Patents by Inventor Satoshi Horiguchi

Satoshi Horiguchi 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).

  • Patent number: 11697285
    Abstract: The head chip includes an actuator plate having ejection channels and non-ejection channels extending in a Y direction and arranged alternately in an X direction, an intermediate plate overlapped with the actuator plate in a Z direction, and provided with communication holes communicated with the ejection channels and through holes communicated with the non-ejection channels, and a nozzle plate overlapped with the intermediate plate in the Z direction in a state of closing the through holes, and provided with nozzle holes which are communicated with the communication holes, jet liquid contained in the ejection channels, and are formed at positions corresponding to the ejection channels. The non-ejection channels are communicated with an outside of the head chip. The through holes are each disposed at an inner side in the X direction of the inner surfaces extending in the Y direction of the non-ejection channel viewed from the Z direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 11654683
    Abstract: There are provided a head chip, a liquid jet head, a liquid jet recording device, and a method of manufacturing the head chip each capable of preventing the short circuit of electrodes by ink to maintain an excellent ejection performance over a long period of time. The head chip according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an actuator plate, a cover plate, and an intermediate plate. In the actuator plate, open apertures which communicate an inside and an outside of a non-ejection channel with each other are formed in both end portions of the non-ejection channel in a Y direction. In the actuator plate, open apertures which communicate an inside and an outside of a non-ejection channel with each other are formed in both end portions of the non-ejection channel in the Y direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC
    Inventors: Yuzuru Kubota, Satoshi Horiguchi, Tomoaki Hoshi
  • Publication number: 20220176695
    Abstract: The head chip includes an actuator plate having ejection channels and non-ejection channels extending in a Y direction and arranged alternately in an X direction, an intermediate plate overlapped with the actuator plate in a Z direction, and provided with communication holes communicated with the ejection channels and through holes communicated with the non-ejection channels, and a nozzle plate overlapped with the intermediate plate in the Z direction in a state of closing the through holes, and provided with nozzle holes which are communicated with the communication holes, jet liquid contained in the ejection channels, and are formed at positions corresponding to the ejection channels. The non-ejection channels are communicated with an outside of the head chip. The through holes are each disposed at an inner side in the X direction of the inner surfaces extending in the Y direction of the non-ejection channel viewed from the Z direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Satoshi HORIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220161557
    Abstract: There are provided a head chip, a liquid jet head, a liquid jet recording device, and a method of manufacturing the head chip each capable of preventing the short circuit of electrodes by ink to maintain an excellent ejection performance over a long period of time. The head chip according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an actuator plate, a cover plate, and an intermediate plate. In the actuator plate, open apertures which communicate an inside and an outside of a non-ejection channel with each other are formed in both end portions of the non-ejection channel in a Y direction. In the actuator plate, open apertures which communicate an inside and an outside of a non-ejection channel with each other are formed in both end portions of the non-ejection channel in the Y direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Yuzuru KUBOTA, Satoshi HORIGUCHI, Tomoaki HOSHI
  • Patent number: 11040537
    Abstract: A head chip, liquid jet head, and liquid jet recording device are described. An actuator plate is adapted to apply pressure to the liquid, and includes a first surface, and a second surface facing to an opposite side to the first surface, ejection channels and non-ejection channels which have an opening on the first and/or second surface and are alternately arranged to be separated from each other, a common electrode disposed on a sidewall of the ejection channel, an individual electrode electrically separated from the common electrode and disposed on a sidewall of the non-ejection channel, a common electrode pad disposed on the first surface and adapted to electrically connect the common electrode and a wiring board to each other, and a bypass interconnection adapted to electrically connect the individual electrodes in the non-ejection channels adjacent to each other and failing to be exposed on the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: STI PRINTEK INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Publication number: 20200147968
    Abstract: There are provided a head chip, a liquid jet head, and a liquid jet recording device capable of enhancing the reliability. An actuator plate adapted to apply pressure to the liquid, and a wiring board are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Publication number: 20200147959
    Abstract: A liquid jet head chip capable of exerting an excellent ejection performance while having a compact configuration is provided. The liquid jet head chip is provided with an actuator plate, a common electrode, a common electrode pad for external connection, a cover plate, and a sealing plate. The actuator plate has an obverse surface, a reverse surface, and an ejection channel penetrating in a thickness direction and extending in a first direction perpendicular to the thickness direction. The common electrode is disposed on an inner surface of the ejection channel. The common electrode pad is disposed in an end part region in the first direction out of the reverse surface, and is coupled to the common electrode. The cover plate is disposed so as to be opposed to the obverse surface of the actuator plate, and has a liquid flow hole opposed to the ejection channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Yuzuru KUBOTA, Yuji NAKAMURA, Satoshi HORIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10625971
    Abstract: The present sheet processing apparatus is to obtain that folding in the center portion in the width direction of sheets is made, folding in the end portion is made more reliably by repeatedly pressing the end portion in the width direction, the folded sheets are harder to open, the appearance is also enhanced, and that collection characteristics are improved in stacking bunches of folded sheets, a sheet processing apparatus is provided with pairs of press members (press rollers 70) that press a folded loop BL of folding sheets BS, and a support unit 56 that shifts in the width direction of the folding sheets, while supporting a plurality of rows with a distance between the press members narrowed stepwise in the shift direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 9855748
    Abstract: A liquid jet head includes a nozzle plate having a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row each formed of a plurality of nozzles; and a piezoelectric plate having a plurality of first ejection grooves communicating with respective ones of the plurality of nozzles of the first nozzle row, and a plurality of second ejection grooves communicating with respective ones of the plurality of nozzles of the second nozzle row. The plurality of first ejection grooves and the plurality of second ejection grooves are longitudinally separated from each other in the longitudinal direction of the grooves by a partition wall located between the plurality of first ejection grooves and the plurality of second ejection grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Publication number: 20170217714
    Abstract: The present sheet processing apparatus is to obtain that folding in the center portion in the width direction of sheets is made, folding in the end portion is made more reliably by repeatedly pressing the end portion in the width direction, the folded sheets are harder to open, the appearance is also enhanced, and that collection characteristics are improved in stacking bunches of folded sheets, a sheet processing apparatus is provided with pairs of press members (press rollers 70) that press a folded loop BL of folding sheets BS, and a support unit 56 that shifts in the width direction of the folding sheets, while supporting a plurality of rows with a distance between the press members narrowed stepwise in the shift direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: NISCA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi HORIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9713924
    Abstract: A liquid jet head includes ejection channels and dummy channels alternately arrayed across partitions to configure a channel row, and drive electrodes that are side surfaces of the partitions and are positioned from upper ends of the partitions in a depth direction, and an average depth of two drive electrodes positioned on facing side surfaces of the ejection channel is different from an average depth of two drive electrodes positioned on facing side surfaces of the dummy channel adjacent to the ejection channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Morooka, Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 9375922
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid jet head includes a through hole forming step of forming through holes on a base plate, an actuator plate bonding step of bonding actuator plates to opposite sides of the base plate, and an electrode forming step of forming electrodes on the bonded base plate and the actuator plates. In the through hole forming step, the through holes are formed on the base plate and the inner surfaces of the through holes are roughened. In the electrode forming step, second extraction electrodes are routed to a principal surface of the base plate through the through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignees: SII PRINTEK INC., SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Tokio Tatsumi, Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 9365039
    Abstract: A liquid jet head includes a base plate, and an actuator portion fixed to the base plate and having an array of alternating ejection channel and a dummy channel. drive electrodes are formed on inner surfaces of the ejection channels and the dummy channels, and extracting electrodes are formed on the base plate on a rear side of the actuator plate and electrically connected to the drive electrodes. an electrode formation region of the base plate on which are formed the extracting electrodes has a surface roughness greater then that of other regions of the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignees: SII PRINTEK INC., SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Tokio Tatsumi, Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 9352565
