Patents by Inventor Seiko HAMAMOTO

Seiko HAMAMOTO 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: 20150085027
    Abstract: In a liquid containing vessel inserted in a ?Y axis direction, a substrate support member includes a first engaging section engaging with the liquid containing vessel from a +Z axis direction side at a position more to the ?Y axis direction side than a contact section of a substrate, a second engaging section engaging with a liquid containing section at a position more to a +Y axis direction side than the substrate and is provided more to a ?Z axis direction side than the contact section, a first pressed section receiving a first pressing force with a component in the ?Z axis direction at a position more to the ?Y axis direction side than the contact section, and a second pressed section receiving a second pressing force with a component in the ?Z axis direction at a position more to the +Y axis direction side than the contact section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro KARASAWA, Ryota TAKAHASHI, Seiko HAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150085028
    Abstract: A liquid containing body is configured to be contained in a liquid containing vessel that is inserted in the ?Y axis direction with regard to a mounting section. The liquid containing body includes a flexible liquid containing section containing a liquid, a substrate with a contact section that electrically connects due to contact with regard to an apparatus side terminal section that is provided in the apparatus side wall section, and a substrate support member provided in the liquid containing section and supporting the substrate with a posturing where the contact section faces the ?Y axis direction and the +Z axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Ryota TAKAHASHI, Masahiro KARASAWA, Seiko HAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150085029
    Abstract: In a liquid containing vessel that is inserted in the ?Y axis direction with regard to a mounting section, a substrate support member includes a substrate support section configured to hold a substrate, a first side wall along the Y axis and the Z axis, the first side wall being provided more to the +X axis direction side than the substrate support section, and a first ridge section protruding from the first side wall in the ?X axis direction and configured to engage with a first apparatus side engaging section that protrudes in the +X axis direction in the apparatus side terminal section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Ryota TAKAHASHI, Masahiro KARASAWA, Seiko HAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8979239
    Abstract: A drawing device includes a recording head that discharges ink which cures when receiving irradiation light; a transport device that transports a sheet coated with the ink discharged from the recording head, along a transport path that faces the recording head; a gap sensor that is provided further upstream along the transport path than the recording head, and detects an error with respect to a gap between the sheet and recording head; a light irradiation device which is provided further downstream along the transport path than the recording head, and irradiates the ink coated on the sheet with light; and an advancing/retracting device which retracts the recording head to a position away from the transport path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Seiko Hamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140292965
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an ink container tray which is capable of holding an ink container, a guide portion which guides the ink container tray in a movable manner between an ink container mounting position when mounting the ink container onto the ink container tray and an ink supply position, and a locking mechanism which, when moving the ink container tray, which is positioned further at the ink container mounting position side than a predetermined position between the ink supply position and the ink container mounting position, further to the ink supply position side than the predetermined position, stops the ink container tray from moving further to the ink supply position side than the predetermined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiko HAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8840216
    Abstract: An image recording device comprising: a transport unit that transports a recording medium from a first drive roller to a second drive roller by rotating the first drive roller and the second drive roller across which a recording medium is stretched, a detection unit that detects tension of the recording medium between the first drive roller and the second drive roller, a support member that supports the recording medium between the detection unit and the second drive roller, a recording unit that ejects liquid on the recording medium supported on the support member and records an image, and a control unit that gives tension to the recording medium by controlling the torque of the second drive roller based on the recording medium tension detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Seiko Hamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130278669
    Abstract: A drawing device includes a recording head that discharges ink which cures when receiving irradiation light; a transport device that transports a sheet coated with the ink discharged from the recording head, along a transport path that faces the recording head; a gap sensor that is provided further upstream along the transport path than the recording head, and detects an error with respect to a gap between the sheet and recording head; a light irradiation device which is provided further downstream along the transport path than the recording head, and irradiates the ink coated on the sheet with light; and an advancing/retracting device which retracts the recording head to a position away from the transport path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiko HAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: D723938
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Karasawa, Ryota Takahashi, Seiko Hamamoto, Hidekatsu Miyasaka