Ink refilling method and apparatus, ink container refilled there

Details Ink refilling method and apparatus, ink container refilled there Ink refilling method and apparatus, ink container refilled there

1996-11-08

2000-02-15

Le, N.

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Fluid or fluid source handling means

B41J 2175

Patent

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060244429

ABSTRACT:
An ink refilling apparatus includes an ink absorbing member at a connecting portion relative to an ink recording head; an ink container holding portion to which an ink container for the ink recording head provided with a porous ink retaining member capable of producing a negative pressure therein, is mountable; an ink discharging device for accommodating the ink to be refilled into the ink container and supplying the ink to the ink absorbing member of the ink container; wherein after the ink of the ink absorbing member and the ink retained by the ink discharging device are contacted to each other, the ink is refilled using a negative pressure produced by consumption of the ink from the ink container; the improvement residing in that ink absorbing member having substantially the same property as the ink absorbing member of the ink container is provided at an ink container connection side of the ink discharging device, the ink absorbing members are contacted to each other upon mounting of the ink container, by which a meniscus formed at a contact surface of the ink absorbing member, is broken.

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