Patents Assigned to Seiko Instruments Inc.
  • Patent number: 12607227
    Abstract: To provide a rolling bearing capable of ensuring durability and reducing rotational resistance. The rolling bearing includes an inner ring and an outer ring disposed coaxially with each other; a rolling body disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring; a sealing member mounted on the outer ring and covering a space between the inner ring and the outer ring from an outer side in an axial direction; and grease disposed between the rolling body and the sealing member. The outer ring has an inner circumferential surface facing the inner ring. The inner circumferential surface is formed with an outer ring raceway surface that supports the rolling body in a rollable manner, and a recessed portion that is provided at a location extending in the axial direction from an end edge of the outer ring raceway surface in the axial direction and is recessed in a radial direction. The grease is in contact with the recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Iino, Takayuki Kosaka, Haruhiko Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12600146
    Abstract: A control device includes: a print data acquisition unit configured to acquire print data, which is formed of a plurality of lines and indicates a coloration state of each pixel included in the plurality of lines; a head drive unit configured to supply, to a thermal head formed of a plurality of heating elements each corresponding to the pixel, an electric current for heating the thermal head for each pixel; a motor drive unit configured to supply, to a motor configured to move heat-sensitive paper relative to the thermal head, a drive current for step driving the motor for each line; a speed control unit configured to control, based on the number of colored pixels of a determination subject line among yet-to-be-printed lines of the print data, a relative moving speed of the heat-sensitive paper moved by the motor; and a preheating control unit configured to cause the head drive unit to output, when the determination subject line is a specific line being a line in which the number of colored pixels of the det
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio Kitamura, Daisuke Yoshida, Ryuji Uno, Koichi Hatakeyama, Hiroaki Kondo, Ryota Naka, Takahiro Hisada
  • Patent number: 12590606
    Abstract: To provide a rolling bearing excellent in long-term durability. A rolling bearing includes: an inner ring and an outer ring disposed coaxially with each other; a rolling element disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring; a seal member mounted on the outer ring and configured to cover a space between the inner ring and the outer ring from an outside in an axial direction; and grease disposed between the rolling element and the seal member. The grease is in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the outer ring and the seal member. Unworked penetration of the grease is more than 178 and less than 287.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Iino, Misato Hanaoka
  • Patent number: 12533891
    Abstract: A printer is configured to perform printing on a linerless label including a pressure-sensitive adhesive surface formed on a back surface of the linerless label. The printer includes: a casing including: a receiving portion configured to receive the linerless label before printing; and a delivery slot through which the printed linerless label is delivered; a printing unit including: a thermal head, which is arranged inside the casing, and is configured to perform printing on the linerless label; and a platen roller, which extends in a width direction of the linerless label, and is configured to convey the linerless label toward the delivery slot while sandwiching the linerless label between the platen roller and the thermal head; and a sensor configured to detect the linerless label located between the printing unit and the delivery slot. The casing includes a guide surface to be opposed to the pressure-sensitive adhesive surface of the linerless label that has passed through the printing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Murata
  • Patent number: 12454983
    Abstract: The rolling bearing includes an inner ring and an outer ring that are disposed coaxially with each other, a rolling body that is disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, and a resin cover that is mounted on the outer ring. The outer ring has an outer circumferential surface that faces an opposite side of the inner ring, and an end surface that faces an axial direction. The resin cover has a circumferential wall portion that covers the outer circumferential surface, and a flange portion that is connected to the circumferential wall portion and covers the end surface. The flange portion has an opening portion formation region that has a constant width in a radial direction, extends over an entire circumference, and is formed with opening portions that expose the end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Iino, Takayuki Kosaka, Haruhiko Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12447759
    Abstract: A portable terminal has a thermal head. The portable terminal includes a first sensor unit configured to detect presence or absence of a sheet, a second sensor unit configured to detect information related to a mark provided on the sheet, and a sheet determination unit configured to determine a kind of the sheet. The sheet determination unit is configured to determine a kind of the sheet based on a result of detecting information related to the mark with use of the second sensor unit after the sheet is conveyed in a reverse direction with respect to a direction of discharging the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Yohei Ishidoya, Shohei Nomura, Koki Yoshida, Soshiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 12432305
