Patents by Inventor Masatomo Kanamitsu
Masatomo Kanamitsu 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: 11985282Abstract: Provided is an image reading system that divides, with respect to image data obtained by performing a double sided reading in a state where a booklet is opened, cover sheet image data into two parts corresponding to a pair of cover sheets to arrange the two parts at a front and an end, respectively, and arranges main text image data between the front and the end, and then generates an image file from each of the arranged image data.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Nobutaka Suzuki, Nao Sato, Osamu Koyama, Masatomo Kanamitsu, Hideaki Tokuda
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Publication number: 20230208995Abstract: Provided is an image reading system that divides, with respect to image data obtained by performing a double sided reading in a state where a booklet is opened, cover sheet image data into two parts corresponding to a pair of cover sheets to arrange the two parts at a front and an end, respectively, and arranges main text image data between the front and the end, and then generates an image file from each of the arranged image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Nobutaka SUZUKI, Nao SATO, Osamu KOYAMA, Masatomo KANAMITSU, Hideaki TOKUDA
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Patent number: 11524856Abstract: A medium feeding device is provided with a feeding section for feeding a medium and sensors for detecting the medium. The feeding section includes a feed roller and a separation roller, the sensors form a sensor line in which the plurality of sensors is aligned in a feeding direction of the medium to be fed, the two sensor lines are arranged in such a manner that the sensors overlap with each other in a width direction of the medium to be fed, and the sensor lines are so configured as to extend, in the feeding direction, from an upstream region upstream of a nip point where the feed roller and the separation roller make contact with each other, a nip region including the nip point, and to a downstream region downstream of the nip point.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Masatomo Kanamitsu
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Publication number: 20220286577Abstract: A control unit of an image reader executes OCR (optical character recognition processing) on image data as a result of scanning a setup guide, and upon acquiring an SSID and an encryption key, attempts to communicate with a corresponding wireless LAN master device using the SSID and the corresponding encryption key.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Osamu KOYAMA, Nobutaka SUZUKI, Masatomo KANAMITSU, Junichiro HIGUMA, Hideaki TOKUDA
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Patent number: 10574851Abstract: When consecutively feeding a plurality of media, an image scanning apparatus, according to the length of a preceding medium in a feed direction, changes the feed control for feeding the succeeding medium.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuya Yoshikaie, Masatomo Kanamitsu, Wataru Beppu, Keisuke Miyauchi, Hiromichi Kitsuki
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Publication number: 20190367307Abstract: A medium feeding device is provided with a feeding section for feeding a medium and sensors for detecting the medium. The feeding section includes a feed roller and a separation roller, the sensors form a sensor line in which the plurality of sensors is aligned in a feeding direction of the medium to be fed, the two sensor lines are arranged in such a manner that the sensors overlap with each other in a width direction of the medium to be fed, and the sensor lines are so configured as to extend, in the feeding direction, from an upstream region upstream of a nip point where the feed roller and the separation roller make contact with each other, a nip region including the nip point, and to a downstream region downstream of the nip point.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventor: Masatomo KANAMITSU
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Patent number: 10205839Abstract: In a case in which a carrier sheet including transparent sheet portions of two pieces which can interpose a document therebetween, and a bonding portion which bonds sheet portions to each other is transported in a state in which the bonding portion is located on the downstream side in the transport direction, a reading unit is caused to start reading, after an upstream end of the bonding portion passed through the reading unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masatomo Kanamitsu, Kenichi Murahashi, Wataru Beppu
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Patent number: 10142503Abstract: A feed detection unit which detects a document which is fed is provided at a position between a pinching position at which a feed roller and a frictional force application portion pinch the document and an intersecting position at which a tangential line of the feed roller which is closer to a downstream side in a transport direction than the pinching position is perpendicular to a transport path in the transport direction, which is a different position from the feed roller in a width direction which intersects the transport direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masatomo Kanamitsu, Kenichi Murahashi, Wataru Beppu
