Patents by Inventor Hidenori Usuda
Hidenori Usuda 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).
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Patent number: 8979258Abstract: A liquid ejection device has a feeding mechanism, a nozzle, an irradiating section, and a color meter. The feeding mechanism is configured and arranged to feed a medium in a feed direction. The nozzle is configured and arranged to eject a liquid to be cured by irradiation of light toward the medium. The irradiating section is configured and arranged to radiate the light toward the liquid landed on the medium. The color meter is disposed on a downstream side of the feed direction with respect to the irradiating section so as to perform color measurement of an image generated on the medium, the color meter being configured and arranged such that calibration of the color meter is performed by reading a reference. The irradiating section is configured and arranged to radiate the light when the calibration of the color meter is performed.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hidenori Usuda
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Patent number: 8950847Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head which discharges liquid onto a recording material, thereby performing recording; and a waste liquid recovery device which recovers waste liquid which has not been attached to the recording material, of liquid discharged from the recording head, wherein the waste liquid recovery device includes a movable sheet-like member which is provided on a side facing the recording head and receives the waste liquid which has not been attached to the recording material.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takanori Seki, Kenichi Ishihara, Hidenori Usuda
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Patent number: 8919916Abstract: A printer includes a printing unit that performs printing by causing at least one of respective colors of ink, clear ink and white ink to be ejected onto a transparent medium, and a controller that controls the printing unit, in which the controller performs control so as to form a design image by causing respective colors of ink to be ejected onto a transparent medium, and performs control so as to form a clear layer by causing clear ink to be ejected in a state overlapped on the design image, and performs controls so as to form a base layer by causing white ink to be ejected overlapped on the clear layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidenori Usuda, Takayoshi Kagata
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Publication number: 20140368569Abstract: The printing device including: a first setting unit configured to set printing mode of a main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image on the medium and then printing the main image on the background image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the main image on the medium and then printing the background image on the main image; and a second setting unit configured to set a printing mode of an additional image printed in association with the printing of the main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image for the additional image on the medium and then printing the additional image on the background image for the additional image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the additional image on the medium and then printing the background image for the additional image on the additional image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Hidenori Usuda, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 8911047Abstract: A fluid ejecting apparatus repeats an ejecting operation which ejects a fluid from nozzles while a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row move in a movement direction with respect to a medium and a relative movement operation in which the first nozzle row, the second nozzle row and the medium relatively move to the nozzle row direction, and repeatedly performs the ejecting operation so as to include the ejecting operation which does not perform a control which changes the movement distance in the movement direction of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row according to a position of an end in the movement direction of the image when a main image and a background image are formed to be overlapped on the medium at different ejecting operations.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hidenori Usuda
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Publication number: 20140354718Abstract: Provided is a printing device including: nozzles which discharge a first aqueous ink for printing a main image; nozzles which discharge a second aqueous ink for printing a background image; and a control unit which controls printing of an image on a medium having an aqueous ink absorption property based on one selected from a first mode for printing the main image using the first aqueous ink and a second mode for superposing and printing the main image using the first aqueous ink and the background image using the second aqueous ink, wherein the amount of first aqueous ink dischargeable per unit area of the medium when the main image is printed on the medium in the second mode is less than that when the main image is printed on the medium in the first mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Hidenori USUDA, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
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Publication number: 20140340440Abstract: An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Hidenori Usuda, Shinichi Kamoshida, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 8851598Abstract: The printing device including: a first setting unit configured to set printing mode of a main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image on the medium and then printing the main image on the background image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the main image on the medium and then printing the background image on the main image; and a second setting unit configured to set a printing mode of an additional image printed in association with the printing of the main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image for the additional image on the medium and then printing the additional image on the background image for the additional image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the additional image on the medium and then printing the background image for the additional image on the additional image.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidenori Usuda, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 8833920Abstract: An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidenori Usuda, Shinichi Kamoshida, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 8820910Abstract: An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidenori Usuda, Shinichi Kamoshida, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 8814297Abstract: Provided is a printing apparatus including a first nozzle through which to eject a clear ink, a second nozzle through which to eject a color ink, a third nozzle through which to eject a glitter ink, and a control unit that controls ejections of the inks through the first nozzle, the second nozzle and the third nozzle, wherein the control unit performs control, at the time of forming a color image on a transparent medium, in a manner that ejects the clear ink onto the transparent medium through the first nozzle, ejects the color ink to be ejected onto the clear ink through the second nozzle to form an image resulting from the color ink, and ejects the glitter ink onto the clear ink and the color ink through the third nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidenori Usuda, Takayoshi Kagata