    Abstract: A printing system includes a portable terminal including a thermal head; and a host device configured to control label printing performed by the portable terminal. The host device includes a label generation module configured to generate the new label by adjusting, based on information relating to an object included in existing label data and a size of a new label, one or both of a position and a size of the object in the new label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Dong Yang
  • Patent number: 12344008
    Abstract: A printing unit includes: a platen roller configured to convey a recording sheet; a thermal head configured to perform printing on the recording sheet through press contact with an outer peripheral surface of the platen roller; a motor configured to serve as a drive source of the platen roller; and a frame configured to support the platen roller in a rotatable manner, wherein the frame includes: a motor support portion configured to support the motor; a base portion which is connected to the motor support portion, and extends in an axial direction of the platen roller; mounting portions which are attached to a member on which the printing unit is to be mounted; a protruding portion which protrudes from the base portion; and a rib which is provided between the motor support portion and the mounting portions, and extends so as to connect the protruding portion and the base portion to each other, wherein the base portion includes a guide surface configured to guide the recording sheet toward the thermal head, an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Takumi Seino, Kouhei Miyawaki
  • Patent number: 12338860
    Abstract: Provided is a rolling bearing that can both ensure durability and reduce rotational resistance. The rolling bearing includes a seal member that is mounted on an outer ring and that covers a space between an inner ring and the outer ring from an outer side in an axial direction, and grease disposed between a rolling element and the seal member. The seal member includes an annular pedestal portion in contact with the outer ring from an outer side in the axial direction, an extending portion that extends outward in the axial direction from an inner peripheral edge of the pedestal portion, and a flat surface portion that extends along a radial direction from an end edge of the extending portion on an outer side in the axial direction toward the inner ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro Iino, Takayuki Kosaka, Haruhiko Hasegawa, Daisuke Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12333193
    Abstract: A terminal which is included in a printing system including the terminal device and a printer separately or integrally, the terminal device includes an image generation determination unit configured to determine, when the printer used for printing has a page mode function, an approach for generating a print image for the printing such that use of the page mode function of the printer is given priority; and a command conversion unit configured to convert, when the image generation determination unit determines that the approach for generating the print image uses the page mode function of the printer, print target data to be printed into a command corresponding to the page mode function of the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Yuta Sato
  • Patent number: 12326173
    Abstract: To provide a rolling bearing and a rotating device which can reduce problems due to creep or the like, and a method for manufacturing a rolling bearing. A rolling bearing includes: an inner ring and an outer ring disposed coaxially with each other; and a rolling element disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring. A coating film is formed on at least one of an inner circumferential surface of the inner ring and an outer circumferential surface of the outer ring, and the coating film contains a mixture of calcium sulfonate and calcium carbonate or a compound obtained from calcium sulfonate and calcium carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Iino, Takayuki Kosaka, Keisuke Abo
  • Patent number: 12280607
    Abstract: A printing unit includes: a platen roller, which extends in an axial direction, and is configured to convey a recording sheet; a thermal head configured to perform printing on the recording sheet through press contact with an outer peripheral surface of the platen roller; a support plate, which is arranged on a side opposite to the platen roller across the thermal head, and is configured to support the thermal head; a frame, which includes a rear plate portion arranged on a side opposite to the platen roller across the support plate, and is configured to support both ends of the support plate in the axial direction; at least one urging member, which is arranged between the rear plate portion and the support plate, and is configured to press the support plate to the platen roller side; and a protruding portion, which is formed on the support plate to protrude from the support plate to the rear plate portion side, and is configured to regulate displacement of a predetermined urging member of the at least one ur
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventor: Kouhei Miyawaki
