Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Shibasaki
Yoshiaki Shibasaki 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: 11516361Abstract: An image forming apparatus that forms an output image including an authentication image for authenticity determination on a medium. The image forming apparatus includes: a recording head configured to discharge a droplet onto the medium; a drive unit configured to perform main scanning in which the recording head moves in a main scanning direction and sub scanning in which the medium is fed in a feeding direction; and a control unit configured to control, based on image formation data representing the output image, the main scanning and the sub scanning performed by the drive unit, and the discharge of the droplet performed by the recording head.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Nakano, Yoshiaki Shibasaki, Tomoyuki Kurata, Kazunobu Nimura
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Patent number: 11436456Abstract: A server includes: a storage control section storing, in a storage section, relationship information that indicates a relationship between attribute information indicating an attribute of a user of a device and consumption information indicating consumption of a consumable product of the device; an acquisition section acquiring the attribute information of a first user; and a predicted consumption calculation section calculating, based on the attribute information of the first user and the relationship information, predicted consumption of the consumable product of the device used by the first user.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yoshiaki Shibasaki
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Publication number: 20220060596Abstract: An image forming apparatus that forms an output image including an authentication image for authenticity determination on a medium. The image forming apparatus includes: a recording head configured to discharge a droplet onto the medium; a drive unit configured to perform main scanning in which the recording head moves in a main scanning direction and sub scanning in which the medium is fed in a feeding direction; and a control unit configured to control, based on image formation data representing the output image, the main scanning and the sub scanning performed by the drive unit, and the discharge of the droplet performed by the recording head.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Tomoyuki NAKANO, Yoshiaki SHIBASAKI, Tomoyuki KURATA, Kazunobu NIMURA
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Publication number: 20210232877Abstract: A server includes: a storage control section storing, in a storage section, relationship information that indicates a relationship between attribute information indicating an attribute of a user of a device and consumption information indicating consumption of a consumable product of the device; an acquisition section acquiring the attribute information of a first user; and a predicted consumption calculation section calculating, based on the attribute information of the first user and the relationship information, predicted consumption of the consumable product of the device used by the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventor: Yoshiaki SHIBASAKI
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Publication number: 20210166191Abstract: In an advertisement system that issues a leaflet using a printer of a distributor who distributes a leaflet, the advertisement system includes a server storage unit that stores distributor information about a distributor, a reception unit that receives, from an advertiser, an advertisement request including a distribution condition related to a distribution of the leaflet, an identification unit that identifies the distributor who satisfies the distribution condition included in the advertisement request received by the reception unit based on the distributor information stored in the server storage unit, and a server communication unit that transmits, to the printer of the distributor identified by the identification unit, print data instructing issuance of the leaflet based on the advertisement request received by the reception unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Tomoyuki KURATA, Hideki KATO, Yoshiaki SHIBASAKI, Tomomi MIYASAKA, Kan MATSUDA
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Patent number: 8201937Abstract: An apparatus includes: an opening and closing mechanism that opens or closes an opening section of the apparatus; a first movable body that is moved in accordance with the operation of opening and closing the opening section by the opening and closing mechanism; a movement detector that detects the movement amount of the first movable body; a controller that determines whether or not the opening section is closed, on the basis of the detected movement amount; a second movable body disposed in the apparatus and movable; and a movement transmitting mechanism which moves the first movable body in accordance with the movement of the second movable body in a state in which the opening section is closed, and does not move the first movable body in accordance with the movement of the second movable body in a state in which the opening section is opened.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kosaku Nobuta, Osamu Hanamura, Yoshiaki Shibasaki
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Patent number: 8172392Abstract: A printer is disclosed which determines whether or not an opening of the printer is open or closed. The printer includes an opening/closing mechanism for opening and closing the opening of the printer housing. The printer includes a controller configured to determine whether the opening is open or closed based on a light receiving state of a light receiving portion. The light receiving portion receives light from a light sending portion. A first movable body with a plurality of openings is moveable between the light sending and receiving portions. A movement transmission mechanism moves the first moveable body according to movement of a second moveable body.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kosaku Nobuta, Osamu Hanamura, Yoshiaki Shibasaki
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Publication number: 20100050527Abstract: An apparatus includes: an opening and closing mechanism that opens or closes an opening section of the apparatus; a first movable body that is moved in accordance with the operation of opening and closing the opening section by the opening and closing mechanism; a movement detector that detects the movement amount of the first movable body; a controller that determines whether or not the opening section is closed, on the basis of the detected movement amount; a second movable body disposed in the apparatus and movable; and a movement transmitting mechanism which moves the first movable body in accordance with the movement of the second movable body in a state in which the opening section is closed, and does not move the first movable body in accordance with the movement of the second movable body in a state in which the opening section is opened.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kosaku Nobuta, Osamu Hanamura, Yoshiaki Shibasaki
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Publication number: 20100053675Abstract: A printer is disclosed which determines whether or not an opening of the printer is open or closed. The printer includes an opening/closing mechanism for opening and closing the opening of the printer housing. The printer includes a controller configured to determine whether the opening is open or closed based on a light receiving state of a light receiving portion. The light receiving portion receives light from a light sending portion. A first movable body with a plurality of openings is moveable between the light sending and receiving portions. A movement transmission mechanism moves the first moveable body according to movement of a second moveable body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kosaku Nobuta, Osamu Hanamura, Yoshiaki Shibasaki
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Publication number: 20100050193Abstract: Provided is a recording device including: a holding tray which is reciprocally transported to a set position for setting a recordable material and another position; a transport roller which applies transport force to the holding tray; and a wrong insertion preventive member of the recordable material, which is provided so as to advance into or retract from the holding tray in a region facing a surface of the holding tray, on which the recordable material is set, when the holding tray is positioned at the set position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomoya TAKIKAWA, Shintaro KOMURO, Yoshiaki SHIBASAKI
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Publication number: 20090309904Abstract: A recording apparatus that performs recording on a recording medium includes a control unit. The control unit supplies power to a movement detecting unit, which is configured to detect movement of at least one drive section to be controlled, and monitors an amount of movement of the at least one drive section during a power-saving mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2009Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki SHIBASAKI, Kazuhisa NAKAMURA, Kosaku NOBUTA
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Patent number: 7570007Abstract: A method of controlling a stepping motor including a stator having a driving coil wound therearound, and a rotor, the method comprising: performing a driving control of driving the rotor at a predetermined step angle and a stop control of stopping the rotor at a predetermined stop position; and if a predetermined rotation range of the rotor including a range having a maximum position holding torque that is a maximum holding torque of the rotor when the rotor stops with the driving coil thereof being supplied with a current, is referred to as a first rotation range, and a predetermined rotation range of the rotor other than the first rotation range is referred to as a second rotation range, in the stop control, setting the sum of currents supplied to the driving coils to stop the rotor at a target stop position within the second rotation range to be larger than the sum of currents supplied to the driving coils to stop the rotor at a target stop position within the first rotation range.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2007Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Shibasaki, Kosaku Nobuta
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Patent number: 7560892Abstract: A method of controlling a stepping motor, comprising: performing a driving control of driving a rotor at a predetermined step angle; and performing a stop control of giving a driving circuit of the stepping motor a stop instruction for stopping the rotor at a position that is before or beyond a target stop position by a minuter step angle than the step angle in the driving control in a direction in which the rotor is rotated when to stop the rotor at the target stop position.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2007Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Shibasaki, Kosaku Nobuta
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Patent number: 7517033Abstract: An ink supply control apparatus includes: a driver, operable to drive a selector provided between a recording head and an ink tank to control an ink supply from the ink tank to the recording head; a detector, operable to detect that the selector is disposed in a predetermined position between two positions of at least two control positions; and a controller, operable to control the driver so as to stop the selector in one of the two positions in a predetermined time after the detector detects that the selector is disposed in the predetermined position.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2007Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takayuki Tanaka, Yoshiaki Shibasaki
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Publication number: 20070267996Abstract: A method of controlling a stepping motor, comprising: performing a driving control of driving a rotor at a predetermined step angle; and performing a stop control of giving a driving circuit of the stepping motor a stop instruction for stopping the rotor at a position that is before or beyond a target stop position by a minuter step angle than the step angle in the driving control in a direction in which the rotor is rotated when to stop the rotor at the target stop position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2007Publication date: November 22, 2007Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Shibasaki, Kosaku Nobuta
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Publication number: 20070241717Abstract: A method of controlling a stepping motor including a stator having a driving coil wound therearound, and a rotor, the method comprising: performing a driving control of driving the rotor at a predetermined step angle and a stop control of stopping the rotor at a predetermined stop position; and if a predetermined rotation range of the rotor including a range having a maximum position holding torque that is a maximum holding torque of the rotor when the rotor stops with the driving coil thereof being supplied with a current, is referred to as a first rotation range, and a predetermined rotation range of the rotor other than the first rotation range is referred to as a second rotation range, in the stop control, setting the sum of currents supplied to the driving coils to stop the rotor at a target stop position within the second rotation range to be larger than the sum of currents supplied to the driving coils to stop the rotor at a target stop position within the first rotation range.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2007Publication date: October 18, 2007Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporatiorInventors: Yoshiaki Shibasaki, Kosaku Nobuta
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Publication number: 20070171250Abstract: An ink supply control apparatus includes: a driver, operable to drive a selector provided between a recording head and an ink tank to control an ink supply from the ink tank to the recording head; a detector, operable to detect that the selector is disposed in a predetermined position between two positions of at least two control positions; and a controller, operable to control the driver so as to stop the selector in one of the two positions in a predetermined time after the detector detects that the selector is disposed in the predetermined position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2007Publication date: July 26, 2007Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takayuki Tanaka, Yoshiaki Shibasaki