Patents by Inventor Atsushi Nagahara
Atsushi Nagahara 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).
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Publication number: 20240105393Abstract: A cathode and an electrolytic capacitor including the cathode which can suppress production of hydrogen gas are provided. The cathode of the electrolytic capacitor includes cathode foil formed of valve action metal and a conductive layer formed on a surface of the cathode foil. A natural immersion potential of the cathode foil when immersed in an electrolyte solution is at a higher side than a natural immersion potential of reference cathode foil formed of the valve action metal with purity of 99.9%.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Kazuhiro NAGAHARA, Tatsuru HATAE, Kazuya KOSEKI, Atsushi YOSHIDA, Makoto TOMINAGA
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Patent number: 11829819Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport unit, a printing unit, a reading unit, and a control unit configured to control the transport unit and the printing unit to perform first printing processing and second printing processing, wherein the control unit prints, in the first printing processing, a code group including a first code of a first size and a second code of a second size larger than the first size on a first medium that is the medium, acquires reading data that is a result of reading, by the reading unit, of the code group printed on the first medium, determines a code size to be adopted for the second printing processing based on the reading data, and, in the second printing processing, prints a third code of the code size on a medium of the same type as that of the first medium.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Nagahara, Shinichi Arazaki
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Patent number: 11662252Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a control unit configured to generate color chart data, a transport unit configured to intermittently transport a medium, a printing unit configured to print a colorimetric patches on a processing unit region, a drying unit configured to dry the processing unit region, and a colorimetric unit configured to measure a color of the colorimetric patches in the processing unit region subjected to the drying, wherein the control unit is configured to acquire, based on a printing setting, a drying holding time during which the processing unit region is held at the drying unit, calculate a color-measurable patch number which is measurable by the colorimetric unit within the drying holding time, and generate the color chart data for printing a number of the colorimetric patches in the processing unit region, the number being less than or equal to the color-measurable patch number.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Atsushi Nagahara
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Publication number: 20230143811Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport unit, a printing unit, a reading unit, and a control unit configured to control the transport unit and the printing unit to perform first printing processing and second printing processing, wherein the control unit prints, in the first printing processing, a code group including a first code of a first size and a second code of a second size larger than the first size on a first medium that is the medium, acquires reading data that is a result of reading, by the reading unit, of the code group printed on the first medium, determines a code size to be adopted for the second printing processing based on the reading data, and, in the second printing processing, prints a third code of the code size on a medium of the same type as that of the first medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Atsushi NAGAHARA, Shinichi ARAZAKI
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Patent number: 11537334Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, a colorimetry unit, a data generation unit configured to generate color chart data, and a printing colorimetry control unit configured to control printing performed by the printing unit and colorimetry performed by the colorimetry unit, where the data generation unit acquires, from a first image represented by a first print job, a position of a first spot color contained in the first image and generates the color chart data having the first spot color patch disposed at a position corresponding to a position of the first spot color in the first image, and the printing colorimetry control unit causes the printing unit to print the color chart that is based on the color chart data and causes the colorimetry unit to measure the color of the color chart printed on the printing medium by the printing unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Atsushi Nagahara
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Publication number: 20220307906Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a control unit configured to generate color chart data, a transport unit configured to intermittently transport a medium, a printing unit configured to print a colorimetric patches on a processing unit region, a drying unit configured to dry the processing unit region, and a colorimetric unit configured to measure a color of the colorimetric patches in the processing unit region subjected to the drying, wherein the control unit is configured to acquire, based on a printing setting, a drying holding time during which the processing unit region is held at the drying unit, calculate a color-measurable patch number which is measurable by the colorimetric unit within the drying holding time, and generate the color chart data for printing a number of the colorimetric patches in the processing unit region, the number being less than or equal to the color-measurable patch number.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventor: Atsushi NAGAHARA
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Patent number: 11347446Abstract: A printing unit configured to apply a color material to a printing medium to perform printing, a colorimetric unit configured to perform colorimetry, a storage unit configured to store patch data defining a color of a color patch for a plurality of the color patches, and a control unit are included, wherein the control unit uses patch data for one color patch of the plurality of color patches stored in the storage unit, to cause the printing unit to print the color patch on the printing medium, and determines whether a type of the printing medium on which the printing unit printed the color patch is a predetermined type, based on a colorimetric value obtained by the colorimetry performed by the colorimetric unit on the color patch printed by the printing unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Atsushi Nagahara
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Publication number: 20220137888Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, a colorimetry unit, a data generation unit configured to generate color chart data, and a printing colorimetry control unit configured to control printing performed by the printing unit and colorimetry performed by the colorimetry unit, where the data generation unit acquires, from a first image represented by a first print job, a position of a first spot color contained in the first image and generates the color chart data having the first spot color patch disposed at a position corresponding to a position of the first spot color in the first image, and the printing colorimetry control unit causes the printing unit to print the color chart that is based on the color chart data and causes the colorimetry unit to measure the color of the color chart printed on the printing medium by the printing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventor: Atsushi NAGAHARA
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Publication number: 20210303231Abstract: A printing unit configured to apply a color material to a printing medium to perform printing, a colorimetric unit configured to perform colorimetry, a storage unit configured to store patch data defining a color of a color patch for a plurality of the color patches, and a control unit are included, wherein the control unit uses patch data for one color patch of the plurality of color patches stored in the storage unit, to cause the printing unit to print the color patch on the printing medium, and determines whether a type of the printing medium on which the printing unit printed the color patch is a predetermined type, based on a colorimetric value obtained by the colorimetry performed by the colorimetric unit on the color patch printed by the printing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventor: Atsushi NAGAHARA
