Patents by Inventor Isamu Togashi

Isamu Togashi 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: 20170232767
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: an apparatus main body; a plurality of liquid ejecting heads that have a nozzle-formed surface; a unit base to which the plurality of liquid ejecting heads are fixed; and a lifting-lowering mechanism that is fixed to the apparatus main body and causes a position of the nozzle-formed surface to be shifted with respect to the apparatus main body. The lifting-lowering mechanisms are disposed in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the plurality of liquid ejecting heads are aligned, in an in-plane direction of the nozzle-formed surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isamu TOGASHI
  • Publication number: 20170232768
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: an apparatus main body; a plurality of liquid ejecting heads that have a nozzle-formed surface; a unit base to which the plurality of liquid ejecting heads are fixed; a lifter that is fixed to the apparatus main body and causes a position of the nozzle-formed surface to move with respect to the apparatus main body; and a non-contact sensor unit that is provided in the apparatus main body and the unit base and identifies a position of the nozzle-formed surface with respect to the apparatus main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isamu TOGASHI
  • Patent number: 9731507
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a head main body for ejecting liquid from nozzle openings on a liquid ejecting surface provided with the plurality of nozzle openings; a maintaining member which is adhered to the head main body at a surface side opposite to the liquid ejecting surface side of the head main body in a direction perpendicular to the liquid ejecting surface; and a fixing board which is provided at a side opposite to the maintaining member with respect to the head main body. The fixing board includes a bending portion which is bent to the head main body side. The bending portion is adhered to a side surface of the maintaining member. The head main body is disposed in a space formed by adhering the maintaining member and the fixing board to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Isamu Togashi
  • Patent number: 9707760
    Abstract: A flow path structure includes: a substrate that includes a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface; a supply port formed on the first surface; a plurality of discharge ports formed on the second surface; grooves that are formed on the first surface so as to extend in an X direction and communicate with the supply ports and with the plurality of discharge ports via through-holes formed on the substrate; and a sealing portion that is disposed on the first surface and seals each groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu Togashi, Hiroaki Okui, Yasuyuki Kudo, Fujio Akahane
  • Patent number: 9662883
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a set-up surface that faces a support body in a negative Z direction and that is fixed to the support body, an ejection surface that faces in a positive Z direction and in which are located nozzles that eject ink, and a first support surface and a second support surface that face in the positive Z direction and are located on the negative Z direction side of the ejection surface, and, when viewed in the Z direction, are separated from each other with the ejection surface interposed therebetween in the Y direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Isamu Togashi
  • Publication number: 20170120599
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a head body which has a nozzle opening for ejecting a liquid and a first wiping surface to be wiped by a wiper; and a target wiping member which has a second wiping surface to be wiped by the wiper, wherein the head body and the target wiping member are lined up via a gap so as to face in the same direction as the first wiping surface and the second wiping surface, and an elastic member is elastic deformed and held in the gap to block the gap on a side of the first and second wiping surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Masahisa NAWANO, Taiki HANAGAMI, Isamu TOGASHI
  • Publication number: 20170120586
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a flow path member which forms a flow path such that a concave portion provided on a first surface of a first member is covered with a second surface of a second member, the method includes introducing a part of a fused director to an inner side of the concave portion when viewed from a direction in which the first member and the second member are laminated; and fixing the first member and the second member by curing the fused director in a state where the concave portion is covered with the second surface to form a flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Isamu TOGASHI
  • Publication number: 20170072721
    Abstract: Provided is an ink jet printer including an ink jet head that has a nozzle surface on which nozzles for ejecting liquid are open; and a carriage on which the ink jet head is mounted, in which the carriage is scanned from one end at which a scanning reference point of the carriage is set to the other end via an area through which a liquid impacted object passes, the ink jet head is mounted to the carriage in a state of being deviated to one end in a scanning direction from a center of the carriage in the scanning direction, and a space is provided on a lateral side at the other end of the ink jet head in the carriage by deviating the ink jet head to the carriage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Haruki KOBAYASHI, Isamu TOGASHI, Taiki HANAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20170057244
    Abstract: A bifurcation path and a flow path which communicates with the head main body through the bifurcation path are provided. The bifurcation path includes an upstream-side path and a downstream-side path. In a plan view of a flow-path forming surface including the bifurcation path and the flow path, the flow path is disposed in a state where an angle between a flowing direction in the flow path and a flowing direction in the downstream-side path is an acute angle. In addition, an angle between a first wall surface of the flow path, which is the wall surface located downstream from the upstream-side path, and a second wall surface of the upstream-side path, which is the wall surface connected to the first wall surface, is equal to or less than 90°. Furthermore, the second wall surface of the upstream-side path has an R shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Isamu TOGASHI
  • Publication number: 20170021613
    Abstract: A flow path structure which forms a flow path of liquid, includes: a light absorbing member (first substrate) having absorbing properties with respect to laser light; a light transmitting member (second substrate) which is joined to the light absorbing member and has transmitting properties with respect to the laser light; a first flow path (flow path) which is surrounded by a welding interface between the light absorbing member and the light transmitting member; and a second flow path which is formed in a flow path pipe (flow path pipe) which protrudes from a front surface opposite of the welding interface in the light transmitting member, and communicates with the first flow path, in which the flow path pipe is included in a region of the first flow path in a plan view from a direction orthogonal to the welding interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Taiki HANAGAMI, Isamu TOGASHI, Ryota KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20160339701