  • Patent number: 12220907
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a user-setting-value acquiring unit configured to acquire a user setting value indicating a remaining amount of paper on a paper roll, the user setting value being set by a user; a first detection unit configured to detect that a physical quantity correlated with a remaining amount of paper on the paper roll has become equal to a first threshold value; a second detection unit configured to detect that the remaining amount of paper on the paper roll has become equal to a second threshold value; a post-detection length acquiring unit configured to acquire a post-detection length being a length of paper used from the paper roll from a time when it is detected that the physical quantity has become equal to the first threshold value until the remaining amount of paper on the paper roll becomes equal to the second threshold value; and a notification unit configured to notify that, when a new paper roll is used and a length of paper used from the new paper roll from a time when it is d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Yoshida, Yuichi Yoshigi, Hiroaki Kondo, Yoshio Kitamura, Koichi Hatakeyama, Koki Yoshida, Ryota Naka
  • Patent number: 12194738
    Abstract: A thermal printer configured to perform printing on a linerless label including an adhesive surface formed on a back surface of the linerless label, the thermal printer comprising a cutter unit that includes: a fixed blade provided on the back surface side of the linerless label; and a movable blade configured to reciprocate between a first position at which the movable blade is opposed to the fixed blade through intermediation of the linerless label, and a second position at which at least a part of the movable blade overlaps the fixed blade and the movable blade forms a cut in the linerless label, wherein the movable blade includes: a first blade edge configured to form the cut in the linerless label; and a groove, which has an edge, and is formed in a sliding surface configured to slide on the fixed blade when the movable blade is at the second position, and wherein the edge includes: an adhesive blocking edge portion formed on the sliding surface along an advancing direction; and an adhesive scraping edge
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventor: Masanori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12061443
    Abstract: A timepiece dial according to embodiments of the invention includes a base member; an exterior portion that is provided on the base member, includes a laminated body of a plurality of layers, and has translucency; and a phosphorescent material that is provided on a rear surface of the exterior portion on a side of the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Masahiro Ishida
  • Patent number: 12034160
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an accommodation container including a positive electrode can, a gasket, and a negative electrode can, and a power generation element containing an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode can is formed in a bottomed-cylindrical shape having a bottom wall portion and an outer wall portion. The negative electrode can is formed in a topped-cylindrical shape having a top wall portion and an inner wall portion. A portion of the outer wall portion located on a top wall portion side is made as a crimping portion 12b curved with a curvature radius R gradually toward an inner wall portion side as it extends from a bottom wall portion side toward an opening end edge of the outer wall portion. A diameter D of the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is set to 4.6 mm to 5.0 mm. A height H2 of the positive electrode can is set to be in a range of 74% to 79% of a height H1 of the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Onodera
  • Patent number: 11964475
    Abstract: A thermal printer includes: a roll sheet receiving portion; and a delivery slot through which a portion of the recording sheet drawn from the roll sheet is delivered to an outside of the thermal printer; a printing unit including: a thermal head; and a platen roller configured to convey the recording sheet toward the delivery slot while sandwiching the recording sheet between the thermal head and the platen roller; a flap provided on a portion of the casing between the printing unit and the roll sheet receiving portion so as to be pivotable about a first axis, and configured to press the roll sheet in a direction of separating away from the delivery slot through abutment against an outer peripheral surface of the roll sheet; and an urging member configured to urge the flap about the first axis in the direction of separating away from the delivery slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventor: Toshihiro Hirama
  • Patent number: 11929640
    Abstract: A stator includes a magnetic plate material that has a main plate surface that is a surface to face a main plate of a movement when assembled to the main plate and that has a rotor accommodating hole formed in a part thereof; and a non-magnetic region that is made non-magnetic by applying chromium on the main plate surface around the rotor accommodating hole and irradiating the chromium with a laser from the main plate surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Kosuke Yamamoto, Shinji Kinoshita, Hitoshi Takeuchi, Tatsuya Omura
  • Patent number: D1022033
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventor: Kohei Miyawaki
  • Patent number: D1024184
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventor: Hiromi Chida