Patents by Inventor Yoshikane Tsuchihashi
Yoshikane Tsuchihashi 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: 11945238Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes: a printing unit including a liquid ejecting head configured to eject a liquid to a medium and a head holder configured to form an air cooling path, and a cooling mechanism configured to cause air in the air cooling path to flow therethrough to air-cool the liquid ejecting head, wherein the printing unit is provided so as to be movable with respect to a transport path along which the medium is transported, the cooling mechanism includes a first air hole and a second air hole that are configured to be coupled to the air cooling path, and the air cooling path is coupled to one of the first air hole and the second air hole corresponding to a position of the printing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Saka, Tetsuji Yatsunami, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Yoshinori Yanagisawa, Kohei Usuda
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Publication number: 20230001695Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a liquid discharging head that discharges a liquid onto a medium, a wiping mechanism that wipes a liquid discharging surface of the liquid discharging head and has a wiper portion that moves along an axis that is along the liquid discharging surface and wipes the liquid discharging surface, and an electric portion that is a portion related to controlling the liquid discharging apparatus includes at least one circuit substrate, in which a first direction along the axis the intersects a surface of the circuit substrate, and in the first direction, at least a part of the electric portion overlaps a part of the wiping mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Shomaru KONDO, Yoshikane TSUCHIHASHI
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Publication number: 20220339941Abstract: A printer includes a line head and a waste liquid tank. The line head is configured to move in an A direction having a component of a horizontal direction and a component of an apparatus height direction and is configured to eject a liquid onto a sheet to make a record. The liquid ejected from the line head is collected in the waste liquid tank. The waste liquid tank is located below the line head in the Z direction. When viewed in the Z direction from top to bottom, a movement area of the line head and a portion of the waste liquid tank overlap each other over a range defined in the Y direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Yoshikane TSUCHIHASHI, Shingo WAKI
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Publication number: 20220203734Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes: a printing unit including a liquid ejecting head configured to eject a liquid to a medium and a head holder configured to form an air cooling path, and a cooling mechanism configured to cause air in the air cooling path to flow therethrough to air-cool the liquid ejecting head, wherein the printing unit is provided so as to be movable with respect to a transport path along which the medium is transported, the cooling mechanism includes a first air hole and a second air hole that are configured to be coupled to the air cooling path, and the air cooling path is coupled to one of the first air hole and the second air hole corresponding to a position of the printing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Yoshihisa SAKA, Tetsuji YATSUNAMI, Yoshikane TSUCHIHASHI, Yoshinori YANAGISAWA, Kohei USUDA
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Patent number: 10155402Abstract: There is provided a printing device which can reduce the frequency at which a consecutive overlap-feeding operation is performed in a state where an overlap error in which a preceding medium and a following medium are overlapped in reverse order is not corrected.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tetsuji Yatsunami, Yu Shinagawa, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi
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Patent number: 10137706Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head that includes a nozzle row which is provided with a plurality of nozzles discharging liquid to a medium along a transporting direction, and executes recording as one pass by discharging the liquid from the nozzles in accordance with movement in a scanning direction intersecting the transporting direction, a transporting unit that transports the medium to a position facing the nozzle row, and a controller that is capable of acquiring information relating to a length of the medium in the transporting direction and controls the recording head and the transporting unit, in which the controller determines the nozzle being used for a recording operation as one pass in the beginning in accordance with the acquired length of the medium, and executes a heading operation for feeding the medium to a position facing the determined nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Takei, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Yu Shinagawa, Mitsuhiro Koseki
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Patent number: 9994013Abstract: A composite apparatus includes a recording device, a reading device that is disposed on the recording device and is able to read an image, a recording portion that is disposed within the recording device and is able to perform printing by ejecting ink on a paper sheet P, and a liquid accommodating portion that is disposed on a side portion of the recording device and which accommodates the ink to be supplied to the recording portion, in which the reading device is disposed such that a part of the reading device protrudes from the recording device to above the liquid accommodating portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Akira Nakazawa, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi
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Publication number: 20180086110Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head that includes a nozzle row which is provided with a plurality of nozzles discharging liquid to a medium along a transporting direction, and executes recording as one pass by discharging the liquid from the nozzles in accordance with movement in a scanning direction intersecting the transporting direction, a transporting unit that transports the medium to a position facing the nozzle row, and a controller that is capable of acquiring information relating to a length of the medium in the transporting direction and controls the recording head and the transporting unit, in which the controller determines the nozzle being used for a recording operation as one pass in the beginning in accordance with the acquired length of the medium, and executes a heading operation for feeding the medium to a position facing the determined nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Atsushi TAKEI, Yoshikane TSUCHIHASHI, Yu SHINAGAWA, Mitsuhiro KOSEKI
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Publication number: 20170282606Abstract: There is provided a printing device which can reduce the frequency at which a consecutive overlap-feeding operation is performed in a state where an overlap error in which a preceding medium and a following medium are overlapped in reverse order is not corrected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Tetsuji YATSUNAMI, Yu SHINAGAWA, Yoshikane TSUCHIHASHI
