Patents Assigned to Seiko Epson
  • Patent number: 11979524
    Abstract: An image forming device includes: a scanner section; a print section; an operation panel; a communication section configured to communicate with a cloud server; and a controller, wherein the controller transmits document data scanned by using the scanner section to the cloud server and causes the cloud server to store the document data in storage in accordance with an operation performed on the operation panel, and when the document data is specified in accordance with data identifying the document data kept in the storage of the cloud server in accordance with an operation performed on the operation panel, the controller displays a two-dimensional code enabling access to the document data stored in the storage of the cloud server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Norihiko Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11979138
    Abstract: A quartz crystal resonator includes a quartz crystal resonator element, a thermistor, and a package base having a first principal surface and a second principal surface having an opposed surface relationship with each other, the quartz crystal resonator element is mounted on the first principal surface side, the thermistor is housed in a recessed section of the second principal surface side of the package base, a plurality of electrode terminals connected to the quartz crystal resonator element or the thermistor is disposed on the second principal surface side of the package base, and a distance in a first direction perpendicular to the first principal surface from a mounting surface of the electrode terminals to the thermistor is equal to or longer than 0.05 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Go Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11975454
    Abstract: A program generation device generating an operation program causing a robot to execute a task is provided. The program generation device includes: a display control unit displaying an input screen including an operation block, display area where an operation block relating to an operation of the robot is displayed, an operation block arrangement area where the operation block selected from the operation block display area is arranged to generate the operation program, and a text display area where the operation program is displayed in a text format; and a text editing unit editing the operation program in the text format and displaying the edited operation program in the text display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Hagio, Akifumi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11979530
    Abstract: There is configured a carrying device including a sensor for detecting presence of a medium, a carrying mechanism capable of making the transition between a carrying state capable of carrying the medium and a retreat state incapable of carrying the medium, and a processor, wherein when making the transition to a power-off state, the processor sets power off in the retreat state when the sensor detects the medium, and sets the power off in the carrying state when the sensor does not detect the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11975531
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a cutter unit that includes a first blade that moves in a first direction from a standby position to a cutting position to cut a printing medium and a drive pin that moves integrally with the first blade, a drive cam which has a cylindrical shape and on a side surface of which a guide groove engaged with the drive pin is provided, and a driving motor that rotates the drive cam, in which, when the drive cam rotates, the guide groove guides, via the drive pin, the first blade in the first direction from the standby position to the cutting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Ryohei Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11979531
    Abstract: A scanner includes an apparatus main body, a stand, and a switching mechanism. The apparatus main body includes a transport unit that transports a document along a transport path, and a reading unit that reads an image of the document. The stand supports the apparatus main body. The switching mechanism switches the posture of the apparatus main body with respect to the stand so that the transport path extends along an intersecting direction intersecting an installation surface. The switching mechanism includes a switching motor that imparts a driving force to the apparatus main body when switching the posture. The switching motor is located inside the apparatus main body on the lower side of the transport path in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Koyanagi, Keiichiro Fukumasu
  • Patent number: 11975537
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus including an ejector configured to eject a liquid with displacement of a piezoelectric element, a generator configured to generate a driving signal, which has a first waveform, for displacing the piezoelectric element in a first direction, and a second waveform, for displacing the piezoelectric element in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a detector configured to detect a vibration remaining in the ejector in a detection time period starting after completion of the second time period. The difference between a duration from the first time point to the second time point and a duration that is a natural number times the period of a vibration produced in the ejector is shorter than one quarter times the period of the vibration produced in the ejector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Shinkawa
  • Patent number: 11975532
    Abstract: Provided are: a holding unit configured to rotatably hold a roll body on which a medium is wound; a transport unit configured to transport the medium unwound from the roll body; a tension applying unit configured to press the medium between the holding unit and the transport unit to apply tension to the medium; a driving portion configured to provide driving force to the tension applying unit; a control unit configured to control the transport unit and the driving portion; and a detector configured to detect a load applied to the transport unit, and the control unit controls the driving force by the driving portion on the basis of the load detected by the detector to adjust the tension applied to the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Fujiwara, Ryo Hamano
  • Patent number: 11975538
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a plurality of ejecting unit groups each including nozzles configured to eject liquid. The ejecting unit group configured to eject a liquid to be used in the printing is referred to as a to-be-used ejecting unit group. The ejecting unit group configured to eject a liquid not to be used in the printing is referred to as the non-use ejecting unit group. In a print mode with a non-use nozzle group in which any of the plurality of kinds of liquids is not used, the driving elements of the to-be-used ejecting unit group is supplied with the in-printing micro-vibration pulse in a period without ejection of the ink, and the driving elements of the non-use ejecting unit group is not supplied with the micro-vibration pulse even in the period without ejection of the ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichiro Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11975542
    Abstract: A liquid absorber of the present disclosure includes: a first base material; a second base material; and an absorption layer provided between the first base material and the second base material, in which the first base material and the second base material both contain a flame-retardant filament nonwoven fabric, and a content of a flame retardant in the absorption layer is less than 10% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hidehiro Takano
  • Patent number: 11975937
