Patents by Inventor Atsushi Imamura

Atsushi Imamura 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: 11376876
    Abstract: A printing apparatus (printer) is provided in which a base material is conveyed by a roll-to-roll method and feedback control is performed on a tension imposed on the base material, and which includes a control unit, a first drive motor (front drive motor) configured to control a speed of conveyance of conveying the base material, and a second drive motor (feeding motor, rear drive motor, winding motor) configured to control the tension imposed on the base material. In a case where a conveyance operation for conveying the base material is stopped based on detection of a foreign object, and when a speed of the first drive motor is at a predetermined value or less, the control unit stops the tension control performed by the second drive motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Yamada, Atsushi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20220204453
    Abstract: Provided are a heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1 and Formula 2, an organic light-emitting device including the heterocyclic compound, and an electronic apparatus including the organic light-emitting device: wherein, in Formula 1 and Formula 2, the substituents may be understood by referring to the detailed description.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Eigo MIYAZAKI, Satoshi INAYAMA, Atsushi IMAMURA, Hosuk Kang, Sangmo Kim, Mitsunori ITO
  • Patent number: 11373293
    Abstract: A method for building an image determination model that determines whether a print image is a good image or a failure image includes a step of determining whether the print image is a high-density image or a low-density image; a step of generating teaching data by combining pseudo-failure data with to-be-combined image data, based on a result of the determination; and a step of performing machine learning. Regarding the combining of the pseudo-failure data, for a print image determined to be the high-density image, low-density pseudo-failure data is combined with to-be-combined image data, and for a print image determined to be the low-density image, high-density pseudo-failure data is combined with to-be-combined image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Imamura, Kazuhiro Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11373854
    Abstract: A device for emitting ultraviolet light includes at least one excimer lamp and a housing for the excimer lamp(s). Each excimer lamp has a discharge vessel filled with light-emitting gases, and a pair of first and second electrodes that are placed in contact with the discharge vessel and produce a dielectric barrier discharge inside the discharge vessel. The housing is made of an insulating and heat-resistant resin material. The housing is configured to house the excimer lamp(s), and has a light-emitting window that allows light with a center wavelength in a range from 200 nm to 230 nm emitted from the excimer lamp(s) to exit from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Yagyu, Atsushi Imamura, Manabu Mori
  • Patent number: 11339051
    Abstract: An ozone generating device including an excimer lamp having an arc tube containing a luminescent gas, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The arc tube has a first end portion and a second end portion, a first diameter-reduced portion provided continuously from the first end portion, a diameter of which decreases as a distance from the first end portion increases, and a second diameter-reduced portion provided continuously from the second end portion, a diameter of which decreases as a distance from the second end portion increases, the first electrode is provided for an outer periphery surface of the first end portion, the second electrode is provided for an outer periphery surface of the second end portion, the arc tube is fixed via the cylindrical portion, and the first electrode is not provided over the first diameter-reduced portion, and/or the second electrode is not provided over the second diameter-reduced portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Imamura, Kazuhiro Goto
  • Publication number: 20220091796
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head part, an encoder, a tension sensor, a head part temperature sensor, an edge sensor, an estimation part, a storage, and an output part. The estimation part estimates print quality in terms of a page printed by the head part on the basis of variation elements detected by the encoder, the tension sensor, the head part temperature sensor, and the edge sensor. The storage stores print quality information containing the printed page and the print quality estimated by the estimation part in association with each other. The output part outputs the print quality information to a display, a post-processing device, and a printer controller section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Seiya Nomura, Atsushi IMAMURA, Tomotaka KATO
  • Publication number: 20220068627
    Abstract: A device for emitting ultraviolet light includes at least one excimer lamp and a housing for the excimer lamp(s). Each excimer lamp has a discharge vessel filled with light-emitting gases, and a pair of first and second electrodes that are placed in contact with the discharge vessel and produce a dielectric barrier discharge inside the discharge vessel. The housing is made of an insulating and heat-resistant resin material. The housing is configured to house the excimer lamp(s), and has a light-emitting window that allows light with a center wavelength in a range from 200 nm to 230 nm emitted from the excimer lamp(s) to exit from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki YAGYU, Atsushi IMAMURA, Manabu MORI
