Patents Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation
  • Publication number: 20240231206
    Abstract: A light source device according to the present disclosure includes a first light source configured to emit a first light flux, a second light source configured to emit a second light flux, a third light source configured to emit a third light flux, a first light combiner configured to enlarge a first light flux width of the first light flux, and combine the first light flux and the second light flux to generate a first combined light flux, and a second light combiner configured to combine the first combined light flux and the third light flux with each other to generate a second combined light flux. The first light flux width is equal to a second light flux width of the second light flux or smaller than the second light flux width, and the first light flux width is smaller than a third light flux width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wataru YASUMATSU
  • Publication number: 20240227406
    Abstract: A liquid storage container includes: a liquid storage portion including a storage-portion outer shell for storing liquid inside; and an adapter including an adapter outer shell and an insertion opening that is formed in the adapter outer shell and into which a liquid introduction portion of a container attachment portion is inserted, the storage-portion outer shell has a first-type color in a degree that does not allow light to pass through the storage-portion outer shell, and the adapter outer shell has a second-type color having a color difference with respect to a color of the liquid larger than or equal to a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Shun OYA
  • Publication number: 20240236280
    Abstract: A projection image adjustment method includes acquiring a captured image produced by capturing an image of a range containing a first and second region in a situation wherein a first projector projects a first image having uniform luminance toward a first region and a second projector projects a second image having uniform luminance toward a second region overlapping part of the first region, identifying based on the captured image the brightness at a third region where the first region and the second region overlap each other, and the brightness at a fourth region that is part of the first region and does not overlap with the second region, adjusting the first image when the fourth region is darker than the third region, and not performing correction that adjusts the first image to increase the highest brightness at the fourth region when the fourth region is brighter than the third region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fumiya HORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240234621
    Abstract: A detection device includes a first light emitting part that emits first light having a first wavelength band toward a living body, a second light emitting part that emits second light having a second wavelength band longer than the first wavelength band toward the living body, a first light receiving part that receives the first light emitted from the first light emitting part and radiated from the living body, a second light receiving part that receives the second light emitted from the second light emitting part and radiated from the living body, a first optical member that refracts the first light, and a second optical member that refracts the second light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi TAJIRI, Takefumi FUKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240236471
    Abstract: A parameter determination method includes: determining N, N being a natural number greater than 1, first regions included in at least a part of a first image acquired by capturing a target with a first optical device positioned at a first position and whose internal parameters are known, or the first image projected from the first optical device; determining N second regions corresponding to the respective N first regions in a one-to-one manner in a second image acquired by capturing the target with a second optical device positioned at a second position different from the first and whose internal parameters are known; determining N homographies between the N first regions and the N second regions in a one-to-one manner; and determining at least one of a first parameter related to the second optical device and a second parameter related to the capturing target by decomposing each of the N homographies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki SENSHIKI
  • Patent number: 12030305
    Abstract: A recording apparatus including a recording head that performs recording, a feed roller that feeds out a set medium, a transport driving roller that transports the medium, which is fed out by the feed roller, towards an opposing position that opposes the recording head, and an auxiliary roller provided between the feed roller and the transport driving roller, the auxiliary roller assisting transportation of the medium. When the apparatus is seen from a side of the apparatus, the auxiliary roller overlaps the feed roller in a height direction of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Sasaki, Shinji Kanemaru, Katsumi Yamada
  • Patent number: 12034433
    Abstract: A vibrator device includes a vibration element including a vibration portion and a fixed portion, a supporting member to which the fixed portion is attached to support the vibration element, and a first substrate to which the supporting member is attached, the supporting member includes a attaching portion attached to the first substrate, and A1?A2 is satisfied in a case where an area of a rectangular region including the fixed portion is A1 and an area of a rectangular region including the attaching portion is A2 in a plan view seen from a thickness direction of the vibration element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Otsuki, Tsugio Ide
  • Patent number: 12030301
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes a first liquid ejecting unit configured to eject recording liquid onto a medium, a second liquid ejecting unit configured to eject disinfectant liquid onto the medium, and a control unit configured to control the first liquid ejecting unit and the second liquid ejecting unit, wherein the control unit is configured to cause the disinfectant liquid to eject avoiding a position at which the recording liquid ejects on the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shintaro Komuro
  • Patent number: 12031847
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a mounting member having fixation surfaces inside, and at least one electronic component directly or indirectly fixed to the fixation surfaces of the mounting member, and the mounting member constitutes a part of a casing for housing the electronic component. Further, the fixation surfaces are perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu Sakuma, Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Shojiro Kitamura, Taketo Chino
  • Patent number: 12035078
    Abstract: A light source device includes a light source configured to emit excitation light, a phosphor which the excitation light enters, the phosphor being configured to emit fluorescence different in wavelength from the excitation light, a plurality of first nanoantennas provided to the phosphor, and a plurality of second nanoantennas provided to the phosphor. Each of the first nanoantennas is formed of metal. Each of the second nanoantennas is formed of a material higher in melting point than the metal. An arrangement area of the plurality of second nanoantennas overlaps an irradiation area with the excitation light in a plan view viewed from a normal direction of the phosphor. An electric field enhancement of the fluorescence is achieved by each of the first nanoantennas and each of the second nanoantennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fumika Yamada
  • Patent number: 12034430
