Patents by Inventor Masahiro Ido

Masahiro Ido 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: 11148444
    Abstract: A medium heating device includes a heating unit configured to heat a medium; a first control unit and a second control unit configured to control the heating unit; and a housing including the first control unit and the second control unit inside the housing. Each of the first control unit and the second control unit includes an air inlet and an air outlet. The first control unit and the second control unit include an air intake and exhaust fan installed at at least one of the air inlet and the air outlet of the first control unit, and at at least one of the air inlet and the air outlet of the second control unit. The first control unit and the second control unit are disposed such that the air outlet of the first control unit and the air outlet of the second control unit face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Ido
  • Patent number: 11059308
    Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus 1 includes a carriage 2 configured to reciprocate relative to a medium, and a plurality of discharging units 4 attached to the carriage 2 and configured to discharge liquid onto the medium. At a plurality of replacement positions in a reciprocation direction B of the carriage 2, the carriage 2 allows the plurality of discharging units 4 to be replaced. At the plurality of replacement positions for the carriage 2, a discharging unit to be replaced, among the plurality of discharging units, is accessible from downstream in a discharge direction C of the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ido, Kenji Kojima, Masaru Jingushi, Seigo Mizutani, Takahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200324562
    Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus 1 includes a carriage 2 configured to reciprocate relative to a medium, and a plurality of discharging units 4 attached to the carriage 2 and configured to discharge liquid onto the medium. At a plurality of replacement positions in a reciprocation direction B of the carriage 2, the carriage 2 allows the plurality of discharging units 4 to be replaced. At the plurality of replacement positions for the carriage 2, a discharging unit to be replaced, among the plurality of discharging units, is accessible from downstream in a discharge direction C of the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Masahiro IDO, Kenji KOJIMA, Masaru JINGUSHI, Seigo MIZUTANI, Takahiro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200164670
    Abstract: A medium heating device includes a heating unit configured to heat a medium; a first control unit and a second control unit configured to control the heating unit; and a housing including the first control unit and the second control unit inside the housing. Each of the first control unit and the second control unit includes an air inlet and an air outlet. The first control unit and the second control unit include an air intake and exhaust fan installed at at least one of the air inlet and the air outlet of the first control unit, and at at least one of the air inlet and the air outlet of the second control unit. The first control unit and the second control unit are disposed such that the air outlet of the first control unit and the air outlet of the second control unit face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventor: Masahiro Ido
  • Patent number: 9962964
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting apparatus that includes a support unit configured to support a medium, an ejection unit configured to eject a liquid onto the medium that is transported while being supported by the support unit, and a plate-like pressing unit configured to press, against the support unit, an end portion in a width direction intersecting with a transport direction of the medium being transported in a region opposing the ejection unit. The pressing unit includes regions with different distances therefrom to the support unit via the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Ido
  • Publication number: 20170282599
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting apparatus that includes a support unit configured to support a medium, an ejection unit configured to eject a liquid onto the medium that is transported while being supported by the support unit, and a plate-like pressing unit configured to press, against the support unit, an end portion in a width direction intersecting with a transport direction of the medium being transported in a region opposing the ejection unit. The pressing unit includes regions with different distances therefrom to the support unit via the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventor: Masahiro IDO
  • Publication number: 20160236321
