Patents Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation
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Patent number: 11654689Abstract: A liquid discharge device includes a discharge section that discharges a liquid, a storage section that includes a first surface and a second surface separated from the first surface in a first direction, and is configured to store the liquid between the first surface and the second surface, a transmission electrode that is provided on the first surface, a reception electrode that is provided on the second surface, a filter circuit that removes a predetermined frequency component from an electric signal supplied from the reception electrode, and a detection circuit that detects a storage amount of the liquid stored in the storage section based on an output from the filter circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Osamu Shinkawa
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Patent number: 11654702Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit, a first transport path, a second transport path, a first discharge roller pair, a second discharge roller pair, a first driving motor configured to drive the first discharge driving roller, a second driving motor configured to drive the second discharge driving roller, and a movement mechanism capable of moving the second discharge roller pair between a sandwiching state where a second discharge driving roller and a second discharge driven roller sandwich a recording medium, and a separated state where the second discharge driving roller and the second discharge driven roller are separated. In a part of a period in which the recording medium is transported, the second discharge roller pair is in the separated state.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shingo Waki, Yuki Komatsu
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Patent number: 11654688Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a nozzle inspection unit configured to inspect nozzle clogging of a nozzle, a discharged dot count unit configured to count a number of times a discharge signal is transmitted to the nozzle, a storage unit configured to store ink residual amount-related information containing an ink consumption amount for one dot, and an ink residual amount control unit configured to calculate an ink consumption amount based on the number of times the discharge signal is transmitted counted by the discharged dot count unit and the ink consumption amount for one dot, and to update the residual amount of the ink retained in the ink retaining unit. The printing apparatus removes the nozzle determined to be clogged by the inspection of the nozzle clogging by the nozzle inspection unit from the nozzles targeted for calculating the ink consumption amount.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yusuke Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11654690Abstract: There is provided a storage amount detection device, which detects a storage amount of an object stored in a storage section that includes a first surface and a second surface, the device including a transmission electrode that is provided on the first surface, a plurality of reception electrodes that are provided on the second surface, a constant voltage terminal, a coupling circuit that is configured to electrically a reception electrode to an output terminal, and a detection circuit that detects the storage amount of the object stored in the storage section, in which the coupling circuit couples the reception electrode, which is not electrically coupled to the output terminal, among the plurality of reception electrodes to the constant voltage terminal, and does not couple a reception electrode, which is electrically coupled to the output terminal, among the plurality of reception electrodes to the constant voltage terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Osamu Shinkawa
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Patent number: 11656469Abstract: A light-guiding device includes a pair of light-guiding portions, a pair of light-incident portions that causes image light to be incident on the pair of light-guiding portions respectively, and a pair of light-emitting portions that emit image light, guided by the pair of light-guiding portions, to outside respectively, in which a pair of optical members including the pair of light-guiding portions are coupled by a central member having light transmissivity, and separate overcoat layers are provided at the optical member on one side and at the optical member on another side with respect to an approximate center of the central member.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki Miyao, Masayuki Takagi, Takashi Takeda, Tokito Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11654696Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Toshifumi Sakai
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Patent number: 11654692Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array through which a non-fluorescent-colored liquid is discharged; and one or more fluorescent nozzle arrays through which respective fluorescent-colored liquids are discharged. Further, the fluorescent nozzle arrays are arranged between the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Toshiyuki Yamagata
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Patent number: 11656807Abstract: A printing system includes: a printing device; and a server connected to the printing device via a network. The server includes a print instruction acquisition unit that acquires a print instruction by voice from a voice mediation device and a transmitter that transmits to the printing device print data for printing content based on the print instruction among printable content. The printing device receives the print data, and performs printing in accordance with the print data. The print instruction includes a list print instruction for printing a list of at least part of the printable content. When the list print instruction is acquired, the transmitter transmits list data for printing the list to the printing device. The printing device receives the list data, and prints the list in accordance with the list data.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takashi Sera, Shinichi Tsuruyama, Masaki Fukiage, Ryosuke Kakio
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Patent number: 11656465Abstract: A display device according to the present disclosure includes a first optical unit having positive power, a second optical unit including a first diffraction element and having positive power, a third optical unit having positive power, and a fourth optical unit including a second diffraction element and having positive power, and the first to fourth optical units are provided along an optical path of imaging light emitted from an imaging light generating device. The second optical unit further includes a first member provided at one surface side of the first diffraction element, and a second member provided on a side of the first member opposite to a side where the first diffraction element is located, the first member is transmissive and has an elastic modulus of 50 GPa or greater, and the second member is transmissive and has optical power.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsutaka Ide, Masatoshi Yonekubo
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Patent number: 11654704Abstract: A printer includes a gap adjustment unit that displaces a carriage in a Z-axis direction in which a gap changes. The gap adjustment unit has a sliding member that moves in a width direction integrally with the carriage, and a cam member that is interposed between the carriage and the sliding member and has a stepped portion in which a maintenance surface that maintains a position of the carriage in the Z-axis direction and an adjustment surface that changes the position of the carriage in the Z-axis direction are alternately arranged in the width direction. The gap adjustment unit is configured such that the cam member slides in the width direction with respect to the carriage and the sliding member to change the gap. The gap adjustment unit includes a buffer unit that decreases a displacement speed of the carriage in the Z-axis direction when the gap is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Keita Hanawa, Katsunari Kumagai, Kensuke Tamai
