Patents Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation
-
Patent number: 12262584Abstract: A first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element that have a resonance structure that causes output light from a light-emission functional layer to resonate between a reflective layer and a semi-transmissive reflective layer, and a pixel definition layer, and in which an aperture part is formed to correspond to each of the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element, are formed on a base. A first interval between the reflective layer and the semi-transmissive reflective layer in the first light-emitting element and a second interval between the reflective layer and the semi-transmissive reflective layer in the second light-emitting element are different, and a film thickness of the pixel definition layer is less than a difference between the first interval and the second interval.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi Nozawa, Atsushi Amano, Takeshi Koshihara, Akio Fukase, Shinichi Iwata
-
Patent number: 12260976Abstract: A magnetic bead contains: a magnetic metal powder; and a coating layer with which a particle surface of the magnetic metal powder is coated. When the magnetic bead is left to stand in a state of a dispersion obtained by dispersing the magnetic bead in water, a time until an initial absorbance of the dispersion attenuates to 80% of an absorbance when the standing is started is 90 seconds or longer.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunari Ikeda, Michio Nakamori, Hirofumi Hokari
-
Patent number: 12257830Abstract: A printhead control circuit outputs a first signal to a second wire while a first wire coupled to a first terminal is being supplied with a first voltage signal; outputs a second signal to the second wire coupled to a second terminal while the first wire is being supplied with a second voltage signal; outputs a third signal to the second wire while a third wire coupled to a third terminal is being supplied with a third voltage signal; outputs a fourth signal to the second wire while the third wire is being supplied with a fourth voltage signal; and thereby causes the printhead to perform abnormality detection in response to the first to fourth signals and the first to fourth voltage signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kohei Kumamoto, Shuichi Nakano
-
Patent number: 12259403Abstract: Provided is an inertial sensor module having excellent detection accuracy. The inertial sensor module includes: a first sensor having a first axis, a second axis, and a third axis as detection axes; and a second sensor having accuracy higher than that of the first sensor and having the third axis as a detection axis. The first sensor and the second sensor are disposed on an inner bottom surface which is one plane in a package. The first sensor and the second sensor are sealed by the package in an airtight manner.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Toru Watanabe
-
Patent number: 12257774Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing apparatus includes a liquid discharge head having a nozzle surface, a moving mechanism that changes a position and a pose of the liquid discharge head relative to a three-dimensional workpiece, and a controller. The workpiece has a first surface and a second surface that forms a corner bent or curved in a concave shape between the first surface and the second surface. When an axis along a scanning direction of the liquid discharge head with respect to the workpiece in a first printing operation of performing printing on the first surface is a first scanning axis and a normal vector of the nozzle surface in the first printing operation is a first discharge vector, the controller controls the driving of the moving mechanism such that the first discharge vector has a component in a direction toward the second surface along the first scanning axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Masaru Kumagai
-
Patent number: 12258481Abstract: A dispersion liquid includes water, a coloring material, and a dispersing resin which disperses the coloring material, in which the dispersing resin has a predetermined constituent unit A, a predetermined constituent unit B, and a predetermined constituent unit C.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Terao, Mami Tojino, Toshihiro Otake, Hiroshi Ito, Koji Horiba
-
Patent number: 12257854Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, a frame, a cover configured to open and close relative to the frame, and an open-close mechanism. The open-close mechanism includes a base attached to the frame, a holder attached to the base, a shaft attached to the holder, an arm attached to the shaft, the cover being attached to the arm, and a lockscrew configured to fix the holder to the base. The base includes an attachment hole used to attach the holder to the base, and a protrusion protruding toward the holder. The holder includes a holder hole overlapping with the attachment hole, and a guide hole into which the protrusion is inserted. The guide hole is an elongated hole elongated in one direction. The holder hole is an elongated hole elongated in the one direction. The lockscrew is inserted into the attachment hole and the holder hole.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takumi Sato
-
Patent number: 12257829Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a liquid ejection unit that moves in a first direction relative to a medium and eject liquid, and a control unit that controls the liquid ejection unit. The liquid ejection unit includes a plurality of nozzles arranged in a direction different from the first direction and configured to eject the liquid, the control unit forms, by using a first nozzle of the nozzles, a first pattern with a first length in the first direction, the control unit forms, by using two or more nozzles different from the first nozzle, a second pattern including an image arrangement in which images are arranged so as to be displaced in a step-like manner in the first direction and a second direction different from the first direction, a region on the medium where the second pattern is formed has a second length in the first direction, and the first length is greater than the second length.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Yamamoto, Eiichi Ohara
-
Patent number: 12257831Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejection portion that ejects a reactive ink, a driving circuit that generates a driving signal to drive the ejection portion, a heat sink that dissipates heat generated in the driving circuit due to generation of the driving signal, and a heat conduction member that conducts the heat generated in the driving circuit to the heat sink. The heat conduction member includes a heat conductive material with an insulating property whose state is not changed by a chemical reaction with the reactive ink, and a reinforcing member with an insulating property whose state is not changed by a chemical reaction with the reactive ink.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Amano, Toru Matsuyama
-
Patent number: 12261986Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a separating roller that is capable of switching between a separation state in which an original document is separated and a non-separation state in which the original document is not separated, and determines whether or not the original document is fed in the separation state or the non-separation state based on the types of the original document set through a user interface for instructing a select of the types of the original document to be read and a start of reading the original document.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki Mokuo, Noriyuki Koyanagi, Keiichiro Fukumasu, Keisuke Miyauchi, Naoki Sakamoto
-
