Patent ID: 9090075
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An ink fill container used to fill an ink reservoir with ink, the ink reservoir supplying the ink to an ink ejecting apparatus, the ink fill container comprising: a containing unit that contains the ink with which the ink reservoir is to be filled; a filling port that is configured to be inserted through an opening of an inlet of the ink reservoir and that allows the ink contained in the containing unit to flow therethrough to fill the ink reservoir; and a liquid guide portion that guides the ink in the containing unit to the filling port during ink filling of the ink reservoir, the liquid guide portion having a cross section smaller than a cross section of the containing unit; a positioning member comprising two or more protrusions that protrude outward from an outer wall of the liquid guide portion at a position spaced apart from the filling port and between the filling port and the containing unit and that are configured to maintain a position of the filling port and a position of the ink reservoir with respect to each other in the direction in which the filling port is inserted into the ink reservoir during ink filling of the ink reservoir by contacting an end portion of the inlet that defines the opening of the inlet in which the filling port is inserted through during ink filling.