Patents Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation
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Patent number: 11945218Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takehiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11945214Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Tsuneyuki Sasaki
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Patent number: 11947115Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Takeda, Takeshi Koshihara
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Patent number: 11945248Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi Kagata, Katsuko Aoki
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Patent number: 11947249Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Noda, Hideki Hahiro, Tetsuji Fujita, Atsushi Ito, Koichiro Akasaka, Yasutaka Imai, Michifumi Nagawa
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Patent number: 11945244Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Taruya, Taishi Sasaki, Akio Ishimoto, Hirosuke Yasuki
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Patent number: 11947759Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Eiji Morikuni
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Patent number: 11948712Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiki Sano
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Patent number: 11949379Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Norihito Matsukawa, Manabu Kondo
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Patent number: 11949837Abstract: A management apparatus that realizes transmission of scanned data, which is generated by each of a plurality of image readers including a first image reader and a second image reader, in accordance with address information associated with the image reader, the management apparatus including a storage that stores a plurality of pieces of address information including first address information associated with the first image reader and second address information associated with the second image reader, a receiver configured to receive a duplication instruction that duplicates the first address information as the second address information, and a setting section that causes the storage to store the first address information stored in the storage as the second address information in accordance with the duplication instruction.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Daiki Kobayashi, Kazuma Seki
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Patent number: 11945163Abstract: 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 convex 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: April 2, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Masaru Kumagai
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Patent number: 11947124Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure includes an optical system, the optical system including an image light generation device configured to generate image light, a projection optical system including an optical element, the optical element including an optical surface asymmetric in a direction along at least a first axis of two axes orthogonal to each other and perpendicular to an optical axis of the image light, a support member configured to support the optical element, a first adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a position of the optical element in the direction along the first axis, and a second adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a position of an emission region of the image light in the direction along the first axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masatoshi Yonekubo, Masafumi Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 11946551Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yukihiro Hanaoka, Toshiro Murayama, Daiki Tatsuta
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Patent number: 11945238Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Saka, Tetsuji Yatsunami, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Yoshinori Yanagisawa, Kohei Usuda
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Patent number: 11945226Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Keigo Takishima, Hirokazu Fujii
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Patent number: 11945122Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Makoto Taguchi
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Patent number: 11947201Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Hosaka, Akihide Haruyama
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Patent number: 11949829Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shingo Todaka, Kiyoshi Nagaharu, Yu Suzuki
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Patent number: 11950028Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshiteru Uchiyama
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Patent number: 11947793Abstract: Provided is a portable terminal including a communication section configured to acquire operational information about a monitoring target device, a display section, a detector configured to detect a gesture motion involving a change in orientation of the portable terminal, and a processor configured to, when the gesture motion is detected while a first screen including an object in accordance with content of the operational information is displayed on the display section, cause a screen in accordance with a type of the gesture motion and a type of the object included in the first screen to be displayed on the display section. When the operational information differs, the object included in the first screen differs and, even when the same gesture motion is detected, a different screen is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shinichiro Niiyama