Patents by Inventor Shun Oya
Shun Oya 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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Publication number: 20220314631Abstract: The cartridge includes: a liquid containing portion, a liquid supply portion, an arrangement portion having the liquid supply portion arranged inside thereof and having a bottom wall facing a distal end of the liquid supply portion, in which the bottom wall has an opening portion through which the liquid introduction portion is inserted at a position facing the distal end, a first liquid absorbing member arranged inside the arrangement portion, of which a part of the first liquid absorbing member is exposed from the opening portion, and a second liquid absorbing member arranged inside the arrangement portion and coming into contact with the first liquid absorbing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shun OYA, Tadahiro MIZUTANI, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Takumi NAGASHIMA
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Publication number: 20220305798Abstract: The cartridge includes a liquid containing portion containing a liquid, a liquid supply portion, an arrangement portion having a bottom wall in which an opening through which the liquid introduction portion is inserted is formed, and a film peelably attached to the arrangement portion while covering the opening portion, in which the arrangement portion further has a mounting element cooperating with the printing apparatus, and the film is arranged at a position where the film is interposed between the printing apparatus and the mounting element when a mounting process is performed in a state in which the film is attached to the arrangement portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tadahiro MIZUTANI, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Shun OYA, Takumi NAGASHIMA
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Publication number: 20220297438Abstract: A cartridge includes: a liquid containing body including a liquid containing portion containing the liquid and a liquid supply portion; and an adapter attached to the liquid containing body and including a terminal arrangement portion which is located on one end side of the adapter in a longitudinal direction and in which a cartridge-side terminal electrically coupled to the apparatus-side terminal is arranged, and an insertion opening portion through which the liquid introduction portion is inserted, in which the adapter has a notch located between the terminal arrangement portion and the insertion opening portion in the longitudinal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Shun OYA
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Publication number: 20220297437Abstract: A cartridge includes a casing that demarcates a liquid chamber used for storing a liquid and that is hollow, and a liquid supply section that communicates with the liquid chamber and supplies the liquid in the liquid chamber to a printing apparatus. The casing includes a concave/convex portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Shun OYA, Hiroto HANBA
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Patent number: 11433679Abstract: A cartridge is configured to be moved in a ?Y direction and then rotated in an intersecting direction intersecting with a Y direction in an installation process of installing the cartridge in a printing device including a device terminal holder holding device terminals and having first and second positioning portions. The cartridge includes cartridge terminals and a cartridge terminal mounting portion disposed on a case and has the cartridge terminals thereon in a movable manner in the Y direction and a rotation radial direction relative to the case. The cartridge terminal mounting portion includes a restricting portion configured to restrict the movement of the cartridge terminals in the Y and Z directions during the installation process. The restricting portion includes first and second restricting portions located at respective ends in the +Y and ?Y directions of the cartridge terminal mounting portion and being in contact with the respective first.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Shun Oya
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Publication number: 20220194087Abstract: A cartridge includes a liquid containing portion and a liquid supply portion that includes a cartridge side valve mechanism, the cartridge side valve mechanism includes a cartridge side valve seat in which a cartridge side valve hole is formed, a cartridge side valve body that stops the cartridge side valve hole and has a tip surface positioned adjacent to the supply opening, and a cartridge side urging member that urges the cartridge side valve body in a direction toward the cartridge side valve seat, and the cartridge side valve body has a protrusion that protrudes from the tip surface and pushes the device side valve body to open the device side valve body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shun OYA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Takumi NAGASHIMA
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Publication number: 20220097389Abstract: A cartridge includes a cartridge side terminal electrically coupled to a device side terminal, a liquid supply portion that is coupled to a liquid introduction portion and that makes a liquid flow to the liquid introduction portion, a terminal positioning portion that performs positioning by receiving a device side terminal positioning portion to regulate movement of the cartridge side terminal with respect to the device side terminal, and a supply portion positioning portion that performs positioning by receiving a device side supply portion positioning portion to regulate movement of the liquid supply portion with respect to the liquid introduction portion. A first direction is a direction intersecting a second direction, the first direction being a direction in which the terminal positioning portion extends, the second direction being a direction in which the supply portion positioning portion extends.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shun OYA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Takumi NAGASHIMA
