Patents by Inventor Atsuhiko Takeuchi

Atsuhiko Takeuchi 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: 11192391
    Abstract: A feeding tray includes a first member supported, via a housing member, by a main body of a recording device configured to perform recording onto a medium, and a second member that includes a second support surface configured to support the medium and is coupled to the first member to be movable relatively to the first member, with a transport direction of the medium being a movement direction. The second member includes a second frame body forming an outer peripheral portion of the second member, and a plurality of second ribs spanning across the second frame body to form the second support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Taketsugu, Tsuyoshi Himeno, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Kenjiro Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11165920
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-function printer including a driving roller provided in a read transport path including a paper feeding port and a paper discharging port, the driving roller being configured to transport paper, another driving roller provided in a transport path, the other driving roller being configured to transport paper, a reading unit configured to read a surface of the paper transported by the driving roller, a printing unit configured to perform printing onto the paper being transported by the other driving roller, a read controller configured to control the driving roller and the reading unit, and a print controller configured to control the other driving roller and the printing unit. The driving roller, the paper feeding port, the paper discharging port, and the reading unit are disposed in a downstream of the printing unit in a transport direction at a position of printing by the printing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Nakano, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Hitoshi Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20210229474
    Abstract: A recording device includes a recording head configured to discharge a liquid as a droplet, a carriage on which the recording head is mounted, a driving unit that causes the carriage to reciprocate along a guide shaft, and a control board on which a semiconductor element is mounted. In a state in which the carriage is positioned at one end of the guide shaft, the control board is disposed below the carriage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Mitsuru MURATA, Yosuke NAKANO, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Katsuhiko OTANI
  • Publication number: 20210213762
    Abstract: A recording device includes a main body including a recording unit configured to perform recording on a medium pulled out from a roll body including the medium wound around a core member, and a leg part configured to support the main body from an installation surface on which the main body is installed. The leg part includes contact parts configured to make contact with the installation surface at respective positions different from each other. The contact parts include three reference contact parts located on a same plane and one movable contact part. The movable contact part is coupled with the main body through an elastic member that is elastically deformable in a direction that intersects the plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Keiichi Yato, Yosuke Nakano, Atsuhiko Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20210197587
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head configured to discharge a liquid onto a medium being transported in a transport direction, a platen disposed facing the recording head, and supporting the medium at a front face side, and a reinforcing member of a plate-like shape supporting the platen, in which the reinforcing member includes a first plate portion having a first face facing a back face of the platen, and a second plate portion bent, with respect to the first plate portion, in a direction intersecting the transport direction and opposite to the platen, in which a convex portion protruding from a side of the first face toward the platen is provided at an edge portion of a bent section between the first plate portion and the second plate portion, and the platen is supported at a top portion of the convex portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Junki AKAMA, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Ryuji MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210178780
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a housing having a feeding port through which a medium is introduced into the housing, a feeding tray for supporting the medium fed through the feeding port, and a rotary damper configured to generate torque, in which the feeding tray includes a rotation shaft about which the feeding tray is rotatable, relative to the housing, between a close position at which the feeding tray holds the feeding port in a close state and an open position at which the feeding tray holds the feeding port in an open state, and the rotation shaft and the rotary damper are interlocked with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Eiji TAKETSUGU, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Shun ITO
  • Publication number: 20210099584
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-function printer including a driving roller provided in a read transport path including a paper feeding port and a paper discharging port, the driving roller being configured to transport paper, another driving roller provided in a transport path, the other driving roller being configured to transport paper, a reading unit configured to read a surface of the paper transported by the driving roller, a printing unit configured to perform printing onto the paper being transported by the other driving roller, a read controller configured to control the driving roller and the reading unit, and a print controller configured to control the other driving roller and the printing unit. The driving roller, the paper feeding port, the paper discharging port, and the reading unit are disposed in a downstream of the printing unit in a transport direction at a position of printing by the printing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yosuke NAKANO, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Hitoshi IGARASHI
