Patents by Inventor Shinsuke Tomomatsu
Shinsuke Tomomatsu 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).
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Patent number: 10473257Abstract: An electronic device support stand is a support stand for electronic devices that enables rotating the supported electronic device in a confined space with substantially no force while holding the electronic device securely. The electronic device support stand has a holding unit configured to hold an electronic device; and a base unit that supports the holding unit. The holding unit includes a pivot mechanism enabling rotating the supported electronic device with substantially no load around an axis parallel to the surface on which the base unit is placed.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shinsuke Tomomatsu, Yoshiki Kinoshita, Takaaki Inui, Hideki Furihata
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Publication number: 20170150812Abstract: An electronic device support stand is a support stand for electronic devices that enables rotating the supported electronic device in a confined space with substantially no force while holding the electronic device securely. The electronic device support stand has a holding unit configured to hold an electronic device; and a base unit that supports the holding unit. The holding unit includes a pivot mechanism enabling rotating the supported electronic device with substantially no load around an axis parallel to the surface on which the base unit is placed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shinsuke TOMOMATSU, Yoshiki KINOSHITA, Takaaki INUI, Hideki FURIHATA
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Patent number: 9256811Abstract: A head performs recording or reading information with respect to a sheet-shaped recording medium. A pair of rollers sandwich therebetween and transport the recording medium in a transport path of the recording medium passing through the head. A cantilevered frame extends while being cantilevered in a direction traversing the transport path. One end of an opening and closing unit is rotatably supported by the cantilevered frame. The opening and closing unit is revolvable around the one end to move between a closed position where the opening and closing unit covers at least a transport portion by the pair of rollers in the transport path and an open position where the transport position is exposed to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Furihata, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Patent number: 8613562Abstract: A printer with a cutter is provided that can discharge cut-offs in a stable condition. A printer includes a transportation path, a transportation mechanism that conveys a recording medium along the transportation path, a fixed knife having a cutting edge, a movable knife having a cutting edge and moving between a standby position and a cutting-completed position, and an exit disposed along the transportation path. The exit includes a narrow opening defined by a first elongated side offset from the transportation path beyond the movable-knife cutting edge in the cutting-completed position, and a second elongated side opposite the first elongated side and offset from the transportation path opposite to the first elongated side. The second elongated side can be located immediately adjacent to the transportation path, for example, by less than or equal to 2 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Motoyoshi Shirotori, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Patent number: 8602670Abstract: In a scissor type automatic cutter 20, as the movable knife 22 pivots, adhesive between the web liner 11a and the continuous label 11b medium is squeezed out from the label paper 11 at the distal end side of the movable knife 22 and sticks to the fixed knife 21 or the movable knife 22. Because a notched opening 44 is formed in the upstream edge 50a in the paper discharge direction at the other edge part in the paper width direction of the substantially horizontal stage surface 40, if adhesive sticking to the fixed knife 21 or movable knife 22 moves to the stage surface 40 side, the adhesive can be removed from the notched opening 44 and does not accumulate on the stage surface 40. As a result, cutting problems caused by penetration of accumulated adhesive between the fixed knife 21 and movable knife 22 can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Motoyoshi Shirotori, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Patent number: 8339687Abstract: Recording devices with adjustable and lockable recording medium width guides, and support mechanisms for adjustable and lockable recording medium width guides are disclosed. A recording device includes a pair of recording medium width guides that control the widthwise position of a recording medium upon discharge from the recording device. A support mechanism supports the width guides and can lock the position of the width guides. The support mechanism includes a pair of sliding members individually coupled with one of the width guides, and a pressure member that clamps the sliding members together at a position where the sliding members overlap. The pressure member is configurable to clamp the sliding members together, and to unclamp the sliding members.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shinsuke Tomomatsu, Kenichi Hirabayashi