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Patent number: 11072183Abstract: A cartridge mountable on a liquid ejection device is provided. The liquid ejection device includes a mounting section, an air supplying portion including an air supplying passage, and a detection section configured to detect an error when a predetermined air pressure is not reached even if air is supplied from the air supplying portion. The cartridge includes a case including a communication portion and a first leakage limiting portion that limits leakage of air supplied from the air supplying portion into an atmosphere. The communication portion includes a second leakage limiting portion that limits leakage of the air supplied from the air supplying portion into the case through the communication portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Koizumi, Shun Oya, Kotoya Aruga
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Publication number: 20210162765Abstract: A cartridge is configured to be moved in a ?Y direction and then rotated in an intersecting direction intersecting with a Y direction in an installation process of installing the cartridge in a printing device including a device terminal holder holding device terminals and having first and second positioning portions. The cartridge includes cartridge terminals and a cartridge terminal mounting portion disposed on a case and has the cartridge terminals thereon in a movable manner in the Y direction and a rotation radial direction relative to the case. The cartridge terminal mounting portion includes a restricting portion configured to restrict the movement of the cartridge terminals in the Y and Z directions during the installation process. The restricting portion includes first and second restricting portions located at respective ends in the +Y and ?Y directions of the cartridge terminal mounting portion and being in contact with the respective first.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Shun OYA
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Patent number: 11014369Abstract: A cartridge has a terminal disposition wall portion where a plurality of cartridge side terminals are disposed so as to form an inclined surface facing a direction including a components in ?Y and +Z directions. The terminal disposition wall portion includes a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion provided further in the ?Y direction than a second wall constituting a pressurization chamber, a first extending portion extending in the ?Y direction from the first protruding portion, and a second extending portion extending in the ?Y direction from the second protruding portion. A first cartridge side contact portion configured to come into contact with a first apparatus side contact portion is provided in the first extending portion. A second cartridge side contact portion configured to come into contact with a second apparatus side contact portion is provided in the second extending portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shun Oya, Yoshihiro Koizumi
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Patent number: 10981391Abstract: In a state in which a liquid storage body is installed in a liquid ejecting apparatus, at least part of the upper edge of a liquid storage section and at least part of the lower edge of the liquid storage section are in contact with a case and a first inner surface of the liquid storage section and its second inner surface opposite to the first inner surface are separated from each other. The liquid storage section is structured so that as a liquid is supplied, the first inner surface and second inner surface gradually approach each other and, at the same time, come into contact with each other from top to bottom, forming, at the bottom of the interior of the liquid storage section, a liquid flow path through which the liquid flows from the liquid storage section to the liquid supply section.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shun Oya, Yoshihiro Koizumi
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Patent number: 10857802Abstract: A liquid container comprises a liquid supply port provided in a bottom wall, a first chamber configured to contain a liquid, a second chamber configured to contain the liquid and to include at least one sub-chamber having a smaller dimension in the X direction than that of the first chamber, a partition wall configured to part the first chamber from the second chamber, and a connecting hole configured to connect the first chamber with the second chamber. The second chamber is connected with the liquid supply port, and the first chamber is connected with the liquid supply port via the connecting hole and the second chamber. The liquid contained in the first chamber is flowed from the connecting hole into the second chamber and is subsequently introduced through the sub-chamber to the liquid supply port.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tadahiro Mizutani, Ryoichi Tanaka, Taku Ishizawa, Atsushi Kobayashi, Koichi Toba, Yoshiaki Shimizu, Shun Oya
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Patent number: 10759178Abstract: A liquid supply unit is provided with a liquid supply part, an outer peripheral wall, contact portions and a positioning portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shun Oya, Taku Ishizawa, Atsushi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20200254769Abstract: A cartridge mountable on a liquid ejection device is provided. The liquid ejection device includes a mounting section, an air supplying portion including an air supplying passage, and a detection section configured to detect an error when a predetermined air pressure is not reached even if air is supplied from the air supplying portion. The cartridge includes a case including a communication portion and a first leakage limiting portion that limits leakage of air supplied from the air supplying portion into an atmosphere. The communication portion includes a second leakage limiting portion that limits leakage of the air supplied from the air supplying portion into the case through the communication portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Shun OYA, Kotoya ARUGA
