LIQUID SUPPLY METHOD, CAPILLARY FORCE GENERATING MEMBER STORING CONTAINER USED FOR THE LIQUID SUPPLY METHOD, AND LIQUID SUPPLY CONTAINER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly absorb the ink remaining in a communicating part into a capillary force generating member storing container at the time of detaching a liquid supply container. SOLUTION: A negative pressure controlling room unit (capillary force generating member storing container) 110 and an ink tank unit (liquid supply container) 200 are provided detachably via a joint pipe (communicating part) 180. The boundary surface 113C between an absorbing member (capillary force generating member) 130 and an absorbing member 140 is formed below the lower end of the joint pipe 180. The ink 301 remaining in the joint pipe 180 at the time of detaching the ink tank unit 180 is smoothly absorbed into the negative pressure controlling room unit according to the rising movement in the absorbing member 130 without causing the gas-liquid interface L to cross the boundary surface 113C.