Patents by Inventor Akihiro Shintani

Akihiro Shintani has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11926151
    Abstract: A winding device is capable of easily moving a flange portion to a position corresponding to a width of a continuous medium. A winding device that winds a print medium, the winding device including a winding shaft, a winding core portion that is provided to be rotatable on the winding shaft and that winds a continuous medium, a first flange portion that is provided on the winding shaft to be movable in an extending direction of the winding shaft and that guides the continuous medium wound around the winding core portion in a width direction of the continuous medium, a flange-side engaging portion capable of moving integrally with the first flange portion, and a flange moving section that includes a cylindrical cam provided with a cam-side engaging portion that engages with the flange-side engaging portion and that moves the first flange portion to a plurality of flange positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Shintani
  • Publication number: 20230331976
    Abstract: Provided is a binder product for a secondary battery that has a low tendency for aggregation to occur in a binder composition and enables formation of a functional layer having excellent adhesiveness using the binder composition even after long-term storage. The binder product includes a container having an accommodating part and a binder composition accommodated in an internal space of the accommodating part. An inner wall surface of the accommodating part has a contact angle with water of 80° or more. The binder composition contains a binder, a defoamer, and water and has a content of the defoamer of not less than 0.02 parts by mass and not more than 0.3 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the binder. The binder composition has a surface tension of not less than 20 mN/m and not more than 60 mN/m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro SHINTANI
  • Patent number: 11458751
    Abstract: A winding device includes a winding portion that winds a continuous medium, a friction roller that contacts the continuous medium while the continuous medium is being fed to the winding portion and that applies friction resistance to the continuous medium, and a roller driving portion that causes the friction roller to rotate in a direction in which the continuous medium is fed, in which the roller driving portion includes a roller gear train that transmits rotation of a feed motor, which is input via a winding-portion gear train, to the friction roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Shintani
  • Patent number: 11117404
    Abstract: A tape printing device that is vertically long and can be operated by being handheld includes a handling portion including an operating portion on a front surface and is a part to be handheld, and a main mechanism portion connected to a tip end side of the handling portion, in which the printing mechanism portion is built, in which the handling portion is formed in a constricted shape of which an intermediate portion of a longitudinal direction is constricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kubota, Akihiro Shintani, Taishi Sasaki, Haruki Sugawara, Naoya Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20210023860
    Abstract: A winding device is capable of easily moving a flange portion to a position corresponding to a width of a continuous medium. A winding device that winds a print medium, the winding device including a winding shaft, a winding core portion that is provided to be rotatable on the winding shaft and that winds a continuous medium, a first flange portion that is provided on the winding shaft to be movable in an extending direction of the winding shaft and that guides the continuous medium wound around the winding core portion in a width direction of the continuous medium, a flange-side engaging portion capable of moving integrally with the first flange portion, and a flange moving section that includes a cylindrical cam provided with a cam-side engaging portion that engages with the flange-side engaging portion and that moves the first flange portion to a plurality of flange positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro SHINTANI
  • Patent number: 10899141
    Abstract: A tape printing device that is vertically long and is able to be operated by being handheld including a handling portion that is a part to be handheld, a main mechanism portion in which a printing mechanism portion which is connected to a tip end side of the handling portion is built, and a handholding portion that is connected to a base end side of the handling portion and is used for being grabbed at the time of carrying, and the tape printing device is formed in a vertical long shape of which a ratio between the entire width of an outer shell and the entire length of the outer shell is approximately 1:2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kubota, Akihiro Shintani, Taishi Sasaki, Haruki Sugawara, Naoya Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20200384785
    Abstract: A winding device includes a winding portion that winds a continuous medium, a friction roller that contacts the continuous medium while the continuous medium is being fed to the winding portion and that applies friction resistance to the continuous medium, and a roller driving portion that causes the friction roller to rotate in a direction in which the continuous medium is fed, in which the roller driving portion includes a roller gear train that transmits rotation of a feed motor, which is input via a winding-portion gear train, to the friction roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro SHINTANI
  • Patent number: 10792941
    Abstract: A winding apparatus includes a winding core unit onto which a continuous medium is to be wound, the winding core unit having a notched portion having a shape in which a part of the winding core unit in a circumferential direction is cut out as viewed in an extending direction of the winding core unit, and a notch complementing unit to be detacheably inserted into the notched portion from one end portion side in the extending direction of the winding core unit, the notch complementing unit being configured to complement the notched portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Shintani
  • Patent number: 10797278
    Abstract: In a tape printing device including a battery housing portion, the battery housing portion includes a housing portion main body and a battery lid-which cover an opening portion of the housing portion main body, and the opening portion includes a top surface opening portion facing the bottom surface of the housing portion main body, a front surface opening portion which is formed on one peripheral wall of four peripheral walls of the housing portion main body and continues to the top surface opening portion, and reaches the bottom surface or the vicinity of the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Shintani
  • Patent number: 10730328
