Patents by Inventor Masanao Matsuzawa

Masanao Matsuzawa 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: 6231248
    Abstract: An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head includes a wire guide member having a wire guide hole for guiding the tip end of the wire, and an ink tank containing an ink absorbing body therein and having an ink supply port in which a portion of the wire guide member is inserted. The wire guide member has a capillary ink path communicating with a side of the wire and supplied with ink from the ink absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 6224275
    Abstract: An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head includes a wire guide member having a wire guide hole for guiding the tip end of the wire, and an Ink tank containing an ink absorbing body therein and having an ink supply port in which a portion of the wire guide member is inserted. The wire guide member has a capillary ink path communicating with a side of the wire and supplied with ink from the ink absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 6176629
    Abstract: An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head includes a wire guide member having a wire guide hole for guiding the tip end of the wire, and an ink tank containing an ink absorbing body therein and having an ink supply port in which a portion of the wire guide member is inserted. The wire guide member has a capillary ink path communicating with a side of the wire and supplied with ink from the ink absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 6123469
    Abstract: An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head includes a wire guide member having a wire guide hole for guiding the tip end of the wire, and an ink tank containing an ink absorbing body therein and having an ink supply port in which a portion of the wire guide member is inserted. The wire guide member has a capillary ink path communicating with a side of the wire and supplied with ink from the ink absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5622439
    Abstract: An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head includes a wire guide member having a wire guide hole for guiding the tip end of the wire, and an ink tank containing an ink absorbing body therein and having an ink supply port in which a portion of the wire guide member is inserted. The wire guide member has a capillary ink path communicating with a side of the wire and supplied with ink from the ink absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5615957
    Abstract: An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head includes a wire guide member having a wire guide hole for guiding the tip end of the wire, and an ink tank containing an ink absorbing body therein and having an ink supply port in which a portion of the wire guide member is inserted. The wire guide member has a capillary ink path communicating with a side of the wire and supplied with ink from the ink absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5607242
    Abstract: An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head includes a wire guide member having a wire guide hole for guiding the tip end of the wire, and an ink tank containing an ink absorbing body therein and having an ink supply port in which a portion of the wire guide member is inserted. The wire guide member has a capillary ink path communicating with a side of the wire and supplied with ink from the ink absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5603577
    Abstract: An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head includes a wire guide member having a wire guide hole for guiding the tip end of the wire, and an ink tank containing an ink absorbing body therein and having an ink supply port in which a portion of the wire guide member is inserted. The wire guide member has a capillary ink path communicating with a side of the wire and supplied with ink from the ink absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5560720
    Abstract: An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head includes a wire guide member having a wire guide hole for guiding the tip end of the wire, and an ink tank containing an ink absorbing body therein and having an ink supply port in which a portion of the wire guide member is inserted. The wire guide member has a capillary ink path communicating with a side of the wire and supplied with ink from the ink absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5453770
    Abstract: An on-demand type ink jet print head, comprising: a plurality of ink tanks disposed at a lower position of a carriage to be independent of each other, pressure varying means provided on one of the tanks; an air release port communicating with the other one of the tanks; a head assembly provided on top of the tanks to communicate with the tanks through flow paths at both sides of the head assembly. The object of the invention is to achieve stable printing independent of the amount of ink in an ink tank and discharge bubbles in a nozzle head together with the ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Katakura, Toshio Kumagai, Shinji Yasukawa, Hideaki Sonehara, Masanao Matsuzawa, Fujio Akahane, Norihiko Kurashima, Toshiaki Ohshima, Katsuhiko Iida
  • Patent number: 5421658
    Abstract: An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head includes a wire guide member having a wire guide hole for guiding the tip end of the wire, and an ink tank containing an ink absorbing body therein and having an ink supply port in which a portion of the wire guide member is inserted. The wire guide member has a capillary ink path communicating with a side of the wire and supplied with ink from the ink absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5328279
