Patents by Inventor Taisuke MIZUNO

Taisuke MIZUNO 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: 11691420
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head, including: a nozzle member formed having nozzle rows extending in a first direction, the nozzle rows being arranged in a second direction; driving elements; a first channel member disposed at one side of the nozzle member in a third direction; a second channel member disposed at the one side of the first channel member in the third direction; and a third channel member disposed at the one side of the second channel member in the third direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shotaro Kanzaki, Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11679586
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a plurality of first individual channels; a first supply manifold; a first return manifold; a plurality of second individual channels; a second supply manifold; a second return manifold; and a first bypass channel communicating the first supply manifold and the second return manifold. The first bypass channel includes: a first supply connecting channel, a first return connecting channel, and a first connecting channel. Channel resistance in one of the first supply connecting channel and the first return connecting channel is greater than channel resistance in the first connecting channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shotaro Kanzaki, Toru Kakiuchi, Takaaki Yoshino, Taisuke Mizuno, Jiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11673391
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head, including: a first head unit; a second head unit shifted with respect to the first head unit in both of a first direction in which nozzles of the head units are arranged and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and disposed so as to overlap the first head unit in the second direction; and a first wiring member having flexibility and drawn from the second head unit in the second direction toward the first head unit, wherein the first wiring member includes a large-width portion on which a drive circuit is mounted and a small-width portion having a width in the first direction smaller than a width of the large-width portion in the first direction, and wherein the small-width portion passes through a space existing next to the first head unit in the first direction and extends in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11667118
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharging head including: a plurality of supply manifolds configured to receive a liquid to be discharged from a plurality of nozzles and provided side by side with each other; a supply integration channel arranged on a first side in a longitudinal direction of the supply manifolds; a first connecting channel connecting the supply integration channel and a first supply manifold of the supply manifolds; and a second connecting channel connecting the supply integration channel and a second supply manifold, of the supply manifolds, being adjacent to the first supply manifold in a short direction of the first supply manifold. An outlet of the first connecting channel is arranged on the first side in the longitudinal direction of the supply manifolds; and an outlet of the second connecting channel is arranged on a second side in the longitudinal direction of the supply manifolds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno, Shotaro Kanzaki
  • Publication number: 20230166505
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head is provided, which includes a nozzle plate which is formed with nozzles, and a channel member which is formed with pressure chambers and connecting channels for connecting the pressure chambers and the nozzles. The connecting channel includes a plurality of portions which have mutually different channel cross-sectional areas. The plurality of portions includes a first portion which is adjacent to the pressure chamber, and a second portion which is adjacent to the first portion, the first portion being interposed between the pressure chamber and the second portion. The first portion has the smallest channel cross-sectional area of those of the plurality of portions. S1?0.3×S0 and S1?0.7×S2 are fulfilled (S0: channel cross-sectional are of the pressure chamber, S1: channel cross-sectional area of the first portion, S2: channel cross-sectional area of the second portion).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Taisuke MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20230166504
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head is provided, including a channel unit and a piezoelectric actuator stacked on the channel unit. The channel includes a channel including a nozzle and a pressure chamber. The piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric element which includes a piezoelectric layer; a constant electric potential electrode arranged between the piezoelectric layer and the channel unit; and a driving electrode arranged on a surface of the piezoelectric layer opposite to the constant electric potential electrode. A relational expression of 0.5107? + 18.476 < ? < 0.7326? + 54.409 is fulfilled assuming that ? represents a length in a transverse direction orthogonal to both of one direction and a stacking direction of the pressure chamber and ? represents a length in the transverse direction of the driving electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Taisuke MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 11660868
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus jetting a liquid onto a recording medium conveyed in a first direction includes head units arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. One head unit includes nozzle chips; one nozzle chip has a nozzle arrangement area wherein nozzles are aligned in a third direction crossing the first and second directions. The nozzle chip is arranged to be shifted relative to another nozzle chip in a direction crossing the first and second directions and different from the third direction. The head unit has a first overlapping portion wherein nozzle arrangement areas of first and second nozzle chips included in the nozzle chips partially overlap with each other in the first direction. The liquid jetting apparatus has a second overlapping portion wherein nozzle arrangement areas of third and fourth nozzle chips included in the head units partially overlap with each other in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taisuke Mizuno, Hideki Hayashi, Keita Sugiura
