Patents by Inventor Taishi Sasaki

Taishi Sasaki 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: 20240308249
    Abstract: A tape printing apparatus includes a feeding mechanism that feeds, a label tape in which a plurality of labels are disposed at equal intervals on a mount tape and a detection hole is provided at a position corresponding to each of the labels, a printing head that performs printing on the labels of the label tape, a sensor that detects the detection holes, a measurement feeding pitch, which is a distance between the detection hole of a first label and the detection hole of a second label, is measured based on a detection result of the sensor, and a feeding amount of the label tape after the detection hole of the second label is detected is corrected based on the measured measurement feeding pitch and a standard feeding pitch that is a distance between the detection holes in a specification of the label tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji MOTAI, Taishi Sasaki, Keisuke Taruya
  • Publication number: 20240265829
    Abstract: A printing medium includes: a transparent backing sheet; a plurality of label portions adhered to the backing sheet in a line in a length direction of the backing sheet; a plurality of adhering portions provided in a plurality of inter-label regions between the plurality of label portions and having a lower transparency than the backing sheet; and a plurality of second transparent regions provided in the plurality of inter-label regions in such a way as to be adjacent to the adhering portions in the length direction of the backing sheet, and formed by the backing sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taishi SASAKI, Tadashi Inaba, Masaaki Sone
  • Publication number: 20240258188
    Abstract: An object is to provide a technique capable of suppressing a crack that reaches a semiconductor element. A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a lead electrode terminal, a first sealing member, and an intervening member. The lead electrode terminal has an extending portion separated from an upper surface of the semiconductor element, and is bonded to the semiconductor element. The first sealing member seals the lead electrode terminal. The intervening member is provided between an end portion of the extending portion in an extending direction and the semiconductor element. The intervening member has an interface with the first sealing member under the end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shoji SAITO, Seiichiro INOKUCHI, Taishi SASAKI, Hiroya SANNAI
  • Patent number: 12043040
    Abstract: A cartridge, that can reduce the diameter of a winding core, to be installed in a tape printing device includes: a cartridge case that constitutes an outer shell of the cartridge and accommodates a printing tape, a tape core on which the printing tape is wound, an ink ribbon, and a winding core; a core concave part on the cartridge case and into which a core convex part is inserted from a back side in an installation direction when the cartridge is installed in a cartridge installation part; and a cartridge-side first engagement part and a cartridge-side second engagement part that engage a device-side first engagement part and a device-side second engagement part, respectively, when the core convex part is inserted into the core concave part to change a state of a torque switching mechanism from a second to a first state or from the first to the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taishi Sasaki, Shinsaku Kosuge, Akio Ishimoto
  • Publication number: 20240190153
    Abstract: A cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer, the cartridge includes a ribbon roll around which an ink ribbon is wound, and a cartridge case configured to accommodate a tape roll around which a tape is wound and that accommodates the ribbon roll, in which the cartridge case includes a third case portion, a first case portion that constitutes a tape roll accommodating portion accommodating the tape roll between the first case portion and the third case portion, and a second case portion that is separated from the first case portion and accommodates the ribbon roll between the second case portion and the third case portion, and the first case portion is configured to open and close the tape roll accommodating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke TARUYA, Taishi SASAKI, Akio ISHIMOTO, Hirosuke YASUKI
  • Patent number: 12009332
    Abstract: A semiconductor chip (3) is bonded to an upper surface of an electrode substrate (1) via a first solder (2). A lead frame (5) is bonded to an upper surface of the semiconductor chip (3) via a second solder (4). An intermediate plate (6) is provided in the first solder (2) between the electrode substrate (1) and the semiconductor chip (3). A yield strength of the intermediate plate (6) is higher than yield strengths of the electrode substrate (1) and the first solder (2) within the whole operating temperature range of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Nakata, Taishi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11958287
    Abstract: A cartridge that makes it possible to simultaneously set a printing tape and a cartridge in a tape printing device. A cartridge to be installed in a tape printing device includes: a cartridge case; a cartridge-side tape introduction port that introduces a printing tape introduced from a device-side tape introduction port into the cartridge case and a cartridge-side tape ejection port that ejects the printing tape to an outside of the cartridge case toward a device-side tape ejection port in a state in which the cartridge is installed in a cartridge installation part; and a tape retention part that retains the printing tape that is introduced in advance into a tape path between the cartridge-side tape introduction port and the cartridge-side tape ejection port before the cartridge is installed in the cartridge installation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Ishimoto, Taishi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11945244
    Abstract: A cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer, the cartridge includes a ribbon roll around which an ink ribbon is wound, and a cartridge case configured to accommodate a tape roll around which a tape is wound and that accommodates the ribbon roll, in which the cartridge case includes a third case portion, a first case portion that constitutes a tape roll accommodating portion accommodating the tape roll between the first case portion and the third case portion, and a second case portion that is separated from the first case portion and accommodates the ribbon roll between the second case portion and the third case portion, and the first case portion is configured to open and close the tape roll accommodating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Taruya, Taishi Sasaki, Akio Ishimoto, Hirosuke Yasuki
  • Patent number: 11912049
    Abstract: A cartridge is installed in a tape printing device including a cartridge installation part, a printing head that is provided in the cartridge installation part and performs printing on a printing tape, and a device case, the device case having a device-side tape introduction port that introduces the printing tape from an outside to an inside of the device case and a device-side tape ejection port that ejects the printing tape to the outside of the device case. The cartridge includes a tape path through which the printing tape introduced from the device-side tape introduction port is fed toward the device-side tape ejection port in a state in which the cartridge is installed in the cartridge installation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Ishimoto, Taishi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240059081
    Abstract: A cartridge to be installed in a tape printing device includes: a cartridge case having a cartridge-side tape ejection port; a tape path that feeds a printing tape toward the cartridge-side tape ejection port; a platen roller that applies a feeding force to the printing tape; and an electrode part. When seen from a front side in an installation direction of the cartridge, a feeding angle that is an angle formed by a feeding direction of the printing tape at a portion at which the feeding force is applied to the printing tape by the platen roller when the printing tape is fed with respect to a direction in which the electrode part receives a force from a contact terminal part is less than 45°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio ISHIMOTO, Taishi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11872808
    Abstract: A cartridge reduces a movement amount of a center of gravity of a cartridge accompanied by the progress of the winding of an ink ribbon. The cartridge to be installed in a tape printing device includes a platen roller, a paying-out core on which an ink ribbon is wound, and a winding core that winds up the ink ribbon paid out from the paying-out core. When seen from a rotational axis direction parallel to a rotational axis of the paying-out core and a rotational axis of the winding core, the paying-out core and the winding core are arranged to at least partially overlap an imaginary line that passes through a center of the platen roller and extends in a longitudinal direction of the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Ishimoto, Taishi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11840071
    Abstract: A cartridge to be installed in a tape printing device includes: a cartridge case having a cartridge-side tape ejection port; a tape path that feeds a printing tape toward the cartridge-side tape ejection port; a platen roller that applies a feeding force to the printing tape; and an electrode part. When seen from a front side in an installation direction of the cartridge, a feeding angle that is an angle formed by a feeding direction of the printing tape at a portion at which the feeding force is applied to the printing tape by the platen roller when the printing tape is fed with respect to a direction in which the electrode part receives a force from a contact terminal part is less than 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Ishimoto, Taishi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20230352354
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the first disclosure includes a base plate that has an upper surface and a back surface on a side opposite the upper surface and at the back surface of which an annular groove is formed, a substrate provided on the upper surface of the base plate and a semiconductor chip provided on an upper surface of the substrate, wherein the base plate has a convex warping part that warps in a convex shape toward the upper surface side, and a part of the groove, which is formed at the convex warping part is deeper at a position farther away from a maximum warping part having a largest warp in the convex warping part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDO, Taishi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230302837
    Abstract: There is provided a tape cartridge, in which the cartridge case is provided with an outer protrusion portion received by an outer recess portion, the outer protrusion portion blocks insertion of a third core projection into a core hole of a tape core B around which a tape B, which is different in type from the tape A, is wound and which has a shape different from that of the tape core A, by contact with the tape core B when the tape roll A is mistakenly replaced with a tape roll B included in a tape cartridge B, which is configured to be mounted on a tape printing apparatus, and including the tape B and the tape core B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke TARUYA, Taishi SASAKI, Akio ISHIMOTO, Hirosuke YASUKI
  • Publication number: 20230294417
    Abstract: There is provided a tape cartridge including: a tape roll including a tape and a tape core which is provided with a core hole and around which the tape is wound; and a cartridge case accommodating the tape roll, and including a first case portion having a first base wall portion and a first core projection protruding from the first base wall portion in a first direction, and a third case portion having a third base wall portion and a third core projection protruding from the third base wall portion in a third direction opposite to the first direction and inserted into the core hole, in which the tape core is provided with an insertion receiving section which is positioned on a radially outer side of the tape core with respect to the core hole and into which the first core projection is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke TARUYA, Taishi SASAKI, Akio ISHIMOTO, Hirosuke YASUKI
  • Publication number: 20230286309
    Abstract: A cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer, the cartridge includes a ribbon roll around which an ink ribbon is wound, and a cartridge case configured to accommodate a tape roll around which a tape is wound and that accommodates the ribbon roll, in which the cartridge case includes a third case portion, a first case portion that constitutes a tape roll accommodating portion accommodating the tape roll between the first case portion and the third case portion, and a second case portion that is separated from the first case portion and accommodates the ribbon roll between the second case portion and the third case portion, and the first case portion is configured to open and close the tape roll accommodating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke TARUYA, Taishi SASAKI, Akio ISHIMOTO, Hirosuke YASUKI
  • Publication number: 20230286301
    Abstract: A cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer, the cartridge including a cartridge case in which the cartridge case includes a third case portion, a first case portion configured to accommodate a tape roll, and a second case portion and a fourth case portion that are separate from the first case portion, and a tape feed port through which a tape fed from the tape roll is fed out of the cartridge case, and a tape insertion port into which the tape pulled out from the tape roll is configured to be inserted in a first direction from one end portion in a width direction of the tape, so that a leading edge of the tape comes out of the cartridge case from the tape feed port, are provided between the second case portion and the fourth case portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke TARUYA, Taishi SASAKI, Akio ISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230286302
    Abstract: A cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer, the cartridge including a cartridge case, in which the cartridge case is provided with a tape feed port through which a tape fed from an accommodated tape roll is fed out of the cartridge case, a tape insertion port into which the tape is configured to be inserted in a first direction from one end portion in a width direction of the tape, and a tape guide that is positioned in the first direction with respect to the tape insertion port and guides feeding of the tape by the tape printer, the tape guide is provided with a protruding portion that comes into contact with the tape, and a tape guide chamfered portion is provided at an end portion of the protruding portion in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke TARUYA, Taishi SASAKI, Akio ISHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11697298
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tape supplying body including: a tape roll on which a tape to be fed to a tape printing apparatus is wound; a first member provided on a bottom surface of the tape roll; and a second member, wherein the second member has a running-onto prevention part that is provided at an upper surface of the tape roll and prevents the tape from running onto the tape roll, a tape receiving part that is provided at a bottom surface of the first member and receives the tape dropping from the first member, and a connection part that is provided on a radially outer side of the tape roll and connects the running-onto prevention part and the tape receiving part to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizuki Bizen, Taishi Sasaki, Akio Ishimoto, Yuki Hatayama
  • Patent number: 11685171
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tape supplying device that supplies a printing tape fed out from a tape roll having the printing tape wound therein to a tape printing device, the tape supplying device including: a roll supporting part that supports the tape roll in a posture in which a rotation axis of the tape roll crosses a mounting surface on which the tape printing device and the tape supplying device are mounted, wherein the tape supplying device supplies the printing tape to the tape printing device in a state in which the tape supplying device is not installed on the tape printing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Ishimoto, Taishi Sasaki