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Publication number: 20170225453Abstract: A composite apparatus includes a recording device, a reading device that is disposed on the recording device and is able to read an image, a recording portion that is disposed within the recording device and is able to perform printing by ejecting ink on a paper sheet P, and a liquid accommodating portion that is disposed on a side portion of the recording device and which accommodates the ink to be supplied to the recording portion, in which the reading device is disposed such that a part of the reading device protrudes from the recording device to above the liquid accommodating portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Akira NAKAZAWA, Yoshikane TSUCHIHASHI
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Patent number: 9026031Abstract: The bottom surface of a paper cassette that supports recording paper is configured of a first bottom surface and a second bottom surface. The second bottom surface is formed of a swing member having a fulcrum at the downstream side in the paper feeding direction and being capable of swinging about the fulcrum with the upstream side in the paper feeding direction serving as a free end, thereby providing a structure in which an angle formed by the second bottom surface and a separation slope increases when the second bottom surface is caused to sink downward by a swing of the swing member.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kohei Ueno, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi
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Patent number: 8807703Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a liquid ejection head which is provided on the apparatus main body and ejects liquid onto a recording medium, a draw-out path which is provided on the apparatus main body, a waste liquid unit which is provided on the draw-out path in a detachable manner and reserves waste liquid wastefully ejected from the liquid ejection head, an opening from which a transportation path for transporting the recording medium is exposed, and an opening/closing unit which is provided to be capable of opening and closing the opening, and at least a part of which is located on the draw-out path and covers at least a part of the waste liquid unit in a state where the waste liquid unit is attached to the draw-out path and the opening is closed.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Katsumi Okamoto, Masanori Nakata, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Takafumi Ogimura
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Patent number: 8714686Abstract: The present invention includes a stopper that regulates movement of the material onto which the recording will be performed, preventing the material from moving from a cassette to a guide surface when loading the cassette in a loading section, and a sensor that detects that the stopper is in the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Tetsuji Yatsunami, Kohei Ueno
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Patent number: 8616667Abstract: In a feeding course, a first design side end position Xsn of a paper is calculated. A first side end position of the paper is detected by a paper width detector, and the detected position is set to a first side end position Xd1. When the paper is fed from an additional cassette and a paper end detection flag F1=1, an ejection starting position adjustment amount ?X=Xd1?Xsn is set. However, when the deviation amount is not |Xd1?Xsn|?L, the ejection starting position adjustment amount ?X is limited to a limit value L.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Jun Fukasawa, Takafumi Ogimura, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Tetsuji Yatsunami
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Patent number: 8608155Abstract: A printing apparatus and a printing method with the object of preventing the feed of a sheet that is not the feeding target when performing sheet re-feeding.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tetsuji Yatsunami, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Akinobu Nakahata
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Patent number: 8517375Abstract: There is provided a feeding guide unit that slides according to a width size of the feeding material in a receiving unit that receives a plurality of feeding materials, and a separation unit having an inclined surface structure that abuts on a tip of the fed feed material so that a separating load is exerted, and separates the following feed material to feed only the feed material at the uppermost position. The separating load of the separation unit is changed to at least two stages in conjunction with a movement in a width direction of the feeding guide unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi Otani, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Kohei Usuda, Satoru Watanabe
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Publication number: 20120301203Abstract: The bottom surface of a paper cassette that supports recording paper is configured of a first bottom surface and a second bottom surface. The second bottom surface is formed of a swing member having a fulcrum at the downstream side in the paper feeding direction and being capable of swinging about the fulcrum with the upstream side in the paper feeding direction serving as a free end, thereby providing a structure in which an angle formed by the second bottom surface and a separation slope increases when the second bottom surface is caused to sink downward by a swing of the swing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Ueno, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi
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Publication number: 20120242038Abstract: A printing apparatus and a printing method with the object of preventing the feed of a sheet that is not the feeding target when performing sheet re-feeding.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuji Yatsunami, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Akinobu Nakahata
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Publication number: 20120218348Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a liquid ejection head which is provided on the apparatus main body and ejects liquid onto a recording medium, a draw-out path which is provided on the apparatus main body, a waste liquid unit which is provided on the draw-out path in a detachable manner and reserves waste liquid wastefully ejected from the liquid ejection head, an opening from which a transportation path for transporting the recording medium is exposed, and an opening/closing unit which is provided to be capable of opening and closing the opening, and at least a part of which is located on the draw-out path and covers at least a part of the waste liquid unit in a state where the waste liquid unit is attached to the draw-out path and the opening is closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Katsumi OKAMOTO, Masanori NAKATA, Yoshikane TSUCHIHASHI, Takafumi OGIMURA
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Publication number: 20120218339Abstract: The present invention includes a stopper that regulates movement of the material onto which the recording will be performed, preventing the material from moving from a cassette to a guide surface when loading the cassette in a loading section, and a sensor that detects that the stopper is in the retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Tetsuji Yatsunami, Kohei Ueno