Patents by Inventor Kentaro Tanabe
Kentaro Tanabe 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: 11040542Abstract: An inkjet printer includes an endless transporting belt that transports a medium in a transport direction by supporting the medium and rotating, an ejecting unit that ejects ink onto the medium supported by the transporting belt, and a cleaning unit including a first brush for cleaning the transporting belt, a first cleaning liquid tank that stores cleaning liquid with which the first brush is impregnated, a second brush for cleaning the transporting belt, and a second cleaning liquid tank that stores the cleaning liquid with which the second brush is impregnated. The second cleaning liquid tank is disposed at a position lower than the first cleaning liquid tank in the vertical direction, and the cleaning unit is configured so that the cleaning liquid discharged from the first cleaning liquid tank is supplied to the second cleaning liquid tank.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kentaro Tanabe, Sandro Robustelli, Rodolfo Cazzaniga
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Publication number: 20200230962Abstract: An inkjet printer includes an endless transporting belt that transports a medium in a transport direction by supporting the medium and rotating, an ejecting unit that ejects ink onto the medium supported by the transporting belt, and a cleaning unit including a first brush for cleaning the transporting belt, a first cleaning liquid tank that stores cleaning liquid with which the first brush is impregnated, a second brush for cleaning the transporting belt, and a second cleaning liquid tank that stores the cleaning liquid with which the second brush is impregnated. The second cleaning liquid tank is disposed at a position lower than the first cleaning liquid tank in the vertical direction, and the cleaning unit is configured so that the cleaning liquid discharged from the first cleaning liquid tank is supplied to the second cleaning liquid tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Kentaro TANABE, Sandro ROBUSTELLI, Rodolfo CAZZANIGA
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Patent number: 10464358Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus RIM which ejects liquid onto a medium includes a carriage which includes a control substrate which configures at least a part of a control unit which controls driving of the entire liquid ejecting apparatus, a plurality of ejecting units which eject the liquid, a plurality of driving substrates which are connected to the control substrate, connected to the plurality of ejecting units in one-to-one correspondence, and drives the ejecting unit, an ejecting unit-driving substrate accommodating unit which accommodates the ejecting unit and the driving substrate, and a control substrate accommodating unit which accommodates the control substrate, in which the plurality of driving substrates are connected to the control substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kentaro Tanabe, Kenji Kojima, Takahiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10391797Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus which ejects liquid onto a medium includes a carriage which includes a control substrate configuring at least a part of a control unit which controls driving of the entire liquid ejecting apparatus, an ejecting unit which ejects the liquid, and a driving substrate which is connected to the control substrate and the ejecting unit, and drives the ejecting unit, in which the carriage is provided with a load absorbing unit which absorbs a physical load with respect to the ejecting unit from the driving substrate side. By adopting the liquid ejecting apparatus with such a configuration, it is possible to prevent a load from being applied to the ejecting unit from the driving substrate side.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kentaro Tanabe, Kenji Kojima
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Patent number: 10391798Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus which ejects liquid onto a medium includes a carriage which includes a control substrate configuring at least a part of a control unit which controls driving of the entire liquid ejecting apparatus, an ejecting unit which ejects the liquid, and a driving substrate which is connected to the control substrate and the ejecting unit, and drives the ejecting unit, in which the carriage is provided with a fixing unit which fixes a position of the driving substrate with respect to a position of the ejecting unit. By adopting the liquid ejecting apparatus with such a configuration, it is possible to prevent a load from being applied to the ejecting unit from the driving substrate side.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kentaro Tanabe, Kenji Kojima
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Publication number: 20180345698Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus which ejects liquid onto a medium includes a carriage which includes a control substrate configuring at least a part of a control unit which controls driving of the entire liquid ejecting apparatus, an ejecting unit which ejects the liquid, and a driving substrate which is connected to the control substrate and the ejecting unit, and drives the ejecting unit, in which the carriage is provided with a fixing unit which fixes a position of the driving substrate with respect to a position of the ejecting unit. By adopting the liquid ejecting apparatus with such a configuration, it is possible to prevent a load from being applied to the ejecting unit from the driving substrate side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Kentaro TANABE, Kenji KOJIMA
