Abstract: A liquid container includes a main body; a valve; a first port; and a support member. The main body defines a first storage chamber. The main body has a neck portion defining an accommodation space. The valve is positioned inside the accommodation space. The valve is movable between a closed position and an open position in a movement direction. A center axis of the valve is offset relative to a center axis of the neck portion in an offset direction orthogonal to the movement direction. The valve at the open position and the support member define a fluid flow passage. The fluid flow passage is positioned further in an opposite direction relative to the center axis of the neck portion. The opposite direction is a direction opposite to the offset direction.

Abstract: A liquid container includes a body, a valve, a liquid supply port, an elastic member, and a switching mechanism. The valve is positioned inside the body. The valve is movable between a closed position and an open position. The elastic member urges the valve to the closed position. The switching mechanism is configured to switch an urging force with which the elastic member urges the valve between a first urging force and a second urging force. The second urging force is smaller than the first urging force.

Abstract: An ink container is provided. The ink container includes a main body. The main body includes a first key portion and a second key portion. The first key portion is positioned on a first outer surface of the main body. The second key portion is positioned on a second outer surface.

Abstract: A cartridge configured to be inserted in a first direction into a case having a plurality of engagement portions is provided. The cartridge has a body and a key member. The body has a chamber for storing a printing agent. The key member is located on the body at a position associated with a type of the printing agent stored in the chamber and is configured to engage with a corresponding one of the plurality of engagement portions of the case. The key member has a surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction. The surface is configured to contact the corresponding one of the plurality of engagement portions.

Abstract: An ink bottle includes a body, a seal member, and a valve. The body has an ink storage chamber and an opening through which the ink storage chamber is configured to communicate with an outside of the body. The seal member is positioned at the opening. The seal member is made of rubber and has a first hole and a second hole through which the ink storage chamber is configured to communicate with the outside. The valve is configured to close the first hole and the second hole. The first hole and the second hole are arranged adjacent to each other. The seal member has a first nozzle in communication with the first hole. The first nozzle extends from the first hole in a first direction from the ink storage chamber toward the outside.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid container including: a main body having an internal space configured to store liquid to be supplied to a tank of a liquid consuming apparatus; and a cap configured to be attached to the main body. The main body has: an upper surface, a nozzle projecting upward from the upper surface and having an opening formed in a forward end surface of the nozzle, and a circular wall positioned in a surrounding of the nozzle with a spacing distance with respect to the nozzle, and projecting upward from the upper surface; and a key member corresponding to a receiver key member provided on surrounding of a respective supply port of the tank. The cap has a circular contacting part configured to liquid-tightly make contact with the circular wall in an attached state in which the cap is attached to the main body.

Abstract: An ink container includes a chamber, a supply port, an electrical interface, and a protrusion. The chamber is configured to store ink. The supply port faces frontward in an insertion direction. The electrical interface includes a contact surface that faces upward in an up-down direction orthogonal to the insertion direction. The protrusion is positioned upward in the up-down direction and frontward in the insertion direction of the supply port.

Abstract: A liquid bottle includes a body, a rubber, a valve, and a resilient member urging the valve toward the rubber. The body has an internal space and an opening through which the internal space is configured to communicate with an outside of the body. The rubber is positioned at the opening. The rubber has a first lip extending into the internal space around the opening. The valve is configured to contact the first lip. The first lip has an annular shape whose first length in a first direction is longer than a second length thereof in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The valve has a flat portion and a protruding portion. The flat portion opposes the first lip in an urging direction of the resilient member. The protruding portion protrudes from the flat portion and is positioned inward of the first lip.

Abstract: A tank includes: a first liquid chamber for storing first liquid; a first front wall; a first upper wall crossing and extending from the first front wall; a second liquid chamber for storing second liquid; a second front wall; and a second upper wall crossing and extending from the second front wall. The first and second upper walls have first and second injection holes, respectively. The first liquid chamber includes a first space and a second space communicating each other. The first space is aligned with the second liquid chamber in a left-right direction. The second space is aligned with and arranged rearward of the first space and the second liquid chamber. The rear end of the first liquid chamber is positioned rearward of the rear end of the second liquid chamber. The first liquid chamber has a first volume larger than a second volume of the second liquid chamber.