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Patent number: 10108857Abstract: An image reading apparatus is configured to read an image of each of documents transported in a transport path from an upstream side to a downstream side in a transport direction, acquires a correction factor for correcting a read image on the basis of a fed document number, and corrects the length of the read image in the transport direction on the basis of the correction factor which has been acquired.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kenichi Murahashi, Masatomo Kanamitsu, Wataru Beppu
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Patent number: 10059543Abstract: A medium feeding device including a medium mounting portion where media are mounted; a feeding roller that feeds the media from the medium mounting portion by contacting a bottommost sheet of the media mounted in the medium mounting portion, and rotating; a separator that separates a sheet of the media by nipping the sheet between the feeding roller and the separator; an abutting member that is provided above the feeding roller, is switchable between a closed posture that blocks a feeding path of the media upstream of the separator and an open posture that opens the feeding path, abuts against a leading edge of the media mounted in the medium mounting portion, and includes a friction surface at a position where the abutting member abuts against the leading edge; and a biasing member that biases the abutting member toward the closed posture.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Masatomo Kanamitsu
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Publication number: 20180198943Abstract: When consecutively feeding a plurality of media, an image scanning apparatus, according to the length of a preceding medium in a feed direction, changes the feed control for feeding the succeeding medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2017Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Kazuya YOSHIKAIE, Masatomo KANAMITSU, Wataru BEPPU, Keisuke MIYAUCHI, Hiromichi KITSUKI
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Publication number: 20170374216Abstract: In a case in which a carrier sheet including transparent sheet portions of two pieces which can interpose a document therebetween, and a bonding portion which bonds sheet portions to each other is transported in a state in which the bonding portion is located on the downstream side in the transport direction, a reading unit is caused to start reading, after an upstream end of the bonding portion passed through the reading unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Masatomo KANAMITSU, Kenichi MURAHASHI, Wataru BEPPU
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Publication number: 20170374214Abstract: A feed detection unit which detects a document which is fed is provided at a position between a pinching position at which a feed roller and a frictional force application portion pinch the document and an intersecting position at which a tangential line of the feed roller which is closer to a downstream side in a transport direction than the pinching position is perpendicular to a transport path in the transport direction, which is a different position from the feed roller in a width direction which intersects the transport direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Masatomo KANAMITSU, Kenichi MURAHASHI, Wataru BEPPU
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Publication number: 20170344819Abstract: An image reading apparatus is configured to read an image of each of documents transported in a transport path from an upstream side to a downstream side in a transport direction, acquires a correction factor for correcting a read image on the basis of a fed document number, and corrects the length of the read image in the transport direction on the basis of the correction factor which has been acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Kenichi MURAHASHI, Masatomo KANAMITSU, Wataru BEPPU
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Publication number: 20170107068Abstract: A medium feeding device including a medium mounting portion where media are mounted; a feeding roller that feeds the media from the medium mounting portion by contacting a bottommost sheet of the media mounted in the medium mounting portion, and rotating; a separator that separates a sheet of the media by nipping the sheet between the feeding roller and the separator; an abutting member that is provided above the feeding roller, is switchable between a closed posture that blocks a feeding path of the media upstream of the separator and an open posture that opens the feeding path, abuts against a leading edge of the media mounted in the medium mounting portion, and includes a friction surface at a position where the abutting member abuts against the leading edge; and a biasing member that biases the abutting member toward the closed posture.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventor: Masatomo KANAMITSU