    Abstract: A tape cartridge mounted to a tape printer having a printing head, includes a cartridge case, a platen roller that is housed in the cartridge case and fees an ink ribbon and a printing tape pressed between the platen roller and the printing head, a tape delivery port that is provided in the cartridge case and feeds the printing tape, which is fed by the platen roller and separated from the ink ribbon, to outside of the cartridge case, and a delivery guide that has a first guide section at a side of the printing head and a second guide section at a side of the platen roller, which extend from edges of the tape delivery port to inside of the cartridge case while spreading apart from each other, and guides a distal end of the printing tape into the tape delivery port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kubota, Akihiro Shintani, Taishi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20200171844
    Abstract: A tape printing device that is vertically long and is able to be operated by being handheld including a handling portion that is a part to be handheld, a main mechanism portion in which a printing mechanism portion which is connected to a tip end side of the handling portion is built, and a handholding portion that is connected to a base end side of the handling portion and is used for being grabbed at the time of carrying, and the tape printing device is formed in a vertical long shape of which a ratio between the entire width of an outer shell and the entire length of the outer shell is approximately 1:2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Akihiro SHINTANI, Taishi SASAKI, Haruki SUGAWARA, Naoya NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200122494
    Abstract: A tape printing device that is vertically long and can be operated by being handheld includes a handling portion including an operating portion on a front surface and is a part to be handheld, and a main mechanism portion connected to a tip end side of the handling portion, in which the printing mechanism portion is built, in which the handling portion is formed in a constricted shape of which an intermediate portion of a longitudinal direction is constricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Akihiro SHINTANI, Taishi SASAKI, Haruki SUGAWARA, Naoya NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10549560
    Abstract: A tape printing device that is vertically long and can be operated by being handheld includes a handling portion including an operating portion on a front surface and is a part to be handheld, and a main mechanism portion connected to a tip end side of the handling portion, in which the printing mechanism portion is built, in which the handling portion is formed in a constricted shape of which an intermediate portion of a longitudinal direction is constricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kubota, Akihiro Shintani, Taishi Sasaki, Haruki Sugawara, Naoya Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10486436
    Abstract: A vertically long tape printing device which can be operated by being handheld includes an operating portions, and a display portion, which are disposed in a longitudinal direction of the front surface of the device, and protruding portions which are provided on the front surface of the device and protrude to the front surface of the operating portions and the front surface of the display portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kubota, Akihiro Shintani, Taishi Sasaki, Haruki Sugawara, Naoya Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20190299678
    Abstract: A winding apparatus includes a winding core unit onto which a continuous medium is to be wound, the winding core unit having a notched portion having a shape in which a part of the winding core unit in a circumferential direction is cut out as viewed in an extending direction of the winding core unit, and a notch complementing unit to be detacheably inserted into the notched portion from one end portion side in the extending direction of the winding core unit, the notch complementing unit being configured to complement the notched portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro SHINTANI
  • Patent number: 10226945
    Abstract: A tape printing device that is vertically long and can be operated by being handheld includes a main key operating portion configured with a plurality of groups of keys 215, 217, and 219 on a front surface, in which, among the plurality of groups of keys 215, 217, and 219, a group of keys 215 having a high frequency of operations is disposed at a position near a gravity center portion in a longitudinal direction, and the groups of keys 217 and 219 having a low frequency of operations are disposed at a position distant from the gravity center portion in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kubota, Taishi Sasaki, Akihiro Shintani, Haruki Sugawara, Naoya Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10189276
    Abstract: A tape printing device that is vertically long and can be operated by being handheld includes a main key operating portion configured with a plurality of groups of keys 215, 217, and 219 on a front surface, in which, among the plurality of groups of keys 215, 217, and 219, a group of keys 215 having a high frequency of operations is disposed at a position near a gravity center portion in a longitudinal direction, and the groups of keys 217 and 219 having a low frequency of operations are disposed at a position distant from the gravity center portion in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kubota, Taishi Sasaki, Akihiro Shintani, Haruki Sugawara, Naoya Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10131158
    Abstract: A tape printing device that is able to be operated by being handheld includes a printing device main body that includes operating portions and a display portion on a front surface, and a pair of magnets that is detachably mounted on a rear surface of the printing device main body and is used for being adsorbed to an object to be installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kubota, Akihiro Shintani, Taishi Sasaki, Haruki Sugawara, Naoya Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9956798
    Abstract: A tape printing device or the like in which the loading of a tape cartridge can be detected and in which the misalignment of the loaded tape cartridge can be restrained at the same time, is provided. A tape printing device includes: a cartridge loading section in which a tape cartridge is loaded in an unloadable manner; a push switch which is provided in the cartridge loading section and detects the loaded tape cartridge. The push switch has a stem which is energized in a protruding direction by a build-in spring, and the stem in an actuated state energizes the loaded tape cartridge in a direction intersecting with a loading direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Sakano, Akihiro Shintani
  • Publication number: 20180086123
    Abstract: A tape cartridge mounted to a tape printer having a printing head, includes a cartridge case, a platen roller that is housed in the cartridge case and fees an ink ribbon and a printing tape pressed between the platen roller and the printing head, a tape delivery port that is provided in the cartridge case and feeds the printing tape, which is fed by the platen roller and separated from the ink ribbon, to outside of the cartridge case, and a delivery guide that has a first guide section at a side of the printing head and a second guide section at a side of the platen roller, which extend from edges of the tape delivery port to inside of the cartridge case while spreading apart from each other, and guides a distal end of the printing tape into the tape delivery port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KUBOTA, Akihiro SHINTANI, Taishi SASAKI