Patents by Inventor Shinichiro Yoshikawa
Shinichiro Yoshikawa 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: 9815302Abstract: A printer includes a housing, a cover, and a movable unit. The housing has a space and an opening. The space accommodates a transportation path section that is at least part of a transportation path for transporting a paper sheet. The opening allows the space to communicate with the outside of the housing. The cover is in any one of positions relative to the opening including a closed position where the cover covers the opening and an open position where the cover uncovers the opening. The movable unit has the transportation path section and is movable between a storage position where the transportation path section is stored in the space and a pulled-out position where the transportation path section is pulled out of the space. The movable unit in the pulled-out position is restrained from moving toward the storage position when the cover is in the open position.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shun Hara, Shinichiro Yoshikawa, Tomohiro Yasufuku
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Publication number: 20170274674Abstract: A printer includes a housing, a cover, and a movable unit. The housing has a space and an opening. The space accommodates a transportation path section that is at least part of a transportation path for transporting a paper sheet. The opening allows the space to communicate with the outside of the housing. The cover is in any one of positions relative to the opening including a closed position where the cover covers the opening and an open position where the cover uncovers the opening. The movable unit has the transportation path section and is movable between a storage position where the transportation path section is stored in the space and a pulled-out position where the transportation path section is pulled out of the space. The movable unit in the pulled-out position is restrained from moving toward the storage position when the cover is in the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Shun HARA, Shinichiro YOSHIKAWA, Tomohiro YASUFUKU
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Patent number: 9610792Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus including: a recording section that performs recording on a recording medium; a cable relay section that is provided between a first area, in which the recording section is arranged, and a second area in which a control section for control is arranged, and that relays cables; a first cable that is configured to extend from the recording section and is connected to the cable relay section on a side of the first area; and a second cable that is configured to extend from the control section and is connected to the cable relay section on a side of the second area.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shinichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroki Chino, Yuichi Segawa
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Publication number: 20160274529Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus including: a recording section that performs recording on a recording medium; a cable relay section that is provided between a first area, in which the recording section is arranged, and a second area in which a control section for control is arranged, and that relays cables; a first cable that is configured to extend from the recording section and is connected to the cable relay section on a side of the first area; and a second cable that is configured to extend from the control section and is connected to the cable relay section on a side of the second area.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Shinichiro YOSHIKAWA, Hiroki CHINO, Yuichi SEGAWA
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Patent number: 8448942Abstract: A second stacker is provided with base-end projection portions and leading-end projection portions that protrude outward in the width direction from the second stacker from both sides of the second stacker at the base end of the second stacker in the pull-out direction thereof. A first stacker is provided with guide rails on which the stated projection portions slide when the second stacker is pulled out; contact portions that do not make contact with and allow the leading-end projection portions to pass when the second stacker is pulled out but prevent the base-end projection portions from passing; and a support portion that supports the leading-end projection portions when the base-end projection portions are in contact with the contact portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2011Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Aya Otani, Shinichiro Yoshikawa, Satoshi Tamai
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Patent number: 8348263Abstract: A first stacker is configured so that a support surface includes a base-side support surface that forms a planar shape on the base end side of the support surface and a leading edge-side support surface that forms a planar shape that tilts upward toward the leading edge. A second stacker is configured so that a support surface forms a planar shape, and is held in a tilted orientation during use so that the support surface of the second stacker continues to the leading edge of the second stacker in the same upward-tilted state with respect to the leading edge-side support surface of the first stacker.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Aya Otani, Shinichiro Yoshikawa, Satoshi Tamai
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Publication number: 20110285077Abstract: A second stacker is provided with base-end projection portions and leading-end projection portions that protrude outward in the width direction from the second stacker from both sides of the second stacker at the base end of the second stacker in the pull-out direction thereof. A first stacker is provided with guide rails on which the stated projection portions slide when the second stacker is pulled out; contact portions that do not make contact with and allow the leading-end projection portions to pass when the second stacker is pulled out but prevent the base-end projection portions from passing; and a support portion that supports the leading-end projection portions when the base-end projection portions are in contact with the contact portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Aya OTANI, Shinichiro YOSHIKAWA, Satoshi TAMAI
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Publication number: 20110278789Abstract: A first stacker is configured so that a support surface includes a base-side support surface that forms a planar shape on the base end side of the support surface and a leading edge-side support surface that forms a planar shape that tilts upward toward the leading edge. A second stacker is configured so that a support surface forms a planar shape, and is held in a tilted orientation during use so that the support surface of the second stacker continues to the leading edge of the second stacker in the same upward-tilted state with respect to the leading edge-side support surface of the first stacker.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Aya OTANI, Shinichiro YOSHIKAWA, Satoshi TAMAI
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Patent number: 7121654Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus including a liquid supply unit having a supply unit case for accommodating a liquid charging portion, and a main body having a supply unit arranging part for arranging the liquid supply unit and a carriage part for moving along the vicinity of the supply unit arranging part, wherein the carriage side of the liquid supply unit arranged in the supply unit arranging part is provided with an information storing unit mounting portion formed to be protruded toward the carriage side, the supply unit arranging part is provided with a through window portion for causing the information storing unit mounting portion to penetrate therethrough, and carriage side information storing unit is formed in a portion corresponding to the through window portion in the carriage part for moving in the vicinity of the through window portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2003Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Matsumoto, Shinichiro Yoshikawa
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Publication number: 20040145625Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus including a liquid supply unit having a supply unit case for accommodating a liquid charging portion, and a main body having a supply unit arranging part for arranging the liquid supply unit and a carriage part for moving along the vicinity of the supply unit arranging part, wherein the carriage side of the liquid supply unit arranged in the supply unit arranging part is provided with information storing means mounting portion formed to be protruded toward the carriage side, the supply unit arranging part is provided with a through window portion for causing the information storing means mounting portion to penetrate therethrough, and carriage side information storing means is formed in a portion corresponding to the through window portion in the carriage part for moving in the vicinity of the through window portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2003Publication date: July 29, 2004Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Matsumoto, Shinichiro Yoshikawa
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Patent number: D439272Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2000Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masahiko Kobayashi, Makoto Kobayashi, Shinichiro Yoshikawa
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Patent number: D453352Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2001Date of Patent: February 5, 2002Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hirokazu Yamano, Masahiko Kobayashi, Shinichiro Yoshikawa
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Patent number: D536373Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2004Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Saeko Inoue, Makoto Kobayashi, Tetsu Nakayama, Hiroto Miyauchi, Shinichiro Yoshikawa, Soichiro Kii, Atsuhiko Matsuno, Emi Akahane, Keisuke Inoue, Kazumitsu Fujimori
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Patent number: D546875Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2005Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Wataru Suzuki, Tetsu Nakayama, Shinichiro Yoshikawa
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Patent number: D607926Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2008Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroto Miyauchi, Hideki Kato, Shinichiro Yoshikawa
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Patent number: D413919Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 1998Date of Patent: September 14, 1999Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Makoto Kobayashi, Shinichiro Yoshikawa
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Patent number: D665013Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takaaki Ishikawa, Hiroto Miyauchi, Shinichiro Yoshikawa, Soichiro Kii, Yusuke Yamashita
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Patent number: D670327Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yusuke Yamashita, Takaaki Ishikawa, Shinichiro Yoshikawa
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Patent number: D830451Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Makino, Seiji Kimura, Yusuke Yamashita, Genta Kawabe, Shinichiro Yoshikawa, Etsuo Tsuji, Soichiro Kii