Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Isobe
Mitsuhiro Isobe 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: 9962967Abstract: A recording device includes a conveyance mechanism, a recording mechanism, a rotational mechanism of a plurality of take-up spindles, and a control unit. The conveyance mechanism is configured to convey a recording medium intermittently in a conveyance direction. The recording mechanism is configured to record by reciprocatingly scanning a recording head in a direction that intersects with the conveyance direction. The rotational mechanism is configured to take up the recording medium. The control unit is configured to control the conveyance mechanism and the rotational mechanism to substantially synchronize conveying of the recording medium by the conveyance mechanism and taking-up of the recording medium by the rotational mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidemasa Kanada, Masato Mitsuhashi, Koji Higuchi, Toshimitsu Hirai, Mitsuhiro Isobe
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Publication number: 20160271976Abstract: A recording device includes a conveyance mechanism, a recording mechanism, a rotational mechanism of a plurality of take-up spindles, and a control unit. The conveyance mechanism is configured to convey a recording medium intermittently in a conveyance direction. The recording mechanism is configured to record by reciprocatingly scanning a recording head in a direction that intersects with the conveyance direction. The rotational mechanism is configured to take up the recording medium. The control unit is configured to control the conveyance mechanism and the rotational mechanism to substantially synchronize conveying of the recording medium by the conveyance mechanism and taking-up of the recording medium by the rotational mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Hidemasa KANADA, Masato MITSUHASHI, Koji HIGUCHI, Toshimitsu HIRAI, Mitsuhiro ISOBE
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Patent number: 9359162Abstract: A conveyance mechanism by which a recording medium can be conveyed intermittently; a recording mechanism for recording by reciprocatingly scanning a recording head in a direction that intersects with a direction of conveyance of the recording medium by the conveyance mechanism; a turret to which a plurality of take-up spindles for taking up the recording medium are provided; rotational mechanisms of the take-up spindles; a rotational mechanism of the turret; and a control unit for controlling the rotational mechanisms of the take-up spindles and the rotational mechanism of the turret so as to cause the take-up spindles and/or the turret to be rotated intermittently so as to correspond to the intermittent conveyance by the conveyance mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidemasa Kanada, Masato Mitsuhashi, Koji Higuchi, Toshimitsu Hirai, Mitsuhiro Isobe
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Patent number: 9327521Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a plurality of line heads that discharge light curable inks onto a recording target material, a plurality of first light irradiators that are located at downstream side of transportation direction relative to the respective line heads in the transportation direction and emit light to the recording target material, a drum that is located at the downstream side relative to the first light irradiators in the transportation direction and forms a part of the transportation path, and a second light irradiator that is located opposite to a portion of the drum with which the transported recording target material makes contact and emits light to the contact portion. In the recording apparatus, the first light irradiators emit light for provisionally curing the discharged light curable inks, and the second light irradiator emits light for permanently curing the light curable inks, which have been provisionally cured, on the drum.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hidemasa Kanada, Masato Mitsuhashi, Koji Higuchi, Toshimitsu Hirai, Mitsuhiro Isobe
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Publication number: 20150009266Abstract: Provided is an ink cartridge in which ink is received and which includes a through-hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Keiichi NOTO, Mitsuhiro ISOBE
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Publication number: 20140210920Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a plurality of line heads that discharge light curable inks onto a recording target material, a plurality of first light irradiators that are located at downstream side of transportation direction relative to the respective line heads in the transportation direction and emit light to the recording target material, a drum that is located at the downstream side relative to the first light irradiators in the transportation direction and forms a part of the transportation path, and a second light irradiator that is located opposite to a portion of the drum with which the transported recording target material makes contact and emits light to the contact portion. In the recording apparatus, the first light irradiators emit light for provisionally curing the discharged light curable inks, and the second light irradiator emits light for permanently curing the light curable inks, which have been provisionally cured, on the drum.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hidemasa KANADA, Masato MITSUHASHI, Koji HIGUCHI, Toshimitsu HIRAI, Mitsuhiro ISOBE
