the distance H sum between the first fixed part 220 and the second fixed part 221 are greater than the length D from the first fixed part 220 to the first sealing 217a of connecting portion 217c, like this, because the length D of connecting portion 217c between the first fixed part 220 to the first sealing 217a is less than the distance H+B between the first fixed part 220 to the second inlet 213b, thus make the first sealing 217a cannot touch the second inlet 213b place completely, thus obscuring of sealing can be avoided further, and then avoid the cross pollution that ink occurs.

Embodiment 3

The embodiment 3 of ink accomodating unit is schematically shown in Fig. 6.In order to the object simplified, describe embodiment 3 time eliminate the description with embodiment 1 same section, and Fig. 6 only schematically show according to another preferred embodiment of the present utility model black accomodating unit plan view from above.As shown in Figure 6, embodiment 3 is with the difference of embodiment 1, in the present embodiment, the orientation that black accomodating unit 310 comprises the first fixed part 320 and the second fixed part 321, first fixed part 320 and the second fixed part 321 is the width (the G direction namely in Fig. 6) along connecting portion 317c.Wherein the orientation of the first fixed part 320 and the second fixed part 321 refers to the direction of the line of centres of the first fixed part 320 and the second fixed part 321.

In the embodiment of fig. 6, the first fixed part 320 and the second fixed part 321 include the protuberance 319a be arranged on black the accomodating unit 310 and opening portion 319b corresponding with this protuberance 319a be arranged on connecting portion 317c.Be set on two protuberance 319a of the black accomodating unit 310 corresponding with it by the opening portion 319b of two on connecting portion 317c is overlapped respectively, seal member 317 can be fixed on black accomodating unit 310.By arranging the first fixed part 320 and the second fixed part 321 on black accomodating unit 310, even if it is not as the trip bolt in embodiment 1, it also can limit the rotation of seal member 317 on black accomodating unit 310, thus the cross pollution avoided obscuring of sealing occurs and cause ink.Certainly, in this embodiment, the first fixed part 320 and the second fixed part 321 also can for the securing member of such as trip bolt or other be fixedly connected with mode, there is no particular restriction for the utility model.

Certainly, the quantity of fixed part and orientation are also not limited to above-mentioned embodiment, in other embodiment unshowned, the quantity of fixed part can be more than two, when there is multiple fixed part, the orientation of fixed part also can favour width or the length direction of connecting portion 317c a little.

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 (6)

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

Inlet, described inlet is used for injecting ink in described black accomodating unit, and described inlet comprises the first inlet and the second inlet;

The seal member corresponding with described inlet, the connecting portion that described seal member comprises the first sealing, the second sealing and is connected between described first sealing and described second sealing, wherein said first sealing and described second sealing are respectively used to described first inlet of sealing and described second inlet; And

At least one fixed part, at least one fixed part described is arranged between described first sealing and described second sealing, for described connecting portion is fixed to described black accomodating unit.

2. black accomodating unit according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described fixed part is configured to described connecting portion to be non-rotatably fixed to described black accomodating unit.

3. black accomodating unit according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described black accomodating unit comprises the first fixed part and the second fixed part, and the orientation of described first fixed part and described second fixed part is the length direction of described connecting portion.

4. black accomodating unit according to claim 3, it is characterized in that, distance between described first fixed part and described first inlet and the distance sum between described first fixed part and described second fixed part be greater than described connecting portion from described second fixed part to the length of described second sealing, and the distance between described second fixed part and described second inlet and the distance sum between described first fixed part and described second fixed part be greater than described connecting portion from described first fixed part to the length of described first sealing.

5. black accomodating unit according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described black accomodating unit comprises the first fixed part and the second fixed part, and the orientation of described first fixed part and described second fixed part is the width of described connecting portion.

6. an ink-jet printer, is characterized in that, comprises the black accomodating unit according to any one of claim 1-5.