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1.

LIQUID DISCHARGE SYSTEM

      
Application Number 18479224
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-02
First Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Murayama, Toshiro
  • Ito, Nobuaki
  • Miyagishi, Akira
  • Hasegawa, Tomonaga

Abstract

There is provided a liquid discharge system that controls an operation of a liquid discharge head provided with a first nozzle for discharging a liquid, the liquid discharge system including: an acquisition section that acquires first information indicating a discharge state of the first nozzle; a reception section that receives second information on a determination reference for determining that the discharge state of the first nozzle is abnormal according to an operation of a user; and a determination section that determines presence or absence of a discharge abnormality of the first nozzle based on the first information and the second information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers

2.

METHOD OF ADJUSTING DISPLAYED IMAGE AND DISPLAY SYSTEM

      
Application Number 18484478
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-11
First Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Oike, Takumi

Abstract

An adjustment method includes acquiring a first captured image obtained by imaging of a range containing a first whole image and a target image, acquiring a fourth gradation value obtained by correction of a gradation value of a fourth unit image based on a gradation value of a first unit image and a gradation value of a second unit image in the first captured image, acquiring a fifth gradation value obtained by correction of a gradation value of a fifth unit image based on the gradation value of the first unit image and a gradation value of a third unit image in the first captured image, calculating a first gradation value difference as a difference between a gradation value of the target image and the fourth gradation value, calculating a second gradation value difference as a difference between the gradation value of the target image and the fifth gradation value, and correcting a displayed image using a first correction value when the first gradation value difference is equal to or larger than the second gradation value difference.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 5/00 - Image enhancement or restoration
  • G06T 5/50 - Image enhancement or restoration by the use of more than one image, e.g. averaging, subtraction
  • G06T 7/90 - Determination of colour characteristics
  • G06V 10/56 - Extraction of image or video features relating to colour
  • G06V 10/75 - Image or video pattern matching; Proximity measures in feature spaces using context analysis; Selection of dictionaries

3.

LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18484061
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-10
First Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Fujimori, Ryoji

Abstract

The liquid ejection apparatus includes an ejecting unit configured to eject liquid onto a medium to perform printing on the medium, a supply unit configured to supply the liquid to the ejecting unit, and a control unit, wherein the supply unit includes a mounting unit to and from which a storage unit configured to store the liquid is attachable and detachable, a supply flow path configured to couple the mounting unit and the ejecting unit, a branching flow path configured to branch off from the supply flow path at a branching position and to merge with the supply flow path at a merging position downstream of the branching position, and a pump configured to cause the liquid to flow from the merging position toward the branching position in the branching flow path, and the control unit performs a circulation operation that circulates the liquid in the supply flow path and the branching flow path, and is configured to perform an operation other than an operation of performing printing by ejecting the liquid from the ejecting unit and an operation of attaching and detaching the storage unit to and from the mounting unit as a parallel operation that is performed in parallel with the circulation operation.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/175 - Ink supply systems
  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers

4.

COLOR MEASURING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number 18390007
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-12-20
First Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kobayashi, Ayako
  • Kobayashi, Yuka

Abstract

A color measuring system includes a processor configured to perform color measurement, configured to receive designation of a color sample book, configured to, in response to the color measurement being performed, compare colors of the color sample book and a color measured by the color measurement and automatically select a color close to the measured color out of the color sample book, and configured to notify, together with the measured color, the selected color to a user as an approximate color of the measured color.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01J 3/50 - Measurement of colour; Colour measuring devices, e.g. colorimeters using electric radiation detectors
  • G01J 3/46 - Measurement of colour; Colour measuring devices, e.g. colorimeters

5.

SINTERED METAL BODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SINTERED METAL BODY

      
Application Number 18476350
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kawasaki, Taku

Abstract

A sintered metal body contains a composition of ferritic stainless steel, nitrogen, and impurities. The sintered metal body has an interstitial nitrogen solid solution layer which has an average thickness of 200 μm or more and in which nitrogen atoms are in a form of a solid solution, and a Vickers hardness at a position of a depth of 200 μm from a surface is 250 or more. In addition, a relative density may be 99.0% or more.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B22F 7/04 - Manufacture of composite layers, workpieces, or articles, comprising metallic powder, by sintering the powder, with or without compacting of composite layers with one or more layers not made from powder, e.g. made from solid metal
  • B22F 3/10 - Sintering only
  • B22F 3/22 - Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering; Apparatus specially adapted therefor for producing castings from a slip
  • B22F 3/24 - After-treatment of workpieces or articles
  • B22F 7/00 - Manufacture of composite layers, workpieces, or articles, comprising metallic powder, by sintering the powder, with or without compacting
  • C22C 38/00 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys
  • C22C 38/02 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing silicon
  • C22C 38/04 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing manganese
  • C22C 38/20 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with copper
  • C22C 38/22 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with molybdenum or tungsten
  • C22C 38/26 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with niobium or tantalum
  • C22C 38/42 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with nickel with copper
  • C22C 38/44 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with nickel with molybdenum or tungsten
  • C22C 38/48 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with nickel with niobium or tantalum

6.

LIQUID DISCHARGE SYSTEM

      
Application Number 18479728
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-02
First Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Murayama, Toshiro
  • Ito, Nobuaki
  • Miyagishi, Akira
  • Hasegawa, Tomonaga

Abstract

There is provided a liquid discharge system that controls an operation of a first liquid discharge head provided with a plurality of nozzles for discharging a liquid, the liquid discharge system including: a determination section that determines presence or absence of a discharge abnormality of a first nozzle among the plurality of nozzles; a reception section that receives designation information indicating complementary processing designated by a user among a plurality of complementary processing for complementing the discharge abnormality of the first nozzle when the first nozzle has a discharge abnormality, that is, among the plurality of complementary processing different from each other, according to an operation of the user; and an execution section that executes the complementary processing indicated by the designation information received by the reception section when the determination section determines that the first nozzle has the discharge abnormality.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 2/165 - Prevention of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles
  • B41J 29/393 - Devices for controlling or analysing the entire machine

7.

Physical Quantity Sensor And Inertial Measurement Device

      
Application Number 18483626
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-10
First Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Tanaka, Satoru

Abstract

The physical quantity sensor includes, a first support beam, a movable body, a first stationary electrode fixation part, a first stationary electrode unit, a second stationary electrode unit, and a first wiring line. The first stationary electrode unit is disposed at the first direction side of the first support beam and the second stationary electrode unit is disposed at a fourth direction side of the first support beam. A rotary torque of the second movable electrode unit is lower than a rotary torque of the first movable electrode unit. The movable body has an opening at a fourth direction side with respect to the first support beam, and the first wiring line is extracted from the first stationary electrode fixation part to an outside of the movable body through the opening.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01P 15/125 - Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces with conversion into electric or magnetic values by capacitive pick-up

8.

SOFT MAGNETIC POWDER, DUST CORE, MAGNETIC ELEMENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

      
Application Number 18480580
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-04
First Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Sano, Toshiki

Abstract

A soft magnetic powder contains: Fe as a main component; Si having a content of 2.5 mass % or more and 6.5 mass % or less; Cr having a content of 1.0 mass % or more and 10.0 mass % or less; S having a content of 0.0020 mass % or more and 0.0070 mass % or less; and impurities. A ratio A/B is 3000 or more and 8000 or less, where A [ppm] is an oxygen content in terms of mass ratio and B [m2/g] is a specific surface area.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H01F 1/147 - Alloys characterised by their composition
  • B22F 3/02 - Compacting only
  • B22F 3/24 - After-treatment of workpieces or articles
  • B22F 9/04 - Making metallic powder or suspensions thereof; Apparatus or devices specially adapted therefor using physical processes starting from solid material, e.g. by crushing, grinding or milling
  • B22F 9/08 - Making metallic powder or suspensions thereof; Apparatus or devices specially adapted therefor using physical processes starting from liquid material by casting, e.g. through sieves or in water, by atomising or spraying
  • C22C 38/00 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys
  • C22C 38/34 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with more than 1.5% by weight of silicon

9.

DRIVE STAGE

      
Application Number 18373982
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-11
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Iwazaki, Tomohisa

Abstract

A drive stage includes a base section that has a drive surface, a table section that has two vibrators pressed to transmit drive force to the drive surface and that moves relative to the base section, and a first guide section and a second guide section that guide a movement direction of the table section, wherein the two vibrators are located between the first guide section and the second guide section and the directions in which the two vibrators are pressed are opposite to each other with respect to a direction in which the first guide section and the second guide section are aligned.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02N 2/00 - Electric machines in general using piezoelectric effect, electrostriction or magnetostriction
  • H02N 2/02 - Electric machines in general using piezoelectric effect, electrostriction or magnetostriction producing linear motion, e.g. actuators; Linear positioners

10.

Scanner

      
Application Number 29865411
Grant Number D1021904
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-07-25
First Publication Date 2024-04-09
Grant Date 2024-04-09
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hama, Yoriko
  • Takahashi, Kazuaki
  • Yoshioka, Ichiro

11.

RECORDING APPARATUS AND MEDIUM SUPPORTING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18477275
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hayashi, Seiya
  • Sasaki, Tsuneyuki
  • Kato, Junya

Abstract

A recording apparatus includes a support unit including a support surface configured to support a medium, a recording unit configured to perform recording on the medium supported by the support unit, and a projection unit configured to project an image onto the support surface. The projection unit includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the support surface with light, and a light blocking portion configured to block a part of the light emitted from the irradiation unit. The light blocking portion includes at least one light blocking region configured to block the part of the light emitted from the irradiation unit. The projection unit is configured to project a reference position image indicating a reference position of the medium supported by the support surface onto the support surface by blocking the part of the light emitted by the irradiation unit with the at least one light blocking region.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof
  • H04N 1/028 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof - Details of scanning heads for picture-information pick-up

12.

LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND PRINT HEAD

      
Application Number 18476372
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ito, Sukehiro
  • Kawakami, Masayuki

Abstract

A liquid ejection apparatus includes a drive signal output circuit that outputs a drive signal and a print head that ejects a liquid, in which the print head includes a temperature detection portion that detects temperature information, the drive signal output circuit includes an amplification circuit that outputs an amplification modulation signal, a smoothing circuit that outputs the drive signal, and a basic drive signal output circuit that outputs a basic drive signal that is corrected based on the temperature information, and a frequency of the amplification modulation signal when the temperature detection portion detects the temperature information used for the basic drive signal output circuit to correct the basic drive signal is higher than a frequency of the amplification modulation signal when the temperature detection portion detects the temperature information not used for the basic drive signal output circuit to correct the basic drive signal.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers

13.

Liquid Discharge Apparatus

      
Application Number 18478540
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuyuki, Masahiko
  • Takamuku, Makoto

Abstract

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a first substrate and a second substrate are positioned such that the first substrate front surface and the second substrate front surface face each other along a fourth direction intersecting both a first direction and a second direction, the first drive circuit provided on the first substrate overlaps with at least a part of the second drive circuit provided on the first substrate, and a first integrated circuit included in the first drive circuit does not overlap with a second integrated circuit included in the second drive circuit, along the second direction, and the first drive circuit overlaps with at least a part of a third drive circuit provided on the second substrate, and the first integrated circuit included in the first drive circuit does not overlap with a third integrated circuit included in the third drive circuit, along the fourth direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 29/377 - Cooling or ventilating arrangements

14.

IMAGE READING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18476391
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Namiki, Masaki

Abstract

An image reading apparatus including an upper unit provided so as to be openable and closeable with respect to a lower unit, wherein the lower unit includes a two dimensional sensor that is disposed so as to face a medium fed from a medium support portion that supports the medium and detects movement of the medium in a two dimensional coordinate system, and a cover that switches a state in conjunction with opening and closing of the upper unit, exposes the two dimensional sensor in a state in which the upper unit is closed, and covers the two dimensional sensor in a state in which the upper unit is opened.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 1/028 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof - Details of scanning heads for picture-information pick-up
  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof
  • H04N 1/053 - Detection, control or error compensation of scanning velocity or position in main scanning direction, e.g. synchronisation of line start or picture elements in a line
  • H04N 1/12 - Scanning arrangements using the sheet-feed movement as the slow scanning component

15.

THREE DIMENSIONAL MOLDING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18475299
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Majima, Atsushi

Abstract

This three dimensional molding device includes a plasticizing section having a screw in which a groove is formed and generating a plasticized material by plasticizing a material by rotating the screw; a nozzle having a nozzle opening and ejecting the plasticized material; an ejection adjustment section provided in a flow path, which communicates with the nozzle opening, and adjusting an ejecting amount of the plasticized material from the nozzle by adjusting an opening area of the flow path; and a control section, wherein the control section controls a rotation speed of the screw at a first rotation speed when the opening area is a first opening area and controls the rotation speed of the screw at a second rotation speed that is faster than the first rotation speed when the opening area is a second opening area that is larger than the first opening area.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B29C 64/314 - Preparation
  • B29C 64/209 - Heads; Nozzles
  • B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
  • B33Y 40/00 - Auxiliary operations or equipment, e.g. for material handling

16.

DRIVE CIRCUIT UNIT, HEAD UNIT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18476383
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yanagihara, Hirokazu

Abstract

Provided is a drive circuit unit that is coupled to a head connector located opposite to a discharge port of a head, the drive circuit unit including: a first substrate having a first connector coupled to the head connector; a third substrate on which a drive circuit generating a drive signal is mounted; and a fan that generates wind, in which the drive signal is supplied from the third substrate to the first connector via the first substrate, the third substrate is B-to-B-coupled to the first substrate and stands upright with respect to the first substrate, the fan stands upright with respect to the first substrate, and a rotation axis of the fan is substantially parallel to a surface of the third substrate.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 29/377 - Cooling or ventilating arrangements
  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers

17.

DRIVE CIRCUIT UNIT, HEAD UNIT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18476381
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yanagihara, Hirokazu

Abstract

Provided is a drive circuit unit that drives a head including a discharge section discharging a liquid in a first direction, the drive circuit unit including: a power supply board extending in a second direction and B-to-B-coupled to the head; a drive circuit mounted on a first surface and generating the drive signal; and a cooling mechanism cooling the drive circuit, in which the cooling mechanism includes an air guide portion guiding an airflow created by a fan and covering the drive circuit on the first surface, and a straightening plate that intersects the first direction and straightens, toward the second direction, an airflow flowing in a direction intersecting the second direction, or that straightens, toward a direction intersecting the first direction, an airflow flowing in the first direction, and the straightening plate is disposed on a first direction side with respect to the drive circuit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 29/377 - Cooling or ventilating arrangements

18.

LIQUID EJECTING DEVICE AND LIQUID EJECTING METHOD

      
Application Number 18476375
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yoshikawa, Eishin

Abstract

A liquid ejecting device such that, when an emission unit passes above an ejected liquid in a first non-constant velocity period concerning a velocity of movement of a liquid ejecting head and the emission unit, emission is performed at not less than an effective output when a distance between the liquid ejecting head and the emission unit is a first distance. In a second non-constant velocity period that is a non-constant velocity period and in which the relative velocity relative to the medium is faster than that in the first non-constant velocity period, in a case in which the emission unit passes above the ejected liquid, the liquid ejecting device performs control such that emission is performed at not less than an effective output when the distance is a second distance longer than the first distance, and at less than an effective output when the distance is the first distance.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form

19.

Liquid Discharge Apparatus And Liquid Discharge Module

      
Application Number 18476800
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuyuki, Masahiko
  • Takamuku, Makoto
  • Imura, Kazuya

Abstract

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a print head including a first connector; a substrate unit including a second connector fitted to the first connector and a third connector different from the second connector; and a relay substrate including a first cable through which a first voltage signal supplied to the substrate unit propagates, a second cable through which a second voltage signal supplied to the substrate unit propagates, a fourth connector fitted to the third connector, a relay substrate front surface, and a relay substrate back surface opposite to the relay substrate front surface, in which the first cable and the second cable are electrically coupled to the relay substrate front surface, the fourth connector is provided on the relay substrate back surface, and the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal propagate to the fourth connector.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 29/377 - Cooling or ventilating arrangements

20.

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VIBRATOR

      
Application Number 18475730
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ariizumi, Kosuke
  • Yamaguchi, Keiichi
  • Shiraishi, Shigeru
  • Nishizawa, Ryuta

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a vibrator includes a preparation step of preparing a quartz crystal substrate having a first surface and a second surface which are in a front and back relationship, a first protective film formation step of forming a first protective film in an element formation region of the quartz crystal substrate at the first surface where the vibrator is formed; and a first dry etching step of dry etching the quartz crystal substrate from the first surface through the first protective film. R1>R2, in which R1 is a thickness of the first protective film in a first groove formation region of the quartz crystal substrate where the first groove is formed and R2 is a thickness of the first protective film in the second groove formation region where the second groove is formed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01C 19/5628 - Manufacturing; Trimming; Mounting; Housings
  • H03H 3/02 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of impedance networks, resonating circuits, resonators for the manufacture of electromechanical resonators or networks for the manufacture of piezoelectric or electrostrictive resonators or networks
  • H03H 9/215 - Crystal tuning forks consisting of quartz
  • H10N 30/082 - Shaping or machining of piezoelectric or electrostrictive bodies by etching, e.g. lithography

21.

LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18479734
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-02
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Takino, Fumiya

Abstract

A head chip that includes a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles configure to eject a liquid, another member different from the head chip, an adhesive that bonds the head chip and the other member, and a heating element configured to plasticize the adhesive are provided.

IPC Classes  ?

22.

DRIVE UNIT, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD UNIT, AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18476404
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yanagihara, Hirokazu

Abstract

A drive unit is configured to generate a drive signal for driving a liquid ejecting head unit. The drive unit includes a drive board on which a drive circuit configured to generate the drive signal is mounted; a thermal conductive material that is in contact with the drive circuit on an opposite side in relation to the drive board; a water cooling mechanism that is in contact with the thermal conductive material on an opposite side in relation to the drive circuit; a pump that causes liquid in the water cooling mechanism to flow; and a control circuit that controls operation of the pump. The control circuit switches a direction in which the pump causes the liquid to flow between a forward direction and a reverse direction that is an opposite of the forward direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 2/515 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by the process of building-up characters applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking processes from an assembly of identical printing elements line printer type
  • B41J 29/377 - Cooling or ventilating arrangements

23.

LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE AND CARRIAGE

      
Application Number 18475308
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Koike, Kaoru
  • Takishima, Keigo

Abstract

A liquid ejection device 1 includes a head 101 for ejecting liquid, a board case 120 for housing a board unit 123 for driving the head 101, a first fan 121 fixed to the board case 120 and for sending airflow into the board case 120, a carriage 100 for housing therein the head 101 and the board case 120, and a second fan 102 for sending airflow taken from outside the carriage 100 into the carriage 100, wherein the board unit 123 is connected to the head 101 via a board-to-board connector 130, and the amount of airflow sent into the carriage 100 by the second fan 102 is larger than the amount of airflow sent into the board case 120 by the first fan 121.

IPC Classes  ?

24.

