Patents by Inventor Kazuyoshi Matsumoto

Kazuyoshi Matsumoto 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: 11945229
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a head configured to discharge a liquid, and a liquid container configured to contain the liquid to be supplied to the head. The liquid container includes an inlet from which the liquid is supplied to the liquid container, a first lid configured to cover and openably close the inlet, the first lid having a first fitting part fittable to a first key detachably attached to a refill bottle containing the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Takahashi, Takashi Watanabe, Takeyuki Kobayashi, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230202180
    Abstract: A waste liquid collection device includes: a tank housing that stores a liquid; a tubular member that causes the liquid to flow into the tank housing; a distance holding device disposed at an end portion of the tubular member suspended in an internal space of the tank housing; and a buoyancy imparting device having buoyancy for the liquid and causes the distance holding device to float on a liquid surface of the liquid, while keeping a certain distance between the end portion of the tubular member and the liquid surface using the buoyancy of the buoyancy imparting device. A liquid discharge apparatus includes the waste liquid collection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Matsumoto, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Takeyuki Kobayashi, Tetsu Morino, Kenta Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11633958
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a body and a carriage disposed inside the body. A head is mounted on the carriage. The head discharges ink onto a recording medium and generates ink mist. An ink mist collector includes a fan that generates an air current that circulates in an air flow direction inside the body. A filter collects the ink mist generated by the head. At least one duct adjusts the air flow direction. An encoder is mounted on the carriage. The encoder is disposed downstream from the fan and disposed upstream from the head in the air flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuguyori Kemma, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Satoshi Ueno, Yuzo Obata, Kazuyoshi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20220305796
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a head configured to discharge a liquid, and a liquid container configured to contain the liquid to be supplied to the head. The liquid container includes an inlet from which the liquid is supplied to the liquid container, a first lid configured to cover and openably close the inlet, the first lid having a first fitting part fittable to a first key detachably attached to a refill bottle containing the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kenta TAKAHASHI, Takashi WATANABE, Takeyuki KOBAYASHI, Kazuyoshi MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220305797
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes multiple heads configured to respectively discharge different types of liquids, and multiple liquid containers configured to respectively contain the different types of liquids to be respectively supplied to the multiple heads. Each of the multiple liquid containers includes a first fitting part fittable to each of: a second fitting part of corresponding one of multiple refill bottles respectively containing the different types of liquids to be respectively supplied to the multiple liquid containers; and a third fitting part of a cleaning bottle containing a cleaning liquid to be commonly supplied to each of the multiple liquid containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kenta TAKAHASHI, Takeyuki KOBAYASHI, Kazuyoshi MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210237467
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a body and a carriage disposed inside the body. A head is mounted on the carriage. The head discharges ink onto a recording medium and generates ink mist. An ink mist collector includes a fan that generates an air current that circulates in an air flow direction inside the body. A filter collects the ink mist generated by the head. At least one duct adjusts the air flow direction. An encoder is mounted on the carriage. The encoder is disposed downstream from the fan and disposed upstream from the head in the air flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Tsuguyori KEMMA, Kazuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Satoshi UENO, Yuzo OBATA, Kazuyoshi KONDO
  • Patent number: 11059303
    Abstract: A recording medium holder includes a base, a platen configured to hold a printing target portion of a recording medium, and a plurality of platen supports to support the platen. The plurality of platen supports is disposed side by side on the base. The plurality of platen supports includes a first platen support at one end and a second platen support respectively at one end and the other end of the plurality of platen supports. The first platen support the second platen support are separable from the platen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Ueno, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10983468
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printer and a sheet feeder. The sheet feeder feeds a sheet to the printer in a feed direction. The printer prints a folding guide line on the sheet with a transparent recording agent or a recording agent having a similar color close to the color of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Megumi Arai
  • Patent number: 10889136
    Abstract: A printing target holder includes a platen to hold a printing target portion of a printing target to which printing is applied, and the platen is configured to hold the printing target in a flat state. The platen includes a support face disposed on a top side of the platen and configured to support the printing target portion of the printing target; and an escape portion lower in height than the support face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kunioka, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Masaharu Ohtani
  • Publication number: 20200298591
