Patents by Inventor Satoshi Nakata

Satoshi Nakata 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).

  • Patent number: 11856165
    Abstract: A control portion controls a reading portion and a discharge portion, and when a document is placed in a document placement portion, a transport path transports the document, and the reading portion reads an image of the document. When the discharge portion discharges the document for which reading is completed by the reading portion, a document receiving portion receives the document discharged by the discharge portion. The document receiving portion has a first region that overlaps the document placement portion when seen in a vertical direction, and a second region that does not overlap the document placement portion when seen in the vertical direction, and the discharge portion discharges the document so that at least part of the document is placed on the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20230294437
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording portion that performs recording by ejecting a liquid onto a medium; a liquid accommodation portion that accommodates the liquid to be ejected by the recording portion; and a housing that includes an accommodation portion exterior that accommodates the liquid accommodation portion, wherein the liquid accommodation portion includes a viewing region configured that the liquid accommodated is viewed, the accommodation portion exterior of the housing includes a viewing portion that faces the viewing region and is configured that the liquid is viewed, and a lighting portion that takes in light from outside the housing, and an optical path through which the light taken in passes is provided between the liquid accommodation portion and the accommodation portion exterior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKATA, Masanari TANAKA, Tatsuya ITO
  • Publication number: 20230298440
    Abstract: A claw gaming machine may comprise a cabinet, a claw assembly, prize objects, and a shooter unit. The machine may be configured to: determine an outcome of a claw game; allow an input device to control the claw assembly; end the claw game when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome; cause the claw assembly to move and release the picked-up object away from the shooter unit when the claw assembly does pick-up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome, cause the claw assembly to drop the picked-up object on the shooter unit when the claw assembly picks-up the object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome; and cause a winning game presentation display when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Takaki NARITA, Kenji ENOKIDO, Hiroki SAITO, Satoshi JOKO, Go MIYAMOTO, Akira SHIMIZU, Hiromu SAIGUSA, Jyunichi MURAKAMI, Satoshi NAKATA, Masahiro SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230278342
    Abstract: A liquid container is configured to be refilled with a liquid from outside, the liquid container including a containing portion that contains the liquid, an inlet that is in communication with the containing portion and through which the liquid is poured, a lid portion that has an insertion portion to be inserted into the inlet and is configured to turn around a turning axis between a closed state in which the inlet is closed by inserting the insertion portion into the inlet and an open state in which the insertion portion is separated from the inlet, and a cover portion that covers the insertion portion in the open state, in which, when the lid portion is in the open state, the insertion portion does not project further than the cover portion when viewed in an axial direction of the turning axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKATA, Masanari TANAKA, Katsumi YAMADA, Masahito TATSUMI, Matsutaro NAITO
  • Publication number: 20230262180
    Abstract: A control portion controls a reading portion and a discharge portion, and when a document is placed in a document placement portion, a transport path transports the document, and the reading portion reads an image of the document. When the discharge portion discharges the document for which reading is completed by the reading portion, a document receiving portion receives the document discharged by the discharge portion. The document receiving portion has a first region that overlaps the document placement portion when seen in a vertical direction, and a second region that does not overlap the document placement portion when seen in the vertical direction, and the discharge portion discharges the document so that at least part of the document is placed on the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventor: Satoshi NAKATA
  • Patent number: 11727765
    Abstract: A claw gaming machine may comprise a cabinet, a claw assembly, prize objects, and a shooter unit. The machine may be configured to: determine an outcome of a claw game; allow an input device to control the claw assembly; end the claw game when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome; cause the claw assembly to move and release the picked-up object away from the shooter unit when the claw assembly does pick-up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome, cause the claw assembly to drop the picked-up object on the shooter unit when the claw assembly picks-up the object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome; and cause a winning game presentation display when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Takaki Narita, Kenji Enokido, Hiroki Saito, Satoshi Joko, Go Miyamoto, Akira Shimizu, Hiromu Saigusa, Jyunichi Murakami, Satoshi Nakata, Masahiro Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20230067412
    Abstract: A medium feeding device for feeding a medium through a feed opening, the medium feeding device including: a stacked unit that extends to pass through the feed opening and on which a medium is stacked; a feeding unit that feeds a medium stacked on the stacked unit; a regulating unit that regulates a position of a medium stacked on the stacked unit, in width directions; and a cover that opens and closes relative to the feed opening, wherein the regulating unit includes a main regulating member movable in the width directions and attached to the stacked unit and a subordinate regulating member movable in the width directions and attached to the cover, a downstream end, in a feed direction, of the main regulating member is located downstream of the feed opening, and the main regulating member is linked to and cooperates with the subordinate regulating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Satoshi NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20230056275
    Abstract: A drainage container configured to be attached and detached in an attachment/detachment direction to and from an apparatus including a discharge portion to discharge drainage and configured to store the drainage discharged from the discharge portion, includes: a housing that stores the drainage and includes an opening formed in an upper surface of the housing; an accepting portion that accepts the drainage discharged from the discharge portion; and a lid portion configured to open and close the opening, in which the lid portion takes on an open state to open the opening when the drainage container is attached to the apparatus, and the lid portion takes on a closed state to close the opening when the drainage container is detached from the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKATA, Masahito TATSUMI