PRINTING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND PRINTING METHOD

      
Application Number 18475334
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Sakai, Toshifumi

Abstract

A printing device including a display section that displays a first button that switches a screen to a setting screen via which a setting of printing is received and a second button that causes printing to be immediately executed in accordance with a preset setting and a job management section that adds a first job printing of which is instructed after the first button is pressed and the screen is switched to the setting screen to a subsequent order and adds a second job printing of which is instructed from the second button to a preceding order.

IPC Classes  ?

25.

SINTERING METAL POWDER AND SINTERED METAL BODY

      
Application Number 18477742
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kawasaki, Taku
  • Narumi, Isshin

Abstract

A sintering metal powder to be used in sintering contains: a composition of ferritic stainless steel; C having a content of 0.05 mass % or more and 1.00 mass % or less; Nb having a content of 0.05 mass % or more and 1.50 mass % or less; and impurities. In addition, C/Nb may be 0.10 or more and 1.80 or less, where C/Nb is a ratio of the content of C to the content of Nb.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C22C 38/48 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with nickel with niobium or tantalum
  • B22F 1/00 - Metallic powder; Treatment of metallic powder, e.g. to facilitate working or to improve properties
  • B22F 3/10 - Sintering only
  • B22F 3/22 - Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering; Apparatus specially adapted therefor for producing castings from a slip
  • B22F 9/08 - Making metallic powder or suspensions thereof; Apparatus or devices specially adapted therefor using physical processes starting from liquid material by casting, e.g. through sieves or in water, by atomising or spraying
  • C22C 38/00 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys
  • C22C 38/02 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing silicon
  • C22C 38/04 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing manganese
  • C22C 38/20 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with copper
  • C22C 38/22 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with molybdenum or tungsten
  • C22C 38/26 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with niobium or tantalum
  • C22C 38/42 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with nickel with copper
  • C22C 38/44 - Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing chromium with nickel with molybdenum or tungsten

26.

CIRCUIT BOARD UNIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18374481
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Masago, Yu
  • Omori, Toshiyuki
  • Ito, Masaaki
  • Hirai, Takeshi

Abstract

A circuit board unit includes a first circuit board having a first ground layer, a second circuit board having a second ground layer and arranged so as to be opposed to the first circuit board, a connector unit having a first connector attached to the first circuit board, and a second connector attached to the second circuit board and coupled to the first connector, and a metal member arranged between the first circuit board and the second circuit board, and configured to electrically couple the first ground layer and the second ground layer to each other. The metal member is arranged so as to be adjacent to the connector unit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05K 1/11 - Printed elements for providing electric connections to or between printed circuits
  • H05K 1/02 - Printed circuits - Details

27.

PRINTING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18477582
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nishikawa, Ryo
  • Hanawa, Keita

Abstract

The printing device includes a head 36 that prints on a medium, a medium support section that has a support surface to support the medium, a head movement section 40 that mounts the head 36 and moves in the front-rear direction Y while straddling the medium support section in the width direction, a control section that controls the head 36, and a connection cable 55 that connects the head 36 and the control section, wherein, the connection cable 55 is located in the region where the head 36 can move in the front-back direction Y and in the space lower than the head 36 in the lower direction Z2.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 29/02 - Framework

28.

PRINTING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18477577
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yamashita, Norihiro

Abstract

A printing apparatus includes a medium support unit having a support surface that supports a medium. A position adjustment unit includes a plurality of position adjustment mechanisms that adjust a position of a support surface in an intersecting direction. The position adjustment unit can change an inclination of the support surface by some of the plurality of position adjustment mechanisms moving independently, and can change the position of the support surface in the intersecting direction by all of the plurality of position adjustment mechanisms moving in conjunction with each other.

IPC Classes  ?

29.

Liquid Discharge Apparatus

      
Application Number 18477576
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuyuki, Masahiko
  • Takamuku, Makoto
  • Imura, Kazuya

Abstract

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including a substrate unit, and includes a wiring substrate having a plurality of rigid members and flexible member, in which a first rigid member, and a second rigid member are positioned facing each other, a third rigid member laminated on a first surface of a third region of the flexible member is positioned such that a normal direction of a third front surface intersects a normal direction of a first front surface and a second front surface, the second connector is provided on a fourth rigid member laminated on a second surface of a third region of the flexible member, and a size of the third rigid member and a fourth rigid member is smaller than a size of the print head when a first discharge section is viewed from the first connector.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 29/377 - Cooling or ventilating arrangements

30.

Liquid Discharge Apparatus

      
Application Number 18477588
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuyuki, Masahiko
  • Takamuku, Makoto

Abstract

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus, in which a substrate unit having a first connector and a piezoelectric element, a reference voltage signal output circuit, an electrolytic capacitor, and a wiring substrate having a plurality of rigid members and a flexible member, the reference voltage signal output circuit has a first front surface and is provided on a first rigid member laminated on the first surface of the first region, the electrolytic capacitor has a second front surface and is provided on a second rigid member laminated on the first surface of the second region, the second connector is provided on a third rigid member laminated on the second surface of the second region, and the first rigid member and the second rigid member are positioned such that a normal direction of the first front surface and a normal direction of the second front surface intersect each other.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers

31.

IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM

      
Application Number 18479148
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-02
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ono, Takuya
  • Kamada, Takahiro
  • Yamashita, Mitsuhiro
  • Yamamoto, Yuko

Abstract

An image processing device converts image data, which is data of an image expressed in a first color space, into an expression in a second color space used in rendering by using a color conversion profile prepared in advance, generates a converted image data, and generates a rendering image corresponding to the appearance of the printed-on print medium in a virtual space by performing physical based rendering of the printed-on print medium on which the image has been printed, using the converted image date and parameters necessary for performing physical based rendering of the print medium as a 3D object.

IPC Classes  ?

32.

LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18530988
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-12-06
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nozawa, Ryoichi
  • Amano, Atsushi
  • Koshihara, Takeshi
  • Fukase, Akio
  • Iwata, Shinichi

Abstract

A first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element that have a resonance structure that causes output light from a light-emission functional layer to resonate between a reflective layer and a semi-transmissive reflective layer, and a pixel definition layer, and in which an aperture part is formed to correspond to each of the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element, are formed on a base. A first interval between the reflective layer and the semi-transmissive reflective layer in the first light-emitting element and a second interval between the reflective layer and the semi-transmissive reflective layer in the second light-emitting element are different, and a film thickness of the pixel definition layer is less than a difference between the first interval and the second interval.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H10K 50/852 - Arrangements for extracting light from the devices comprising a resonant cavity structure, e.g. Bragg reflector pair
  • H10K 50/81 - Anodes
  • H10K 50/844 - Encapsulations
  • H10K 50/856 - Arrangements for extracting light from the devices comprising reflective means
  • H10K 59/122 - Pixel-defining structures or layers, e.g. banks
  • H10K 59/35 - Devices specially adapted for multicolour light emission comprising red-green-blue [RGB] subpixels

33.

SHEET MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND SHEET MANUFACTURING METHOD

      
Application Number 18479142
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-02
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyauchi, Keisuke
  • Hashimoto, Akira
  • Aruga, Naoto

Abstract

There is provided a sheet manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulation section that accumulates a material containing fibers by an air flow to form a web; a transport section that performs transport; a humidification section that performs humidification; and a pressurization section that performs pressurization and compression into a sheet shape, with respect to the formed web, in which the humidification section includes an intake port that takes in air, a tank that stores water, a mist generation section that generates mist from the water, an exhaust port that exhausts the mist and the air toward the web, an air duct which is provided between the intake port and the tank and through which the air passes, and a duct which is provided between the tank and the exhaust port and through which the mist and the air pass, the duct includes a first duct provided above the tank, a second duct coupled to the first duct, and a third duct provided between the second duct and the exhaust port, and a first top surface of the first duct is higher than a second top surface of the second duct such that the first duct becomes a space in which the mist and the air are retained.

IPC Classes  ?

  • D21F 7/00 - Other details of machines for making continuous webs of paper
  • D21F 9/00 - Complete machines for making continuous webs of paper

34.

Liquid Discharge Apparatus And Liquid Discharge Module

      
Application Number 18476736
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuyuki, Masahiko
  • Takamuku, Makoto

Abstract

There is provide a liquid discharge apparatus including: a first substrate including a first substrate front surface and a first substrate back surface opposite to the first substrate front surface; a second substrate including a second substrate front surface and a second substrate back surface opposite to the second substrate front surface; a first circuit having a first electronic component provided on the first substrate front surface; a second circuit having a second electronic component provided on the second substrate front surface; a cooling fan that generates an air flow in a gas flow path configured by the first substrate front surface and the second substrate front surface; a first heat sink attached to the first substrate; and a second heat sink attached to the second substrate.

IPC Classes  ?

35.

HORIZONTAL ARTICULATED ROBOT

      
Application Number 18373307
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kikuchi, Takayuki
  • Nakanishi, Daisuke

Abstract

A horizontal articulated robot 1 includes a base 10, a first arm 11 coupled to the base 10 and configured to pivot about a first pivot axis F1, a second arm 12 coupled to the first arm 11 and configured to pivot about the second pivot axis F2, which is parallel to the first pivot axis F1, a first motor 21 configured to drive the first arm 11, a second motor configured to drive the second arm, wherein the first motor 21 and the second motor 22 are disposed inside the base 10, and a driving force of the second motor 22 is transmitted to the second arm 12 via a belt 32 provided inside the first arm 11.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B25J 9/04 - Programme-controlled manipulators characterised by movement of the arms, e.g. cartesian co-ordinate type by rotating at least one arm, excluding the head movement itself, e.g. cylindrical co-ordinate type or polar co-ordinate type
  • B25J 9/10 - Programme-controlled manipulators characterised by positioning means for manipulator elements

36.

PRINTING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18477610
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hanawa, Keita
  • Ito, Tatsuya
  • Nishikawa, Ryo

Abstract

A printing device 10 includes a head unit 39 configured to eject liquid onto a medium; a first movement section 37 configured to move the head unit 39 in a width direction X; a guide frame 40 configured to guide movement of the head unit 39 in a width direction X; and a second movement section 38 configured to move the first movement section 37 in a forward and rearward direction Y intersecting the width direction X, wherein the guide frame 40 includes a first bent section 81 formed by bending a metal plate along the width direction X and a second bent section 82 formed by bending the metal plate along the width direction X, and guides the head unit 39 by a first guide section 84, which is between the first bent section 81 and the second bent section 82.

IPC Classes  ?

37.

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VIBRATOR

      
Application Number 18475673
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Watanabe, Tsukasa
  • Yamaguchi, Keiichi
  • Shiraishi, Shigeru
  • Nishizawa, Ryuta

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a vibrator includes a preparation step of preparing a quartz crystal substrate having a first surface and a second surface which are in a front and back relationship, a first film formation step of forming a first stacked body by sequentially stacking a first underlying film, a second underlying film, and a first protective film at the first surface, a first patterning step of patterning the first stacked body in a manner in which the first underlying film, the second underlying film, and the first protective film remain in a region of an element formation region other than a first groove formation region and a second groove formation region, the first underlying film and the second underlying film remain in the first groove formation region, and the first underlying film remains in the second groove formation region, and a first dry etching step of dry etching the quartz crystal substrate from the first surface through the first stacked body.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H03H 9/215 - Crystal tuning forks consisting of quartz
  • H03H 3/02 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of impedance networks, resonating circuits, resonators for the manufacture of electromechanical resonators or networks for the manufacture of piezoelectric or electrostrictive resonators or networks

38.

Vibrator Element

      
Application Number 18476529
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kawauchi, Osamu

Abstract

A vibrator element includes: a plate-shaped vibrating substrate including a first surface and a second surface, which are in a front and back relationship, and including a vibrating portion, a support portion, and a coupling portion that couples the vibrating portion to the support portion and includes a portion having a thickness smaller than that of the support portion; an electrode layer including a first excitation electrode disposed at the first surface at the vibrating portion, a second excitation electrode disposed at the second surface at the vibrating portion, a first pad electrode disposed at the support portion, a second pad electrode disposed at the support portion, a first coupling electrode disposed at the coupling portion and coupling the first excitation electrode to the first pad electrode, and a second coupling electrode disposed at the coupling portion and coupling the second excitation electrode to the second pad electrode; a first metal film disposed at an upper layer on the first coupling electrode that is located on the coupling portion and having a thickness larger than that of the electrode layer; and a second metal film disposed at an upper layer on the second coupling electrode that is located on the coupling portion and having a thickness larger than that of the electrode layer.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H03H 9/19 - Constructional features of resonators consisting of piezoelectric or electrostrictive material having a single resonator consisting of quartz
  • H03H 3/02 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of impedance networks, resonating circuits, resonators for the manufacture of electromechanical resonators or networks for the manufacture of piezoelectric or electrostrictive resonators or networks
  • H03H 9/05 - Holders or supports
  • H03H 9/10 - Mounting in enclosures

39.

PRINTING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18477618
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Hiruma, Daisuke

Abstract

A printing apparatus includes: a transport unit configured to transport a medium in a transport direction; a printing unit configured to cause ink to adhere to the medium to perform printing; and a blowing device including an air blowing port and configured to blow air from the air blowing port to the medium to which the ink adheres. A guide member is disposed, at the air blowing port, downstream in an air blowing direction. Of end portions of the guide member, a third end portion that faces the medium extends along the transport direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form

40.

Robot And Control Method For Robot

      
Application Number 18476510
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sakamachi, Junki
  • Toshimitsu, Shunsuke

Abstract

A robot includes: a first structure; a second structure provided rotatably relatively to the first structure; a drive source that is arranged at the first structure and drives the second structure to rotate relatively to the first structure; a speed reducer that has an input shaft coupled to the drive source, an output shaft coupled to the second structure, and a gear unit installed between the input shaft and the output shaft, and that decelerates rotation of the drive source and transmits the decelerated rotation to the second structure; and a load application unit that applies a load to the output shaft when a rotational speed of the input shaft is equal to or lower than a predetermined value.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B25J 9/00 - Programme-controlled manipulators
  • B25J 9/04 - Programme-controlled manipulators characterised by movement of the arms, e.g. cartesian co-ordinate type by rotating at least one arm, excluding the head movement itself, e.g. cylindrical co-ordinate type or polar co-ordinate type
  • B25J 9/10 - Programme-controlled manipulators characterised by positioning means for manipulator elements
  • B25J 9/16 - Programme controls

41.

IMAGE READING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18474356
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-26
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Namiki, Masaki

Abstract

An image reading device includes a first power transmission section configured to transmit a driving force to the input gear, wherein the first power transmission section is configured to transmit the driving force from a first drive source that drives the feed roller to the input gear and furthermore, the first power transmission section includes a one-way clutch that does not transmit the power of the first drive source to the input gear when the first drive source rotates in a first rotation direction, which is a rotation direction during medium feeding, and transmits the power of the first drive source to the input gear when the first drive source rotates in a second rotation direction, which is opposite to the first rotation direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65H 5/02 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by belts or chains
  • B65H 3/06 - Rollers or like rotary separators

42.

DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE

      
Application Number 18477622
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yamada, Hiromasa

Abstract

A display method includes: presetting a display mode for displaying a setting screen; accepting an input of an image signal from an external device; and displaying the setting screen, when the image signal is inputted and it is determined that the display mode is in operation.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G09G 5/14 - Display of multiple viewports
  • G09G 5/00 - Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators

43.

LIQUID EJECTING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18477261
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Numajiri, Tomohiro

Abstract

A liquid ejecting device includes an ejecting unit that includes a nozzle surface at which at least one nozzle is open and that ejects a liquid onto a medium from the at least one nozzle, a carriage that is mounted with the ejecting unit and that reciprocates in a scanning direction, a drying unit that is mounted at the carriage and that dries the liquid ejected onto the medium by the ejecting unit, and a receiving unit that receives the liquid discharged from the at least one nozzle as a result of a maintenance operation for the ejecting unit. The receiving unit includes an absorbing member that absorbs the liquid. The drying unit dries the absorbing member when the ejecting unit is positioned, during printing, at a stop position at which the ejecting unit stops.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/165 - Prevention of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles
  • B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form

44.

Liquid Discharge Apparatus

      
Application Number 18478104
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuyuki, Masahiko
  • Takamuku, Makoto

Abstract

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including a substrate unit, in which the substrate unit includes a wiring substrate which is a rigid flexible substrate having a plurality of rigid members and flexible member, the flexible member includes a first surface, a second surface, a first region, a second region, and a third region, a first rigid member among the plurality of rigid members is laminated on the first surface of the first region such that a first front surface, the second rigid member among the plurality of rigid members is laminated on the first surface of the second region such that a second front surface, the flexible member includes a power supply voltage wiring, and the power supply voltage wiring is continuously provided over the first region, the second region, and the third region of the flexible member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers

45.

WINDING DEVICE AND PRINTING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18477268
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Fujiwara, Daisuke

Abstract

A winding unit that winds an intermittently conveyed medium includes a winding roller that winds the medium, a winding roller driving mechanism that applies a driving force for rotating the winding roller, a winding bar member that is swingably provided upstream from the winding roller and applies tension to the medium by pressing the medium, and an abutting portion that regulates swing of the winding bar member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 15/16 - Means for tensioning or winding the web

46.

LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND PRINT HEAD

      
Application Number 18476370
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ito, Sukehiro
  • Kawakami, Masayuki

Abstract

A liquid ejection apparatus includes a control circuit that outputs a control signal, a first drive signal output circuit that outputs a first drive signal, and a print head that ejects a liquid, in which the print head includes a piezoelectric element that is driven by receiving the first drive signal, a pressure chamber substrate that is provided with a plurality of pressure chambers of which volumes change due to deformation, a switch circuit that switches whether or not to supply the first drive signal to the piezoelectric element, a wiring substrate that is provided with the switch circuit, and a temperature detection portion that detects temperature information of the first pressure chamber, and the temperature information detected by the temperature detection portion is input to the control circuit in a period in which a voltage value of the first drive signal is constant.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 2/14 - Structure thereof

47.

FIRST DRIVE UNIT, FIRST LIQUID EJECTING HEAD UNIT, AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18476368
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yanagihara, Hirokazu

Abstract

A first drive unit configured to generate a first drive signal for driving a first liquid ejecting head unit, the first drive unit comprising: a first drive circuit that generates the first drive signal; a first thermal conductive material that is in contact with the first drive circuit; and a first water cooling mechanism that is in contact with the first thermal conductive material on an opposite side in relation to the first drive circuit and causes liquid to flow, wherein the first water cooling mechanism causes liquid sent from a second water cooling mechanism to flow, and discharges liquid to a third water cooling mechanism, the second water cooling mechanism is provided in a second drive unit configured to generate a second drive signal for driving a second liquid ejecting head unit located next to the first liquid ejecting head unit, and the third water cooling mechanism is provided in a third drive unit configured to generate a third drive signal for driving a third liquid ejecting head unit located next to the first liquid ejecting head unit on an opposite side in relation to the second liquid ejecting head unit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 2/14 - Structure thereof
  • B41J 2/155 - Arrangement thereof for line printing

48.

