Patents by Inventor YUSAKU MATOBA

YUSAKU MATOBA 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: 11294607
    Abstract: A printer is configured to communicate with a terminal and includes a printer memory configured to store items corresponding to the printer and item values corresponding to the items and a printer processor. The items include a change-allowed item whose corresponding item value is allowed to be changed and a change-prohibited item whose corresponding item value is prohibited to be changed. When the printer processor receives a transmission request command from the terminal, the printer processor selects the change-allowed item from the items stored in the printer memory, generates transmission information provided with the item value corresponding to the change-allowed item thus selected to transmit the transmission information thus generated to the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yusaku Matoba, Toshiaki Koike
  • Publication number: 20200249884
    Abstract: A printer is configured to communicate with a terminal and includes a printer memory configured to store items corresponding to the printer and item values corresponding to the items and a printer processor. The items include a change-allowed item whose corresponding item value is allowed to be changed and a change-prohibited item whose corresponding item value is prohibited to be changed. When the printer processor receives a transmission request command from the terminal, the printer processor selects the change-allowed item from the items stored in the printer memory, generates transmission information provided with the item value corresponding to the change-allowed item thus selected to transmit the transmission information thus generated to the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Yusaku MATOBA, Toshiaki KOIKE
  • Patent number: 10220635
    Abstract: To appropriately color develop ink according to a print condition even when carrying out the printing step and the color developing step in a series of steps. A printing device includes a printing machine that discharges an ink to a print medium and a color developing machine that heats the print medium, on which the ink discharged by the printing machine is attached, to color develop the ink. The printing device includes a controller that adjusts at least one of a heating time and a heating temperature of the print medium by the color developing machine according to at least one of a transporting speed of the print medium transported from the printing machine and an amount of the ink which is discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusaku Matoba, Yoshihiro Ibuki, Shunsuke Akuta, Tomohiro Takano
  • Publication number: 20180072070
    Abstract: To appropriately color develop ink according to a print condition even when carrying out the printing step and the color developing step in a series of steps. A printing device includes a printing machine that discharges an ink to a print medium and a color developing machine that heats the print medium, on which the ink discharged by the printing machine is attached, to color develop the ink. The printing device includes a controller that adjusts at least one of a heating time and a heating temperature of the print medium by the color developing machine according to at least one of a transporting speed of the print medium transported from the printing machine and an amount of the ink which is discharged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusaku Matoba, Yoshihiro Ibuki, Shunsuke Akuta, Tomohiro Takano
  • Patent number: 9895914
    Abstract: A tension applying member of an inkjet printer can apply tension on a printing medium by pushing a portion of the printing medium that is not wound by a winding mechanism by its own weight in a rotating direction indicated with an arrow having an axis line as a center; a transport controller causes a motor to generate a power for winding the printing medium when a predetermined tension is no longer applied on the printing medium by the tension applying member; and the winding mechanism limits a torque with a torque limiter and applies a predetermined tension on the printing medium when the motor is caused to generate the power for winding the printing medium when the predetermined tension is no longer applied on the printing medium by the tension applying member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Yamabe, Yusaku Matoba, Eiji Miyashita, Akira Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20170087903
    Abstract: A tension applying member of an inkjet printer can apply tension on a printing medium by pushing a portion of the printing medium that is not wound by a winding mechanism by its own weight in a rotating direction indicated with an arrow having an axis line as a center; a transport controller causes a motor to generate a power for winding the printing medium when a predetermined tension is no longer applied on the printing medium by the tension applying member; and the winding mechanism limits a torque with a torque limiter and applies a predetermined tension on the printing medium when the motor is caused to generate the power for winding the printing medium when the predetermined tension is no longer applied on the printing medium by the tension applying member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: KATSUTOSHI YAMABE, YUSAKU MATOBA, EIJI MIYASHITA, AKIRA TAKEUCHI