Patents by Inventor Masahiro Oida
Masahiro Oida 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: 11628678Abstract: A tape printing device includes a controller configured to control a feed motor such that, after printing is performed to n pieces of labels, when a label tape is cut between an n-th label and a (n+1)th label counted from a leading edge of the label tape in a first direction and the (n+1)th label is positioned at a print position at which printing is performed by a thermal head, the label tape is fed in a second direction until the (n+1)th label is displaced from the print position.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Oida
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Publication number: 20210300080Abstract: A tape printing device includes a controller configured to control a feed motor such that, after printing is performed to n pieces of labels, when a label tape is cut between an n-th label and a (n+1)th label counted from a leading edge of the label tape in a first direction and the (n+1)th label is positioned at a print position at which printing is performed by a thermal head, the label tape is fed in a second direction until the (n+1)th label is displaced from the print position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro OIDA
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Publication number: 20200262215Abstract: A label creation apparatus that creates a punch block label, on which a number of a plurality of terminals on a punch block having the plurality of terminals grouped into two or more groups are printed, includes head number designation units that designates a head number of a numerical sequence for each group, and numerical sequence print units that assign the numerical sequence numbers continuously from the designated head number to each terminal and print the numerical sequence for each group.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Noriaki MURAYAMA, Takeshi HOSOKAWA, Masahiro OIDA, Yusuke HARIGAE
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Publication number: 20200094578Abstract: The print data generation device includes a controller that generates print data so that when the arrangement order change option that instructs a change in the arrangement order of a plurality of character strings to be printed side by side on a tape in the first direction of the tape is operated, the plurality of character strings is printed side by side in the first direction in the arrangement order different from that before the arrangement order change option is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Naofumi HIRABAYASHI, Masahiro OIDA, Hideki OIKAWA, Makoto TAKADA
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Patent number: 10144229Abstract: The tape cartridge is attached or detached in an attaching and detaching direction to or from the tape printing device including a detecting portion for reading specification information of the tape cartridge from a detected portion by irradiating the detected portion disposed in the tape cartridge with detection light. The tape cartridge includes the detected portion disposed on a wall surface in the attaching and detaching direction; and a fitting portion that is disposed on a wall surface on a rear side in a mounting direction. The detected portion is disposed at a position facing the detecting portion when being mounted.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masahiro Oida, Hideki Sakano
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Publication number: 20180253271Abstract: A tape printing apparatus includes a storing unit that stores medium information showing a classification or an identifier of a tape and a user setting that includes edit data in association with one another in an information storage region, a medium information acquisition unit that acquires medium information of a printing medium that is a printing target, an editing unit that retrieves the user setting associated with the acquired medium information from the information storage region and reflects the user setting in the edit data, and a printing unit that performs printing on the tape on the basis of an editing result of the editing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Masahiro OIDA
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Publication number: 20180147857Abstract: A label creation apparatus that creates a punch block label, on which a number of a plurality of terminals on a punch block having the plurality of terminals grouped into two or more groups are printed, includes head number designation units that designates a head number of a numerical sequence for each group, and numerical sequence print units that assign the numerical sequence numbers continuously from the designated head number to each terminal and print the numerical sequence for each group.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2015Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Noriaki MURAYAMA, Takeshi HOSOKAWA, Masahiro OIDA, Yusuke HARIGAE
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Publication number: 20180117935Abstract: The tape cartridge is attached or detached in an attaching and detaching direction to or from the tape printing device including a detecting portion for reading specification information of the tape cartridge from a detected portion by irradiating the detected portion disposed in the tape cartridge with detection light. The tape cartridge includes the detected portion disposed on a wall surface in the attaching and detaching direction; and a fitting portion that is disposed on a wall surface on a rear side in a mounting direction. The detected portion is disposed at a position facing the detecting portion when being mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2015Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro OIDA, Hideki SAKANO
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Patent number: 9794436Abstract: A label preparation device includes: an editing target switching unit which switches an editing target label among a plurality of labels arranged in particular order, in response to an operation on a keyboard; and an editing screen display unit which displays an editing screen including a preview image of the editing target label. If there is a label immediately preceding the editing target label in the order, the editing screen display unit displays a left arrow object on a forward end side of the preview image. If there is a label immediately following the editing target label in the order, the editing screen display unit displays a right arrow object on a rear end side of the preview image.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Noriaki Murayama, Takeshi Hosokawa, Masahiro Oida, Yusuke Harigae
