Patents by Inventor Hidetake Nishizawa
Hidetake Nishizawa 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: 9264562Abstract: A printer includes a scanner unit which reads a document; and a recording portion which records information read by the scanner unit. In the recording portion, the maximum recordable size of a paper sheet is greater than a size of a document reading area in the scanner unit. At a base end side of a cover, which opens and closes the document reading area, a gap is formed which passes the document to an outer side of the scanner unit when the document is pushed out from the document reading area.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Hidetake Nishizawa
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Patent number: 9118830Abstract: A printer includes a scanner unit which reads a document; a recording portion which records information read by the scanner unit; and a tilt panel which constitutes the scanner unit and an operation portion of the recording portion. A printer executes a division reading mode which obtains image information of the entire document by linking image information obtained via a plurality of times of a document reading operation, with respect to the document of which the size is greater than the size of the document reading area. The image information of the entire document can be obtained by sequentially linking a predetermined image position of an ending position side of an image obtained by a first document reading operation and a predetermined image position of an initiating position side of an image obtained by the following document reading operation, in a linking direction of the image.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Hidetake Nishizawa, Yoshisada Aoki
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Publication number: 20150077816Abstract: A printer includes a scanner unit which reads a document; a recording portion which records information read by the scanner unit; and a tilt panel which constitutes the scanner unit and an operation portion of the recording portion. A printer executes a division reading mode which obtains image information of the entire document by linking image information obtained via a plurality of times of a document reading operation, with respect to the document of which the size is greater than the size of the document reading area. The image information of the entire document can be obtained by sequentially linking a predetermined image position of an ending position side of an image obtained by a first document reading operation and a predetermined image position of an initiating position side of an image obtained by the following document reading operation, in a linking direction of the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Hidetake NISHIZAWA, Yoshisada AOKI
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Publication number: 20150077815Abstract: A printer includes a scanner unit which reads a document; and a recording portion which records information read by the scanner unit. In the recording portion, the maximum recordable size of a paper sheet is greater than a size of a document reading area in the scanner unit. At a base end side of a cover which opens and closes the document reading area, a gap which passes the document which is pushed out from the document reading area and of which the size is greater than the size of the document reading area to an outer side of the scanner unit is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Hidetake NISHIZAWA
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Patent number: 8714846Abstract: A gap adjusting device includes a moving mechanism having a first member supported by a first object so as to be movable along a first axis, and capable of moving the first object in one direction and its opposite direction along a second axis intersecting the first axis according to the movement of the first member in one direction along the first axis relative to the first object, thereby adjusting a gap between the first object and a second object.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takayuki Okuda, Masaki Shimomura, Kazuhisa Kawakami, Hidetake Nishizawa, Nobumasa Fukushima
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Patent number: 8210628Abstract: An interface, to which a recording medium storing at least one first setting information item is removably attached to a printer. A storage stores hardware specification data. A reader reads out the at least one first setting information item from the recording medium attached to the interface. A register judges whether the at least one read out first setting information item matches with the hardware specification data, and registers the first setting information item which matches with the hardware specification data as at least one second setting information item. A selector selects one of the at least one second setting information item as a print condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2008Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Narusawa, Yoichi Tanaka, Hidetake Nishizawa, Katsumi Komagamine
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Patent number: 8172350Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a moving mechanism having a first member supported by a recording section so as to be movable along a first axis, and capable of moving the recording section in one direction and its opposite direction along a second axis intersecting the first axis according to the movement of the first member in one direction along the first axis relative to the recording section, thereby adjusting a gap between the recording section and a target; a first drive mechanism which moves the recording section supporting the first member along the first axis; and an abutting member which is arranged in a position capable of abutting on the first member by the movement of the recording section, and moves the first member in one direction relative to the recording section by the abutment on the first member.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takayuki Okuda, Masaki Shimomura, Kazuhisa Kawakami, Hidetake Nishizawa, Nobumasa Fukushima
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Patent number: 7681976Abstract: An interface, to which a recording medium storing at least one first setting information item is removably attached to a printer. A storage stores hardware specification data. A reader reads out the at least one first setting information item from the recording medium attached to the interface. A register judges whether the at least one read out first setting information item matches with the hardware specification data, and registers the first setting information item which matches with the hardware specification data as at least one second setting information item. A selector selects one of the at least one second setting information item as a print condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2005Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Narusawa, Yoichi Tanaka, Hidetake Nishizawa, Katsumi Komagamine