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Publication number: 20180304654Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus RIM which ejects liquid onto a medium includes a carriage which includes a control substrate which configures at least a part of a control unit which controls driving of the entire liquid ejecting apparatus, a plurality of ejecting units which eject the liquid, a plurality of driving substrates which are connected to the control substrate, connected to the plurality of ejecting units in one-to-one correspondence, and drives the ejecting unit, an ejecting unit-driving substrate accommodating unit which accommodates the ejecting unit and the driving substrate, and a control substrate accommodating unit which accommodates the control substrate, in which the plurality of driving substrates are connected to the control substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Kentaro TANABE, Kenji KOJIMA, Takahiro KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20180304653Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus which ejects liquid onto a medium includes a carriage which includes a control substrate configuring at least a part of a control unit which controls driving of the entire liquid ejecting apparatus, an ejecting unit which ejects the liquid, and a driving substrate which is connected to the control substrate and the ejecting unit, and drives the ejecting unit, in which the carriage is provided with a load absorbing unit which absorbs a physical load with respect to the ejecting unit from the driving substrate side. By adopting the liquid ejecting apparatus with such a configuration, it is possible to prevent a load from being applied to the ejecting unit from the driving substrate side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Kentaro TANABE, Kenji KOJIMA
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Patent number: 9937721Abstract: A printing apparatus includes ejection heads configured to eject a liquid onto a medium, a plurality of sub-units each including an ejection head row configured by a plurality of the ejection heads, and a plurality of maintenance sections configured to sequentially perform maintenance on the sub-units. The plurality of the maintenance sections are configured such that positions of at least two of the plurality of the maintenance sections are aligned with positions of at least two of the plurality of the sub-units, respectively, while the at least two of the plurality of the maintenance sections perform the maintenance.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoichi Kurogochi, Kentaro Tanabe
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Patent number: 9862209Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a belt mover for an endless belt which carries out a line feed of a recording medium, a feed amount calculator that calculates an amount of belt feed of the belt mover, and a movement amount measurer that measures actual amount of movement of the endless belt by image processing. The feed amount calculator calculates the amount of belt feed by which the endless belt is to be fed, on the basis of the amount of belt feed by which the endless belt has been fed and the actual amount of movement of the endless belt measured by the movement amount measurer. The belt mover moves the endless belt by the amount of belt feed calculated.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kentaro Tanabe, Kenji Kojima, Masaru Jingushi
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Publication number: 20170305160Abstract: A printing apparatus includes ejection heads configured to eject a liquid onto a medium, a plurality of sub-units each including an ejection head row configured by a plurality of the ejection heads, and a plurality of maintenance sections configured to sequentially perform maintenance on the sub-units. The plurality of the maintenance sections are configured such that positions of at least two of the plurality of the maintenance sections are aligned with positions of at least two of the plurality of the sub-units, respectively, while the at least two of the plurality of the maintenance sections perform the maintenance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Yoichi KUROGOCHI, Kentaro TANABE
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Patent number: 9731511Abstract: A printing apparatus includes ejection heads that eject a liquid onto a medium, a plurality of sub-units each including an ejection head row configured by a plurality of the ejection heads, and a plurality of maintenance sections that sequentially perform maintenance on the sub-units. For a head pitch that is a spacing between centers of the ejection head rows, a spacing between centers of mutually adjacent of the maintenance sections is an integer multiple of the product of the head pitch with the number of the ejection head rows provided to each of the sub-units.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoichi Kurogochi, Kentaro Tanabe
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Patent number: 9662913Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a belt mover for an endless belt that transports a recording medium, a feed amount calculator that calculates an amount of feed of the belt mover, a movement amount detection sensor as a movement amount measurer that measures actual amount of movement of the endless belt by image processing, a compensation table storer that stores a compensation table for compensating a transport error of the endless belt, and a control portion that calculates the amount of feed that is to bring about a predetermined amount of movement of the endless belt by using the feed amount calculator and by referring to the compensation table storer, moves the endless belt by using the belt mover on the basis of the amount of feed, compares the actual amount of movement of the endless belt measured by the movement amount detection sensor and the predetermined amount of movement.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kentaro Tanabe, Kenji Kojima, Masaru Jingushi
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Publication number: 20170129244Abstract: A printing apparatus includes ejection heads that eject a liquid onto a medium, a plurality of sub-units each including an ejection head row configured by a plurality of the ejection heads, and a plurality of maintenance sections that sequentially perform maintenance on the sub-units. For a head pitch that is a spacing between centers of the ejection head rows, a spacing between centers of mutually adjacent of the maintenance sections is an integer multiple of the product of the head pitch with the number of the ejection head rows provided to each of the sub-units.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Yoichi KUROGOCHI, Kentaro TANABE
