Patent ID: 8157363
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: B41J,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A manufacturing method for an ink container including an ink chamber accommodating ink therein and an ink supply port for supplying the ink from the ink chamber into a recording head, said method comprising: a preparing step of preparing a casing member constituting an outer wall of said ink chamber and said ink supply port, wherein an ink remaining amount detection module is mounted on a bottom of said ink chamber, wherein said ink remaining amount detection module comprises a support substrate having first and second sides opposite to each other; a plurality of detection electrodes provided on the first side of said support substrate and exposed to inside of said ink chamber; readable and writable non-volatile information storing means provided on said support substrate and a plurality of contact electrodes provided on the second side of said support substrate; wherein said contact electrodes are electrically connected to at least one of said plurality of the detection electrodes and said information storing means; wherein recesses are provided on said casing member and said detection electrodes are provided in said recesses, respectively, wherein a wall is configured at a position between said recesses and wherein said information storing means is covered by said wall between each of said recesses, and wherein the first side is faced inward of said casing so that said ink detection electrodes are exposed toward the ink said method further comprising: a filling step of filling ink into said ink chamber; and a writing step of writing information indicative of presence of ink in said information storing means of said ink remaining amount detection module after the filling step.