Patents by Inventor Eiichiro Shimizu
Eiichiro Shimizu 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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Patent number: 7434920Abstract: A liquid container includes a negative pressure producing member accommodating chamber accommodating a negative pressure producing member for absorbing and retaining the liquid, and a liquid containing chamber for containing the liquid. The liquid containing chamber is in fluid communication with the negative pressure producing member accommodating chamber through a communicating portion, and is substantially sealed except for the communicating portion. A partition wall partitions the liquid container into the negative pressure producing member accommodating chamber and the liquid containing chamber except for the communicating portion. The negative pressure producing member is provided with a recess at a position corresponding to the communicating portion, wherein the recess forms a space and a ceiling portion of the space provided functions as a gas introduction surface which is substantially horizontal when the liquid container is in an in-use orientation.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2005Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koudai Noguchi, Hajime Yamamoto, Yoshinori Kojima, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 7303090Abstract: A packaging structure for a liquid container including a liquid containing portion accommodating liquid, a liquid supply portion for supplying the liquid to an outside and an air vent for fluid communication with an ambience, the packing structure includes a covering member for covering and sealing the liquid supply portion and the air vent; the covering member including; an air vent sealing portion for sealing the air vent and a liquid supply portion sealing portion for sealing the liquid supply portion and a connecting region for covering a connecting side of the liquid container which connects the air vent sealing portion and the liquid supply portion sealing portion, wherein the liquid supply portion sealing portion effects non-adhering sealing for the liquid supply portion, and the connecting region provides a resistance against unsealing of the liquid supply portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2005Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuo Nanjo, Masanori Takenouchi, Hajime Yamamoto, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 7278721Abstract: A liquid container detachably mountable to a mounting portion of an apparatus, the mounting portion including a first locking portion and a second locking portion, the liquid container including a casing for containing liquid and a supply port for supplying the liquid to an ink jet head, the liquid container includes a first engaging portion provided at a first side of the casing and engageable with the first locking portion; a second engaging portion provided opposed to a second side of the casing which is opposite the first side, the second engaging portion being engageable with the second locking portion; a supporting member for displaceably supporting the second engaging portion; a contact contactable to a member provided in the mounting portion to permit information display means to display information relating to the liquid container, wherein the supply port is disposed in a third side of the casing which is between the first side and the second side, and the contact is disposed at a corner region betweType: GrantFiled: December 21, 2004Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eiichiro Shimizu, Hajime Yamamoto, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Kenjiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20070195141Abstract: A liquid container detachably mountable to a mounting portion of an ink jet recording apparatus, the liquid container includes a casing defining a liquid containing chamber; a supply port, provided in the casing, for supplying liquid contained therein to an ink jet head; a first engaging portion engageable with a first locking portion provided in the mounting portion, the first engaging portion being disposed on one side of the casing; a second engaging portion engageable with a second locking portion provided in the mounting portion, the second engaging portion being disposed opposed to another side of the casing, the another side being opposite the one side; a supporting portion for displaceably supporting the second engaging portion; an information storing portion for storing information relating to the liquid container; a contact electrically connectable with a contact provided in the mounting portion; a light emitting portion; a display portion for directing the light emitted from the emitting portion toType: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2007Publication date: August 23, 2007Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromasa Anma, Haruyuki Matsumoto, Kenjiro Watanabe, Hajime Yamamoto, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Yasuo Kotaki, Keisuke Matsuo, Kenji Kitabatake, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Publication number: 20070182794Abstract: A recording liquid container for containing liquid for recording to be supplied to recording means, said recording liquid container being detachably mountable to a mounting portion of a recording device, said recording liquid container includes an information memory medium storing predetermined information; wireless sending means capable of wireless sending of a predetermined information in said information memory medium within a predetermined range; a wireless communication antenna for wirelessly sending radio wave; and communication property changing means for changing a communication property of the wireless sending.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2007Publication date: August 9, 2007Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Hatasa, Hajime Yamamoto, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 7252376Abstract: A recording liquid container for containing liquid for recording to be supplied to recording means, said recording liquid container being detachably mountable to a mounting portion of a recording device, said recording liquid container includes an Information memory medium storing predetermined information; a wireless sending element capable of wireless sending of a predetermined information in said information memory medium within a predetermined range; a wireless communication antenna for wirelessly sending radio wave; and communication property changing element for changing a communication property of the wireless sending.