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Patent number: 9610785Abstract: Disclosed is a tape printer including a feed portion, a feed path, a print portion, and a cut portion. The feed portion performs pre-print feed to feed a tape before a print process and post-print feed to feed the tape after the print process. In addition, the feed portion feeds the tape forward as the post-print feed such that the upstream-side end of an image printed on the tape is positioned on the downstream side of a cut position and the tape backward as the pre-print feed when the cut portion has not performed a cut operation after the post-print feed at the time of starting the following print process.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masahiro Oida, Takeshi Hosokawa, Yusuke Harigae, Noriaki Murayama, Junpei Watanabe, Ayako Inoue, Tomoko Yamada
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Patent number: 9566801Abstract: Disclosed is a tape printer including: a vertical/horizontal conversion section that applies vertical/horizontal conversion processing to a character image to be rotated in at least one of a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction; a print section that prints the character image on a tape; a time acquisition section that acquires time displayed by a hand image constituting a hand type clock image serving as the character image; and a basic hand image storage section that stores a main basic hand image of a plurality of the hand images whose angles are different from each other according to time, wherein, when the hand image that displays the time acquired by the time acquisition section is not included in the basic hand image, the vertical/horizontal conversion section applies the vertical/horizontal conversion processing to the basic hand image to generate the hand image that displays the time acquired by the time acquisition section.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masahiro Oida, Junpei Watanabe, Ayako Inoue, Tomoko Yamada
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Publication number: 20160173713Abstract: A label preparation device includes: an editing target switching unit which switches an editing target label among a plurality of labels arranged in particular order, in response to an operation on a keyboard; and an editing screen display unit which displays an editing screen including a preview image of the editing target label. If there is a label immediately preceding the editing target label in the order, the editing screen display unit displays a left arrow object on a forward end side of the preview image. If there is a label immediately following the editing target label in the order, the editing screen display unit displays a right arrow object on a rear end side of the preview image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Noriaki Murayama, Takeshi Hosokawa, Masahiro Oida, Yusuke Harigae
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Publication number: 20160039226Abstract: Disclosed is a tape printer including a feed portion, a feed path, a print portion, and a cut portion. The feed portion performs pre-print feed to feed a tape before a print process and post-print feed to feed the tape after the print process. In addition, the feed portion feeds the tape forward as the post-print feed such that the upstream-side end of an image printed on the tape is positioned on the downstream side of a cut position and the tape backward as the pre-print feed when the cut portion has not performed a cut operation after the post-print feed at the time of starting the following print process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Masahiro Oida, Takeshi Hosokawa, Yusuke Harigae, Noriaki Murayama, Junpei Watanabe, Ayako Inoue, Tomoko Yamada
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Publication number: 20160042256Abstract: Disclosed is tape printer including: a display section that selectively displays one of a plurality of evaluation images based on the number of evaluation characters placed in a first mode; a first operation section used to operate the evaluation image in a first direction; a second operation section used to operate the evaluation image in a second direction; an image change section that changes the evaluation image to another evaluation image in which the number of the evaluation characters placed in the first mode is incremented in the first direction and changes the evaluation image to another evaluation image in which the number of the evaluation characters placed in a second mode is incremented in the second direction; and a print data generation section that generates print data of the displayed evaluation image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Masahiro Oida, Takeshi Hosokawa, Junpei Watanabe, Ayako Inoue, Tomoko Yamada
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Publication number: 20160039220Abstract: Disclosed is a tape printer including: a vertical/horizontal conversion section that applies vertical/horizontal conversion processing to a character image to be rotated in at least one of a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction; a print section that prints the character image on a tape; a time acquisition section that acquires time displayed by a hand image constituting a hand type clock image serving as the character image; and a basic hand image storage section that stores a main basic hand image of a plurality of the hand images whose angles are different from each other according to time, wherein, when the hand image that displays the time acquired by the time acquisition section is not included in the basic hand image, the vertical/horizontal conversion section applies the vertical/horizontal conversion processing to the basic hand image to generate the hand image that displays the time acquired by the time acquisition section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Masahiro Oida, Junpei Watanabe, Ayako Inoue, Tomoko Yamada