  • Publication number: 20230059834
    Abstract: A cassette portion includes a side guide, an end guide, and a paper detection portion. The side guide is movable in X direction and controls a motion of a first end portion of paper. The end guide is provided to the side guide to be movable in Y direction, and restricts a motion of a second end portion of the paper. The paper detection portion detects the first restricting position in the X direction of the side guide and a second restricting position in the Y direction of the end guide in a restricted state of the paper. The end guide includes a detection target portion formed such that detection information to be detected by the paper detection portion varies in the Y direction. The paper detection portion detects the first restricting position and the second restricting position by obtaining detection information from the detection target portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKATA, Katsumi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220379620
    Abstract: Provided is a discharged liquid container detachable to an apparatus having an outlet portion from which discharged liquid is to be drained, and configured to contain the discharged liquid drained from the outlet portion. The discharged liquid container includes a casing inside which the discharged liquid is containable, a connection portion provided in a first face of the casing and configured to be coupled to the outlet portion, and a lid portion configured to change in position between a closed state for covering the connection portion and an open state for opening the connection portion. The lid portion is configured to be in the open state in a state of attachment of the casing to the apparatus and be in the closed state in a state of detachment of the casing from the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKATA, Katsumi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220332117
    Abstract: A recording device includes a device body, a recording unit configured to record by ejecting liquid onto a medium, a waste liquid collecting unit configured to collect waste liquid generated inside the device body, a waste liquid storage unit configured to store the waste liquid collected via the waste liquid collecting unit, wherein the waste liquid storage unit is configured to be mountable to and removable from the device body and the waste liquid collecting unit includes a discharge portion configured to discharge the collected waste liquid to the waste liquid storage unit, and the discharge portion has a dam portion for blocking the waste liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventor: Satoshi NAKATA
  • Patent number: 11312141
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Yamada, Kazunori Takabayashi, Morio Iwata, Keisuke Sasaki, Satoshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20220068091
    Abstract: A claw gaming machine may comprise a cabinet, a claw assembly, prize objects, and a shooter unit. The machine may be configured to: determine an outcome of a claw game; allow an input device to control the claw assembly; end the claw game when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome; cause the claw assembly to move and release the picked-up object away from the shooter unit when the claw assembly does pick-up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome, cause the claw assembly to drop the picked-up object on the shooter unit when the claw assembly picks-up the object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome; and cause a winning game presentation display when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Takaki NARITA, Kenji ENOKIDO, Hiroki SAITO, Satoshi JOKO, Go MIYAMOTO, Akira SHIMIZU, Hiromu SAIGUSA, Jyunichi MURAKAMI, Satoshi NAKATA, Masahiro SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11104535
    Abstract: A printer as a medium processing apparatus includes a transport path through which a paper being transported passes, a recording head that records on the paper on the transport path, and a platen that forms at least a portion of the transport path as a path forming member with which the paper comes into contact, in which a surface resistance value of the path forming member changes according to an applied voltage of the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Waki, Kazuhiro Hashii, Satoshi Nakata, Fumiaki Akahane
  • Publication number: 20210031533
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Katsumi YAMADA, Kazunori TAKABAYASHI, Morio IWATA, Keisuke SASAKI, Satoshi NAKATA
  • Patent number: 10850520
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Yamada, Kazunori Takabayashi, Morio Iwata, Keisuke Sasaki, Satoshi Nakata
  • Patent number: 10703116
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a medium storage cassette which includes a medium storage region and is capable of being inserted and removed with respect to an apparatus main body, in which the medium storage cassette includes a main cassette unit and a sub-cassette unit which is capable of switching between a first state and a second state which is displaced more in the removal direction than in the first state to expand the medium storage region, and in which the apparatus main body includes a cover which is provided to be capable of being displaced between a position corresponding to the first state of the sub-cassette unit and a position corresponding to the second state and which covers a top portion of the medium storage region on the removal direction side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Otsuka, Satoshi Nakata, Katsumi Yamada, Manato Nishi, Kenichi Furuya
  • Publication number: 20190291986
    Abstract: A printer as a medium processing apparatus includes a transport path through which a paper being transported passes, a recording head that records on the paper on the transport path, and a platen that forms at least a portion of the transport path as a path forming member with which the paper comes into contact, in which a surface resistance value of the path forming member changes according to an applied voltage of the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Shingo WAKI, Kazuhiro HASHII, Satoshi NAKATA, Fumiaki AKAHANE
  • Publication number: 20190291445
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Katsumi YAMADA, Kazunori TAKABAYASHI, Morio IWATA, Keisuke SASAKI, Satoshi NAKATA
  • Patent number: 10374229
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for alkali-ion secondary batteries is provided which contains 20-55% of Na2O+Li2O, 10-60% of CrO+FeO+MnO+CoO+NiO, and 20-55% of P2O5+SiO2+B2O3 in terms of oxide-equivalent mol % and includes 50 mass % or more of an amorphous phase. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a positive electrode active material for alkali-ion secondary batteries that enables high energy density and is excellent in the charge and discharge characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Honma, Takayuki Komatsu, Satoshi Nakata, Hideo Yamauchi, Fumio Sato