Patents Assigned to Seiko Instruments Inc.
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Patent number: 11964475Abstract: A thermal printer includes: a roll sheet receiving portion; and a delivery slot through which a portion of the recording sheet drawn from the roll sheet is delivered to an outside of the thermal printer; a printing unit including: a thermal head; and a platen roller configured to convey the recording sheet toward the delivery slot while sandwiching the recording sheet between the thermal head and the platen roller; a flap provided on a portion of the casing between the printing unit and the roll sheet receiving portion so as to be pivotable about a first axis, and configured to press the roll sheet in a direction of separating away from the delivery slot through abutment against an outer peripheral surface of the roll sheet; and an urging member configured to urge the flap about the first axis in the direction of separating away from the delivery slot.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventor: Toshihiro Hirama
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Patent number: 11929640Abstract: A stator includes a magnetic plate material that has a main plate surface that is a surface to face a main plate of a movement when assembled to the main plate and that has a rotor accommodating hole formed in a part thereof; and a non-magnetic region that is made non-magnetic by applying chromium on the main plate surface around the rotor accommodating hole and irradiating the chromium with a laser from the main plate surface side.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventors: Kosuke Yamamoto, Shinji Kinoshita, Hitoshi Takeuchi, Tatsuya Omura
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Patent number: 11831828Abstract: A printer includes: a board including a connector unit that includes at least a power supply connector into which a power cable is to be removably inserted; and a housing including: a housing main body that accommodates the board and includes a cable connection groove through which the power cable is inserted in an inserting and removing direction of the power cable; and a connector cover configured to cover the cable connection groove, wherein the connector cover includes: a cover main body including a power supply opening portion passing through the cover main body in the inserting and removing direction, and a first interface opening portion passing through the cover main body in the inserting and removing direction; and a first opening cover portion configured to cover at least a part of the first interface opening portion, wherein the first opening cover portion includes a first coupling portion configured to couple the first opening cover portion and the cover main body to each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventor: Toshihiro Hirama
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Patent number: 11791513Abstract: A battery includes a negative electrode can that is formed into a topped cylindrical shape. A negative electrode can circumferential wall portion includes a double cylinder portion that extends from an opening edge of the negative electrode can toward a top portion, and a step portion that connects the top portion to the double cylinder portion. The step portion includes a first curved portion that extends to a lower side from an outer circumferential edge of the top portion, a second curved portion that extends to an outer side of a radial direction from the first curved portion, and a third curved portion that extends to the lower side from the second curved portion. The double cylinder portion includes an inner cylinder portion that extends to the lower side from the third curved portion, and an outer cylinder portion that surrounds the inner cylinder portion from the outer side of the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventor: Ken Miura
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Patent number: 11738582Abstract: A printer includes: a mechanism frame configured to receive a recording medium including a liner having a large length, and a plurality of labels temporarily bonded on the liner; a support member supported on the mechanism frame through intermediation of a support shaft; a head which is mounted to the support member, and is configured to perform printing on at least one of the plurality of labels; and a transmissive sensor which is arranged between the head and the support shaft, and is configured to detect the at least one of the plurality of labels, wherein the mechanism frame includes: a frame portion provided between the head and the support shaft at a distance from the support shaft; and a recessed portion which is formed in the frame portion, and is configured to increase the distance so as to allow the sensor to pass through a space having the distance.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventor: Norihisa Ando
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Patent number: 11677888Abstract: A terminal device control method includes: a window mode information acquisition step of acquiring window mode information indicating any one of a single-window mode, which is a mode in which one application runs, and a multi-window mode, which is a mode in which a plurality of applications run in parallel, for a screen of a terminal device configured to cause an external device to perform operation by communicating to/from the external device; a switching step of making a switch, in a case in which the window mode information acquired in the window mode information acquisition step indicates the multi-window mode, to enable or disable a first operation, which is an operation to be performed at least in a time period in which a first application for causing the external device to perform operation runs, and is an operation regarding information to be transmitted from the external device to the terminal device; and a first operation execution step of executing the first operation in a case in which the switchType: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventor: Tomoki Ogura
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Patent number: 11656813Abstract: A printing system includes: a conveyance controller configured to control a conveyor, the conveyor being configured to convey paper having a printing surface in which label portions are formed at predetermined intervals; a sensor configured to irradiate light on the paper conveyed by the conveyor to detect reflected light of the irradiated light; a detector configured to detect an output of the sensor; a moving average calculator configured to calculate moving averages of voltage values based on the output of the sensor detected by the detector; and a determiner configured to determine that a portion between an adjacent pair of the label portions has been detected based on the moving averages of the voltage values calculated by the moving average calculator, and the output of the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventor: Yuichi Yoshigi
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Patent number: 11641028Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode that includes a lithium-manganese oxide as a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode includes SiOx (0?X<2) in which at least a part of a surface is covered with carbon, or a Li-Al alloy as the negative electrode active material, a low-viscosity electrolytic solution that contains propylene carbonate (PC), ethylene carbonate (EC), and dimethoxy ethane (DME) as an organic solvent in a range of {PC:EC:DME}={0.5 to 1.5:0.5 to 1.5:1 to 31} in terms of a volume ratio, and lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) as a supporting salt in an individual amount of 0.6 to 1.2 (mol/L), and the viscosity of the electrolytic solution is constant at higher than ?30° C. to room temperature.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventor: Ken Miura
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Patent number: 11624404Abstract: A rolling bearing capable of achieving reduction in torque is provided. The rolling bearing includes an inner ring and an outer ring disposed coaxially with each other, a rolling element disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, a seal member configured to cover an area between the inner ring and the outer ring from an outside in an axial direction, and filled grease disposed between the rolling element and the seal member. The filled grease includes a first ring-like part which extends to form a circumferential shape centering on a common axis of the inner ring and the outer ring, and which has contact with one of the inner ring and the outer ring, and a second ring-like part which extends to form a circumferential shape centering on the common axis, which is connected to the first ring-like part at an outer side in the axial direction, and which has contact with the seal member.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Takayuki Satodate, Keisuke Abo