  • Patent number: 11660864
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head is provided with: individual channels; a first common channel; and a second common channel. The individual channels include: first individual channels which have first pressure chambers and which are aligned in a second direction to form a first individual channel array, and second individual channels which have second pressure chambers and which are aligned in the second direction to form a second individual channel array; the first individual channel array and the second individual channel array are arranged in a third direction. The first common channel communicates with both of the first individual channels and the second individual channels; and the first pressure chambers and the second pressure chambers do not overlap with the second common channel in a first direction, and do not overlap with each other in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Shotaro Kanzaki, Jiro Yamamoto, Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20230158794
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a channel member defining a nozzle and a pressure chamber in communication with the nozzle; an actuator which applies pressure to liquid in the pressure chamber, and a controller which applies a drive signal to the actuator. The drive signal includes a rectangular main pulse and a rectangular cancel pulse applied after the main pulse within one discharge period. The actuator is driven by the drive signal in a pull-and-push method to discharge the liquid from the nozzle. If f (kHz) refers to a drive frequency of the drive signal, if Tw (?sec) refers to a time length from a falling edge of the main pulse to a rising edge of the cancel pulse, and if Tc (?sec) refers to a pulse width of the cancel pulse, then the following expression holds: 50?f??11.3×(Tw+Tc)+120.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Takaaki YOSHINO, Taisuke MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 11648574
    Abstract: Provided is a spray chamber including a sample introduction port portion into which a gas flow containing sample droplets that have been atomized by a nebulizer is introduced, a discharge port portion that discharges at least a part of the gas flow introduced into the sample introduction port portion to the outside, and a flow passage tube portion that has the sample introduction port portion on one end portion thereof and the discharge port portion on the other end portion thereof and serves as a flow passage for the introduced gas flow, wherein the flow passage tube portion includes a first tube portion having the discharge port portion on one end portion thereof and a second tube portion having the sample introduction port portion on one end portion thereof, the spray chamber includes a double tube portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SUMCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taisuke Mizuno, Kazumi Inagaki, Shin-ichiro Fujii
  • Patent number: 11618259
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a liquid jetting head having: a plurality of kinds of individual channels, a jetting surface formed with a plurality of kinds of nozzles from which a plurality of kinds of liquids are jetted, respectively, a plurality of kinds of inflow channels, a plurality of kinds of outflow channels; valves provided at least on the plurality of kinds of inflow channels; a wiper configured to be movable relative to the liquid jetting head in a direction along the jetting surface; a first motor configured to move the liquid jetting head and the wiper relative to each other; and a controller. The controller executes a wiping by driving the first motor in a state that the valves are closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventor: Taisuke Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11613120
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: a first pressure chamber group formed by pressure chambers arranged in a first direction; a second pressure chamber group formed by pressure chambers arranged in the first direction, and disposed side by side with the first pressure chamber group in a second direction; a first common channel extending in the first direction and communicating with the pressure chambers composing the first pressure chamber group; a second common channel extending in the first direction and communicating with the pressure chambers composing the second pressure chamber group; a first dummy pressure chamber disposed on one side in the first direction relative to the first pressure chamber group; and a second dummy pressure chamber disposed on the one side in the first direction relative to the second pressure chamber group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Taisuke Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11579092
    Abstract: The sample introduction device includes a nebulizer that atomizes a sample liquid; a spray chamber that has one end into which a spray port part of the nebulizer is inserted and the other end from which at least a part of liquid droplets of the sample liquid sprayed from the spray port part is discharged to an outside; and a heating electromagnetic wave radiation unit that is arranged outside the spray chamber, wherein the heating electromagnetic wave radiation unit performs radiation of heating electromagnetic waves from the outside of the spray chamber toward at least a part of the spray chamber other than a part into which the spray port part of the nebulizer is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: SUMCO CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Taisuke Mizuno, Kazumi Inagaki, Shinichiro Fujii, Shinichi Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20220379610
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a flow passage substrate which is formed with individual flow passages, the individual flow passages including nozzles and pressure chambers communicated with the nozzles respectively, the pressure chambers being open on a surface of the flow passage substrate; a sealing member which is adhered to the surface via an adhesive and which seals the pressure chambers; and an actuator substrate which has a piezoelectric layer adhered to a surface of the sealing member on a side opposite to the flow passage substrate via an adhesive and individual electrodes formed on a side opposite to the sealing member with respect to the piezoelectric layer. The sealing member is composed of a material different from a material of the piezoelectric layer; and the surface has an adhesion area to which the sealing member is adhered and a non-adhesion area to which the sealing member is not adhered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: TAKAAKI YOSHINO, TAISUKE MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 11491786
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes an individual channel which includes: a nozzle; a pressure chamber; a descender of which one end in the first direction is nearer to the nozzle than the other end; and a second connecting channel connecting a second common channel and the one end of the descender. A central axis of the nozzle is positioned between the second common channel and a central axis of the descender in the second direction. The descender includes a first portion including the one end and a second portion positioned between the pressure chamber and the first portion in the first direction. In an end, of the descender, opposite to the second connecting channel in the second direction, an inner wall defining the one end of the first portion protrudes toward the second connecting channel in the second direction beyond an inner wall defining the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jiro Yamamoto, Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno, Shotaro Kanzaki, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11479050
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharging head including: supply manifolds; a supply integration channel which extends linearly along an arrangement direction crossing a longitudinal direction of the supply manifolds; return manifolds; and a return integration channel which extends linearly along the arrangement direction. The supply integration channel has a supply port arranged apart from the supply manifolds, being configured to supply liquid to the supply integration channel via the supply port, and at least a part of the supply port being overlapped, in a plan view, with a pressure chamber-arranging area in which pressure chambers communicating with nozzles are arranged. The return integration channel has a return port arranged apart from the return manifolds, being configured to drain the liquid from the return integration channel via the return port, and at least a part of the return port being overlapped, in the plan view, with the pressure chamber-arranging area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno, Shotaro Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 11479040
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes: individual channels; a first common channel; and a second common channel Each of the plurality of individual channels includes: a pressure chamber, a nozzle, a connecting channel, a first communicating channel, and two second communicating channels. A first vector of the first communicating channel has an orientation from one end to the other end of the first communicating channel. Respective second vectors of the two second communicating channels have orientations, each of the orientations being from one end to the other end of one of the two second communicating channels along an extending direction of the two second communicating channels. The first communicating channel is arranged, with respect to the nozzle, on one side in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the two second communicating channels are arranged, with respect to the nozzle, on the other side in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Shotaro Kanzaki, Jiro Yamamoto, Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11453216
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a nozzle surface having a plurality of nozzles, a channel structure stacked on the nozzle surface in a stacking direction, and a supply channel structure formed of a material having a lower thermal conductivity than a material of the channel structure. The channel structure has a liquid ejection channel communicating with the nozzles. The supply channel structure has a supply channel communicating with the liquid ejection channel. The supply channel structure has a covering portion covering at least a portion of an end surface on a side of the channel structure in a width direction orthogonal to the stacking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Taisuke Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11440320
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a first plate formed with an individual channel which includes a pressure chamber; a second plate; a vibration plate; and a piezoelectric element. The second plate has a pair of communicating channels arranged to sandwich an accommodating space, which accommodates the piezoelectric element, therebetween. A spacing distance between mutually close parts in a pair of inner circumferential surfaces of the pair of communicating channels, respectively, is greater on a side of one ends in the stacking direction of the pair of communicating channels than on a side of the other ends in the stacking direction of the pair of communicating channels, the one ends being close to the individual channel in the stacking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Taisuke Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11433672
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head, includes an individual channel, and first and second common channels. The individual channel includes: a nozzle; a pressure chamber; a connection channel; a first communication channel; and a second communication channel. A first vector is defined such that a starting point and ending point are located on the connection channel, and a second vector is defined such that a starting point and an ending point are located on the second communication channel. A first angle formed by a projection vector of the first vector onto the first plane and a projection vector of the second vector onto the first plane is less than 90°. A second angle formed by a projection vector of the first vector onto the second plane and the second vector is less than 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shotaro Kanzaki, Jiro Yamamoto, Taisuke Mizuno, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama