Patents Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation
  • Patent number: 12292333
    Abstract: A color measurement apparatus includes an opening portion forming member that is a member in which an opening portion for causing light arriving from a measurement target to enter inside the apparatus is formed, and that is arranged on a bottom surface at a time of measurement performed by the apparatus, an incident light processing portion that processes light incident through the opening portion, a battery that supplies power to the incident light processing portion, and a first circuit substrate on which a wireless communication portion is mounted, in which in a view from a first direction that is a vertical direction intersecting with the bottom surface and an upper surface which is a surface on an opposite side from the bottom surface, the first circuit substrate and the battery have an overlapping part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Haruki Miyasaka, Hisayuki Akahane
  • Patent number: 12291044
    Abstract: A transport device includes a transporting belt including an outer peripheral surface where a medium is placeable, the transporting belt being configured to transport the medium, a wiper blade including a tip portion configured to come into contact with the outer peripheral surface, and a base end portion located on an opposite side of the tip portion in an intersecting direction intersecting with the outer peripheral surface, the wiper blade being configured to wipe the outer peripheral surface, a contact portion made of resin and configured to support the base end portion by coming into contact with the base end portion, and a plurality of pressing units provided side by side in a width direction of the transporting belt, the plurality of pressing units being configured to press the base end portion via the contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Sato
  • Patent number: 12294816
    Abstract: A projector of the present disclosure includes a light source configured to emit first light, which is non-linearly polarized light, a polarization conversion unit configured to convert the first light into predetermined linearly polarized light, a light modulation device including a liquid crystal panel which modulates the predetermined linearly polarized light, and a superimposing optical system configured to superimpose the predetermined linearly polarized light on the liquid crystal panel. The polarization conversion unit includes a polarizing separator configured to separate the first light into second light and third light and a phase difference element configured to align polarization directions of the second light and the third light with the predetermined linearly polarized light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Amano, Takehiko Uehara
  • Patent number: 12294911
    Abstract: A communication device is a communication device that transmits detection information including position information based on an LPWA communication system, and includes a position information acquisition unit that acquires the position information based on a positioning signal, a storage unit that stores the detection information, a first communication unit that performs LPWA-compliant wireless communication, a movement detection unit that detects movement of the communication device, and a control unit that controls a communication speed of the wireless communication by the first communication unit, in which the control unit determines whether the communication device is outdoors or indoors based on the positioning signal received by the position information acquisition unit, and when the communication device is determined to be outdoors and the movement detection unit detects movement of the communication device, the control unit changes the communication speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuji Uchida
  • Patent number: 12291021
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting device such that, when an emission unit passes above an ejected liquid in a first non-constant velocity period concerning a velocity of movement of a liquid ejecting head and the emission unit, emission is performed at not less than an effective output when a distance between the liquid ejecting head and the emission unit is a first distance. In a second non-constant velocity period that is a non-constant velocity period and in which the relative velocity relative to the medium is faster than that in the first non-constant velocity period, in a case in which the emission unit passes above the ejected liquid, the liquid ejecting device performs control such that emission is performed at not less than an effective output when the distance is a second distance longer than the first distance, and at less than an effective output when the distance is the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Eishin Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 12294352
    Abstract: A structure is a structure of a quartz crystal substrate having a slit. The structure includes, as an inner wall of the slit, a first side surface, a second side surface, a first end surface, and a second end surface. The first side surface extends along a first direction which is a longitudinal direction of the slit, and the second side surface extends along the first direction. The first end surface is continuous with the first side surface and extends along a first crystal plane of the quartz crystal substrate, and the second end surface is continuous with the second side surface and extends along a second crystal plane of the quartz crystal substrate. In a plan view of the quartz crystal substrate, an intersection point where a first straight line corresponding to the first end surface and a second straight line corresponding to the second end surface intersect each other is located inside the quartz crystal substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Masayuki Oto
  • Patent number: 12291039
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a first storage portion capable of storing a liquid supplied from a liquid container, a first open-to-atmosphere channel configured to open the inside of the first storage portion to the atmosphere, a second storage portion capable of storing the liquid supplied from the first storage portion, and a second open-to-atmosphere channel configured to open the inside of the second storage portion to the atmosphere. The liquid ejection apparatus is configured to select either a normal mode or a transport mode. The normal mode is a mode in which the power is switched off with the first open-to-atmosphere channel open and the second open-to-atmosphere channel open. The transport mode is a mode in which the power is switched off with the first open-to-atmosphere channel open and the second open-to-atmosphere channel closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nanami Haga, Hiromichi Takanashi, Kenji Tsukada, Yuta Komatsu
  • Patent number: 12291027
    Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus has: a discharging section that discharges a liquid when at least one of a first piezoelectric element and a second piezoelectric element is driven; In a first mode in which the driving signal is output from the second output portion, the switch control circuit controls the first switch so as not to create a continuity and controls the second switch so as to create a continuity. In a second mode in which the constant-voltage signal is output from the second output portion, the switch control circuit controls the first switch so as to create a continuity and controls the second switch so as not to create a continuity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20250140366
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a goal setting unit configured to set a first goal for an exercise of a subject, an advice generation unit configured to generate a first advice for the first goal, an output unit configured to output the first goal and the first advice, a motivation estimation unit configured to estimate a motivation of the subject, and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a motivation of the subject for the first goal. The advice generation unit generates a second advice different from the first advice based on a result of the evaluation by the evaluation unit, and the output unit outputs the second advice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiyasu SEKI, Fumikazu SANO
  • Publication number: 20250140139
    Abstract: A projection display device including a first liquid crystal panel that generates a first image, a second liquid crystal panel that generates a second image, a prism that combines the first image with the second image shifted in a horizontal direction with respect to the first pixel and outputs a combination image, a light path shift element, and a display control circuit that controls the first liquid crystal panel, the second liquid crystal panel and the light path shift element. The display control circuit supplies a data signal of a first color component in an odd-numbered row of video pixel data to the first liquid crystal panel in a first unit period, and supplies the same data signal of the same first color component in an even-numbered row of the video pixel data to the first liquid crystal panel in a second unit period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhisa MIZUSAKO
  • Publication number: 20250138321
    Abstract: A virtual-image display device or an optical unit includes a first display device configured to output image light of circularly polarized light; a first reflection member having a flat surface and configured to reflect the image light to a diagonal direction; and a second reflection member having a positive power and configured to reflect, toward the first reflection member, the image light reflected at the first reflection member. The first reflection member includes a first optical function layer that is one of a cholesteric liquid crystal layer and a transmissive reflection layer. The second reflection member includes a second optical function layer that is the other one of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer and the transmissive reflection layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsutoshi INOMOTO, Mitsutaka IDE, Takashi TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20250140142
    Abstract: A projection display device including a first panel that generates a first image, a second panel that generates a second image, a prism that combines the first image with the second image shifted in a horizontal direction with respect to a first pixel and outputs a combination image, a light path shift element, and a display control circuit. The display control circuit supplies data signals of odd-numbered rows to the first panel and supplies data signals of even-numbered rows to the second panel in an odd-numbered field period, and supplies data signals of even-numbered rows to the first panel and supplies data signals of even-numbered rows to the second panel in an even-numbered field period, and controls the light path shift element so that a light path of the combination image is shifted in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhisa MIZUSAKO
  • Publication number: 20250135787
    Abstract: A cartridge detachably mounted to a printing device cartridge mounting portion includes a second fixing structure including a groove guiding a first fixing structure, and a locking portion provided to the groove. The cartridge is brought from a cartridge insertion state to a cartridge mounting portion predetermined position by being moved along a horizontal direction to a mounting state in which the cartridge is mounted by being rotated and moved in a rotation mounting direction around a fulcrum which is a far side of the cartridge mounting portion in the insertion direction by receiving a force having a component in a downward direction of a gravity direction. The second fixing structure locks the first fixing structure in the mounting state and releases with the first fixing structure by receiving the force having the component in the downward direction of the gravity direction applied to the cartridge in the mounting state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro Koizumi, Shun Oya
  • Patent number: 12285896
