Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Okazawa
Yoshiyuki Okazawa 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: 20230406015Abstract: A device includes a housing. The housing is capable of accommodating a recording unit. The recording unit includes a recording portion that performs recording on a medium, and a loading portion on which a medium is loaded after recording is performed on the medium by the recording portion. The housing includes a extraction portion that demarcates a extraction area from which a medium loaded on the loading portion is removable. The extraction area is an area from which a medium loaded on the loading portion is removable from downstream in a discharge direction in which the medium on which recording is performed by the recording portion is discharged.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Katsuyuki ENDO, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA
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Patent number: 11673413Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head, an ink tank that is disposed above the recording head, a carriage on which the recording head and the ink tank are mounted, a scanner unit that is attached to the upper portion of the casing via a pivot shaft so as to pivot with respect to the casing and that reads a document placed on the document table, and a panel unit in which the scanner unit is attached to an end portion disposed on the opposite side to the pivot shaft and is configured to tilt between a first orientation and a second orientation closer to the document table than the first orientation, and by pivoting the scanner unit with respect to the casing to expose the ink tank, ink is injected from the refill container into the ink tank and the remaining amount of liquid is viewed.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshikazu Nagai, Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Kazunori Takabayashi, Hisayuki Akahane, Kensuke Tamai, Shintaro Miyamoto, Katsumi Yamada
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Publication number: 20220126612Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head, an ink tank that is disposed above the recording head, a carriage on which the recording head and the ink tank are mounted, a scanner unit that is attached to the upper portion of the casing via a pivot shaft so as to pivot with respect to the casing and that reads a document placed on the document table, and a panel unit in which the scanner unit is attached to an end portion disposed on the opposite side to the pivot shaft and is configured to tilt between a first orientation and a second orientation closer to the document table than the first orientation, and by pivoting the scanner unit with respect to the casing to expose the ink tank, ink is injected from the refill container into the ink tank and the remaining amount of liquid is viewed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Yoshikazu NAGAI, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Kazunori TAKABAYASHI, Hisayuki AKAHANE, Kensuke TAMAI, Shintaro MIYAMOTO, Katsumi YAMADA
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Patent number: 11254151Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head, an ink tank that is disposed above the recording head, a carriage on which the recording head and the ink tank are mounted, a scanner unit that is attached to the upper portion of the casing via a pivot shaft so as to pivot with respect to the casing and that reads a document placed on the document table, and a panel unit in which the scanner unit is attached to an end portion disposed on the opposite side to the pivot shaft and is configured to tilt between a first orientation and a second orientation closer to the document table than the first orientation, and by pivoting the scanner unit with respect to the casing to expose the ink tank, ink is injected from the refill container into the ink tank and the remaining amount of liquid is viewed.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshikazu Nagai, Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Kazunori Takabayashi, Hisayuki Akahane, Kensuke Tamai, Shintaro Miyamoto, Katsumi Yamada
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Patent number: 11233914Abstract: In an image reading apparatus, a controller detects a plurality of detection points along a first edge, sets one of the detection points arranged along the first edge which is closest to a center of a sheet placement area in a second axial direction, and determines a reference read position in the second axial direction, based on the selected detection point. Furthermore, the controller detects a plurality of detection points along a second edge, sets one of the detection points arranged along the second edge which is closest to a center of the sheet placement area in a first axial direction, and determines a reference read position in the first axial direction, based on the selected detection point.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shintaro Miyamoto, Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Kensuke Tamai
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Patent number: 11153456Abstract: A printer has: a recording unit having a recorder that makes a record on a medium; and a scanner unit having a reader that reads an original placed on an original table, the scanner unit being disposed on the top of the recording unit. The scanner unit is horizontally shift between a first position at which the recording unit is used and a second position, which is a maintenance position of the recording unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshikazu Nagai, Yoshiyuki Okazawa
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Publication number: 20210203802Abstract: In an image reading apparatus, a controller detects a plurality of detection points along a first edge, sets one of the detection points arranged along the first edge which is closest to a center of a sheet placement area in a second axial direction, and determines a reference read position in the second axial direction, based on the selected detection point. Furthermore, the controller detects a plurality of detection points along a second edge, sets one of the detection points arranged along the second edge which is closest to a center of the sheet placement area in a first axial direction, and determines a reference read position in the first axial direction, based on the selected detection point.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Shintaro MIYAMOTO, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Kensuke TAMAI