    Abstract: A liquid jet head includes an actuator substrate having an alternating array of ejection grooves and non-ejection grooves which penetrate from an upper surface to a lower surface of the actuator substrate and are longer in a substrate surface direction than in a depth direction. A cover plate attached to the actuator substrate covers upper surface openings of the grooves, and a nozzle plate attached to the actuator substrate covers lower surface openings of the grooves. The grooves are formed in such a manner that configurations of the lower surface openings of the ejection grooves and the non-ejection grooves are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Domae, Yuzuru Kubota, Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 9346267
    Abstract: A liquid jet head includes a piezoeletric body substrate and an opaque substrate bonded to the piezoelectric body substrate. The piezoeletric body substrate has ejection grooves arrayed with an identical pitch P in a reference direction and non-ejection grooves arrayed alternately with the ejection grooves while shifted from the ejection grooves by a half pitch (P/2). The opaque substrate has through holes arrayed in the reference direction. The through holes include a row of through holes corresponding in number to and communicating with the respective ejection grooves, a first through hole arranged outside of one end side of the row of through holes so that it does not communicate with any of the ejection grooves, and a second through hole arranged outside of another end side of the row of through holes so that it does not communicate with any of the ejection grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 9333752
    Abstract: A liquid jet head includes a piezoelectric substrate having ejection grooves formed in an upper surface thereof and arranged in a reference direction. A side flow path is formed in a first side surface of the piezoelectric substrate and communicates with the ejection grooves. A cover plate is bonded to the upper surface, and a nozzle plate is bonded to the first side surface and has nozzles communicating with the respective ejection grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 9327502
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a head chip includes a groove forming step for forming grooves which are the bases of ejection grooves on a first surface of the actuator substrate, a substrate grinding step for grinding a second surface of the actuator substrate so that each of the grooves has a predetermined depth, a recessed portion forming step for forming an inspection recessed portion which changes its state in the second surface of the actuator substrate according to the grinding amount of the actuator substrate in the substrate grinding step, and a grinding amount determination step for determining the grinding amount of the actuator substrate on the basis of a state of the inspection recessed portion after the substrate grinding step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Publication number: 20160075133
    Abstract: A liquid jet head includes ejection channels and dummy channels alternately arrayed across partitions to configure a channel row, and drive electrodes that are side surfaces of the partitions and are positioned from upper ends of the partitions in a depth direction, and an average depth of two drive electrodes positioned on facing side surfaces of the ejection channel is different from an average depth of two drive electrodes positioned on facing side surfaces of the dummy channel adjacent to the ejection channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Toshimitsu MOROOKA, Satoshi HORIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9283758
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid jet head includes: a groove forming step of alternately forming ejection grooves and non-ejection grooves in a reference direction on an upper surface of an actuator substrate; a cover plate processing step of forming a recessed portion on an upper surface of a cover plate and slits penetrating the cover plate from a bottom surface of the recessed portion through a lower surface located opposite to the upper surface of the cover plate; a substrate bonding step of bonding the lower surface of the cover plate to the upper surface of the actuator substrate to allow the slits to communicate with the respective ejection grooves; and an electrode forming step of simultaneously forming conductive films on side surfaces of the ejection grooves, side surfaces of the non-ejection grooves, and inner surfaces of the slits and the recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 9199465
    Abstract: A liquid jet head includes an actuator substrate having a principal surface on which ejection channels and non-ejection channels are formed, common electrodes formed on side surfaces of the ejection channels, individual electrodes formed on side surfaces of the non-ejection channels, individual electrode pads for connection to the individual electrodes, and common electrode pads for connection to the common electrodes. A groove is formed on the principal surface of the actuator substrate for isolating the individual electrode pads and the common electrode pads from one another. An external substrate has individual electrode terminals and common electrode terminals for connection to the individual electrode pads and common electrode pads, respectively. A connection wiring that connects the common electrode terminals to each other is formed along the groove to prevent an electrical short circuit between the connection wiring and the individual electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Harajiri, Yuzuru Kubota, Satoshi Horiguchi