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Publication number: 20090267284Abstract: A transport device includes a transport path which connects an inlet and an outlet and is formed between a first curved surface which is convex in a first direction, and a second curved surface which faces the first curved surface via a gap, and along which a sheet-like medium is transported, a protruding portion which is arranged on the first curved surface and protrudes from the first curved surface, and a first roller which is arranged on the second curved surface, and at least a portion of which protrudes from the second curved surface. The protruding portion is arranged in a position where the sheet-like medium which has entered the transport path through the inlet contacts the protruding portion prior to the first roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki OKUDA, Masaki SHIMOMURA, Kazuhisa KAWAKAMI, Hidetake NISHIZAWA, Nobumasa FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20090262160Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a moving mechanism having a first member supported by a recording section so as to be movable along a first axis, and capable of moving the recording section in one direction and its opposite direction along a second axis intersecting the first axis according to the movement of the first member in one direction along the first axis relative to the recording section, thereby adjusting a gap between the recording section and a target; a first drive mechanism which moves the recording section supporting the first member along the first axis; and an abutting member which is arranged in a position capable of abutting on the first member by the movement of the recording section, and moves the first member in one direction relative to the recording section by the abutment on the first member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki OKUDA, Masaki SHIMOMURA, Kazuhisa KAWAKAMI, Hidetake NISHIZAWA, Nobumasa FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20090257803Abstract: A gap adjusting device includes a moving mechanism having a first member supported by a first object so as to be movable along a first axis, and capable of moving the first object in one direction and its opposite direction along a second axis intersecting the first axis according to the movement of the first member in one direction along the first axis relative to the first object, thereby adjusting a gap between the first object and a second object.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Okuda, Masaki Shimomura, Kazuhisa Kawakami, Hidetake Nishizawa, Nobumasa Fukushima
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Publication number: 20090091628Abstract: An interface, to which a recording medium storing at least one first setting information item is removably attached to a printer. A storage stores hardware specification data. A reader reads out the at least one first setting information item from the recording medium attached to the interface. A register judges whether the at least one read out first setting information item matches with the hardware specification data, and registers the first setting information item which matches with the hardware specification data as at least one second setting information item. A selector selects one of the at least one second setting information item as a print condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki NARUSAWA, Yoichi Tanaka, Hidetake Nishizawa, Katsumi Komagamine
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Patent number: 7502527Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a mode selecting unit for selecting one of plural image selection modes having different objects. There is also an image selecting unit for selecting a set of composite image reproduction data and items of component image data from a group of the sets of the composite image reproduction data formed of items of the component image data or from a group of the items of the component image data. The selection is performed in accordance with the image selection mode selected by the mode selecting unit. The group of the sets of the composite image reproduction data, and the group of the items of the component image data, are objects for selection. A processing unit executes a process for the set of the composite image reproduction data or the item of the component image data selected by the image selecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Momose, Tatsuya Kitazawa, Hidetake Nishizawa
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Publication number: 20050231749Abstract: An interface, to which a recording medium storing at least one first setting information item is removably attached to a printer. A storage stores hardware specification data. A reader reads out the at least one first setting information item from the recording medium attached to the interface. A register judges whether the at least one read out first setting information item matches with the hardware specification data, and registers the first setting information item which matches with the hardware specification data as at least one second setting information item. A selector selects one of the at least one second setting information item as a print condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2005Publication date: October 20, 2005Inventors: Hideyuki Narusawa, Yoichi Tanaka, Hidetake Nishizawa, Katsumi Komagamine
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Patent number: 6948792Abstract: An interface, to which a recording medium storing at least one first setting information item is removably attached to a printer. A storage stores hardware specification data. A reader reads out the at least one first setting information item from the recording medium attached to the interface. A register judges whether the at least one read out first setting information item matches with the hardware specification data, and registers the first setting information item which matches with the hardware specification data as at least one second setting information item. A selector selects one of the at least one second setting information item as a print condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2002Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Narusawa, Yoichi Tanaka, Hidetake Nishizawa, Katsumi Komagamine
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Publication number: 20050018926Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a mode selecting unit for selecting any one of a plurality of image selection modes having different objects for selection. There is also an image selecting unit for selecting any set of composite image reproduction data and items of component image data from a group of the sets of the composite image reproduction data formed of items of the component image data or from a group of the items of the component image data. The selection is performed in accordance with the image selection mode selected by the mode selecting unit. The group of the sets of the composite image reproduction data, and the group of the items of the component image data, are objects for selection that can be selected by the selected image selection mode. Also, a processing unit executes a predetermined process for the set of the composite image reproduction data or the item of the component image data selected by the image selecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2004Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventors: Hiroaki Momose, Tatsuya Kitazawa, Hidetake Nishizawa
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Publication number: 20040252340Abstract: An image processing system, includes an operating unit, which select a first size of a reproducing medium, a size information acquiring unit, which acquires size information related to a template for defining a layout of an object, the size information indicating a second size of a reproducing medium, and a print control unit, which outputs an instruction for printing a predetermined object on the reproducing medium having the first size in accordance with the template. The first size is different from the second size indicated by the size information related to the template. The aspect ratio of the reproducing medium having the first size is equal to, or approximates to that of the reproducing medium having the second size.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Katsumi Komagamine, Tatsuro Oshikawa, Minoru Ichimura, Hidekazu Mori, Hideyuki Narusawa, Yoichi Tanaka, Hidetake Nishizawa
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Publication number: 20030085942Abstract: An interface, to which a recording medium storing at least one first setting information item is removably attached to a printer. A storage stores hardware specification data. A reader reads out the at least one first setting information item from the recording medium attached to the interface. A register judges whether the at least one read out first setting information item matches with the hardware specification data, and registers the first setting information item which matches with the hardware specification data as at least one second setting information item. A selector selects one of the at least one second setting information item as a print condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2002Publication date: May 8, 2003Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Narusawa, Yoichi Tanaka, Hidetake Nishizawa