Patents by Inventor Masaki Shimomura

Masaki Shimomura 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).

  • Publication number: 20190118542
    Abstract: In a printer, an upstream side transport path for transporting a paper sheet to a recording region in which recording is performed by a recording head from a tube for supplying ink to a recording head from a liquid accommodation body stored in the liquid storage unit and a medium accommodation unit in a state where a recording unit, the liquid storage unit, and a medium accommodation unit are stacked, is configured, and the liquid storage unit includes a liquid storage unit inner transport path including a supply connection section which connects the liquid accommodation body and the tube to each other, and a first transport section which forms a part of the upstream side transport path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Masaki SHIMOMURA, Koji SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10216122
    Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes a charge power source and a controller. The charge power source is configured to switch a voltage with the same polarity as an original charging polarity of a toner and a voltage with a polarity opposite to the original charging polarity of the toner and apply the voltages to a charge device. The controller executes a control of switching a polarity of a voltage to be applied from the charge power source to the charge device from the opposite polarity to the same polarity before termination of secondary transfer of all of toner images in a job, and moving both a residual toner charged to the opposite polarity through application of the voltage with the opposite polarity and a residual toner charged to the same polarity through application of the voltage with the same polarity to an image bearing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakai, Takamitsu Soda, Masaki Shimomura, Yusaku Iwasawa
  • Patent number: 10195866
    Abstract: There is provided a frame which holds a recording section, a support unit which is provided on the outer side of the frame and which supports liquid containers which contain the liquid which is to be ejected from the recording section, liquid supply tubes which supply the liquid which is contained in the liquid containers to the recording section, and a pump which is arranged in the support unit and which sends the liquid which is contained in the liquid containers to the recording section via the liquid supply tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Shimomura
  • Publication number: 20190018355
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: a developing roller configured to develop an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive drum to form a toner image; a belt onto toner image is transferred; a detection unit configured to detect a density of an image for detection formed on the belt; and a controller configured to perform hue adjustment based on a detection result of the detection unit, wherein the image forming apparatus performs image formation in a second mode using a color gamut different from a color gamut in a first mode, and the controller obtains a lookup table, which indicates a correlation between image data to be used and input image data in the second mode, based on the detection result in the first mode and a correlation of density between the first mode and the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kudo, Masaki Shimomura, Akihiko Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20180326737
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head, an ink supply section, a carriage, and a detection unit. The ink supply section supplies ink to the recording head. The carriage reciprocates in predetermined directions and is provided with the recording head and includes a passage junction to be connected to or disconnected from an ink passage formed between the ink supply section and the recording head. The detection unit converts a result of detecting a detection target into an electrical signal. One of the detection target and the detection unit is mounted in the carriage. The carriage has an ink guiding mechanism that guides the ink from a region positioned below the passage junction in a vertical direction to the detection target or an installation part for the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Masaki SHIMOMURA, Yoshihiro OTAGIRI
  • Patent number: 10059111
    Abstract: A maintenance unit including a liquid receiving portion that receives liquid, a discharging portion that discharges the liquid received by the liquid receiving portion into a waste liquid container, a common supporting member that supports the liquid receiving portion and the discharging portion, and a positioning portion that positions the waste liquid container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Otagiri, Masaki Shimomura
  • Patent number: 10059119
    Abstract: Disclosed is a recording apparatus that includes a recording head that ejects a liquid onto a medium, a liquid housing unit that houses the liquid, a supply path of the liquid from the liquid housing unit to the recording head, an assembly body that includes the recording head, a liquid receiving tray that receives the liquid leaking from the assembly body below the assembly body and that has an opening portion which opens at a position higher than a bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Shimomura
  • Patent number: 10046568
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head that ejects liquid onto a recording medium, a liquid accommodating portion that accommodates the liquid, a relay portion that is provided on a flow path of the liquid between the liquid accommodating portion and the recording head and relays the liquid, a tube that forms at least a part of the flow path of the liquid between the liquid accommodating portion and the relay portion and is attachable and detachable with respect to the relay portion, and a holding portion that holds the tube in a state of being detached from the relay portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Shimomura
  • Patent number: 10015337
    Abstract: Provided is a recording apparatus capable of accurate positioning and size detection in accordance with a medium size in a paper feed cassette capable of supporting media of a plurality of sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Miyamoto, Masaki Shimomura
  • Patent number: 9977363
    Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes a control unit configured to selectively execute an operation for applying a voltage with a polarity opposite to an original charging polarity of a toner to a first charging member and a second charging member and an operation for applying a voltage with the polarity opposite to the original charging polarity of the toner to one of the first charging member and the second charging member and a voltage with the same polarity as the original charging polarity of the toner to another of the first charging member and the second charging member as a cleaning operation for charging a secondary transfer residual toner to the polarity opposite to the original charging polarity of the toner by using the first charging member and the second charging member to transfer the secondary transfer residual toner onto an image bearing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuharu Hirado, Masaki Shimomura, Yusaku Iwasawa