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Patent number: 8814342Abstract: An apparatus includes: a main image nozzle group that forms a main image; a background image nozzle group which has nozzles of a number greater than the main image nozzle group for forming a background image of the main image, and has a first nozzle group situated to one side in a predetermined direction; and a second nozzle group situated to the other side in the predetermined direction, ejects fluid from the main image nozzle group to a first region on which the main image is formed on the medium to form dots, forms dots formed by ejecting fluid from the first nozzle group and dots formed by ejecting fluid from the second nozzle group, in a second region on which an image is formed using fluid forming the background image on the medium and the main image is not formed.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidenori Usuda, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 8794735Abstract: Provided is a printing apparatus for printing an image on a medium, which is transported in a transport direction, by forming dots by ejecting ink from a plurality of nozzles while moving the nozzles in an intersecting direction that intersects the transport direction. The printing apparatus has a first printing mode for printing a mirror image of a predetermined image as the image on the medium and a second printing mode for printing a positive image of a predetermined image as the image on the medium, the medium being a transparent medium. The first printing mode is different from the second printing mode in at least one of a transportation operation of transporting the medium and a dot-forming operation of forming the dots by ejecting ink while moving the nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2013Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidenori Usuda, Shinichi Kamoshida, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 8746824Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a light irradiation unit including a light emitting element row having therein a plurality of light emitting elements aligned in the same direction as a nozzle row, and a fault detection unit that detects whether there is a fault in each of the light emitting elements. The light emitting elements apply light to a photoreactive liquid discharged onto a recording target material. The light irradiation unit includes a plurality of the light emitting element rows arranged therein. When the fault detection unit detects a fault in a light emitting element, operation enters a fault mode where the light emitting element row to which the faulty light emitting element belongs is turned off and recording is performed with the remaining light emitting element rows.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidenori Usuda, Shinichi Kamoshida, Takayuki Kawakami
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Publication number: 20140104336Abstract: A printing apparatus which prints an image on a medium, including a head which discharges ink droplets from nozzles, wherein the medium is transparent, two pieces of image data are prepared, one piece of image data is selected from the two pieces of image data to set the selected image data to one of a first image and a second image, the other piece of image data is set to the other of the first image and the second image, the image data set to the first image is subjected to a processing to be mirror image data, and the head prints the mirror image of the first image on the medium, prints a background image on the mirror image of the first image, and prints a real image of the second image on the background image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidenori Usuda, Shinichi Kamoshida, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
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Publication number: 20140087153Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a first nozzle for ejecting clear ink to form a first dot; and a second nozzle for ejecting color ink to form a second dot, wherein, when forming a color image on a photoluminescent ground layer by means of the second dot, the first dot is formed at an area where the color image does not exist.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: HIDENORI USUDA, TAKAYOSHI KAGATA
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Publication number: 20140078200Abstract: A fluid ejecting apparatus repeats an ejecting operation which ejects a fluid from nozzles while a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row move in a movement direction with respect to a medium and a relative movement operation in which the first nozzle row, the second nozzle row and the medium relatively move to the nozzle row direction, and repeatedly performs the ejecting operation so as to include the ejecting operation which does not perform a control which changes the movement distance in the movement direction of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row according to a position of an end in the movement direction of the image when a main image and a background image are formed to be overlapped on the medium at different ejecting operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Hidenori Usuda
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Patent number: 8672468Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head section having a nozzle row being configured to emit photocurable ink onto a target and an irradiating section configured to irradiate the target, a moving section configured to move the head section with respect to the target for printing, and a controller configured to carry out control so as to emit the photocurable ink from the nozzles onto an image forming area of the target and to irradiate the photocurable ink having impacted on the image forming area from the irradiation section. The controller controls irradiation energy of the light that the irradiation section irradiates the image forming area with so that irradiation energy of the light that an edge area of the image forming area is irradiated with is smaller than irradiation energy of the light that an area of the image forming area adjacent to the edge area is irradiated with.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hidenori Usuda
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Patent number: 8668309Abstract: An apparatus includes: a first nozzles for ejecting first fluid are lined up in a predetermined direction; a second nozzles for ejecting second fluid are lined up in a movement direction; and a control unit which sets a first method of when formation of a main image with the first fluid and formation of a background image with the second fluid are performed to overlap the main image and the background image with each other on the medium, in a case where one of the nozzle group of the part of the first nozzles and the nozzle group of the part of the second nozzles is positioned closer to the other direction side of the predetermined direction than the other nozzle group to perform the image formation on a predetermined area of the medium in advance of the other nozzle group.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidenori Usuda, Yoshihiko Matsuzawa, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 8668325Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes first liquid ejecting nozzles that eject first liquid; a second liquid ejecting nozzle that ejects second liquid which is different from the first liquid; and a control unit which performs control of ejection of the first liquid from the first liquid ejecting nozzles and ejection of the second liquid from the second liquid ejecting nozzles. The control unit has a first mode of performing control to form flushing dots by ejection from the first liquid ejecting nozzles on a recording medium, the ejection not being based on image data, form background dots by ejection from the second liquid ejecting nozzle on the flushing dots, the ejection being based on the image data, and form image dots by ejection from the first liquid ejecting nozzles on the background dots, the ejection being based on the image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidenori Usuda, Seiya Sato, Shinichi Kamoshida, Koichiro Miyazaki