Patents by Inventor Naotoshi Yanagidaira

Naotoshi Yanagidaira 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: 20230294420
    Abstract: A drying device includes a support unit, a heating unit, and a control unit. The heating unit includes a duct, which has a blowing outlet, a suction inlet, and an air port and includes an air flow path, a heating section, a blower, and a first adjustment unit capable of adjusting an amount of air flowing into the air flow path from an outside of the duct through the air port. The control unit is capable of executing a first mode in which the first adjustment unit is controlled to adjust the amount of air in a state in which the heating section performs heating and a second mode in which the first adjustment unit is controlled to cause the amount of air to be more than the amount of air in the first mode in a state in which heating by the heating section is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuo Naramatsu, Naotoshi Yanagidaira
  • Patent number: 10717302
    Abstract: An ink jet-type printer includes a recording mechanism performing recording on a continuous sheet transported along a transport path, a transport base and frames disposed downstream of the recording mechanism in the transport path and supporting the continuous sheet, on which the recording has been performed by the recording mechanism, and a heating unit disposed facing the transport base and the frames and heating the continuous sheet supported by the transport base and the frames. The heating unit is pivotable away from the transport base and the frames about a hinge portion serving as a pivoting center disposed at an end portion of the heating unit downstream in the transport direction of the continuous sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naotoshi Yanagidaira
  • Publication number: 20190299661
    Abstract: An ink jet-type printer includes a recording mechanism performing recording on a continuous sheet transported along a transport path, a transport base and frames disposed downstream of the recording mechanism in the transport path and supporting the continuous sheet, on which the recording has been performed by the recording mechanism, and a heating unit disposed facing the transport base and the frames and heating the continuous sheet supported by the transport base and the frames. The heating unit is pivotable away from the transport base and the frames about a hinge portion serving as a pivoting center disposed at an end portion of the heating unit downstream in the transport direction of the continuous sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventor: Naotoshi YANAGIDAIRA
  • Patent number: 10029488
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport drive roller that transports a medium, a roller support unit that supports the transport drive roller on one side in a first direction, a base member that supports the roller support unit on the one side in the first direction, and a first fulcrum portion via which the roller support unit and the base member are made to contact each other. The roller support unit is configured so as to pivot upon the first fulcrum portion about an axis oriented in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya Murotani, Kenichi Miyazaki, Naotoshi Yanagidaira
  • Publication number: 20170259587
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing portion that performs printing on a medium transported in a transport direction, a transport roller that supports the medium, a pressing roller that is capable of rotating with a width direction set as an axial direction and that press the medium down toward the transport roller, and a roller support portion that supports the pressing rollers so as to be capable of revolving with an axis of revolution, which is an axis of revolution in which a direction that intersects both directions of the transport direction and the width direction set as an axial direction thereof and which is positioned between an end portion of a first end side and an end portion of a second end side in the axial direction of the pressing rollers, set as a center thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Tomohiro YODA, Naotoshi YANAGIDAIRA
  • Publication number: 20170151814
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport drive roller that transports a medium, a roller support unit that supports the transport drive roller on one side in a first direction, a base member that supports the roller support unit on the one side in the first direction, and a first fulcrum portion via which the roller support unit and the base member are made to contact each other. The roller support unit is configured so as to pivot upon the first fulcrum portion about an axis oriented in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoya Murotani, Kenichi Miyazaki, Naotoshi Yanagidaira