  • Publication number: 20180139340
    Abstract: Provided is a recording apparatus capable of accurate positioning and size detection in accordance with a medium size in a paper feed cassette capable of supporting media of a plurality of sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Yuji MIYAMOTO, Masaki SHIMOMURA
  • Publication number: 20180050534
    Abstract: Disclosed is a recording apparatus that includes a recording head that ejects a liquid onto a medium, a liquid housing unit that houses the liquid, a supply path of the liquid from the liquid housing unit to the recording head, an assembly body that includes the recording head, a liquid receiving tray that receives the liquid leaking from the assembly body below the assembly body and that has an opening portion which opens at a position higher than a bottom portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventor: Masaki SHIMOMURA
  • Publication number: 20170351201
    Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes a charge power source and a controller, wherein he charge power source is configured to switch a voltage with the same polarity as an original charging polarity of a toner and a voltage with a polarity opposite to the original charging polarity of the toner and apply the voltages to a charge device, and the controller executes a control of switching a polarity of a voltage to be applied from the charge power source to the charge device from the opposite polarity to the same polarity before termination of secondary transfer of all of toner images in a job, and moving both a residual toner charged to the opposite polarity through application of the voltage with the opposite polarity and a residual toner charged to the same polarity through application of the voltage with the same polarity to an image bearing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakai, Takamitsu Soda, Masaki Shimomura, Yusaku Iwasawa
  • Patent number: 9834019
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording mechanism unit; an opening/closing unit that opens and closes the top portion of the recording mechanism unit; and a support member that holds the opening/closing unit in an opening state. The support member includes a first link portion that is rotatably connected to the opening/closing unit, a second link portion that is rotatably connected to the first link portion and that is rotatably connected to the recording mechanism unit, a first locking mechanism that holds the opening/closing unit in the opening state at a first angle, and a second locking mechanism that does not hold the opening/closing unit in the opening state at a second angle which is smaller than the first angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Migita, Masaki Shimomura, Toshihiro Imae
  • Publication number: 20170285508
    Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes a control unit configured to selectively execute an operation for applying a voltage with a polarity opposite to an original charging polarity of a toner to a first charging member and a second charging member and an operation for applying a voltage with the polarity opposite to the original charging polarity of the toner to one of the first charging member and the second charging member and a voltage with the same polarity as the original charging polarity of the toner to another of the first charging member and the second charging member as a cleaning operation for charging a secondary transfer residual toner to the polarity opposite to the original charging polarity of the toner by using the first charging member and the second charging member to transfer the secondary transfer residual toner onto an image bearing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Yasuharu Hirado, Masaki Shimomura, Yusaku Iwasawa
  • Patent number: 9764557
    Abstract: In a configuration in which an ink accommodating portion is provided on the outside of an apparatus main body, both improvement of maintenance and suppressing of performance deterioration of the apparatus are achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Miyamoto, Satoshi Iwaya, Masaki Shimomura, Tokujiro Okuno
  • Publication number: 20170253050
    Abstract: There is provided a frame which holds a recording section, a support unit which is provided on the outer side of the frame and which supports liquid containers which contain the liquid which is to be ejected from the recording section, liquid supply tubes which supply the liquid which is contained in the liquid containers to the recording section, and a pump which is arranged in the support unit and which sends the liquid which is contained in the liquid containers to the recording section via the liquid supply tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventor: Masaki SHIMOMURA
  • Publication number: 20170203574
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head that ejects liquid onto a recording medium, a liquid accommodating portion that accommodates the liquid, a relay portion that is provided on a flow path of the liquid between the liquid accommodating portion and the recording head and relays the liquid, a tube that forms at least a part of the flow path of the liquid between the liquid accommodating portion and the relay portion and is attachable and detachable with respect to the relay portion, and a holding portion that holds the tube in a state of being detached from the relay portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventor: Masaki SHIMOMURA
  • Publication number: 20170190193
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording mechanism unit; an opening/closing unit that opens and closes the top portion of the recording mechanism unit; and a support member that holds the opening/closing unit in an opening state. The support member includes a first link portion that is rotatably connected to the opening/closing unit, a second link portion that is rotatably connected to the first link portion and that is rotatably connected to the recording mechanism unit, a first locking mechanism that holds the opening/closing unit in the opening state at a first angle, and a second locking mechanism that does not hold the opening/closing unit in the opening state at a second angle which is smaller than the first angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Koji MIGITA, Masaki SHIMOMURA, Toshihiro IMAE
  • Patent number: 9694587
    Abstract: A mounting portion in which a first ink cartridge can be mounted, and a first mounting detection portion that can detect that the first ink cartridge is mounted in the mounting portion are included, and the first mounting detection portion can detect that a mounting unit in which a second ink cartridge can be mounted is mounted in the mounting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Shimomura, Atsushi Takei, Yoshihisa Saka