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).

  • Publication number: 20240127387
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsunori TAKAHASHI, Akie SAKIYAMA, Nobuto MATSUDAIRA, Haruna FUKUSHIMA, Yohei MIMURA, Takuya MURAKAMI, Yasushi MATSUOKA, Kazuki NAGASHIMA, Hideyuki KASAI, Toshiyasu MURAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11873183
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shun Ito, Masaki Namiki, Haruna Takahashi, Mio Yashita
  • Patent number: 11872806
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shun Ito, Haruna Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11845265
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shun Ito, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Masaki Namiki, Haruna Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11806996
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Haruna Takahashi, Shun Ito, Keiichi Yato
  • Publication number: 20230150283
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Shun ITO, Keiichi YATO, Yosuke NAKANO, Haruna TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11433691
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Otsuka, Kazuhisa Takeda, Satoshi Kawamura, Haruna Takahashi, Keisuke Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20220266611
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Haruna TAKAHASHI, Shun ITO, Keiichi YATO
  • Patent number: 11414285
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Haruna Takahashi, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Yosuke Nakano, Shun Ito, Keiichi Yato
  • Publication number: 20220250399
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Shun Ito, Haruna Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11383949
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shun Ito, Yosuke Nakano, Keiichi Yato, Haruna Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20220203712
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Shun ITO, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Masaki NAMIKI, Haruna TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220169474
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Masaki NAMIKI, Shun ITO, Haruna TAKAHASHI, Mio YASHITA
  • Publication number: 20220169475
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Mio Yashita, Shun ITO, Masaki NAMIKI, Haruna TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220127096
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Haruna TAKAHASHI, Mio YASHITA, Masaki NAMIKI, Shun ITO
  • Publication number: 20220127098
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Shun ITO, Masaki NAMIKI, Haruna TAKAHASHI, Mio YASHITA
  • Publication number: 20210122172
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuo OTSUKA, Kazuhisa TAKEDA, Satoshi KAWAMURA, Haruna TAKAHASHI, Keisuke SASAKI
  • Patent number: 10913292
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Otsuka, Kazuhisa Takeda, Satoshi Kawamura, Haruna Takahashi, Keisuke Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20210024320
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Shun ITO, Yosuke NAKANO, Keiichi YATO, Haruna TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: D944319
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Yanagisawa, Hiroto Miyauchi, Yosuke Nakano, Shun Ito, Keiichi Yato, Haruna Takahashi, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Hitoshi Igarashi