  • Publication number: 20210184132
    Abstract: Provided is a compound that has a long pot life of a solution and is able to achieve low driving voltage, high efficiency, and long lifespan of an organic electroluminescent device. The present disclosure relates to a compound having a triphenyl triazine structural moiety and including a group that has a structure in which a substituted or unsubstituted carbazole group and a predetermined number of carbazole rings are directly bonded via a single bond, as described in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Keisuke KORAI, Atsushi IMAMURA, Jhunmo SON, Masaru KINOSHITA, Mitsunori ITO, Norifumi KISHI, Rie SAKURAI, Shiro IRISA, Masaki NUMATA
  • Patent number: 11027564
    Abstract: In a printing apparatus, a controller is configured to control a printing unit such that printing is started after a transport distance of the substrate reaches a pre-discharge transport distance, in which the pre-discharge transport distance is set to a value not less than a first longest distance, provided that a transport distance in a condition in which the transport distance is a longest distance among conditions 1, 2, and 3 provided below is the first longest distance. Condition 1: a transport distance until a region of the substrate that was nipped between a front driving roller and a nip roller passes through a printing head disposed most downstream in a transport path of the substrate, Condition 2: a transport distance until a transport speed of the substrate becomes constant, and Condition 3: a transport distance until tension of the substrate being transported becomes stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Imamura, Jun Yamada, Masashi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20210009416
    Abstract: An ozone generating device including an excimer lamp having an arc tube containing a luminescent gas, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The arc tube has a first end portion and a second end portion, a first diameter-reduced portion provided continuously from the first end portion, a diameter of which decreases as a distance from the first end portion increases, and a second diameter-reduced portion provided continuously from the second end portion, a diameter of which decreases as a distance from the second end portion increases, the first electrode is provided for an outer periphery surface of the first end portion, the second electrode is provided for an outer periphery surface of the second end portion, the arc tube is fixed via the cylindrical portion, and the first electrode is not provided over the first diameter-reduced portion, and/or the second electrode is not provided over the second diameter-reduced portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi IMAMURA, Kazuhiro GOTO
  • Publication number: 20200410655
    Abstract: A method for building an image determination model that determines whether a print image is a good image or a failure image includes a step of determining whether the print image is a high-density image or a low-density image; a step of generating teaching data by combining pseudo-failure data with to-be-combined image data, based on a result of the determination; and a step of performing machine learning. Regarding the combining of the pseudo-failure data, for a print image determined to be the high-density image, low-density pseudo-failure data is combined with to-be-combined image data, and for a print image determined to be the low-density image, high-density pseudo-failure data is combined with to-be-combined image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Atsushi IMAMURA, Kazuhiro KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200307278
    Abstract: A printing apparatus (printer) is provided in which a base material is conveyed by a roll-to-roll method and feedback control is performed on a tension imposed on the base material, and which includes a control unit, a first drive motor (front drive motor) configured to control a speed of conveyance of conveying the base material, and a second drive motor (feeding motor, rear drive motor, winding motor) configured to control the tension imposed on the base material. In a case where a conveyance operation for conveying the base material is stopped based on detection of a foreign object, and when a speed of the first drive motor is at a predetermined value or less, the control unit stops the tension control performed by the second drive motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Jun YAMADA, Atsushi IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200282749
    Abstract: In a printing apparatus, a controller is configured to control a printing unit such that printing is started after a transport distance of the substrate reaches a pre-discharge transport distance, in which the pre-discharge transport distance is set to a value not less than a first longest distance, provided that a transport distance in a condition in which the transport distance is a longest distance among conditions 1, 2, and 3 provided below is the first longest distance. Condition 1: a transport distance until a region of the substrate that was nipped between a front driving roller and a nip roller passes through a printing head disposed most downstream in a transport path of the substrate, Condition 2: a transport distance until a transport speed of the substrate becomes constant, and Condition 3: a transport distance until tension of the substrate being transported becomes stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Atsushi IMAMURA, Jun YAMADA, Masashi KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20190358978