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Publication number: 20170015118Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a belt mover for an endless belt which carries out a line feed of a recording medium, a feed amount calculator that calculates an amount of belt feed of the belt mover, and a movement amount measurer that measures actual amount of movement of the endless belt by image processing. The feed amount calculator calculates the amount of belt feed by which the endless belt is to be fed, on the basis of the amount of belt feed by which the endless belt has been fed and the actual amount of movement of the endless belt measured by the movement amount measurer. The belt mover moves the endless belt by the amount of belt feed calculated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Kentaro TANABE, Kenji KOJIMA, Masaru JINGUSHI
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Publication number: 20170008319Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a belt mover for an endless belt that transports a recording medium, a feed amount calculator that calculates an amount of feed of the belt mover, a movement amount detection sensor as a movement amount measurer that measures actual amount of movement of the endless belt by image processing, a compensation table storer that stores a compensation table for compensating a transport error of the endless belt, and a control portion that calculates the amount of feed that is to bring about a predetermined amount of movement of the endless belt by using the feed amount calculator and by referring to the compensation table storer, moves the endless belt by using the belt mover on the basis of the amount of feed, compares the actual amount of movement of the endless belt measured by the movement amount detection sensor and the predetermined amount of movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Kentaro TANABE, Kenji KOJIMA, Masaru JINGUSHI
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Publication number: 20110212823Abstract: A ceramic shaped body for producing a wiring board includes a ceramic material, a binder, and a polyalcohol, the polyalcohol being present in at least a near-surface region of the ceramic shaped body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro TANABE, Atsushi DENDA, Toshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Yoshikazu HAMA, Naoyuki TOYODA
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Publication number: 20110169884Abstract: A method for forming a conductor pattern includes: forming a conductor pattern precursor by ejecting liquid droplets of a conductor pattern forming ink by a liquid droplet ejecting method onto a substrate, and drying the liquid droplets, thereby forming a conductor pattern precursor having a pad part and a wiring part connected to the pad part on the substrate; and firing the precursor, thereby forming the conductor pattern, wherein in the formation of the conductor pattern precursor, the liquid droplets of the conductor pattern forming ink are ejected in such a manner that positions where the liquid droplets of the conductor pattern forming ink are attached form plural concentric annular shapes within a pad forming region where the pad part is to be formed on the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Naoyuki TOYODA, Toshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Noboru UEHARA, Yoshikazu HAMA, Kentaro TANABE
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Patent number: 7823432Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to clear up an eccentric load onto a pin and a problem of deformation and cavity due to flowing material during extrusion when spring washer blind-holes in a piston for an automobile transmission are formed by extrusion with a pin. After an annular region along the peripheral edge portion on the back of an end plate of a secondary workpiece is flattened, the secondary workpiece is set on a lower die. Further, while the lower die is pressed with upper dies and cushion pressure is applied on the lower die, pins, for piercing the spring washer blind-holes are made to perform an extrusion operation onto the end plate of the secondary workpiece from the backside of the end plate. The extruded material is made to flow into recess holes of the upper die, and thus spring washer blind-holes are formed. Then, projections which have flowed and protrude on the front side are removed by turning with a lathe.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2009Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignees: Ibaraki Steel Center Co., Ltd., NOK CorporationInventors: Masakazu Ooka, Yoshiki Hiyama, Kentaro Tanabe, Yoshiyuki Kanzaki, Satoshi Sato, Yoshihisa Yamazaki, Kiichiro Goto
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Publication number: 20090282885Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to clear up an eccentric load onto a pin and a problem of deformation and cavity due to flowing material during extrusion when spring washer blind-holes in a piston for an automobile transmission is formed by extrusion with a pin. After an annular region along the peripheral edge portion on the back of an end plate 3c of a secondary workpiece 3 is flattened, the secondary workpiece 3 is set on a lower die 11f. Further, while the lower die is pressed with upper dies 10f, 10g and cushion pressure is applied on the lower die 11f, pins 13, 13 . . . for piercing the spring washer blind-holes are made to perform an extrusion operation onto the end plate 3c of the secondary workpiece 3 from the backside of said end plate. The extruded material is made to flow into recess holes 10f1, 10f1 . . . of the upper die 10f and thus spring washer blind-holes 5, 5 . . . are formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Inventors: Masakazu Ooka, Yoshiki Hiyama, Kentaro Tanabe, Yoshiyuki Kanzaki, Satoshi Sato, Yoshihisa Yamazaki, Kiichiro Goto