    Abstract: An injection molding device includes a housing having a door, an injection molding machine, a detection section, and a control section. The control section controls voltage applied to the mold clamping motor, and performs mold-clamping and mold-opening of the upper mold and the lower mold by either moving the injection unit and the upper mold along the vertical direction or by moving the lower mold along the vertical direction. The mold clamping device further includes a first brake section that, when application of voltage to the mold clamping motor is stopped, regulates movement of the injection unit and the upper mold in the vertical direction or movement of the lower mold in the vertical direction. When the detection section detects that the door is open or detects intrusion of foreign matter, the control section stops application of voltage to the mold clamping motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hidenobu Maruyama, Kenta Anegawa, Kazuyuki Harayama
  • Patent number: 12285951
    Abstract: A supply unit in which a liquid container including a coupling portion is detachably mounted includes a liquid introducing portion to which the coupling portion of the liquid container is coupled, a pressing member configured to press the liquid container in an uncoupling direction, which is a direction opposite to a coupling direction, when a direction in which the liquid container is coupled to the liquid introducing portion is defined as the coupling direction, an engaging portion configured to engage with the liquid container when the liquid container is coupled to the liquid introducing portion, and a speed reduction portion configured to reduce, when engagement of the engaging portion with the liquid container is released, a moving speed of the liquid container moving in the uncoupling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Seiya Sato, Seiji Tojo, Akihiko Maruyama
  • Patent number: 12285941
    Abstract: A recording device includes a roll holding unit, a transport mechanism, a recording unit, a cutting mechanism, and a discharge unit. The recording unit performs recording on a transported medium from the roll. The cutting mechanism cuts the medium, in an intersecting direction intersecting a transport direction. The discharge unit discharges the medium cut by the cutting mechanism. The transport mechanism includes a transport roller pair disposed upstream of the recording unit in the transport path. The control unit determines that the remaining length L2 of the medium is insufficient to perform recording in a state of pinching the medium by the transport roller pair and the remaining length L2 is greater than the predetermined length (affirmative determination in step S14), the control unit cuts, by the cutting mechanism, a remaining medium to a predefined length L3 or less and discharges the remaining medium (steps S17 to S20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Moe Takeuchi, Shun Ito
  • Patent number: 12287248
    Abstract: A piezoelectric sensor includes an elastic body, a piezoelectric element which is disposed at a position where the piezoelectric element has contact with the elastic body, and which is configured to output a voltage signal when deforming in accordance with a deformation of the elastic body, and a detector configured to detect the voltage signal output from the piezoelectric element, wherein the detector detects kinetic frictional force generated between the object and the elastic body based on a variation in the voltage signal due to the relative movement of the object to the elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Yonemura
  • Patent number: 12285954
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a nozzle that is in communication with a pressure chamber and ejects a first liquid, a passage formation substrate that has a liquid passage which extends from a common liquid chamber in communication with a plurality of pressure chambers to the nozzle and through which the first liquid flows, and a circulation passage that is formed in the passage formation substrate, passes near the nozzle, and is not in communication with the liquid passage, and through which a second liquid circulates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromu Miyazawa, Kinya Ozawa
  • Patent number: 12285938
    Abstract: A dielectric heating device includes: an electrode unit including a first electrode and a second electrode that face a to-be-heated object, and configured to heat the to-be-heated object; a voltage application unit configured to apply an alternating-current voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode; a current value detection unit configured to detect a current value of an alternating current that flows through the electrode unit; a phase difference detection unit configured to detect a phase difference between the alternating-current voltage and the alternating current; an impedance detection unit configured to detect an impedance of the electrode unit based on the current value and the phase difference; and a control unit configured to control output of alternating-current power output to the electrode unit by controlling the voltage application unit based on the impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Kegasawa, Tadashi Aizawa
  • Patent number: 12287551
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a substrate, a pixel electrode disposed at the substrate, and a pixel circuit portion disposed between the substrate and the pixel electrode. The pixel circuit portion includes a scanning line disposed along a first direction, a data line disposed along a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first constant potential line disposed along the scanning line, a second constant potential line disposed along the data line, and a transistor disposed corresponding to an intersection position of the scanning line and the data line and including a gate electrode electrically coupled to the scanning line, a source region electrically coupled to the data line, and a drain region electrically coupled to the pixel electrode. The pixel circuit portion also includes a coupling portion disposed corresponding to the intersection position and configured to electrically couple the first constant potential line and the second constant potential line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Ito