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Publication number: 20140178116Abstract: A conveyance mechanism by which a recording medium can be conveyed intermittently; a recording mechanism for recording by reciprocatingly scanning a recording head in a direction that intersects with a direction of conveyance of the recording medium by the conveyance mechanism; a turret to which a plurality of take-up spindles for taking up the recording medium are provided; rotational mechanisms of the take-up spindles; a rotational mechanism of the turret; and a control unit for controlling the rotational mechanisms of the take-up spindles and the rotational mechanism of the turret so as to cause the take-up spindles and/or the turret to be rotated intermittently so as to correspond to the intermittent conveyance by the conveyance mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hidemasa KANADA, Masato MITSUHASHI, Koji HIGUCHI, Toshimitsu HIRAI, Mitsuhiro ISOBE
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Patent number: 8232328Abstract: A color filter ink according to the first aspect is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method, the color filter ink comprising. The color filter ink includes a pigment, a solvent, a dispersing agent and a curable resin material. The dispersing agent includes an acid-value dispersing agent with a predetermined acid value and an amine-value dispersing agent with a predetermined amine value. The curable resin material includes a first polymer and a second polymer. The first polymer includes at least a first epoxy-containing vinyl monomer as a monomer component. The second polymer includes at least an alkoxysilyl-containing vinyl monomer represented by a prescribed chemical formula as a monomer component.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masaya Shibatani, Mitsuhiro Isobe, Hiroshi Kiguchi, Akihiro Shintani
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Patent number: 8187666Abstract: A color filter manufacturing method includes discharging droplets of an ink from a droplet discharge head into a plurality of cells formed on a substrate while moving the substrate with respect to the droplet discharge head, and curing the ink discharged in the cells to form a colored portion within each of the cells. The discharging of the droplets includes prohibiting landing of the droplets in a landing prohibition region formed at a predetermined width from edges of each of the cells in a movement direction of the substrate with respect to the droplet discharge head. The landing prohibition region being arranged so that a relationship 0.5?L1/L2?4.5 is satisfied, wherein a value L1 indicates a width of the landing prohibition region and a value L2 indicates an average diameter of the droplets of the ink.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masaya Shibatani, Hidekazu Moriyama, Mitsuhiro Isobe, Hiroshi Takiguchi, Sadaharu Komori, Junichi Sano
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Patent number: 8133950Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a colorant, a resin material, and a liquid medium that dissolves and/or disperses the colorant. The resin material includes a polymer containing a first monomer component represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a second monomer component having a carboxyl group or acid anhydride group, and a third monomer component represented by a prescribed chemical formula.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2009Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masaya Shibatani, Hiroshi Takiguchi, Hidekazu Moriyama, Mitsuhiro Isobe, Homare Kuribayashi
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Patent number: 8017669Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a colorant, a liquid medium that dissolves and/or disperses the colorant, and a resin material. The resin material includes a polymer X and a polymer Y. The polymer X has a monomer component x1 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a monomer component x2 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a monomer component x3 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, and a monomer component x4 represented by a prescribed chemical formula. The polymer Y has a monomer component y1 represented by a prescribed chemical formula and a monomer component y2 represented by a prescribed chemical formula.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masaya Shibatani, Hidekazu Moriyama, Hiroshi Takiguchi, Mitsuhiro Isobe, Homare Kuribayashi