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Patent number: 11534896Abstract: The invention aims to provide a rotation tool enabling work without obstructing a view of an operator and facilitating fine-adjustment for the tool. A rotation tool includes a flexible shaft including a tool portion at one end and a grip portion at the other end; and a cylindrical exterior body including curved portion on at least a part thereof, wherein a spiral protrusion is formed on at least a part of the shaft and a spiral groove is formed on at least a part of the curved portion, and the shaft is configured to be movable inside the exterior body by screwing the spiral protrusion and the spiral groove to each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventors: Makoto Suzuki, Jun Shinohara
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Patent number: 11520294Abstract: There are provided a component for a timepiece, a movement, and a timepiece having excellent lubricating oil holding performance. There is provided a component for a timepiece including a sliding surface having a surface tension of 10 to 35 mN/m. It is preferable that when lubricating oil having a surface tension of 25 to 35 mN/m is applied to the sliding surface, an interfacial tension between the sliding surface and the lubricating oil is 0 to 7 mN/m.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventors: Takahiko Nakamura, Natsuki Ebihara
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Patent number: 11495832Abstract: A battery includes a negative electrode body wound to be flat. The negative electrode body has a plurality of negative electrode main bodies arranged in a line in a negative electrode connection direction in a developed state, and at least one negative electrode connection portion connecting a pair of negative electrode main bodies adjacent in the developed state among the plurality of negative electrode main bodies. The at least one negative electrode connection portion is folded back such that the plurality of negative electrode main bodies overlap each other. A dimension of each of the plurality of negative electrode main bodies in the negative electrode connection direction decreases with separation from an outer end side negative electrode main body. A dimension of the at least one negative electrode connection portions in the negative electrode connection direction increases with separation from an inner end side negative electrode connection portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventors: Nagayuki Kimura, Shunji Watanabe, Yoshimi Kanno
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Patent number: 11494601Abstract: A printer includes: a first connector to be used to input electric power supplied from an outside; a second connector to which a communication terminal is to be connected, and which is to be used to output at least a part of the electric power to the connected communication terminal; a printing control unit configured to control operation of a printing unit configured to perform printing on recording paper; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust a maximum amount of the electric power to be output from the second connector, of the electric power supplied from the outside, to a first amount of power when the printing unit is not under a printing operation, and adjust the maximum amount of the electric power to be output from the second connector to a second amount of power when the printing unit is under the printing operation, the second amount of power being smaller than the first amount of power.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventors: Koki Yoshida, Yoshio Kitamura, Yohei Ishidoya
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Patent number: 11474480Abstract: A timepiece includes a display plate, a movement which rotatably supports the display plate about an axis in a plate thickness direction and is installed in an axial direction, a straight pin which is erected in the movement in the axial direction, an opening portion which is provided in the display plate, into which the straight pin is inserted, and which includes a width decreasing portion having a width decreasing toward one side of the axis in a circumferential direction, and a rotation mechanism which rotates the display plate to the other side in the circumferential direction to cause the straight pin to be clamped by the width decreasing portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventors: Ryo Hattori, Yasunori Hara
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Patent number: 11474479Abstract: There is provided a hairspring including a main body portion that extends around a central axis along an Archimedes curve; an outer end curve portion that extends along a circumferential direction around the central axis on an outer side in a radial direction from the main body portion; and a reformed portion including a first bent portion that connects the main body portion and the outer end curve portion to each other and is bent outward in the radial direction from a tangent line of the Archimedes curve in a first connection portion with the main body portion, and a second bent portion bent inward in the radial direction from the outer end curve portion in a second connection portion with the outer end curve portion, and in which at least one is curved of the first bent portion and the second bent portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Nomura, Takayoshi Ibata
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Patent number: 11446433Abstract: A feeding device according to the present invention includes a tubular body which has an a female screw portion, a movable shaft which has a male screw portion and is movable between a start position and an end position according to a rotation of the tubular body, a final gear which is provided in the tubular body, a drive unit which has the driving gear, a power transmission mechanism which transmits a driving force from the driving gear to the final gear via a plurality of intermediate gears, and a biasing mechanism which is configured to apply a biasing force to the movable shaft. At least one of the plurality of intermediate gears is a two-stage gear. The biasing mechanism is configured to apply the biasing force from the end position toward the start position and presses the male screw portion against the female screw portion to the start position side.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventors: Yoichi Endo, Akehiko Sato, Masami Oaku, Shinichi Asai
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Patent number: 11420448Abstract: A thermal head control device includes: a printing rate calculation range determination unit configured to determine, as a printing rate calculation range, a range from a left-end energization dot to a right-end energization dot among energization dots present in printing data corresponding to heating elements to be controlled among a plurality of heating elements included in a thermal head; a printing rate calculation unit configured to calculate a printing rate of the printing rate calculation range determined by the printing rate calculation range determination unit; an energizing time calculation unit configured to calculate an energizing time for which a current is caused to flow through the heating elements based on the printing rate calculated by the printing rate calculation unit; and an output unit configured to output a control signal for driving the heating elements to be controlled of the thermal head, based on the calculated energizing time.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventors: Yuichi Yoshigi, Daisuke Yoshida, Yohei Ishidoya, Hiroaki Kondo
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Patent number: D963744Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS, INC.Inventor: Kohei Miyawaki
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Patent number: D1022033Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventor: Kohei Miyawaki
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Patent number: D1024184Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventor: Hiromi Chida