Patents by Inventor Keita Sugiura

Keita Sugiura 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: 11273637
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber configured to receive a pressure to eject liquid from the nozzle, a descender, and a communication channel. The descender has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first end is connected to the pressure chamber. The communication channel is connected to the second end and extends from a connection with the second end in an X direction. A first direction in which the descender extends from the second end toward the first end is inclined toward the communication channel relative to a Y direction orthogonal to the X direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Hirai, Shohei Koide, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11273644
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including a channel unit that includes plates stacked on top of each other in a first direction and is formed having individual channels, a first common channel, and a second common channel. The first and second common channels communicate with the individual channels. Each individual channel includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a descender, a first throttle channel, and a second throttle channel. The plates include a nozzle plate, a pressure chamber plate, and a first plate formed having a first through hole that constitutes part of the descender. A center portion of the nozzle is positioned at a side opposite to the second throttle channel in the second direction with respect to a center portion of the descender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Taisuke Mizuno, Jiro Yamamoto, Shotaro Kanzaki, Keita Sugiura
  • Patent number: 11254140
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: first and second common channels extending in a first direction; and individual channels including pressure chambers and nozzles. Each of the individual channels includes: a supply portion; a descender portion extending in a second direction; and a return portion extending in a third direction. The return portion includes: a throttle portion; and a wide portion. Each of the nozzles overlaps with the wide portion. A relationship of L2>L1 is satisfied, wherein L1 is a distance in the third direction from a center of each of the nozzles to a throttle starting position, and L2 is a distance in the third direction passing through a center in a cross section of the descender portion and ranging from a center line parallel to the second direction to the center of each of the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Shohei Koide, Keita Sugiura, Keita Hirai
  • Patent number: 11254129
    Abstract: There is provided a head unit including: at least two head modules, and at least one head module. The head unit further includes: a tank; a first and second tubes; and a joint unit including at least one first joint which includes a first port connected to the first tube and a second port connected to the second tube, and which relays the first tube and the second tube to each other. The first port of the at least one first joint extends in one side in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keita Sugiura
  • Patent number: 11247465
    Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a nozzle surface having a nozzle; a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle and configured to store liquid; a piezoelectric body configured to apply pressure to the liquid inside the pressure chamber; a supply manifold configured to supply the liquid to the pressure chamber; a return manifold arranged to overlap with the supply manifold and configured to allow the liquid, which is not discharged from the nozzle, to flow therethrough; a pair of elastically deformable portions provided between the supply manifold and the return manifold; a damper space formed between the elastically deformable portions; and a shielding plate configured to separate the damper space into a first damper space and a second damper space, wherein Young's modulus of the shielding plate is greater than Young's modulus of each of the elastically deformable portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keita Sugiura
  • Patent number: 11247460
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes: a first member having a surface in which first openings are formed, the first openings arranged in a first direction and communicating with individual channels; a second member disposed at one side in a second direction with respect to the first member, the second member having: a space extending in the first direction and communicating with the first openings; and a second opening disposed at the first side in the second direction with respect to the space and communicating with the space; and a third member disposed between the first member and the second member in the second direction and having a communicating hole extending in the first direction and allowing the first openings to communicate with the space. The third member has a wall dividing the communicating hole into partial holes separated from each other in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Sugiura, Shohei Koide, Keita Hirai, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11235605
    Abstract: There is provided a head module including: a liquid discharging head; a driver IC; a heat sink; and a fan. The head module includes: a channel unit; and an energy-applying mechanism. The heat sink includes: a base part; and a plurality of fins including: a first fin, a second fin, and a third fin. A plane direction of a plane in which the first fin expands crosses a plane direction of a plane in which the second fin expands, and crosses a plane direction of a plane in which the third fin expands. The fan is arranged at a position at which the fan overlaps with the base part in the first direction, and in a space surrounded by the first fin, the second fin, the third fin and the base part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keita Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20220024210
