Patents by Inventor Masanari TANAKA

Masanari TANAKA 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: 20240174474
    Abstract: A recording device in which an operating unit is provided to be pivotable to a parallel state and an inclined state with respect to a housing, a discharge tray includes a placement portion displaceable to an accommodation position and a use position, and an extension portion displaceable to a retracted state and an extended state, the extension portion protrudes to the outside of the housing when the placement portion is at the accommodation position and the extension portion is in the extended state, at least the extension portion in the extended state overlaps the operating unit in the parallel state, and a force in a first direction in which the extension portion is displaced from the extended state to the retracted state is applied when a back surface of the operating unit abuts on a tip of the extension portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKATA, Katsumi YAMADA, Hirokazu ANADA, Masanari TANAKA, Kanji MOMOSE, Yusuke KOMIYAMA, Daisuke KANUMA
  • Publication number: 20230294437
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording portion that performs recording by ejecting a liquid onto a medium; a liquid accommodation portion that accommodates the liquid to be ejected by the recording portion; and a housing that includes an accommodation portion exterior that accommodates the liquid accommodation portion, wherein the liquid accommodation portion includes a viewing region configured that the liquid accommodated is viewed, the accommodation portion exterior of the housing includes a viewing portion that faces the viewing region and is configured that the liquid is viewed, and a lighting portion that takes in light from outside the housing, and an optical path through which the light taken in passes is provided between the liquid accommodation portion and the accommodation portion exterior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKATA, Masanari TANAKA, Tatsuya ITO
  • Publication number: 20230278342
    Abstract: A liquid container is configured to be refilled with a liquid from outside, the liquid container including a containing portion that contains the liquid, an inlet that is in communication with the containing portion and through which the liquid is poured, a lid portion that has an insertion portion to be inserted into the inlet and is configured to turn around a turning axis between a closed state in which the inlet is closed by inserting the insertion portion into the inlet and an open state in which the insertion portion is separated from the inlet, and a cover portion that covers the insertion portion in the open state, in which, when the lid portion is in the open state, the insertion portion does not project further than the cover portion when viewed in an axial direction of the turning axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKATA, Masanari TANAKA, Katsumi YAMADA, Masahito TATSUMI, Matsutaro NAITO