Patent ID: 11964491
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A cartridge detachably mountable to a printing apparatus, assuming that three orthogonal spatial directions respectively are an X axis direction, a Y axis direction, and a Z axis direction, positive directions along the X axis direction, the Y axis direction, and the Z axis direction are a +X direction, a +Y direction, and a +Z direction, negative directions along the X axis direction, the Y axis direction, and the Z axis direction are a −X direction, a −Y direction, and a −Z direction, the printing apparatus including an apparatus side terminal unit being movable in the X axis direction and the Z axis direction, the apparatus side terminal unit having an apparatus side terminal group, and a first positioning portion and a second positioning portion provided on both sides of the apparatus side terminal group in the X axis direction, the cartridge is configured to be mounted to the printing apparatus by moving from the +Y axis direction to the −Y axis direction, the cartridge comprising:
a terminal connection portion configured to be connected to the apparatus side terminal unit when the cartridge is mounted to the printing apparatus, the terminal connection portion including:
a tilted surface tilted in a direction including the −Y axis direction component and the +Z axis direction component and provided with a cartridge side terminal group which is configured to contact the apparatus side terminal group in a mounted state in which the cartridge is mounted to the printing apparatus;
a first restriction portion provided on the +X side of the cartridge side terminal group; and
a second restriction portion provided on the −X side of the cartridge side terminal group, wherein:
the first restriction portion and the second restriction portion configured to receive the first positioning portion and the second positioning portion, respectively, from the −Y axis direction to the +Y axis direction, and restrict the apparatus side terminal unit from moving in the X axis direction and the Z axis direction in the mounted state.