Patents by Inventor Haruna TAKAHASHI
Haruna TAKAHASHI 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: 20240127387Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller, the controller being configured to execute: acquiring pieces of result data showing movement results of a plurality of users; calculating at least either first evaluation values about convenience in a case of moving in predetermined sections in private vehicles or second evaluation values about convenience in a case of moving in the predetermined sections in public transportation at least based on the pieces of result data; and calculating, for a predetermined area, a score indicating a deviation between convenience in the case of moving in the private vehicles and convenience in the case of moving in the public transportation based on the first and second evaluation values.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsunori TAKAHASHI, Akie SAKIYAMA, Nobuto MATSUDAIRA, Haruna FUKUSHIMA, Yohei MIMURA, Takuya MURAKAMI, Yasushi MATSUOKA, Kazuki NAGASHIMA, Hideyuki KASAI, Toshiyasu MURAYAMA
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Patent number: 11873183Abstract: A medium placement device includes a placement unit configured to have cut single paper thereon, a cover member configured to have single paper supplied to or discharged from an opening portion thereon, and a movement unit configured to move the cover member between a first position and a second position that is lower than the first position.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shun Ito, Masaki Namiki, Haruna Takahashi, Mio Yashita
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Patent number: 11872806Abstract: A printer includes a recording unit, a platen unit, and a driving unit. The platen unit includes a support surface, a negative pressure chamber, a first suction port, a second suction port, and a third suction port, and a partition mechanism. The partition mechanism includes a shutter member, a lever member, and a coupling unit. The driving unit includes a motor and a cam. The coupling unit couples the shutter member and the lever member with a predetermined idle angle.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shun Ito, Haruna Takahashi
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Patent number: 11845265Abstract: A printer includes a recording unit, a support portion, a negative pressure chamber, a first sectioned chamber, a second sectioned chamber, a first suction port, and a second suction port. The support portion includes a support face configured to support roller paper. The negative pressure chamber is disposed at an opposite side of the support portion from the recording unit side. The first and the second sectioned chamber include a first and a second bottom surface. The first and the second suction port cause an outside space and the negative pressure chamber to communicate with each other. An opening area of the second suction port is smaller than an opening area of a first suction portion. The second suction port disposed most upstream in the first sectioned chamber is disposed upstream, in the transport direction, of the first suction port disposed most upstream in the second sectioned chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shun Ito, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Masaki Namiki, Haruna Takahashi
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Patent number: 11806996Abstract: In a printer, an accommodating portion accommodates roll paper. A supply roller pair is disposed upstream of a recording unit in a transport direction, and nips the roll paper. The intermediate roller pair is rotatably disposed between the supply roller pair and the accommodating portion, and nips the roll paper. A second motor and a third motor apply tension to the roll paper between the intermediate roller pair and the accommodating portion. A control unit can switch between a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, first tension is applied to the roll paper between the intermediate roller pair and the accommodating portion. In the second mode, second tension smaller than the first tension is applied.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Haruna Takahashi, Shun Ito, Keiichi Yato
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Publication number: 20230150283Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit, a support portion for supporting a recording medium, a transport path for transporting the recording medium, a recording medium holding unit for holding a roll body and supplying the recording medium, and a frame for holding thereof, wherein the frame includes a lower frame extending along an X direction and a Y direction, a pair of side frames extending along a Z direction and the Y direction, each including a lower end fixed to the lower frame and upright in the Z direction, and disposed at a predetermined interval in the X direction, and a base frame held between the pare of side frames and including four wall surfaces extending in the X direction, and functional components related to recording of the recording unit are disposed inside the four wall surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Shun ITO, Keiichi YATO, Yosuke NAKANO, Haruna TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11433691Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a medium mounting section on which a medium is to be mounted, a reverse-feeding path for reversing the medium that has been fed from the medium mounting section, a recording unit configured to perform recording onto the medium that has been reversed by the reverse-feeding path, and a reverse-discharging path for reversing the medium on which recording has been performed by the recording unit and for discharge the medium to a discharge section configured to discharge the medium, in which when viewed in a medium width direction intersecting a medium transport direction, a path section for reversing the medium in the reverse-feeding path and a path section for reversing the medium in the reverse-discharging path have portions overlapping each other in the vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuo Otsuka, Kazuhisa Takeda, Satoshi Kawamura, Haruna Takahashi, Keisuke Sasaki
