Patents by Inventor Takumi Nagashima
Takumi Nagashima 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: 20200139716Abstract: Convenience of an ink bottle and a bottle set is improved. An ink bottle includes: a container portion that contains ink; a guiding portion that is formed in one end portion of the container portion, and includes an outflow port from which the ink in the container portion flow out; and a cover that covers at least an end portion of the container portion on the opposite side of the guiding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Taku ISHIZAWA, Tadahiro MIZUTANI, Ryoichi TANAKA, Manabu AKAHANE, Koichi TOBA, Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshiaki SHIMIZU, Tadashi WATANABE, Noriyuki FUKASAWA
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Publication number: 20200114652Abstract: When a known lid member was merely applied to a bottle that contains ink, there was room for improvement in terms of the operation of the lid member and the way how to bring attention to the handling thereof. A bottle set is provided that includes: a bottle that includes an ink container that contains ink, and an outflow port through which the ink in the ink container flows out to the outside; and a lid member that is configured to attach to and detach from the bottle, and is configured to cover the outflow port in a state of being attached to the bottle. The lid member includes a colored portion that has optical transparency and is colored with a color corresponding to a type of the ink contained in the ink container in at least a portion of the lid member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Hitoshi IGARASHI, Ryoichi TANAKA, Tadahiro MIZUTANI, Tomoyuki NAKANO
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Patent number: 10613475Abstract: A packing member includes a first section arranged to face a first face of a flexible bag of the liquid container along a DW plane that includes the D direction and the W direction; a second section arranged to face a second face of the bag along the DW plane, and sandwiches the bag in the T direction in cooperation with the first section; a fixing portion that fixes the first section and the second section in a state of sandwiching the bag in the T direction; and a pressurizing portion that presses the region of a portion of the bag sandwiched between the first section and the second section in a fixed state where the bag is fixed between the first section and the second section by the fixing portion, such that pressure in the liquid storage portion rises.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi Nagashima, Hiroyuki Kawate, Hiroyoshi Ozeki, Manabu Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10538093Abstract: When a known lid member was merely applied to a bottle that contains ink, there was room for improvement in terms of the operation of the lid member and the way how to bring attention to the handling thereof. A bottle set is provided that includes: a bottle that includes an ink container that contains ink, and an outflow port through which the ink in the ink container flows out to the outside; and a lid member that is configured to attach to and detach from the bottle, and is configured to cover the outflow port in a state of being attached to the bottle. The lid member includes a colored portion that has optical transparency and is colored with a color corresponding to a type of the ink contained in the ink container in at least a portion of the lid member.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi Nagashima, Hitoshi Igarashi, Ryoichi Tanaka, Tadahiro Mizutani, Tomoyuki Nakano
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Patent number: 10500866Abstract: The liquid container is detachable from a case of a liquid ejection apparatus. The liquid container has a bag-shaped member that is flexible and has a storage portion for storing a liquid therein, and a connection member attached to the bag-shaped member. The connection member has a liquid introducing outlet into which a liquid introducing portion of the liquid ejection apparatus is inserted, a container-side electrical connection unit to which an apparatus-side electrical connection unit of the liquid ejection apparatus is connected, and a handle that pivots with respect to the connection member. In a state where the liquid container is arranged in the case, the handle is provided at a position exposed to the outside of the case, and when the liquid container is mounted to/removed from the case, the handle is brought into a second orientation in which the handle is pivoted from a first orientation.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kawate, Tadahiro Mizutani, Yoshiaki Shimizu, Takumi Nagashima, Akihiro Toya, Hiroyoshi Ozeki, Manabu Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Takamoto
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Publication number: 20190366723Abstract: A liquid container includes: a flexible bag provided with a liquid container that internally contains the liquid; a liquid outlet member attached to a one end portion of the bag; and a connection member that is attached to the one end portion of the bag so as to cover the liquid outlet member and a portion of the one end portion of the bag from the outside. The bag includes a sealed portion on an outer periphery side relative to the liquid container, the sealed portion includes a one end portion-side sealed portion, and a first width, which is a width of the one end portion-side sealed portion in at least a surrounding region of the connection member, is larger than a second width, which is a width of the sealed portion at other ends of the bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Hiroyuki KAWATE, Hiroyoshi OZEKI, Manabu YAMAGUCHI, Koichi TOBA
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Patent number: 10486426Abstract: Provided is technology for improving a mechanism for attaching a cartridge to a printer. A cartridge includes a main body that includes a front face, a rear face that opposes the front face, a lower face, an upper face that opposes the lower face, and two side faces, a liquid container that is provided inside the main body, and contains liquid, a liquid supply port that is provided in the front face, and is connected to a liquid introduction portion of a printer so as to supply the liquid contained in the liquid container, a cartridge-side electrical connector that is provided in the front face, and is to be connected to a device-side electrical connector of the printer while receiving a biasing force from a terminal portion, and a lock mechanism that is provided in the rear face, and restricts movement of the cartridge in an attached state.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi Nagashima, Hiroyoshi Ozeki
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Publication number: 20190352053Abstract: A manufacturing method of a liquid storage body includes: preparing a pre-restored storage body that has a bag to which a connection member is attached, and that is thereby sealed, the connection member being provided with a liquid outlet port, a storage-body-side electrical connection portion, a first receiving portion that receives a first positioning portion, and a second receiving portion that receives a second positioning portion; forming a communication portion that is in communication with the internal space of the bag by processing the bag; injecting a liquid from the communication portion into the internal space of the bag; and closing the communication portion so as to seal the bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyoshi OZEKI, Takumi NAGASHIMA, Manabu YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190329558Abstract: A liquid supplier can be attached to and detached from a case of a liquid ejection device, and includes a connection member located at an end of the case. The connection member includes a liquid outlet member including a liquid outlet port and a connection port, a container-side electric connector, a first receiving portion that receives a first positioning portion of the liquid ejection device, and a second receiving portion that receives a second positioning portion of the liquid ejection device. The width of the liquid supplier in the Z direction is smaller than a width in the Y direction and a width in the X direction. The liquid supplier further includes a tube whose one end is connected to the connection port, and into which liquid is injected from another end that is located outside the liquid ejection device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu YAMAGUCHI, Hiroyuki KAWATE, Takumi NAGASHIMA, Hiroyoshi OZEKI, Taku ISHIZAWA
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Patent number: 10449772Abstract: A cartridge includes: a case; an accommodation part inside of the case; a liquid leading-out port; a cartridge side electrical connection part; and a cartridge side fixation structure. Engagement of the device side fixation structure and the cartridge side fixation structure restricts moving the case in a state of being imparted with the force directing to ?Z direction. The cartridge side fixation structure and the cartridge side electrical connection part overlap with each other at least in a part when the cartridge is viewed in Z directions. A width of the cartridge in the Z direction is smaller than a width in Y direction and a width in the X directions.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi Nagashima, Hiroyoshi Ozeki, Hiroyuki Kawate, Atsushi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10350896Abstract: The structure of an ink supplying container is improved. The ink supplying container includes a container body that contains ink and an ink outlet formation portion that is mounted on the leading end side of the container body, and forms an ink outlet. The ink outlet formation portion includes a tubular channel portion that forms a supplying channel into which an ink inlet channel member of an ink tank is inserted and an outlet valve unit accommodated in the tubular channel portion. The outlet valve unit is configured such that, (i) in a non-supplying state, the ink outlet is sealed, and (ii) in a supplying state, the supplying channel of an annular channel portion is in communication with an ink inlet channel of the ink inlet channel member, in the tubular channel portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Taku Ishizawa, Takumi Nagashima, Tadahiro Mizutani
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Patent number: 10343412Abstract: The liquid container has a spacer member provided in the liquid storage portion. When three directions orthogonal to each other are assumed to be a D direction, a T direction, and a W direction, in the D direction, a direction from a liquid outlet portion toward the other edge portion of the bag is assumed to be a +D direction, and the opposite direction to the +D direction is assumed to be a ?D direction, and a direction in which the dimension of the outer shape of the liquid container is smallest is assumed to be the T direction, and the spacer member has, on the +D direction side, a face inclined such that the dimension in the T direction of the spacer member increases from the +D direction side toward the ?D direction side.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorpoationInventors: Hiroyuki Kawate, Hiroyoshi Ozeki, Manabu Yamaguchi, Takumi Nagashima, Yoshiaki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20190196393Abstract: A packing member includes a first section arranged to face a first face of a flexible bag of the liquid container along a DW plane that includes the D direction and the W direction; a second section arranged to face a second face of the bag along the DW plane, and sandwiches the bag in the T direction in cooperation with the first section; a fixing portion that fixes the first section and the second section in a state of sandwiching the bag in the T direction; and a pressurizing portion that presses the region of a portion of the bag sandwiched between the first section and the second section in a fixed state where the bag is fixed between the first section and the second section by the fixing portion, such that pressure in the liquid storage portion rises.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Hiroyuki KAWATE, Hiroyoshi OZEKI, Manabu YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190184710Abstract: Liquid and sedimentary components are kept from remaining in a bag of a liquid container. The liquid container includes a flexible bag in which a liquid storage portion for containing a liquid is provided, a liquid outlet member that is attached to one edge portion of the bag, and has a liquid outlet portion for leading out the liquid to a liquid ejection apparatus, a spacer member arranged in the liquid storage portion, and a liquid outlet tube that constitutes a flow path of liquid extending in the liquid storage portion from the liquid outlet member toward the spacer member. The spacer member is arranged at a position separated from an end portion of the liquid storage portion, and at least one directing channel extending from the end portion side of the liquid storage portion in a direction approaching the spacer member is formed in the liquid storage portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION TokyoInventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Hiroyuki Kawate, Hiroyoshi Ozeki, Manabu Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20190168510Abstract: A bottle set includes a bottle and a lid member. The bottle has an ink container, a nozzle and a joint portion integrally formed with the nozzle and having a thread configured to engage the nozzle with the ink container. The lid member is attachable to and detachable from the bottle. An outflow port is formed in the nozzle. The outflow port is configured such that the ink in the ink container flows out from the outflow port. The lid member has a tubular barrel, a top plate that closes a barrel end of the tubular barrel, and a plug projecting from the top plate toward the nozzle. A distance from the barrel end of the tubular barrel to a distal end of the plug being shorter than a distance from a nozzle end of the nozzle to the joint portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2019Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Tetsuya TAKAMOTO, Hiroyuki NAKAMURA, Tadahiro MIZUTANI
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Patent number: 10239323Abstract: It is difficult to reduce the number of parts of a known bottle set. A bottle set includes: a bottle having an ink container capable of containing ink, and a nozzle through which the ink in the ink container can flow out; and a lid member that is attachable to and detachable from the bottle, and can cover the nozzle in a state where the lid member is attached to the bottle. An outflow port from which the ink in the ink container can flow out is formed in the nozzle, the lid member has a sealing portion that seals the outflow port in a state where the lid member is attached to the bottle, and the sealing portion is integrally formed in the lid member.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takumi Nagashima, Tetsuya Takamoto, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Tadahiro Mizutani
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Publication number: 20180272726Abstract: Provided is technology for improving a mechanism for attaching a cartridge to a printer. A cartridge includes a main body that includes a front face, a rear face that opposes the front face, a lower face, an upper face that opposes the lower face, and two side faces, a liquid container that is provided inside the main body, and contains liquid, a liquid supply port that is provided in the front face, and is connected to a liquid introduction portion of a printer so as to supply the liquid contained in the liquid container, a cartridge-side electrical connector that is provided in the front face, and is to be connected to a device-side electrical connector of the printer while receiving a biasing force from a terminal portion, and a lock mechanism that is provided in the rear face, and restricts movement of the cartridge in an attached state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi Nagashima, Hiroyoshi Ozeki
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Publication number: 20180272727Abstract: A cartridge includes: a case; an accommodation part inside of the case; a liquid leading-out port; a cartridge side electrical connection part; and a cartridge side fixation structure. Engagement of the device side fixation structure and the cartridge side fixation structure restricts moving the case in a state of being imparted with the force directing to ?Z direction. The cartridge side fixation structure and the cartridge side electrical connection part overlap with each other at least in a part when the cartridge is viewed in Z directions. A width of the cartridge in the Z direction is smaller than a width in Y direction and a width in the X directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Hiroyoshi Ozeki, Hiroyuki Kawate, Atsushi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20180257382Abstract: Provided is a technique that makes it possible to secure a large storage amount of ink, supply ink to a printer without exposing a tube to the outside of the case of the printer, and easily perform an operation of injecting ink. A liquid ejection apparatus includes a case, a paper-feeding tray, a liquid introduction portion, and a liquid container. The liquid container includes a liquid injection port, a reservoir that stores liquid, and a liquid supply port. The liquid injection port is provided at a position on the ?Y direction side relative to the face on the ?Y direction side of the case in a mounted state where the liquid container is mounted in the container mounting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyoshi OZEKI, Takumi NAGASHIMA, Tadahiro MIZUTANI
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Publication number: 20180250944Abstract: The structure of an ink supplying container is improved. The ink supplying container includes a container body that contains ink and an ink outlet formation portion that is mounted on the leading end side of the container body, and forms an ink outlet. The ink outlet formation portion includes a tubular channel portion that forms a supplying channel into which an ink inlet channel member of an ink tank is inserted and an outlet valve unit accommodated in the tubular channel portion. The outlet valve unit is configured such that, (i) in a non-supplying state, the ink outlet is sealed, and (ii) in a supplying state, the supplying channel of an annular channel portion is in communication with an ink inlet channel of the ink inlet channel member, in the tubular channel portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Taku Ishizawa, Takumi Nagashima, Tadahiro Mizutani