DRIVE CIRCUIT UNIT, HEAD UNIT, AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18476366
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kondo, Yoichiro

Abstract

A drive circuit unit is provided in a head unit together with a head and is configured to generate a drive signal for driving the head. The drive circuit unit includes a base board that includes a drive-circuit-unit-side connector coupled to a head-side connector; and a plurality of drive circuit boards on each of which a drive circuit configured to generate a drive signal is mounted, wherein the base board is disposed such that the base board extends in a direction intersecting with a nozzle surface of the head, and the plurality of drive circuit boards is disposed on the base board.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers

49.

DRIVE CIRCUIT UNIT, HEAD UNIT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18476387
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kondo, Yoichiro

Abstract

Provided is a drive circuit unit generating a drive signal for driving a head, the drive circuit unit including: a drive circuit generating the drive signal; a first connector coupled to the head; a first substrate on which the first connector is mounted; a fan generating wind for the drive circuit; and a second substrate on which the fan is mounted.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 29/377 - Cooling or ventilating arrangements
  • B41J 2/14 - Structure thereof
  • B41J 2/515 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by the process of building-up characters applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking processes from an assembly of identical printing elements line printer type

50.

DRIVE CIRCUIT UNIT, HEAD UNIT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18476386
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kondo, Yoichiro

Abstract

Provided is a drive circuit unit generating a drive signal for driving a head, the drive circuit unit including: a first connector coupled to the head; a drive circuit generating the drive signal; a fan generating wind for the drive circuit; and a conversion circuit converting a control signal for controlling the head, in which the first connector, the drive circuit, the fan, and the conversion circuit are arranged in an order of the first connector, the drive circuit, the fan, and the conversion circuit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 29/377 - Cooling or ventilating arrangements

51.

Watch Component, Watch, And Method For Manufacturing Watch Component

      
Application Number 18475287
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Fuji, Tsubasa

Abstract

A watch component of the present disclosure includes a substrate, and a multilayer film covering at least a part of the substrate. A plurality of recesses is formed in a surface, of the substrate, facing the multilayer film. In a cross-sectional view obtained by cutting the substrate in a thickness direction, the plurality of recesses is defined by a first side, and a second side tilted with respect to the first side and being in contact with the first side at an end portion. In the cross-sectional view, a ratio of a length of the second side along the thickness direction of the substrate with respect to a length of the second side along a direction orthogonal to the thickness direction of the substrate is greater than ½. The multilayer film includes three or more layers of a color absorption film composed of a material including Cr. A value of a brightness L* in a L*a*b* color space is equal to or less than 10 in plan view as viewed from the thickness direction of the substrate.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G04B 45/00 - Time-pieces of which the indicating means or cases provoke special effects, e.g. aesthetic effect
  • G04D 3/00 - Watchmakers' or watch-repairers' machines or tools for working materials

52.

LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND PRINT HEAD

      
Application Number 18476374
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Ito, Sukehiro

Abstract

In the liquid ejection apparatus, when first temperature information detected by a first ejection module includes information regarding a temperature in a first temperature range and first ejection data is a first value, a first switch circuit of the first ejection module outputs a first drive voltage signal including a second drive waveform, when second temperature information detected by a second ejection module includes the information regarding the temperature in the first temperature range and second ejection data is the first value, a second switch circuit of the second ejection module outputs a second drive voltage signal including a first drive waveform, and when the second temperature information includes information regarding a temperature in a second temperature range and the second ejection data is the first value, the second switch circuit outputs the second drive voltage signal including a second drive waveform.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 2/14 - Structure thereof

53.

LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND PRINT HEAD

      
Application Number 18476373
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ito, Sukehiro
  • Kawakami, Masayuki

Abstract

A liquid ejection apparatus includes a control circuit, a drive signal output circuit that outputs a drive signal, and a print head that ejects a liquid, in which the print head includes a piezoelectric element that is driven by receiving the drive signal, a pressure chamber substrate that is provided with a plurality of pressure chambers of which volumes change due to deformation, a switch circuit that switches whether or not to supply the drive signal to the piezoelectric element, a wiring substrate that is provided with the switch circuit, and a temperature detection portion that detects temperature information of the pressure chamber, and the temperature information detected by the temperature detection portion in a period in which the switch circuit does not supply the drive signal to the piezoelectric element is input to the control circuit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/14 - Structure thereof
  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers

54.

DRIVE CIRCUIT UNIT, HEAD UNIT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18476378
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kondo, Yoichiro

Abstract

Provided is a drive circuit unit that drives a head including a discharge section discharging, based on a drive signal, a liquid from a nozzle in a first direction, the drive circuit unit including: a fan; and a power supply board disposed on a side in a second direction opposite to the first direction with respect to the head, supplying power to a drive circuit, and having a first surface on which the fan is mounted, in which a height of a first object, which is a highest of objects mounted on the first surface in a direction orthogonal to the first surface, is equal to or less than a length of the head in a transport direction, and the first surface is a surface parallel to the first direction or a surface oblique to the first direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 29/377 - Cooling or ventilating arrangements

55.

LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND PROJECTOR

      
Application Number 18375295
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yasumatsu, Wataru
  • Matsumoto, Yuichiro
  • Shindo, Naoya

Abstract

A light source apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a first light source section that outputs first light containing a first polarized component and a second polarized component, a second light source section that outputs second light, a wavelength converter that converts the first light into third light, a light combiner that combines the first light, the second light, and the third light, and a filter that attenuates light of the third wavelength band. The light combiner reflects the first polarized component and transmits the second polarized component to cause one of he first polarized component and the second polarized component to exit toward the wavelength converter, and transmits the first light and the second light or the third light and reflects the third light or the first light and the second light. The filter is movable.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03B 33/12 - Simultaneous recording or projection using beam-splitting or beam-combining systems, e.g. dichroic mirrors
  • G03B 21/20 - Lamp housings

56.

Circuit Device And Electronic Apparatus

      
Application Number 18475922
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Okina, Katsumi
  • Kamikura, Haruki

Abstract

A circuit device includes a charging circuit, an A/D conversion circuit, a control circuit, and a linear regulator circuit. The charging circuit supplies a charging current to a battery based on a power supply voltage. The A/D conversion circuit A/D-converts a battery voltage and outputs battery voltage data. The control circuit outputs voltage control data for controlling a voltage value of the power supply voltage based on the battery voltage data such that a difference between the power supply voltage and the battery voltage is a given set voltage. The linear regulator circuit supplies the power supply voltage to the charging circuit based on the voltage control data.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02J 7/00 - Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
  • H02J 50/10 - Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling

57.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING HEAD

      
Application Number 18479222
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-02
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Takino, Fumiya

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a liquid ejecting head including a first component and a second component, the method includes a heating step of heating an adhesive that bonds and cures the first component and the second component to plasticize the adhesive, a disassembling step of releasing a bonding state between the first component and the second component by the heating step, and a replacing step of replacing at least one of the first component and the second component with a new product after the disassembling step.

IPC Classes  ?

58.

RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING RECORDING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18479225
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-02
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Sunaga, Yasuo

Abstract

A recording apparatus that performs recording according to printing request data includes: a manual paper feed section in which a plurality of sheets of paper are settable at once; a detection section that detects the presence or absence of the paper set in the manual paper feed section; and a determination section that determines a possibility of replenishment of the paper in the manual paper feed section based on an output of the detection section.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 15/00 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data
  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
  • B41J 13/03 - Rollers driven, e.g. feed rollers separate from platen
  • B41J 13/10 - Sheet holders, retainers, or stationary guides
  • G06K 15/16 - Means for paper feeding or form feeding

59.

LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18477713
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuyuki, Masahiko
  • Takamuku, Makoto

Abstract

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus, in which a substrate unit includes a first drive circuit that has a first coil, a second drive circuit that has a second coil, a cooling fan that generates an air flow, a wiring substrate having a plurality of rigid members and a flexible member, and a plate-shaped opening member having a first opening and a second opening, the cooling fan generates an air flow in a space where a first front surface of a first rigid member on which the first coil is provided and a second front surface of a second rigid member on which the second coil is provided, and when viewed along a normal direction of the opening member, the first opening overlaps with at least a part of the first coil, and the second opening overlaps with at least a part of the second coil.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers

60.

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VIBRATOR

      
Application Number 18475712
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sakata, Hiyori
  • Yamaguchi, Keiichi
  • Nishizawa, Ryuta
  • Shiraishi, Shigeru

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a vibrator includes a preparation step of preparing a quartz crystal substrate having a first surface and a second surface that are in a front and back relationship, a first protective film formation step of forming a first protective film in an element formation region of the first surface, the first protective film having a first opening overlapping a first groove formation region and a second opening overlapping a second groove formation region, in which a region of the quartz crystal substrate where the vibrator is formed is referred to as the element formation region, a region where the first groove is formed is referred to as the first groove formation region, and a region where the second groove is formed is referred to as the second groove formation region, and a first dry etching step of dry etching the quartz crystal substrate from the first surface through the first protective film. Wa

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01C 19/5628 - Manufacturing; Trimming; Mounting; Housings
  • H03H 3/02 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of impedance networks, resonating circuits, resonators for the manufacture of electromechanical resonators or networks for the manufacture of piezoelectric or electrostrictive resonators or networks
  • H03H 9/215 - Crystal tuning forks consisting of quartz
  • H10N 30/082 - Shaping or machining of piezoelectric or electrostrictive bodies by etching, e.g. lithography

61.

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VIBRATOR

      
Application Number 18475701
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Watanabe, Tsukasa
  • Yamaguchi, Keiichi
  • Shiraishi, Shigeru
  • Nishizawa, Ryuta

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a vibrator includes a preparation step of preparing a quartz crystal substrate having a first surface and a second surface which are in a front and back relationship, a first protective film formation step of forming a first protective film in a region of an element formation region other than a first groove formation region and a second groove formation region when a region of the quartz crystal substrate where the vibrator is formed is referred to as the element formation region, a region where the first groove is formed is referred to as the first groove formation region, and a region where the second groove is formed is referred to as the second groove formation region, a first dry etching step of dry etching the quartz crystal substrate from the first surface through the first protective film, a second protective film formation step of forming a second protective film in the first groove formation region, and a second dry etching step of dry etching the quartz crystal substrate from the first surface through the first protective film and the second protective film.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H03H 9/215 - Crystal tuning forks consisting of quartz
  • H03H 3/02 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of impedance networks, resonating circuits, resonators for the manufacture of electromechanical resonators or networks for the manufacture of piezoelectric or electrostrictive resonators or networks

62.

Liquid Discharge Apparatus

      
Application Number 18478404
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuyuki, Masahiko
  • Takamuku, Makoto

Abstract

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a substrate unit; a compressor that sends out compressed air; and a tube, in which the substrate unit includes a first drive circuit, a second drive circuit, and a wiring substrate having a plurality of rigid members and a flexible member, a first rigid member provided with a first drive circuit, having a first front surface, and laminated on the first surface of the first region, and a second rigid member provided with a second drive circuit, having a second front surface, and laminated on the first surface of the second region are positioned facing each other, and the compressor supplies the compressed air to a region where the first front surface and the second front surface face each other.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • D06P 5/30 - Ink jet printing

63.

TRANSPORT DEVICE AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18479721
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-02
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Fujishima, Kazutoshi

Abstract

A transport device including a transporting belt that includes a medium-supportable outer circumferential surface and transports the medium, a cleaning roller capable of cleaning the outer circumferential surface, a storage unit that stores a cleaning liquid supplied to the outer circumferential surface via the cleaning roller, a discharge port through which the cleaning liquid is dischargeable, a flow path pipe through which the discharged cleaning liquid is passable, a pump that changes an internal pressure of the flow path pipe to cause the cleaning liquid to flow so that the cleaning liquid stored in the storage unit is discharged from the storage unit through the discharge port and the flow path pipe, a sensor capable of detecting the internal pressure of the flow path pipe, and a control unit that determines a state of the cleaning liquid stored in the storage unit based on a detection result of the sensor.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
  • B41J 29/17 - Cleaning arrangements
  • B65G 45/12 - Cleaning devices comprising scrapers

64.

DRIVE UNIT, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD UNIT, AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18476402
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kondo, Yoichiro
  • Yanagihara, Hirokazu

Abstract

A drive unit is located on an opposite side in relation to an ejecting orifice of a liquid ejecting head unit. The drive unit includes a first board including a first connector coupled to a head connector of the liquid ejecting head unit; and a second board on which a drive circuit configured to generate a drive signal is mounted. The second board is disposed in an upright position with respect to the first board by being B-to-B coupled to the first board, and the drive signal is supplied from the second board to the first connector via the first board.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 29/377 - Cooling or ventilating arrangements

65.

LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND COOLING UNIT

      
Application Number 18476400
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yanagihara, Hirokazu

Abstract

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head that includes an ejecting portion that, upon receiving a drive signal, ejects liquid; a controller that performs control on circulation of liquid through the first flow passage, wherein the controller performs first control of circulating liquid through the first thermal conductive member and the second thermal conductive member in this order in the first flow passage when an amount of heat generated at the first portion is larger than an amount of heat generated at the second portion, and performs second control of circulating liquid through the second thermal conductive member and the first thermal conductive member in this order in the first flow passage when an amount of heat generated at the second portion is larger than an amount of heat generated at the first portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers

66.

RECORDING DEVICE AND RECORDING METHOD

      
Application Number 18476405
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Matsumura, Tetsuya
  • Aoyagi, Shunichi
  • Kobayashi, Takashi

Abstract

A recording device, including a transport roller whose circumference length is different from nozzle array length in a transport direction, performs TP recording control to record a group of test patterns, in which a plurality of test patterns including a first patch and a second patch with different positions in the transport direction are arranged in a main scanning direction, and in which an amount of liquid ejected for a boundary area between the first patch and the second patch is different for each test pattern, wherein, in the TP recording control, records a first TP group and a second TP group at different positions in the transport direction onto a medium, transports the medium by a first distance based on the nozzle array length as a transport between the recording of the first patch and the second patch of the TP, and, as a transport between the recording of the second patch of the first TP group and the recording of the first patch of the second TP group, transports the medium by a second distance, which is a difference between an integer multiple of the circumference length and two times the first distance.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 2/21 - Ink jet for multi-colour printing
  • B41J 13/03 - Rollers driven, e.g. feed rollers separate from platen
  • B41J 29/393 - Devices for controlling or analysing the entire machine

67.

RESONATOR ELEMENT AND QUARTZ CRYSTAL WAFER

      
Application Number 18474691
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-26
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Matsuo, Atsushi
  • Maki, Katsuhiko

Abstract

A resonator element includes an AT-cut quartz crystal substrate having a first surface that is a front surface and a second surface that is a rear surface with respect to the front surface, the two surfaces extending along the axes X and Z′ of a quartz crystal, and further having side surfaces that link the first and second surfaces to each other, a first excitation electrode disposed at the first surface, a first extraction electrode disposed at the first surface and coupled to the first excitation electrode, a second excitation electrode disposed at the second surface, and a second extraction electrode disposed at the second surface and coupled to the second excitation electrode. The side surfaces include a first side surface located at one side of the direction of the axis X, and second and third side surfaces that intersect with the first side surface. At least one of the first and second extraction electrodes is disposed at and extends along the first side surface. At least one of the second and third side surfaces has a fracture surface.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H03H 9/19 - Constructional features of resonators consisting of piezoelectric or electrostrictive material having a single resonator consisting of quartz
  • H03H 9/05 - Holders or supports
  • H03H 9/13 - Driving means, e.g. electrodes, coils for networks consisting of piezoelectric or electrostrictive materials

68.

SENSOR MODULE

      
Application Number 18474217
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-25
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sato, Kenta
  • Todorokihara, Masayoshi

Abstract

A sensor module includes: a count unit configured to generate first to n-th count values of a time event of one of a measurement target signal output from a physical quantity sensor and a reference periodic signal output from a reference periodic signal generation unit in synchronization with the other; a time digital value generation unit configured to generate first to n-th time digital values based on a phase difference between the measurement target signal and the reference periodic signal; and a combined output value generation unit configured to generate an i-th combined output value based on the i-th time digital value and the i-th count value. A quantization error of the j-th combined output value is fed back to generation of the (j+1)-th combined output value, and a period of a change in the physical quantity when a frequency, at which the physical quantity changes, is a maximum frequency is longer than eight times an average period in which first to n-th combined output values are generated.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01R 23/10 - Arrangements for measuring frequency, e.g. pulse repetition rate; Arrangements for measuring period of current or voltage by converting frequency into a train of pulses, which are then counted
  • G01R 31/317 - Testing of digital circuits

69.

IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE READING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18475304
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hirayama, Yuko
  • Murahashi, Kenichi

Abstract

An image reading apparatus is configured to read image data generated by reading a window within a junction of a carrier sheet and then to determine whether the target object is a carrier sheet, based on a total height of a first area and a plurality of second areas arranged with the first area therebetween in a transport direction as well as a first color width. In the first area, pixels in a second color are sequentially arrayed in the transport direction; in the second areas, pixels in a first color are sequentially arrayed in the transport direction; and the first color width indicates a length of an area in which a plurality of pixels in the first color are sequentially arrayed in a width direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65H 7/12 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to double feed or separation
  • B65H 7/20 - Controlling associated apparatus
  • H04N 1/60 - Colour correction or control

70.

SCANNER, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD

      
Application Number 18475330
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Sakai, Toshifumi

Abstract

A scanner includes a display device 10 that displays a first button 61 that causes a screen transition to a setting screen for receiving a scan setting, a second button 62 that is located near the first button 61 and causes the scanner to immediately perform a scan according to a first setting, and a third button 63 that is located near the first button 61 and causes the scanner to immediately perform a scan according to a second setting.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof

71.

RECORDING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18477510
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Saito, Yusuke
  • Kaneko, Kenichiro
  • Kobayashi, Masaki

Abstract

The recording device includes an elongated member 79 and a housing section 60. The housing section 60 houses the elongated member 79, and has a fixed end 61, a moving end, and an elongated variable section. A curved portion, which is a portion where the variable section is folded back on the way, moves following the movement of the carriage. In the height direction HD of the housing section 60, film member 76 having flexibility is disposed between the elongated member 79 and the housing section 60. A coefficient of friction between the film member 76 and the elongated member 79 is smaller than a coefficient of friction between the housing section 60 and the elongated member 79.

IPC Classes  ?

72.

Liquid Discharge Apparatus

      
Application Number 18478251
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuyuki, Masahiko
  • Takamuku, Makoto

Abstract

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a print head; a substrate unit; and a control circuit that controls operations of the print head and the substrate unit, in which the print head includes a first discharge section that has a first piezoelectric element that is displaced by receiving a first driving signal and discharges a liquid by displacement of the first piezoelectric element, and a first connector, the substrate unit includes a second connector that is electrically coupled to the print head by being fitted to the first connector, a first drive circuit that outputs the first driving signal, a temperature sensor that acquires environmental temperature, and a wiring substrate provided with the first drive circuit and the temperature sensor, and the control circuit controls the first drive circuit and the print head based on the environmental temperature acquired by the temperature sensor.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 29/377 - Cooling or ventilating arrangements

73.