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Publication number: 20220266611Abstract: In a printer, an accommodating portion accommodates roll paper. A supply roller pair is disposed upstream of a recording unit in a transport direction, and nips the roll paper. The intermediate roller pair is rotatably disposed between the supply roller pair and the accommodating portion, and nips the roll paper. A second motor and a third motor apply tension to the roll paper between the intermediate roller pair and the accommodating portion. A control unit can switch between a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, first tension is applied to the roll paper between the intermediate roller pair and the accommodating portion. In the second mode, second tension smaller than the first tension is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Haruna TAKAHASHI, Shun ITO, Keiichi YATO
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Patent number: 11414285Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Haruna Takahashi, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Yosuke Nakano, Shun Ito, Keiichi Yato
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Publication number: 20220250399Abstract: A printer includes a recording unit, a platen unit, and a driving unit. The platen unit includes a support surface, a negative pressure chamber, a first suction port, a second suction port, and a third suction port, and a partition mechanism. The partition mechanism includes a shutter member, a lever member, and a coupling unit. The driving unit includes a motor and a cam. The coupling unit couples the shutter member and the lever member with a predetermined idle angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Shun Ito, Haruna Takahashi
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Patent number: 11383949Abstract: Provided are a loading portion configured to load a medium discharged from a discharging portion, and a plurality of pressing portions provided downstream of the discharging portion in a discharging direction of the medium, and configured to press the medium loaded on the loading portion. The loading portion includes a first loading portion including a downward sloped surface sloping downward in the discharging direction, and also includes a second loading portion including an upward sloped surface sloping upward in the discharging direction. The downward sloped surface and the upward sloped surface form a discharging path through which the medium is discharged. The plurality of pressing portions includes a first pressing portion configured to press the medium loaded on the first loading portion, and also includes a second pressing portion configured to press the medium loaded on the second loading portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shun Ito, Yosuke Nakano, Keiichi Yato, Haruna Takahashi
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Publication number: 20220203712Abstract: A printer includes a recording unit, a support portion, a negative pressure chamber, a first sectioned chamber, a second sectioned chamber, a first suction port, and a second suction port. The support portion includes a support face configured to support roller paper. The negative pressure chamber is disposed at an opposite side of the support portion from the recording unit side. The first and the second sectioned chamber include a first and a second bottom surface. The first and the second suction port cause an outside space and the negative pressure chamber to communicate with each other. An opening area of the second suction port is smaller than an opening area of a first suction portion. The second suction port disposed most upstream in the first sectioned chamber is disposed upstream, in the transport direction, of the first suction port disposed most upstream in the second sectioned chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Shun ITO, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Masaki NAMIKI, Haruna TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220169474Abstract: A loading device includes a placement portion and a correction portion. The placement portion is provided at a device main body, and a single paper sheet discharged from a discharge unit is placed on the placement portion. The correction portion is disposed downstream of the placement portion in a discharge direction, and corrects curling of the single paper sheet by coming into contact with the single paper sheet moving in the discharge direction from the placement portion. Furthermore, the correction portion includes a contact surface that extends in an intersecting direction intersecting the discharge direction and comes into contact with the single paper sheet, such that the position of the correction portion in the vertical direction becomes lower from upstream to downstream in the discharge direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Masaki NAMIKI, Shun ITO, Haruna TAKAHASHI, Mio YASHITA
