Patents by Inventor Taiki HANAGAMI

Taiki HANAGAMI 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).

  • Patent number: 12109825
    Abstract: A head unit includes: a circuit substrate, a casing including a cover for defining an accommodation space that accommodates the circuit substrate, and a flow passage member of which a part is disposed in the casing, including a flow passage coupling portion. The cover has an intake port for sucking air from an outside of the cover to the accommodation space and an exhaust port for exhausting the air passing through the accommodation space, and the flow passage coupling portion is disposed outside the casing and disposed closer to the intake port than to the exhaust port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruki Kobayashi, Taiki Hanagami
  • Publication number: 20240001674
    Abstract: A configuration includes a liquid ejecting head that ejects a liquid in an ejecting direction along a first axis, a medium supporting member that has a supporting surface supporting a medium and an opening portion facing a nozzle, a cap that is disposed in the opening portion when viewed in the ejecting direction, a coupling member that couples the medium supporting member to the cap and has a base member and a first coupling member coupling the base member to the medium supporting member and configured to extend/contract in a direction along the first axis, and a moving mechanism that causes relative movement of the coupling member with respect to the liquid ejecting head along the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Taiki HANAGAMI, Junichiro MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230219340
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head unit includes a first connector configured to be coupled to an external wiring member. The liquid ejecting head unit includes a wiring board having the first connector, a housing for the liquid ejecting head unit, the housing having an opening through which the first connector is exposed outside and having a housing space accommodating the wiring board, and a flexible member in the housing space. The flexible member separates the housing space into a first space that has at least a portion of the first connector and the opening and a second space that is larger than the first space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Ryota KINOSHITA, Taiki HANAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20230191785
    Abstract: A head unit includes: heads including a first-head and a second-head including respective flow channels, and a common flow channel member being stacked on the heads and including common flow channels communicating with the heads in common; flexible members including a first-flexible-member disposed between the first-head and the common flow channel member, and a second-flexible-member disposed between the second-head and the common flow channel member; and fixation members for fixing the common flow channel member, the first and second-heads, and the first and second-flexible-members together. The first-flexible-member establishes liquid-tight communication between a first-flow-channel and a first-common-flow-channel by being compressed in a stacking direction. The second-flexible-member establishes liquid-tight communication between a second-flow-channel and the first-common-flow channel by being compressed in the stacking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Taiki HANAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20230134366
    Abstract: A head unit includes: a circuit substrate, a casing including a cover for defining an accommodation space that accommodates the circuit substrate, and a flow passage member of which a part is disposed in the casing, including a flow passage coupling portion. The cover has an intake port for sucking air from an outside of the cover to the accommodation space and an exhaust port for exhausting the air passing through the accommodation space, and the flow passage coupling portion is disposed outside the casing and disposed closer to the intake port than to the exhaust port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Haruki KOBAYASHI, Taiki HANAGAMI
  • Patent number: 11590766
    Abstract: A battery mount portion includes a recessed portion into which a portion of a battery enters, a coupling terminal provided inside the recessed portion and configured to be electrically coupled to the battery, and a covering portion that covers the coupling terminal and that constitutes a portion of the housing. In a state in which the battery is unmounted, a cover that covers an area in the battery mount portion other than the covering portion is detachably attachable, and a portion where the cover and the housing overlap each other in a depth direction of the recessed portion is located outside a path of a liquid heading towards the coupling terminal after entering the recessed portion through a portion where the cover and the covering portion oppose each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Hanagami, Makoto Wada, Kazuya Yoshikaie, Hiroyuki Tajima
  • Patent number: 11363156
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a reader configured to read an image of a document to be transported; a cleaning section configured to clean a reading surface of the reader, a drive source for performing a cleaning operation of the reading surface by the cleaning section; and a control unit configured to control the drive source, wherein when the control unit detects dirt on the reading surface based on data received from the reader, the control unit controls the drive source to perform the cleaning operation by the cleaning section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Hanagami, Shinsuke Kogi, Junichiro Higuma, Keisuke Miyauchi
  • Publication number: 20210306503
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a reader configured to read an image of a document to be transported; a cleaning section configured to clean a reading surface of the reader, a drive source for performing a cleaning operation of the reading surface by the cleaning section; and a control unit configured to control the drive source, wherein when the control unit detects dirt on the reading surface based on data received from the reader, the control unit controls the drive source to perform the cleaning operation by the cleaning section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Taiki HANAGAMI, Shinsuke KOGI, Junichiro HIGUMA, Keisuke MIYAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200269620
    Abstract: A battery mount portion includes a recessed portion into which a portion of a battery enters, a coupling terminal provided inside the recessed portion and configured to be electrically coupled to the battery, and a covering portion that covers the coupling terminal and that constitutes a portion of the housing. In a state in which the battery is unmounted, a cover that covers an area in the battery mount portion other than the covering portion is detachably attachable, and a portion where the cover and the housing overlap each other in a depth direction of the recessed portion is located outside a path of a liquid heading towards the coupling terminal after entering the recessed portion through a portion where the cover and the covering portion oppose each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Taiki HANAGAMI, Makoto WADA, Kazuya YOSHIKAIE, Hiroyuki TAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10507655
    Abstract: There are provided a conductive base; a plurality of head main bodies which are held by the base and each have a switching element and a pressure generating element for discharging a liquid in a pressure generating chamber; a plurality of covers which are separated from the base, at least one of the pressure generating element and the switching element being sandwiched between the base and each of the covers; and a plurality of conduction portions which each conduct the base and the cover to each other at a plurality of locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Okui, Taiki Hanagami
  • Patent number: 10458552
    Abstract: A valve includes a valve seat having a hole configured as a flow path, a valve body configured to open/close the flow path due to relative movement with respect to the valve seat, an opening member having a first surface fixed to one of the valve seat and the valve body, a second surface configured to separate away and abut the other one of the valve seat and the valve body, a third surface which intersects the first and second surfaces, and an opening penetrating the first and second surfaces, a fixing member that fixes the first surface to the one of the valve seat and the valve body, and an inclined portion, which makes an interval between the one of the valve seat and the valve body and the first surface long in a direction from the opening to the third surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yukimasa Ishida, Kenji Ochiai, Taiki Hanagami, Daisuke Noguchi, Hironori Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 10449766
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a flow path member which includes a flow path between first and second members which are stacked together includes a first step of welding the first and second members to each other at a first welding portion in a state in which a pressure is applied in a stacking direction to the first and second members which are stacked to be in contact with each other, and a second step of welding the first and second members to each other in a state in which a greater pressure is applied in the stacking direction to the first and second members at a second welding portion of a different position from the first welding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Hanagami, Fujio Akahane
  • Patent number: 10328689
    Abstract: A flow path structure which forms a flow path of liquid, includes: a light absorbing member (first substrate) having absorbing properties with respect to laser light; a light transmitting member (second substrate) which is joined to the light absorbing member and has transmitting properties with respect to the laser light; a first flow path (flow path) which is surrounded by a welding interface between the light absorbing member and the light transmitting member; and a second flow path which is formed in a flow path pipe (flow path pipe) which protrudes from a front surface opposite of the welding interface in the light transmitting member, and communicates with the first flow path, in which the flow path pipe is included in a region of the first flow path in a plan view from a direction orthogonal to the welding interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Hanagami, Isamu Togashi, Ryota Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 10286658
    Abstract: A flow path member includes a film, a main body that includes a recess portion that is closed by the film, a first opening and a second opening that are provided in the recess portion and used to supply and emit a liquid, and a wall which is provided in the recess portion. The film and the wall are configured to switch between contact and non-contact between the film and the main body according as the film displaces. In a first direction, the wall is provided around the first opening, the wall has a first slit in one of two portions of the wall across the first opening from each other and a second slit in the other one of the two portions, and the second opening is outside the wall. An opening area of the first slit is larger than an opening area of the second slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Taiki Hanagami, Isamu Togashi
  • Patent number: 10173429
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a head body which has a nozzle opening for ejecting a liquid and a first wiping surface to be wiped by a wiper; and a target wiping member which has a second wiping surface to be wiped by the wiper, wherein the head body and the target wiping member are lined up via a gap so as to face in the same direction as the first wiping surface and the second wiping surface, and an elastic member is elastic deformed and held in the gap to block the gap on a side of the first and second wiping surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahisa Nawano, Taiki Hanagami, Isamu Togashi
  • Publication number: 20180297362
    Abstract: There are provided a conductive base; a plurality of head main bodies which are held by the base and each have a switching element and a pressure generating element for discharging a liquid in a pressure generating chamber; a plurality of covers which are separated from the base, at least one of the pressure generating element and the switching element being sandwiched between the base and each of the covers; and a plurality of conduction portions which each conduct the base and the cover to each other at a plurality of locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroaki OKUI, Taiki HANAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20180257372
    Abstract: A flow path member includes a film, a main body that includes a recess portion that is closed by the film, a first opening and a second opening that are provided in the recess portion and used to supply and emit a liquid, and a wall which is provided in the recess portion. The film and the wall are configured to switch between contact and non-contact between the film and the main body according as the film displaces. In a first direction, the wall is provided around the first opening, the wall has a first slit in one of two portions of the wall across the first opening from each other and a second slit in the other one of the two portions, and the second opening is outside the wall. An opening area of the first slit is larger than an opening area of the second slit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Taiki HANAGAMI, Isamu TOGASHI
  • Publication number: 20180079213
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a flow path member which includes a flow path between first and second members which are stacked together includes a first step of welding the first and second members to each other at a first welding portion in a state in which a pressure is applied in a stacking direction to the first and second members which are stacked to be in contact with each other, and a second step of welding the first and second members to each other in a state in which a greater pressure is applied in the stacking direction to the first and second members at a second welding portion of a different position from the first welding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Taiki HANAGAMI, Fujio AKAHANE
  • Publication number: 20180058588
    Abstract: A valve includes a valve seat having a hole configured as a flow path, a valve body configured to open/close the flow path due to relative movement with respect to the valve seat, an opening member having a first surface fixed to one of the valve seat and the valve body, a second surface configured to separate away and abut the other one of the valve seat and the valve body, a third surface which intersects the first and second surfaces, and an opening penetrating the first and second surfaces, a fixing member that fixes the first surface to the one of the valve seat and the valve body, and an inclined portion, which makes an interval between the one of the valve seat and the valve body and the first surface long in a direction from the opening to the third surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Yukimasa ISHIDA, Kenji OCHIAI, Taiki HANAGAMI, Daisuke NOGUCHI, Hironori MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20180009220
    Abstract: A flow path structure which forms a flow path of liquid, includes: a light absorbing member (first substrate) having absorbing properties with respect to laser light; a light transmitting member (second substrate) which is joined to the light absorbing member and has transmitting properties with respect to the laser light; a first flow path (flow path) which is surrounded by a welding interface between the light absorbing member and the light transmitting member; and a second flow path which is formed in a flow path pipe (flow path pipe) which protrudes from a front surface opposite of the welding interface in the light transmitting member, and communicates with the first flow path, in which the flow path pipe is included in a region of the first flow path in a plan view from a direction orthogonal to the welding interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Taiki HANAGAMI, Isamu TOGASHI, Ryota KINOSHITA