Patents Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation
  • Publication number: 20200369050
    Abstract: A half cutter includes a blade, a blade holder to which the blade is fixed, a blade receiving member which the blade approaches to or departs from, a blade receiving holder to which the blade receiving member is fixed, a spacer which is provided to at least one of the blade and the blade receiving member and generates a gap between the blade and the blade receiving member when the blade approaches the blade receiving member, and a fixing member that fixes the spacer to at least one of the blade holder and the blade receiving holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirosuke YASUKI
  • Publication number: 20200375017
    Abstract: A printed circuit board includes a printed wiring board, an electronic element provided on a mounting surface of the printed wiring board, and a heat radiation member provided on an opposite side of a side on which the printed wiring board is positioned with respect to the electronic element, the heat radiation member thermally connected to the electronic element. An end portion of the heat radiation member is disposed closer to the printed wiring board than a connection portion with the electronic element in the heat radiation member, in a state where a space is provided between the end portion and the printed wiring board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki SUEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20200371605
    Abstract: A first projector transmits first image information to each of a second projector and a third projector. The second projector displays a first image on a screen based on the first image information, detects the position of a pointer with respect to the screen, and transmits first information indicating the position of the pointer to the first projector. The first projector generates a first drawing object based on the first information and transmits second image information including the first drawing object to each of the second projector and the third projector. Each of the second projector and the third projector displays a second image based on the second image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka YOSHIDA, Koichiro OTA
  • Publication number: 20200371365
    Abstract: A wearable display device includes an optical device that forms a virtual image, and a support device that supports the optical device. The support device includes a fixed temple and a movable temple in a temple, which is a contact portion, and the movable temple is attached so as to be positionable further to the upper side than the fixed temple when a state of being worn is assumed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya KAMAKURA
  • Publication number: 20200371611
    Abstract: A pointing element configured to instruct an operation by being pressed against an operation surface includes a pressurizing part, a pressure sensor configured to detect a variation in the pressurizing part, an opposed part opposed to the pressure sensor, a pressing part configured to change a pressing force of pressing the opposed part against the pressure sensor in accordance with the variation in the pressurizing part caused by the pointing element pressed against the operation surface, a signal generation section configured to receive a first signal having a level based on the pressing force from the pressure sensor, and generate a second signal by changing the level of the first signal, and an output section configured to output information based on the second signal to outside of the pointing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukihiro KARASAWA
  • Publication number: 20200369051
    Abstract: A half cutter includes a blade, a blade holder to which the blade is fixed, and a blade receiving member which the blade approaches to or departs from. The blade holder has a pressure receiving portion that receives a pressing force which presses the blade holder against the blade receiving member, and a transmission section that transmits the pressing force received by the pressure receiving portion to both end portions of the blade in an extending direction of a blade edge of the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirosuke YASUKI
  • Publication number: 20200369574
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte capable of securing grain boundary resistance even when sintering is performed at a relatively low temperature and a lithium ion battery using the solid electrolyte are provided. The solid electrolyte includes a first electrolyte which contains a lithium composite metal compound containing one kind of first metal element selected from group 13 elements in period 3 or higher, and a second electrolyte which contains Li and at least two kinds of second metal elements selected from group 5 elements in period 5 or higher or group 15 elements in period 5 or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi YAMAMOTO, Tomofumi YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 10843475
    Abstract: An ink refill container 63 includes a container main body 64 including an ink storage chamber 76, an ink outlet-forming portion 66 provided on an end portion of the container main body forming an ink outlet 65 that allows the ink to flow out from the ink storage chamber, and a valve 74 provided in the ink outlet-forming portion configured to openably seal the ink outlet, in which the ink outlet-forming portion includes a positioning portion 73 on an outer side of the ink outlet-forming portion. in which the positioning portion 73 is closer to the container main body than the valve 74 is to the container main body in a central axis direction of the ink outlet, and in which the positioning portion partially abuts against an ink tank 41-45 when the valve is opened for refilling the ink to the ink tank, to thereby position the valve relative to the ink tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadahiro Mizutani, Ryoichi Tanaka, Manabu Akahane, Makoto Kobayashi, Naomi Kimura, Hideki Okumura, Shoma Kudo, Tetsuya Takamoto, Hiroaki Sakai
  • Patent number: 10845688
    Abstract: Movement of a movable portion without stopping at any moment can be achieved by a simple configuration including a beam structural portion including two beam portions extending in directions different from each other and one driving portion. Furthermore, a size reduction of a device is achieved in comparison with a case where a device includes a motor disposed for rotation driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makiko Hino, Yasushi Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 10848722
    Abstract: A projector includes a light source, a light modulator configured to modulate light emitted from the light source, an optical projection device configured to project the modulated light, a light path changer between the light modulator and the optical projection device and on which the modulated light is incident, and a cooler that cools the light modulator and the light path changer. The light path changer includes an optical member to change the light path of the incident light and a first fluctuation member. The first fluctuation member includes a permanent magnet, a coil, and a coil holder holding the coil, and fluctuates the optical member by supplying power to the coil. The cooler includes a fan and a duct to deliver cooling air toward the light path changer. The duct includes a sending port that faces the coil holder and flows the cooling air toward the light path changer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Norikazu Kadotani, Takahiro Totsuka, Kensaku Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10843463
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head that includes a first piezoelectric element and a second piezoelectric element, a first wire that extends in a first direction and that electrically couples the first piezoelectric element and a wiring substrate to each other, and a second wire that is adjacent to the first wire in a second direction intersecting the first direction and that extends in the first direction, the second wire electrically coupling the second piezoelectric element and the wiring substrate to each other. A first protrusion is formed on a surface of the first wire in a mounting area to where the wiring substrate is joined, and a second protrusion is formed on a surface of the second wire in the mounting area and at a position different from that of the first protrusion in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Sosuke Yamasaki, Hitoshi Takaai, Yuma Fukuzawa, Yoshinobu Toyama
  • Patent number: 10848633
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first wireless communication unit that establishes first wireless communication with a terminal apparatus by a first wireless communication method, a second wireless communication unit that establishes, by a second wireless communication method, third wireless communication with an access point of a wireless communication network that establishes second wireless communication with the terminal apparatus by the second wireless communication method, and a control unit that controls a mode based on whether or not driving power is supplied from a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kota Nishida
  • Patent number: 10847121
    Abstract: A projector includes a display controller that scrolls image data within liquid crystal panels in accordance with operation accepted via an operation/display panel in a case where a display section displays the image data and scrolls the image data that forms combined image data within liquid crystal panels in accordance with operation accepted by the operation/display panel in a case where the display section displays the combined image data. A scroll range over which the image data that forms the combined image data is scrolled in the case where the display section displays the combined image data is wider than a scroll range over which the image data is scrolled in the case where the display section displays the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kensuke Kida
  • Patent number: 10843466
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid ejecting unit that ejects liquid from a plurality of nozzles, in which the planar shape of the ejecting face on which the nozzles are formed is a shape in which a first portion that passes through the center line parallel to the long side of the rectangle of the minimum area including the ejecting face and a second portion that does not pass through the center line are arranged in the direction of the long side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Kanegae, Hiroyuki Hagiwara, Katsuhiro Okubo, Masahiko Sato
  • Patent number: 10843472
    Abstract: A liquid housing container includes a suppressing portion at one end portion of a first surface-portion film and one end portion of a second surface-portion film, and at another end portion of the first surface-portion film and another end portion of the second surface-portion film. The suppressing portion suppresses spreading of a gap between the one end portion of the first surface-portion film and the one end portion of the second surface-portion film, and spreading of a gap between the other end portion of the first surface-portion film and the other end portion of the second surface-portion film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Ichihara, Kazuyuki Hirata
  • Patent number: 10845684
    Abstract: A projector includes a light source device, a plurality of light modulation devices each adapted to modulate a light beam emitted from the light source device, a light combining device adapted to combine the light beams respectively modulated by the light modulation devices, a projection optical device adapted to project the light beam combined by the light combining device, a housing in which the light modulation devices and the light combining device are disposed, the housing having a first cooling liquid encapsulated inside, a stirring device adapted to stir the first cooling liquid inside the housing, and a control device disposed outside the housing and connected to the housing, the control device adapted to control the light modulation devices. The housing has a connection section connecting the control device and a plurality of light modulation device side signal lines respectively extending from the light modulation devices to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Ryuta Koizumi
  • Patent number: 10843637
    Abstract: A vibration device includes: a base substrate which is a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate; a lid substrate; a vibration element disposed between the base substrate and the lid substrate; a wiring disposed on a surface of the base substrate at the lid substrate side; and a coupling member that electrically couples the wiring and the vibration element to each other. The base substrate includes a second conductivity type well, which is different from the first conductivity type, and a first conductivity type first contact area that is disposed in the well and that has a first contact surface which is a part of the surface. The wiring and the coupling member are in contact with the first contact surface, and are electrically coupled to each other via the first contact area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi Mizugaki
  • Patent number: 10847741
    Abstract: A first electrode, a first insulating film, a second electrode, a second insulating film, and a pixel electrode are formed on a one surface side of a first substrate of an electro-optical device. The second electrode is electrically connected [to the first electrode] via a first contact hole that penetrates the first insulating film. The second electrode and the second insulating film configure a continuous flat surface, which is the surface on the opposite side to the first substrate, and the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the second electrode. Of the second insulating film, since an inside section positioned inside a concave portion caused by the first contact hole is connected to an outside section provided on the outside of the concave portion, peeling of the inside section is unlikely to occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Iizuka, Shotaro Izawa
  • Patent number: 10842349
    Abstract: An endoscope operation support system includes: an image display unit which, transmits external scenery and allows the user to visually recognize the external scenery, and also displays a virtual image as superimposed on the external scenery and allows the user to visually recognize the virtual image; a control unit which controls the image display unit; an endoscope unit having an image pickup unit at a distal end part inserted in an image pickup target part of an object, the image pickup unit picking up an image inside the image pickup target part; and a position detection unit which detects a position of the distal end part. The control unit causes the image display unit to display a position display image including a pointer image indicating the position of the distal end part detected by the position detection unit, as the virtual image superimposed on the object in the external scenery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Yamazaki, Yuichi Mori
  • Patent number: 10847120
    Abstract: A control method for a display apparatus including an operation receiving section that receives operation, the control method including transmitting a first signal, receiving a second signal transmitted from a first external apparatus that receives the first signal and a third signal transmitted from a second external apparatus that receives the first signal, displaying, when receiving the second signal and the third signal, on a display surface, a first image including information concerning the first external apparatus and information concerning the second external apparatus, executing processing for connection to the first external apparatus when the operation receiving section receives, in a state in which the first image is displayed on the display surface, first operation for selecting the first external apparatus, and displaying a second image corresponding to an image signal transmitted from the first external apparatus after the display apparatus is connected to the first external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuji Okano