Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Murata
Mitsuru Murata 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: 11890866Abstract: A recording device as a processing device includes: a recording unit accommodated in a housing and configured to perform recording on a medium; and a medium accommodating unit that accommodates the medium discharged from the housing. The medium accommodating unit includes: a sheet-shaped accommodating member; a rotating shaft provided inside the housing and to which one end of the accommodating member is connected; and an operating portion provided separably from the housing and to which the other end of the accommodating member is connected. The accommodating member is wound around the rotating shaft and accommodated inside the housing when the operating portion is mounted on the housing. The accommodating member is fed from the rotating shaft so that the medium is accommodated when the operating portion is separated from the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Keiichi Yato, Mitsuru Murata
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Publication number: 20230294430Abstract: A supply device for a roll medium includes a drawer-type lower holding unit configured to support a shaft of a roll medium to hold the roll medium, and a guide member configured to be pressed in a direction toward the shaft from below to come into contact with the roll medium held by the lower holding unit, and be displaced in accordance with a change in an outer diameter of the roll medium. In addition, the lower holding unit is configured to be drawn from a main body of the supply device in a first direction. When the lower holding unit, in a drawn-out state, is stored in the main body of the supply unit, the guide member comes into contact with the roll medium. The guide member is caused to be retracted downward from a travel path of the lower holding unit against a force pressing upward from below.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Mitsuru MURATA, Keiichi YATO
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Patent number: 11712911Abstract: In a medium supply device, a receiving portion includes a support portion configured to rotatably support a spindle, and a drive gear meshing with a driven gear provided at the spindle to rotate the spindle, and a displacement member includes a pivoting shaft configured to pivot between an advanced position where the spindle is covered and a retracted position where the spindle is exposed, an abutting portion abutting the spindle when the spindle is installed at the receiving portion, the abutting portion being configured to cause the displacement member to pivot to the advanced position, an opposing portion abutting, at the advanced position, an outer peripheral surface of the spindle installed at the receiving portion, a cover portion configured to cover the driven gear, and a grounding member contacting the spindle, thereby coupling to a ground potential.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Keiichi Yato, Akimasa Nozawa, Mitsuru Murata, Yosuke Nakano
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Patent number: 11691444Abstract: A supply device for a roll medium includes a drawer-type lower holding unit configured to support a shaft of a roll medium to hold the roll medium, and a guide member configured to be pressed in a direction toward the shaft from below to come into contact with the roll medium held by the lower holding unit, and be displaced in accordance with a change in an outer diameter of the roll medium. In addition, the lower holding unit is configured to be drawn from a main body of the supply device in a first direction. When the lower holding unit, in a drawn-out state, is stored in the main body of the supply unit, the guide member comes into contact with the roll medium. The guide member is caused to be retracted downward from a travel path of the lower holding unit against a force pressing upward from below.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Mitsuru Murata, Keiichi Yato
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Publication number: 20230143837Abstract: A recording device as a processing device includes: a recording unit accommodated in a housing and configured to perform recording on a medium; and a medium accommodating unit that accommodates the medium discharged from the housing. The medium accommodating unit includes: a sheet-shaped accommodating member; a rotating shaft provided inside the housing and to which one end of the accommodating member is connected; and an operating portion provided separably from the housing and to which the other end of the accommodating member is connected. The accommodating member is wound around the rotating shaft and accommodated inside the housing when the operating portion is mounted on the housing. The accommodating member is fed from the rotating shaft so that the medium is accommodated when the operating portion is separated from the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2023Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Keiichi YATO, Mitsuru MURATA
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Patent number: 11565540Abstract: A recording device as a processing device includes: a recording unit accommodated in a housing and configured to perform recording on a medium; and a medium accommodating unit that accommodates the medium discharged from the housing. The medium accommodating unit includes: a sheet-shaped accommodating member; a rotating shaft provided inside the housing and to which one end of the accommodating member is connected; and an operating portion provided separably from the housing and to which the other end of the accommodating member is connected. The accommodating member is wound around the rotating shaft and accommodated inside the housing when the operating portion is mounted on the housing. The accommodating member is fed from the rotating shaft so that the medium is accommodated when the operating portion is separated from the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Keiichi Yato, Mitsuru Murata