    Abstract: An inspecting apparatus for inspecting an image formed on a printing medium. The apparatus has a transport roller for transporting the printing medium with the image printed thereon, with the transport roller contacting a surface opposite an image-forming surface of the printing medium, and a reader for reading the image from a part of the printing medium in contact with the transport roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Takaharu Yamamoto, Atsushi Imamura, Tomotaka Kato
  • Patent number: 10421298
    Abstract: Technology enabling accurately detected marks on a print medium according to the type of print medium is provided. A printer 1 has a media type identifier 110 that determines the type of medium; a mark sensor 76 that projects light and detects a mark on the medium; and an emittance controller 111 that sets the emittance level of the light the mark sensor 76 projects. The printer 1 can change the operating mode according to the type of medium M identified by the media type identifier 110. In the white medium mode, the mark sensor 76 detects a mark MR with the emittance level set to a white medium emittance level. In the non-white medium mode, the mark sensor 76 detects a mark MR with the emittance level set to a non-white medium emittance level, which is higher than the white medium emittance level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Kitahara, Atsushi Imamura, Shinji Kawakami, Naoki Hori
  • Patent number: 10392216
    Abstract: A web transporting method includes a drive roller (Gd), N (where N is an integer of 1 or greater) driven rollers (Gn) which nip a wound portion of a web between the drive roller and the driven rollers, and a tension application unit which applies a tension Tl to a portion of the web which is one side of the wound portion and applies a tension Th which is higher than the tension Tl to a portion of the web which is opposite the one side of the wound portion, in which an angle ?0, an angle ?(n), a load P(n), a static friction coefficient ?0, and a static friction coefficient ?(n) satisfy a predetermined relational expression (expression 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Imamura, Akihiro Toya
  • Patent number: 10279716
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a seat frame; a sheet-like support member disposed to stretched across the seat frame to support a sitting person's body; and a connection member having a linear shape and connects the sheet-like support member to the seat frame, wherein the sheet-like support member is provided with a tubular portion at at least one side of the sheet-like support member, the tubular portion being inserted with the connection member, and wherein the connection member is provided with at least one of a concave portion and a convex portion directed to a direction opposite to that of a tensile stress which is applied in the sheet-like support member by sitting of the sitting person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Imamura
  • Patent number: 10195875
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport unit which transports a recording medium in a transport direction; a printing unit which prints an image and a mark on the recording medium; and a mark detecting unit which is located on an upstream side of the printing unit in the transport direction, and detects a mark, includes a function of automatically adjusting a detecting sensitivity of the mark detecting unit, and obtains a printing start position using the mark, in which the mark detecting unit has a timer function including an ON delay in which a time between detecting of a mark and outputting of a detecting signal of ON is delayed, uses the timer function when obtaining the printing start position, and does not use the timer function when performing the automatic adjusting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Hori, Masashi Kitahara, Shinji Kawakami, Atsushi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20180326759
    Abstract: Technology enabling accurately detected marks on a print medium according to the type of print medium is provided. A printer 1 has a media type identifier 110 that determines the type of medium; a mark sensor 76 that projects light and detects a mark on the medium; and an emittance controller 111 that sets the emittance level of the light the mark sensor 76 projects. The printer 1 can change the operating mode according to the type of medium M identified by the media type identifier 110. In the white medium mode, the mark sensor 76 detects a mark MR with the emittance level set to a white medium emittance level. In the non-white medium mode, the mark sensor 76 detects a mark MR with the emittance level set to a non-white medium emittance level, which is higher than the white medium emittance level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Masashi KITAHARA, Atsushi IMAMURA, Shinji KAWAKAMI, Naoki HORI
  • Publication number: 20180272758
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport unit which transports a recording medium in a transport direction; a printing unit which prints an image and a mark on the recording medium; and a mark detecting unit which is located on an upstream side of the printing unit in the transport direction, and detects a mark, includes a function of automatically adjusting a detecting sensitivity of the mark detecting unit, and obtains a printing start position using the mark, in which the mark detecting unit has a timer function including an ON delay in which a time between detecting of a mark and outputting of a detecting signal of ON is delayed, uses the timer function when obtaining the printing start position, and does not use the timer function when performing the automatic adjusting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Naoki HORI, Masashi KITAHARA, Shinji KAWAKAMI, Atsushi IMAMURA