Patents by Inventor Eiichi Miyashita
Eiichi Miyashita has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
-
Patent number: 9914312Abstract: A printer includes a head that is positioned at a plurality of recording positions by moving in a direction which is orthogonal to a transport direction of a sheet and a pressing member that has a medium guide surface which is able to face the sheet, in which when the head is positioned, the medium guide surface is positioned below the head surface, and during maintenance of the head, the medium guide surface is positioned above the head surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Eiichi Miyashita
-
Patent number: 9694605Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium. A transporter is adapted to transport a tray on which the target medium is mounted toward a region facing the liquid ejecting head via a transporting path. A tray guide is disposed in a front side of the liquid ejecting apparatus, and having a supporting face adapted to support the tray thereon. The tray guide is movable between a first position connecting the supporting face with the transporting path to allow the transporter to transport the tray to the transporting path and a second position escaping the supporting face from the transporting path. The supporting face is kept being parallel to the transporting path when the tray guide is moved between the first position and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Eiichi Miyashita, Takashi Akahane, Hiroki Nakashima, Satoshi Noda
-
Publication number: 20170165982Abstract: A printer includes a head that is positioned at a plurality of recording positions by moving in a direction which is orthogonal to a transport direction of a sheet and a pressing member that has a medium guide surface which is able to face the sheet, in which when the head is positioned, the medium guide surface is positioned below the head surface, and during maintenance of the head, the medium guide surface is positioned above the head surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventor: Eiichi MIYASHITA
-
Publication number: 20160121628Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium. A transporter is adapted to transport a tray on which the target medium is mounted toward a region facing the liquid ejecting head via a transporting path. A tray guide is disposed in a front side of the liquid ejecting apparatus; and having a supporting face adapted to support the tray thereon. The tray guide is movable between a first position connecting the supporting face with the transporting path to allow the transporter to transport the tray to the transporting path and a second position escaping the supporting face from the transporting path. The supporting face is kept being parallel to the transporting path when the tray guide is moved between the first position and the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2016Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Eiichi MIYASHITA, Takashi AKAHANE, Hiroki NAKASHIMA, Satoshi NODA
-
Patent number: 9242491Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium. A transporter is adapted to transport a tray on which the target medium is mounted toward a region facing the liquid ejecting head via a transporting path. A tray guide is disposed in a front side of the liquid ejecting apparatus, and having a supporting face adapted to support the tray thereon. The tray guide is movable between a first position connecting the supporting face with the transporting path to allow the transporter to transport the tray to the transporting path and a second position escaping the supporting face from the transporting path. The supporting face is kept being parallel to the transporting path when the tray guide is moved between the first position and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Eiichi Miyashita, Takashi Akahane, Hiroki Nakashima, Satoshi Noda
-
Publication number: 20140232768Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium. A transporter is adapted to transport a tray on which the target medium is mounted toward a region facing the liquid ejecting head via a transporting path. A tray guide is disposed in a front side of the liquid ejecting apparatus, and having a supporting face adapted to support the tray thereon. The tray guide is movable between a first position connecting the supporting face with the transporting path to allow the transporter to transport the tray to the transporting path and a second position escaping the supporting face from the transporting path. The supporting face is kept being parallel to the transporting path when the tray guide is moved between the first position and the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Eiichi Miyashita, Takashi Akahane, Hiroki Nakashima, Satoshi Noda
-
Patent number: 8740486Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a feed unit that transports a recording medium from a setting position, a record head that performs recording on the recording medium, a first detection unit that detects passage of a rear end of the recording medium at a predetermined position on the downstream side of the feed unit, and a control unit that controls the feed unit such that the recording medium of a next page reaches a predetermined position until a predetermined timing after detection of the rear end of a preceding page by using the first detection unit for performing an advance feed mode in which the recording medium of the next page is transported from a setting position to the predetermined position without waiting for completion of recording on the preceding page, when the rear end of the preceding page is detected by the first detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2008Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Eiichi Miyashita
-
