Patents by Inventor Katsuyuki Kondo

Katsuyuki Kondo 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).

  • Patent number: 11975937
    Abstract: A feeding unit includes: a retard roller; a holder section; a protruding section; an accommodating section; a pressing section; a first restricting section; and a second restricting section. The holder section rotatably holds the retard roller. The protruding section serves as a rocking fulcrum of the holder section. The accommodating section accommodates the holder section. The pressing section presses the holder section. The first restricting section restricts movement of the holder section in a retreating direction. The second restricting section restricts movement of the holder section in a direction opposite to the retreating direction. The pressing section is arranged so as to deviate in a Y direction with respect to a virtual line passing through a middle point of the protruding section and a middle point of the first restricting section. The holder section comes into contact with the first restricting section and the second restricting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Kondo, Junko Ao
  • Publication number: 20240059080
    Abstract: A relay transport device configured to relay and transport a medium fed from the feeding device to the recording device includes a first restriction section having a first restriction surface configured to position one first edge of the medium in a width direction of the medium fed from the feeding device; a transport section configured to transport the medium toward the first restriction surface; a first auxiliary guide disposed downstream of the first restriction section in the transport direction and having a first auxiliary guide surface configured to restrict a position of the first edge of the medium; and a second auxiliary guide disposed on an opposite side from the first auxiliary guide with the medium interposed therebetween and having a second auxiliary guide surface configured to restrict a position of a second edge of the medium on the opposite side from the first edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Chiaki SHIMADA, Katsuyuki KONDO
  • Publication number: 20240059513
    Abstract: A relay transport device is configured to relay a medium fed from the feeding device and transport the medium to the recording device. The relay transport device includes a first restriction section having a first restriction surface configured to position a first edge, which is one edge in a width direction, a first transport belt configured to transport the medium toward the first restriction surface in a first direction, which intersects the transport direction and the width direction, a second transport belt that is provided downstream of the first transport belt in the transport direction and that is configured to transport the medium toward the first restriction surface in a second direction, which intersects the transport direction and the width direction, and a suction section configured to suck the medium via a through hole provided in the first transport belt and the second transport belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Chiaki SHIMADA, Katsuyuki KONDO
  • Publication number: 20240059512
    Abstract: A relay transport device that is positioned between a recording device, which is performs recording on a medium, and a feeding device, which is disposed outside the recording device and feeds the medium to the recording device, and that is configured to relay the medium fed from the feeding device and transport the medium to the recording device includes a first restriction section having a first restriction surface configured to position a first edge, which is one edge in a width direction that intersects the transport direction, of the medium fed from the feeding device; a transport belt configured to transport the medium toward the first restriction surface in an intersecting direction, which intersects the transport direction and the width direction; and a suction section configured to suck the medium via a through hole provided in the transport belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Chiaki SHIMADA, Katsuyuki KONDO
  • Publication number: 20230227281
    Abstract: A feeding unit includes a paper feeding tray, a lifter, a feeding roller, a guide plate, and a handling portion. The lifter can displace paper in the paper feeding tray in a +B direction. The guide plate guides a downstream end of the paper lifted by the lifter in a +A direction toward the feeding roller. The handling portion handles the paper toward the feeding roller. The guide plate forms a frontage through which the paper can pass between the guide plate and an outer peripheral surface of the feeding roller, and is provided so that a size of the frontage can be adjusted. The handling portion is provided integrally with the guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Junko AO, Katsuyuki KONDO
  • Publication number: 20230227280
    Abstract: A feeding unit includes a retard roller, a first holder, a second holder, an accommodating portion, a pressing portion, a second pressing portion, a release lever, and a second restricting portion. The accommodating portion accommodates the second holder. The second pressing portion presses the second holder in a +Z direction. The release lever restricts the movement of the second holder in the +Z direction. The second holder is provided with a plurality of restricted portions in a Y direction and a +A direction, respectively. The second restricting portion restricts the movement of the second holder in a ?Z direction. The second restricting portion has a restricting surface. The restricting surface is provided in the accommodating portion and is configured to come into contact with the plurality of restricted portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuyuki KONDO, Junko AO
  • Patent number: 11634297
    Abstract: A media folding device includes a stacking portion on which media transported from an introduction path are placed; a folding roller pair that folds the media at a folding position after the media have been stacked in the stacking portion; and a bend forming mechanism that includes a first abutting portion configured to abut against a front end of the media, which are stacked in the stacking portion, in a transport direction, and a second abutting portion that is configured to abut against a rear end of the media, which are stacked in the stacking portion, in the transport direction, and that causes the folding position of the media to be nipped by the folding roller pair the folding roller pair by shortening the relative distance between the first abutting portion and the second abutting portion to bend the media toward the folding roller pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaro Harada, Katsuyuki Kondo
