Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Okazawa
Yoshiyuki Okazawa 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: 10027829Abstract: An apparatus main body including a recording mechanism portion that performs recording on a paper sheet; and a reading mechanism portion which is linked to the apparatus main body to be rotatable in an upper portion of the apparatus main body, and reads a document, the reading mechanism portion includes a reading unit which extends in a main scanning direction, and moves in an auxiliary scanning direction intersecting with the main scanning direction, a motor which moves the reading unit, and a first linking portion and a second linking portion which are disposed on the outside of a moving region when the moving region of the reading unit is viewed in a plan view, and are linked to the apparatus main body to be rotatable, and the motor is disposed at least in any of the first linking portion and the second linking portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shintaro Miyamoto, Yoshiyuki Okazawa
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Patent number: 10016994Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage, a transport drive roller, and a plurality of gears. The carriage includes a recording head configured to record onto a medium. The carriage is configured to move in a movement region in a first direction and a second direction that is an opposite direction thereto. The transport drive roller is configured to transport the medium to a recording region in which the recording head performs recording. The plurality of gears are configured to transmit power of a motor to the transport drive roller. When the carriage is positioned at an end of the movement region in the second direction, at least a portion of one of the plurality of gears overlaps the carriage when viewed along a vertical direction that is parallel to a direction of gravity and overlaps the recording head when viewed along an axial direction of the transport drive roller.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Kazumasa Harada, Akira Anami
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Patent number: 9986116Abstract: An image scanning apparatus includes a document table that forms a document mounting surface, a cover body that covers and uncovers the document table, and a hinge mechanism which has an angle retainer that retains an opening angle of the cover body and which allows the cover body to be lifted up and down. The hinge mechanism includes a case that is inserted into an insertion portion provided in the document table so that the case is displaceable in lift up/down directions of the cover body. The case includes an arm portion which extends in a direction that includes a lift up/down direction component and which is elastically deformable in a direction that intersects the lift up/down directions. The arm portion elastically contacts a contact portion provided in the insertion portion so that the cover body is retained in position in the lift up/down directions.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Kensuke Tamai, Hitoshi Igarashi
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Patent number: 9956800Abstract: A main body portion provided with a document stand on which a document is placed and a reading unit; a cover which opens and closes the document stand; and a near field communication unit on the inside of the cover, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Shintaro Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20170361634Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a housing which configures at least a portion of an outside of an apparatus main body which is provided with a recorder which performs recording on a medium, a lid body which opens and closes at least a portion of a top portion of the apparatus main body and is capable of tilting, and a tilting shaft of the lid body, in which the tilting shaft is capable of being displaced in a direction intersecting an axial line direction of the tilting shaft, and in which the lid body is capable of tilting from a closed state in which a gap between the housing and an end portion of an opposite side from a free end side is filled to an opened state by the displacement of the tilting shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Kenichi SHIROTA, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Tetsuya TAMURA, Kensuke TAMAI, Shintaro MIYAMOTO
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Publication number: 20170267004Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage, a transport drive roller, and a plurality of gears. The carriage includes a recording head configured to record onto a medium. The carriage is configured to move in a movement region in a first direction and a second direction that is an opposite direction thereto. The transport drive roller is configured to transport the medium to a recording region in which the recording head performs recording. The plurality of gears are configured to transmit power of a motor to the transport drive roller. When the carriage is positioned at an end of the movement region in the second direction, at least a portion of one of the plurality of gears overlaps the carriage when viewed along a vertical direction that is parallel to a direction of gravity and overlaps the recording head when viewed along an axial direction of the transport drive roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Kazumasa HARADA, Akira ANAMI
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Patent number: 9751309Abstract: A liquid ejecting head including a head which discharges ink from a nozzle surface on which a nozzle is included based on data, a signal line which sends data to the head via a connector, a carriage on which the head is mounted, and a first concave section and second concave section which accommodate the signal line and are included toward the outside of the carriage, in which the signal line is connected to the connector lined up with a terminal in the Y direction, and a position of a folded portion of the signal line which is accommodated in the first concave section and the second concave section overlaps with a fourth portion to a fifth portion which are a section of the carriage, and overlaps with a first portion to a second portion which are a section of the head in the X direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Haruki Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Okazawa