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Patent number: 11491810Abstract: A recording device includes a recording head configured to discharge a liquid as a droplet, a carriage on which the recording head is mounted, a driving unit that causes the carriage to reciprocate along a guide shaft, and a control board on which a semiconductor element is mounted. In a state in which the carriage is positioned at one end of the guide shaft, the control board is disposed below the carriage.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Mitsuru Murata, Yosuke Nakano, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Katsuhiko Otani
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Publication number: 20220258497Abstract: In a medium supply device, a receiving portion includes a support portion configured to rotatably support a spindle, and a drive gear meshing with a driven gear provided at the spindle to rotate the spindle, and a displacement member includes a pivoting shaft configured to pivot between an advanced position where the spindle is covered and a retracted position where the spindle is exposed, an abutting portion abutting the spindle when the spindle is installed at the receiving portion, the abutting portion being configured to cause the displacement member to pivot to the advanced position, an opposing portion abutting, at the advanced position, an outer peripheral surface of the spindle installed at the receiving portion, a cover portion configured to cover the driven gear, and a grounding member contacting the spindle, thereby coupling to a ground potential.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Keiichi YATO, Akimasa NOZAWA, Mitsuru MURATA, Yosuke NAKANO
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Publication number: 20220111668Abstract: A recording device as a processing device includes: a recording unit accommodated in a housing and configured to perform recording on a medium; and a medium accommodating unit that accommodates the medium discharged from the housing. The medium accommodating unit includes: a sheet-shaped accommodating member; a rotating shaft provided inside the housing and to which one end of the accommodating member is connected; and an operating portion provided separably from the housing and to which the other end of the accommodating member is connected. The accommodating member is wound around the rotating shaft and accommodated inside the housing when the operating portion is mounted on the housing. The accommodating member is fed from the rotating shaft so that the medium is accommodated when the operating portion is separated from the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Keiichi YATO, Mitsuru MURATA
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Publication number: 20220063311Abstract: A supply device for a roll medium includes a drawer-type lower holding unit configured to support a shaft of a roll medium to hold the roll medium, and a guide member configured to be pressed in a direction toward the shaft from below to come into contact with the roll medium held by the lower holding unit, and be displaced in accordance with a change in an outer diameter of the roll medium. In addition, the lower holding unit is configured to be drawn from a main body of the supply device in a first direction. When the lower holding unit, in a drawn-out state, is stored in the main body of the supply unit, the guide member comes into contact with the roll medium. The guide member is caused to be retracted downward from a travel path of the lower holding unit against a force pressing upward from below.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Mitsuru MURATA, Keiichi YATO
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Publication number: 20210229474Abstract: A recording device includes a recording head configured to discharge a liquid as a droplet, a carriage on which the recording head is mounted, a driving unit that causes the carriage to reciprocate along a guide shaft, and a control board on which a semiconductor element is mounted. In a state in which the carriage is positioned at one end of the guide shaft, the control board is disposed below the carriage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Mitsuru MURATA, Yosuke NAKANO, Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI, Katsuhiko OTANI
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Patent number: 10985640Abstract: A vibration motor includes a stationary portion including a casing, a substrate disposed above a bottom portion of the casing, and a coil disposed above the substrate and wound with a conductive wire in a circumferential direction, a vibrating body that includes a magnet and weight and that is supported so as to be capable of vibrating up and down with respect to the stationary portion, and an elastic member disposed between bottom and lower end portions of the vibrating body, in which a lead-out portion led out from the coil is connected to the substrate at a connection portion, a lower end portion of the weight includes at least one protrusion protruding downward, and the protrusion, as viewed in an axial direction, is disposed at a radial position on a radial-direction outer side of the lead-out portion and the connection portion and in a region overlapping the elastic member.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: NIDEC SEIMITSU CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuru Murata, Zendi Mori
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Patent number: 10688528Abstract: In a vibration motor, a substrate is disposed on a base plate, a coil is disposed on the substrate, and a magnet is disposed so as to be accommodated in an inner peripheral side of the coil having an annular shape by vibration. A back yoke is disposed on the magnet, a weight is disposed on the back yoke, and a case accommodates the coil, the magnet, the back yoke, and the weight. An elastic member is disposed between the case and the weight. The base plate, the case, the magnet, the back yoke, and the weight are each formed to have a rectangular shape including long sides that extend in a first direction orthogonal to a vertical direction and short sides that extend in a second direction orthogonal to the vertical direction and the first direction in a top view.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: NIDEC SEIMITSU CORPORATIONInventors: Zendi Mori, Mitsuru Murata
