Patents by Inventor Yoshifumi Takafuji

Yoshifumi Takafuji 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: 8979246
    Abstract: The object is to provide an inkjet head unit having: head chips having nozzles arranged on nozzle faces, and capable of discharging ink by respective independent pressure generating module from pressure chambers communicating with the nozzles; and a tabular head unit base on which the head chips are arranged and which is capable of holding the head chips, of abutting faces of the head unit base and the head chip, at least one of the abutting face on the head unit base side and the abutting face on the head chip side is formed in a stepped shape, so that the height of the abutting face of the head chip relative to the surface of the head unit base is partially changed, and the head chip is thereby attached to be inclined relative to the surface of the head unit base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigekazu Sakai, Yoshifumi Takafuji, Yuichi Machida, Naomi Kubo, Koujiro Yoshida, Yasuo Nishi
  • Patent number: 8864263
    Abstract: An inkjet recording device is configured to cause a head control substrate to generate a first drive waveform signal and a second drive waveform signal. The first drive waveform signal is for applying, after 2 AL from finishing time of an ejection pulse P1 having a voltage V1 and a pulse width AL, a cancel pulse C1 having a voltage V3 (<V1) of the same polarity as the ejection pulse to a head. The second drive waveform signal is for applying, from finishing time of an ejection pulse P12 following an ejection pulse P11 each having a voltage V1 and a pulse width AL, a cancel pulse C11 having a voltage V2 (<V1) of the same polarity as the ejection pulses to the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Naomi Kubo, Yoshifumi Takafuji, Eisuke Takagi
  • Patent number: 8733886
    Abstract: An inkjet drawing apparatus includes a head module which holds a droplet jetting head provided with a nozzle for ejecting droplets, and which is unmovable in a horizontal direction, and a drawing table which supports a recording member on an upper surface, and which is movable in the horizontal direction. The inkjet drawing apparatus executes a prescribed drawing by ejecting the droplets onto the recording member from the droplet jetting head. A maintenance unit transfer mechanism is movable within a prescribed region including a position under the head module, and transfers a maintenance unit for conducting maintenance of the droplet jetting head toward the position under the head module, and executes positioning of the maintenance unit with respect to the droplet jetting head. A maintenance unit selecting/arranging mechanism selects one of a plurality of kinds of maintenance units, and places the selected maintenance unit on the maintenance unit transfer mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Takafuji
  • Patent number: 8587743
    Abstract: An inkjet image-drawing device having: a head module having inkjet heads for forming a pattern on a substrate; a head module moving means; a substrate support stage; a substrate support stage moving means including first and second linear moving means, and a rotation moving means; an image pickup means which picks up an mage of the substrate; and an alignment adjusting means which picks up images of markers arranged on the substrate with the image pickup means, and moves the substrate support stage based on a result of the picking up images to adjust the alignment, wherein the image pickup means has, on the main body the device, a camera fixedly disposed outside of a moving range of the head module in the vector direction of the first linear moving means, and a camera fixedly disposed outside of the moving range, in the vector direction of the second linear moving means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Takafuji
  • Publication number: 20130271519
    Abstract: An inkjet recording device is configured to cause a head control substrate to generate a first drive waveform signal and a second drive waveform signal. The first drive waveform signal is for applying, after 2 AL from finishing time of an ejection pulse P1 having a voltage V1 and a pulse width AL, a cancel pulse C1 having a voltage V3 (<V1) of the same polarity as the ejection pulse to a head. The second drive waveform signal is for applying, from finishing time of an ejection pulse P12 following an ejection pulse P11 each having a voltage V1 and a pulse width AL, a cancel pulse C11 having a voltage V2 (<V1) of the same polarity as the ejection pulses to the head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Naomi Kubo, Yoshifumi Takafuji, Eisuke Takagi
  • Publication number: 20130271528
    Abstract: The object is to provide an inkjet head unit having: head chips having nozzles arranged on nozzle faces, and capable of discharging ink by respective independent pressure generating module from pressure chambers communicating with the nozzles; and a tabular head unit base on which the head chips are arranged and which is capable of holding the head chips, of abutting faces of the head unit base and the head chip, at least one of the abutting face on the head unit base side and the abutting face on the head chip side is formed in a stepped shape, so that the height of the abutting face of the head chip relative to the surface of the head unit base is partially changed, and the head chip is thereby attached to be inclined relative to the surface of the head unit base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shigekazu Sakai, Yoshifumi Takafuji, Yuichi Machida, Naomi Kubo, Koujiro Yoshida, Yasuo Nishi
  • Publication number: 20130215190
    Abstract: An inkjet drawing apparatus includes a head module which holds a droplet jetting head provided with a nozzle for ejecting droplets, and which is unmovable in a horizontal direction, and a drawing table which supports a recording member on an upper surface, and which is movable in the horizontal direction. The inkjet drawing apparatus executes a prescribed drawing by ejecting the droplets onto the recording member from the droplet jetting head. A maintenance unit transfer mechanism is movable within a prescribed region including a position under the head module, and transfers a maintenance unit for conducting maintenance of the droplet jetting head toward the position under the head module, and executes positioning of the maintenance unit with respect to the droplet jetting head. A maintenance unit selecting/arranging mechanism selects one of a plurality of kinds of maintenance units, and places the selected maintenance unit on the maintenance unit transfer mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Takafuji
  • Patent number: 8419163
    Abstract: An inkjet drawing apparatus includes a head module which holds a droplet jetting head provided with a nozzle for ejecting droplets, and which is unmovable in a horizontal direction, and a drawing table which supports a recording member on an upper surface, and which is movable in the horizontal direction. The inkjet drawing apparatus executes a prescribed drawing by ejecting the droplets onto the recording member from the droplet jetting head. A maintenance unit transfer mechanism is movable within a prescribed region including a position under the head module, and transfers a maintenance unit for conducting a maintenance of the droplet jetting head toward the position under the head module, and executes positioning of the maintenance unit with respect to the droplet jetting head. A maintenance unit selecting/arranging mechanism selects one of a plurality of kinds of maintenance units, and places the selected maintenance unit on the maintenance unit transfer mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Takafuji
  • Publication number: 20110249059
    Abstract: An inkjet drawing apparatus includes a head module which holds a droplet jetting head provided with a nozzle for ejecting droplets, and which is unmovable in a horizontal direction, and a drawing table which supports a recording member on an upper surface, and which is movable in the horizontal direction. The inkjet drawing apparatus executes a prescribed drawing by ejecting the droplets onto the recording member from the droplet jetting head. A maintenance unit transfer mechanism is movable within a prescribed region including a position under the head module, and transfers a maintenance unit for conducting a maintenance of the droplet jetting head toward the position under the head module, and executes positioning of the maintenance unit with respect to the droplet jetting head. A maintenance unit selecting/arranging mechanism selects one of a plurality of kinds of maintenance units, and places the selected maintenance unit on the maintenance unit transfer mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Takafuji
  • Publication number: 20110169893
    Abstract: An inkjet image-drawing device having: a head module having inkjet heads for forming a pattern on a substrate; a head module moving means; a substrate support stage; a substrate support stage moving means including first and second linear moving means, and a rotation moving means; an image pickup means which picks up an mage of the substrate; and an alignment adjusting means which picks up images of markers arranged on the substrate with the image pickup means, and moves the substrate support stage based on a result of the picking up images to adjust the alignment, wherein the image pickup means has, on the main body the device, a camera fixedly disposed outside of a moving range of the head module in the vector direction of the first linear moving means, and a camera fixedly disposed outside of the moving range, in the vector direction of the second linear moving means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Takafuji