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Patent number: 10972621Abstract: A printer includes: a restriction unit that is in a rotation allowing state in which opening of a scanner unit from a closed state is allowed when a panel unit is in a first posture and is in a restriction state in which opening of the scanner unit from the closed state is restricted when the panel unit is tilted from the first posture to a second posture; and a posture holding unit that is in a tiltable state in which the posture of the panel unit is tilted from the first posture to the second posture when the scanner unit is in a closed state and is in a posture holding state in which the posture of the panel unit is held in the first posture when the scanner unit is rotated from the closed state in an opening direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shintaro Miyamoto, Kensuke Tamai, Kazunori Takabayashi, Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Yoshikazu Nagai
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Publication number: 20200369055Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head, an ink tank that is disposed above the recording head, a carriage on which the recording head and the ink tank are mounted, a scanner unit that is attached to the upper portion of the casing via a pivot shaft so as to pivot with respect to the casing and that reads a document placed on the document table, and a panel unit in which the scanner unit is attached to an end portion disposed on the opposite side to the pivot shaft and is configured to tilt between a first orientation and a second orientation closer to the document table than the first orientation, and by pivoting the scanner unit with respect to the casing to expose the ink tank, ink is injected from the refill container into the ink tank and the remaining amount of liquid is viewed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Yoshikazu NAGAI, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Kazunori TAKABAYASHI, Hisayuki AKAHANE, Kensuke TAMAI, Shintaro MIYAMOTO, Katsumi YAMADA
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Publication number: 20200329171Abstract: A printer has: a recording unit having a recorder that makes a record on a medium; and a scanner unit having a reader that reads an original placed on an original table, the scanner unit being disposed on the top of the recording unit. The scanner unit is horizontally shift between a first position at which the recording unit is used and a second position, which is a maintenance position of the recording unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Yoshikazu NAGAI, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA
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Publication number: 20200304666Abstract: A printer includes: a restriction unit that is in a rotation allowing state in which opening of a scanner unit from a closed state is allowed when a panel unit is in a first posture and is in a restriction state in which opening of the scanner unit from the closed state is restricted when the panel unit is tilted from the first posture to a second posture; and a posture holding unit that is in a tiltable state in which the posture of the panel unit is tilted from the first posture to the second posture when the scanner unit is in a closed state and is in a posture holding state in which the posture of the panel unit is held in the first posture when the scanner unit is rotated from the closed state in an opening direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Shintaro MIYAMOTO, Kensuke TAMAI, Kazunori TAKABAYASHI, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Yoshikazu NAGAI
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Patent number: 10759203Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording section that performs recording onto a medium; an operation panel which is configured to be tilted to switch between a first position and a second position which is closer to a horizontal position than the first position is; and an open/close structure configured to be opened/closed, and configured to, when open, expose a space around a recording unit under the operation panel which has been tilted at least from the first position into a horizontal direction, and, when closed, close the space around the recording unit. The open/close structure has a pivot center in a lower part of the open/close structure in a closed state, and is configured to open forward relative to the apparatus with an upper part of the open/close structure in the closed state taken as a free end.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuo Otsuka, Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Tomoko Shirai
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Patent number: 10525751Abstract: In a liquid ejecting apparatus, a cover member, which is provided so that a part thereof is located in an external region of a housing and is displaceable between a closed position where a pouring port pouring a liquid is not exposed and an opened position where the pouring port is exposed, is at a position different from a position where the cover member overlaps an apparatus main body in a case where the apparatus main body is viewed from an upper surface of an image reading device at the opened position, and a liquid containing portion is provided at a position where at least a part of a liquid replenishment member connected to the pouring port overlaps the image reading device in a case where the apparatus main body is viewed from the side surface when the cover member is located at the opened position.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Atsuhiko Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20190308429Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording section that performs recording onto a medium; an operation panel which is configured to be tilted to switch between a first position and a second position which is closer to a horizontal position than the first position is; and an open/close structure configured to be opened/closed, and configured to, when open, expose a space around a recording unit under the operation panel which has been tilted at least from the first position into a horizontal direction, and, when closed, close the space around the recording unit. The open/close structure has a pivot center in a lower part of the open/close structure in a closed state, and is configured to open forward relative to the apparatus with an upper part of the open/close structure in the closed state taken as a free end.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Kazuo OTSUKA, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Tomoko SHIRAI
