Liquid container and liquid supplying system

摘要

A liquid container detachably mountable to a recording apparatus to which a plurality of liquid containers are detachably mountable, wherein the recording apparatus includes apparatus electrical contacts corresponding to the liquid containers, respectively, photoreceptor means for receiving light, and an electric circuit connected with a line which is commonly connected with the apparatus electrical contacts, the liquid container includes a container electrical contact electrically connectable with one of the apparatus contacts; an information storing portion capable of storing at least individual information of the liquid container; a light emitting portion; a controller for controlling emission of light of the light emitting portion in response to a correspondence between a signal indicative of individual information supplied through the container electrical contact and the information stored in the information storing means.

主权项

1. A liquid container, comprising;
a casing including a chamber configured to contain liquid, the casing having a liquid supply port capable of supplying the liquid in the chamber to an outside of the casing; a memory positioned outside the chamber and storing container discrimination information indicative of a color of the liquid contained in the chamber; a light emitter positioned outside the chamber; an electrical contact positioned outside the chamber; and a controller (i) positioned outside the chamber, (ii) capable of receiving a control code for controlling the light emitter and color information via the electrical contact, and (iii) configured (iii-i) to control the light emitter based on the received control code if the received color information corresponds to the container discrimination information and (iii-ii) to ignore the received control code if the received color information does not correspond to the container discrimination information.