Patent ID: 6022102
Filing Date: 2000-02-08
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A method for refilling liquid using a refilling container to refill liquid to a liquid reserving container provided with a first chamber housing a negative pressure generating member and having an opening communicating with atmospheric air, and a second chamber communicating with said first chamber through a communicating portion to form essentially a closed space with the exception of said communicating portion, comprising the steps of:forming an essentially closed space from the atmospheric air by said second chamber and said refilling container with the exception of said communicating portion in a state of the liquid surface of said refilling container being positioned higher than the liquid surface of said second chamber; andarranging said second chamber to be connected with said refilling container by a first path for conducting gas in said second chamber into said refilling container, and by a second path different from said first path for conducting liquid in said refilling container into said second chamber, and said first path is positioned above said second path.