Abstract: A liquid cartridge inserted into a printer includes a housing and a first valve mechanism. The housing has a first cylindrical portion that opens in a frontward. At least portion of the first valve mechanism is accommodated within the first cylindrical portion. The first valve mechanism includes a first seal member, a first valve, and a first biasing member. The first seal member is in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the first cylindrical portion. The first seal member having a first through hole. The first valve is positioned inside the first cylindrical portion. The first valve is movable between a closed position and an open position. The first biasing member biases the first valve frontward such that the first valve biases toward the closed position.

Abstract: A liquid container includes a blow-molded housing having a parting line. The blow-molded housing includes: a first wall; a second wall; a liquid chamber; and a supply portion. The second wall opposes the first wall in a left-right direction. The liquid chamber is positioned between the first wall and the second wall. An inside of the liquid chamber is in communication with an outside of the liquid chamber through the supply portion. In the liquid container: the parting line has a portion positioned at the supply portion; and a distance between the first wall and the portion of the parting line in the left-right direction is greater than a distance between the second wall and the portion of the parting line in the left-right direction.

Abstract: An ink container includes a main body and a supply port. The main body includes a chamber configured to store ink. The supply port faces in a first direction. The main body further includes: a front surface positioned in the first direction from the supply port; a left surface that extends from the front surface in a second direction opposite to the first direction; a right surface that extends from the front surface in the second direction; and a first groove that extends from the front surface in the second direction, the first groove being positioned above the supply port in an up-down direction.

Abstract: A cartridge configured to be inserted in a first direction into a case having a plurality of engagement portions is provided. The cartridge has a body and a key member. The body has a chamber for storing a printing agent. The key member is located on the body at a position associated with a type of the printing agent stored in the chamber and is configured to engage with a corresponding one of the plurality of engagement portions of the case. The key member has a surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction. The surface is configured to contact the corresponding one of the plurality of engagement portions.

Abstract: An ink container includes a main body, a lower surface, and a guide wall. The main body includes a chamber configured to store ink. The main body has first and second sidewalls spaced apart from one another to define a first width. The supply port faces frontward in an attachment direction of the ink container and is configured to supply ink from the chamber. The lower surface is positioned above the supply port in an up-down direction, and forward of the supply port in the attachment direction of the ink container.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes a liquid container, a joint, a branching portion, a plurality of tubes, and a recording head. The liquid container has a first storage chamber, and a supply opening through which the first storage chamber is communicable with atmosphere. The joint is connectable to the supply opening of the liquid container. The branching portion is connected to the joint and is branched into a plurality of liquid channels. Each tube is connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of liquid channels. The recording head includes a plurality of nozzle arrays, and each nozzle array is connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of tubes. The recording head is configured to eject the liquid through each nozzle arrays.

Abstract: An ink container includes a front wall, a rear wall, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall. The front wall faces frontward in an attachment direction of the ink container. The rear wall is spaced apart from the front wall in a rearward direction opposite the attachment direction. The first sidewall is positioned between the front wall and the rear wall. The second sidewall is positioned between the front wall and the rear wall, and spaced apart from the first sidewall. The front wall, the rear wall, the first sidewall and the second sidewall define a main body that includes a chamber configured to store ink.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid storing cartridge including: a liquid container configured to store a liquid, the liquid container having a supply port configured to supply the liquid from the liquid container to an outside of the liquid container; a first positioning part provided in a first side with respect to the supply port in a crossing direction crossing an opening direction of the supply port; and a second positioning part provided in a second side with respect to the supply port in the crossing direction, the second side being opposite side from the first side with respect to the supply port.

Abstract: An ink container is insertable into an attachment unit. The ink container includes a main body that includes a chamber configured to store ink therein, a supply portion that extends forward from the chamber and is configured to supply the ink in the chamber to an outside of the main body; and an electrical interface that is positioned upward of the supply portion and apart from the supply portion and has an electrode.

Abstract: An ink container includes a chamber, an ink supply portion, an electrical interface, and a first key portion. The ink supply portion is configured to supply ink from the chamber. The supply port defines a front end of the ink supply portion. The supply port is oriented in an attachment direction. The electrical interface has a contact surface facing upward in an up-down direction. The contact surface of the electrical interface is positioned above the supply port in the up-down direction. The first key portion is positioned forward of the supply port in the attachment direction, above the supply port in the up-down direction, and below the contact surface of the electrical interface in the up-down direction.