CN205130644U - 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, black accommodation unit include that the china ink holds body, frame, lid and protruding portion. This china ink accommodation unit and ink jet printer can make the black ink bottle pour into the ink into in having the china ink of the colored ink bottle portion of holding to holding, avoids causing colour mixture or image quality to reduce.

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).

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 10 comprises black accomodating unit 11 and printer body 12, and black accomodating unit 11 is fixedly mounted in (on the right flank such as, shown in Fig. 1) on a certain side of printer body 12.For convenience of description, ink-jet printer 10 is defined as front towards the direction of user in a state of use, by ink-jet printer 10 viewed from front, definition left and right directions.

Ink accomodating unit 11 generally includes ink and holds body 16 and lid 13.Ink holds body 16 and comprises the first black accommodation section 14 holding black ink and the one or more second black accommodation sections 15 holding color inks.The upper surface of the first black accommodation section 14 and the second black accommodation section 15 is formed with inlet 14a and 15a (for simplicity's sake, two inlet marks are only shown in figure) of the ink for injecting different colours wherein respectively.When lid 13 is in open mode, all inlet 14a and 15a all expose.When needs refilling, corresponding to different black accommodation section the color that is suitable for, the coupler of black or color ink water bottle need be upside down on inlet 14a or 15a, to inject ink by user straight down.Because all inlet 14a and 15a outward appearance seem without any difference, user very likely obscures the black accommodation section of different colours, and mistakenly such as black ink is injected color ink accommodation section (as the second black accommodation section 15), thus ink generation cross pollution can be caused, cause image quality to reduce or unnecessary loss.

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, and provides a kind of for black accomodating unit and ink-jet printer, and black ink water bottle can be made to be difficult to inject ink in the black accommodation section accommodating color inks.

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 holds body and comprises the first black accommodation section and the second black accommodation section, described first black accommodation section is for holding the black ink to be supplied to described printer body, described second black accommodation section is for holding the color inks to be supplied to described printer body, described first black accommodation section has the first inlet for being injected black ink by black ink water bottle, described second black accommodation section has the second inlet for being injected color inks by color ink water bottle, framework, described belfry for holding body for covering described ink, and has the opening exposed for described first inlet and described second inlet at upper surface, lid, described lid has first end and second end contrary with described first end, described first end is configured to be pivotally connected to described framework, and described lid can relative to described framework pivotable between a closed position and a open position, make when described lid is in described closed position, described first inlet and described second inlet are covered by described lid, and when described lid is in described open position, described first inlet and described second inlet expose, and protuberance, the position corresponding to described second inlet that is that described protuberance is positioned at described second end or described framework, when described second inlet exposes, the direction of described protuberance in the horizontal direction to described second inlet is outstanding, the center that horizontal range between the projection on the horizontal plane with described second inlet of the outer most edge of described protuberance and the center of described second inlet is more than or equal to the coupler of described color ink water bottle to bottle minimum horizontal distance and be less than the minimum horizontal distance of center to bottle of the coupler of described black ink water bottle, and the outer most edge of described protuberance projecting in the vertical plane vertical range with the described horizontal plane of described second inlet is less than the vertical height of described black ink water bottle.

According to black accomodating unit of the present utility model, protuberance is set by the position of the second inlet of the correspondence second black accommodation section at lid or framework, user can be stoped accidentally to be upside down on the second inlet by black ink water bottle and to inject ink, thus cross pollution and image quality reduction that ink occurs can be avoided.

Alternatively, described protuberance is arranged on described second end, when described lid is in described closed position, described protuberance covers the side of described black accomodating unit, and described side is to the installed surface of described printer body contrary side to be installed with described black accomodating unit.This technical scheme makes the structure of black accomodating unit more neat, compact, does not occupy exceptional space.

Alternatively, described protuberance is tabular component.This technical scheme structure is simple, the structure of black accomodating unit can be made more neat, compact simultaneously, not occupy exceptional space.