Patent number: 12257834Abstract: A liquid discharge device in which an inter-wiring region between a first wiring through which a first drive signal, and a second wiring through which a second drive signal propagates includes a wide inter-wiring region in which an inter-wiring distance between the first wiring and the second wiring is larger than a sum of a wire width of a fourth wiring and a minimum diameter of a via wiring, and a narrow inter-wiring region in which the inter-wiring distance is smaller than the sum of the wire width of the fourth wiring and the minimum diameter of the via wiring, and larger than a wire width of the via wiring, and a third wiring is not located in the narrow inter-wiring region between a virtual line coupling a first terminal and a second terminal, and the wide inter-wiring region, in the inter-wiring region of a first wiring layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Toru Kashimura
-
Patent number: 12257832Abstract: A print head ejecting a liquid with respect to a medium and assembled to a liquid ejecting apparatus includes: an ejecting portion ejecting the liquid by receiving a drive signal; an electrically erasable non-volatile memory; and a wireless communication module, in which history information changing in accordance with an operation state of the print head is stored in the non-volatile memory, and the wireless communication module transmits the history information in accordance with a request from an outside.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Atsushi Shimura
-
Patent number: 12257858Abstract: A printing device includes a providing unit configured to provide to a printed material an identifier for managing the printed material. The providing unit prints the identifier with invisible ink on the printed material. The identifier is visually recognizable under special light and invisible under normal light.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shintaro Komuro
-
Patent number: 12258713Abstract: A sheet manufacturing system includes a coarsely crushing apparatus that coarsely crushes a paper, a sheet manufacturing apparatus that generates a sheet-shaped recycled paper using coarsely crushed pieces of the paper as a raw material, and a server that is connected to the coarsely crushing apparatus and the sheet manufacturing apparatus via a network, in which the coarsely crushing apparatus has an integration section that integrates the coarsely crushed pieces, an integration amount detector that detects an integration amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the integration section, and a transmission section that transmits information related to the integration amount, which is detected by the integration amount detector, to the server, and the sheet manufacturing apparatus has a reception section that acquires the information related to the integration amount from the server, a display information generation section that generates display information related to the integration amount based on the inforType: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takao Mikoshiba
-
Patent number: 12259691Abstract: An electronic watch includes memory that stores a reference time and a time difference relative to the reference time, a timekeeper that clocks the reference time, a time display unit that includes an hour hand displaying a display time based on the reference time and the time difference, a calendar display unit that displays a date based on the reference time and the time difference, an operation device that includes a crown or a button, and a controller that, in a set time-difference setting range, corrects the time difference at a regular interval for each of operations of the operation device, and updates the hour hand and the date in accordance with the corrected time difference.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshihide Kaneko
-
Patent number: 12259607Abstract: A liquid crystal apparatus includes a first electrode, a liquid crystal layer, a second electrode, and a measurement circuit, and the measurement circuit supplies a first potential to the first electrode and supplies a second potential higher than the first potential to the second electrode in a first period, supplies the first potential to the first electrode, and supplies a third potential higher than the first potential and lower than the second potential to the second electrode in a second period, supplies a fourth potential higher than the third potential and lower than the second potential to the first electrode and supplies a third potential to the second electrode in a third period, and stops the supply of the potential to the first electrode and supplies the third potential to the second electrode in a fourth period.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Shinsuke Fujikawa
-
Patent number: 12259676Abstract: A transport device includes a transport belt having a support surface configured to support a medium, a cleaning roller including an absorbent member configured to absorb cleaning liquid, and configured to clean the support surface as the absorbent member comes into contact with the support surface, a supply unit configured to supply the cleaning liquid to the cleaning roller, and a squeeze member to squeeze the absorbent member as the cleaning roller rotates in a state in which the squeeze member is in contact with the absorbent member. The supply unit is configured to be switched between a supply state in which the cleaning liquid is supplied to the cleaning roller and a non-supply state in which the cleaning liquid is not supplied to the cleaning roller, and the squeeze member squeezes the absorbent member while the supply unit is in the non-supply state.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Koji Sato, Yoshihisa Horikawa
-
Patent number: 12258712Abstract: A sheet manufacturing system includes a coarsely crushing apparatus that coarsely crushes a paper; a sheet manufacturing apparatus that generates a sheet-shaped recycled paper using coarsely crushed pieces of the paper as a raw material; and a server that is connected to the coarsely crushing apparatus and the sheet manufacturing apparatus via a network, in which the sheet manufacturing apparatus has a reserving section that reserves the coarsely crushed pieces, a remaining amount detector that detects a remaining amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the reserving section, a calculation section that calculates an allowable filling amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the reserving section based on a detection result of the remaining amount detector, and an output section that transmits information related to the calculated allowable filling amount to the server, and the coarsely crushing apparatus has an integration section that integrates the coarsely crushed pieces, an input section that acquires thType: GrantFiled: March 23, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takao Mikoshiba
-
Patent number: 12260736Abstract: A display system is provided with a display device, a first imaging device, a storage device, and a processing device. The display device displays an image based on content information at a display position. The first imaging device images a human who is going to pass through the display position. The storage device stores a learned model obtained by performing machine learning on a correspondence relation between features of a behavior of the human, the content information to be used for the image, and a degree of risk of the human. The processing device obtains pre-passage behavior data representing a behavior of the human based on imaging result of the first imaging device, and determines the content information to be used for the image using the pre-passage behavior data and the learned model.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroki Nishioka
-
Patent number: 12259745Abstract: A real-time clock module includes: an oscillation circuit configured to generate a first clock signal by oscillating a resonator; an interface circuit configured to receive alarm setting data; a memory in which the alarm setting data and a program are to be stored; and a processor configured to execute the program to perform a comparison process of comparing clocking data generated based on the first clock signal with the alarm setting data, and output an alarm signal according to a result of the comparison process.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Masayuki Kamiyama