US 7,553,005 B2
Printing apparatus and ink cartridge therefor
Satoshi Shinada, Nagano-ken (Japan); Yasuto Sakai, Nagano-ken (Japan); Tomio Yokoyama, Nagano-ken (Japan); Kazuhiro Hashii, Nagano-ken (Japan); Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Nagano-ken (Japan); and Kazumasa Harada, Nagano-ken (Japan)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/469,215.
Application 11/469215 is a continuation of application No. 10/400107, filed on Mar. 26, 2003, granted, now 7,150,520.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-093838 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2002; application No. 2002-099211 (JP), filed on Apr. 01, 2002; and application No. 2003-077849 (JP), filed on Mar. 20, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2006/0290757 A1, Dec. 28, 2006
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/14 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 347—86  [347/49] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ink cartridge detachably mountable on a printing apparatus, said printing apparatus having a print head and an ink supply needle supplying ink to the print head, comprising:
an ink body for containing ink therein which has a bottom wall, a first side wall adjacent to the bottom wall, a second side wall disposed opposite to the first side wall, a third side wall which intersects with the first and second side walls and a fourth side wall that is perpendicular to the second side wall and is opposite to the third side wall;
an ink supply section having an ink supply opening formed on the bottom wall at a position closer to the first side wall than the second side wall for allowing the ink supply needle to be inserted, the ink supply opening having a center axis;
a memory having a contact terminal member disposed on and facing outward from the second side wall, a centerline of the contact terminal member extending in a direction parallel to the center axis of the ink supply opening; and
an inverse mounting preventing rib that is engageable with the carriage of the printing apparatus when the ink cartridge is installed in a proper orientation on the printing apparatus, and the inverse mounting preventing rib lies on the fourth side wall.