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting head which includes head bodies aligned in a direction of liquid ejection surface thereof, a flow-path member in which distribution flow path is provided to supply liquid to the head bodies, and flexible wiring substrates connected to the head bodies. The distribution flow path extends in the first direction. In addition, the flexible wiring substrates adjacent in the first direction overlap when viewed from the first direction. The distribution flow path is disposed in an area on one side with respect to the flexible wiring substrates, in a direction perpendicular to the first direction in the liquid ejection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventor: Isamu Togashi
  • Publication number: 20160318303
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a set-up surface that faces a support body in a negative Z direction and that is fixed to the support body, an ejection surface that faces in a positive Z direction and in which are located nozzles that eject ink, and a first support surface and a second support surface that face in the positive Z direction and are located on the negative Z direction side of the ejection surface, and, when viewed in the Z direction, are separated from each other with the ejection surface interposed therebetween in the Y direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventor: Isamu TOGASHI
  • Patent number: 9481167
    Abstract: In a liquid ejecting head, a vibration plate includes an effective displacement portion provided for each pressure chamber and an island-shaped part which is provided in the effective displacement portion at a position on the opposite side to the pressure chamber and to which one end portion of a piezoelectric vibrator is bonded; the piezoelectric vibrator has a laminate structure in which electrodes and piezoelectric material are alternately laminated; a layer at an end of one side of the piezoelectric vibrator in the laminating direction is formed of an external electrode, while a layer at an end of the other side thereof in the same direction is formed of a piezoelectric material; and the piezoelectric vibrator is disposed so as to be shifted toward the other side in the laminating direction with respect to the effective displacement portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Isamu Togashi
  • Publication number: 20160303852
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a head main body for ejecting liquid from nozzle openings on a liquid ejecting surface provided with the plurality of nozzle openings; a maintaining member which is adhered to the head main body at a surface side opposite to the liquid ejecting surface side of the head main body in a direction perpendicular to the liquid ejecting surface; and a fixing board which is provided at a side opposite to the maintaining member with respect to the head main body. The fixing board includes a bending portion which is bent to the head main body side. The bending portion is adhered to a side surface of the maintaining member. The head main body is disposed in a space formed by adhering the maintaining member and the fixing board to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Isamu TOGASHI
  • Publication number: 20160288500
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting head which includes a head main body which has liquid ejection surface through which liquid is ejected, a flexible wiring substrate which is connected to the head main body, and a flow-path member having flow path through which liquid is supplied to the head main body. The flow-path member has an opening portion through which the substrate is inserted. The substrate extends to the flow-path member, with respect to the head main body. The substrate is inclined in a direction directed toward a first surface side of both surfaces of the substrate. In an area on a second surface side of both surfaces of the substrate, the flow path has a portion extending along the head main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventor: ISAMU TOGASHI
  • Publication number: 20160271945
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a flexible tube supplying liquid to an elongated line head along a first direction, in which the line head is provided with nozzles positioned along the first direction, a joint connected to the flexible tube, and flow paths between the joint and the nozzles, and the line head raises and lowers in a second direction, the flexible tube is movable accompanying raising and lowering of the line head, and the joint is disposed at a center portion in a case where the line head is divided into three equal parts in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Isamu TOGASHI, Hiroaki OKUI
  • Patent number: 9427964
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting head which includes head bodies aligned in a direction of liquid ejection surface thereof, a flow-path member in which distribution flow path is provided to supply liquid to the head bodies, and flexible wiring substrates connected to the head bodies. The distribution flow path extends in the first direction. In addition, the flexible wiring substrates adjacent in the first direction overlap when viewed from the first direction. The distribution flow path is disposed in an area on one side with respect to the flexible wiring substrates, in a direction perpendicular to the first direction in the liquid ejection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Isamu Togashi
  • Patent number: 9427965
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting head which includes a head main body which ejects ink from a liquid ejection surface and has a plurality of manifolds which store the ink, and a flow-path member in which a first distribution flow path and a second distribution flow path is provided to supply ink to the head main body, in which the plurality of manifolds are arranged on the same plane and the plurality of manifolds, the first distribution flow path, and the second distribution flow path are not disposed in the same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Isamu Togashi
  • Patent number: 9415596
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a set-up surface that faces a support body in a negative Z direction and that is fixed to the support body, an ejection surface that faces in a positive Z direction and in which are located nozzles that eject ink, and a first support surface and a second support surface that face in the positive Z direction and are located on the negative Z direction side of the ejection surface, and, when viewed in the Z direction, are separated from each other with the ejection surface interposed therebetween in the Y direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Isamu Togashi
  • Publication number: 20160221339
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes an ejection surface which extends in a first direction (X-direction) and on which a plurality of nozzles ejecting a liquid are distributed; and protrusion sections that are formed on the ejection surface and protrude on a liquid ejection side in which the liquid is ejected. The ejection surface has abutting regions on which a sealing body that seals the plurality of nozzles by surrounding the plurality of nozzles abuts. When projecting the abutting regions and the protrusion sections along a first direction (X-direction) on a virtual line along a second direction (Y-direction) intersecting the first direction, the protrusion sections are disposed on the ejection surface such that projection of the protrusion sections crosses a boundary of projection of the abutting regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isamu TOGASHI, Shuji SUGAWARA, Yoichi YAMADA