  • Publication number: 20220275853
    Abstract: A drive transmission unit includes a cam member, a motor, a cam follower, and an extension spring. The cam member rotates about a rotation shaft. The cam member includes a first cam defining a maximum distance between the cam follower and the rotation shaft and a second cam having an outer peripheral surface positioned closer to the rotation shaft than the outer peripheral surface of the first cam. The motor rotates the rotation shaft. The cam follower is to be in contact with the cam member and moves in the +B direction and the ?B direction by the rotation of the cam member. The extension spring presses the cam follower against the cam member. When the cam follower moves in the ?B direction by the rotation of the cam member, this operation includes contact between the outer peripheral surface of the second cam and the cam follower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Junko AO, Katsuyuki KONDO
  • Patent number: 11427428
    Abstract: A medium discharging device includes a side cursor, a moving unit, a discharge unit, and a side guide. The side cursor is provided in a processing tray and is provided movable in an intersecting direction intersecting a discharging direction of the medium, aligns an end portion of a media bundle in the intersecting direction, and guides the media bundle in the discharging direction when the media bundle is discharged. The moving unit moves the side cursor in the intersecting direction. The discharge unit discharges the media bundle from the processing tray to the discharge tray where the media bundle is placed. When the media bundle is discharged, the side guide is disposed alongside the side cursor in the discharging direction and restricts movement of the media bundle in the intersecting direction, which is discharged by the discharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Furumido, Shota Hiramatsu, Katsuyuki Kondo, Chiaki Shimada
  • Patent number: 11413886
    Abstract: A medium transporting apparatus including a paddle that comes in contact with a medium discharged on a first tray including an upstream end matching member and that rotates to move the medium towards the upstream end matching member, and a low frictional resistance member configured to switch between an advanced state advanced from outside a medium mount region of the first tray to a first region, and a retracted state retracting from the first region to an outside of the medium mount region. The low frictional resistance member is, after a first medium is mounted on the first tray, switched from the retracted state to the advanced state, and is interposed between the first medium and a second medium when, after discharging the first medium, moving the second medium discharged from a pair of discharge rollers towards the upstream end matching member with the paddle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Kondo
  • Publication number: 20220177242
    Abstract: A feeding unit includes: a retard roller; a holder section; a protruding section; an accommodating section; a pressing section; a first restricting section; and a second restricting section. The holder section rotatably holds the retard roller. The protruding section serves as a rocking fulcrum of the holder section. The accommodating section accommodates the holder section. The pressing section presses the holder section. The first restricting section restricts movement of the holder section in a retreating direction. The second restricting section restricts movement of the holder section in a direction opposite to the retreating direction. The pressing section is arranged so as to deviate in a Y direction with respect to a virtual line passing through a middle point of the protruding section and a middle point of the first restricting section. The holder section comes into contact with the first restricting section and the second restricting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Katsuyuki KONDO, Junko AO
  • Patent number: 11345560
    Abstract: A sheet discharging device includes: a pair of medium supporting portions that have support surfaces that support the medium, and support the transported medium by the support surfaces; a stacking portion which is provided vertically below the pair of medium supporting portions and on which the medium dropped from the pair of medium supporting portions is stacked; and a standing wall that aligns the medium by contacting a rear end of the medium in the transport direction supported by the pair of medium supporting portions, and the standing wall includes: a center contacting wall that is provided at a center in the width direction and contacts the rear end of the medium; and recess portions that are provided on both sides of the center contacting wall in the width direction and are recessed in a direction away from the support surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Kondo, Chiaki Shimada, Tsuyoshi Furumido, Atsushi Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11180336
    Abstract: A medium transporting apparatus includes a transport belt that has a loop shaped, a cling mechanism that causes the medium to cling to the transport belt, a rotation mechanism that transports the medium by rotating the transport belt, a plurality of detection units that detect an transport direction end of the medium, a controller that corrects a skew of the medium, and a stacker on which the medium transported by the transport belt is stacked, in which the plurality of detection units are arranged at positions that are on an upstream side of the transport belt in the first transport direction and that are different from each other in a width direction, and the controller corrects, according to a result of the detection by the detection units, the skew of the medium in a state of being cling to the transport belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ohashi, Tsuyoshi Furumido, Akinobu Nakahata, Katsuyuki Kondo
  • Publication number: 20210276820
