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: 20120205418
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a feeding unit that can feed roll-shaped roll medium downstream in the transport direction, a recording apparatus main body having a recording unit that performs recording on the fed roll medium, and a winding device that winds the recorded roll medium in a roll at a predetermined position, in which the winding device can move with respect to the recording apparatus main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seijun HORIE, Masaki KOBAYASHI, Hisashi TENPAKU
  • Publication number: 20120199687
    Abstract: A rolled medium holder device includes: a guide member; a holder unit, including a shaft portion that holds a roll-shaped rolled medium, that is slidable relative to the guide member; and a stopper member, provided in the holder unit, that makes surface contact with the outer circumferential surface of the guide member. Here, the pressing force exerted on the outer circumferential surface of the guide member by the stopper member between two different points of the stopper member in the circumferential direction of the guide member can be adjusted; the holder unit is immobilized by increasing the pressing force; and the holder unit can be slid by reducing the pressing force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki KOBAYASHI, Seijun HORIE, Hisashi TENPAKU
  • Publication number: 20120187233
    Abstract: A roll medium lifting device of a recording apparatus includes: an elevating unit that has a loading unit therein and can be raised and lowered in the vertical direction; an operation lever that is rotatable about a fulcrum; and a cam that performs force transmission by converting rotational movement of the operation lever in the vertical direction to vertical movement of the elevating unit at a position closer to the fulcrum in the operation lever. Further, when the operation lever is rotated to cause the cam to move the elevating unit upward, a portion of the cam that makes contact with the elevating unit faces to the moving direction when the elevating unit is moved upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi TENPAKU, Masaki KOBAYASHI, Seijun HORIE
  • Publication number: 20120091250
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a roll paper holder including a shaft portion which holds a roll paper such that the roll paper is capable of being fed, a temporal placement portion on which the roll paper is temporarily placed, and a roll paper lifting device which includes a placement portion on which the roll paper is placed, and lifts the roll paper to a height position of the shaft portion of the roll paper holder while an end of the roll paper in the temporarily placed state is placed on the placement portion so as to position a core port of a roll core of the roll paper and the shaft portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi TENPAKU, Seijun HORIE, Takuya YASUE