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).
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Patent number: 9902177Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Hiroyuki Tsuji
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Patent number: 9579910Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama
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Patent number: 9533507Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
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Publication number: 20160214404Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama
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Publication number: 20160214412Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Hiroyuki Tsuji
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Publication number: 20150350471Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Kiyoshi MUKAIYAMA, Mamoru AKATSU
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Publication number: 20150347874Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Kiyoshi MUKAIYAMA, Mamoru AKATSU
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Publication number: 20150183222Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2015Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
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Patent number: 9019517Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama
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Patent number: 8998392Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
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Publication number: 20130300808Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
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Patent number: 8576421Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 26, 2007Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Reiko Nomura, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama
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Patent number: 8485652Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
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Publication number: 20120236086Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
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Patent number: 8201932Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 3, 2011Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
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Patent number: 7980646Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kiyoshi Mukaiyama
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Publication number: 20110148998Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2011Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
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Patent number: 7922307Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2006Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen, Juliet Chen
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Publication number: 20100259576Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kiyoshi MUKAIYAMA
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Patent number: 7540587Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 26, 2006Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Shinya Yamagata, Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Steven Chen