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2005Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuyuki Hatasa, Hajime Yamamoto, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 7213914Abstract: A liquid container detachably mountable to a mounting portion of an ink jet recording apparatus in a slot-like mounting configuration where the liquid container is supported between a pair of engaging portions that respectively engage with a corresponding pair of locking portions on the mounting portion of the recording apparatus. The liquid container is supported in an upright configuration and includes a display portion on an upper side thereof, and a light emitting portion which emits light for display by the display portion. Because the display portion is disposed on an upper side, a user can confirm the display despite the mounting arrangement of the liquid container in the recording apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromasa Anma, Haruyuki Matsumoto, Kenjiro Watanabe, Hajime Yamamoto, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Yasuo Kotaki, Keisuke Matsuo, Kenji Kitabatake, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 7207159Abstract: An unsealing method for unsealing a packaging structure for a liquid container in which the packaging structure includes a covering member having an air vent sealing portion, a liquid supply sealing portion, and a connecting region which covers a connecting side of the liquid container and which connects the air vent and liquid supply scaling portions. The liquid supply sealing portion effects non-adhering sealing, and the connecting portion provides resistance against unsealing of the liquid supply portion. The covering member also has first and second regions which respectively include first and second resistance generation portions for generating resistance against unsealing. According to the unsealing method, the air vent is unsealed, the first resistance generating portion is separated from the liquid container, the liquid supply portion is unsealed, and the second resistance generating portion is separated.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2005Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuo Nanjo, Masanori Takenouchi, Hajime Yamamoto, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Publication number: 20070052774Abstract: A liquid container detachably mountable to a mounting portion of an apparatus, the mounting portion including a first locking portion and a second locking portion, the liquid container including a casing for containing liquid and a supply port for supplying the liquid to an ink jet head, the liquid container includes a first engaging portion provided at a first side of the casing and engageable with the first locking portion; a second engaging portion provided opposed to a second side of the casing which is opposite the first side, the second engaging portion being engageable with the second locking portion; a supporting member for displaceably supporting the second engaging portion; a contact contactable to a member provided in the mounting portion to permit information display means to display information relating to the liquid container, wherein the supply port is disposed in a third side of the casing which is between the first side and the second side, and the contact is disposed at a corner region betweType: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2006Publication date: March 8, 2007Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiichiro Shimizu, Hajime Yamamoto, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Kenjiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 7128380Abstract: A recording liquid container for containing liquid for recording to be supplied to recording means, said recording liquid container being detachably mountable to a mounting portion of a recording device, said recording liquid container includes an information memory medium storing predetermined information; wireless sending means capable of wireless sending of a predetermined information in said information memory medium within a predetermined range; a wireless communication antenna for wirelessly sending radio wave; and communication property changing means for changing a communication property of the wireless sending.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2003Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuyuki Hatasa, Hajime Yamamoto, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Publication number: 20060192824Abstract: A recording liquid container for containing liquid for recording to be supplied to recording means, said recording liquid container being detachably mountable to a mounting portion of a recording device, said recording liquid container includes an information memory medium storing predetermined information; wireless sending means capable of wireless sending of a predetermined information in said information memory medium within a predetermined range; a wireless communication antenna for wirelessly sending radio wave; and communication property changing means for changing a communication property of the wireless sending.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2006Publication date: August 31, 2006Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Hatasa, Hajime Yamamoto, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 7055926Abstract: A liquid container for containing liquid incldes a reflection member provided in a liquid containing portion and having a plurality of roof mirror assemblies arranged in a predetermined direction, each of the roof mirror assemblies having at least two reflecting surfaces positioned with a predetermined angle therebetween; wherein the reflection member is effective to divide incident light, which is scattering light, into a plurality of light beams by the plurality of roof mirror assemblies and to condense at a predetermined position the beams sequentially reflected by the at least two reflecting surfaces of the roof mirror assemblies, and wherein an amount of the liquid in the liquid container is detected on the basis of the light reflected by the reflection member.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2003Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Kojima, Hajime Yamamoto, Masahiko Igaki, Eiichiro Shimizu, Nobuyuki Hatasa
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Patent number: 7051893Abstract: A liquid container includes an outer wall constituting a casing, an inner wall constituting an inner bladder for accommodating liquid, with the inner bladder having an outer shape substantially equivalent to an inner shape of the outer wall, and the inner bladder having a flexibility and being separable from the casing, and a pinch-off portion where portions of the inner wall are welded to each other and are pinched by the outer wall to be supported by the outer wall. The inner wall includes a thicker portion having a larger thickness than another portion of the inner wall at both sides of the welded portion, and a cavity is provided between an outer surface of the thicker portion of the inner wall and an inner surface of a corresponding portion of the outer wall.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2001Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Kyoraku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shozo Hattori, Hajime Yamamoto, Eiichiro Shimizu, Hiroshi Koshikawa, Hiroki Hayashi, Kenji Kitabatake, Yoshio Koike, Tetsuya Fukumoto
