Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Mukaiyama

Kiyoshi Mukaiyama 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: 9902177
    Abstract: A control device which controls transportation of a continuous paper receives an operation signal according to an operation amount by which a terminal is operated and generates a drive command which controls a transport speed of the continuous paper based on the operation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Hiroyuki Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9579910
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a feeding section that feeds a rolled continuous paper into an apparatus body, a recording section disposed in the apparatus body, the recording section performing recording onto the continuous paper fed from the feeding section in the apparatus body, a first transport path along which the continuous paper is transported during the recording performed on the medium by the recording section, and a second transport path along which the continuous paper is transported to be rewound onto the feeding section. The second transport path is different from the first transport path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama
  • Patent number: 9533507
    Abstract: An ink supplying and collecting apparatus includes a case, ink cartridges detachably attached to the case, and a collecting container detachably attached to the case. The ink cartridges supply ink to a recording head of a printer via ink supply tubes. The collecting container collects ink drained from the recording head via an ink drain tube. The case is located outside of and is separate from the printer. Thus, the sizes and shapes of the ink cartridges and the collecting container can be freely designed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
  • Publication number: 20160214404
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a feeding section that feeds a rolled continuous paper into an apparatus body, a recording section disposed in the apparatus body, the recording section performing recording onto the continuous paper fed from the feeding section in the apparatus body, a first transport path along which the continuous paper is transported during the recording performed on the medium by the recording section, and a second transport path along which the continuous paper is transported to be rewound onto the feeding section. The second transport path is different from the first transport path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama
  • Publication number: 20160214412
    Abstract: A control device which controls transportation of a continuous paper receives an operation signal according to an operation amount by which a terminal is operated and generates a drive command which controls a transport speed of the continuous paper based on the operation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Hiroyuki Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20150350471
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a controller that causes a function selecting portion on which a function is selectable to be displayed at a predetermined position, in which the predetermined position is set for each function in advance and the controller displays the function selecting portion of an expanded function at the predetermined position based on attachment of a function expansion device, in a selectable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MUKAIYAMA, Mamoru AKATSU
  • Publication number: 20150347874
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a storage device and print attribute information from which it is determinable whether or not a file is suitable for printing is displayed on a file list screen on which a file stored in the storage device is selectable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MUKAIYAMA, Mamoru AKATSU
  • Publication number: 20150183222
    Abstract: An ink supplying and collecting apparatus includes a case, ink cartridges detachably attached to the case, and a collecting container detachably attached to the case. The ink cartridges supply ink to a recording head of a printer via ink supply tubes. The collecting container collects ink drained from the recording head via an ink drain tube. The case is located outside of and is separate from the printer. Thus, the sizes and shapes of the ink cartridges and the collecting container can be freely designed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
  • Patent number: 9019517
    Abstract: A printing medium on which a read and transport correction pattern whose longitudinal direction extends along the main scanning direction (the direction intersecting the forming and transporting direction) of a printer engine is set as a document M. The printing medium is transported such that the reading and transporting direction extends along the main scanning direction of the printer engine and is read, and read correction information for use in correcting a transport displacement of the document is set on the basis of a result of the reading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama
  • Patent number: 8998392
    Abstract: An ink supplying and collecting apparatus includes a case, ink cartridges detachably attached to the case, and a collecting container detachably attached to the case. The ink cartridges supply ink to a recording head of a printer via ink supply tubes. The collecting container collects ink drained from the recording head via an ink drain tube. The case is located outside of and is separate from the printer. Thus, the sizes and shapes of the ink cartridges and the collecting container can be freely designed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
  • Publication number: 20130300808
    Abstract: An ink supplying and collecting apparatus includes a case, ink cartridges detachably attached to the case, and a collecting container detachably attached to the case. The ink cartridges supply ink to a recording head of a printer via ink supply tubes. The collecting container collects ink drained from the recording head via an ink drain tube. The case is located outside of and is separate from the printer. Thus, the sizes and shapes of the ink cartridges and the collecting container can be freely designed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
  • Patent number: 8576421
