Patent ID: 8091998

Claim:
A liquid container including a liquid chamber, comprising: a light emitter; an electrical contact configured to receive a signal for causing the light emitter to emit light; a display portion configured to direct the light emitted from the light emitter toward an outside of the liquid container to display information about states of the liquid container; a latch lever elastically deformable and having a latching portion spaced from a first side of the liquid container, the first side being positioned between the latching portion and the liquid chamber; and a liquid supply port disposed at a second side of the liquid container, wherein the electrical contact is disposed at a position which is between the latching portion and the liquid supply port when the liquid container is viewed in a direction perpendicular to the second side and which is between the latching portion and the second side when the liquid container is viewed in a direction perpendicular to the first side, and wherein the display portion is disposed adjacent to an upper portion, in use, of the first side.