Patents by Inventor Kazuhisa Kawakami
Kazuhisa Kawakami 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: 7494214Abstract: A recording apparatus for effecting recording on a material by a recording unit, the apparatus having a carriage for reciprocal movement while carrying the recording unit; a platen for support of the recording material at a position opposed to the recording unit; a feeding roller for feeding the recording material; a pinch roller driven by the feeding roller; a sheet feeding unit for feeding the recording material to the position opposed to the recording unit; a base unit supporting the recording unit, the platen, the feeding roller and the sheet feeding unit at respective positions.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2005Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuhiro Nitta, Shinya Sonoda, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kazuhisa Kawakami
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Patent number: 7311368Abstract: Printing of an image onto a printing medium is effected such that applied ink materials do not rub off. In the event of a printing mode in which the surface printed with an image is subject to rubbing, the kinds of ink used are limited so that the amount of pigment applied to printing image at least for a part of the side of the printing medium is decreased.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2004Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuhisa Kawakami
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Publication number: 20070211086Abstract: A recording apparatus has a paper feeder wherein single sheets of paper can be set, a paper delivery device for transporting paper fed from the paper feeder to a recorder, and a control unit for controlling operation of the paper feeder and the paper delivery device. The control unit has a skew removal execution mode of only the first sheet of paper where the paper tip is bitten into a paper delivery roller forming a part of the paper delivery device and then the paper delivery roller is reversely rotated for ejecting the paper tip for the first sheet of paper at the start of recording and then forward rotating the paper delivery roller for delivering the sheet of paper whose skew is removed to the recorder and delivering the second and later sheets of paper to a record area without executing the skew removal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2007Publication date: September 13, 2007Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masaki Shimomura, Kazuhisa Kawakami, Tsuyosi Yamanaka, Masafumi Furuyama, Toru Fukushima
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Publication number: 20070126767Abstract: Printing of an image onto a printing medium is effected such that applied ink materials do not rub off. In the event of a printing mode in which the surface printed with an image is subject to rubbing, the kinds of ink used are limited so that the amount of pigment applied to printing image at least for a part of the side of the printing medium is decreased.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2007Publication date: June 7, 2007Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuhisa Kawakami
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Patent number: 7182336Abstract: A paper feed unit includes a hopper on which sheets are stacked and which is turned around a rotation shaft. The hopper is turned to move apart from or move to a paper feed roller. The paper feed unit has three modes: a large release mode in which the hopper is turned to be most apart from the paper feed roller, a non-release mode in which the printing sheet is abutted against the paper feed roller, and a small release mode in which the printing sheet is slightly separated from the paper feed roller, and is at a medium level between the above two modes. When a paper feeding job is still present, a state that the uppermost printing sheet is slightly separated from the paper feed roller is retained by the small release mode, whereby a swing range of the hopper is minimized.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2004Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toru Fukushima, Kazuhisa Kawakami, Masafumi Furuyama, Yoji Sasai, Norihiro Yamashita, Yoichi Kobayashi, Hirotomo Tanaka
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Publication number: 20060284364Abstract: A recording apparatus has a paper feeder wherein single sheets of paper can be set, a paper delivery device for transporting paper fed from the paper feeder to a recorder, and a control unit for controlling operation of the paper feeder and the paper delivery device. The control unit has a skew removal execution mode of only the first sheet of paper where the paper tip is bitten into a paper delivery roller forming a part of the paper delivery device and then the paper delivery roller is reversely rotated for ejecting the paper tip for the first sheet of paper at the start of recording and then forward rotating the paper delivery roller for delivering the sheet of paper whose skew is removed to the recorder and delivering the second and later sheets of paper to a record area without executing the skew removal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2006Publication date: December 21, 2006Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki SHIMOMURA, Kazuhisa KAWAKAMI, Tsuyoshi YAMANAKA, Masafumi FURUYAMA, Toru FUKUSHIMA
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Patent number: 7134658Abstract: A recording apparatus has a paper feeder wherein single sheets of paper can be set, a paper delivery device for transporting paper fed from the paper feeder to a recorder, and a control unit for controlling operation of the paper feeder and the paper delivery device. The control unit has a skew removal execution mode of only the first sheet of paper where the paper tip is bitten into a paper delivery roller forming a part of the paper delivery device and then the paper delivery roller is reversely rotated for ejecting the paper tip for the first sheet of paper at the start of recording and then forward rotating the paper delivery roller for delivering the sheet of paper whose skew is removed to the recorder and delivering the second and later sheets of paper to a record area without executing the skew removal.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2002Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masaki Shimomura, Kazuhisa Kawakami, Tsuyosi Yamanaka, Masafumi Furuyama, Toru Fukushima