    Abstract: A feeding unit includes: a retard roller; a holder section; a protruding section; an accommodating section; a pressing section; a first restricting section; and a second restricting section. The holder section rotatably holds the retard roller. The protruding section serves as a rocking fulcrum of the holder section. The accommodating section accommodates the holder section. The pressing section presses the holder section. The first restricting section restricts movement of the holder section in a retreating direction. The second restricting section restricts movement of the holder section in a direction opposite to the retreating direction. The pressing section is arranged so as to deviate in a Y direction with respect to a virtual line passing through a middle point of the protruding section and a middle point of the first restricting section. The holder section comes into contact with the first restricting section and the second restricting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Kondo, Junko Ao
  • Patent number: 11975548
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a housing, a recording unit that is accommodated in the housing and that performs recording on a medium, a medium supply port that is provided in an upper portion of the housing, and where the medium is set to supply the medium toward the recording unit, and a medium support member that supports the medium set in the medium supply port, wherein the medium support member includes a first support member configured to be opened and closed with respect to the medium supply port and a second support member that rotatably supports the first support member, and the recording apparatus includes a biasing mechanism configured to, when the first support member is in a closed state with respect to the medium supply port, bias the first support member in a first direction toward the housing which faces a distal end portion of the first support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Saeful Azhar, Erik Hidayat
  • Patent number: 11975906
    Abstract: Provided is a cushioning material for being put into a packing box configured for encasement of electronic equipment. The cushioning material absorbs external stress applied to the electronic equipment encased in the packing box. The cushioning material includes: a first holder including a first plate configured to face the electronic equipment when the cushioning material and the electronic equipment are encased in the packing box, and a second plate configured to face an inner wall surface of the packing box when the cushioning material and the electronic equipment are encased in the packing box; and a first cushioning block provided between the first plate and the second plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Kamigaki, Sanshiro Takeshita, Haoki Fushimi
  • Patent number: 11975936
    Abstract: A printer includes a guide frame, a deforming section, and a lever member. The guide frame includes a transport path. The deforming section includes a toothed roller, a supporting holder, and a torsion spring and deforms paper. The toothed roller comes into contact with the paper discharged from the transport path. The supporting holder is configured to pivot between a first position at which the toothed roller is located on the transport path and a second position at which the toothed roller is not located on the transport path. The torsion spring presses the supporting holder from the second position to the first position. The lever member is configured to switch between a regulating state in which pivoting of the supporting holder at the first position or the second position is regulated and a non-regulating state in which pivoting of the supporting holder is not regulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Kodama
  • Patent number: 11976974
    Abstract: A spectroscopic camera includes a spectroscopic element and a light receiver, and a method for correcting the spectroscopic camera includes causing light having a first wave number from a spectroscopic light source to be incident on the spectroscopic element, causing the light receiver to receive light having a second wave number and outputted from the spectroscopic element, generating a matrix representing the spectral characteristics of the light having the second wave number based on the output from the light receiver, and generating a correction matrix based on the inverse matrix of the matrix and storing the correction matrix in a storage section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsugio Gomi
  • Patent number: 11976923
    Abstract: A physical quantity detection circuit includes: an analog/digital conversion circuit performing analog/digital conversion processing on an analog signal based on an output signal from a physical quantity detection element and outputting a first digital signal; a digital arithmetic circuit having the first digital signal inputted thereto, performing arithmetic processing on the first digital signal, and outputting a second digital signal; and a regulator circuit supplying a power-supply voltage to the analog/digital conversion circuit and the digital arithmetic circuit. The digital arithmetic circuit does not perform an arithmetic processing start operation to start the arithmetic processing and an arithmetic processing end operation to end the arithmetic processing, during an analog/digital conversion period when the analog/digital conversion is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Katsuhito Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11976204
    Abstract: A composition for aqueous ink jet contains a specific dye which is one or more coloring materials selected from the group consisting of C. I. Acid Black 172 and C. I. Acid Black 194, and a specific aromatic compound which is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulae (1) to (4) below. The content of the specific aromatic compound relative to 100 parts by mass of the specific dye is 0.2 parts by mass or more and 50 parts by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Homare Kuribayashi, Shotaro Watanabe, Kei Hiruma, Masato Hanamura, Koji Imamura, Jungo Asano
  • Patent number: 11979540
    Abstract: An image reading system includes an image reading apparatus including a transport unit configured to transport a document from a bundle of cut documents one by one, a reading unit configured to read an image of the transported document, and a reading control unit, and an external control unit included in an external device coupled to the image reading apparatus, wherein an inclination correction process that corrects an inclination of the image of the document, a size determination process that determines a size of the image as a standard for the bundle of documents, and a size correction process that corrects the size of the image of the document to a specific size determined by the size determination process are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Kohama
  • Patent number: 11979124
    Abstract: A charge amplifier includes: an input line thorough which an electric charge signal is propagated; an integration circuit including an input terminal coupled to the input line and an output terminal that outputs the voltage signal; a reset switch configured to reset the voltage signal by closing between the input terminal and the output terminal; a leakage current correction circuit including a first resistance circuit and a first switch coupled in series in this order between a first node, which has a first potential different from a potential of the input line, and the input line; and a control circuit configured to control the first switch based on the voltage signal so as to cancel at least a part of a leakage current flowing through the integration circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki Osumi
  • Patent number: 11978298
    Abstract: A magnetic sheet includes a sheet, line-shaped N first magnetic members arranged on the sheet and having magnetic properties, and line-shaped N second magnetic members arranged on the sheet and having magnetic properties, where N denotes the number of the first magnetic members and denotes the number of the second magnetic members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Sotaro Oana, Makoto Omura, Toshiaki Yamagami