Patents by Inventor Morio Iwata
Morio Iwata 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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Publication number: 20230311542Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording path passing a recorder performing recording by ejecting liquid onto a medium; a feeding path through which the medium is fed to the recording path; a discharge path through which the medium after recording performed thereon by the recorder is discharged; a reading path extending through a reader reading an image, provided independently of the recording path, the feeding path, and the discharge path and to which the medium with a recorded image being used to check a state of liquid ejection of the recorder recorded thereon is fed; and a switching portion switching between a first state in which a feeding direction of the medium after recording performed thereon by the recorder is set to a direction toward the reading path and a second state in which the feeding direction is set to a direction other than the direction toward the reading path.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Morio IWATA, Yuka SHIMIZU, Shumi KARASAWA, Satoshi YOSHINO
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Publication number: 20230311541Abstract: A recording device includes an ejecting head ejecting ink onto a medium, a first ink absorber disposed at a position facing the ejecting head and absorbing waste ink, among the ink, ejected to a position beyond an edge during borderless recording, a platen configured to supports the first ink absorber, and support the medium during the borderless recording, a first waste ink tray including a first discharge port discharging the waste ink, the first waste ink tray receiving the waste ink flowing out from the first ink absorber, and a discharge mechanism discharging, from the first discharge port, the waste ink received by the first waste ink tray, wherein the first waste ink tray includes a plurality of inclined regions inclined to guide the waste ink to the first discharge port, and each of the plurality of inclined regions has a different inclination direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Morio IWATA, Shumi KARASAWA, Kazuo SAITO, Yuka SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 11727908Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit configured to record on a medium, a transportation unit configured to transport the medium, a driving member, a plurality of gears configured to transmit a driving force of the driving member, and a sound absorber having an opening and a hollow space in communication with the opening. The sound absorber is located between a side end of the medium being transported by the transportation unit and the plurality of gears.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Morio Iwata, Kazuhisa Takeda, Mafumi Kobayashi, Katsumi Yamada
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Patent number: 11718493Abstract: A medium receiving tray has a first tray and a second tray. A movable support having a second support surface for supporting media is disposed in the second tray. When the medium receiving tray is in a first state, the movable support is positioned above a first support surface of the first tray. When the medium receiving tray is switched from the first state to a second state, a free end is detached from the downstream end of the first support surface and displaced downward, and the second support surface is thereby inclined upward toward the downstream in a medium discharging direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Morio Iwata, Satoshi Yoshino
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Patent number: 11370238Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: an apparatus main body that includes a recording unit; a medium-receiving tray that is configured to be switched between a first state and a second state; and a motor, in which the medium-receiving tray includes a first tray, a second tray that is configured to be displaced with respect to the first tray and that is positioned further than the first tray from the apparatus main body when the medium-receiving tray is in the second state, a pinion gear engaged with a first rack formed in the first tray in a displacement direction of the second tray and with a second rack formed in the second tray in the displacement direction, and a displacement section that supports the pinion gear and that is displaced in the displacement direction in response to receiving power from the motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Morio Iwata, Satoshi Yoshino
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Patent number: 11312141Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit configured to eject a liquid onto a medium to record, a carriage including the recording unit and configured to move in an X direction corresponding to a medium width direction that intersects a Y direction corresponding to a medium transport direction, a liquid reservoir located in the carriage at a position above the recording unit, configured to contain a liquid, and having a fill port through which the liquid is supplied, a fill port unit located in the carriage at a position above the liquid reservoir and including a component for open/close operation of the fill port, and an operation unit through which the device is operated. The fill port unit and the operation unit partly overlap in a device front-rear direction that is parallel to the medium transport direction, when viewed in the X direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Katsumi Yamada, Kazunori Takabayashi, Morio Iwata, Keisuke Sasaki, Satoshi Nakata
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Publication number: 20210300711Abstract: A medium receiving tray has a first tray and a second tray. A movable support having a second support surface for supporting media is disposed in the second tray. When the medium receiving tray is in a first state, the movable support is positioned above a first support surface of the first tray. When the medium receiving tray is switched from the first state to a second state, a free end is detached from the downstream end of the first support surface and displaced downward, and the second support surface is thereby inclined upward toward the downstream in a medium discharging direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Morio IWATA, Satoshi YOSHINO
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Publication number: 20210155021Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: an apparatus main body that includes a recording unit; a medium-receiving tray that is configured to be switched between a first state and a second state; and a motor, in which the medium-receiving tray includes a first tray, a second tray that is configured to be displaced with respect to the first tray and that is positioned further than the first tray from the apparatus main body when the medium-receiving tray is in the second state, a pinion gear engaged with a first rack formed in the first tray in a displacement direction of the second tray and with a second rack formed in the second tray in the displacement direction, and a displacement section that supports the pinion gear and that is displaced in the displacement direction in response to receiving power from the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Morio IWATA, Satoshi YOSHINO