    Abstract: A recording medium holder includes a base, a platen configured to hold a printing target portion of a recording medium, and a plurality of platen supports to support the platen. The plurality of platen supports is disposed side by side on the base. The plurality of platen supports includes a first platen support at one end and a second platen support respectively at one end and the other end of the plurality of platen supports. The first platen support the second platen support are separable from the platen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi UENO, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10632761
    Abstract: A printer includes a body, a cloth holder to hold a cloth thereon, a receiver to hold and move back and forth while holding the cloth holder partially within the body of the printer, and a printing unit to print an image on the cloth held by the cloth holder held on the receiver. The cloth holder is detachably attached to the receiver while holding the cloth thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Kenji Hiratani, Yoshinori Uchino, Tsuyoshi Miyata, Daisuke Nakamura, Ryoh Idehara
  • Patent number: 10632762
    Abstract: A heating apparatus includes a body and a holder removably placed inside the body. The holder removably holds a heating object. A receiver removably holds the holder. A heater heats the heating object held by the holder held by the receiver. A mover moves one of the receiver and the heater vertically relative to another one of the receiver and the heater to a non-contact heating position where the heating object is isolated from the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuzoh Obata, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Ryoh Idehara, Tsuguyori Kemma
  • Patent number: 10625522
    Abstract: An image adding system includes a cloth holder to hold a cloth to which an image is added, a printer to print the cloth held by the cloth holder with an image, and a heater to heat the cloth. The cloth holder is used by both the printer and the heater with the cloth held on the cloth holder when the printer prints the image on the cloth and the heater heats the cloth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Kenji Hiratani, Yoshinori Uchino, Tsuyoshi Miyata, Kohei Chubachi
  • Publication number: 20200101769
    Abstract: A printing target holder includes a platen to hold a printing target portion of a printing target to which printing is applied, and the platen is configured to hold the printing target in a flat state. The platen includes a support face disposed on a top side of the platen and configured to support the printing target portion of the printing target; and an escape portion lower in height than the support face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kunioka, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Masaharu Ohtani
  • Patent number: 10427426
    Abstract: A hand-held recording apparatus includes a recording section, a housing, and an indicator. The recording section records an image on a recording material in moving in a scanning direction. The housing houses the recording section. The indicator is movable between an indication position at which the indicator opposes the recording material and indicates a recording area of the image of the recording section and a retracted position at which the indicator is retracted from the indication position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Muneyuki Okeguchi, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Kunihiko Nishioka
  • Publication number: 20190212685
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printer and a sheet feeder. The sheet feeder feeds a sheet to the printer in a feed direction. The printer prints a folding guide line on the sheet with a transparent recording agent or a recording agent having a similar color close to the color of the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Megumi ARAI
  • Publication number: 20180361761
    Abstract: A hand-held recording apparatus includes a recording section, a housing, and an indicator. The recording section records an image on a recording material in moving in a scanning direction. The housing houses the recording section. The indicator is movable between an indication position at which the indicator opposes the recording material and indicates a recording area of the image of the recording section and a retracted position at which the indicator is retracted from the indication position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Muneyuki Okeguchi, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Kunihiko Nishioka
  • Publication number: 20180217536
    Abstract: A heating apparatus includes a body and a holder removably placed inside the body. The holder removably holds a heating object. A receiver removably holds the holder. A heater heats the heating object held by the holder held by the receiver. A mover moves one of the receiver and the heater vertically relative to another one of the receiver and the heater to a non-contact heating position where the heating object is isolated from the heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Yuuzoh Obata, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Ryoh Idehara, Tsuguyori Kemma
  • Publication number: 20170320339
    Abstract: A printer includes a body, a cloth holder to hold a cloth thereon, a receiver to hold and move back and forth while holding the cloth holder partially within the body of the printer, and a printing unit to print an image on the cloth held by the cloth holder held on the receiver. The cloth holder is detachably attached to the receiver while holding the cloth thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Kenji Hiratani, Yoshinori Uchino, Tsuyoshi Miyata, Daisuke Nakamura, Ryoh Idehara
  • Publication number: 20170320316
    Abstract: An image adding system includes a cloth holder to hold a cloth to which an image is added, a printer to print the cloth held by the cloth holder with an image, and a heater to heat the cloth. The cloth holder is used by both the printer and the heater with the cloth held on the cloth holder when the printer prints the image on the cloth and the heater heats the cloth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Daisuke NAKAMURA, Kazuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Kenji HIRATANI, Yoshinori UCHINO, Tsuyoshi MIYATA, Kohei CHUBACHI