    Abstract: In a state where a first truer rotation axis is maintained parallel to a grindstone rotation axis, a grindstone outer circumferential surface, and outer circumference arcuate surfaces which are partial surfaces of grindstone arcuate surfaces, and which are continuous to the grindstone outer circumferential surface are trued by using a first truer. In a state where a second truer rotation axis is maintained in a direction perpendicular to the grindstone rotation axis, grindstone end surfaces, and end surface arcuate surfaces which are remaining surfaces of the grindstone arcuate surfaces, and which are continuous to the grindstone end surfaces are trued by using a second truer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira WATANABE, Masahiro IDO, Yoshihiro MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20160136768
    Abstract: A machining apparatus includes: a workpiece spindle having a retainer that retains a workpiece having a noncircular peripheral surface; an adjustment unit that adjusts a retaining force between the workpiece and the retainer; a phase determination member that can determine a phase of the workpiece; and a phase determination detection unit that detects completion of the phase determination. The retaining force is a retaining force for phase determination until the phase determination is completed, and the retaining force is switched to a retaining force for machining which is larger than the retaining force for phase determination after the phase determination is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki NAYA, Masahiro IDO, Yoshihiro MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 8827437
    Abstract: A printing method includes preprocessing a substrate by irradiating the substrate in a heated state with an activation light beam, and printing, after the preprocessing, a predetermined pattern on the substrate by ejecting a droplet to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Yokozawa, Masahiro Ido
  • Patent number: 8408967
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a machine tool with a rest apparatus having high supporting stiffness of a workpiece by the rest apparatus and having flexibility to machine a plurality of kinds of the workpieces selectively and to provide a machining method of the machine tool with the rest apparatus. The machine tool with the rest apparatus comprising a base 10, a spindle head 20 mounted on the base 10 to hold rotatably one end of a workpiece W, a tail stock 30 mounted on the base 10 to be faced to the spindle head 20 and to hold rotatably the other end of the workpiece W, first rest apparatus 52 mounted between the spindle head 20 and the tail stock 30 and fixed to the base 10 un-movably to support the workpiece W, and second rest apparatus 53 mounted between the spindle head 20 and the tail stock 30 and movably mounted on the base 10 to support said workpiece W.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ido, Yoshihiro Somyo
  • Patent number: 8348728
    Abstract: A grinding wheel having a grindstone portion formed on a core includes slippery fluoroplastic coating films that prevent attachment of foreign matter, the coating films being provided on the portions of the core, with which portions the foreign matter can be brought into contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ido, Toshio Maruyama, Shoichi Sano
  • Patent number: 8197305
    Abstract: A dynamic pressure in the coolant supplied between a rotating grinding wheel and a rotating workpiece is released by making at least one of oblique grooves on the grinding wheel pass vertically through a contact surface on which a grinding surface of the grinding wheel contacts the workpiece. Where one and the other side intersection points are defined as intersection points at which both ends of each oblique groove respectively cross extension lines of one and the other side edges parallel to a grinding wheel circumferential direction of the contact surface, the other side intersection point of each oblique groove overlaps the one side intersection point of an oblique groove next to each such oblique groove by a predetermined overlap amount in the grinding wheel circumferential direction, and the length in the grinding wheel circumferential direction of the contact surface is made to be shorter than the overlap amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ido, Satoshi Ohyabu, Haruhiko Amakusa, Akio Mori
  • Publication number: 20120133721
    Abstract: A printing method includes preprocessing a substrate by irradiating the substrate in a heated state with an activation light beam, and printing, after the preprocessing, a predetermined pattern on the substrate by ejecting a droplet to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro YOKOZAWA, Masahiro IDO
  • Patent number: 8182318
    Abstract: In a manufacturing method for a grinding wheel in which a plurality of wheel chips each composed of an abrasive grain layer containing superabrasive grains and a foundation layer are adhered to a core attached to a wheel spindle carried by a wheel head of a grinding machine to be drivingly rotatable about a rotational axis and in which a grinding surface formed on the abrasive grain layers grinds a workpiece, drivingly rotatably supported by a workpiece support device of the grinding machine, in contact at a grinding point, the method forms green wheel chips each having opposite ends in a wheel circumferential direction inclined relative to the wheel circumferential direction, bakes the green wheel chips to form baked wheel chips, and adheres the plurality of baked wheel chips to the core so that an oblique groove is formed between adjoining abrasive grain layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: Jtekt Corporation, Toyoda Van Moppes Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Soma, Masahiro Ido, Hitoshi Akahane, Tomohiro Inagaki, Yasuji Kunihiro, Tomoyasu Imai
