Patents by Inventor Shuji Tozaki
Shuji Tozaki 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: 8616878Abstract: A heat-sensitive adhesive label manufacturing device has a thermal head for heating and thermally activating the heat-sensitive adhesive layer of a heat-sensitive adhesive sheet, and a platen roller for conveying the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet between the platen roller and the thermal head to transport the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet in a transport direction. At least one discharge roller is disposed on a downstream side of the thermal activation section and is configured to undergo rotation at a peripheral speed different from a peripheral speed of the platen roller to convey the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet in the transport direction. A guide member is disposed opposite and spaced apart from the at least one discharge roller to provide a space therebetween along which the heat-sensitive adhesive sheet is conveyed by the at least one discharge roller without being sandwiched between the at least one discharge roller and the guide member.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Sato, Norimitsu Sanbongi, Minoru Hoshino, Shuji Tozaki
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Patent number: 8353511Abstract: A paper discharge device includes a waiting path, one side of which is connected to an input port and another side of which is connected to a discharge port. A collection path has one side connected to the waiting path through a merged portion and another side connected to a collection chamber. Conveyance mechanisms disposed along the waiting path convey a paper which was conveyed through the input port to the discharge port in a forward direction, and convey, after lapse of a given period of time after conveyance of the paper to the discharge port, the paper in a reverse direction through the merged portion to feed into the collection path. The waiting path has a downward curvature between the merged portion and the discharge port.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventor: Shuji Tozaki
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Patent number: 8336878Abstract: A paper discharge device includes a waiting path having one side connected to an input port and another side connected to a discharge port, and a collection path having one side connected to the waiting path through a merged portion and another side connected to a collection chamber. Conveyance mechanisms convey a paper which was conveyed through the input port to the discharge port in a forward direction, and convey, after lapse of a given period of time after the conveyance of the paper, the paper in a reverse direction through the merged portion to feed into the collection path. An input mechanism provided in the collection path conveys the paper fed from the waiting path through the collection path into the collection chamber while sandwiching the paper between rollers to form folds across a total length of the paper along the paper conveying direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventors: Shuji Tozaki, Takumi Seino
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Publication number: 20110198802Abstract: Provided is a paper discharge device (1) capable of securing. the sufficient length of the waiting path while achieving downsizing of the entire device, and of allowing the paper in the waiting state to wait without being brought into contact with the collected paper until the processings such as printing are ended.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventor: Shuji Tozaki
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Publication number: 20110198803Abstract: Provided is a paper discharge device (1) capable of efficiently collecting the large amount of the paper, and of allowing the paper in the waiting state to wait without being brought into contact with the collected paper until the processings such as printing are ended.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventors: Shuji Tozaki, Takumi Seino
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Patent number: 7862247Abstract: Provided is a printer that employs a platen roller as conveying means, for which the accuracy of the assembly of the constituents of a drive transmission mechanism that drives a platen roller is increased, and the heat releasing function of a motor that is a drive source is also improved, so that downsizing and increasing output can be coped with.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2005Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventors: Hideki Watanabe, Shuji Tozaki, Takumi Seino
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Publication number: 20100183995Abstract: A heat-sensitive adhesive label manufacturing device includes: a thermal head (3) (thermal activation unit) for thermally activating a heat-sensitive adhesive layer while being in contact therewith; a platen roller (4) which is situated opposed to the thermal head (3); and a discharge roller (5) which is situated on a downstream side of the thermal head (3) and the platen roller (4) and rotates at a peripheral speed different from a peripheral speed of the platen roller (4). When the discharge roller (5) includes a plurality of discharge rollers (5), at least a discharge roller (5) closest to the thermal head (3) and the platen roller (4) is rotated at the peripheral speed different from the peripheral speed of the platen roller (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Yoshinori Sato, Norimitsu Sanbongi, Minoru Hoshino, Shuji Tozaki
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Patent number: 7443408Abstract: Provided is a thermal printer including: a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements; a head support member, which is conductive, for supporting the thermal head; a platen roller whose circumferential surface can be brought into contact with the thermal head while nipping a recording paper; biasing members, which are conductive, provided between the case and the head support member, for supporting the head support member while imparting bias toward the platen roller; and a flexible substrate electrically connected with the thermal head to transmit a signal, in which a part of the biasing member extends through the flexible substrate and is grounded by fixation while being electrically connected by solder with respect to the flexible substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2007Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventor: Shuji Tozaki
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Publication number: 20070222850Abstract: Provided is a thermal printer including: a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements; a head support member, which is conductive, for supporting the thermal head; a platen roller whose circumferential surface can be brought into contact with the thermal head while nipping a recording paper; biasing members, which are conductive, provided between the case and the head support member, for supporting the head support member while imparting bias toward the platen roller; and a flexible substrate electrically connected with the thermal head to transmit a signal, in which a part of the biasing member extends through the flexible substrate and is grounded by fixation while being electrically connected by solder with respect to the flexible substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventor: Shuji Tozaki
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Patent number: 7001089Abstract: A thermal printer has a main body frame and a platen roller rotatably and removably mounted in a preselected position on the main body frame. A thermal head is mounted on the main body frame for movement into and out of pressure contact with the platen roller during a printing operation and while the platen roller is in the preselected position for recording printing data on a recording medium disposed between the thermal head and the platen roller. A detecting device detects a preselected state of the thermal printer in which the platen roller is in the preselected position and in which the recording medium is disposed between the platen roller and the thermal head.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2004Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventors: Shuji Tozaki, Noriyoshi Shoji, Katsuari Sato, Kimitaka Hirai
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Publication number: 20040234314Abstract: In order to provide a thermal printer which performs detection of the presence or absence of recording paper and detection of the attachment/detachment states of a platen roller with reliability using only one sensor and which has such a simple structure that it can be diverted to any kind system merely by changing some components, the thermal printer of the present invention comprises a main body frame, a thermal head for performing printing on recording paper and a head supporting member integrally provided at the back of the thermal head, a platen roller placed side by side with the thermal head, a bearing portion for rotatably and attachably/detachably supporting the platen roller; an urging unit for urging the thermal head in a direction in which the thermal head is brought into pressure contact with the platen roller, and a load detection type sensor provided at a position at which under a state where the recording paper exists below the platen roller and a shaft of the platen roller is supported by theType: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Shuji Tozaki, Noriyoshi Shoji, Katsuari Sato, Kimitaka Hirai