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Publication number: 20170251115Abstract: A moving mechanism of a reading unit includes a driving pulley, a plurality of driven pulleys which are rotatably driven, an endless belt which is engaged and rotates between the driving pulley and the plurality of driven pulleys, and attracts the reading unit, and a biasing unit which applies tension to the endless belt, in the endless belt, an attraction section which is a belt section that extends along the auxiliary scanning direction, and which attracts the reading unit, is formed between a first driven pulley and a second driven pulley, the driving pulley is provided at a position separated from the attraction section in the main scanning direction, and a biasing force of the biasing unit is applied to the belt section excluding the attraction section in the endless belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Inventors: Shintaro MIYAMOTO, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA
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Publication number: 20170251116Abstract: An apparatus main body including a recording mechanism portion that performs recording on a paper sheet; and a reading mechanism portion which is linked to the apparatus main body to be rotatable in an upper portion of the apparatus main body, and reads a document, the reading mechanism portion includes a reading unit which extends in a main scanning direction, and moves in an auxiliary scanning direction intersecting with the main scanning direction, a motor which moves the reading unit, and a first linking portion and a second linking portion which are disposed on the outside of a moving region when the moving region of the reading unit is viewed in a plan view, and are linked to the apparatus main body to be rotatable, and the motor is disposed at least in any of the first linking portion and the second linking portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Inventors: Shintaro MIYAMOTO, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA
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Publication number: 20170246894Abstract: A main body portion provided with a document stand on which a document is placed and a reading unit; a cover which opens and closes the document stand; and a near field communication unit on the inside of the cover, are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Inventors: Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Shintaro MIYAMOTO
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Publication number: 20170251117Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a housing including a recording-mechanism unit provided with a recording device that performs recording on a recording medium, peripheral walls of the housing being formed of a panel section, side-surface sections, and a rear-surface section; and a reading-mechanism unit that reads a document and covers and uncovers the top of the housing. The reading-mechanism unit includes a main body section having a document bed on which a document is mounted and an opening/closing body that covers and uncovers the document bed and has side surfaces. At least the main body section unit is accommodated in the interior of the peripheral walls of the housing when the reading-mechanism unit is closed. Each of the side surfaces of the opening/closing body and a corresponding one of the panel section and the side-surface sections are continuous with each other to form a single plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Inventors: Kenichi SHIROTA, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA
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Publication number: 20170155782Abstract: An image scanning apparatus includes a document table that forms a document mounting surface, a cover body that covers and uncovers the document table, and a hinge mechanism which has an angle retainer that retains an opening angle of the cover body and which allows the cover body to be lifted up and down. The hinge mechanism includes a case that is inserted into an insertion portion provided in the document table so that the case is displaceable in lift up/down directions of the cover body. The case includes an arm portion which extends in a direction that includes a lift up/down direction component and which is elastically deformable in a direction that intersects the lift up/down directions. The arm portion elastically contacts a contact portion provided in the insertion portion so that the cover body is retained in position in the lift up/down directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA, Kensuke TAMAI, Hitoshi IGARASHI
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Publication number: 20160297197Abstract: A liquid ejecting head including a head which discharges ink from a nozzle surface on which a nozzle is included based on data, a signal line which sends data to the head via a connector, a carriage on which the head is mounted, and a first concave section and second concave section which accommodate the signal line and are included toward the outside of the carriage, in which the signal line is connected to the connector lined up with a terminal in the Y direction, and a position of a folded portion of the signal line which is accommodated in the first concave section and the second concave section overlaps with a fourth portion to a fifth portion which are a section of the carriage, and overlaps with a first portion to a second portion which are a section of the head in the X direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Haruki KOBAYASHI, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA
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Patent number: 9403384Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage that includes a recording head performing recording on a recording medium, and an edge detection unit detecting an edge of the recording medium, and is movable in a predetermined direction, in which, in a state in which the carriage is positioned at a predetermined position, the edge detection unit is positioned in a passing region of the recording medium in the movement direction of the carriage, and the predetermined position is a home position of the carriage.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Satoshi Nakata, Kazumasa Harada, Yoshiyuki Okazawa
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Patent number: 9393820Abstract: A liquid ejecting head including a head which discharges ink from a nozzle surface on which a nozzle is included based on data, a signal line which sends data to the head via a connector, a carriage on which the head is mounted, and a first concave section and second concave section which accommodate the signal line and are included toward the outside of the carriage, in which the signal line is connected to the connector lined up with a terminal in the Y direction, and a position of a folded portion of the signal line which is accommodated in the first concave section and the second concave section overlaps with a fourth portion to a fifth portion which are a section of the carriage, and overlaps with a first portion to a second portion which are a section of the head in the X direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Haruki Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Okazawa
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Patent number: 9321272Abstract: A technique of enhancing attachment of a liquid supply unit to a liquid ejection device is provided. A holder structure 200 is provided as a mounting mechanism configured to cause a first ink cartridge 100a and a second ink cartridge 100b to be attachable to and detachable from a carriage 27 of a printing device 10. The holder structure 200 has a lever member 230 provided as a rotation mechanism to be rotated and thereby lock the first and the second ink cartridges 100a and 100b. The lever member 230 includes a first leg section 231a, a second leg section 231b formed away from the first leg section 231a and a bridging section 232 formed between the first and the second leg sections 231a and 231b to engage with a main engagement part 120 of each of the ink cartridges 100a and 100b.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tadahiro Mizutani, Takayuki Shiota, Atsushi Kobayashi, Shun Oya, Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Kazumasa Harada
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Patent number: 9278553Abstract: A printer includes a configuration, in which a paper is delivered between a recording head which is positioned upwards from a tray and a support member, and the recording is performed, and then the paper is discharged towards a discharged-paper receiving tray. The discharged-paper receiving tray is configured such that a relief section is formed to avoid an arrangement region of an oscillation member configuring a feeding unit upstream thereof, and the oscillation member is able to oscillate inside the relief section.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yosuke Nakano, Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Tomoko Shirai, Katsumi Yamada
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Patent number: 9264562Abstract: A printer includes a scanner unit which reads a document; and a recording portion which records information read by the scanner unit. In the recording portion, the maximum recordable size of a paper sheet is greater than a size of a document reading area in the scanner unit. At a base end side of a cover, which opens and closes the document reading area, a gap is formed which passes the document to an outer side of the scanner unit when the document is pushed out from the document reading area.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Hidetake Nishizawa
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Publication number: 20160016422Abstract: A liquid ejecting head including a head which discharges ink from a nozzle surface on which a nozzle is included based on data, a signal line which sends data to the head via a connector, a carriage on which the head is mounted, and a first concave section and second concave section which accommodate the signal line and are included toward the outside of the carriage, in which the signal line is connected to the connector lined up with a terminal in the Y direction, and a position of a folded portion of the signal line which is accommodated in the first concave section and the second concave section overlaps with a fourth portion to a fifth portion which are a section of the carriage, and overlaps with a first portion to a second portion which are a section of the head in the X direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: Haruki KOBAYASHI, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA
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Publication number: 20150239269Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage that includes a recording head performing recording on a recording medium, and an edge detection unit detecting an edge of the recording medium, and is movable in a predetermined direction, in which, in a state in which the carriage is positioned at a predetermined position, the edge detection unit is positioned in a passing region of the recording medium in the movement direction of the carriage, and the predetermined position is a home position of the carriage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Satoshi NAKATA, Kazumasa HARADA, Yoshiyuki OKAZAWA