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).
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Publication number: 20210402773Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharging head including: a pressure chamber configured to apply a pressure to a liquid so as to discharge the liquid from a nozzle; a descender arranged to overlap, in a plan view, with the nozzle and communicating the pressure chamber and the nozzle with each other; at least one return throttle channel connected to the descender; and a return manifold which communicates with the at least one return throttle channel and which is configured to receive the liquid not having been discharged from the nozzle. A cross section of the descender orthogonal to a depth direction of the descender is a non-circular shape having a major axis and a minor axis. The at least one return throttle channel is connected to at least one of a first end side of the minor axis and a second end side of the minor axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Keita Sugiura, Jiro Yamamoto, Shotaro Kanzaki, Taisuke Mizuno, Hiroshi Katayama
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Publication number: 20210402769Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head, including: a first channel member including individual channel rows and first common channels that correspond to the respective individual channel rows; a second channel member including a second common channel provided in common to the first common channels; and a third channel member including at least parts of connection channels connected to the second common channel. One of the connection channels is connected to an end in a longitudinal direction of the second common channel. The liquid discharge head further comprises a communication opening disposed at any other part of the second common channel except the end in the longitudinal direction, the second common channel communicating with the outside through the communication opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Shotaro Kanzaki, Taisuke Mizuno, Keita Sugiura
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Publication number: 20210402766Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno, Shotaro Kanzaki
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Publication number: 20210402775Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Shotaro Kanzaki, Jiro Yamamoto, Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno
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Publication number: 20210402768Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Shotaro Kanzaki, Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno
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Publication number: 20210370672Abstract: A liquid droplet discharging head includes a channel unit having nozzles and pressure chambers in respective communication with the nozzles, and a piezoelectric element having a vibration plate arranged on an upper surface of the channel unit to cover the pressure chambers and a piezoelectric layer arranged on an upper surface of the vibration plate. The pressure chambers have a length L longer than its width, and the channel unit has the nozzles and the pressure chambers aligned at a density of 300 dpi or higher in a conveyance direction. The length L of the pressure chambers and the diameter D of nozzle holes of the nozzles satisfy this relation or condition: 35?L/D?50.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Toru Kakiuchi, Taisuke Mizuno
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Publication number: 20210333212Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicants: SUMCO CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Taisuke Mizuno, Kazumi Inagaki, Shinichiro Fujii, Shinichi Miyashita
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Patent number: 11155092Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Taisuke Mizuno, Hideki Hayashi, Keita Sugiura
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Patent number: 11141982Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes pressure chambers arranged in a first direction, a common channel, and a communicating portion communicating with the common channel and each of the pressure chambers. The common channel includes a supply portion, a return portion, and a connection portion connecting them in a second direction crossing the first direction. The liquid ejection head has a first vector directed from the supply portion via the connection portion toward the return portion and has a component in the second direction. The second vector is directed from the common channel via the communicating portion toward each of the pressure chambers and has a component in the second direction. The component in the second direction of the first vector and the component in the second direction of the second vector point in the same direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Taisuke Mizuno
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Patent number: 11123985Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a plurality of first individual channels arranged in a first direction, a first common channel extending in the first direction and communicating with the first individual channels, and a second common channel located below the first common channel and extending in the first direction. The second common channel communicates with the first individual channels. Each of the first individual channels includes one of first nozzles, and one of first pressure chambers that communicate with the respective first nozzles and are located above the first nozzles. The first common channel and the second common channel overlap, in the vertical direction, with each other at a position above the first pressure chambers. Each of the first common channel and the second common channel at least partially overlaps, in the vertical direction, with the first pressure chambers.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Taisuke Mizuno, Hideki Hayashi
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Patent number: 11117384Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes: individual channels each including a nozzle; an inflow channel communicated with the individual channels; an outflow channel communicated with the individual channels; an inflow-side filter provided on the inflow channel and dividing the inflow channel into a lower inflow area and an upper inflow area; an outflow-side filter provided on the outflow channel and dividing the outflow channel into a lower outflow area and an upper outflow area; an inflow port which is provided on the upper inflow area and through which the liquid is supplied to the inflow channel from outside thereof; an outflow port which is provided on the upper outflow area and through which the liquid is discharged from the outflow channel to outside thereof; and a bypass channel connecting the upper inflow area and the upper outflow area.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Taisuke Mizuno
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Patent number: 11117373Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes pressure chambers arranged in a first direction, supply communicating portions, a supply channel, return communicating portions and a return channel. The supply channel includes a first and a second supply portion. The return channel includes a first and a second return portion. The second return portion extends from the first return portion toward the pressure chambers in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and is located to a side of the supply channel opposite to the pressure chambers in a third direction orthogonal to both the first and the second direction. The second supply portion extends from an end portion of the first supply portion in the third direction toward the pressure chambers in the second direction. The supply communicating portions are located adjacent to the second supply portion in the third direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Taisuke Mizuno
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Patent number: 11110707Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes first individual channels arranged in a first direction, a first common channel extending in the first direction and communicating with the first individual channels, and a second common channel located below the first common channel and extending in the first direction. The second common channel communicates with the first individual channels. Each of the first individual channels includes one of first nozzles, and one of first pressure chambers that communicate with the respective first nozzles and are located above the first nozzles. The first common channel and the second common channel overlap, in a vertical direction, with each other at a position above the first pressure chambers. The first common channel overlaps, in the vertical direction, with the first pressure chambers. The second common channel does not overlap, in the vertical direction, with the first pressure chambers.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Taisuke Mizuno
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Publication number: 20210245507Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Shotaro Kanzaki, Jiro Yamamoto, Taisuke Mizuno, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
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Patent number: 11084285Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: a pressure chamber; a nozzle connected to the pressure chamber and overlapping in a first direction with the pressure chamber; a first throttle channel connected to an end at a first side in a second direction, which is orthogonal to the first direction, of the pressure chamber and extending in the second direction; and a second throttle channel connected to an end at a second side in the second direction of the pressure chamber and extending in the second direction. In each of the first throttle channel and the second throttle channel, a length in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction is longer than a length in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Taisuke Mizuno
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Patent number: 11084284Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes an array of first nozzle holes, an array of second nozzle holes, first pressure chambers to which an ejection pressure is applied for liquid ejection from the first nozzle holes, second pressure chambers to which an ejection pressure is applied for liquid ejection from the second nozzle holes, and a manifold. The manifold includes a first channel communicating with the first pressure chambers, a first opening located at the first channel and through which liquid enters from an exterior, a second channel communicating with the second pressure chambers, a second opening located at the second channel and through which liquid exits to the exterior, a first communication passage communicating one end of the first channel with one end of the second channel, and a second communication passage communicating the other end of the first channel with the other end of the second channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Taisuke Mizuno
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Publication number: 20210237450Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Taisuke MIZUNO
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Patent number: 11077662Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a plurality of pressure chambers aligned in a first direction so as to form first and second pressure chamber groups arranged side by side in a second direction crossing the first direction; a first common channel communicating with pressure chambers constructing the first pressure chamber group; a second common channel communicating with pressure chambers constructing the second pressure chamber group; a first connecting channel connecting one end in the first direction of the first common channel and one end in the first direction of the second common channel; and a second connecting channel connecting the other end in the first direction of the first common channel and the other end in the first direction of the second common channel. Each of the first and second connecting channels overlaps, in a third direction, with any one of the plurality of pressure chambers.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Taisuke Mizuno
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Patent number: 11077660Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a plurality of pressure chambers including pressure chambers aligned in a first direction orthogonal to a vertical direction so as to form a first pressure chamber group, and pressure chambers aligned in the first direction so as to form a second pressure chamber group arranged side to side relative to the first pressure chamber group in a second direction; a return channel extending in the first direction; and return connecting channels each connecting the return channel and one of the plurality of pressure chambers to each other, wherein a height of an upper surface of each of the return connecting channels is not less than a height of an upper surface of one of the plurality of pressure chambers which is connected to the return channel by each of the return connecting channels.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Taisuke Mizuno
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Patent number: 11065870Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a plurality of sets of a first row, a second row, and a flow path in communication with the first row and the second row. Each of the plurality of sets is provided for each respective one of a plurality of kinds of liquids different from one another. The first row includes a plurality of first pressure chambers. The second row includes a plurality of second pressure chambers. The second row is positioned beside the first row. The flow path is in communication with the plurality of first pressure chambers and the plurality of second pressure chambers. The flow path includes a plurality of first communication passages, a plurality of second communication passages, a plurality of third communication passages, a plurality of fourth communication passages, a first manifold, a second manifold, and a common manifold.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Taisuke Mizuno