Patents Assigned to Epson Corporation
  • Patent number: 12384181
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a transport path that is configured to transport a medium in a transport direction, a liquid discharge head that discharges a liquid to the medium transported in the transport direction, a carriage that is configured to move the liquid discharge head in a width direction intersecting with the transport direction, a cover member that is located above the carriage and covers a movement range of the carriage, and an air flow adjustment cover that is located between the cover member and the carriage and covers the movement range of the carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Kozaki, Katsunari Kumagai
  • Patent number: 12384180
    Abstract: An openable cover automatic opening mechanism includes a lever rotatable about a rotation fulcrum, a locking section that is positioned at one end of the lever and that maintains the openable cover, which is in a closed state and which receives an opening force, in the closed state by locking with the openable cover, and a power receiving section positioned at the other end of the lever for contacting the horizontally moving carriage to receive power of the carriage. The lever rotates when the carriage comes into contact with and presses the power receiving section, and releases maintenance of the closed state of the openable cover by the locking section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Haruki Miyasaka, Narihiro Oki, Keisuke Sasaki, Hiroki Shinagawa
  • Patent number: 12384174
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit; an operation unit configured to be able to rotate about a rotation axis to a first operation position and a second operation position; a paper discharge tray configured to be able to move in a front-rear direction; a movement unit configured to move the paper discharge tray; a rotating mechanism configured to cause the operation unit from the first operation position to the second operation position in association with movement of the paper discharge tray; and a control unit, in which the paper discharge tray is able to move to an accommodating position, a loading position, and a stand-by position, when a position of the operation unit is the first operation position and the paper discharge tray moves between the accommodating position and the stand-by position, the rotating mechanism causes the operation unit to rotate from the first operation position to the second operation position, and when a position of the paper discharge tray is the accommodating positio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakata, Daisuke Kanuma
  • Patent number: 12384638
    Abstract: A post processing device includes: a processing tray that supports media on which post processing is performed; a post processing section configured to perform post processing on the medium supported by the processing tray; and a blowing section configured to blow air at the medium supported by the processing tray, wherein a control section for controlling the blowing section sets a blowing amount by the blowing section to a first blowing amount when the number of sheets of medium supported by the processing tray is less than a predetermined set number of sheets and sets a blowing amount by the blowing section to a second blowing amount, which is larger than the first blowing amount, when the number of sheets of medium supported by the processing tray is equal to or greater than the set number of sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Miyazawa, Takeru Oguchi
  • Patent number: 12384179
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording portion that performs recording by ejecting a liquid onto a medium; a liquid accommodation portion that accommodates the liquid to be ejected by the recording portion; and a housing that includes an accommodation portion exterior that accommodates the liquid accommodation portion, wherein the liquid accommodation portion includes a viewing region configured that the liquid accommodated is viewed, the accommodation portion exterior of the housing includes a viewing portion that faces the viewing region and is configured that the liquid is viewed, and a lighting portion that takes in light from outside the housing, and an optical path through which the light taken in passes is provided between the liquid accommodation portion and the accommodation portion exterior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakata, Masanari Tanaka, Tatsuya Ito
  • Patent number: 12384182
    Abstract: A printing device includes a printing section that is provided on a first direction side with respect to a medium and that performs printing and a wiper that is detachably attached inside a housing and that is configured to wipe the printing section, wherein the wiper is configured to be pulled out from the housing by being pulled out in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ozaki, Ryuji Moriyama, Akimasa Nozawa, Yuta Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12377651
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head including a diaphragm, a pressure chamber substrate that is laminated on the diaphragm, and a piezoelectric element that includes a first active portion and a second active portion, and is laminated on the diaphragm, in which when a direction in which the first active portion and the second active portion are arranged is defined as a second direction when viewed in a lamination direction, and a direction orthogonal to the lamination direction and the second direction is defined as a third direction, and the piezoelectric element includes a first region which is a region in which both the first active portion and the second active portion are provided, and a second region which is a region in which one of the first active portion and the second active portion is provided and the other is not provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Mikoshiba, Motoki Takabe, Takanori Aimono, Yuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 12377665
    Abstract: A printing device 1 includes a setting section 2 that sets a roll-shaped print medium P, a winding section 5 that winds up the print medium P, a print head 3 that forms an image by ejecting ink onto an image forming surface P1 of the print medium P, and a drying oven 10 that is disposed downstream of the print head 3 in the transport direction and that is for drying ink that was ejected onto the print medium P, wherein the drying oven 10 includes a heating section 11 for heating the print medium P and the heating section 11 is configured such that the heating temperature at the inlet side of the drying oven 10 in the transport direction A is higher than the heating temperature at the outlet side of the drying oven 10 in the transport direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Fujisawa, Satoru Katagami, Yuichi Washio
  • Patent number: 12377649
    Abstract: A recording device, including a transport roller whose circumference length is different from nozzle array length in a transport direction, performs TP recording control to record a group of test patterns, in which a plurality of test patterns including a first patch and a second patch with different positions in the transport direction are arranged in a main scanning direction, and in which an amount of liquid ejected for a boundary area between the first patch and the second patch is different for each test pattern, wherein, in the TP recording control, records a first TP group and a second TP group at different positions in the transport direction onto a medium, transports the medium by a first distance based on the nozzle array length as a transport between the recording of the first patch and the second patch of the TP, and, as a transport between the recording of the second patch of the first TP group and the recording of the first patch of the second TP group, transports the medium by a second distance
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Matsumura, Shunichi Aoyagi, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12377652
    Abstract: In the liquid ejection apparatus, when first temperature information detected by a first ejection module includes information regarding a temperature in a first temperature range and first ejection data is a first value, a first switch circuit of the first ejection module outputs a first drive voltage signal including a second drive waveform, when second temperature information detected by a second ejection module includes the information regarding the temperature in the first temperature range and second ejection data is the first value, a second switch circuit of the second ejection module outputs a second drive voltage signal including a first drive waveform, and when the second temperature information includes information regarding a temperature in a second temperature range and the second ejection data is the first value, the second switch circuit outputs the second drive voltage signal including a second drive waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Sukehiro Ito
  • Patent number: 12377663
    Abstract: A recording device includes a recording head including a nozzle row configured to discharge ink droplets that are to be cured when irradiated with light onto a recording medium, a drive unit configured to cause the recording head and the recording medium to move relative to each other, a plurality of irradiation parts configured to irradiate the recording medium with the light, a reception unit configured to receive an input of irradiation range data indicating an irradiation range of the light, and a control unit configured to control turning ON and OFF of the plurality of irradiation parts, to irradiate the recording medium with the light in accordance with the irradiation range, based on the irradiation range data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sakai, Kazuya Toshima, Masakazu Okajima
  • Patent number: 12377669
    Abstract: A relay transport device that is positioned between a recording device, which performs recording on a medium, and a feeding device, which is disposed outside the recording device and which feeds the medium to the recording device, and that relays and transports the medium fed from the feeding device to the recording device is a unit that forms a transport path for transporting the medium, and includes a relay unit, which has a medium discharge section for discharging the medium toward a receiving section of the recording device, and a coupling section, which couples together the relay unit and a support base that supports the relay unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Chiaki Shimada, Katsumi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 12377432
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head and a robot which moves the head with respect to a workpiece, the head includes a first nozzle row for ejecting a first and a second nozzle row for ejecting a second ink which has lower brightness than the first ink, the robot includes an arm portion having a distal end, a proximal end, and a plurality of joints, and a base portion coupled to the proximal end, and supports the head by the distal end, and when a timing at which the first ink is ejected to a predetermined position on the workpiece is defined as a first timing, and a timing at which the second ink is ejected to the predetermined position is defined as a second timing, a distance between the distal end and the proximal end at the second timing is less than the first timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Nakajima, Yuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 12377650