    Abstract: An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head includes a wire guide member having a wire guide hole for guiding the tip end of the wire, and an ink tank containing an ink absorbing body therein and having an ink supply port in which a portion of the wire guide member is inserted. The wire guide member has a capillary ink path communicating with a side of the wire and supplied with ink from the ink absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5221148
    Abstract: An ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer including an ink-supply tank formed with an ink-supply delivery port and an ink absorbing member formed of a porous material and dimensioned to substantially fill the ink-supply tank. The ink-supply tank includes an inner wall surface having projections to provide a space between the ink absorbing member and the wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5174665
    Abstract: An ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer including an ink-supply tank having an ink-supply delivery port and an ink absorbing member having at least two separate porous members disposed as stacked layers, one of the porous members which is closer to the ink-supply delivery port being made of a porous material having a smaller average pore size than the porous material of the other porous member more remote from the ink-supply delivery port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5158377
    Abstract: An ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer including an ink-supply tank formed with an ink supply delivery port having an opening for passage of ink from the ink-supply tank. An ink absorbing member formed of a porous material is mounted within the ink-supply tank and compressed relative to at least another region of the ink absorbing member at least in the region thereof facing the opening of the ink supply delivery port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5156473
    Abstract: An ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer including an ink-supply tank formed as a single disposable unit and adapted for mounting in and removal from the ink-supply system as a unit. The ink-supply tank is formed with a plurality of ink-supply sections, each of the ink-supply sections having an ink-supply delivery port. An ink absorbing member formed of a porous material substantially fills each of the ink-supply sections, substantially the desired capacity of ink for each of said ink-supply sections being carried by each of the ink absorbing members, at least two of the ink-supply sections carrying ink of different colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5156472
    Abstract: An ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer including an ink-supply tank having an ink-supply delivery port, an ink impregnated member formed of a porous material within the ink-supply tank, and ink impregnated in the ink absorbing member under a pressure sufficiently low to substantially eliminate air bubbles within the ink impregnated member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5156470
    Abstract: An ink-supply system for a dot matrix printer including a unitary ink-supply tank formed with a plurality of ink-supply sections and a further separate ink-supply tank. An ink absorbing member formed of a porous material is positioned in each of the ink-supply sections and in the further separate ink-supply tank, each of the ink absorbing members substantially filling its respective ink-supply section or further separate ink-supply tank, substantially the desired capacity of ink for each of the ink-supply sections of the further separate ink-supply tank being carried by the respective ink absorbing member thereof. At least two of the ink-supply sections carry ink of different colors other than black, the further ink-supply tank carrying black ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5156471
    Abstract: An ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head for actuating wires with ink attached to tip ends thereof into contact with a sheet of print paper to transfer ink to the sheet, thereby forming ink dots thereon. The ink-supplied wire dot matrix printer head includes a wire guide member having a wire guide hole for guiding the tip end of the wire, and an ink tank containing an ink absorbing body therein and having an ink supply port in which a portion of the wire guide member is inserted. The wire guide member has a capillary ink path communicating with a side of the wire and supplied with ink from the ink absorbing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Masanao Matsuzawa, Yoshinori Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 5072240
    Abstract: An on-demand type ink jet print head including a drive assembly formed from a vibrating plate formed of a piezoelectric layer with an electrode layer on one surface and an electrically conductive, physically resilient layer on the opposite surface of the piezoelectric layer. The vibrating plate is secured to a base and has two opposing edges defining a free space therebetween. The vibrating plate is slit into a plurality of strips and these strips are cross-slit in the widthwise direction to form a row of reed pieces secured to each opposing edge of the base in a cantilever configuration and extending into the free space from each edge toward the reed pieces extending from the opposite edge with a space therebetween. The reed pieces are electrically and mechanically independent of each other and have negligible electrical and mechanical interference with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Miyazawa, Hidenori Omae, Masanao Matsuzawa, Hisashi Miyazawa, Takahiro Katakura, Osamu Nakamura, Norihiko Kurashima