Alternatively, described black accomodating unit also has the black capacity display surface being positioned at described side, described black capacity display surface is transparent or semitransparent, can show the ink in described first black accommodation section and described second black accommodation section, described protuberance is configured to the display of the black capacity exposed when described lid is in the closed position in described black capacity display surface.This technical scheme can stop user to be accidentally upside down on the second inlet by black ink water bottle to inject ink, thus cross pollution and image quality reduction that ink occurs can be avoided, make again user can be checked residual ink amount in black accommodation section in time by the black capacity display surface exposed, to make the decision of injecting ink or purchasing ink in advance in time simultaneously.

Alternatively, described protuberance has the hyalomere corresponding with described black capacity display surface or opening portion.This technical scheme can stop user to be accidentally upside down on the second inlet by black ink water bottle to inject ink, thus cross pollution and image quality reduction that ink occurs can be avoided, make again user can check by hyalomere or opening portion the residual ink amount that black capacity display surface presents in time simultaneously, to make the decision of injecting ink or purchasing ink in advance in time, also has the advantage that structure is simple, easily manufactured in addition.

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, by arranging protuberance in the position of the lid of black accomodating unit or correspondence second inlet of framework, user can be stoped accidentally to be upside down on the second inlet by black ink water bottle and to inject ink, thus cross pollution and image quality reduction that ink occurs can be avoided.

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, and wherein lid is in open mode;

Fig. 3 schematically shows the stereogram of the ink-jet printer according to another preferred embodiment of the present utility model, and wherein lid is in the closed position;

Fig. 4 is the floor map according to black ink water bottle of the present utility model and color ink water bottle;

Fig. 5 is the principle schematic shown according to the protuberance of the embodiment in Fig. 2 and the position relationship between black ink water bottle and color ink water bottle; And

Fig. 6 is the principle schematic shown according to the protuberance of another preferred embodiment of the present utility model and the position relationship between black ink water bottle and color ink water bottle.

Description of reference numerals:

10,100 ink-jet printers

11,110 black accomodating units

12,120 printer body

13,113 lids

113a first end

113b second end

16,111 ink hold body

14,115 first black accommodation sections

15,116 second black accommodation sections

130 black ink water bottles

The coupler of 130a black ink water bottle

The top cover of 130b black ink water bottle

115a first inlet

140 color ink water bottles

The coupler of 140a color ink water bottle

The top cover of 140b color ink water bottle

116a second inlet

112 frameworks

114,214 protuberances

118 installed surfaces

117 black capacity display surfaces

114a hyalomere, opening portion

The outer most edge of 114b, 214b protuberance

115b, 116b seal member

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 ", " level ", " vertically " or " vertically " refer to substantially or roughly " parallel ", " level ", " vertically " or " vertically ".

Fig. 2-3 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, and by black accomodating unit 110 is mounted to printer body 120, black accomodating unit 110 is fixedly connected to printer body 120.Should be appreciated that black accomodating unit 110 also can removably be connected to printer body 120, but in present embodiment, both are for being fixedly connected with, such connection is more firm.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.

Continue with reference to figure 2, the ink that the inside of black accomodating unit 110 is provided with for holding ink holds body 111, for holding the ink to be supplied to printer body 120.Ink holds three the second black accommodation sections 116 that body 111 comprises the first black accommodation section 115 and is arranged in order.Wherein, the first black accommodation section 115 is for holding black ink, and three the second black accommodation sections 116 all for holding different color inks, such as, can use the ink-mist recording coloured image of cyan, magenta and yellow three kinds of colors respectively.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.

First black accommodation section 115 and the second black accommodation section 116 all have black capacity display surface 117, and the side at its place is contrary with the installed surface 118 to printer body 120 to be installed of black accomodating unit 110, and all vertically extends.Ink capacity display surface 117 is transparent or semitransparent, makes it possible to the ink in the black accommodation section of display first 115 and the second black accommodation section 116, thus can indicate residual ink amount to user.