    Abstract: The controller drives the piezoelectric body such that, when the cumulative number of times of the driving is a second number of times greater than the first number of times, the voltage difference is a second value smaller than the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Shiozawa, Masaki Mori, Motoki Takabe, Hitoshi Takaai, Eiju Hirai
  • Patent number: 12370791
    Abstract: A liquid discharge device has a liquid discharge head that includes a pressure chamber substrate provided with a first pressure chamber in which a liquid is accommodated, a first piezoelectric body provided to correspond to the first pressure chamber, and a detection resistor for detecting a temperature in a vicinity of the first pressure chamber, and a decision section that decides a degree of deterioration of the first piezoelectric body based on a detection result of the detection resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Takabe, Yu Shiozawa, Masaki Mori, Hitoshi Takaai, Eiju Hirai
  • Patent number: 12370792
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head that includes an ejecting portion that, upon receiving a drive signal, ejects liquid; a controller that performs control on circulation of liquid through the first flow passage, wherein the controller performs first control of circulating liquid through the first thermal conductive member and the second thermal conductive member in this order in the first flow passage when an amount of heat generated at the first portion is larger than an amount of heat generated at the second portion, and performs second control of circulating liquid through the second thermal conductive member and the first thermal conductive member in this order in the first flow passage when an amount of heat generated at the second portion is larger than an amount of heat generated at the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hirokazu Yanagihara
  • Patent number: 12370795
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a nozzle; first to fourth pressure chambers; a communication flow path communicating between the nozzle and the first to fourth pressure chambers; first to fourth driving elements; a first common liquid chamber communicating with the first and the second pressure chambers; and a second common liquid chamber communicating with the third and the fourth pressure chambers. A first joining position from the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber to the nozzle is closer to end portions of the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber on a nozzle side than to the nozzle, and a second joining position from the third pressure chamber and the fourth pressure chamber to the nozzle is closer to end portions of the third pressure chamber and the fourth pressure chamber on the nozzle side than to the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Aimono, Yuma Fukuzawa, Shohei Mizuta, Shotaro Tamai, Shun Katsuie
  • Patent number: 12370796
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure chamber substrate having a pressure chamber, a drive element, a communication substrate having a supply communication flow path and a nozzle communication flow path at a position different from the supply communication flow path, and a coupling substrate having a supply port and the supply communication flow path and a discharge port, in which the pressure chamber substrate has a partition wall, and the communication substrate includes a first region bonded to the coupling substrate and overlapping the pressure chamber between the supply communication flow path and the nozzle communication flow path when viewed in a thickness direction, and a second region bonded to the coupling substrate and overlapping the partition wall at a position adjacent to the first region via an opening of the supply communication flow path when viewed in the thickness direction of the pressure chamber substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Naganuma, Yuma Fukuzawa, Shohei Mizuta, Naohiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 12375615
    Abstract: A scanner includes a second glass member, a main body frame, a sheet member, a document transport unit, a reading unit, and a control unit. The sheet member is arranged on the second glass member. The document transport unit transports a document such that the document is brought into contact with the second glass member in a first position and the document is brought into contact with the second glass member in a second position. The reading unit reads the document in a third position between the first position and the second position, the third position in which the document is out of contact with the sheet member and the second glass member. The control unit identifies the third position in accordance with a position of the sheet member detected by the reading unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Mori, Yutaro Kajitani
  • Publication number: 20250236113
    Abstract: An ink refill container includes a container main body including an ink storage chamber, an ink outlet-forming portion provided on an end portion of the container main body forming an ink outlet that allows the ink to flow out from the ink storage chamber, and a valve provided in the ink outlet-forming portion configured to openably seal the ink outlet, in which the ink outlet-forming portion includes a positioning portion on an outer side of the ink outlet-forming portion. in which the positioning portion is closer to the container main body than the valve is to the container main body in a central axis direction of the ink outlet, and in which the positioning portion partially abuts against an ink tank when the valve is opened for refilling the ink to the ink tank, to thereby position the valve relative to the ink tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tadahiro MIZUTANI, Ryoichi Tanaka, Manabu Akahane, Makoto Kobayashi, Naomi Kimura, Hideki Okumura, Shoma Kudo, Tetsuya Takamoto, Hiroaki Sakai