Patents by Inventor Takuro Yamazaki
Takuro Yamazaki 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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Patent number: 12350934Abstract: A liquid ejection head including an ejection port forming part, a flow path forming part including a liquid chamber, and an individual supply flow path configured to supply liquid to the liquid chamber, and a substrate including a supply flow path configured to supply liquid to the individual supply flow path and an outflow flow path configured to cause liquid to flow out of the liquid chamber, wherein a height of the individual supply flow path is larger than a height from a surface of the liquid chamber facing the ejection port to the ejection port forming member, and when viewed from the direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, a sidewall surface of the liquid chamber on a side with the supply flow path (1) coincides with an end surface of the ejection port, or (2) is disposed within the ejection port.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2023Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ayako Maruyama, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Takuro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 12343999Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a print element substrate including multiple ejection openings, pressure chambers, a common flow path, and pumps, the pumps being configured to circulate liquid between the common flow path and the pressure chamber; and a flow path member laminated to the print element substrate. The flow path member includes a supply flow path and a collection flow path, the supply flow path being configured to supply liquid to the print element substrate, and the collection flow path being configured to collect liquid that is not ejected. The supply flow path and the collection flow path have liquid connection with the same common flow path. A circulating pump generates a flow of liquid flowing in an order of the supply flow path, the common flow path, and the collection flow path, the circulating pump being provided at a position different from the print element substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20250108632Abstract: A drying device includes a housing, a heater, a fan, and a processor. The housing includes an internal space housing a platen and an opening connected to the internal space and being of a size through which the platen passes. A medium to which an ink or a treatment liquid is applied is placed on the platen. The fan supplies heated air to the internal space. In a housed state of the platen housed in the internal space, the processor switches an air supply state of the heated air supplied by the fan from a first air supply state to a second air supply state different from the first air supply state by controlling at least one of the heater or the fan.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Takuro YAMAZAKI, Daisuke KAWASE, Shuichi TAMAKI, Tetsuro KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20250108633Abstract: A conveyance control device includes a conveyor, a first heater and a second heater, and a processor. The conveyor conveys a platen on which a print medium is placed. The first heater and the second heater are connected to a printer. The printer performs printing on the print medium on the platen. The first heater and the second heater execute a medium heating operation to heat the print medium on the platen. The processor controls the conveyor and conveys a target platen to one of the first heater or the second heater. The target platen is the platen on which the print medium is placed and is a control target.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Daisuke KAWASE, Shuichi TAMAKI, Takuro YAMAZAKI, Tetsuro KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240289854Abstract: A page evaluation system that extracts an evaluation target page related to a target product to be sold on a mall-type shopping site from the mall-type shopping site and analyzes the evaluation target page, the page evaluation system including: a page information acquisition unit that acquires information of the evaluation target page; a storage unit that stores a plurality of evaluation items extracted from information displayed on the evaluation target page and allocation points for the evaluation items in association with each other; and an evaluation unit that extracts a plurality of evaluation items from information of the evaluation target page, refers to the storage unit, and evaluates the evaluation target page by calculating the allocation point for at least the evaluation item extracted.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Yoshiro SHIMODA, Takuro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 12064969Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a print element substrate including multiple ejection openings, pressure chambers, a common flow path, and pumps, the pumps being configured to circulate liquid between the common flow path and the pressure chamber; and a flow path member laminated to the print element substrate. The flow path member includes a supply flow path and a collection flow path, the supply flow path being configured to supply liquid to the print element substrate, and the collection flow path being configured to collect liquid that is not ejected. The supply flow path and the collection flow path have liquid connection with the same common flow path. A circulating pump generates a flow of liquid flowing in an order of the supply flow path, the common flow path, and the collection flow path, the circulating pump being provided at a position different from the print element substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20240109326Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a print element substrate including multiple ejection openings, pressure chambers, a common flow path, and pumps, the pumps being configured to circulate liquid between the common flow path and the pressure chamber; and a flow path member laminated to the print element substrate. The flow path member includes a supply flow path and a collection flow path, the supply flow path being configured to supply liquid to the print element substrate, and the collection flow path being configured