    Abstract: A vibrator device includes a package including a base that is a semiconductor substrate and a lid that is a semiconductor substrate and has a housing section, a vibrator element and a passive element housed in the housing section and placed at the base, an oscillation circuit placed at the base and electrically coupled to the vibrator element, and a mounting terminal placed at the package and electrically coupled to the passive element, and at least one of the base and the lid is coupled to fixed potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoichiro Kasahara
  • Patent number: 12034416
    Abstract: There are provided a substrate on which a first integrated circuit, a first transistor, and a first inductor element are disposed, and which has a first side and a second side facing each other; a heat sink having a fifth side and a sixth side along the first side; the first integrated circuit, the first transistor, and the first inductor element are positioned in order of the first integrated circuit, the first transistor, and the first inductor element from the first side toward the second side, and the heat sink is fixed to the substrate such that a shortest distance between the fifth side and the first side is shorter than a shortest distance between the sixth side and the first side, and a shortest distance between the first integrated circuit and the fifth side is longer than a shortest distance between the first transistor and the sixth side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamamichi, Yusuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12034405
    Abstract: A circuit device includes an oscillation circuit which is electrically coupled to a first node to electrically be coupled to one end of a resonator and a second node to electrically be coupled to another end of the resonator, and is configured to oscillate the resonator to generate an oscillation signal, and a waveform shaping circuit which is coupled to the first node, to which the oscillation signal is input from the first node, and which is configured to output a clock signal obtained by performing waveform shaping on the oscillation signal, and a duty adjustment circuit configured to supply the first node with a bias voltage which is variably adjusted based on adjustment data to thereby adjust a duty ratio of the clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12030324
    Abstract: Included are a rolled-paper accommodation unit configured to accommodate rolled paper; a thermal head that performs printing on recording paper pulled out from the rolled paper; a control unit configured to control the thermal head; an apparatus case in which the rolled-paper accommodation unit and the control unit are provided, the apparatus case having a first edge forming a discharge opening through which the recording paper on which the thermal head performed printing is discharged; and an opening/closing cover opening or closing the rolled-paper accommodation unit and having a second edge that faces the first edge to form the discharge opening when the opening/closing cover closes the rolled-paper accommodation unit. The rolled-paper accommodation unit is provided between the first edge of the apparatus case and the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ryohei Kinoshita, Takeshi Tokuda
  • Patent number: 12031866
    Abstract: A colorimeter includes: a colorimetric section that performs colorimetry; a first wireless communicating section that performs first wireless communication according to a first wireless communication standard; a second wireless communicating section that performs second wireless communication according to a second wireless communication standard; and a processor that controls the first wireless communicating section and the second wireless communicating section. The processor transmits colorimetric data acquired by the colorimetry in the first colorimetric mode by the first wireless communication when colorimetry in a first colorimetric mode is performed. The processor also transmits colorimetric data acquired by the colorimetry in the second colorimetric mode by the second wireless communication when colorimetry in a second colorimetric mode is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Morimoto, Hiroyuki Ouchi
  • Patent number: 12030306
    Abstract: A stacker unit includes a sheet member having flexibility and is configured to receive in the sheet member a sheet having a sheet shape and discharged from a discharge port in a discharge direction. The sheet member includes a contact portion with which the sheet comes into contact. In a width direction intersecting the discharge direction, at least one end portion of the contact portion is positioned inward of at least one end portion of the sheet reaching the contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuhiko Hamada
  • Patent number: 12030302
    Abstract: A recording system includes a transportation unit that transports a paper sheet, an ejection unit that ejects an ink, a heating unit that heats the paper sheet, a discharge unit to which the paper sheet is discharged, and a control unit. The control unit specifies an amount of ejection of the ink from the ejection unit. The control unit also controls an operation of the heating unit such that an undried region where the ink on the paper sheet is not dried and a dried region where the ink on the paper sheet is dried are formed on the paper sheet. Then, the control unit controls a transporting operation by the transportation unit such that the paper sheet on which the dried region and the undried region are formed is discharged to the discharge unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Uemura, Masaki Miyazawa, Hirohisa Adachi, Hiroyuki Kosuge, Yuto Suzuki, Shunpei Yamaguchi, Hironori Matsuoka, Hiroshi Shiobara
  • Patent number: 12031822
    Abstract: A physical quantity detection circuit including a differential amplification circuit that differentially amplifies a signal pair based on a first signal containing a first physical quantity component and a first vibration leakage component and a second signal containing a second physical quantity component having a phase opposite the phase of the first physical quantity component and a second vibration leakage component having the same phase as the phase of the first vibration leakage component, an adder circuit that adds the signal pair, a first synchronous wave-detection circuit that performs synchronous wave-detection on a signal based on an output signal from the differential amplification circuit, a second synchronous wave-detection circuit that performs synchronous wave-detection on a signal based on an output signal from the adder circuit, a physical quantity detection signal generation circuit that generates a physical quantity detection signal based on an output signal from the first synchronous wave
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 12030313
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus, in which a first inductance element included in a first demodulation circuit has a first terminal which a first amplified modulated signal is input, a second terminal which a first driving signal is output, a second inductance element included in a second demodulation circuit has a third terminal which is provided in a fourth side portion, and to which a second amplified modulated signal is input, a fourth terminal which is provided in a fifth side portion that faces the fourth side portion, and from which a second driving signal is output, and a second lead member coupled to the third terminal and the fourth terminal and having a third refraction point and a fourth refraction point, and the first inductance element and the second inductance element are positioned such that the second side portion and the fourth side portion face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Amano, Toru Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 12031048
    Abstract: An ink set according to one embodiment of the disclosure includes a colored ink composition, which contains a pigment and is a water-based ink jet ink, and a water-based resin liquid composition which contains a resin, in which the resin liquid composition contains a urethane resin having an alicyclic structure or an aromatic ring structure and an acid value of 50 to 100 mg KOH/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Hano, Kazuhiko Kitamura, Masahiro Yatake