Patents Assigned to Epson Corporation
  • Patent number: 11945214
    Abstract: A processing device includes a first light source and a second light source configured to emit light having a peak wavelength from 900 nm to 2,100 nm, a first light receiving portion, a second light receiving portion, and a processing portion configured to subject a medium to processing of increasing or reducing an amount of moisture contained in the medium. the first light source and the first light receiving portion are positioned upstream of the processing portion in a transport direction of the medium, the first light source irradiates, with light, the medium, the first light receiving portion receives light reflected by the medium, the second light source and the second light receiving portion are positioned downstream of the processing portion in the transport direction, the second light source irradiates, with light, the medium, and the second light receiving portion receives light reflected by the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuneyuki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11947759
    Abstract: With a projection device, a projection system including the projection device and a display device receives an image from the display device, projects the received image onto a projection target, captures a range including the projection target, and transmits the captured image to the display device. With the display device, the projection system receives the captured image from the projection device, displays the received captured image on the display, generates a drawing image based on a drawing operation, and transmits the generated drawing image to the projection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eiji Morikuni
  • Patent number: 11948712
    Abstract: A magnetic powder contains a soft magnetic material represented by the following composition formula, in which an average particle size is 2 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less, and at least a surface layer is nanocrystallized, FeaCubNbcSidBe where, a, b, c, d, and e each indicate atomic percentage, 71.0 at %?a?76.0 at %, 0.5 at %?b?1.5 at %, 2.0 at %?c?4.0 at %, 11.0 at %?d?16.0 at %, and 8.0 at %?e?13.0 at %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiki Sano
  • Patent number: 11945231
    Abstract: A printing material container is detachably attachable to a printing apparatus having a plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The printing material container comprises a first device, a second device, and a terminal group that includes a plurality of first terminals, at least one second terminal and at least one third terminal. The plurality of first terminals are connected to the first device and respectively include a first contact portion for contacting a corresponding terminal among the plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The at least one second terminal is connected to the second device and includes a second contact portion for contacting a corresponding terminal among the plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The at least one third terminal is for the detection of shorting between the at least one second terminal and the at least one third terminal and includes a third contact portion for contacting a corresponding terminal among the plurality of apparatus-side terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noboru Asauchi
  • Patent number: 11945218
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a roll paper container portion that accommodates roll paper formed into a roll by wrapping recording paper around a core; a transportation roller that transports the recording paper in a transportation direction; a buffering member that moves in contact with the recording paper; and a guide member that is provided upstream of the buffering member in the transportation direction and guides the core of the roll paper that is moved from an inside of the roll paper container portion to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takehiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11949379
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a first resonator element, a first package that accommodates the first resonator element, a relay substrate on which the first package is mounted, a heater element that is attached to the first package or the relay substrate, a second package that accommodates the first package, and a heat insulating member that is provided at least between the second package and the relay substrate or between the relay substrate and the first package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihito Matsukawa, Manabu Kondo
  • Patent number: 11945244
    Abstract: A cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer, the cartridge includes a ribbon roll around which an ink ribbon is wound, and a cartridge case configured to accommodate a tape roll around which a tape is wound and that accommodates the ribbon roll, in which the cartridge case includes a third case portion, a first case portion that constitutes a tape roll accommodating portion accommodating the tape roll between the first case portion and the third case portion, and a second case portion that is separated from the first case portion and accommodates the ribbon roll between the second case portion and the third case portion, and the first case portion is configured to open and close the tape roll accommodating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Taruya, Taishi Sasaki, Akio Ishimoto, Hirosuke Yasuki
  • Patent number: 11945248
    Abstract: A recording method includes a colored ink adhering step of adhering a colored ink composition to an intermediate transfer medium by an ink jet method to form a recording region A, a clear ink adhering step of adhering a clear ink composition to at least a portion of a recording medium to form a region B, and a transfer step of transferring an image formed in the recording region A to the region B of the recording medium by heating in a state where the recording region A of the intermediate transfer medium faces the region B of the recording medium. The colored ink composition contains a sublimation dye, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water, and the intermediate transfer medium has a peeling layer containing a resin having a glass transition point of 100° C. or more and 200° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi Kagata, Katsuko Aoki
  • Patent number: 11950028
    Abstract: A projector has a projection optical system including a projection lens and a processing device. The processing device makes the projection optical system project a correction image having a rectangular shape. The number of correction points arranged on a first side out of two sides connecting to a vertex located the farthest from the projection lens when projected on a projection surface out of four vertexes of the correction image is larger than the number of correction points arranged on a side different from the two sides. The processing device receives an operation of moving first correction point included in the correction points arranged on the first side, and makes the projection optical system project an output image obtained by applying a distortion correction based on the operation to an input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiteru Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11947249
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first layer made of a semiconductor monocrystal, a second layer provided at the first layer and having a crystal orientation not continuous with the crystal orientation of the first layer, and a columnar crystal structure including a light emitting layer and extending from the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Noda, Hideki Hahiro, Tetsuji Fujita, Atsushi Ito, Koichiro Akasaka, Yasutaka Imai, Michifumi Nagawa
  • Patent number: 11949829
    Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a medium processing mechanism that processes a medium, a first board configured to communicate with an external apparatus by a first communication method and control the medium processing mechanism, a second board configured to communicate with the first board by the first communication method, a third board configured to communicate with the second board by the first communication method and communicate with the external apparatus by a second communication method different from the first communication method, a switcher that switches a communication destination of the first board to the second board or the external apparatus, and a notification section that makes, when the communication destination of the first board is switched to the second board by the switcher, a notification of communication information based on the second communication method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Todaka, Kiyoshi Nagaharu, Yu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11947115
    Abstract: An imaging light emitting device, and an optical unit configured to guide imaging light emitted from the imaging light emitting device are included, and the imaging light emitting device emits the imaging light at different densities according to a distortion generated in an optical system constituting the optical unit and an image position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Takeda, Takeshi Koshihara
  • Patent number: 11945226
    Abstract: A printer includes an ejecting head that ejects ink, a glued belt including a support surface, a first fan and a second fan configured to blow air toward the support surface, and a facing portion facing a portion of the first fan and a portion of the second fan. The facing portion includes an opening that opens in the Z direction. The opening is located between the first fan and the second fan in the X direction when viewed in the Z direction. When a spacing in the X direction at a first position in the +Y direction is defined as the first spacing and a spacing in the X direction at a second position upstream of the first position in the +Y direction is defined as the second spacing, the second spacing is larger than the first spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keigo Takishima, Hirokazu Fujii
  • Patent number: 11948482
    Abstract: The display method includes the steps of receiving input of first information representing an amount of an dilation process or a erosion process on a first mask image including a mask region, generating a second mask image by performing the dilation process or the erosion process corresponding to the first information based on an edge of the mask region on the first mask image, and displaying a projecting image obtained by superimposing the second mask image on an input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kohei Yanai
  • Patent number: 11949380
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an oscillator including housing a first resonator and a first integrated circuit device configured to oscillate the first resonator in a first container to manufacture the first oscillator, and housing a second resonator and a second integrated circuit device configured to oscillate the second resonator in a second container to manufacture the second oscillator, wherein the first integrated circuit device includes a first oscillation circuit configured to oscillate the first resonator to output a first oscillation signal, and no PLL circuit, the second integrated circuit device includes a second oscillation circuit configured to oscillate the second resonator to output a second oscillation signal, and a PLL circuit to which the second oscillation signal is input, and which is configured to output a third oscillation signal, and the first container and the second container are containers same in type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Il, Yosuke Itasaka
  • Patent number: 11945122
    Abstract: A robot control method for a robot performing an insertion operation of inserting a second target object with force control into a first target object conveyed by a conveyor device is provided. The robot control method includes: a follow step of causing the second target object to follow the first target object from an operation start location, based on a conveyance speed of the first target object; a contact step of bringing the second target object into contact with the first target object, the second target object being in a tilted attitude in relation to the first target object, with the force control; an attitude change step of changing the attitude of the second target object in such a way that the tilt in relation to the first target object is eliminated, while pressing the second target object against the first target object, with the force control; and an insertion step of inserting the second target object into the first target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11945238
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes: a printing unit including a liquid ejecting head configured to eject a liquid to a medium and a head holder configured to form an air cooling path, and a cooling mechanism configured to cause air in the air cooling path to flow therethrough to air-cool the liquid ejecting head, wherein the printing unit is provided so as to be movable with respect to a transport path along which the medium is transported, the cooling mechanism includes a first air hole and a second air hole that are configured to be coupled to the air cooling path, and the air cooling path is coupled to one of the first air hole and the second air hole corresponding to a position of the printing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Saka, Tetsuji Yatsunami, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Yoshinori Yanagisawa, Kohei Usuda
  • Patent number: 11948730
    Abstract: An insulator-coated magnetic alloy powder particle includes a magnetic alloy powder particle and an insulator that coats a surface of the magnetic alloy powder particle and that has a plurality of protrusions at a surface thereof, wherein the insulator includes a first insulator in a particulate form enclosed in the protrusion, and a second insulator in a film form that coats at least a part of a surface of the first insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasutaka Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11946551
    Abstract: A first valve mechanism is a valve mechanism provided in a flow path coupled to a liquid ejecting head that ejects a liquid, and including a valve that opens/closes the flow path, a first communication liquid chamber that communicates with the flow path, and a first pressure receiving body that converts a pressure difference between a pressure of the first communication liquid chamber and a reference pressure into an operating force of the valve, in which a threshold pressure of the first communication liquid chamber for determining opening/closing of the valve is variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Hanaoka, Toshiro Murayama, Daiki Tatsuta
  • Patent number: 11947201
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal layer as a first liquid crystal layer, a first polarizing element, a second polarizing element, a first phase difference adjusting element arranged between the first polarizing element and the liquid crystal panel and including a liquid crystal layer as a second liquid crystal layer, a second phase difference adjusting element arranged between the liquid crystal panel and the second polarizing element and including a liquid crystal layer as a third liquid crystal layer, and a first phase difference controlling element driving unit and a second phase difference controlling element driving unit as control units configured to control a value of a voltage applied to the first phase difference adjusting element and the second phase difference adjusting element, based on image data input to the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosaka, Akihide Haruyama