    Abstract: A media folding device includes a stacking portion on which media transported from an introduction path are placed; a folding roller pair that folds the media at a folding position after the media have been stacked in the stacking portion; and a bend forming mechanism that includes a first abutting portion configured to abut against a front end of the media, which are stacked in the stacking portion, in a transport direction, and a second abutting portion that is configured to abut against a rear end of the media, which are stacked in the stacking portion, in the transport direction, and that causes the folding position of the media to be nipped by the folding roller pair the folding roller pair by shortening the relative distance between the first abutting portion and the second abutting portion to bend the media toward the folding roller pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Yutaro HARADA, Katsuyuki KONDO
  • Patent number: 11046549
    Abstract: A media folding device includes a stacking portion on which media transported from an introduction path are placed; a folding roller pair that folds the media at a folding position after the media have been stacked in the stacking portion; and a bend forming mechanism that includes a first abutting portion configured to abut against a front end of the media, which are stacked in the stacking portion, in a transport direction, and a second abutting portion that is configured to abut against a rear end of the media, which are stacked in the stacking portion, in the transport direction, and that causes the folding position of the media to be nipped by the folding roller pair the folding roller pair by shortening the relative distance between the first abutting portion and the second abutting portion to bend the media toward the folding roller pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaro Harada, Katsuyuki Kondo
  • Publication number: 20210101771
    Abstract: A medium discharging device includes a side cursor, a moving unit, a discharge unit, and a side guide. The side cursor is provided in a processing tray and is provided movable in an intersecting direction intersecting a discharging direction of the medium, aligns an end portion of a media bundle in the intersecting direction, and guides the media bundle in the discharging direction when the media bundle is discharged. The moving unit moves the side cursor in the intersecting direction. The discharge unit discharges the media bundle from the processing tray to the discharge tray where the media bundle is placed. When the media bundle is discharged, the side guide is disposed alongside the side cursor in the discharging direction and restricts movement of the media bundle in the intersecting direction, which is discharged by the discharger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi FURUMIDO, Shota HIRAMATSU, Katsuyuki KONDO, Chiaki SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20210094788
    Abstract: A sheet discharging device includes: a pair of medium supporting portions that have support surfaces that support the medium, and support the transported medium by the support surfaces; a stacking portion which is provided vertically below the pair of medium supporting portions and on which the medium dropped from the pair of medium supporting portions is stacked; and a standing wall that aligns the medium by contacting a rear end of the medium in the transport direction supported by the pair of medium supporting portions, and the standing wall includes: a center contacting wall that is provided at a center in the width direction and contacts the rear end of the medium; and recess portions that are provided on both sides of the center contacting wall in the width direction and are recessed in a direction away from the support surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuyuki KONDO, Chiaki SHIMADA, Tsuyoshi FURUMIDO, Atsushi NAKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10814647
    Abstract: A medium discharging device includes a paper discharging tray that is disposed below a height position of a discharging roller which discharges a medium and includes a placing surface on which the medium discharged by the discharging roller is placed, and a supporting member that is configured to be movable between a retreat position on an upstream side and an advance position on a downstream side between the discharging roller and the placing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Kondo, Masayoshi Miyakawa
  • Patent number: 10737897
    Abstract: A medium discharging device includes a discharge roller pair that discharges a medium, a discharge tray disposed below the discharge roller pair in a vertical direction and having a placement surface on which the discharged medium is placed, and a guide member that is advanced and retracted between an advanced position where the guide member is advanced inward in a width direction from opposite sides in the width direction intersecting a discharge direction of the medium and a retracted position where the guide member is retracted to an end portion position side in the width direction. When the guide member is disposed at the advanced position, an upstream side end portion of the guide member in the discharge direction is disposed between a discharge position by the discharge roller pair and a position of the placement surface of the discharge tray, in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Kondo, Masayoshi Miyakawa, Katsumi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20200122954
    Abstract: A media folding device includes a stacking portion on which media transported from an introduction path are placed; a folding roller pair that folds the media at a folding position after the media have been stacked in the stacking portion; and a bend forming mechanism that includes a first abutting portion configured to abut against a front end of the media, which are stacked in the stacking portion, in a transport direction, and a second abutting portion that is configured to abut against a rear end of the media, which are stacked in the stacking portion, in the transport direction, and that causes the folding position of the media to be nipped by the folding roller pair the folding roller pair by shortening the relative distance between the first abutting portion and the second abutting portion to bend the media toward the folding roller pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yutaro HARADA, Katsuyuki KONDO