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Publication number: 20100134729Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a colorant, a resin material, and a liquid medium that dissolves and/or disperses the colorant. The resin material includes a polymer containing a first monomer component represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a second monomer component having a carboxyl group or acid anhydride group, and a third monomer component represented by a prescribed chemical formula.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2009Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masaya SHIBATANI, Hiroshi TAKIGUCHI, Hidekazu MORIYAMA, Mitsuhiro ISOBE, Homare KURIBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20100066953Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a colorant, a liquid medium that dissolves and/or disperses the colorant, and a resin material. The liquid medium has a characteristic in which, when a cured epoxy-based adhesive material and a urethane-based adhesive material are left in the liquid medium for six days under a sealed condition at an atmospheric pressure and a temperature of approximately 70° C., a swelling ratio of the cured epoxy-based adhesive material is 35% or less, and a swelling ratio of the cured urethane-based adhesive material is 160% or less. The resin material includes a polymer having monomer components represented by prescribed chemical formulas.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi TAKIGUCHI, Masaya SHIBATANI, Hiroshi KIGUCHI, Hidekazu MORIYAMA, Mitsuhiro ISOBE, Homare KURIBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20100022700Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a colorant, a liquid medium that dissolves and/or disperses the colorant, and a resin material. The resin material includes a polymer X and a polymer Y. The polymer X has a monomer component x1 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a monomer component x2 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a monomer component x3 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, and a monomer component x4 represented by a prescribed chemical formula. The polymer Y has a monomer component y1 represented by a prescribed chemical formula and a monomer component y2 represented by a prescribed chemical formula.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masaya SHIBATANI, Hidekazu MORIYAMA, Hiroshi TAKIGUCHI, Mitsuhiro ISOBE, Homare KURIBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20090189128Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a pigment, a dispersing agent and a liquid medium. The pigment includes a halogenated phthalocyanine zinc complex and a pigment derivative represented by a prescribed chemical formula. The dispersing agent disperses the pigment. The liquid medium, in which the pigment is dispersed, includes at least a first liquid and a second liquid different than the first liquid. A boiling point at atmospheric pressure of the first liquid is 180 to 290° C. A content ratio of the second liquid in the color filter ink is 5 to 20 wt %. A relationship |SP (X)?SP (Y)|?0.8 is satisfied, wherein a value SP (X) indicates a solubility parameter for the dispersing agent, and a value SP (Y) indicates a solubility parameter for the second liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2009Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Takiguchi, Akihiro Shintani, Mitsuhiro Isobe, Masaya Shibatani, Hidekazu Moriyama, Hiroshi Kiguchi
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Publication number: 20090185114Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a colorant, a curable resin material and a liquid medium. The curable resin material includes a first polymer containing at least a first epoxy-containing vinyl monomer as a monomer component. The liquid medium dissolves and/or disperses the colorant. The liquid medium includes a compound containing at least one of an alkoxyl group having a carbon number of 4 or higher and an acetyl group at an end of a molecule chain. The liquid medium has a characteristic in which, when a cured epoxy-based adhesive material is put into the liquid medium under a sealed condition at an atmospheric pressure and a temperature of approximately 40° C. and left for ten days, a swelling ratio of the cured epoxy-based adhesive material is 30% or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi TAKIGUCHI, Hiroshi KIGUCHI, Masaya SHIBATANI, Mitsuhiro ISOBE
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Publication number: 20090186202Abstract: A color filter manufacturing method includes discharging droplets of an ink from a droplet discharge head into a plurality of cells formed on a substrate while moving the substrate with respect to the droplet discharge head, and curing the ink discharged in the cells to form a colored portion within each of the cells. The discharging of the droplets includes prohibiting landing of the droplets in a landing prohibition region formed at a predetermined width from edges of each of the cells in a movement direction of the substrate with respect to the droplet discharge head. The landing prohibition region being arranged so that a relationship 0.5?L1/L2?4.5 is satisfied, wherein a value L1 indicates a width of the landing prohibition region and a value L2 indicates an average diameter of the droplets of the ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masaya Shibatani, Hidekazu Moriyama, Mitsuhiro Isobe, Hiroshi Takiguchi, Sadaharu Komori, Junichi Sano
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Patent number: D706138Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Arai, Yoshinobu Nakashimada, Mitsuhiro Isobe
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Patent number: D708226Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Sachiko Takata, Asaki Umezawa, Yukio Arai, Mitsuhiro Isobe
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Patent number: D733570Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yukio Arai, Mitsuhiro Isobe, Yoshinobu Nakashimada