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Publication number: 20210151023Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit configured to record on a medium, a transportation unit configured to transport the medium, a driving member, a plurality of gears configured to transmit a driving force of the driving member, and a sound absorber having an opening and a hollow space in communication with the opening. The sound absorber is located between a side end of the medium being transported by the transportation unit and the plurality of gears.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Morio IWATA, Kazuhisa TAKEDA, Mafumi KOBAYASHI, Katsumi YAMADA
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Publication number: 20210031533Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit configured to eject a liquid onto a medium to record, a carriage including the recording unit and configured to move in an X direction corresponding to a medium width direction that intersects a Y direction corresponding to a medium transport direction, a liquid reservoir located in the carriage at a position above the recording unit, configured to contain a liquid, and having a fill port through which the liquid is supplied, a fill port unit located in the carriage at a position above the liquid reservoir and including a component for open/close operation of the fill port, and an operation unit through which the device is operated. The fill port unit and the operation unit partly overlap in a device front-rear direction that is parallel to the medium transport direction, when viewed in the X direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Katsumi YAMADA, Kazunori TAKABAYASHI, Morio IWATA, Keisuke SASAKI, Satoshi NAKATA
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Patent number: 10850520Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit configured to eject a liquid onto a medium to record, a carriage including the recording unit and configured to move in an X direction corresponding to a medium width direction that intersects a Y direction corresponding to a medium transport direction, a liquid reservoir located in the carriage at a position above the recording unit, configured to contain a liquid, and having a fill port through which the liquid is supplied, a fill port unit located in the carriage at a position above the liquid reservoir and including a component for open/close operation of the fill port, and an operation unit through which the device is operated. The fill port unit and the operation unit partly overlap in a device front-rear direction that is parallel to the medium transport direction, when viewed in the X direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Katsumi Yamada, Kazunori Takabayashi, Morio Iwata, Keisuke Sasaki, Satoshi Nakata
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Publication number: 20190291445Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit configured to eject a liquid onto a medium to record, a carriage including the recording unit and configured to move in an X direction corresponding to a medium width direction that intersects a Y direction corresponding to a medium transport direction, a liquid reservoir located in the carriage at a position above the recording unit, configured to contain a liquid, and having a fill port through which the liquid is supplied, a fill port unit located in the carriage at a position above the liquid reservoir and including a component for open/close operation of the fill port, and an operation unit through which the device is operated. The fill port unit and the operation unit partly overlap in a device front-rear direction that is parallel to the medium transport direction, when viewed in the X direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Katsumi YAMADA, Kazunori TAKABAYASHI, Morio IWATA, Keisuke SASAKI, Satoshi NAKATA
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Patent number: 9334119Abstract: A plurality of buffer plates shaped in a plate project from an inclined surface of a chute of a transfer portion for transferring hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets in a manner that a planar direction of each of the buffer plates intersects with an inclination direction of the inclined surface. Hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets flowing on the inclined surface contact the buffer plates, so that a flow direction of the hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets is changed to reduce a flow speed of the hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets. By the reduction of the flow speed, impact applied on the flowing hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets is weakened, so that breakage due to the impact during transfer of the hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets can be inhibited.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Takasugi, Morio Iwata
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Patent number: 8875871Abstract: A belt conveyor, a collecting hopper and a screw conveyor are sequentially disposed below a chute for feeding hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets from a pelletizing portion. Even when the hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets fed onto the belt conveyor are dropped off or scattered, the hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets can be collected by the collecting hopper that is located below and can be securely transferred to an outside by the screw conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Morio Iwata, Hajime Takasugi, Kazunori Saeki
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Publication number: 20140144748Abstract: A plurality of buffer plates shaped in a plate project from an inclined surface of a chute of a transfer portion for transferring hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets in a manner that a planar direction of each of the buffer plates intersects with an inclination direction of the inclined surface. Hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets flowing on the inclined surface contact the buffer plates, so that a flow direction of the hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets is changed to reduce a flow speed of the hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets. By the reduction of the flow speed, impact applied on the flowing hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets is weakened, so that breakage due to the impact during transfer of the hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets can be inhibited.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Takasugi, Morio Iwata
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Publication number: 20140116848Abstract: A belt conveyor, a collecting hopper and a screw conveyor are sequentially disposed below a chute for feeding hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets from a pelletizing portion. Even when the hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets fed onto the belt conveyor are dropped off or scattered, the hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets can be collected by the collecting hopper that is located below and can be securely transferred to an outside by the screw conveyor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Morio Iwata, Hajime Takasugi, Kazunori Saeki