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Publication number: 20220169475Abstract: A loading device includes a placement portion and a friction member. A single paper sheet discharged from a discharge unit is placed on the placement portion. The friction member is disposed downstream of a downstream end portion of the placement portion in a discharge direction, and includes a contact surface that can come into contact with a back surface, of the single paper sheet, facing the placement portion. The contact surface extends at least in the discharge direction, at a position lower than the height position of the downstream end portion in a height direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Mio Yashita, Shun ITO, Masaki NAMIKI, Haruna TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220127096Abstract: A medium placement device configured to have a medium discharged from a discharge unit of a processing device placed therein, and includes: a placement unit including a plurality of placement surfaces, with different angles with respect to a horizontal direction, that are disposed along a discharge direction of the medium, the placement unit being configured to have the medium discharged from the discharge unit placed thereon; and a plurality of restricting members disposed facing the placement unit along the discharge direction, the plurality of restricting members being configured to come into contact with the medium from above. In an initial state in which the medium is not placed, a distance in a gravitational direction between a first end of each of the plurality of restricting members on a placement unit side and one of the plurality of placement surfaces that faces the first end in the gravitational direction is constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Haruna TAKAHASHI, Mio YASHITA, Masaki NAMIKI, Shun ITO
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Publication number: 20220127098Abstract: A medium placement device includes a placement unit configured to have cut single paper thereon, a cover member configured to have single paper supplied to or discharged from an opening portion thereon, and a movement unit configured to move the cover member between a first position and a second position that is lower than the first position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Shun ITO, Masaki NAMIKI, Haruna TAKAHASHI, Mio YASHITA
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Publication number: 20210122172Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a medium mounting section on which a medium is to be mounted, a reverse-feeding path for reversing the medium that has been fed from the medium mounting section, a recording unit configured to perform recording onto the medium that has been reversed by the reverse-feeding path, and a reverse-discharging path for reversing the medium on which recording has been performed by the recording unit and for discharge the medium to a discharge section configured to discharge the medium, in which when viewed in a medium width direction intersecting a medium transport direction, a path section for reversing the medium in the reverse-feeding path and a path section for reversing the medium in the reverse-discharging path have portions overlapping each other in the vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Kazuo OTSUKA, Kazuhisa TAKEDA, Satoshi KAWAMURA, Haruna TAKAHASHI, Keisuke SASAKI
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Patent number: 10913292Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a medium mounting section on which a medium is to be mounted, a reverse-feeding path for reversing the medium that has been fed from the medium mounting section, a recording unit configured to perform recording onto the medium that has been reversed by the reverse-feeding path, and a reverse-discharging path for reversing the medium on which recording has been performed by the recording unit and for discharge the medium to a discharge section configured to discharge the medium, in which when viewed in a medium width direction intersecting a medium transport direction, a path section for reversing the medium in the reverse-feeding path and a path section for reversing the medium in the reverse-discharging path have portions overlapping each other in the vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuo Otsuka, Kazuhisa Takeda, Satoshi Kawamura, Haruna Takahashi, Keisuke Sasaki
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Publication number: 20210024320Abstract: Provided are a loading portion configured to load a medium discharged from a discharging portion, and a plurality of pressing portions provided downstream of the discharging portion in a discharging direction of the medium, and configured to press the medium loaded on the loading portion. The loading portion includes a first loading portion including a downward sloped surface sloping downward in the discharging direction, and also includes a second loading portion including an upward sloped surface sloping upward in the discharging direction. The downward sloped surface and the upward sloped surface form a discharging path through which the medium is discharged. The plurality of pressing portions includes a first pressing portion configured to press the medium loaded on the first loading portion, and also includes a second pressing portion configured to press the medium loaded on the second loading portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Shun ITO, Yosuke NAKANO, Keiichi YATO, Haruna TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: D944319Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Yanagisawa, Hiroto Miyauchi, Yosuke Nakano, Shun Ito, Keiichi Yato, Haruna Takahashi, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Hitoshi Igarashi