to collect liquid that is not ejected. The supply flow path and the collection flow path have liquid connection with the same common flow path. A circulating pump generates a flow of liquid flowing in an order of the supply flow path, the common flow path, and the collection flow path, the circulating pump being provided at a position different from the print element substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20240093104Abstract: A biomass gasification furnace provided with an outer tube, an inner tube provided inside the outer tube so that a lower end thereof is located higher than a lower end of the outer tube, and a reactor that heats the outer tube from outside, wherein a combustion air supply portion that supplies combustion air is provided inside the inner tube so as to be spaced from the lower end of the inner tube, a biomass raw material is supplied from above to the inside of the inner tube so as to form an accumulation portion in which the biomass raw material has accumulated from the lower end of the outer tube to a location higher than the combustion air supply portion, a fuel gas is produced in the accumulation portion, and the produced fuel gas is discharged through a space between the inner tube and the outer tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Takuro YAMAZAKI, Masanori SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20240009995Abstract: A liquid ejection head including an ejection port forming part, a flow path forming part including a liquid chamber, and an individual supply flow path configured to supply liquid to the liquid chamber, and a substrate including a supply flow path configured to supply liquid to the individual supply flow path and an outflow flow path configured to cause liquid to flow out of the liquid chamber, wherein a height of the individual supply flow path is larger than a height from a surface of the liquid chamber facing the ejection port to the ejection port forming member, and when viewed from the direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, a sidewall surface of the liquid chamber on a side with the supply flow path (1) coincides with an end surface of the ejection port, or (2) is disposed within the ejection port.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: AYAKO MARUYAMA, YOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA, TAKURO YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20230311501Abstract: An object is to provide a liquid ejection head and liquid ejection apparatus capable of reducing or preventing a decrease in image quality without increasing the chip size. To achieve this, a configuration is employed in which a bonding layer is not provided between a liquid supply substrate and channel partitions between common supply channels and common collection channels, and a minute communication portion is provided there.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, TAKURO YAMAZAKI, AKIKO HAMMURA, ATSUSHI TERANISHI
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Publication number: 20230311500Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes: an array of ejection ports; pressure chambers corresponding respectively to and communicating with the ejection ports; individual supply channels and individual collection channels communicating with the chambers; a common supply channel communicating with surfaces of the individual supply channels opposite to surfaces thereof communicating with the chambers; a common collection channel communicating with surfaces of the individual collection channels opposite to surfaces thereof communicating with the chambers; and a damper member forming a wall of a part of a channel in the common collection channel. A wall of a part of a channel in the common supply channel is not formed by the damper member. The common supply channel and the common collection channel are formed so as to extend in a first direction along the ejection port array, and are disposed side by side in a second direction crossing the ejection port array.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: AKIKO HAMMURA, YOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA, TAKURO YAMAZAKI, ATSUSHI TERANISHI
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Publication number: 20230311499Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes: an ejection port array being an array of ejection ports; a plurality of pressure chambers corresponding respectively to the ejection ports and communicating with the ejection ports; individual supply channels and individual collection channels communicating with the pressure chambers; a common supply channel communicating with surfaces of the individual supply channels opposite to surfaces thereof communicating with the pressure chambers; a common collection channel communicating with surfaces of the individual collection channels opposite to surfaces thereof communicating with the pressure chambers; and a damper member forming a wall of a part of at least one of the common supply channel or the common collection channel. The common supply channel and the common collection channel are formed so as to extend in a first direction along the ejection port array, and are disposed side by side in a second direction crossing the ejection port array.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: AKIKO HAMMURA, YOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA, TAKURO YAMAZAKI, ATSUSHI TERANISHI
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Publication number: 20230302796Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a plurality of nozzles arranged along a first direction of an ejection surface, a plurality of pressure chambers communicating with the plurality of individual nozzles and provided with actuators configured to apply, to a liquid, pressures for ejecting the liquid from the nozzles, a plurality of discrete flow paths communicating with the plurality of individual pressure chambers, a common flow path communicating with the plurality of individual discrete flow paths via discrete opening portions and extending in the first direction, and a damper mechanism disposed to face the common flow path in a direction crossing the ejection surface to absorb a pressure fluctuation in the liquid in the common flow path. The common flow path is provided with a partition wall disposed between the discrete opening portions adjacent in the first direction to extend in the direction crossing the ejection surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Takuro YAMAZAKI, Yoshiyuki NAKAGAWA, Akiko HAMMURA, Atsushi TERANISHI