  • Patent number: 10897547
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-function printer including a driving roller provided in a read transport path including a paper feeding port and a paper discharging port, the driving roller being configured to transport paper, another driving roller provided in a transport path, the other driving roller being configured to transport paper, a reading unit configured to read a surface of the paper transported by the driving roller, a printing unit configured to perform printing onto the paper being transported by the other driving roller, a read controller configured to control the driving roller and the reading unit, and a print controller configured to control the other driving roller and the printing unit. The driving roller, the paper feeding port, the paper discharging port, and the reading unit are disposed in a downstream of the printing unit in a transport direction at a position of printing by the printing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Nakano, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Hitoshi Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20200307245
    Abstract: A recording device includes a transport unit, a recording unit configured to move in a first direction and a second direction which is an opposite direction to the first direction, an mounting portion, and a tube including a fixed end fixed at a position downstream of the mounting portion in a liquid supply direction and a movable end movable with respect to the fixed end in the first direction, the movable end being coupled to the recording unit. The tube extends in the first direction from the movable end and extends to the fixed end after being folded back in the second direction. The transport unit includes a transport roller, and a rotation detector configured to detect rotation of the transport roller. When the recording unit is in a retracting region in the first direction, an edge end of a fold back portion of the tube overlaps the rotation detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Kazutoshi KASHIWABARA, Akimasa NOZAWA, Manato NISHI, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200307289
    Abstract: A recording device includes a leg unit that supports a base frame of a main body from a side of an installation surface. The leg unit includes four contact units that can contact the installation surface at positions different from each other, and the four contact units are constituted by three reference contact units that form a reference plane for which a relative position with respect to the base frame is defined, and one movable contact unit that can adjust a position in a height direction, which is a direction orthogonal to the reference plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Keiichi YATO, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Yosuke NAKANO, Shun ITO
  • Publication number: 20200307263
    Abstract: A feeding tray includes a first member supported, via a housing member, by a main body of a recording device configured to perform recording onto a medium, and a second member that includes a second support surface configured to support the medium and is coupled to the first member to be movable relatively to the first member, with a transport direction of the medium being a movement direction. The second member includes a second frame body forming an outer peripheral portion of the second member, and a plurality of second ribs spanning across the second frame body to form the second support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Eiji TAKETSUGU, Tsuyoshi HIMENO, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Kenjiro ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20200304649
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-function printer including a driving roller provided in a read transport path including a paper feeding port and a paper discharging port, the driving roller being configured to transport paper, another driving roller provided in a transport path, the other driving roller being configured to transport paper, a reading unit configured to read a surface of the paper transported by the driving roller, a printing unit configured to perform printing onto the paper being transported by the other driving roller, a read controller configured to control the driving roller and the reading unit, and a print controller configured to control the other driving roller and the printing unit. The driving roller, the paper feeding port, the paper discharging port, and the reading unit are disposed in a downstream of the printing unit in a transport direction at a position of printing by the printing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Yosuke NAKANO, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Hitoshi IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20200270085
    Abstract: A transport device unwinds a medium from a roll body to which a shaft member is mounted and transports the medium. The transport device includes an accommodation portion configured to accommodate the roll body, a main body portion to which the accommodation portion is mounted, and a roller pair configured to nip the medium. The accommodation portion and the main body portion are relatively movable. The main body portion includes a rack configured to engage with a gear of the shaft member. The rack is engaged with the gear when the accommodation portion moves relative to the main body portion to be pulled out of the main body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Haruna TAKAHASHI, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Yosuke NAKANO, Shun ITO, Keiichi YATO
  • Publication number: 20200223234