Publication number: 20130010044Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium. A transporter is adapted to transport a tray on which the target medium is mounted toward a region facing the liquid ejecting head via a transporting path. A tray guide is disposed in a front side of the liquid ejecting apparatus, and having a supporting face adapted to support the tray thereon. The tray guide is movable between a first position connecting the supporting face with the transporting path to allow the transporter to transport the tray to the transporting path and a second position escaping the supporting face from the transporting path. The supporting face is kept being parallel to the transporting path when the tray guide is moved between the first position and the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Eiichi Miyashita, Takashi Akahane, Hiroki Nakashima, Satoshi Noda
-
Publication number: 20130002780Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium. A transporter is adapted to transport a tray on which the target medium is mounted toward a region facing the liquid ejecting head via a transporting path. A tray guide is disposed in a front side of the liquid ejecting apparatus, and having a supporting face adapted to support the tray thereon. The tray guide is movable between a first position connecting the supporting face with the transporting path to allow the transporter to transport the tray to the transporting path and a second position escaping the supporting face from the transporting path. The supporting face is kept being parallel to the transporting path when the tray guide is moved between the first position and the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Eiichi Miyashita, Takashi Akahane, Hiroki Nakashima, Satoshi Noda
-
Patent number: 8292424Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium. A transporter is adapted to transport a tray on which the target medium is mounted toward a region facing the liquid ejecting head via a transporting path. A tray guide is disposed in a front side of the liquid ejecting apparatus, and having a supporting face adapted to support the tray thereon. The tray guide is movable between a first position connecting the supporting face with the transporting path to allow the transporter to transport the tray to the transporting path and a second position escaping the supporting face from the transporting path. The supporting face is kept being parallel to the transporting path when the tray guide is moved between the first position and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Eiichi Miyashita, Takashi Akahane, Hiroki Nakashima, Satoshi Noda
-
Publication number: 20120044311Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium. A transporter is adapted to transport a tray on which the target medium is mounted toward a region facing the liquid ejecting head via a transporting path. A tray guide is disposed in a front side of the liquid ejecting apparatus, and having a supporting face adapted to support the tray thereon. The tray guide is movable between a first position connecting the supporting face with the transporting path to allow the transporter to transport the tray to the transporting path and a second position escaping the supporting face from the transporting path. The supporting face is kept being parallel to the transporting path when the tray guide is moved between the first position and the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Eiichi Miyashita, Takashi Akahane, Hiroki Nakashima, Satoshi Noda
-
Publication number: 20120007904Abstract: A printing device includes a print head, a carriage moveable in a width direction of a medium, a carriage driver that drives the carriage to move back and forth in the width direction within a movement range, a detector that detects a position of the carriage, and a controller that monitors the position of the carriage. The controller is also configured to reverse a direction of movement of the carriage using the carriage driver when the carriage is determined to be immovable at a first position within the movement range, and, when the carriage, after the direction of movement of the carriage has been reversed, is determined to be immovable at a second position within the movement range, to further reverse the direction of movement of the carriage again using the carriage driver, and to output an error after stopping the carriage between the first position and the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Sumito ANZAI, Eiichi MIYASHITA
-
Patent number: 8070284Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium. A transporter is adapted to transport a tray on which the target medium is mounted toward a region facing the liquid ejecting head via a transporting path. A tray guide is disposed in a front side of the liquid ejecting apparatus, and having a supporting face adapted to support the tray thereon. The tray guide is movable between a first position connecting the supporting face with the transporting path to allow the transporter to transport the tray to the transporting path and a second position escaping the supporting face from the transporting path. The supporting face is kept being parallel to the transporting path when the tray guide is moved between the first position and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2008Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Eiichi Miyashita, Hiroki Nakashima
-
Patent number: 7740348Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium, A transporter is adapted to transport a tray on which the target medium is mounted toward a region facing the liquid ejecting head via a transporting path. A tray guide is disposed in a front side of the liquid ejecting apparatus, and having a supporting face adapted to support the tray thereon. The tray guide is movable between a first position connecting the supporting face with the transporting path to allow the transporter to transport the tray to the transporting path and a second position escaping the supporting face from the transporting path. The supporting face is kept being parallel to the transporting path when the tray guide is moved between the first position and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2005Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Eiichi Miyashita, Takashi Akahane, Hiroki Nakashima, Satoshi Noda
