Patents by Inventor Shuichi Nakano

Shuichi Nakano 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: 20250144939
    Abstract: A device outputs a first low voltage to a first terminal at a first timing in a period in which a voltage input to a second terminal is a high voltage. After outputting the first low voltage, the device outputs a second high voltage to the first terminal at a second timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a low voltage. After outputting the second high voltage, the device outputs a second low voltage to the first terminal at a third timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a high voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi NAKANO, Yasuhiko KOSUGI, Jun SATO
  • Patent number: 12257830
    Abstract: A printhead control circuit outputs a first signal to a second wire while a first wire coupled to a first terminal is being supplied with a first voltage signal; outputs a second signal to the second wire coupled to a second terminal while the first wire is being supplied with a second voltage signal; outputs a third signal to the second wire while a third wire coupled to a third terminal is being supplied with a third voltage signal; outputs a fourth signal to the second wire while the third wire is being supplied with a fourth voltage signal; and thereby causes the printhead to perform abnormality detection in response to the first to fourth signals and the first to fourth voltage signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Kumamoto, Shuichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 12251939
    Abstract: In a board that includes a plurality of contact portions that are arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side terminals when the board is mounted in a printing apparatus, some contact portions are disposed in a first region, and the remaining contact portions are disposed in a second region. The some contact portions include a first contact portion, a second contact portion, a third contact portion, and a fourth contact portion. The remaining contact portions include a fifth contact portion. The some contact portions are arranged in a first pattern in the first region and the remaining contact portions are arranged in a second pattern in the second region, and the first pattern is asymmetrical to the second pattern with respect to a first virtual line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Yasuhiko Kosugi, Jun Sato
  • Patent number: 12246539
    Abstract: A device outputs a first low voltage to a first terminal at a first timing in a period in which a voltage input to a second terminal is a high voltage. After outputting the first low voltage, the device outputs a second high voltage to the first terminal at a second timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a low voltage. After outputting the second high voltage, the device outputs a second low voltage to the first terminal at a third timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a high voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Yasuhiko Kosugi, Jun Sato
  • Patent number: 12240248
    Abstract: In a board that includes a plurality of contact portions that are arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side terminals when the board is mounted in a printing apparatus, some contact portions are disposed in a first region, and the remaining contact portions are disposed in a second region. The some contact portions include a first contact portion, a second contact portion, a third contact portion, and a fourth contact portion. The remaining contact portions include a fifth contact portion. The some contact portions are arranged in a first pattern in the first region and the remaining contact portions are arranged in a second pattern in the second region, and the first pattern is asymmetrical to the second pattern with respect to a first virtual line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Yasuhiko Kosugi, Jun Sato
  • Patent number: 12240247
    Abstract: A device outputs a first low voltage to a first terminal at a first timing in a period in which a voltage input to a second terminal is a high voltage. After outputting the first low voltage, the device outputs a second high voltage to the first terminal at a second timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a low voltage. After outputting the second high voltage, the device outputs a second low voltage to the first terminal at a third timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a high voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Yasuhiko Kosugi, Jun Sato
  • Patent number: 12240249
    Abstract: In a board that includes a plurality of contact portions that are arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side terminals when the board is mounted in a printing apparatus, some contact portions are disposed in a first region, and the remaining contact portions are disposed in a second region. The some contact portions include a first contact portion, a second contact portion, a third contact portion, and a fourth contact portion. The remaining contact portions include a fifth contact portion. The some contact portions are arranged in a first pattern in the first region and the remaining contact portions are arranged in a second pattern in the second region, and the first pattern is asymmetrical to the second pattern with respect to a first virtual line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Yasuhiko Kosugi, Jun Sato
  • Patent number: 12233650
    Abstract: In a board that includes a plurality of contact portions that are arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side terminals when the board is mounted in a printing apparatus, some contact portions are disposed in a first region, and the remaining contact portions are disposed in a second region. The some contact portions include a first contact portion, a second contact portion, a third contact portion, and a fourth contact portion. The remaining contact portions include a fifth contact portion. The some contact portions are arranged in a first pattern in the first region and the remaining contact portions are arranged in a second pattern in the second region, and the first pattern is asymmetrical to the second pattern with respect to a first virtual line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Yasuhiko Kosugi, Jun Sato
  • Publication number: 20250033367
    Abstract: In a board that includes a plurality of contact portions that are arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side terminals when the board is mounted in a printing apparatus, some contact portions are disposed in a first region, and the remaining contact portions are disposed in a second region. The some contact portions include a first contact portion, a second contact portion, a third contact portion, and a fourth contact portion. The remaining contact portions include a fifth contact portion. The some contact portions are arranged in a first pattern in the first region and the remaining contact portions are arranged in a second pattern in the second region, and the first pattern is asymmetrical to the second pattern with respect to a first virtual line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi NAKANO, Yasuhiko KOSUGI, Jun SATO
  • Publication number: 20250026127
    Abstract: In a board that includes a plurality of contact portions that are arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side terminals when the board is mounted in a printing apparatus, some contact portions are disposed in a first region, and the remaining contact portions are disposed in a second region. The some contact portions include a first contact portion, a second contact portion, a third contact portion, and a fourth contact portion. The remaining contact portions include a fifth contact portion. The some contact portions are arranged in a first pattern in the first region and the remaining contact portions are arranged in a second pattern in the second region, and the first pattern is asymmetrical to the second pattern with respect to a first virtual line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi NAKANO, Yasuhiko KOSUGI, Jun SATO
  • Publication number: 20250026126
    Abstract: In a board that includes a plurality of contact portions that are arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side terminals when the board is mounted in a printing apparatus, some contact portions are disposed in a first region, and the remaining contact portions are disposed in a second region. The some contact portions include a first contact portion, a second contact portion, a third contact portion, and a fourth contact portion. The remaining contact portions include a fifth contact portion. The some contact portions are arranged in a first pattern in the first region and the remaining contact portions are arranged in a second pattern in the second region, and the first pattern is asymmetrical to the second pattern with respect to a first virtual line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi NAKANO, Yasuhiko Kosugi, Jun Sato
  • Publication number: 20250026128
    Abstract: A device outputs a first low voltage to a first terminal at a first timing in a period in which a voltage input to a second terminal is a high voltage. After outputting the first low voltage, the device outputs a second high voltage to the first terminal at a second timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a low voltage. After outputting the second high voltage, the device outputs a second low voltage to the first terminal at a third timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a high voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi NAKANO, Yasuhiko KOSUGI, Jun SATO
  • Patent number: 12187046
    Abstract: A memory stores manufacturing information including at least the number of refills, an electronic signature of the manufacturing information, and a first error-detecting code of the manufacturing information. The number of refills is the number of times that, after consumption of a liquid contained in the cartridge, the cartridge is refilled with the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 12138916
    Abstract: Provided is a printhead that performs printing by supplying a drive signal inputted to a second terminal to a drive element according to print data inputted to a first terminal, the printhead including: the first terminal; the second terminal; a determination circuit configured to perform based on different criteria, first determination to determine, in response to a first signal inputted to the first terminal, whether a potential of the second terminal is normal and second determination to determine, in response to a second signal inputted to the first terminal, whether the potential of the second terminal is normal; and a permission circuit configured to permit printing when the potential of the second terminal is determined to be normal in the first determination and second determination and does not permit printing when the potential of the second terminal is determined to be not normal in the first determination or second determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Jun Sato, Motonori Chikamoto, Toshihito Takagi
  • Patent number: 12070940
    Abstract: In a printhead control circuit causing a printhead to execute printing, the printhead performing abnormality detection in response to a first signal inputted to a second terminal in a state in which the potential of a first terminal is a first potential and a second signal inputted to the second terminal in a state in which the potential of the first terminal is a second potential, one of the first and second potentials is higher than the potentials of the first and second signals, and a signal circuit is configured to output the first and second signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Motonori Chikamoto, Jun Sato, Toshihito Takagi
  • Publication number: 20240100848
    Abstract: In a board that includes a plurality of contact portions that are arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side terminals when the board is mounted in a printing apparatus, some contact portions are disposed in a first region, and the remaining contact portions are disposed in a second region. The some contact portions include a first contact portion, a second contact portion, a third contact portion, and a fourth contact portion. The remaining contact portions include a fifth contact portion. The some contact portions are arranged in a first pattern in the first region and the remaining contact portions are arranged in a second pattern in the second region, and the first pattern is asymmetrical to the second pattern with respect to a first virtual line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi NAKANO, Yasuhiko KOSUGI, Jun SATO
  • Patent number: 11932015
    Abstract: A print head includes a generation portion that amplifies an input signal to generate a drive signal, an ejection portion that includes a first driving element driven by a drive signal, and ejects a liquid in response to the drive of the first driving element, a supply portion that includes a first switch for switching between supply and non-supply of the drive signal to the first driving element, and a sound emitting portion that includes a second driving element driven by the drive signal, and a second switch for switching between supply and non-supply of the drive signal to the second driving element, and emits sound in response to the drive of the second driving element, in which the first switch and the second switch are turned on exclusively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Masahiro Toki, Tatsuya Sato, Shunsuke Kasai
  • Patent number: 11872822
    Abstract: In a board that includes a plurality of contact portions that are arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side terminals when the board is mounted in a printing apparatus, some contact portions are disposed in a first region, and the remaining contact portions are disposed in a second region. The some contact portions include a first contact portion, a second contact portion, a third contact portion, and a fourth contact portion. The remaining contact portions include a fifth contact portion. The some contact portions are arranged in a first pattern in the first region and the remaining contact portions are arranged in a second pattern in the second region, and the first pattern is asymmetrical to the second pattern with respect to a first virtual line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Yasuhiko Kosugi, Jun Sato
  • Publication number: 20240010005
    Abstract: A device outputs a first low voltage to a first terminal at a first timing in a period in which a voltage input to a second terminal is a high voltage. After outputting the first low voltage, the device outputs a second high voltage to the first terminal at a second timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a low voltage. After outputting the second high voltage, the device outputs a second low voltage to the first terminal at a third timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a high voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi NAKANO, Yasuhiko KOSUGI, Jun SATO
  • Patent number: D1050059
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Jun Sato, Yasuhiko Kosugi