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Patent number: 7204577Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is operable to move in a first direction. A platen is opposed to the liquid ejecting head to support an object to which a liquid droplet is ejected from the liquid ejecting head and to define a gap between the liquid ejecting head and the object. The platen is formed with a groove hole to which a liquid droplet deviated from an edge of the object is disposed, and through holes formed in a bottom portion of the groove hole and arranged in the first direction. A tray member is arranged below the platen to receive liquid dropped through the through holes. A first liquid absorber is provided in the groove hole. A second liquid absorber is provided in the tray member. At least one liquid leading member extends through at least one of the through holes to lead liquid absorbed by the first liquid absorber to the second liquid absorber.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2004Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporaionInventors: Masatomo Kanamitsu, Naruhiko Katagiri, Hajime Wada, Keisuke Haba, Midori Araya, Masahiro Isono, Hikaru Kobayashi, Kazuhisa Takeda, Kenjiro Ishihara, Seiji Tezuka, Satoshi Kaneta, Takashi Sato
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Patent number: 6910757Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is operable to move in a first direction. A platen is opposed to the liquid ejecting head to support an object to which a liquid droplet is ejected from the liquid ejecting head and to define a gap between the liquid ejecting head and the object. The platen is formed with a groove hole to which a liquid droplet deviated from an edge of the object is disposed, and through holes formed in a bottom portion of the groove hole and arranged in the first direction. A tray member is arranged below the platen to receive liquid dropped through the through holes. A first liquid absorber is provided in the groove hole. A second liquid absorber is provided in the tray member. At least one liquid leading member extends through at least one of the through holes to lead liquid absorbed by the first liquid absorber to the second liquid absorber.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2003Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masatomo Kanamitsu, Naruhiko Katagiri, Hajime Wada, Keisuke Haba, Midori Araya, Masahiro Isono
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Publication number: 20050062794Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is operable to move in a first direction. A platen is opposed to the liquid ejecting head to support an object to which a liquid droplet is ejected from the liquid ejecting head and to define a gap between the liquid ejecting head and the object. The platen is formed with a groove hole to which a liquid droplet deviated from an edge of the object is disposed, and through holes formed in a bottom portion of the groove hole and arranged in the first direction. A tray member is arranged below the platen to receive liquid dropped through the through holes. A first liquid absorber is provided in the groove hole. A second liquid absorber is provided in the tray member. At least one liquid leading member extends through at least one of the through holes to lead liquid absorbed by the first liquid absorber to the second liquid absorber.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2004Publication date: March 24, 2005Inventors: Masatomo Kanamitsu, Naruhiko Katagiri, Hajime Wada, Keisuke Haba, Midori Araya, Masahiro Isono, Hikaru Kobayashi, Kazuhisa Takeda, Kenjiro Ishihara, Seiji Tezuka, Satoshi Kaneta, Takashi Sato
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Publication number: 20040051755Abstract: A liquid ejecting head is operable to move in a first direction. A platen is opposed to the liquid ejecting head to support an object to which a liquid droplet is ejected from the liquid ejecting head and to define a gap between the liquid ejecting head and the object. The platen is formed with a groove hole to which a liquid droplet deviated from an edge of the object is disposed, and through holes formed in a bottom portion of the groove hole and arranged in the first direction. A tray member is arranged below the platen to receive liquid dropped through the through holes. A first liquid absorber is provided in the groove hole. A second liquid absorber is provided in the tray member. At least one liquid leading member extends through at least one of the through holes to lead liquid absorbed by the first liquid absorber to the second liquid absorber.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masatomo Kanamitsu, Naruhiko Katagiri, Hajime Wada, Keisuke Haba, Midori Araya, Masahiro Isono
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Patent number: 6183152Abstract: A printer having a paper handling mechanism that includes a paper feed roller pair located upstream of a recording head. The paper feed roller pair includes a roller having a roller axis and a follow-up roller having a follow-up roller axis. A line between the roller axis and the follow-up axis is inclined towards the recording head. A paper discharge roller pair located downstream. The paper discharge roller pair includes a discharge roller having a discharge roller axis and a discharge follow-up rolling having discharge follow-up roller axis. A line between the discharge roller axis and the discharge follow-up roller axis is inclined towards the recording head.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1998Date of Patent: February 6, 2001Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Eiji Kumai, Masatomo Kanamitsu, Tsuyoshi Tomii