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Publication number: 20050275698Abstract: A liquid container includes a negative pressure producing member accommodating chamber accommodating a negative pressure producing member for absorbing and retaining the liquid, the negative pressure producing member accommodating chamber having a supply port for supplying the liquid to liquid an ejection recording head and an air vent for fluid communication with ambient air; a liquid containing chamber for containing the liquid, the liquid containing chamber being in fluid communication with the negative pressure producing member accommodating chamber through the communicating portion and being substantially sealed except for the communicating portion; and a partition wall for partitioning the liquid container into the negative pressure producing member accommodating chamber and the liquid containing chamber except for the communicating portion; wherein the negative pressure producing member is provided with a recess at a position corresponding to the communicating portion; wherein a ceiling portion of a spType: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2005Publication date: December 15, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koudai Noguchi, Hajime Yamamoto, Yoshinori Kojima, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Publication number: 20050257506Abstract: A packaging structure for a liquid container including a liquid containing portion accommodating liquid, a liquid supply portion for supplying the liquid to an outside and an air vent for fluid communication with an ambience, the packing structure includes a covering member for covering and sealing the liquid supply portion and the air vent; the covering member including; an air vent sealing portion for sealing the air vent and a liquid supply portion sealing portion for sealing the liquid supply portion and a connecting region for covering a connecting side of the liquid container which connects the air vent sealing portion and the liquid supply portion sealing portion, wherein the liquid supply portion sealing portion effects non-adhering sealing for the liquid supply portion, and the connecting region provides a resistance against unsealing of the liquid supply portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2005Publication date: November 24, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuo Nanjo, Masanori Takenouchi, Hajime Yamamoto, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Publication number: 20050257505Abstract: A packaging structure for a liquid container including a liquid containing portion accommodating liquid, a liquid supply portion for supplying the liquid to an outside and an air vent for fluid communication with an ambience, the packing structure includes a covering member for covering and sealing the liquid supply portion and the air vent; the covering member including; an air vent sealing portion for sealing the air vent and a liquid supply portion sealing portion for sealing the liquid supply portion, and a connecting region for covering a connecting side of the liquid container which connects the air vent sealing portion and the liquid supply portion sealing portion, wherein the liquid supply portion sealing portion effects non-adhering sealing for the liquid supply portion, and the connecting region provides a resistance against unsealing of the liquid supply portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2005Publication date: November 24, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuo Nanjo, Masanori Takenouchi, Hajime Yamamoto, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Publication number: 20050231547Abstract: A recording liquid container for containing liquid for recording to be supplied to recording means, said recording liquid container being detachably mountable to a mounting portion of a recording device, said recording liquid container includes an Information memory medium storing predetermined information; wireless sending means capable of wireless sending of a predetermined information in said information memory medium within a predetermined range; a wireless communication antenna for wirelessly sending radio wave; and communication property changing means for changing a communication property of the wireless sending.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2005Publication date: October 20, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Hatasa, Hajime Yamamoto, Eiichiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 6945428Abstract: A container includes an inner layer portion for liquid, an outer layer having an inner shape substantially equivalent to an outer shape of the inner layer, with the outer layer having an air vent communicating from between the two layers and the ambient, and a dispensing portion. When liquid is dispensed, the inner layer peels off the outer layer. The inner layer and the outer layer are bonded, in a first region, to each other with a force such that the inner layer is peelable from the outer layer by change of pressure, and the inner layer and the outer layer are bonded, in a second region, to each other with a force which is larger than that in the first region, by which the inner layer peels off the outer layer in the second region after the inner layer peels off the outer layer in the first region.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2003Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eiichiro Shimizu, Masanori Takenouchi, Hajime Yamamoto, Hiroshi Koshikawa, Fumitaka Goto
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Patent number: 6945642Abstract: A liquid container having a generally flat rectangular parallelepiped shape includes opposite major sides; an elongated bottom side connecting the opposite major sides; a port, formed adjacent a longitudinal end portion of the bottom side, for fluid communication between an inside and an outside of the liquid container, the port being eleongated in a longitudinal direction of the bottom side and having a width which is larger adjacent a longitudinally central portion of the bottom side than adjacent the longitudinal end portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2003Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hajime Yamamoto, Eiichiro Shimizu, Shinichi Miyauchi, Yoshihiko Sugimura
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Publication number: 20050185034Abstract: A liquid container detachably mountable to a mounting portion of an ink jet recording apparatus in a slot-like mounting configuration where the liquid container is supported between a pair of engaging portions that respectively engage with a corresponding pair of locking portions on the mounting portion of the recording apparatus. The liquid container is supported in an upright configuration and includes a display portion on an upper side thereof, and a light emitting portion which emits light for display by the display portion. Because the display portion is disposed on an upper side, a user can confirm the display despite the mounting arrangement of the liquid container in the recording apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2004Publication date: August 25, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiromasa Anma, Haruyuki Matsumoto, Kenjiro Watanabe, Hajime Yamamoto, Yukuo Yamaguchi, Yasuo Kotaki, Keisuke Matsuo, Kenji Kitabatake, Eiichiro Shimizu