The upper surface of ink accommodation section 115,116 be formed protrude from this upper surface, the first inlet 115a of opening upwards and the second inlet 116a so that user ink to be injected into black accommodation section 115,116 inner.The top of the first inlet 115a and the second inlet 116a is provided with usually for sealing inlet to prevent seal member 115b, 116b of evaporation of ink or leakage.Wherein, first inlet 115a is corresponding with the first black accommodation section 115, black ink is injected for using black ink water bottle 130 (see Fig. 4), second inlet 116a is corresponding with the second black accommodation section 116, can be used for using color ink water bottle 140 (see Fig. 4) to inject color inks.In practice, black ink water bottle 130 is normally identical with the height of color ink water bottle 140, but due to black ink use amount many compared with color inks, the cross-sectional diameter of black ink water bottle 130 is greater than the cross-sectional diameter of color ink water bottle 140 usually.On the top of the coupler 130a of black ink the water bottle 130 and coupler 140a of color ink water bottle 140, possess removable top cover 130b, 140b separately.When ink is injected into ink accommodation body from ink bottle, it is natural for top cover 130b, 140b being taken off from the top of coupler 130a, 140a.

Ink accomodating unit 110 also has framework 112, holds body 111 as its outer packaging for covering ink.The upper surface of framework 112 has the opening (not shown) exposed for the first inlet 115a and the second inlet 116a.

Ink accomodating unit 110 also comprises lid 113, lid 113 comprises first end 113a and is in the second end 113b of opposite side of first end 113a, first end 113a is configured to be pivotally connected to framework 112, make lid 113 can be pivotally connected to black accomodating unit 110, and can relative to black accomodating unit 110 pivotable between a closed position and a open position.Fig. 2 shows situation when lid 113 is positioned at open position, and Fig. 3 shows situation when lid 113 is positioned at closed position.Can see, when lid 113 is positioned at closed position, all inlet 115a and 116a cover by lid 113; When lid 113 is positioned at open position, all inlet 115a and 116a expose.In practical operation, when needs carry out refilling operation, lid 113 need be switched to open position from closed position, whole inlet 115a and 116a is made to expose, open seal member 115b and 116b corresponding to inlet 115a or 116a again, corresponding to different black accommodation section the color that is suitable for, the coupler of black or color ink water bottle is upside down on inlet 115a or 116a, straight down to inject ink.

As Figure 2-3, black accomodating unit 110 also comprises protuberance 114, and protuberance 114 in tabular, and is arranged at the position corresponding with the second inlet 116a of the second end 113b of lid 113.Should be appreciated that, protuberance also can be such as other shapes such as strip or bulk.When lid 113 is in the closed position (as shown in Figure 3), flat protuberance 114 is covered in the side contrary with installed surface 118 of black accomodating unit 110, makes protuberance 114 can not occupy other space.Preferably, the position corresponding with black capacity display surface 117 of protuberance 114 has hyalomere or opening portion 114a, makes protuberance 114 expose the display of the black capacity in black capacity display surface 117 when lid 113 is in the closed position.Certainly, according to expectation, whole protuberance 114 also can be all arranged to transparent by those skilled in the art.

When lid 113 is in an open position, as shown in Figure 2 and Figure 5, all inlet 115a and 116a all expose.The direction of protuberance 114 in the horizontal direction to the second inlet 116a is outstanding, and the horizontal range L1 between the projection of the outer most edge 114b of protuberance 114 on the horizontal plane at the second inlet 116a place and the center of the second inlet 116a is more than or equal to the minimum horizontal distance L2 of center to bottle of the coupler 140a of color ink water bottle 140, make when using color ink water bottle 140 to inject color inks to the second inlet 116a, color ink water bottle 140 can insert downwards in the second inlet 116a vertically, complete refilling operation (as shown in Figure 5) thus, simultaneously, horizontal range L1 between projection on the horizontal plane at the second inlet 116a place of the outer most edge 114b of protuberance 114 and the center of the second inlet 116a is less than the minimum horizontal distance L3 of center to bottle of the coupler 130a of black ink water bottle 130, protuberance 114 is made to play certain barrier effect to black ink water bottle 130 in the horizontal direction, black ink water bottle 130 is made to insert in the second inlet 116a by verticallydownwardly, and then make black ink water bottle 130 be difficult to inject ink to the second inlet 116a, namely, play and stop user black ink water bottle 130 to be upside down in straight down the effect of the second inlet 116a injecting ink.Usually, the coupler of black ink water bottle 130 and color ink water bottle 140 is all in its center, and therefore, the center of their coupler is all generally the radius of bottle cross section to the minimum horizontal distance of bottle.It should be noted that, the vertical range L4 that project to the horizontal plane at second inlet 116a place of outer most edge 114b in vertical plane of protuberance 114 need be less than the vertical height L5 of black ink water bottle 140, L4 is greater than L5 else if, and protuberance 114 just cannot play barrier effect to black ink water bottle in the horizontal direction.

