Patents Assigned to Seiko Epson
  • Patent number: 11985284
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a separating roller that is capable of switching between a separation state in which an original document is separated and a non-separation state in which the original document is not separated, and determines whether or not the original document is fed in the separation state or the non-separation state based on the types of the original document set through a user interface for instructing a select of the types of the original document to be read and a start of reading the original document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Mokuo, Noriyuki Koyanagi, Keiichiro Fukumasu, Keisuke Miyauchi, Naoki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11982595
    Abstract: A measurement method includes: performing low-pass filter processing and high-pass filter processing on target data; estimating correction data; generating vibration component data, and the estimating the correction data includes: specifying a first interval, a second interval, and a third interval; generating first interval correction data, generating second interval correction data in the second interval by setting data in an interval before a first intersection point of first line data and second line data as the first line data, setting data in an interval from the first intersection point to a second intersection point of second line data and third line data as the second line data, and setting data in an interval after the second intersection point as the third line data; and generating third interval correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11985453
    Abstract: A display method includes imaging a captured image containing a first marker placed on a surface and a second marker placed on the surface, and displaying a first image corresponding to the first marker and a second image corresponding to the second marker in an arrangement corresponding to an arrangement of the first marker and the second marker in the captured image on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11981152
    Abstract: There is provided a three-dimensional object printing apparatus including a first robot supporting a head having a nozzle for discharging a liquid and changing a position and a posture of the head, a second robot supporting a three-dimensional workpiece and changing a position and a posture of the workpiece, a curing unit that emits energy to cure or solidify the liquid discharged from the head, and a maintenance unit that performs maintenance on the head. The first robot has a first base portion fixed to a base. The second robot has a second base portion fixed to the base. In a plan view of the base, a virtual line segment connecting the first base portion and the second base portion passes between the curing unit and the maintenance unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Kumagai, Shinichi Nakamura, Tomonaga Hasegawa, Yuichiro Matsuura, Yuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 11981146
    Abstract: A drainage container configured to be attached and detached in an attachment/detachment direction to and from an apparatus including a discharge portion to discharge drainage and configured to store the drainage discharged from the discharge portion, includes: a housing that stores the drainage and includes an opening formed in an upper surface of the housing; an accepting portion that accepts the drainage discharged from the discharge portion; and a lid portion configured to open and close the opening, in which the lid portion takes on an open state to open the opening when the drainage container is attached to the apparatus, and the lid portion takes on a closed state to close the opening when the drainage container is detached from the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakata, Masahito Tatsumi
  • Patent number: 11981128
    Abstract: There are provided a substrate on which a first integrated circuit, a first transistor, a second integrated circuit, and a second transistor are disposed; a heat sink fixed to the substrate; a first heat conductive elastic body which is in contact with the heat sink and the first integrated circuit; a second heat conductive elastic body which is in contact with the heat sink and the first transistor; a third heat conductive elastic body which is in contact with the heat sink and the second integrated circuit; and a fourth heat conductive elastic body which is in contact with the heat sink and the second transistor, the heat sink has a first recess portion positioned between the first heat conductive elastic body and the second heat conductive elastic body, and a second recess portion positioned between the third heat conductive elastic body and the fourth heat conductive elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamamichi, Yusuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11981823
    Abstract: A radiation-curable ink jet composition includes a polymerizable compound component including a monofunctional monomer component and a multifunctional monomer component, a photopolymerization initiator, and titanium oxide as a white color material. The content of the monofunctional monomer component is 90 mass % or more based on the total amount of the polymerizable compound component, and the weighted average of the glass transition temperatures of homopolymers of the respective polymerizable compounds is 48° C. or more when the mass ratios of the contents of the respective polymerizable compounds are weighted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Midori Sekine, Kyohei Tanaka, Keitaro Nakano
  • Patent number: 11983381
    Abstract: A display method includes displaying a first image representing a first user and a second image representing a second user on a display surface on which a camera is arranged, obtaining information representing a position of the camera on the display surface, outputting a sound made by the first user, displaying the first image at a position, the position being closer to a position of the camera than a position at which the second image is displayed is, during a period in which the sound made by the first user is output, and transmitting an image obtained by the camera during the period in which the sound made by the first user is output, to a terminal device used by the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Ano
  • Patent number: 11983393
    Abstract: An image processing method includes displaying a first screen on a display surface, the first screen including at least a part of a drawing area in which at least one object image drawn by a user is arranged, excluding an area in which at least a part of an object image included in the first screen is arranged from the drawing area when an operation of erasing the at least a part of the object is received, and displaying a reduced screen on the display surface when an operation is received, the reduced screen being obtained by reducing a whole of the drawing area into a size of the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Tomotoshi, Toshiki Fujimori
  • Patent number: 11983449
    Abstract: A cartridge providing system includes a printer ejecting, onto a printing medium, a liquid (recording material) supplied from a cartridge, and a server managing provision of the cartridge to a plurality of users that use the printer. The server determines whether an unused stock, which is a stock that remains unused for a first period or longer, is present in a stock of cartridges held by each of the plurality of users. In a case in which it is determined that an unused stock is present in the stock held by a first user of the plurality of users, when a period until a usage expiry date of the unused stock is less than a first threshold value, the server specifies a second user, of the plurality of users, to be provided with the unused stock, based on user stock data in which the stock of cartridges held by the user is registered, and on usage amount data indicating a usage amount of the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Yonekubo, Shigenori Nakagawa, Yoshihisa Horikawa