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Publication number: 20190193438Abstract: In a liquid ejecting apparatus, a cover member, which is provided so that a part thereof is located in an external region of a housing and is displaceable between a closed position where a pouring port pouring a liquid is not exposed and an opened position where the pouring port is exposed, is at a position different from a position where the cover member overlaps an apparatus main body in a case where the apparatus main body is viewed from an upper surface of an image reading device at the opened position, and a liquid containing portion is provided at a position where at least a part of a liquid replenishment member connected to the pouring port overlaps the image reading device in a case where the apparatus main body is viewed from the side surface when the cover member is located at the opened position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Atsuhiko Takeuchi
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Patent number: 10328730Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a housing which configures at least a portion of an outside of an apparatus main body which is provided with a recorder which performs recording on a medium, a lid body which opens and closes at least a portion of a top portion of the apparatus main body and is capable of tilting, and a tilting shaft of the lid body, in which the tilting shaft is capable of being displaced in a direction intersecting an axial line direction of the tilting shaft, and in which the lid body is capable of tilting from a closed state in which a gap between the housing and an end portion of an opposite side from a free end side is filled to an opened state by the displacement of the tilting shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kenichi Shirota, Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Tetsuya Tamura, Kensuke Tamai, Shintaro Miyamoto
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Patent number: 10212295Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a housing including a recording-mechanism unit provided with a recording device that performs recording on a recording medium, peripheral walls of the housing being formed of a panel section, side-surface sections, and a rear-surface section; and a reading-mechanism unit that reads a document and covers and uncovers the top of the housing. The reading-mechanism unit includes a main body section having a document bed on which a document is mounted and an opening/closing body that covers and uncovers the document bed and has side surfaces. At least the main body section unit is accommodated in the interior of the peripheral walls of the housing when the reading-mechanism unit is closed. Each of the side surfaces of the opening/closing body and a corresponding one of the panel section and the side-surface sections are continuous with each other to form a single plane.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kenichi Shirota, Yoshiyuki Okazawa
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Patent number: 10195881Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a switching mechanism which switches a motive force transmission state from a motive force source, includes a sun gear which is driven by the motive force source, a planet gear which performs planetary motion around the sun gear, a rotational movement member which causes the planet gear to perform planetary motion by rotationally moving, and a regulating member which engages with a regulated portion which is provided in the rotational movement member to restrict the rotational movement of the rotational movement member.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yosuke Nakano, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Tomoko Shirai, Yoshiyuki Okazawa
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Patent number: 10122875Abstract: A moving mechanism of a reading unit includes a driving pulley, a plurality of driven pulleys which are rotatably driven, an endless belt which is engaged and rotates between the driving pulley and the plurality of driven pulleys, and attracts the reading unit, and a biasing unit which applies tension to the endless belt, in the endless belt, an attraction section which is a belt section that extends along the auxiliary scanning direction, and which attracts the reading unit, is formed between a first driven pulley and a second driven pulley, the driving pulley is provided at a position separated from the attraction section in the main scanning direction, and a biasing force of the biasing unit is applied to the belt section excluding the attraction section in the endless belt.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shintaro Miyamoto, Yoshiyuki Okazawa
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Publication number: 20180244089Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a switching mechanism which switches a motive force transmission state from a motive force source, includes a sun gear which is driven by the motive force source, a planet gear which performs planetary motion around the sun gear, a rotational movement member which causes the planet gear to perform planetary motion by rotationally moving, and a regulating member which engages with a regulated portion which is provided in the rotational movement member to restrict the rotational movement of the rotational movement member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Yosuke NAKANO, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Tomoko SHIRAI, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA