Patents by Inventor Yohei NUNOKAWA

Yohei NUNOKAWA 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: 8727334
    Abstract: A recording device includes a judgment unit and a control unit. The judgment unit judges whether or not a designated standby time has elapsed still without a next recording job after the current recording job performed by the recording unit has ended in a state with the first media housing unit arranged in the feed position. The control unit controls the drive unit to hold the first media housing unit in the feed position when the judgment unit judges that it is before the standby time has elapsed, and on the other hand, to move the first media housing unit from the feed position to the removal position when the judgment unit judges that it is after the standby time has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Nunokawa, Yasuhiko Yoshihisa
  • Publication number: 20140043383
    Abstract: To reduce noise during paper conveyance while ensuring printing efficiency of an inkjet printer, a printing device is equipped with a control unit for moving a recording head back and forth in the scan direction according to the rotation of a carriage motor, a conveyance unit for extracting and feeding paper, conveying the paper in the sub scan direction to match the movement of the recording head to print the fed paper, and ejecting the printed paper according to the rotation of a conveyance motor, a paper reversal unit for coordinating with the rotation of the rotation means of the conveyance motor to reverse the front and back of the paper, and a printing control unit for controlling spraying of the ink from the recording head, as well as controlling the carriage motor and the conveyance motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei NUNOKAWA, Yasuhiko YOSHIHISA, Hitoshi IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20140027969
    Abstract: To provide a recording device that can inhibit the occurrence of a recording media jam state in a shared passage part that is shared as a recording media shared path with a plurality of media supply paths, this is equipped with a plurality of conveyance paths for supplying paper, a shared passage part, a moving unit that moves the paper, a printing unit that performs printing on the paper, an insertion port that is able to insert paper in the conveyance path by paper being inserted, an opening and closing lid provided so that the insertion port can be opened and closed, a detection sensor for detecting an open lid state when the opening and closing lid opens the insertion port, and a movement control unit that, when the detection sensor detects the open lid state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu KONDO, Yohei NUNOKAWA, Yasuhiko YOSHIHISA
  • Publication number: 20140021677
    Abstract: To provide a recording device that can reduce the frequency of delays in the start of the next recording job for which the feed source is the same first media housing unit, due to the operation of moving the first media housing unit from the feed position toward the removal position after a recording job ends, a computer inside a printer is equipped with a cassette control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei NUNOKAWA, Yasuhiko YOSHIHISA