In another preferred embodiment of the present utility model, as shown in Figure 6, protuberance 214 is arranged on the position corresponding with the second inlet 116a of framework 112.In the present embodiment, the position relationship described in position relationship between protuberance 214 and the second inlet 116a and embodiment with reference to figure 2-5 is similar, namely, the direction of protuberance 214 in the horizontal direction to the second inlet 116a is outstanding, and the horizontal range L1 between the projection of the outer most edge 214b of protuberance 214 on the horizontal plane at the second inlet 116a place and the center of the second inlet 116a is more than or equal to the minimum horizontal distance L2 of center to bottle of the coupler 140a of color ink water bottle 140, be less than the minimum horizontal distance L3 of center to bottle of the coupler 130a of black ink water bottle 130 simultaneously, protuberance 214 is made to play certain barrier effect to black ink water bottle 130 in the horizontal direction, black ink water bottle 130 is made to insert in the second inlet 116a by verticallydownwardly, and then make black ink water bottle 130 be difficult to inject ink to the second inlet 116a, further, the vertical range L6 that project to the horizontal plane at second inlet 116a place of the outer most edge 214b of protuberance 214 in vertical plane need be less than the vertical height L5 of black ink water bottle 140.Other structure of protuberance 214 is all identical with embodiment as described above, for brevity, does not repeat them here.

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

Ink holds body, described ink holds body and comprises the first black accommodation section and the second black accommodation section, described first black accommodation section is for holding the black ink to be supplied to described printer body, described second black accommodation section is for holding the color inks to be supplied to described printer body, described first black accommodation section has the first inlet for being injected black ink by black ink water bottle, and described second black accommodation section has the second inlet for being injected color inks by color ink water bottle;

Framework, described belfry for holding body for covering described ink, and has the opening exposed for described first inlet and described second inlet at upper surface;

Lid, described lid has first end and second end contrary with described first end, described first end is configured to be pivotally connected to described framework, and described lid can relative to described framework pivotable between a closed position and a open position, make when described lid is in described closed position, described first inlet and described second inlet are covered by described lid, and when described lid is in described open position, described first inlet and described second inlet expose; With

Protuberance, the position corresponding to described second inlet that is that described protuberance is positioned at described second end or described framework, when described second inlet exposes, the direction of described protuberance in the horizontal direction to described second inlet is outstanding, the center that horizontal range between the projection on the horizontal plane with described second inlet of the outer most edge of described protuberance and the center of described second inlet is more than or equal to the coupler of described color ink water bottle to bottle minimum horizontal distance and be less than the minimum horizontal distance of center to bottle of the coupler of described black ink water bottle, and the outer most edge of described protuberance projecting in the vertical plane vertical range with the described horizontal plane of described second inlet is less than the vertical height of described black ink water bottle.

2. black accomodating unit according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described protuberance is arranged on described second end, when described lid is in described closed position, described protuberance covers the side of described black accomodating unit, and described side is to the installed surface of described printer body contrary side to be installed with described black accomodating unit.

3. black accomodating unit according to claim 1 and 2, is characterized in that, described protuberance is tabular component.

4. black accomodating unit according to claim 2, it is characterized in that, described black accomodating unit also has the black capacity display surface being positioned at described side, described black capacity display surface is transparent or semitransparent, can show the ink in described first black accommodation section and described second black accommodation section, described protuberance is configured to the display of the black capacity exposed when described lid is in the closed position in described black capacity display surface.

5. black accomodating unit according to claim 4, is characterized in that, described protuberance has the hyalomere corresponding with described black capacity display surface or opening portion.

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