Patents by Inventor Shotaro Ueda

Shotaro Ueda 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).

  • Liquid discharge apparatus and suction apparatus
    Patent number: 10946660
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a liquid discharge apparatus capable of sucking liquid in a cap member while suppressing generation of bubbles by a suction assisting member detachable from a cap member. A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head (6) to discharge liquid from a plurality of nozzles, and a suction mechanism (8) to suck the liquid from the liquid discharge head (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shotaro Ueda, Shingo Masaoka, Isamu Kubo
  • LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND SUCTION APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20190381798
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a liquid discharge apparatus capable of sucking liquid in a cap member while suppressing generation of bubbles by a suction assisting member detachable from a cap member. A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head (6) to discharge liquid from a plurality of nozzles, and a suction mechanism (8) to suck the liquid from the liquid discharge head (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Shotaro UEDA, Shingo MASAOKA, Isamu KUBO
  • Liquid discharging apparatus, image processing apparatus and liquid discharging system
    Patent number: 10195844
    Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a tension applying unit configured to apply a predetermined tension capable of stretching an object, to the object; and a liquid discharging unit configured to discharge liquid on the object that is stretched by the predetermined tension applied by the tension applying unit to form a an original image or a corrected image of the original image on the object, the corrected image being corrected by a degree of stretching of a predetermined image when the object on which the predetermined image is formed is stretched by applying the predetermined tension to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shotaro Ueda
  • Liquid discharging device, control apparatus for liquid discharging device, and method of controlling liquid discharging device
    Patent number: 10065413
    Abstract: A liquid discharging device detects, among a plurality of nozzles of a liquid discharging head, a normal-discharging nozzle and a false-discharging nozzle, selects whether to recover discharging performance of the false-discharging nozzle by a cleaner or to compensate deterioration in an image caused by the false-discharging nozzle by a compensator using the normal-discharging nozzle according to the detected number of consecutive false-discharging nozzles, and performs operation according to the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoh Yokoyama, Yoshimi Nemoto, Kenichi Taguma, Tetsuto Ueda, Naohiro Toda, Yasunobu Takagi, Shotaro Ueda
  • LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND LIQUID DISCHARGING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170266956
    Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a tension applying unit configured to apply a predetermined tension capable of stretching an object, to the object; and a liquid discharging unit configured to discharge liquid on the object that is stretched by the predetermined tension applied by the tension applying unit to form a an original image or a corrected image of the original image on the object, the corrected image being corrected by a degree of stretching of a predetermined image when the object on which the predetermined image is formed is stretched by applying the predetermined tension to the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shotaro UEDA
  • LIQUID DISCHARGING DEVICE, CONTROL APPARATUS FOR LIQUID DISCHARGING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING LIQUID DISCHARGING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170165970
    Abstract: A liquid discharging device detects, among a plurality of nozzles of a liquid discharging head, a normal-discharging nozzle and a false-discharging nozzle, selects whether to recover discharging performance of the false-discharging nozzle by a cleaner or to compensate deterioration in an image caused by the false-discharging nozzle by a compensator using the normal-discharging nozzle according to the detected number of consecutive false-discharging nozzles, and performs operation according to the selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Ryoh YOKOYAMA, Yoshimi Nemoto, Kenichi Taguma, Tetsuto Ueda, Naohiro Toda, Yasunobu Takagi, Shotaro Ueda