    Abstract: A recording apparatus is provided with a transport roller pair which transports a medium toward a recorder, a feed roller which transports the medium toward the transport roller pair, and a controller which controls the transport roller pair and the feed roller. The controller is capable of executing a combined skew rectification mode which executes one of a first skew rectification operation in which a leading end of the medium abuts the transport roller pair using backward rotation of the transport roller pair and forward rotation of the feed roller and a second skew rectification operation in which the transport roller pair to rotate backward without driving the feed roller and discharges the leading end of the medium to the upstream side of the transport roller pair, and subsequently executes the other of the skew rectification operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Tatsuya SHIRANE, Narihiro OKI, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Hitoshi IGARASHI, Junki AKAMA, Sho ARUGA
  • Patent number: 10525751
    Abstract: In a liquid ejecting apparatus, a cover member, which is provided so that a part thereof is located in an external region of a housing and is displaceable between a closed position where a pouring port pouring a liquid is not exposed and an opened position where the pouring port is exposed, is at a position different from a position where the cover member overlaps an apparatus main body in a case where the apparatus main body is viewed from an upper surface of an image reading device at the opened position, and a liquid containing portion is provided at a position where at least a part of a liquid replenishment member connected to the pouring port overlaps the image reading device in a case where the apparatus main body is viewed from the side surface when the cover member is located at the opened position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Atsuhiko Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10500874
    Abstract: In a support member that is disposed to face a liquid emitting head and supports a medium, in a first region through which an edge of a first medium in a medium width direction passes, a liquid receiving portion is provided which receives a liquid emitted on a region deviated from the edge of the first medium in the medium width direction, and in a second region as a region through which an edge of a second medium in which a size thereof in the medium width direction is larger than that of the first medium passes, an absorbing material disposing portion at which a liquid absorbing material which absorbs the liquid guided from the liquid receiving portion is disposed to be capable of being exposed from an upper side of the support member is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Otsuka, Yosuke Nakano, Eiji Taketsugu, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Kazuhisa Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20190193438
    Abstract: In a liquid ejecting apparatus, a cover member, which is provided so that a part thereof is located in an external region of a housing and is displaceable between a closed position where a pouring port pouring a liquid is not exposed and an opened position where the pouring port is exposed, is at a position different from a position where the cover member overlaps an apparatus main body in a case where the apparatus main body is viewed from an upper surface of an image reading device at the opened position, and a liquid containing portion is provided at a position where at least a part of a liquid replenishment member connected to the pouring port overlaps the image reading device in a case where the apparatus main body is viewed from the side surface when the cover member is located at the opened position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Atsuhiko Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20190092051
    Abstract: In a support member that is disposed to face a liquid emitting head and supports a medium, in a first region through which an edge of a first medium in a medium width direction passes, a liquid receiving portion is provided which receives a liquid emitted on a region deviated from the edge of the first medium in the medium width direction, and in a second region as a region through which an edge of a second medium in which a size thereof in the medium width direction is larger than that of the first medium passes, an absorbing material disposing portion at which a liquid absorbing material which absorbs the liquid guided from the liquid receiving portion is disposed to be capable of being exposed from an upper side of the support member is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuo OTSUKA, Yosuke NAKANO, Eiji TAKETSUGU, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Kazuhisa KAWAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10195881
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a switching mechanism which switches a motive force transmission state from a motive force source, includes a sun gear which is driven by the motive force source, a planet gear which performs planetary motion around the sun gear, a rotational movement member which causes the planet gear to perform planetary motion by rotationally moving, and a regulating member which engages with a regulated portion which is provided in the rotational movement member to restrict the rotational movement of the rotational movement member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Nakano, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Tomoko Shirai, Yoshiyuki Okazawa
  • Patent number: 10173427
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage which includes a recording head that performs recording on a medium and is movable in a predetermined direction; and a power supply unit that supplies power for driving drive targets including the carriage, wherein the power supply unit is located at a position in a movement area of the carriage. The power supply unit is disposed on an apparatus front side with respect to the movement area of the carriage in an apparatus depth direction, which is a direction intersecting the movement direction of the carriage. The power supply unit is disposed on an upper side of a medium transportation path in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Shirota, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Kazunori Takabayashi