Patents by Inventor Kazumasa Harada
Kazumasa Harada 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: 7690784Abstract: A plate-shaped main body, has a first face formed with a recess portion defined by a bottom face and side walls and a second face which is opposite to the first face. The plate-shaped main body is formed with a through hole connecting the bottom face and the second face. An overhanging portion, is provided on at least one of the side walls in the vicinity of the first face, and is located so as to at least partially hang over the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2006Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Nishi, Seiji Kawabata, Kazuhiro Hashii, Kazumasa Harada, Keiichiro Fukumasu, Hirohisa Adachi
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Patent number: 7686441Abstract: The ink cartridge includes an ink supply port formed at a position, offset to one side, of a wall configuring an ink container body; a positioning projecting portion, formed on one wall out of two opposing walls adjacent the wall, whose upper surface and side portion are regulated in position when the cartridge has been mounted on a recording apparatus; a lever, formed on the other wall out of the two walls, maintaining a normal hinged-open state and having a projection that is forcibly displaced outward when the cartridge is mounted on the recording apparatus; and electrodes that are connected to a memory unit storing information on the ink in an ink container and formed on the positioning projecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Hashii, Satoshi Shinada, Yasuto Sakai, Kazumasa Harada, Kazuaki Aoki
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Patent number: 7669993Abstract: The ink cartridge includes an ink supply port formed at a position, offset to one side, of a wall configuring an ink container body; a positioning projecting portion, formed on one wall out of two opposing walls adjacent the wall, whose upper surface and side portion are regulated in position when the cartridge has been mounted on a recording apparatus; a lever, formed on the other wall out of the two walls, maintaining a normal hinged-open state and having a projection that is forcibly displaced outward when the cartridge is mounted on the recording apparatus; and electrodes that are connected to a memory unit storing information on the ink in an ink container and formed on the positioning projecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2007Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Hashii, Satoshi Shinada, Yasuto Sakai, Kazumasa Harada, Kazuaki Aoki
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Publication number: 20100044952Abstract: A roller apparatus includes: a first roller provided in a curved medium transporting path and driven by a power source; and a second roller driven and rotating with a medium nipped between it and the first roller, wherein the second roller is located on a side in which, when the leading end of the medium enters between the rollers, the leading end of the medium comes into contact with the second roller due to the restoring force of the medium with a curved state as a result of the curved medium transporting path, and has on its outer circumferential surface a guide section for guiding the leading end of the medium between the rollers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazumasa HARADA, Satoshi YOSHINO
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Patent number: 7654659Abstract: To easily form an excellent connection state between a terminal of an information storage medium in an ink cartridge and a contact of a carriage and, additionally, to reliably maintain the excellent connection state. A carriage includes an ink-cartridge receiving chamber for receiving an ink cartridge, an electronic substrate having a contact for connecting with an information storage medium of the ink cartridge, a mounting-position regulating portion for regulating the position of the ink cartridge with respect to a contact by regulating the mounting position of the ink cartridge in the ink-cartridge receiving chamber, and a head unit having a recording head. The mounting-position regulating portion is independent of the ink-cartridge receiving chamber so as to be freely removable and attachable with respect to the ink-cartridge receiving chamber in a state in which the electronic substrate is attached.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2007Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazumasa Harada, Hiroyuki Sugimoto, Takashi Sato
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Patent number: 7614731Abstract: The ink cartridge includes an ink supply port formed at a position, offset to one side, of a wall configuring an ink container body; a positioning projecting portion, formed on one wall out of two opposing walls adjacent the wall, whose upper surface and side portion are regulated in position when the cartridge has been mounted on a recording apparatus; a lever, formed on the other wall out of the two walls, maintaining a normal hinged-open state and having a projection that is forcibly displaced outward when the cartridge is mounted on the recording apparatus; and electrodes that are connected to a memory unit storing information on the ink in an ink container and formed on the positioning projecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2007Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Hashii, Satoshi Shinada, Yasuto Sakai, Kazumasa Harada, Kazuaki Aoki
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Publication number: 20090271811Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a transport roller that transports recording materials, a holding tray for setting a first recording material, which is configured to be advanced and retracted between a first position wherein the first recording material can be transported by the transport roller and a second position wherein the holding tray is retracted from the first position, and a path forming member for guiding a second recording material from above or below the second position to a position wherein the recording material can be transported by the transport roller, in which a front end portion of the holding tray being retracted to the second position protrudes to a position located between a guide path formed by the path forming member and the transport roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shintaro KOMURO, Narihiro OKI, Kazumasa HARADA, Satoshi YOSHINO
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Publication number: 20090251518Abstract: To enable a coupling terminal member of an ink cartridge and a coupling terminal of a printing apparatus to be in certain and increase a degree of freedom on installation position of a coupling terminal member of the cartridge, a cartridge installed in a printing apparatus for supplying the printing apparatus with ink includes an ink cartridge body for containing ink, an ink supply section on which an ink supply opening placed on or near a first sidewall of the ink cartridge body is formed, a memory for storing information on ink in the ink cartridge body, a contact terminal member on a second sidewall of the ink cartridge body coupled to the memory and a positioning member, which protrudes from the second sidewall, for positioning the ink cartridge properly with respect to the printing apparatus when the ink cartridge is installed in the printing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Satoshi SHINADA, Yasuto SAKAI, Tomio YOKOYAMA, Kazuhiro HASHII, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Kazumasa HARADA
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Patent number: 7553005Abstract: To enable a coupling terminal member of an ink cartridge and a coupling terminal of a printing apparatus to be in certain and increase a degree of freedom on installation position of a coupling terminal member of the cartridge, a cartridge installed in a printing apparatus for supplying the printing apparatus with ink includes an ink cartridge body for containing ink, an ink supply section on which an ink supply opening placed on or near a first sidewall of the ink cartridge body is formed, a memory for storing information on ink in the ink cartridge body, a contact terminal member on a second sidewall of the ink cartridge body coupled to the memory and a positioning member, which protrudes from the second sidewall, for positioning the ink cartridge properly with respect to the printing apparatus when the ink cartridge is installed in the printing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Satoshi Shinada, Yasuto Sakai, Tomio Yokoyama, Kazuhiro Hashii, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Kazumasa Harada
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Publication number: 20090066768Abstract: The ink cartridge includes an ink supply port formed at a position, offset to one side, of a wall configuring an ink container body; a positioning projecting portion, formed on one wall out of two opposing walls adjacent the wall, whose upper surface and side portion are regulated in position when the cartridge has been mounted on a recording apparatus; a lever, formed on the other wall out of the two walls, maintaining a normal hinged-open state and having a projection that is forcibly displaced outward when the cartridge is mounted on the recording apparatus; and electrodes that are connected to a memory unit storing information on the ink in an ink container and formed on the positioning projecting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Hashii, Satoshi Shinada, Yasuto Sakai, Kazumasa Harada, Kazuaki Aoki
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Patent number: 7452063Abstract: There is disclosed an ink cartridge capable of being removably held in an ink cartridge accommodation portion simply by pushing in the cartridge in an insertion direction. The ink cartridge (5) is mounted on a carriage (4) having a cartridge accommodation region. A one-push type fixing member (30) in a position facing a surface parallel to an insertion direction in which the cartridge is inserted into the cartridge accommodation region is engaged with a fixing protrusion (12a) forming another one-push type fixing member and cooperating with the first-mentioned one-push type fixing member, so that the cartridge (5) is held in a predetermined position in a state in which the cartridge is resiliently urged by a spring (24) in a direction opposite to the insertion direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2004Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazumasa Harada, Kazuhiro Hashii, Atsuhiko Takeuchi
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Patent number: 7438401Abstract: There is disclosed a liquid container that can be removably held in a liquid container accommodation portion by pushing the container in an insertion direction. The liquid container is mounted on a carriage having a container accommodation region. A one-push type fixing member in a position facing a surface parallel to an insertion direction in which the container is inserted into the container accommodation region is engaged with a fixing protrusion forming another one-push type fixing member and cooperating with the first-mentioned one-push type fixing member, so that the container is held in a predetermined position in a state in which the container is resiliently urged by a spring in a direction opposite to the insertion direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2004Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takeo Seino, Hitotoshi Kimura, Kazumasa Harada, Kazuhiro Hashii, Atsuhiko Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20080204495Abstract: The invention provides a liquid ejecting apparatus that includes: a main scan section that scans the liquid ejecting head in a main scan direction; a sub scan section that scans the ejection target medium in a sub scan direction, the sub scan section including a pair of transport rollers and a pair of ejection rollers; and a controlling section that acquires, an expected timing of a switchover between a state in which the ejection target medium is nipped by both of the pair of transport rollers and the pair of ejection rollers and a state in which the ejection target medium is nipped by only one of the pair of transport rollers and the pair of ejection rollers, and that changes an ejecting condition, during a plurality of main scan operations in a transition interval that is set around the expected timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei UENO, Kazuo SAITO, Takashi AKAHANE, Kazumasa HARADA, Toshikazu KOTAKA, Satoru WATANABE
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Publication number: 20080073235Abstract: The method of packaging an article by folding a sheet-shaped packaging material includes: a determining step of determining a size of the packaging material and a packaging pattern of the packaging material in accordance with information about the article; a packaging material supplying step of performing at least one of selecting and cutting operations on the packaging material so as to match the size determined in the determining step, and then supplying the packaging material; a packaging material working step of forming a score line on the packaging material supplied in the packaging material supplying step in accordance with the packaging pattern determined in the determining step; and a packaging body forming step of conveying and placing the article onto a predetermined position of the packaging material on which the score line has been formed in the packaging material working step, and then folding the packaging material along the score line to form a box-shaped packaging body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2007Publication date: March 27, 2008Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazumasa Harada, Takao Ohtsuka, Hideyuki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20080068409Abstract: To easily form an excellent connection state between a terminal of an information storage medium in an ink cartridge and a contact of a carriage and, additionally, to reliably maintain the excellent connection state. A carriage includes an ink-cartridge receiving chamber for receiving an ink cartridge, an electronic substrate having a contact for connecting with an information storage medium of the ink cartridge, a mounting-position regulating portion for regulating the position of the ink cartridge with respect to a contact by regulating the mounting position of the ink cartridge in the ink-cartridge receiving chamber, and a head unit having a recording head. The mounting-position regulating portion is independent of the ink-cartridge receiving chamber so as to be freely removable and attachable with respect to the ink-cartridge receiving chamber in a state in which the electronic substrate is attached.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2007Publication date: March 20, 2008Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumasa HARADA, Hiroyuki SUGIMOTO, Takashi SATO
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Patent number: 7244018Abstract: The ink cartridge includes an ink supply port formed at a position, offset to one side, of a wall configuring an ink container body; a positioning projecting portion, formed on one wall out of two opposing walls adjacent the wall, whose upper surface and side portion are regulated imposition when the cartridge has been mounted on a recording apparatus; a lever, formed on the other wall out of the two walls, maintaining a normal hinged-open state and having a projection that is forcibly displaced outward when the cartridge is mounted on the recording apparatus; and electrodes that are connected to a memory unit storing information on the ink in an ink container and formed on the positioning projecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2005Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Hashii, Satoshi Shinada, Yasuto Sakai, Kazumasa Harada, Kazuaki Aoki
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Patent number: 7240990Abstract: There are provided a retaining member 4 having a claw portion 4a engageable to and disengageable from a recessed portion 15 formed at an ink cartridge mounting portion and a valve body 6 biased by a spring 7 provided at an ink supply port 3, maintaining a normally closed state and resiliently abutting the claw portion 4a to the recessed portion 15 by being opened in a state of being inserted with an ink supply needle. Thereby, an ink cartridge providing amounting feeling and dispensing with a spring member for assisting detachment can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2003Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazumasa Harada, Kazuhiro Hashii, Atsuhiko Takeuchi
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Patent number: 7237883Abstract: The ink cartridge includes an ink supply port formed at a position, offset to one side, of a wall configuring an ink container body; a positioning projecting portion, formed on one wall out of two opposing walls adjacent the wall, whose upper surface and side portion are regulated in position when the cartridge has been mounted on a recording apparatus; a lever, formed on the other wall out of the two walls, maintaining a normal hinged-open state and having a projection that is forcibly displaced outward when the cartridge is mounted on the recording apparatus; and electrodes that are connected to a memory unit storing information on the ink in an ink container and formed on the positioning projecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2005Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Hashii, Satoshi Shinada, Yasuto Sakai, Kazumasa Harada, Kazuaki Aoki
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Publication number: 20070103522Abstract: The ink cartridge includes an ink supply port formed at a position, offset to one side, of a wall configuring an ink container body; a positioning projecting portion, formed on one wall out of two opposing walls adjacent the wall, whose upper surface and side portion are regulated in position when the cartridge has been mounted on a recording apparatus; a lever, formed on the other wall out of the two walls, maintaining a normal hinged-open state and having a projection that is forcibly displaced outward when the cartridge is mounted on the recording apparatus; and electrodes that are connected to a memory unit storing information on the ink in an ink container and formed on the positioning projecting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2007Publication date: May 10, 2007Inventors: Kazuhiro Hashii, Satoshi Shinada, Yasuto Sakai, Kazumasa Harada, Kazuaki Aoki
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Publication number: 20070103515Abstract: The ink cartridge includes an ink supply port formed at a position, offset to one side, of a wall configuring an ink container body; a positioning projecting portion, formed on one wall out of two opposing walls adjacent the wall, whose upper surface and side portion are regulated in position when the cartridge has been mounted on a recording apparatus; a lever, formed on the other wall out of the two walls, maintaining a normal hinged-open state and having a projection that is forcibly displaced outward when the cartridge is mounted on the recording apparatus; and electrodes that are connected to a memory unit storing information on the ink in an ink container and formed on the positioning projecting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2007Publication date: May 10, 2007Inventors: Kazuhiro Hashii, Satoshi Shinada, Yasuto Sakai, Kazumasa Harada, Kazuaki Aoki