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Patent number: 10610891Abstract: A back yoke of a vibration motor has a rectangular top surface portion, a long side protrusion portion that protrudes downward from a long side portion of the top surface portion, and a short side protrusion portion that protrudes downward from a short side portion of the top surface portion. The short side protrusion portion has a protrusion amount smaller than that of the long side protrusion portion. A portion of a lead wire extending from the short side of a coil is disposed below the short side protrusion portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: NIDEC SEIMITSU CORPORATIONInventors: Zendi Mori, Mitsuru Murata
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Patent number: 10522284Abstract: A coil fixing structure includes a substrate, which has a thickness in a vertical direction, and a coil, which is wound around an axis extending in a vertical direction and fixed to the substrate. The substrate includes a conductor portion and an insulating portion disposed on the conductor portion. The conductor portion includes a first land portion and a second land portion, which are exposed from an upper surface of the substrate. A first lead wire drawn from the coil has an end portion connected to the first land portion. A second lead wire drawn from the coil has an end portion connected to the second land portion. When viewed in a plan in the vertical direction, the first land portion and the second land portion are disposed to surround the coil.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: NIDEC SEIMITSU CORPORATIONInventors: Zendi Mori, Mitsuru Murata
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Patent number: 10512937Abstract: A vibration motor includes a stationary portion, a vibrating body, an elastic member, and a damper member. The elastic member includes a first extending portion, a second extending portion, a first connection portion, a second connection portion, a third extending portion, a fourth extending portion, a third connection portion, a fourth connection portion, and a fifth connection portion. The damper member includes a first longitudinal portion and a second longitudinal portion. An inner section including the first extending portion, the third extending portion, and the fifth connection portion directly opposes an upper surface of a weight in plan view in an up-down direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: NIDEC SEIMITSU CORPORATIONInventors: Zendi Mori, Mitsuru Murata
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Publication number: 20190312498Abstract: A vibration motor includes a stationary portion including a casing, a substrate disposed above a bottom portion of the casing, and a coil disposed above the substrate and wound with a conductive wire in a circumferential direction, a vibrating body that includes a magnet and weight and that is supported so as to be capable of vibrating up and down with respect to the stationary portion, and an elastic member disposed between bottom and lower end portions of the vibrating body, in which a lead-out portion led out from the coil is connected to the substrate at a connection portion, a lower end portion of the weight includes at least one protrusion protruding downward, and the protrusion, as viewed in an axial direction, is disposed at a radial position on a radial-direction outer side of the lead-out portion and the connection portion and in a region overlapping the elastic member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Mitsuru MURATA, Zendi MORI
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Patent number: 10363575Abstract: A base portion of a vibration motor includes a first plate including a first plate recessed portion in an upper surface thereof; and a second plate arranged in the first plate recessed portion, and fixed to the first plate. One of the first and second plates is made of a magnetic metal, while another one is made of a nonmagnetic metal. An upper surface of the second plate is arranged at the same level as that of a portion of the upper surface of the first plate which lies adjacent to and along the first plate recessed portion. The second plate includes an annular second plate support portion centered on a central axis; and a plurality of second plate projecting portions arranged to project radially inward or radially outward from the second plate support portion, and arranged in a circumferential direction at a position vertically opposed to a magnet portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: NIDEC SEIMITSU CORPORATIONInventors: Zendi Mori, Mitsuru Murata
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Publication number: 20190152497Abstract: There is provided a controller capable of predicting the maintenance timing of a constituent component such as a board or an electronic component or a cooling fan mounted on a board. The controller (C) of the present invention obtains a remaining life of at least one or more of a substrate (1), an electronic component (2) mounted on the board (1), and a cooling fan (3) based on temperatures detected by temperature sensors (S1), (S2) installed on the board (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2016Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: KYB CorporationInventors: Mitsuru MURATA, Yoshihiro OGAWA
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Publication number: 20180287475Abstract: A vibrating motor includes a stationary portion, a vibrating body, and an elastic member. The stationary portion includes a casing, a coil, a first yoke, and a second yoke. The vibrating body includes a magnet on a radially outer side of the second yoke. The vibrating body is supported so as to be able to vibrate vertically with respect to the stationary portion. The elastic member is disposed between the casing and the vibrating body. The first yoke has a vertically extending columnar shape. The first yoke is fixed to the casing and disposed on a radially inner side of the coil. The second yoke includes a bottom and a wall. The bottom has a thickness in the vertical direction and is disposed on the coil. The wall extends downward from an outer rim of the bottom and faces an outer circumferential surface of the coil in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Zendi MORI, Mitsuru MURATA