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Publication number: 20050280684Abstract: Provided is a recording apparatus in which a recording medium is fed from one side of the recording apparatus, and the recording medium that has recorded is discharged from the one side of the recording apparatus, the recording apparatus being capable of making its size when not in use smaller than the size when in use and also achieving a reduction in the depth dimension of the recording apparatus as compared with the case where a feed tray and a discharge tray are rotary storage trays. The recording apparatus includes a feed tray on which a recording medium is stacked and which is rotated to move between an in-use position and a stored position, and a discharge tray on which the recording medium that has recorded is stacked and which moves between an in-use position and a stored position in a discharge direction of the recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2005Publication date: December 22, 2005Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhisa Kawakami, Shinya Sonoda, Tetsuhiro Nitta, Toshihide Wada, Hiroyuki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20050275705Abstract: A recording apparatus for effecting recording on a recording material by recording means, the apparatus includes carriage for reciprocal movement while carrying the recording means; a platen for support the recording material at a position opposed to the recording means; feeding roller for feeding the recording material; a pinch roller driven by the feeding roller; a sheet feeding unit for feeding the recording material to the position opposed to the recording means; a recording unit for supporting the carriage and the pinch roller; a base unit supporting the recording unit, the platen, the feeding roller and the sheet feeding unit at respective positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2005Publication date: December 15, 2005Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuhiro Nitta, Shinya Sonoda, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kazuhisa Kawakami
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Patent number: 6962412Abstract: A cover unit includes a first metal cover having at least one side surface and a second cover made of a material not soluble with the material of the first metal cover. A tongue is formed on the side surface of the first metal cover. The second cover is formed with a brim covering at least one side surface end of the first metal cover and with a hole at a position corresponding to the position of the tongue of the first metal cover.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2003Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Koike, Kazuhisa Kawakami
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Publication number: 20050166237Abstract: A digital broadcast receiver includes a memory for obtaining and storing electronic program guide information about programs to be broadcast and progress information showing the progress of an program which is being broadcast in each channel, a display device such as a television screen, and a controller for allowing the display device to display the electronic program guide together with the progress information corresponding to the electronic program guide information by reading the progress information from the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2004Publication date: July 28, 2005Inventor: Kazuhisa Kawakami
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Patent number: 6899326Abstract: A first non-recording region is situated in one of both outer sides of a recording region in a main scanning direction of recording. A second non-recording region is situated in the other one of the both sides of the recording region. A power source provides a driving force. A driving gear is interconnected with the power source. A transmission gear is operable to be coupled with the driving gear to transmit the driving force to a rotatable member. An actuator is operable to move in the main scanning direction. A first trigger is disposed in the first non-recording region. A second trigger is disposed in the second non-recording region. A clutch is interconnected with the trigger so as to couple the driving gear and the transmission gear when the one of the first trigger and the second trigger is actuated by the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2003Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuhisa Kawakami, Masaki Shimomura, Takuya Yasue, Toru Fukushima
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Patent number: 6880822Abstract: A paper feed unit includes a hopper on which sheets are stacked and which is turned around a rotation shaft. The hopper is turned to move apart from or move to a paper feed roller. The paper feed unit has three modes: a large release mode in which the hopper is turned to be most apart from the paper feed roller, a non-release mode in which the printing sheet is abutted against the paper feed roller, and a small release mode in which the printing sheet is slightly separated from the paper feed roller, and is at a medium level between the above two modes. When a paper feeding job is still present, a state that the uppermost printing sheet is slightly separated from the paper feed roller is retained by the small release mode, whereby a swing range of the hopper is minimized.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2002Date of Patent: April 19, 2005Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toru Fukushima, Kazuhisa Kawakami, Masafumi Furuyama, Yoji Sasai, Norihiro Yamashita, Yoichi Kobayashi, Hirotomo Tanaka
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Publication number: 20050062215Abstract: A paper feed unit includes a hopper on which sheets are stacked and which is turned around a rotation shaft. The hopper is turned to move apart from or move to a paper feed roller. The paper feed unit has three modes: a large release mode in which the hopper is turned to be most apart from the paper feed roller, a non-release mode in which the printing sheet is abutted against the paper feed roller, and a small release mode in which the printing sheet. is slightly separated from the paper feed roller, and is at a medium level between the above two modes. When a paper feeding job is still present, a state that the uppermost printing sheet is slightly separated from the paper feed roller is retained by the small release mode, whereby a swing range of the hopper is minimized.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2004Publication date: March 24, 2005Inventors: Toru Fukushima, Kazuhisa Kawakami, Masafumi Furuyama, Yoji Sasai, Norihiro Yamashita, Yoichi Kobayashi, Hirotomo Tanaka
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Publication number: 20050062216Abstract: A paper feed unit includes a hopper on which sheets are stacked and which is turned around a rotation shaft. The hopper is turned to move apart from or move to a paper feed roller. The paper feed unit has three modes: a large release mode in which the hopper is turned to be most apart from the paper feed roller, a non-release mode in which the printing sheet is abutted against the paper feed roller, and a small release mode in which the printing sheet, is slightly separated from the paper feed roller, and is at a medium level between the above two modes. When a paper feeding job is still present, a state that the uppermost printing sheet is slightly separated from the paper feed roller is retained by the small release mode, whereby a swing range of the hopper is minimized.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2004Publication date: March 24, 2005Inventors: Toru Fukushima, Kazuhisa Kawakami, Masafumi Furuyama, Yoji Sasai, Norihiro Yamashita, Yoichi Kobayashi, Hirotomo Tanaka
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Patent number: 6846999Abstract: A switch assembly includes a key member pushing the switch and a cap member made of a material not compatible to the key member and covering the key member. The key member and the cap member are formed in a substantially united body, and the key member has a hole passing therethrough from a portion not covered by the cap member to another portion covered by the cap member.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2003Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhisa Kawakami, Yasushi Koike
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Publication number: 20050012764Abstract: According to the present invention there is effected printing of an image onto a printing medium such that there is no rubbing off of ink materials applied. In the event of a printing mode in which the surface printed with image is subject to rubbing, kinds of ink used is limited so that the amount of pigment applied to printing image at least for a part of the side of the printing medium is lowered.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2004Publication date: January 20, 2005Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuhisa Kawakami
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Publication number: 20040251610Abstract: A recording apparatus has a paper feeder wherein single sheets of paper can be set, a paper delivery device for transporting paper fed from the paper feeder to a recorder, and a control unit for controlling operation of the paper feeder and the paper delivery device. The control unit has a skew removal execution mode of only the first sheet of paper where the paper tip is bitten into a paper delivery roller forming a part of the paper delivery device and then the paper delivery roller is reversely rotated for ejecting the paper tip for the first sheet of paper at the start of recording and then forward rotating the paper delivery roller for delivering the sheet of paper whose skew is removed to the recorder and delivering the second and later sheets of paper to a record area without executing the skew removal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Shimomura, Kazuhisa Kawakami, Tsuyosi Nakayama, Masafumi Furuyama, Toru Fukushima
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Publication number: 20040074756Abstract: This invention relates to a switch selecting conduct or insulation at a point of electrical contact comprising a key member pushing the switch, a cap member made of a material not compatible to the key member and covering the key member. The key member is covered by the cap member, and the key member and the cap member are formed in a united body substantially. A separate hole for separating the cap member is opened in the key member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhisa Kawakami, Yasushi Koike
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Publication number: 20040017037Abstract: A first non-recording region is situated in one of both outer sides of a recording region in a main scanning direction of recording. A second non-recording region is situated in the other one of the both sides of the recording region. A power source provides a driving force. A driving gear is interconnected with the power source. A transmission gear is operable to be coupled with the driving gear to transmit the driving force to a rotatable member. An actuator is operable to move in the main scanning direction. A first trigger is disposed in the first non-recording region. A second trigger is disposed in the second non-recording region. A clutch is interconnected with the trigger so as to couple the driving gear and the transmission gear when the one of the first trigger and the second trigger is actuated by the actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2003Publication date: January 29, 2004Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhisa Kawakami, Masaki Shimomura, Takuya Yasue, Toru Fukushima