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Patent number: 10173800Abstract: There is provided a label preparing device including: a laser cutting section that forms a cutting line, which is an outline of a label piece, on a media by irradiating the media with laser beams; and a print section that applies ink to at least a peripheral part of the label piece after the cutting line is formed. It is preferable that the laser cutting section irradiates the media in an immobile state with laser beams, and the print section applies ink to the media in which the immobile state is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Atsushi Nagahara
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Patent number: 10063739Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises: a printing section that prints out print data onto a medium; an imaging section that captures an image of a print result on the medium; and an error notification section that performs error notification in a case of occurrence of an error during the printing of the print data. The error notification section judges whether to issue an error notice or not. In a case of an affirmative judgment to issue the error notice, the error notification section acquires a print image showing the print result by using the imaging section and transmits the acquired print image together with the error notice.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Atsushi Nagahara
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Patent number: 9771455Abstract: A paving binder according to the present invention is used for a paving mixture for forming a pavement, including a polyamide resin having a weight average molecular weight, as measured by gel permeation chromatography of 2,000 or more and 10,000 or less and having an area, corresponding to a component having a molecular weight of 20,000 or more and 500,000 or less, of 0.5% or more and 12% or less of a total area in a chromatogram of molecular weight distribution as measured by gel permeation chromatography. Thus, tolerance for a severe temperature condition or loading condition can be improved, while ensuring convenience from the standpoint of laying such that the laying can be made by the conventional machine composition or laying system.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Nagahara, Toshiaki Hirato, Masato Murayama, Makoto Ookubo
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Publication number: 20170180598Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises: a printing section that prints out print data onto a medium; an imaging section that captures an image of a print result on the medium; and an error notification section that performs error notification in a case of occurrence of an error during the printing of the print data. The error notification section judges whether to issue an error notice or not. In a case of an affirmative judgment to issue the error notice, the error notification section acquires a print image showing the print result by using the imaging section and transmits the acquired print image together with the error notice.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventor: Atsushi NAGAHARA
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Patent number: 9375892Abstract: A label production apparatus includes: a printing unit; a test unit; and a post-process unit configured to cut a material in accordance with test results by the test unit. In the stated label production apparatus, each of a label images includes a common image portion and a changeable image portion. Further, in the label production apparatus, the post-process unit cuts a first base material using a first cut-line, the common image portion and the changeable image portion of a label image that has been detected to have no print defect, whereas the post-process unit cuts the first base material using a second cut-line for not cutting out the common image portion from the first base material but cutting out from the first base material at least part of the changeable image portion of a label image that has been detected to have a print defect.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Atsushi Nagahara
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Publication number: 20160083133Abstract: There is provided a label preparing device including: a laser cutting section that forms a cutting line, which is an outline of a label piece, on a media by irradiating the media with laser beams; and a print section that applies ink to at least a peripheral part of the label piece after the cutting line is formed. It is preferable that the laser cutting section irradiates the media in an immobile state with laser beams, and the print section applies ink to the media in which the immobile state is maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventor: Atsushi NAGAHARA
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Patent number: 9248671Abstract: A label production apparatus includes: a printing unit configured to print a label image on a first base material included in a print target medium that has the first base material, a second base material, and an adhesive layer interposed between the first base material and the second base material while using image data for generation of the label image; a test unit configured to test the label image printed on the print target medium; a memory unit configured to store layout information that specifies image arrangement positions when a plurality of label images are arranged on the print target medium; and a post-process unit that is configured to cut a portion of the first base material where the label image has been formed, and generates such a cut-line based on the layout information, if a print defect is detected by the test unit, that avoids cutting of the label image in which the print defect is detected among the plurality of label images so as to cut the first base material using the generated cut-liType: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Atsushi Nagahara
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Publication number: 20160002404Abstract: A paving binder according to the present invention is used for a paving mixture for forming a pavement, including a polyamide resin having a weight average molecular weight, as measured by gel permeation chromatography of 2,000 or more and 10,000 or less and having an area, corresponding to a component having a molecular weight of 20,000 or more and 500,000 or less, of 0.5% or more and 12% or less of a total area in a chromatogram of molecular weight distribution as measured by gel permeation chromatography. Thus, tolerance for a severe temperature condition or loading condition can be improved, while ensuring convenience from the standpoint of laying such that the laying can be made by the conventional machine composition or laying system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi NAGAHARA, Toshiaki HIRATO, Masato MURAYAMA, Makoto OOKUBO
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Patent number: 9180688Abstract: A label production apparatus includes a printing unit that prints a image onto a medium that includes a first base material, a second base material, and an adhesive layer between the first base material and the second base material; an inspection unit that inspects the image printed onto the medium; and a post-processing unit that cuts the first base material based on an inspection result from the inspection unit, the post-processing unit cutting the first base material using a first cut line that separates an area where the image is formed from the first base material in the case where a print defect has not been detected in the image, and cutting the first base material using a second cut line in which part of the first cut line is not cut in the case where a print defect has been detected in the image.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Atsushi Nagahara
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Patent number: 8985728Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing section that forms a plurality of unit images on a print medium and forms marks that are references for specifying positions of the unit images on the print medium, in which the marks include a different-color image capable of being visually recognized of which a color is different from a background color of the marks.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Atsushi Nagahara
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Publication number: 20140292983Abstract: A label production apparatus includes a printing unit that prints a image onto a medium that includes a first base material, a second base material, and an adhesive layer between the first base material and the second base material; an inspection unit that inspects the image printed onto the medium; and a post-processing unit that cuts the first base material based on an inspection result from the inspection unit, the post-processing unit cutting the first base material using a first cut line that separates an area where the image is formed from the first base material in the case where a print defect has not been detected in the image, and cutting the first base material using a second cut line in which part of the first cut line is not cut in the case where a print defect has been detected in the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi NAGAHARA