Patents by Inventor Seiichi Taniguchi

Seiichi Taniguchi 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).

  • Publication number: 20230311409
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object, the manufacturing method including: a powder layer formation step of disposing powders containing a forming material of the three-dimensional shaped object in a layer shape and forming a powder layer having a predetermined thickness; and a molded body formation step of discharging, to the powder layer, a binder liquid containing a binder for binding the powders to one another, and forming a molded body in which the powders are bound to one another. In the molded body formation step, in a formation region of the molded body in the powder layer, a discharging amount of the binder liquid per unit area to a first formation region that is a contour portion of the formation region and a discharging amount of the binder liquid per unit area to a second formation region other than the contour portion are discharging amounts different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Masaya ISHIDA, Momoko WAKABAYASHI, Toshiki SANO, Hideki ISHIGAMI, Kei HIRUMA, Seiichi TANIGUCHI, Kenji KITADA
  • Publication number: 20210324555
    Abstract: A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a defibrating portion that defibrates a raw material, a mixing portion that mixes a defibrated material defibrated by the defibrating portion, a heating portion that heats a mixture mixed by the mixing portion, and a control portion that controls a temperature of the heating portion, in which the control portion sets a heating temperature of the heating portion to a temperature depending on a type of the raw material defibrated by the defibrating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Kaneo YODA, Yoshiyuki NAGAI, Yuki OGUCHI, Shigeo FUJITA, Akira ARAI, Kazuhiro ICHIKAWA, Teruaki OGUCHI, Seiichi TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11077581
    Abstract: A sheet manufacturing apparatus is an apparatus that heats a material containing fibers to form a sheet, and includes a heating portion that heats the material, and a control portion that controls a temperature at which the heating portion heats the material. The control portion sets a temperature of the heating portion to a first temperature in a first state where the sheet manufacturing apparatus manufactures the sheet, and sets the temperature of the heating portion to a second temperature lower than the first temperature at a predetermined timing in a second state where the sheet is not manufactured, or at a predetermined timing when a state of the sheet manufacturing apparatus is shifted to the state where the sheet is not manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kaneo Yoda, Yoshiyuki Nagai, Yuki Oguchi, Shigeo Fujita, Akira Arai, Kazuhiro Ichikawa, Teruaki Oguchi, Seiichi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11041259
    Abstract: A sheet fabrication apparatus includes: a fiber separation unit that micronizes an ingredient; a first sensor unit that measures a temperature in a first space including the fiber separation unit; a first air conditioning unit that adjusts the temperature in the first space; a fabrication unit that works the fiber separated articles obtained by micronizing the ingredient by the fiber separation unit; a second sensor unit that measures at least either a temperature or a humidity at a mounting position of the fabrication unit; and a control unit that controls the first air conditioning unit on the basis of at least any of measurement results of the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventors: Kaneo Yoda, Yoshihiro Ueno, Shunichi Seki, Seiichi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11008707
    Abstract: Provided is technology improving the efficiency (productivity) of a sheet manufacturing apparatus. A sheet manufacturing apparatus 100 manufactures sheets S by heating with heaters 81 and 82 a mixture (second web W2) of resin and fiber produced by defibrating feedstock MA. The heaters 81 and 82 each have a first roller 171, a second roller 172 that holds the second web W2 with the first roller 171, and a moving mechanism 190. The moving mechanism 190 can switch the first roller 171 and second roller 172 to a position holding the second web W2, and a first roller 171 and second roller 172 are separated and do not hold the second web W2. The heaters 81 and 82 are configured as units that can removably installed to the sheet manufacturing apparatus 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaneo Yoda, Yoshiyuki Nagai, Yuki Oguchi, Shigeo Fujita, Akira Arai, Kazuhiro Ichikawa, Teruaki Oguchi, Seiichi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11000968
    Abstract: There is provided a sheet manufacturing apparatus that is capable of manufacturing a sheet having a predetermined color, the apparatus including: a plurality of resin cartridges that store a plurality of colored resins, respectively; a resin supply unit that supplies a resin from one or the plurality of resin cartridges to a predetermined raw material in a predetermined step of manufacturing a sheet; and a controller that selects a resin cartridge, which is a supply source of a resin, when the resin supply unit supplies the resin, and performs setting related to a supply amount of a resin for each of the selected resin cartridges, based on setting related to a color of a sheet to be manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Mikoshiba, Yoshinobu Monbetsu, Yasumasa Nakajima, Seiichi Taniguchi, Takeshi Kimoto
  • Patent number: 11001970
    Abstract: A web forming device includes: a first material supply unit provided with a first release port that releases a first material containing a first defibrated substance and a first organic binder in a gas atmosphere; a second material supply unit provided with a second release port that releases a second material in the gas atmosphere, the second material containing a second defibrated substance and a second organic binder and being different from the first material; and a transporting unit that forms and transports an accumulated substance obtained by accumulating the first material and the second material. The second release port is positioned downstream of the first release port in a transporting direction of the transporting unit, and the accumulated substance is a laminate obtained by laminating a layer of the first material and a layer of the second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventors: Seiichi Taniguchi, Kaneo Yoda
  • Patent number: 10953654
    Abstract: An ink absorber includes: an ink absorbing member that is capable of absorbing ink; an accommodation section that accommodates the ink absorbing member; and a detachment structure section that detaches the ink absorbing member from the accommodation section. In the ink absorber, it is preferable that the accommodation section have a bottom section and side wall sections standing up from the bottom section, that inclined surfaces inclined relative to the bottom section be formed inside the side wall sections, and that the detachment structure section be configured with the inclined surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventors: Yoichi Miyasaka, Kaneo Yoda, Nobutaka Urano, Seiichi Taniguchi, Akio Ito, Shunichi Seki
  • Patent number: 10895869
    Abstract: A raw material supply device includes a plurality of supply portions for supplying the raw material, a detection portion for detecting a state of the supply portion, and a control portion for controlling the supply portion, in which when the plurality of supply portions are in a normal state, the control portion switches the supply portions at a predetermined timing, and causes each of the supply portions to supply the raw material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Monbetsu, Kaneo Yoda
  • Patent number: 10894685
    Abstract: A sheet collection device includes a discrimination portion that discriminates the type of sheet, a plurality of containers that store sheets, a transport portion that transports the sheets to any one container from among the plurality of containers based on the discrimination result by the discrimination portion, an accumulation portion that accumulates progress information of a storage amount of sheets in the container, and a notification portion that predicts a time at which the storage amount of the sheets that are stored in the containers based on the progress information reaches a first predetermined amount and notifies the predicted time to a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kaneo Yoda, Seiichi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 10828903
    Abstract: An ink absorbing member accommodation container includes: an accommodation container that has an accommodation space for accommodating an ink absorbing member containing water-absorbable resin capable of absorbing ink inside the accommodation container and that includes an inlet port through which the ink flows into the accommodation space; and a flying preventing mechanism that prevents a constituent material of the ink absorbing member from flying from the inlet port to an outside of the accommodation container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kaneo Yoda, Yoichi Miyasaka, Nobutaka Urano, Seiichi Taniguchi, Akio Ito, Shunichi Seki
  • Patent number: 10781554
    Abstract: A processing device, a sheet manufacturing apparatus, a processing method, and a sheet manufacturing method that suppress damage to a substrate when removing color material from the substrate, and are useful for recycling the substrate after color material is removed, are provided. A processing device has a color material removal device including at least one discharge nozzle configured to discharge particles containing cellulose to a substrate holding color material, and remove the color material from the substrate. The color material removal device preferably has a double-walled conduit construction having an internal conduit and an external conduit in which the internal conduit is inserted, at least one of an opening to the internal conduit and an opening to the external conduit functioning as the discharge nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shunichi Seki, Hiroki Kurata, Hiroshi Tanaka, Seiichi Taniguchi, Kaneo Yoda
  • Patent number: 10703096
    Abstract: A detecting device is configured to detect a discharge state of droplets from a discharging head configured to discharge droplets onto a medium. A detecting device includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the medium on which a predetermined pattern is recorded with the droplets with irradiation light, and to scan the medium with the irradiation light in a scanning direction, a light-receiving unit configured to receive reflected light which is the irradiation light reflected by the medium, and to output a signal indicating intensity of the reflected light, and a control unit configured to perform determination process for determining a discharge state of the droplets onto the medium by using intensity change of the reflected light in scanning the predetermined pattern in the scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Otsuka, Seiichi Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20200101637