    Abstract: There is provide a liquid discharge head including: a supply manifold; a feedback manifold; and a plurality of individual flow channels having: a supply portion, a descender portion, and a feedback portion. The supply manifold has a plurality of supply ports, and the feedback manifold has a plurality of feedback ports. At least part of the supply manifold overlaps with the feedback manifold in the second direction. The plurality of pressure chambers have first pressure chambers forming a first pressure chamber array and second pressure chambers forming a second pressure chamber array. The first pressure chamber array is arranged at one side, of the supply manifold, in a third direction and the second pressure chamber array is arranged at the other side, of the supply manifold, in the third direction. The first pressure chamber array and the second pressure chamber array are connected to the supply manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Shohei Koide, Keita Hirai, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20220016887
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus jetting a liquid onto a recording medium conveyed in a first direction includes head units arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. One head unit includes nozzle chips; one nozzle chip has a nozzle arrangement area wherein nozzles are aligned in a third direction crossing the first and second directions. The nozzle chip is arranged to be shifted relative to another nozzle chip in a direction crossing the first and second directions and different from the third direction. The head unit has a first overlapping portion wherein nozzle arrangement areas of first and second nozzle chips included in the nozzle chips partially overlap with each other in the first direction. The liquid jetting apparatus has a second overlapping portion wherein nozzle arrangement areas of third and fourth nozzle chips included in the head units partially overlap with each other in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Taisuke MIZUNO, Hideki HAYASHI, Keita SUGIURA
  • Publication number: 20220009253
    Abstract: There is provided a print device including: a casing having an inner space; a support which extends along a first direction and which is configured to rotatably support a roll body; a conveyer configured to convey a sheet pulled out of the roll body in a conveyance orientation along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; a print unit configured to perform a print by causing a print matter to adhere to the sheet conveyed in the conveyance orientation; and a cover. An opening is provided on the casing such that the inner space is exposed to an outside of the casing via the opening. The cover is configured to slide relative to the casing along the second direction between an open position in which the opening is uncovered and a close position in which the opening is covered by the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Takaaki OGUCHI, Kenta HAYASHIDA, Atsuo HIROSE, Robin RIAZI, Keita SUGIURA, Akito UEKIHARA
  • Patent number: 11214063
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: first and second common channels extending in a first direction; and a plurality of individual channels each including: a supplying part, a descender part, and a returning part. The returning part includes: a throttle part and a wide part. Each of a plurality of nozzles is located at a position at which each of the plurality of nozzles overlaps with the wide part in a second direction. At a throttle-starting position which is a boundary between the throttle part and the wide part, a length in the second direction of the throttle part and a length in the second direction of the wide part are same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Jiro Yamamoto, Keita Sugiura, Shotaro Kanzaki, Taisuke Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20210402808
    Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus which is provided with a housing, a holder configured to be drawable from the housing, a supporting member supported by the holder and configured to support a sheet roll, a liquid container supported by the holder and configured to hold liquid, a conveyance mechanism arranged in an inner space of the housing and configured to convey a sheet unwound from the sheet roll, and a print head arranged in the inner space of the housing and configured to record an image on the sheet conveyed by the conveyance mechanism. The liquid container is configured to include at least one of tanks configured to hold liquid to be provided to the print head and a waste tank configured to pool liquid discharged from the print head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keita SUGIURA
  • Publication number: 20210402774
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head is provided with: individual channels; a first common channel; and a second common channel. The individual channels include: first individual channels which have first pressure chambers and which are aligned in a second direction to form a first individual channel array, and second individual channels which have second pressure chambers and which are aligned in the second direction to form a second individual channel array; the first individual channel array and the second individual channel array are arranged in a third direction. The first common channel communicates with both of the first individual channels and the second individual channels; and the first pressure chambers and the second pressure chambers do not overlap with the second common channel in a first direction, and do not overlap with each other in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Shotaro Kanzaki, Jiro Yamamoto, Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20210402791