  • Patent number: 7861627
    Abstract: A bed for machine tool includes a fluid channel crossing the bed and at least one reinforcement bridging the fluid channel. Thus the machining accuracy of a workpiece becomes higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Saito, Teruhiro Nakamura, Masahiro Ido, Naoki Makino, Ikuya Kato, Shinji Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20100317267
    Abstract: In a manufacturing method for a grinding wheel in which a plurality of wheel chips each composed of an abrasive grain layer containing superabrasive grains and a foundation layer are adhered to a core attached to a wheel spindle carried by a wheel head of a grinding machine to be drivingly rotatable about a rotational axis and in which a grinding surface formed on the abrasive grain layers grinds a workpiece, drivingly rotatably supported by a workpiece support device of the grinding machine, in contact at a grinding point, the method forms green wheel chips each having opposite ends in a wheel circumferential direction inclined relative to the wheel circumferential direction, bakes the green wheel chips to form baked wheel chips, and adheres the plurality of baked wheel chips to the core so that an oblique groove is formed between adjoining abrasive grain layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYODA VAN MOPPES LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Soma, Masahiro Ido, Hitoshi Akahane, Tomohiro Inagaki, Yasuji Kunihiro, Tomoyasu Imai
  • Publication number: 20100167634
    Abstract: A grinding wheel having a grindstone portion formed on a core includes slippery fluoroplastic coating films that prevent attachment of foreign matter, the coating films being provided on the portions of the core, with which portions the foreign matter can be brought into contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro IDO, Toshio Maruyama, Shoichi Sano
  • Publication number: 20100068978
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a machine tool with a rest apparatus having high supporting stiffness of a workpiece by the rest apparatus and having flexibility to machine a plurality of kinds of the workpieces selectively and to provide a machining method of the machine tool with the rest apparatus. The machine tool with the rest apparatus comprising a base 10, a spindle head 20 mounted on the base 10 to hold rotatably one end of a workpiece W, a tail stock 30 mounted on the base 10 to be faced to the spindle head 20 and to hold rotatably the other end of the workpiece W, first rest apparatus 52 mounted between the spindle head 20 and the tail stock 30 and fixed to the base 10 un-movably to support the workpiece W, and second rest apparatus 53 mounted between the spindle head 20 and the tail stock 30 and movably mounted on the base 10 to support said workpiece W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro IDO, Yoshihiro Somyo
  • Publication number: 20100041321
    Abstract: A dynamic pressure in the coolant supplied between a rotating grinding wheel and a rotating workpiece is released by making at least one of oblique grooves on the grinding wheel pass vertically through a contact surface on which a grinding surface of the grinding wheel contacts the workpiece. Where one and the other side intersection points are defined as intersection points at which both ends of each oblique groove respectively cross extension lines of one and the other side edges parallel to a grinding wheel circumferential direction of the contact surface, the other side intersection point of each oblique groove overlaps the one side intersection point of an oblique groove next to each such oblique groove by a predetermined overlap amount in the grinding wheel circumferential direction, and the length in the grinding wheel circumferential direction of the contact surface is made to be shorter than the overlap amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Ido, Satoshi Ohyabu, Haruhiko Amakusa, Akio Mori
  • Patent number: 7572175
    Abstract: In a coolant supply apparatus for a grinding machine, a wheel imbalance prevention device is operated within the period from the switching to the closed state of a shut-off valve which is provided on a conduit connecting a coolant supply to a coolant nozzle, until the stop of rotation of the grinding wheel and prevents the coolant remaining in a part of the conduit on the downstream side of the shut-off valve and in the coolant nozzle from dropping on the grinding surface of the grinding wheel during the stop in rotation of the grinding wheel. Thus, the occurrence of coolant which otherwise penetrates the grinding wheel to put the same out of balance is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Ido