  • Patent number: 11981138
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a storage portion that stores a learned model obtained by performing machine learning on a maintenance condition for a print head based on a data set in which nozzle surface image information obtained by photographing a nozzle plate surface of the print head and maintenance information representing necessity of maintenance of the print head or a recommended execution timing of the maintenance are associated with each other, an acquisition portion that acquires the nozzle surface image information, and a processing portion that outputs the maintenance information based on the nozzle surface image information and the learned model at a timing before a discharge defect of the print head occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kazunaga Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240149588
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a printing material cartridge that accommodates a printing material and has an identification portion on which identification information for identifying the printing material cartridge is recorded; a printing apparatus including a cartridge mounting portion in which the printing material cartridge is mounted, an apparatus reading portion that is formed inside the cartridge mounting portion and optically reads the identification portion, a consumption value calculation portion that calculates a consumption value indicating a consumption amount of the printing material, and an apparatus storage portion; and a server apparatus that includes a server storage portion and is communicatively connected to the printing apparatus, in which the consumption value is stored in any one storage portion of the apparatus storage portion and the server storage portion in association with the identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki FUKASAWA
  • Publication number: 20240149590
    Abstract: A printing material cartridge mounted by being inserted into a cartridge mounting portion of a printing apparatus, includes: an identification portion on which identification information for identifying the printing material cartridge is recorded, in which the identification portion is formed at a readable position that is optically readable by a reading portion formed inside a cartridge mounting portion of the printing apparatus in an insertion process of inserting the printing material cartridge into the cartridge mounting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki FUKASAWA
  • Publication number: 20240149589
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a printing material cartridge that accommodates a printing material and has an identification portion on which identification information for identifying the printing material cartridge is recorded; a printing apparatus including a cartridge mounting portion in which the printing material cartridge is mounted, and an apparatus reading portion that is formed inside the cartridge mounting portion and optically reads the identification portion; a compatibility determination portion that determines whether or not the printing material cartridge is compatible with the cartridge mounting portion by using the identification information obtained by reading the identification portion with the apparatus reading portion; and a portable terminal including a terminal display portion that displays the identification information obtained by reading the identification portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki FUKASAWA
  • Publication number: 20240155089
    Abstract: A method of controlling a projector includes performing tiling projection in a first area and a second area by a first projector and a first projector group projecting image light beams in the first area and the second projector group projecting image light beams in the second area, performing first adjustment processing of applying a second adjustment amount smaller than a first adjustment amount to the first projector group and projecting the image light beams when projection by the first projector stops and first processing is selected, and performing second adjustment processing of applying a third adjustment amount no larger than a difference between the first adjustment amount and the second adjustment amount to the first projector group after the first adjustment processing, and projecting the image light beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji KAWADA
  • Patent number: 11977794
    Abstract: An information processing device connecting to a print server via a network and connectable to a printing device is provided. The information processing device determines whether the printing device is a compatible printing device compatible with the print server or an incompatible printing device incompatible with the print server, and causes registration processing corresponding to a result of the determination to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Genki Nozaki, Hideyoshi Itokawa, Motomu Miyajima, Tomoki Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 11976415
    Abstract: A storage portion includes a case which includes an internal space configured to accommodate raw material pieces having fibers, a discharge pipe coupled to a side wall of the case, and a transport motor which rotates the discharge pipe on an axis, in which one end in an axial direction of the discharge pipe communicates with the internal space and the other end has an outlet for discharging the raw material pieces, and a spiral member is provided on an inner peripheral surface of the discharge pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Motohashi, Makoto Sato, Takashi Abe
  • Patent number: 11978745
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a pixel electrode disposed in a display area, a first wiring line, a second wiring line, an insulating layer disposed between the first wiring line and the second wiring line, a capacitor disposed in the display area, and including a first electrode, a capacitance insulation film, and a second electrode stacked in this order on the second wiring layer side surface of the insulating layer, with the first electrode being electrically connected to the second wiring line, and a relay electrode disposed outside the display area, and through the insulating layer, contacted with the first wiring line at the insulating layer side surface of the first wiring layer line and the second wiring line at an opposite side surface of the second wiring line with respect to the insulating layer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 11977789
    Abstract: A display screen generation apparatus includes: an acquisition portion acquiring for each of a plurality of print products produced through a plurality of processes, progress of the processes; and a display portion generating a display screen that displays for each of the plurality of print products, the process waiting to be executed, the process being executed, the process already executed, and the process not intended to be executed in a distinguishable manner from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Minamihara, Kana Ogawa, Toshiaki Kimura, Yoshiki Katsuma, Yuto Fukuchi, Ayako Kobayashi, Satoru Ono, Yuichi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11979526
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes an operation panel and a controller configured to control display of the operation panel. The controller is configured to cause a first button, a second button, and a display area for displaying a numerical value received by a first operation on one or both of the first button and the second button to be displayed on the operation panel. In response to receiving a second operation on the first button or the second button, the controller is configured to change the amount of change in the numerical value to be received by the first operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kikuo Ueno