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Publication number: 20230264478Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a print element substrate including multiple ejection openings, pressure chambers, a common flow path, and pumps, the pumps being configured to circulate liquid between the common flow path and the pressure chamber; and a flow path member laminated to the print element substrate. The flow path member includes a supply flow path and a collection flow path, the supply flow path being configured to supply liquid to the print element substrate, and the collection flow path being configured to collect liquid that is not ejected. The supply flow path and the collection flow path have liquid connection with the same common flow path. A circulating pump generates a flow of liquid flowing in an order of the supply flow path, the common flow path, and the collection flow path, the circulating pump being provided at a position different from the print element substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11673396Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a print element substrate including multiple ejection openings, pressure chambers, a common flow path, and pumps, the pumps being configured to circulate liquid between the common flow path and the pressure chamber; and a flow path member laminated to the print element substrate. The flow path member includes a supply flow path and a collection flow path, the supply flow path being configured to supply liquid to the print element substrate, and the collection flow path being configured to collect liquid that is not ejected. The supply flow path and the collection flow path have liquid connection with the same common flow path. A circulating pump generates a flow of liquid flowing in an order of the supply flow path, the common flow path, and the collection flow path, the circulating pump being provided at a position different from the print element substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11602934Abstract: A liquid ejection head, a liquid ejection apparatus, and a liquid ejection method are capable of sufficiently suppressing the thickening of a liquid in an ejection orifice. The liquid ejection head includes a pressure chamber, a channel in which a liquid is caused to flow through the pressure chamber, an ejection orifice communicating with the pressure chamber, and an ejection energy generation element configured to eject the liquid in the pressure chamber from the ejection orifice. A meniscus of the liquid is formed at an end portion of the ejection orifice communicating with the pressure chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Takuro Yamazaki, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai
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Publication number: 20230035152Abstract: A gasification system according to an aspect includes a scrubber device to transfer contaminant contained in a flammable gas to cleaning water and discharge the cleaning water containing the contaminant as scrubber wastewater, a heat exchange device to heat the scrubber wastewater to vaporize the contaminant contained in the scrubber wastewater; and a combustion furnace to incinerate the vaporized contaminant, wherein the heat exchange device heats the scrubber wastewater by using heat generated by the combustion furnace.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Inventors: Masanori SHIMIZU, Takuro YAMAZAKI, Mizuki OKUBO
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Publication number: 20210323310Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a print element substrate including multiple ejection openings, pressure chambers, a common flow path, and pumps, the pumps being configured to circulate liquid between the common flow path and the pressure chamber; and a flow path member laminated to the print element substrate. The flow path member includes a supply flow path and a collection flow path, the supply flow path being configured to supply liquid to the print element substrate, and the collection flow path being configured to collect liquid that is not ejected. The supply flow path and the collection flow path have liquid connection with the same common flow path. A circulating pump generates a flow of liquid flowing in an order of the supply flow path, the common flow path, and the collection flow path, the circulating pump being provided at a position different from the print element substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11090937Abstract: In a liquid ejection head, ejection orifices can be densely arranged while suppressing decrease in liquid flow speed. A channel extending through a pressure chamber extends in a direction crossing an ejection orifice array such that a liquid flows between the two ends of the channel located on the sides of the ejection orifice array.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Takuro Yamazaki, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai
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Patent number: 11065878Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a print element substrate including multiple ejection openings, pressure chambers, a common flow path, and pumps, the pumps being configured to circulate liquid between the common flow path and the pressure chamber; and a flow path member laminated to the print element substrate. The flow path member includes a supply flow path and a collection flow path, the supply flow path being configured to supply liquid to the print element substrate, and the collection flow path being configured to collect liquid that is not ejected. The supply flow path and the collection flow path have liquid connection with the same common flow path. A circulating pump generates a flow of liquid flowing in an order of the supply flow path, the common flow path, and the collection flow path, the circulating pump being provided at a position different from the print element substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki