Patents by Inventor Takumi Nagashima

Takumi Nagashima 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: 20250135787
    Abstract: A cartridge detachably mounted to a printing device cartridge mounting portion includes a second fixing structure including a groove guiding a first fixing structure, and a locking portion provided to the groove. The cartridge is brought from a cartridge insertion state to a cartridge mounting portion predetermined position by being moved along a horizontal direction to a mounting state in which the cartridge is mounted by being rotated and moved in a rotation mounting direction around a fulcrum which is a far side of the cartridge mounting portion in the insertion direction by receiving a force having a component in a downward direction of a gravity direction. The second fixing structure locks the first fixing structure in the mounting state and releases with the first fixing structure by receiving the force having the component in the downward direction of the gravity direction applied to the cartridge in the mounting state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro Koizumi, Shun Oya
  • Publication number: 20250121604
    Abstract: A liquid container that supplies a liquid to a printer includes: a main portion that has openings and is configured to contain the liquid; and a cap member that is detachably attached to the main portion and closes the openings in an openable and closable manner, in which the cap member is made of a material that contains a recycled material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadahiro Mizutani, Tadashi Watanabe, Yuta Koike, Takumi Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20250121602
    Abstract: A cartridge mounted on a cartridge mounting section of a printing device having a liquid introduction section for receiving a liquid, the cartridge includes a liquid accommodating section configured to accommodate the liquid, a bottom wall on which a liquid supply section that is coupled to the liquid introduction section and supplies the liquid is disposed, and a rib formed at the bottom wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun OYA, Akihiko MARUYAMA, Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20250115051
    Abstract: Provided is an aspect as an ink cartridge to be mounted to a printing machine including an ink introduction portion. The ink cartridge includes a containing portion configured to contain ink, a bottom wall being one of wall surfaces forming the ink cartridge and forming an opening portion through which the ink introduction portion is inserted, a sealing portion formed as a part of the bottom wall and having a shape configured to close the opening portion, a separation portion provided at a boundary between the sealing portion and the bottom wall, the separation portion configured to make the sealing portion removable from the bottom wall, and an ink supply portion configured to supply the ink contained in the containing portion to the printing machine when the ink introduction portion is inserted through the opening portion exposed by removing the sealing portion from the bottom wall by the separation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORAITION
    Inventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro Koizumi, Tadahiro Mizutani, Shun Oya
  • Publication number: 20250108841
    Abstract: A vehicle entry control device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire first driver information that is information indicating a driving tendency of a driver of a vehicle approaching a predetermined control target area; determine whether the vehicle is a target vehicle of entry restriction to a control target area based on the first driver information; and notify the vehicle determined as the target vehicle of entry restriction of information for preventing entry into the control target area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Sawaka Seki, Takashi Nunomoto, Takumi Shiba, Seito Nagashima, Hitomi Ito, Masaru Yanai, Kosei Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20250108621
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a liquid containing body includes a liquid containing portion that is formed inside the liquid containing body and that contains a liquid, and a liquid supply portion, the liquid supply portion being a tubular member of which one end portion is in contact with the liquid containing portion, a accommodation portion and has a bottom wall that is a wall portion facing the printing apparatus when the cartridge is mounted in the printing apparatus, and the bottom wall includes an opening portion that faces another end portion of the liquid supply portion with a gap formed therebetween or that is in contact with the other end portion, the opening portion forming an opening into which the liquid introduction portion is inserted, an exposed surface continuous with the opening portion and exposed to an outside, and one or more projecting portions formed on the exposed surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Takumi NAGASHIMA, Shun OYA, Tadahiro MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 12240244
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a liquid container and an adaptor. The liquid container has a liquid storage containing a liquid to be supplied to a printing apparatus, a liquid supply section configured to supply the liquid contained in the liquid storage to a liquid introduction section, and an adaptor mounting section. The adaptor is mounted on the adaptor mounting section and has a terminal placement section in which a cartridge-side terminal electrically connected to an apparatus-side terminal is disposed and an insertion aperture through which the liquid introduction section passes. The adaptor mounting section is provided with a mounting mechanism for mounting the adaptor, which has a predetermined constant shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Hanba, Yoshihiro Koizumi, Shun Oya, Takumi Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20240424800
    Abstract: A liquid accommodation portion, a liquid supply portion, an accommodation portion including a wall portion, a plurality of welding projection portions, and a plurality of heat welding portions attached to a portion of a surface of the plurality of welding projection portions and disposed in a state of being spaced apart, and a sheet bonded to the plurality of welding projection portions configured to be peeled off, while covering the opening, the plurality of welding projection portions, and the plurality of heat welding portions are provided, in which the plurality of welding projection portions are portions not melted by heat welding among projection portions made of a material configured to be heat-welded, and the plurality of heat welding portions are portions formed by being melted by heat welding among the projection portions before being heat-welded to the sheet, and a portion of which are in contact with the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Shun Oya
  • Patent number: 12172447
    Abstract: There is provided an ink replenishment container for replenishing ink into an ink tank via an ink inlet flow path member, the ink replenishment container including a container main body, an ink outlet forming portion having a tubular portion, a spring valve having a valve body mounted in the tubular portion and a spring for urging the valve body toward the ink outlet, and a sealing member mounted in the tubular portion and having a sealing end configured to contact with the valve body in a valve close state, in which the sealing member has a cylindrical inner peripheral wall and an elastic membrane portion extending from the inner peripheral wall toward a center, and the elastic membrane portion is formed with a slit-shaped gap passing through a center portion including the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadahiro Mizutani, Yoshihiro Koizumi, Shun Oya, Takumi Nagashima, Tadashi Watanabe, Manabu Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12138935
    Abstract: When a known lid member was merely applied to a bottle that contains ink, there was room for improvement in terms of the operation of the lid member and the way how to bring attention to the handling thereof. A bottle set is provided that includes: a bottle that includes an ink container that contains ink, and an outflow port through which the ink in the ink container flows out to the outside; and a lid member that is configured to attach to and detach from the bottle, and is configured to cover the outflow port in a state of being attached to the bottle. The lid member includes a colored portion that has optical transparency and is colored with a color corresponding to a type of the ink contained in the ink container in at least a portion of the lid member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi Nagashima, Hitoshi Igarashi, Ryoichi Tanaka, Tadahiro Mizutani, Tomoyuki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20240227406
    Abstract: A liquid storage container includes: a liquid storage portion including a storage-portion outer shell for storing liquid inside; and an adapter including an adapter outer shell and an insertion opening that is formed in the adapter outer shell and into which a liquid introduction portion of a container attachment portion is inserted, the storage-portion outer shell has a first-type color in a degree that does not allow light to pass through the storage-portion outer shell, and the adapter outer shell has a second-type color having a color difference with respect to a color of the liquid larger than or equal to a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Shun OYA
  • Publication number: 20240208234
    Abstract: The cartridge is attached to the cartridge attachment through an attaching operation in which the cartridge is completely inserted into the cartridge attachment in an insertion direction, or a horizontal direction, and then a rear portion of the cartridge in the insertion direction is moved in a rotation attaching direction containing a gravity-directional component with a deep side of the cartridge in the insertion direction used as a rotation fulcrum. This cartridge includes: a main body a liquid reservoir that is disposed inside the main body; a liquid inlet that is formed across the main body and leads to an interior of the liquid reservoir; a liquid reservoir body that includes a liquid supply section through which communicates with the liquid reservoir; and an adapter that is mounted on the liquid reservoir body and has an insertion aperture into which the liquid introduction section is to be inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Shun OYA
  • Publication number: 20240184240
    Abstract: An attachment that is detachably mounted to a cartridge mounting unit of a printing apparatus, the cartridge mounting unit including a liquid introduction portion that receives a liquid, and a restricting mechanism that restricts a rotation movement of an incompatible cartridge in a rotation mounting direction to be mounted by interfering with the incompatible cartridge, the attachment including a release portion that releases restriction by the restricting mechanism by pushing a part of the restricting mechanism in a pre-determined insertion direction, and a maintaining portion that maintains a mounted state of the attachment in cooperation with the cartridge mounting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun OYA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Tadahiro MIZUTANI, Takumi NAGASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240140102
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a first operation surface that receives a first load for moving the cartridge in an inserting direction, a main surface that constitutes a top surface positioned on a side of an upward direction in a direction of gravity in an inserted posture, a second operation surface that constitutes the top surface in an inserted posture and is positioned on a side of a downward direction in the direction of gravity with respect to the main surface and that receives a second load for moving the cartridge in a rotational-attachment direction, in which an angle formed by the second operation surface and the inserting direction is smaller than an angle formed by the first operation surface and the inserting direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Shun OYA
  • Publication number: 20240131850
    Abstract: A liquid storage container includes: a liquid storage portion including a storage-portion outer shell for storing liquid inside; and an adapter including an adapter outer shell and an insertion opening that is formed in the adapter outer shell and into which a liquid introduction portion of a container attachment portion is inserted, the storage-portion outer shell has a first-type color in a degree that does not allow light to pass through the storage-portion outer shell, and the adapter outer shell has a second-type color having a color difference with respect to a color of the liquid larger than or equal to a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi NAGASHIMA, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Shun OYA
  • Patent number: 11932022
    Abstract: Convenience of an ink bottle and a bottle set is improved. An ink bottle includes: a container portion that contains ink; a guiding portion that is formed in one end portion of the container portion, and includes an outflow port from which the ink in the container portion flow out; and a cover that covers at least an end portion of the container portion on the opposite side of the guiding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku Ishizawa, Tadahiro Mizutani, Ryoichi Tanaka, Manabu Akahane, Koichi Toba, Takumi Nagashima, Yoshiaki Shimizu, Tadashi Watanabe, Noriyuki Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 11919315
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadahiro Mizutani, Yoshihiro Koizumi, Shun Oya, Takumi Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20240066881
    Abstract: A cartridge including a first guide rib and a second guide rib that extend in the Y direction and project outward in the X direction. In an attachment state in which a cap is attached to the cartridge, the cap includes a sealing wall having a liquid holding portion that faces the liquid supply portion, a first projecting rib projecting in a direction opposite to a projecting direction of the first guide rib, a second projecting rib projecting in a direction opposite to a projecting direction of the second guide rib, a first recessed portion that is formed between the sealing wall and the first projecting rib and accommodates the first guide rib, and a second recessed portion that is formed between the sealing wall and the second projecting rib and accommodates the second guide rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadahiro MIZUTANI, Yoshihiro KOIZUMI, Shun OYA, Takumi NAGASHIMA, Hiroto HANBA
  • Patent number: D1049218
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi Nagashima, Yoshihiro Koizumi, Shun Oya, Wataru Suzuki
  • Patent number: D1061705
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi Nagashima, Yoshihiro Koizumi, Tadahiro Mizutani, Shun Oya, Hiroto Hanba