Patents by Inventor Toshifumi Sakai

Toshifumi Sakai 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: 20240128824
    Abstract: A dynamo-electric machine comprising: a stator core with plurality of slots, a coil covered with insulated conductor wire, wherein the coil comprising plurality of storages stored in the slots and plurality of coil ends that are outside of the slots, conductor of coil end close to the conductor of the heterophase coil having insulating materials at only one of the surfaces, either the inner diameter surface close to the conductor of the heterophase coil or outer diameter surface of the heterophase coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kenji IKEDA, Yuji ENOMOTO, Hirooki TOKOI, Mizuki NAKAHARA, Hiroyuki MIKAMI, Toshifumi SUZUKI, Toru SAKAI, Masaru AMAIKE, Yuji TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20240114098
    Abstract: A scanner includes a display device 10 that displays a first button 61 that causes a screen transition to a setting screen for receiving a scan setting, a second button 62 that is located near the first button 61 and causes the scanner to immediately perform a scan according to a first setting, and a third button 63 that is located near the first button 61 and causes the scanner to immediately perform a scan according to a second setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20240111468
    Abstract: A printing device including a display section that displays a first button that switches a screen to a setting screen via which a setting of printing is received and a second button that causes printing to be immediately executed in accordance with a preset setting and a job management section that adds a first job printing of which is instructed after the first button is pressed and the screen is switched to the setting screen to a subsequent order and adds a second job printing of which is instructed from the second button to a preceding order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20240100776
    Abstract: A printing system including: a scanner configured to scan a pattern on a surface of a three-dimensional object; a selection section configured to select a three-dimensional print medium corresponding to the three-dimensional object in accordance with scan data; and a print section configured to form a pattern on a surface of the selected print medium in accordance with the scan data to replicate the three-dimensional object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji ISHIKAWA, Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20240104321
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a communication interface that acquires printing data from a device; a first printing mechanism that performs printing on a first medium; a second printing mechanism that performs printing on a second medium; and a processor that analyzes an image of the acquired printing data, permits printing on the first medium and printing on the second medium when it is determined that the image of the printing data is a first type image, and permits printing on the first medium and prohibits printing on the second medium when it is determined that the image of the printing data is a second type image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji ISHIKAWA, Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20240103789
    Abstract: A job execution device includes a display unit, a storage unit that stores a first history group that is a history of a job group executed based on a setting received on a first home screen, and a second history group that is a history of a job group executed based on a setting received on a second home screen different from the first home screen, and a controller that display a display screen including the first home screen and the second home screen on the display unit, wherein the first home screen includes a first object group that receives an instruction to re-execute a first job that was executed, the first job being included in the first history group, and a second object group that receives an instruction to re-execute a second job that was executed, the second job being included in the second history group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KURAMOTO, Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20240097508
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine (1000) including: a rotor (200); a stator (100) surrounding a periphery of the rotor (200); a first recessed portion (133) disposed in an inner circumferential surface of a back yoke (130) of the stator (100), and extending in an axial direction of the stator (100); and a tooth (120) having one end fitted in the first recessed portion (133), a clearance formed between the first recessed portion (133) and the one end of the tooth (120) fitted in the first recessed portion (133) being smaller in a circumferential direction of the stator (100) than in a radial direction of the stator (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hirooki TOKOI, Mizuki NAKAHARA, Toshifumi SUZUKI, Masaru AMAIKE, Shuuichi TAKAHASHI, Yasuei YONEOKA, Toru SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11914908
    Abstract: A print management system includes a printing apparatus, a first acquisition section that acquires print information indicating a print status, a second acquisition section that acquires collection information indicating a collection status of waste paper, and a provision instruction section that gives an instruction to provide a benefit to a user of the printing apparatus based on both the print information and the collection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Wakasa, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11849096
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a scanner configured to scan a document to generate a document image; a determination section configured to automatically determine a first color in accordance with a situation; a specification section configured to cause a user to specify a color with recommendation of the first color; and a print section configured to perform two-color copying on a medium by using a color specified by the specification section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11789678
    Abstract: A printing apparatus displays a setting screen on a display portion. The printing apparatus includes: a communication portion that transmits and receives communication data; a setting portion that associates a setting corresponding to a user's input via the setting screen with the communication data received by the communication portion; a storage portion in which the communication data and the setting are stored in association with each other; a control portion that performs control related to communication of the communication data, based on the stored setting; and a printing portion that performs printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshifumi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20230315355
    Abstract: A print management system includes a printing apparatus, a first acquisition section that acquires print information indicating a print status, a second acquisition section that acquires collection information indicating a collection status of waste paper, and a provision instruction section that gives an instruction to provide a benefit to a user of the printing apparatus based on both the print information and the collection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Takahiro WAKASA, Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11738566
    Abstract: A producing method for a print by a printing system including a printing device that is manually moved with respect to a medium to perform printing on the medium, the producing method including the printing system determining whether a print plan size of a print image is a one-pass printable size, which is a size printable in one pass by the printing device, and, when it is determined that the print plan size is not the one-pass printable size, the printing device printing the print image in the one pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11722612
    Abstract: A plurality of icons include a first icon set to a first setting by a hide instruction and a second icon set to a second setting by a hide instruction, and when an edit screen is displayed on an operation panel, the plurality of icons have different display modes between the first icon displayed on the edit screen and the second icon displayed on the edit screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Ikuma, Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11720293
    Abstract: When first print data and second print data are selected as a target of collective printing and when a first print setting applied to printing of the first print data and a second print setting applied to printing of the second print data are inconsistent with each other, a printing apparatus provides a user with a first procedure for making the first print setting and the second print setting consistent with each other, and when the first print setting and the second print setting are consistent with each other, the printing apparatus performs collective printing of the first print data and the second print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11654696
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a battery housing section that houses a battery, a head placement section where a printing head that performs printing on the medium is placed, and a movement measurement section that measures the movement of the printing apparatus relative to the medium, and the battery housing section, the head placement section, and the movement measurement section are arranged in the order of the battery housing section, the head placement section, and the movement measurement section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshifumi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11590767
    Abstract: A producing method for a print by a printing system including a printing device that is manually moved with respect to a medium to perform printing on the medium, the producing method including prompting a user to designate a print plan size of a print image, printing the print image in the print plan size, and notifying a size of the print image printable in one pass by the printing device to the user before the print plan size is decided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshifumi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20230060094
    Abstract: Provided is a production method including a reception step of receiving a plurality of matters, a display step of displaying a result of assigning the received matters to one processing portion among a plurality of processing portions as a list of the matters, an operation step of displaying, in response to an operation of moving the displayed matter, a list in which the moved matter is reassigned to the processing portion corresponding to a movement of the matter, and a production step of producing a finished product by causing the processing portion to execute processing corresponding to the assigned matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Yuto FUKUCHI, Yasuo KOYAUCHI, Yuka KOBAYASHI, Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230019955
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a scanner configured to scan a document to generate a document image; a determination section configured to automatically determine a first color in accordance with a situation; a specification section configured to cause a user to specify a color with recommendation of the first color; and a print section configured to perform two-color copying on a medium by using a color specified by the specification section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230008439
    Abstract: A printing apparatus displays a setting screen on a display portion. The printing apparatus includes: a communication portion that transmits and receives communication data; a setting portion that associates a setting corresponding to a user's input via the setting screen with the communication data received by the communication portion; a storage portion in which the communication data and the setting are stored in association with each other; a control portion that performs control related to communication of the communication data, based on the stored setting; and a printing portion that performs printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventor: Toshifumi SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11537345
    Abstract: A printing apparatus including a plurality of operation modes including a copy mode is provided, the printing apparatus displays a main screen including a plurality of items respectively corresponding to the plurality of operation modes and operation histories in the past of the printing apparatus, displays, according to selection of the item corresponding to the copy mode out of the plurality of items displayed on the display section, a setting screen concerning the copy mode including the operation history concerning the copy mode extracted out of the operation histories, and, when the operation history displayed on the setting screen is selected by a user, performs reprinting according to setting included in the selected operation history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshifumi Sakai