Patents by Inventor Seijun HORIE

Seijun HORIE 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: 20250135693
    Abstract: A mold for injection molding includes a first mold where a gate opening is formed and a second mold moving due to mold opening in a mold opening direction, wherein the second mold includes a third mold, a fourth mold arranged between the third mold and the first mold in the mold opening direction, and a fifth mold arranged between the fourth mold and the first mold in the mold opening direction, the third mold and the fourth mold forming the cavity, the fourth mold having a passage, the fifth mold having a first penetration hole, the first mold has a recess at a surface facing the second mold, the fifth mold is arranged in the recess when mold closing is performed, and a groove penetrating the mold downward in the vertical direction is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroki TAKANO, Seijun HORIE
  • Publication number: 20250135697
    Abstract: The injection molding device includes a plasticization section generating a molding material; a fixed section to which an injection mold, in which is formed a cavity, is detachably attachable, the injection mold including a first mold and a second mold; and a nozzle, wherein the second mold includes a third mold and a fourth mold arranged between the first mold and the third mold in a mold opening direction of the second mold, the cavity is formed by the third mold and the fourth mold, a passage is formed in the fourth mold, the third mold includes a first cooling section for cooling the third mold, the fourth mold includes a second cooling section for cooling the fourth mold, and a first cooling capacity of the first cooling section is different from a second cooling capacity of the second cooling section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroki TAKANO, Seijun HORIE
  • Publication number: 20250091272
    Abstract: An injection molding system including an injection molding device including an injection molding section that has a fixed section to which a fixed molding die and a movable molding die are attached and fixed and that is configured to mold a molded article by injecting a material containing a metal powder into a cavity, and a first movement section for moving the movable molding die between a molding die closed position and a molding die open position, a cleaning device that performs cleaning of the molded article by blowing air, and a control device, wherein when the movable molding die is not at the molding die closed position, the control device does not cause the cleaning device to blow air, and when the movable molding die is at the molding die closed position, the control device causes the cleaning device to perfom blowing of air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Seijun HORIE, Kazunobu MARUYAMA, Kai UCHIYAMA, Hiroki TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20250091270
    Abstract: An arrangement mechanism that changes an arrangement of three or more molded products includes a first base on which two or more first molded products product of the three or more molded products are placed, a second base on which one or more second molded products of the three or more molded products are placed, and a first base movement unit changing a relative position of the first base to the second base between a first position and a second position. The first base is associated with a virtual first straight line and the second base is associated with a second straight line. When the relative position is the first position, the first straight line and the second straight line do not overlap, and when the relative position is the second position, the first straight line and the second straight line overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Seijun HORIE, Kazunobu MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240316850
    Abstract: An injection molding system includes an injection molding section that molds a workpiece by injection molding, a robot that transports the workpiece, an inspection section that inspects the workpiece transported by the robot, and a control section that controls the injection molding section, the robot and the inspection section, wherein the control section has, as control modes of the robot, a first control mode, which is performed when the inspection section is not inspecting the workpiece, and a second control mode, which is performed when the inspection section is inspecting the workpiece, and in which the robot is operated to suppress vibration of the inspection section more than is in the first control mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventor: Seijun HORIE
  • Publication number: 20240286330
    Abstract: As viewed in the vertical direction, in the injection molding system, a first distance, which is a distance between a first joint and a first placement section, a second distance, which is a distance between the first joint and a second placement section, and a third distance, which is a distance between the first joint and a robot wall section, are smaller than a fourth distance, which is a distance between the first joint and a tip end of a second arm when a first arm and the second arm are on a co-linear straight line and in an angular range from one of the first placement section and the second placement section to the robot wall section centered on the first joint, the distance between the first joint and at least a part of a wall section is larger than the fourth distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventor: Seijun HORIE
  • Publication number: 20220153039
    Abstract: A work system includes a recording apparatus including a transport belt that is provided with an adhesive configured for attachment of a medium, and is configured to transport the medium, and a main body portion in which a recording portion configured to perform recording on the medium is accommodated, a cover that covers at least a part of an exposed part of the transport belt exposed from the main body portion, and a removing portion configured to remove gas in a space covered with the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Seijun HORIE, Kiyoto KOMURO, Hirokazu FUJII, Takumi OTSU
  • Publication number: 20210197596
    Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit configured to perform recording on a first surface of a medium, a holding unit configured to hold a roll body obtained by rolling the medium, a transport unit configured to transport the medium unwound from the roll body, and a knocking unit configured to knock on a second surface of the medium between the holding unit and the recording unit, the second surface being a surface opposite the first surface. The knocking unit knocks on the second surface by moving between a spaced position for being spaced apart from the second surface and a contact position for making contact with the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yuichi WASHIO, Seijun HORIE
  • Publication number: 20210107300
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an endless transporting belt stretched over a plurality of rollers and configured to rotate while supporting a medium, by a support face that is a surface on an opposite side from a contact surface with the roller, to transport the medium in a transport direction, and a liquid ejecting unit configured to eject liquid onto the medium supported by the support face, wherein the transporting belt is formed without a coupling portion at which end portions of the transporting belt are coupled to each other along a width direction that intersects with a circumferential direction of the transporting belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichiro KANEKO, Seijun HORIE, Tsuneyuki SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210107298
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting device that includes an endless transporting belt that is stretched over a plurality of rollers and transports a medium in a transport direction by rotating while supporting the medium at a support surface that is a surface on an opposite side from a contact surface with the rollers, and a liquid ejecting unit that ejects a liquid onto the medium supported by the support surface. At the contact surface, recesses and protrusions are regularly formed in the circumferential direction of the transporting belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichiro KANEKO, Seijun HORIE, Tsuneyuki SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210107296
    Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a transporting belt having an endless shape stretched over a plurality of rollers and configured to rotate while supporting a medium by a support face being a face on an opposite side from a contact face with the roller, to transport the medium in a transport direction, a liquid discharging unit configured to discharge a liquid onto the medium supported by the support face, and a drying section configured to dry, from a side of the contact face, the liquid adhering to the contact face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichiro KANEKO, Seijun HORIE, Tsuneyuki SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210107299
    Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a transporting belt having an endless shape stretched over a plurality of rollers and configured to rotate while supporting a medium, to transport the medium in a transport direction, a liquid discharging unit configured to discharge a liquid onto the medium, and a flat plate portion for supporting the transporting belt from a side of a contact face with the roller. the flat plate portion includes an edge extending from one end of the transporting belt to the other end of the transporting belt along an extending direction intersecting the transport direction, the edge being formed by a transporting belt support face for supporting the transporting belt and a face facing upstream in a rotation direction of the transporting belt when transporting the medium in the transport direction. the edge is disposed to abut against the transporting belt along the extending direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichiro KANEKO, Seijun HORIE, Tsuneyuki SASAKI, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210086532
    Abstract: A recording device including a recording unit that performs recording on a medium by ejecting liquid, a transporting belt that has a base material having a first surface provided with an adhesive layer on which the medium is stuck and a second surface which is a surface opposite to the first surface, and the transporting belt transports the medium, a pressing unit that presses the medium against the transporting belt, a cleaning member that cleans the adhesive layer by contacting the adhesive layer, a storage unit in which water for cleaning the cleaning member is stored, and a cooling unit having a flow path through which water flows and a contacting unit that contacts the second surface. The contacting unit is coupled to the flow path, and contacts the second surface downstream of the pressing unit and upstream of the cleaning member in the revolving direction of the transporting belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Seijun HORIE
  • Publication number: 20200324560
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an ejection unit including a nozzle surface configured to eject a liquid droplet, the nozzle surface facing a printing surface of a medium, a transport unit configured to transport the medium in a transport direction, a steam application unit configured to apply steam to the printing surface, the steam application unit being provided upstream of the ejection unit in the transport direction, and a medium compression unit configured to compress the medium, the medium compression unit being provided upstream of the ejection unit in the transport direction and downstream of the steam application unit in the transport direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Seijun HORIE, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Yoshihisa HORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190232690
    Abstract: Provided is a medium supply device including a spindle that supports a medium having a roll shape, a supplying portion that supplies the medium supported by the spindle toward outside, a plurality of support rollers that support the medium in positions between the spindle and the supplying portion, a moving roller that, in a contact position between the support rollers, is capable of coming into contact with a bridging medium extending across the support rollers in a state where a load is applied to the bridging medium and that is capable of moving from the contact position to a non-contact position of non-contact with the bridging medium, and a moving mechanism configured to move the moving roller from the contact position to the non-contact position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventor: Seijun HORIE
  • Publication number: 20180272720
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge section configured to discharge liquid onto a medium, a holding section capable of holding a waste liquid container capable of containing waste liquid exhausted from the liquid discharge section, a sensor capable of detecting a state in which a containing amount of the waste liquid container has reached a threshold value, and a calculation section configured to calculate a waste liquid amount based on an exhaust amount of the waste liquid exhausted by the liquid discharge section. In the case where the sensor has detected the state in which the containing amount has reached the threshold value, the calculation section calculates the waste liquid amount by adding the exhaust amount of the waste liquid exhausted after the detection of the state by the sensor to the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Akira MASHIMA, Seijun HORIE
  • Publication number: 20180126754
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit that prints on a roll paper, a transporting unit that transports the roll paper having been printed on along a transport surface, and a drying unit that performs a drying process (post-process) on the roll paper on the transport surface. The drying unit includes a cover (casing) that covers the roll paper on the transport surface. The cover has an inspection window that allows the roll paper on the transport surface to be visually inspected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Seijun HORIE, Atsushi MAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170217227
    Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit and a medium support unit. The recording unit includes a recording head and a platen that faces the recording head in a first direction. The medium support unit is arranged below the recording unit such that the medium support unit overlaps the recording unit as viewed in the first direction. The medium support unit is configured to move, relative to the recording unit, in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The medium support unit has an up-down mechanism configured to move a support position of the recording medium upward in the first direction by being pulled from below the recording unit. The support position commences to move upward in the first direction after the medium support unit commences to move in the second direction relative to the recording unit during pulling of the medium support unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventor: Seijun HORIE
  • Publication number: 20150273897
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit, a discharge unit, and a medium receiving unit. The medium receiving unit has a sheet section which is flexible and of which a front-end portion is disposed to be closer to a discharge side of a recording medium than a terminal-end portion. When the medium receiving unit is transited from a serviceable state to an accommodated state, the front-end portion of the sheet section becomes closer to the terminal-end portion of the sheet section and a connection portion between the front-end portion and the terminal-end portion of the sheet section moves to a side opposite to the discharge side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Junya KATO, Seijun HORIE
  • Publication number: 20140291438
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a medium support section that has a supply section supplying a continuous-shaped recording medium, a medium path through which the recording medium supplied on the supply section passes, and a transportation mechanism that transports the recording medium; and a recording section that performs recording on the recording medium passing through the medium path. A hole that is formed in a side wall having a light shielding property and capable of visually recognizing the inside of the medium path on the upstream side from the transportation mechanism in a transportation direction through the inside of the medium support section is provided in the medium support section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seijun HORIE