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Patent number: 11654681Abstract: Wall surfaces of the nozzle channel include a first wall surface which extends in the first direction and in which the nozzle is provided and a second wall surface which extends in the first direction and is opposite to the first wall surface, wall surfaces of the first communication channel include a third wall surface which extends in the second direction and a distance from which to the nozzle in the first direction is longest and a fourth wall surface which extends in the second direction and is opposite to the third wall surface, and a fifth wall surface which extends in a third direction set between the first direction and the second direction is provided between the second wall surface and the fourth wall surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoichi Naganuma, Yuma Fukuzawa, Shotaro Tamai
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Patent number: 11656504Abstract: In a liquid crystal apparatus, a liquid crystal is provided in a cavity surrounded by a seal material between a first substrate and a second substrate, and the liquid crystal is aligned in a diagonal direction formed by corners 10a1, 10a3. Between a pixel area and the seal material, a first groove is formed along a side 20a6 from the corner 10a1 toward a corner 10a2. When a first pump is driven, the liquid crystal of the pixel area is drawn from a first end of the first groove on the corner 10a1 side, and the liquid crystal is ejected from a second end into the pixel area. As a result, a liquid crystal flow from the side of a side 20a7 toward the side of a side 20a9 occurs in the pixel area, and thus the liquid crystal can be smoothly circulated.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Naoki Tomikawa
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Patent number: 11656820Abstract: A print instruction apparatus that communicates with a print apparatus includes a display section that displays a first image bundle including first and the second images, a selection section that selects at least one of first document information associated with the first image bundle, first image information associated with the first image, and second image information associated with the second image based on a signal received by a display controller, and a communication section that transmits print instruction information indicating an instruction for printing based on a result of the selection performed by the selection section. The communication section transmits, when the selection section selects the first document information but does not select the first image information or the second image information, first instruction information instructing printing of the first document information as the print instruction information.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yusuke Yamada
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Patent number: 11659147Abstract: A liquid crystal projector includes a liquid crystal panel configured to generate a modulated image, a sensor configured to detect a temperature of the liquid crystal panel, an optical shift element configured to shift an emission optical path of the modulated image generated by the liquid crystal panel, and a control circuit configured to control a velocity of a shift in the optical shift element according to the temperature detected by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Aoki, Shinichi Wakabayashi, Masatoshi Ito, Daigo Hokazono
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Patent number: 11657482Abstract: An optical module according to the present disclosure includes: a first display panel that emits a first image light, a first virtual image optical system that forms a first exit pupil of the first image light, and a control unit corrects a video image signal to a first correction video signal based on distortion generated in the first optical system, an aspect ratio of the video image signal being smaller than an aspect ratio of the first display panel, wherein the control unit causes the first display panel to emit the first image light from the first display panel based on the first correction video image signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Takagi, Nobuhiko Yokoo
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Patent number: 11659148Abstract: A method for controlling a display apparatus, the method comprising, displaying, in a first mode, a first image based on received image data having first resolution on a display surface at a first display size corresponding to the first resolution, displaying, in a second mode, a second image based on the image data having second resolution smaller than the first resolution on the display surface at a second display size corresponding to the second resolution, converting, when the display apparatus accepts the operation of increasing the second display size in the second mode, the first resolution of image data to third resolution corresponding to the operation, displaying a third image based on the image data having the third resolution on the display surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiki Fujimori
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Patent number: 11657754Abstract: The electro-optical device includes a plurality of digital scanning lines, a plurality of analog scanning lines, a digital signal line, an analog signal line, and a plurality of pixel circuits. Each of the pixel circuits includes a light emitting element, a digital driving circuit, and an analog driving circuit. The digital driving circuit performs digital driving in which a drive current is supplied to the light emitting element in a period of a length corresponding to a grayscale value. The analog driving circuit performs analog current setting in which a current value of the drive current is set based on an analog data voltage. In a period in which the pixel circuit connected to an s-th digital scanning line and an s-th analog scanning line performs the analog current setting, the pixel circuit connected to a t-th digital scanning line and a t-th analog scanning line performs the digital driving.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Momose, Mitsutoshi Miyasaka
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Patent number: 11659664Abstract: An electronic device includes: a substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface; a first electronic component mounted on the upper surface of the substrate; a second electronic component mounted on the lower surface of the substrate; and a mold portion covering the second electronic component without covering the first electronic component. The first electronic component is bonded to the upper surface on the first relative surface via a conductive first bonding member. The second electronic component is bonded to the lower surface via a second bonding member on a second relative surface relative to the lower surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masataka Kazuno, Tetsuya Otsuki, Hitoshi Ueno
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Patent number: 11657777Abstract: A control method for a display device including a display unit, a first control unit, and a second control unit, the control method comprising: holding a plurality of display setting data relating to a display state of an image by the display unit in such a way that the plurality of display setting data are available for use by the first control unit, causing the first control unit to execute display control to cause the display unit to display an image based on display data, causing the second control unit to execute an application program and output the display data, and causing the first control unit to set an one of the plurality of display setting data corresponding to the application program in response to the second control unit starting up the application program.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Nona Mimura, Mitsunori Tomono
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Patent number: RE49536Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a transport section that can transport original documents along a transport path, a reading section configured to read images of the original documents transported by the transport section, an output controller configured to output data of the original documents read by the reading section, a multi-sheet feed detection sensor configured to detect a multi-sheet feed of the original documents transported by the transport section, and an instruction section configured to issue an instruction to disable multi-sheet feed detection by the multi-sheet feed detection section.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Noriyuki Koyanagi