公开(公告)号：US20070182771A1

公开(公告)日：2007-08-09

申请号：US11690999

申请日：2007-03-26

申请人： Takeo SEINO ,  Munehide KANAYA ,  Atsushi KOBAYASHI ,  Takahiro KATAKURA

发明人： Takeo SEINO ,  Munehide KANAYA ,  Atsushi KOBAYASHI ,  Takahiro KATAKURA

IPC分类号： B41J2/195

CPC分类号： B41J2/17523 ,  B41J2/17513 ,  B41J2/17566 ,  B41J2002/17516

摘要： An ink container which includes an ink supply port for supplying ink to a recording head, and is formed with a flexible member shaped like a bag, which deforms in accordance with an amount of remaining ink contained therein, the ink container including: a sensor module serving as vibration activating and detecting unit, provided on one of the surfaces of the ink container, for emitting a vibration to the ink; and a rigid member provided on a location of the other surface of the ink container, which is opposed to the sensor module; wherein an amount of remaining ink is detected based on a vibration characteristic of the vibration activating and detecting unit which depends on a distance between the vibration activating and detecting unit and the rigid member.

摘要翻译： 一种墨水容器，其包括用于向记录头供墨的供墨口，并且形成有类似袋状的柔性构件，其根据容纳在其中的剩余墨量而变形，所述墨盒包括：传感器模块 用作振动激活和检测单元，设置在油墨容器的一个表面上，用于向油墨发出振动; 以及刚性构件，设置在与所述传感器模块相对的所述墨水容器的另一个表面的位置上; 其中，基于振动激活和检测单元的振动特性来检测剩余墨水的量，其取决于振动激活和检测单元与刚性构件之间的距离。