Claims
- 1. A product comprising:
- an ink jet cartridge having an ink jet head portion for discharging ink and an ink tank portion for storing the ink and for supplying the ink to the ink jet head portion, the ink jet head portion having an ink discharge opening;
- a container body, separate from the ink jet cartridge and containing the ink jet cartridge, said container body having an opening;
- a lid member, attached to said container body at a periphery of the opening of said container body and detachable therefrom, for enclosing said ink jet cartridge in said container body; and
- an ink absorbing member, disposed in said container body spaced apart from and facing the ink discharge opening, for absorbing the ink that may flow from the ink jet head portion while the ink jet cartridge is enclosed in said container body.
- 2. A product according to claim 1, wherein the ink jet head portion discharges the ink from the ink discharge opening.
Priority Claims (3)
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63-281430 |
Nov 1988 |
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1-260186 |
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1-277059 |
Oct 1989 |
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/008,606 filed Jan. 22, 1993, now abandoned, which in turn is a division of application Ser. No. 07/789,632 filed Nov. 12, 1991, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,231,416, which in turn is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/433,848 filed Nov. 9, 1989, now abandoned.
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Divisions (1)
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Continuations (2)
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