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).
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Patent number: 11148444Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Masahiro Ido
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Patent number: 11059308Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ido, Kenji Kojima, Masaru Jingushi, Seigo Mizutani, Takahiro Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20200324562Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2017Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Masahiro IDO, Kenji KOJIMA, Masaru JINGUSHI, Seigo MIZUTANI, Takahiro KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20200164670Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventor: Masahiro Ido
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Patent number: 9962964Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Masahiro Ido
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Publication number: 20170282599Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventor: Masahiro IDO
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Publication number: 20160236321Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Akira WATANABE, Masahiro IDO, Yoshihiro MIZUTANI
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Publication number: 20160136768Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2015Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki NAYA, Masahiro IDO, Yoshihiro MIZUTANI
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Patent number: 8827437Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Yokozawa, Masahiro Ido
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Patent number: 8408967Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 2009Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ido, Yoshihiro Somyo
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Patent number: 8348728Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ido, Toshio Maruyama, Shoichi Sano
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Patent number: 8197305Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 9, 2007Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ido, Satoshi Ohyabu, Haruhiko Amakusa, Akio Mori
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Publication number: 20120133721Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiro YOKOZAWA, Masahiro IDO
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Patent number: 8182318Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 24, 2007Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignees: Jtekt Corporation, Toyoda Van Moppes Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Soma, Masahiro Ido, Hitoshi Akahane, Tomohiro Inagaki, Yasuji Kunihiro, Tomoyasu Imai
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Patent number: 7861627Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 9, 2006Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Saito, Teruhiro Nakamura, Masahiro Ido, Naoki Makino, Ikuya Kato, Shinji Deguchi
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Publication number: 20100317267Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2007Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYODA VAN MOPPES LTD.Inventors: Shinji Soma, Masahiro Ido, Hitoshi Akahane, Tomohiro Inagaki, Yasuji Kunihiro, Tomoyasu Imai
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Publication number: 20100167634Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2009Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Masahiro IDO, Toshio Maruyama, Shoichi Sano
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Publication number: 20100068978Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro IDO, Yoshihiro Somyo
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Publication number: 20100041321Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2007Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Ido, Satoshi Ohyabu, Haruhiko Amakusa, Akio Mori
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Patent number: 7572175Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 29, 2007Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventor: Masahiro Ido