    Abstract: Disclosed is a printer for performing a process on the basis of received print data, the process including feeding a print sheet for a page, printing on the fed sheet, and ejecting the printed sheet. The printer includes a controller that allows a sheet for a succeeding page to be ejected without being printed when allowing the sheet for the succeeding page to be fed before completion of the process on another sheet for a preceding page which is in progress and then recognizing the end of a print data block corresponding to the succeeding page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Nomura, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama
  • Patent number: 8485652
    Abstract: An ink supplying and collecting apparatus includes a case, ink cartridges detachably attached to the case, and a collecting container detachably attached to the case. The ink cartridges supply ink to a recording head of a printer via ink supply tubes. The collecting container collects ink drained from the recording head via an ink drain tube. The case is located outside of and is separate from the printer. Thus, the sizes and shapes of the ink cartridges and the collecting container can be freely designed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
  • Publication number: 20120236086
    Abstract: An ink supplying and collecting apparatus includes a case, ink cartridges detachably attached to the case, and a collecting container detachably attached to the case. The ink cartridges supply ink to a recording head of a printer via ink supply tubes. The collecting container collects ink drained from the recording head via an ink drain tube. The case is located outside of and is separate from the printer. Thus, the sizes and shapes of the ink cartridges and the collecting container can be freely designed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
  • Patent number: 8201932
    Abstract: An ink supplying and collecting apparatus includes a case, ink cartridges detachably attached to the case, and a collecting container detachably attached to the case. The ink cartridges supply ink to a recording head of a printer via ink supply tubes. The collecting container collects ink drained from the recording head via an ink drain tube. The case is located outside of and is separate from the printer. Thus, the sizes and shapes of the ink cartridges and the collecting container can be freely designed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
  • Patent number: 7980646
    Abstract: A recording apparatus that performs a recording on a recording medium comprising: the recording operation a transport unit, a recording unit, a feed starting unit that starts feeding of the recording medium by the recording unit that has moved to a position on a moving path of the recording unit outside a recordable area, a determination unit that determines whether the moving direction of the recording unit for the last line of the first copy is toward the position where a recording operation for a plurality of copies of the same data is performed, the moving unit is controlled such that the moving direction of the recording unit for a first line of the second copy is opposite to the moving direction for a first line of the first copy when the moving direction for the last line of the first copy is determined not to be toward the predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama
  • Publication number: 20110148998
    Abstract: An ink supplying and collecting apparatus includes a case, ink cartridges detachably attached to the case, and a collecting container detachably attached to the case. The ink cartridges supply ink to a recording head of a printer via ink supply tubes. The collecting container collects ink drained from the recording head via an ink drain tube. The case is located outside of and is separate from the printer. Thus, the sizes and shapes of the ink cartridges and the collecting container can be freely designed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
  • Patent number: 7922307
    Abstract: An ink supplying and collecting apparatus includes a case, ink cartridges detachably attached to the case, and a collecting container detachably attached to the case. The ink cartridges supply ink to a recording head of a printer via ink supply tubes. The collecting container collects ink drained from the recording head via an ink drain tube. The case is located outside of and is separate from the printer. Thus, the sizes and shapes of the ink cartridges and the collecting container can be freely designed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
  • Publication number: 20100259576
    Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a discharging section which discharges liquid, a plurality of supply sections which each supply a plurality of different kinds of liquid to the discharging section, a changing-over section which changes over the plurality of supply sections, thereby connecting one of the plurality of supply sections to the discharging section, and a control section which receives instructions for liquid changing-over operation which changes over the connection to the discharging section from a first supply section among the plurality of supply sections to a second different supply section, thereby selecting one of first and second methods for the liquid changing-over operation on the basis of the remaining amount of first liquid acquired by a remaining amount acquisition section which obtains the remaining amount of the first liquid in the first supply section, and controls the execution of the liquid changing-over operation by the selected method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyoshi MUKAIYAMA
  • Patent number: 7540587
    Abstract: A guiding device guides, in a main body of a liquid ejection apparatus, a flexible passage forming member having a passage therein in a predetermined routing direction while curving the passage forming member. The guiding device includes a holding member. The holding member is engaged with a curved section of the passage forming member, and holds the curved section in an undeformable manner in the apparatus main body. The holding member guides the passage forming member in the routing direction. Thus, the guiding device is capable of efficiently routing passage forming members while bending the members in a body of a liquid ejection apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen