Patent attributes
An ink-jet recording apparatus, includes an ink-extracting member which has an ink-extract passage as an inner passage formed therein and which is to be removably connected to an ink cartridge. The ink-extracting member is to be connected to the ink cartridge. The ink cartridge includes an ink-outlet valve member which shuts off a flow of the ink from the ink cartridge, and which establishes a state in which the ink can be extracted from the ink cartridge by the ink-extracting member when the ink-outlet valve member is pressed by the ink-extracting member. The ink-extracting member further includes, at an end portion thereof, an end face which abuts on the ink-outlet valve member, and at least one ink-extract communication opening which is formed at the end portion and which is formed in a peripheral wall of the ink-extracting member, so as to communicate with the ink-extract passage.
