Patents by Inventor Sandro Robustelli

Sandro Robustelli 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: 20240399763
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport unit configured to transport a medium in a first direction, a carriage configured to move in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first printing unit held by the carriage, and a second printing unit held by the carriage, the second printing unit being arranged at least one of a position further upstream and a position further downstream than a position of the first printing unit, a length of the second printing unit in the first direction is shorter than a length of the first printing unit in the first direction, and the second printing unit is caused to be available in a multi-pass mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Sandro ROBUSTELLI, Ugo ZAROLI, Davide GATTI, Kenji KOJIMA, Shoji YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11040542
    Abstract: An inkjet printer includes an endless transporting belt that transports a medium in a transport direction by supporting the medium and rotating, an ejecting unit that ejects ink onto the medium supported by the transporting belt, and a cleaning unit including a first brush for cleaning the transporting belt, a first cleaning liquid tank that stores cleaning liquid with which the first brush is impregnated, a second brush for cleaning the transporting belt, and a second cleaning liquid tank that stores the cleaning liquid with which the second brush is impregnated. The second cleaning liquid tank is disposed at a position lower than the first cleaning liquid tank in the vertical direction, and the cleaning unit is configured so that the cleaning liquid discharged from the first cleaning liquid tank is supplied to the second cleaning liquid tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Tanabe, Sandro Robustelli, Rodolfo Cazzaniga
  • Patent number: 10752024
    Abstract: A printer includes a main frame, a first roller, a second roller, and a transport belt wound around the first roller and the second roller and transporting a medium by rotating while supporting the medium, and a printing unit that performs printing on the medium. The main frame is configured of a plurality of blocks that are separably connected with one another in the transport direction. At least one of the first roller and the second roller is defined as a roller to be consolidated, the first roller, the second roller, and the transport belt are configured to be consolidated in a consolidation block, which is a block for consolidation, by moving the roller to be consolidated from a deployment block, which is a block where the roller to be consolidated is fixed when the medium is transported, to the consolidation block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Sandro Robustelli, Rodolfo Cazzaniga
  • Publication number: 20200230962
    Abstract: An inkjet printer includes an endless transporting belt that transports a medium in a transport direction by supporting the medium and rotating, an ejecting unit that ejects ink onto the medium supported by the transporting belt, and a cleaning unit including a first brush for cleaning the transporting belt, a first cleaning liquid tank that stores cleaning liquid with which the first brush is impregnated, a second brush for cleaning the transporting belt, and a second cleaning liquid tank that stores the cleaning liquid with which the second brush is impregnated. The second cleaning liquid tank is disposed at a position lower than the first cleaning liquid tank in the vertical direction, and the cleaning unit is configured so that the cleaning liquid discharged from the first cleaning liquid tank is supplied to the second cleaning liquid tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Kentaro TANABE, Sandro ROBUSTELLI, Rodolfo CAZZANIGA
  • Publication number: 20200001625
    Abstract: A printer includes a main frame, a first roller, a second roller, and a transport belt wound around the first roller and the second roller and transporting a medium by rotating while supporting the medium, and a printing unit that performs printing on the medium. The main frame is configured of a plurality of blocks that are separably connected with one another in the transport direction. At least one of the first roller and the second roller is defined as a roller to be consolidated, the first roller, the second roller, and the transport belt are configured to be consolidated in a consolidation block, which is a block for consolidation, by moving the roller to be consolidated from a deployment block, which is a block where the roller to be consolidated is fixed when the medium is transported, to the consolidation block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Sandro Robustelli, Rodolfo Cazzaniga