    Abstract: A sheet manufacturing apparatus is an apparatus that heats a material containing fibers to form a sheet, and includes a heating portion that heats the material, and a control portion that controls a temperature at which the heating portion heats the material. The control portion sets a temperature of the heating portion to a first temperature in a first state where the sheet manufacturing apparatus manufactures the sheet, and sets the temperature of the heating portion to a second temperature lower than the first temperature at a predetermined timing in a second state where the sheet is not manufactured, or at a predetermined timing when a state of the sheet manufacturing apparatus is shifted to the state where the sheet is not manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kaneo YODA, Yoshiyuki NAGAI, Yuki OGUCHI, Shigeo FUJITA, Akira ARAI, Kazuhiro ICHIKAWA, Teruaki OGUCHI, Seiichi TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200102703
    Abstract: A recording medium manufacturing apparatus includes at least one material supplying section which includes a storage unit which stores a fiber-containing material containing cellulose fibers and a resin, at least one carrying body which carries the fiber-containing material which is supplied from the material supplying section, a transfer-target body onto which the fiber-containing material which is carried by the carrying body is electrostatically transferred, and an after-treatment unit which performs an after-treatment on the fiber-containing material which is electrostatically transferred onto the transfer-target body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kaneo YODA, Yasumasa NAKAJIMA, Seiichi TANIGUCHI, Shunichi SEKI, Akira ARAI, Kazuhiro ICHIKAWA, Hiroshi TANAKA, Hiroki KURATA
  • Patent number: 10547753
    Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a reflected-light passing unit having a passing region through which a portion of reflected light that is the scanning light reflected by the medium passes. An outer peripheral contour line of the passing region includes a contour curve configured with a set of points where coordinates in a direction orthogonal to a scanning direction are uniquely determined for the coordinates in the scanning direction. The contour curve renders a curve protruded toward the passing region. When a region in contact with the contour curve in the passing region is divided into a plurality of quadrilateral minute regions having equivalent areas and extending from the contour curve to a predetermined coordinate position in the scanning direction and are continuously arranged in the orthogonal direction, widths of the minute regions in the scanning direction are different for each location in the orthogonal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Otsuka, Seiichi Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20190358956
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to be capable of reducing occurrence of printing failure due to a mist of a reaction liquid. A printing apparatus includes: an ink discharge nozzle row 14b for discharging an ink; reaction liquid discharge nozzle rows 14a and 14c for discharging a reaction liquid having properties of aggregating the ink; and a plasma actuator 20 that generates an airflow with respect to a platen gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kinya OZAWA, Seiichi TANIGUCHI, Hidenori USUDA, Yasumasa NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190322107
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to be capable of reducing occurrence of irradiation failure of a UV light source due to a mist of a UV ink. A printing apparatus 1 includes: an ink discharge nozzle row 14 for discharging the UV ink; UV light sources 12 and 13 for emitting UV light for curing the UV ink; and a plasma actuator 20 that generates an airflow in a direction away from irradiated surfaces 12a and 13a of the UV light sources 12 and 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kinya OZAWA, Seiichi TANIGUCHI, Hidenori USUDA, Yasumasa NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190299629
    Abstract: An ink absorbing member accommodation container includes: an accommodation container that has an accommodation space for accommodating an ink absorbing member containing water-absorbable resin capable of absorbing ink inside the accommodation container and that includes an inlet port through which the ink flows into the accommodation space; and a flying preventing mechanism that prevents a constituent material of the ink absorbing member from flying from the inlet port to an outside of the accommodation container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Kaneo YODA, Yoichi MIYASAKA, Nobutaka URANO, Seiichi TANIGUCHI, Akio ITO, Shunichi SEKI
  • Publication number: 20190299607
    Abstract: An ink absorber includes: an ink absorbing member that is capable of absorbing ink; an accommodation section that accommodates the ink absorbing member; and a detachment structure section that detaches the ink absorbing member from the accommodation section. In the ink absorber, it is preferable that the accommodation section have a bottom section and side wall sections standing up from the bottom section, that inclined surfaces inclined relative to the bottom section be formed inside the side wall sections, and that the detachment structure section be configured with the inclined surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yoichi MIYASAKA, Kaneo YODA, Nobutaka URANO, Seiichi TANIGUCHI, Akio ITO, Shunichi SEKI