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Patent number: 8038145Abstract: A printer comprising a cover, and a stacker that is attached to the cover, the stacker being supported pivotably about a pivot axis on the cover between a protruding position where the stacker receives paper discharged from the printer, and a retracted position rotated a predetermined angle from the protruding position.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2009Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kenichi Hirabayashi, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Publication number: 20110129280Abstract: A head performs recording or reading information with respect to a sheet-shaped recording medium. A pair of rollers sandwich therebetween and transport the recording medium in a transport path of the recording medium passing through the head. A cantilevered frame extends while being cantilevered in a direction traversing the transport path. One end of an opening and closing unit is rotatably supported by the cantilevered frame. The opening and closing unit is revolvable around the one end to move between a closed position where the opening and closing unit covers at least a transport portion by the pair of rollers in the transport path and an open position where the transport position is exposed to the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Furihata, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Publication number: 20100221055Abstract: A printer with a cutter is provided that can discharge cut-offs in a stable condition. A printer includes a transportation path, a transportation mechanism that conveys a recording medium along the transportation path, a fixed knife having a cutting edge, a movable knife having a cutting edge and moving between a standby position and a cutting-completed position, and an exit disposed along the transportation path. The exit includes a narrow opening defined by a first elongated side offset from the transportation path beyond the movable-knife cutting edge in the cutting-completed position, and a second elongated side opposite the first elongated side and offset from the transportation path opposite to the first elongated side. The second elongated side can be located immediately adjacent to the transportation path, for example, by less than or equal to 2 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Motoyoshi Shirotori, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Publication number: 20100221056Abstract: A printer with a cutter does not have cutting problems caused by adhesive squeezed from label paper. In a scissor type automatic cutter 20 the contact force between the cutting edge 22a of the movable knife 22 and the cutting edge 21a of the fixed knife 21 weakens at the other side of the paper width, and as the movable knife 22 pivots, adhesive between the web liner 11a and the continuous label 11b medium is squeezed out from the label paper 11 at the distal end side of the movable knife 22 and sticks to the fixed knife 21 or the movable knife 22. Because a notched opening 44 is formed in the upstream edge 50a in the paper discharge direction at the other edge part in the paper width direction of the substantially horizontal stage surface 40 that defines the bottom edge 5a of the paper exit 5, if adhesive sticking to the fixed knife 21 or movable knife 22 moves to the stage surface 40 side, the adhesive can be removed from the notched opening 44 and does not accumulate on the stage surface 40.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Motoyoshi Shirotori, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Publication number: 20100195170Abstract: Recording devices with adjustable and lockable recording medium width guides, and support mechanisms for adjustable and lockable recording medium width guides are disclosed. A recording device includes a pair of recording medium width guides that control the widthwise position of a recording medium upon discharge from the recording device. A support mechanism supports the width guides and can lock the position of the width guides. The support mechanism includes a pair of sliding members individually coupled with one of the width guides, and a pressure member that clamps the sliding members together at a position where the sliding members overlap. The pressure member is configurable to clamp the sliding members together, and to unclamp the sliding members.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shinsuke TOMOMATSU, Kenichi HIRABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20090200731Abstract: A printer comprising a cover, and a stacker that is attached to the cover, the stacker being supported pivotably about a pivot axis on the cover between a protruding position where the stacker receives paper discharged from the printer, and a retracted position rotated a predetermined angle from the protruding position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporatioInventors: Kenichi Hirabayashi, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Patent number: D544530Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2006Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Makoto Omuro, Yoshiki Kinoshita, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Patent number: D607507Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2008Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Seiji Kimura, Kanako Nakatani, Kenichi Hirabayashi, Tsukasa Abe, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Patent number: D640735Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Seiji Kimura, Kanako Nakatani, Kenichi Hirabayashi, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Patent number: D767671Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuyuki Endo, Makoto Terashima, Ayumu Nakamura, Takashi Makino, Shinsuke Tomomatsu
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Patent number: D818039Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shinsuke Tomomatsu, Shin Yokota, Shoichi Ishizawa