-
Patent number: 7729611Abstract: In order to detect a position of an optical recording medium on which printing is performed, it is provided an optical sensor provided with include a photo emitter operable to emit light and a photo receiver operable to receive light and output a first signal in accordance with an amount of the received light. The optical sensor is transported to a position above a marker provided on the tray. Light is emitted from the photo emitter to irradiate the marker. Light reflected from the marker is received by the photo receiver. A reference value is determined based on a first value of the first signal outputted when the marker is irradiated. A predetermined calculation is executed with respect to the reference value to determine a threshold value. The optical sensor is transported above the tray, while emitting light from the photo emitter and comparing the first signal outputted from the photo receiver with the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2007Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Koji Niioka, Eiichi Miyashita
-
Patent number: 7651087Abstract: A recording device including a linear transporting path for transporting a plate-shaped body, comprising a stacker disposed downstream from an ejecting unit, the stacker being capable of switching between a first position where the stacker forms a portion of the linear transporting path and a second position which is positioned below the first position and where the stacker stacks the recording medium ejected by the ejecting unit, wherein the stacker includes a pair of guide ribs which supports the plate-shaped body at the first position and guides both side ends of the plate-shaped body positioned at the first position, and which to support the ejected recording medium at the second position.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Eiichi Miyashita, Sanshiro Takeshita
-
Patent number: 7628558Abstract: A transport system includes a guide, operable to guide a transported medium in a transport direction; a driver, disposed at a downstream side of the guide in the transport direction, and operable to come into contact with a bottom surface of the transported medium; a presser, disposed between the guide and the driver, and operable to be displaced between a pressing position where the presser presses an upper surface of the transported medium toward the driver and a non-pressing position where the presser is separated from the upper surface of the transported medium; and a changer, adapted to be engaged with the transported medium so as to displace the presser to the pressing position from the non-pressing position, wherein a leading end of the transported medium reaches the driver before or at a time when the presser presses the transported medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2006Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Sanshiro Takeshita, Eiichi Miyashita
-
Patent number: 7600866Abstract: A tray adapted to be loaded in a recording apparatus which comprises a transport roller transporting a medium in a first direction, a recording head moved in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction to record information on the medium, and a sensor, the tray comprising: a tray body, adapted to be transported in the first direction by the transport roller to a region opposing to the recording head; a set portion, adapted such that the medium is placed thereon; a first boundary line, defining two regions having different reflectivities and orthogonal to the second direction, the first boundary line being adapted to be detected by the sensor to provide a first reference position relative to the second direction; and a second boundary line, defining two regions having different reflectivities and orthogonal to the first direction, the second boundary line being adapted to be detected by the sensor to provide a second reference position relative to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Sanshiro Takeshita, Eiichi Miyashita
-
Patent number: 7591552Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising a transporting path to transport a first target medium in a first direction and to transport a second target medium in the first direction and a second direction, a first and second rollers, a supporting member that supports the second roller and is movable between a first position where the first roller contacts the second rollers and a second position where the second roller is separated from the first roller, a releaser that moves the supporting member between the first and second positions, wherein the releaser has a lever that projects into the transporting path when the supporting member is in the first position and is adapted to be pushed by a leading edge of the second target medium, thereby receding from the transporting path and rotating the releaser such that the releaser moves the supporting member to the second position.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2006Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Sanshiro Takeshita, Eiichi Miyashita
-
Publication number: 20090207227Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium. A transporter is adapted to transport a tray on which the target medium is mounted toward a region facing the liquid ejecting head via a transporting path. A tray guide is disposed in a front side of the liquid ejecting apparatus, and having a supporting face adapted to support the tray thereon. The tray guide is movable between a first position connecting the supporting face with the transporting path to allow the transporter to transport the tray to the transporting path and a second position escaping the supporting face from the transporting path. The supporting face is kept being parallel to the transporting path when the tray guide is moved between the first position and the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2008Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Eiichi Miyashita, Takashi Akahane, Hiroki Nakashima, Satoshi Noda