Patent ID: 7854499

Claim:
A liquid housing container comprising a liquid channel that is in communication with a liquid housing chamber and an opening and closing valve provided in the liquid channel and which is opened and closed by moving a valve element between an open position and a closed position, the liquid housing container further comprising: a mechanism that alternately repeats a holding operation of holding the valve element in the open position and a releasing operation of releasing the holding of the valve element in the open position to allow the valve element to move to the closed position, every time the valve element is pushed in a direction from exterior to interior of the liquid housing chamber, wherein the mechanism comprises a rotor that moves alternately to one side or the other side in an axial direction every time the rotor rotates by a specified amount and an operation member that rotates the rotor by the specified amount every time the valve element is pushed from the exterior to interior of the liquid housing chamber, and the mechanism performs the holding operation when the rotor moves to one side and performs the releasing operation when the rotor moves to the other side.