    Abstract: There is provided liquid discharging head including: supply manifolds; supply integration channel which extends linearly along an arrangement direction crossing a longitudinal direction of the supply manifolds; return manifolds; and return integration channel which extends linearly along the arrangement direction. The supply integration channel has supply port arranged apart from the supply manifolds, being configured to supply the liquid to the supply integration channel via the supply port, and at least a part of the supply port being overlapped, in a plan view, with a pressure chamber-arranging area in which a plurality of pressure chambers communicating with nozzles is arranged. The return integration channel has return port arranged apart from the return manifolds, being configured to drain the liquid from the return integration channel via the return port, and at least a part of the return port being overlapped, in the plan view, with the pressure chamber-arranging area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno, Shotaro Kanzaki
  • Publication number: 20210402767
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a nozzle member; a first common channel member including first common channels; an actuator member including pressure chambers and driving elements; a driver IC; a second common channel member including a second common channel; and a chiller configured to chill the driver IC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Taisuke Mizuno, Shotaro Kanzaki, Keita Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20210402804
    Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus having a housing having a front wall and a rear wall, and a right wall and a left wall defining an internal space of the housing, a sheet roll holder configured to hold a sheet roll, a supporting member configured to support the sheet roll, the supporting member extending in an axial direction of the sheet roll and being supported by the sheet roll holder, a sheet conveyer arranged in an internal space of the housing, the sheet conveyer being configured to convey a sheet unwound from the sheet roll, and a recording device configured to record an image on the sheet unwound from the sheet roll and conveyed by the sheet conveyer. The sheet roll holder is configured to be slidable with respect to the housing so as to be detachable from and attachable to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita SUGIURA, Takaaki OGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210402773
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharging head including: a pressure chamber configured to apply a pressure to a liquid so as to discharge the liquid from a nozzle; a descender arranged to overlap, in a plan view, with the nozzle and communicating the pressure chamber and the nozzle with each other; at least one return throttle channel connected to the descender; and a return manifold which communicates with the at least one return throttle channel and which is configured to receive the liquid not having been discharged from the nozzle. A cross section of the descender orthogonal to a depth direction of the descender is a non-circular shape having a major axis and a minor axis. The at least one return throttle channel is connected to at least one of a first end side of the minor axis and a second end side of the minor axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Keita Sugiura, Jiro Yamamoto, Shotaro Kanzaki, Taisuke Mizuno, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20210402766
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharging head including: a plurality of supply manifolds configured to receive a liquid to be discharged from a plurality of nozzles and provided side by side with each other; a supply integration channel arranged on a first side in a longitudinal direction of the supply manifolds; a first connecting channel connecting the supply integration channel and a first supply manifold of the supply manifolds; and a second connecting channel connecting the supply integration channel and a second supply manifold, of the supply manifolds, being adjacent to the first supply manifold in a short direction of the first supply manifold. An outlet of the first connecting channel is arranged on the first side in the longitudinal direction of the supply manifolds; and an outlet of the second connecting channel is arranged on a second side in the longitudinal direction of the supply manifolds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno, Shotaro Kanzaki
  • Publication number: 20210402768
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head, including: a nozzle member formed having nozzle rows extending in a first direction, the nozzle rows being arranged in a second direction; driving elements; a first channel member disposed at one side of the nozzle member in a third direction; a second channel member disposed at the one side of the first channel member in the third direction; and a third channel member disposed at the one side of the second channel member in the third direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Shotaro Kanzaki, Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20210402769
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head, including: a first channel member including individual channel rows and first common channels that correspond to the respective individual channel rows; a second channel member including a second common channel provided in common to the first common channels; and a third channel member including at least parts of connection channels connected to the second common channel. One of the connection channels is connected to an end in a longitudinal direction of the second common channel. The liquid discharge head further comprises a communication opening disposed at any other part of the second common channel except the end in the longitudinal direction, the second common channel communicating with the outside through the communication opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Shotaro Kanzaki, Taisuke Mizuno, Keita Sugiura