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Publication number: 20200238719Abstract: A cartridge has a terminal disposition wall portion where a plurality of cartridge side terminals are disposed so as to form an inclined surface facing a direction including a components in ?Y and +Z directions. The terminal disposition wall portion includes a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion provided further in the ?Y direction than a second wall constituting a pressurization chamber, a first extending portion extending in the ?Y direction from the first protruding portion, and a second extending portion extending in the ?Y direction from the second protruding portion. A first cartridge side contact portion configured to come into contact with a first apparatus side contact portion is provided in the first extending portion. A second cartridge side contact portion configured to come into contact with a second apparatus side contact portion is provided in the second extending portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shun OYA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI
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Publication number: 20200147974Abstract: In a state in which a liquid storage body is installed in a liquid ejecting apparatus, at least part of the upper edge of a liquid storage section and at least part of the lower edge of the liquid storage section are in contact with a case and a first inner surface of the liquid storage section and its second inner surface opposite to the first inner surface are separated from each other. The liquid storage section is structured so that as a liquid is supplied, the first inner surface and second inner surface gradually approach each other and, at the same time, come into contact with each other from top to bottom, forming, at the bottom of the interior of the liquid storage section, a liquid flow path through which the liquid flows from the liquid storage section to the liquid supply section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shun OYA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI
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Patent number: 10399344Abstract: A liquid container comprises a liquid supply port provided in a bottom wall, a first chamber configured to contain a liquid, a second chamber configured to contain the liquid and to include at least one sub-chamber having a smaller dimension in the X direction than that of the first chamber, a partition wall configured to part the first chamber from the second chamber, and a connecting hole configured to connect the first chamber with the second chamber. The second chamber is connected with the liquid supply port, and the first chamber is connected with the liquid supply port via the connecting hole and the second chamber. The liquid contained in the first chamber is flowed from the connecting hole into the second chamber and is subsequently introduced through the sub-chamber to the liquid supply port.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tadahiro Mizutani, Ryoichi Tanaka, Taku Ishizawa, Atsushi Kobayashi, Koichi Toba, Yoshiaki Shimizu, Shun Oya
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Publication number: 20190232667Abstract: A liquid container comprises a liquid supply port provided in a bottom wall, a first chamber configured to contain a liquid, a second chamber configured to contain the liquid and to include at least one sub-chamber having a smaller dimension in the X direction than that of the first chamber, a partition wall configured to part the first chamber from the second chamber, and a connecting hole configured to connect the first chamber with the second chamber. The second chamber is connected with the liquid supply port, and the first chamber is connected with the liquid supply port via the connecting hole and the second chamber. The liquid contained in the first chamber is flowed from the connecting hole into the second chamber and is subsequently introduced through the sub-chamber to the liquid supply port.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tadahiro MIZUTANI, Ryoichi TANAKA, Taku ISHIZAWA, Atsushi KOBAYASHI, Koichi TOBA, Yoshiaki SHIMIZU, Shun OYA
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Patent number: 10336110Abstract: The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head; a carriage that moves in the X direction; a supply roller that is provided at a position closer to a side of the carriage in the ?Y direction than to a side thereof in the +Y direction; and a discharge roller that is provided at a position closer to the side of the carriage in the +Y direction than to the side thereof in the ?Y direction. A plurality of cartridge slots are provided in the bottom of the carriage on a side in the +Z direction. The plurality of cartridge slots are arranged in the Y direction. The liquid ejection head is provided in the bottom of the carriage on a side in the ?Z direction, at a position between the supply roller and the discharge roller, the position being closer to the supply roller than to the discharge roller.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Taku Ishizawa, Shun Oya
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Publication number: 20190126627Abstract: The cartridge includes: a case; a liquid containing chamber that is provided inside the case; an atmosphere communication passage that is provided inside the case, and brings the liquid containing chamber into communication with the atmosphere outside the case; and a liquid supply unit that supplies liquid inside the liquid containing chamber to the liquid ejection device. An absorber chamber in which a liquid absorber is arranged and an air chamber in which the liquid absorber is not arranged are arranged side by side in a horizontal direction, inside the liquid containing chamber, at least a portion of a side face, of the liquid absorber, that is adjacent to the air chamber is in contact with air inside the air chamber, and a connection port that connects the atmosphere communication passage and the air chamber is provided in an upper portion of the air chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki FUKASAWA, Taku Ishizawa, Tadahiro Mizutani, Shun Oya, Ryoichi Tanaka