Liquid Discharge Apparatus

      
Application Number 18478447
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuyuki, Masahiko
  • Takamuku, Makoto

Abstract

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus, in which a substrate unit includes a first abnormality notification section that notifies an abnormality of the substrate unit, a wiring substrate having a plurality of rigid members and a flexible member, a first heat sink, and a second heat sink, the first heat sink is laminated on the second surface of the first region and positioned close to the second rigid member, the second heat sink is laminated on the second surface of the second region and positioned close to the fourth rigid member, and the first abnormality notification section is provided on a fourth rigid member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers

74.

Management Method For Three-Dimensional Shaping Apparatus, Information Processing Apparatus, And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Storing Computer Program

      
Application Number 18476494
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Endo, Wataru

Abstract

A management method for a three-dimensional shaping apparatus includes an output step for referring to a storage unit that stores time information representing time, operation information including information representing a shaping time for a model in the three-dimensional shaping apparatus, and user information corresponding to the operation information or the three-dimensional shaping apparatus and outputting the time information, the operation information, and the user information. The operation information is stored in the storage unit in association with the time information. The user information includes at least one of face information and name information of a user. In the output step, the time information is output in a designated scale or a designated time zone.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B29C 64/386 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
  • B33Y 50/00 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing

75.

Piezoelectric Substrate, Piezoelectric Element, And Piezoelectric Element Application Device

      
Application Number 18479155
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-02
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yano, Yoshiki
  • Ohashi, Koji
  • Hamada, Yasuaki
  • Kitada, Kazuya

Abstract

A piezoelectric substrate according to the present disclosure includes: a base body; an electrode formed at the base body; and a piezoelectric layer formed at the electrode and containing potassium, sodium, and niobium. A value of IR2/IR1 obtained by dividing an integrated intensity IR2 at a peak 2 by an integrated intensity IR1 at a peak 1, when a surface of the piezoelectric layer is measured by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, is less than 0.086. Here, the peak 1 has a strongest area intensity among peaks detected at wavenumbers of 475 cm−1 to 700 cm−1, and the peak 2 has an area intensity that is a sum of area intensities of peaks detected at wavenumbers of 1200 cm−1 to 1645 cm−1.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H10N 30/853 - Ceramic compositions
  • G01N 21/35 - Investigating relative effect of material at wavelengths characteristic of specific elements or molecules, e.g. atomic absorption spectrometry using infrared light
  • H10N 30/093 - Forming inorganic materials

76.

SHEET MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND SHEET MANUFACTURING METHOD

      
Application Number 18479140
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-02
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyauchi, Keisuke
  • Hashimoto, Akira

Abstract

There is provided a sheet manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulation section that accumulates a material containing fibers by an air flow to form a web; a transport section that transports the web in a first direction; a humidification section that humidifies the web; and a pressurization section that pressurizes the web humidified by the humidification section and compresses the web into a sheet shape, in which the humidification section includes an intake port that takes in air, a tank that stores water, a mist generation section that generates mist from the water, and an exhaust port that exhausts the mist and the air toward the web, and a position of the exhaust port is shifted in the first direction or a second direction opposite to the first direction with respect to a position of the tank.

IPC Classes  ?

  • D21F 7/00 - Other details of machines for making continuous webs of paper
  • D21F 9/04 - Complete machines for making continuous webs of paper of the cylinder type
  • D21F 11/06 - Processes for making continuous lengths of paper, or of cardboard, or of wet web for fibreboard production, on paper-making machines of the cylinder type

77.

Vibrator Element

      
Application Number 18476700
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-28
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kawauchi, Osamu

Abstract

A vibrator element includes: a plate-shaped vibrating substrate including a first surface and a second surface, which are in a front and back relationship, and including a vibrating portion and a support portion that supports the vibrating portion and has a thickness smaller than that of the vibrating portion; an electrode including a first excitation electrode disposed at the first surface at the vibrating portion, a second excitation electrode disposed at the second surface at the vibrating portion, a first pad electrode disposed at the support portion and electrically coupled to the first excitation electrode, and a second pad electrode disposed at the support portion and electrically coupled to the second excitation electrode; a first metal film disposed at an upper layer on the first pad electrode and having a thickness larger than that of the first pad electrode; and a second metal film disposed at an upper layer on the second pad electrode and having a thickness larger than that of the second pad electrode.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H03H 9/19 - Constructional features of resonators consisting of piezoelectric or electrostrictive material having a single resonator consisting of quartz
  • H03H 3/02 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of impedance networks, resonating circuits, resonators for the manufacture of electromechanical resonators or networks for the manufacture of piezoelectric or electrostrictive resonators or networks
  • H03H 9/05 - Holders or supports
  • H03H 9/10 - Mounting in enclosures

78.

IMAGE READING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE READING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18474342
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-26
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Minami, Yuki

Abstract

An image reading device includes a DC motor, a roller driven by the DC motor, a reading unit configured to read an image from a document conveyed by the roller, and a control unit configured to control driving of the DC motor. The control unit is configured to detect a power load value of the DC motor. The control unit is configured to determine that the power load value of the DC motor exceeds a first threshold value in a state in which the control unit controls the DC motor to convey the document at a first conveyance velocity, and then, control the DC motor to convey the document at a second conveyance velocity lower than the first conveyance velocity.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02P 7/285 - Arrangements for regulating or controlling the speed or torque of electric DC motors for regulating or controlling an individual dc dynamo-electric motor by varying field or armature current by master control with auxiliary power using discharge tubes or semiconductor devices using semiconductor devices controlling armature supply only
  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof
  • H04N 1/10 - Scanning arrangements using flat picture-bearing surfaces

79.

Semiconductor Device And Electronic Apparatus

      
Application Number 18474348
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-26
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Katayama, Takao
  • Fukuzawa, Akihiro
  • Baisho, Fumihito
  • Nonaka, Tsutomu

Abstract

Provided is a semiconductor device. In a first operation mode, a first modulated signal is input to a plurality of inverter circuits provided in a first amplifier circuit, and a second modulated signal is input to a plurality of inverter circuits provided in a second amplifier circuit. In a second operation mode, a test signal generation circuit modulates a test signal to generate a third modulated signal and a fourth modulated signal. The third modulated signal is input to some of the plurality of inverter circuits provided in the first amplifier circuit, and outputs of other inverter circuits have high impedances. The fourth modulated signal is input to some of the plurality of inverter circuits provided in the second amplifier circuit, and outputs of other inverter circuits have high impedances. A peak frequency detection circuit detects a frequency range including a frequency of the test signal at which an impedance of a sound reproduction device peaks.

IPC Classes  ?

80.

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING VIBRATOR

      
Application Number 18475685
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Watanabe, Tsukasa
  • Yamaguchi, Keiichi
  • Shiraishi, Shigeru
  • Nishizawa, Ryuta

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a vibrator includes a preparation step of preparing a quartz crystal substrate having a first surface and a second surface which are in a front and back relationship, a first protective film formation step of forming a first protective film in a second groove formation region when a region of the quartz crystal substrate where the vibrator is formed is referred to as an element formation region, a region where the first groove is formed is referred to as a first groove formation region, and a region where the second groove is formed is referred to as the second groove formation region, a second protective film formation step of forming, in the first groove formation region, a second protective film having a lower etching rate than the first protective film, a third protective film formation step of forming a third protective film in a region of the element formation region other than the first groove formation region and the second groove formation region, and a first dry etching step of dry etching the quartz crystal substrate from the first surface through the first protective film, the second protective film, and the third protective film.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H03H 9/215 - Crystal tuning forks consisting of quartz
  • H03H 3/02 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of impedance networks, resonating circuits, resonators for the manufacture of electromechanical resonators or networks for the manufacture of piezoelectric or electrostrictive resonators or networks

81.

PRINTING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18477629
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-29
First Publication Date 2024-04-04
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ishihara, Kenjiro
  • Takeda, Kazuhisa
  • Hanawa, Keita
  • Nishikawa, Ryo

Abstract

A printing apparatus includes a head that faces a medium supported by a medium support unit and ejects a liquid, an interference object sensor including a detector that detects an interference object with the head, and a cover that can switch the detector to a shielded state and to an exposed state.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 13/10 - Sheet holders, retainers, or stationary guides
  • B41J 29/13 - Cases or covers

82.

ROBOT TEACHING METHOD AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT PRINTER

      
Application Number 18469610
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-19
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Utsunomiya, Kohei

Abstract

A robot teaching method includes: a printing posture setting step of setting a printing posture that is a relative posture between the head and the workpiece in the printing operation. When a position where a positional relationship with the nozzle surface is fixed is a first position and a position different from the first position where a positional relationship with the nozzle surface is fixed is a third position, the printing posture is set in a virtual space in the printing posture setting step based on a positional relationship between the first position and the workpiece and a positional relationship between the third position and the workpiece.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B25J 9/16 - Programme controls
  • B25J 15/00 - Gripping heads
  • B33Y 10/00 - Processes of additive manufacturing
  • B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor

83.

GAS SEPARATION MEMBRANE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING GAS SEPARATION MEMBRANE

      
Application Number 18470552
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-20
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Matsumoto, Yasutaka

Abstract

A gas separation membrane includes a resin layer including an organopolysiloxane and a modified layer provided at a surface on one side of the resin layer and including a functional group introduced into the surface on one side. When X-ray photoelectron spectrometry, in which X-rays are irradiated from the front surface side of the modified layer, is performed to generate an XPS spectrum in a range including an Si2p peak and the Si2p peak is subjected to waveform separation, the area ratio of the Si—O peak to the Si2p peak is from 2% to 30%.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B01D 71/70 - Polymers having silicon in the main chain, with or without sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen or carbon only
  • B01D 69/12 - Composite membranes; Ultra-thin membranes

84.

DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE

      
Application Number 18472447
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-22
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kokubo, Koya

Abstract

A display method includes receiving a first operation of selecting one of pieces of layout information for designating a first region and a second region different from the first region from a user, receiving a second operation of determining a first input image to be a base of an image to be displayed in the first region from the user, displaying a part or a whole of an image based on the first input image in the first region designated by the one of the pieces of layout information, receiving a third operation of determining a second input image to be a base of an image to be displayed in the second region from the user, and displaying a part or a whole of an image based on the second input image in the second region designated by the one of the pieces of layout information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/14 - Digital output to display device
  • G06F 3/0482 - Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
  • G06T 7/50 - Depth or shape recovery

85.

MOLDING MATERIAL

      
Application Number 18473335
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-25
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Fujita, Tomohiro
  • Yokokawa, Shinobu
  • Nakajima, Chieko

Abstract

A molding material is a molding material including linear alkyl-based polyester, highly polar polyester, and cellulose fibers, in which a content of the linear alkyl-based polyester is greater than a content of the highly polar polyester, and a total content of the linear alkyl-based polyester and the highly polar polyester is less than or equal to a content of the cellulose fibers.

IPC Classes  ?

86.

MOLDING MATERIAL

      
Application Number 18473339
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-25
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Fujita, Tomohiro
  • Yokokawa, Shinobu
  • Nakajima, Chieko

Abstract

A molding material is a molding material including linear alkyl-based polyester, highly polar polyester, cellulose fibers, and a flame retardant, in which a total content of the linear alkyl-based polyester and the highly polar polyester is less than or equal to a content of the cellulose fibers, the flame retardant has a phosphazene skeleton or a phosphoric acid ester skeleton in a molecular structure, and a content of the flame retardant is 1% by mass or greater and 10% by mass or less with respect to the total content of the linear alkyl-based polyester, the highly polar polyester, and the cellulose fibers.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C08L 67/02 - Polyesters derived from dicarboxylic acids and dihydroxy compounds
  • B29C 45/00 - Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mould; Apparatus therefor
  • C08K 5/5399 - Phosphorus bound to nitrogen
  • C08K 7/02 - Fibres or whiskers
  • C08L 1/02 - Cellulose; Modified cellulose
  • C08L 67/04 - Polyesters derived from hydroxy carboxylic acids, e.g. lactones

87.

Method For Manufacturing Device

      
Application Number 18473362
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-25
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kanai, Toshiki
  • Kurokawa, Kenichi
  • Yamauchi, Yukio

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a device including an active layer and a support substrate bonded to the active layer on one surface side, the active layer including an element, an electrode configured to drive the element, a frame portion disposed around the element, and an electrode pad disposed in the frame portion and coupled to the electrode, the method including: forming a protective film at the other surface side of the frame portion and the other surface side of the element, the protective film being resistant to an etchant and including a first opening portion formed between an outer shape of the element and the frame portion and a second opening portion formed on the electrode pad; and forming a space between the element and the support substrate by etching the support substrate with the etchant passing through the first opening portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H10N 30/06 - Forming electrodes or interconnections, e.g. leads or terminals
  • H10N 30/02 - Forming enclosures or casings

88.

IMAGE READING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18473376
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-25
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Namiki, Masaki

Abstract

The image reading device includes a reading section 5 for reading an image of a transported medium 3, a discharge section 9 for discharging the transported medium 3 in a discharge direction D, and a tapping member 11 for tapping a rear end portion 3e of the medium 3 discharged by the discharge section 9 downward. The tapping member 11 retreats from a discharge path 13 when the leading end portion 3t of the medium 3 is discharged to the discharge path 13 by the discharge section 9, and advances to the discharge path 13 when the rear end portion 3e of the medium 3 passes through the discharge section 9. The position P2 at which the tapping member 11 taps the medium 3 is a position that does not overlap the discharge section 9 in the discharge direction D.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof
  • B65H 31/02 - Pile receivers with stationary end support against which pile accumulates

89.

FIBROUS BODY PROCESSING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18474297
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-26
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hasebe, Karen
  • Sato, Makoto
  • Motohashi, Koji
  • Sakurada, Jun
  • Yamazaki, Toshihiko
  • Abe, Takashi

Abstract

A fibrous body processing apparatus includes a humidifying unit, a first processing unit, a second processing unit, a first supply passage, a second supply passage, and a returning passage. The humidifying unit generates humidified air. The first processing unit processes a material that contains fibers. The second processing unit processes the material that was processed at the first processing unit. Humidified air is supplied from the humidifying unit to the first processing unit through the first supply passage. Humidified air is supplied from the first processing unit to the second processing unit, together with the material, through the second supply passage. The returning passage includes an upstream-side end portion and a downstream-side end portion. Humidified air is returned from the second supply passage or the second processing unit to the humidifying unit through the returning passage.

IPC Classes  ?

  • D21C 1/02 - Pretreatment of the finely-divided materials before digesting with water or steam
  • D21H 11/14 - Secondary fibres

90.

JOB EXECUTION DEVICE

      
Application Number 18475832
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kuramoto, Hiroyuki
  • Sakai, Toshifumi

Abstract

A job execution device includes a display unit, a storage unit that stores a first history group that is a history of a job group executed based on a setting received on a first home screen, and a second history group that is a history of a job group executed based on a setting received on a second home screen different from the first home screen, and a controller that display a display screen including the first home screen and the second home screen on the display unit, wherein the first home screen includes a first object group that receives an instruction to re-execute a first job that was executed, the first job being included in the first history group, and a second object group that receives an instruction to re-execute a second job that was executed, the second job being included in the second history group.

IPC Classes  ?

91.

Pressure Sensor, Gripping Device, And Robot

      
Application Number 18475874
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-27
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yonemura, Takayuki

Abstract

A pressure sensor includes a base having a mounting surface, an elastic member mounted on the mounting surface and forming a dome shape including a convex curved surface, a first pressure-sensitive element placed in a position between the mounting surface and the elastic member and corresponding to a vertex of the convex curved surface and outputting a first detection signal by sensing pressure, a second pressure-sensitive element placed in a position between the mounting surface and the elastic member and corresponding to a peripheral portion of the convex curved surface and outputting a second detection signal by sensing pressure, and a calculator performing a calculation on the first detection signal and the second detection signal, wherein the calculator measures hardness of an object based on a ratio R1-1/2 between the first detection signal and the second detection signal when the object is pressed against the elastic member with a first load.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B25J 13/08 - Controls for manipulators by means of sensing devices, e.g. viewing or touching devices
  • G01N 3/40 - Investigating hardness or rebound hardness

92.

BOARD, LIQUID ACCOMMODATION CONTAINER, AND PRINTING SYSTEM

      
Application Number 18527895
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-12-04
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nakano, Shuichi
  • Kosugi, Yasuhiko
  • Sato, Jun

Abstract

In a board that includes a plurality of contact portions that are arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side terminals when the board is mounted in a printing apparatus, some contact portions are disposed in a first region, and the remaining contact portions are disposed in a second region. The some contact portions include a first contact portion, a second contact portion, a third contact portion, and a fourth contact portion. The remaining contact portions include a fifth contact portion. The some contact portions are arranged in a first pattern in the first region and the remaining contact portions are arranged in a second pattern in the second region, and the first pattern is asymmetrical to the second pattern with respect to a first virtual line.

IPC Classes  ?

93.

Transition-State Output Device, Time-To-Digital Converter, And Analog-To-Digital Converter Circuit

      
Application Number 18528968
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-12-05
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Todorokihara, Masayoshi

Abstract

A transition-state output device includes: a ring oscillator circuit; a state machine changing in state according to a change in state of the ring oscillator circuit; a transition-state acquisition section acquiring and holding state information including a signal output from the ring oscillator circuit and a signal output from the state machine, synchronously with a reference signal; and an internal-state calculation section calculating an internal state corresponding to a number of changes in state of the ring oscillator circuit, based on the state information held by the transition-state acquisition section. A time until the internal state, after transitioning from a first internal state to a second internal state, transitions to the first internal state again is longer than a time interval of updating the state information held by the transition-state acquisition section.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H03M 1/50 - Analogue/digital converters with intermediate conversion to time interval
  • H03K 3/03 - Astable circuits
  • H03M 1/12 - Analogue/digital converters

94.

SHEET MANUFACTURING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18466028
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-13
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kanada, Hidemasa
  • Nagai, Yoshiyuki
  • Fukasawa, Masanao
  • Miyazawa, Kazuma
  • Nakamura, Masahide

Abstract

There is provided a sheet manufacturing apparatus including: an accumulation section that accumulates a material containing fibers by an air flow to form a web; a humidification section that applies moisture from one surface side of the web; and a pressurization section that pressurizes the humidified web at a pressurization location to form a sheet, in which the pressurization section includes a first roller that comes into contact with one surface of the web at the pressurization location and a second roller that comes into contact with the other surface of the web at the pressurization location, the web is transported such that the one surface of the web comes into contact with a surface of the first roller over a predetermined length starting from the pressurization location, and the first roller has a heating mechanism, and the first roller heats the web while the one surface of the web is in contact with the surface of the first roller.

IPC Classes  ?

  • D21F 9/00 - Complete machines for making continuous webs of paper
  • D21F 3/08 - Pressure rolls
  • D21F 7/00 - Other details of machines for making continuous webs of paper

95.

Gripping Device, Robot, And Control Method For Gripping Device

      
Application Number 18471548
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-21
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yonemura, Takayuki
  • Kitazawa, Takayuki

Abstract

A gripping device includes a gripper gripping an object by decreasing a distance to the object, a pressure sensor provided in the gripper, detecting a contact force applied from the object when contacting with the object, and outputting a detection signal, a driver driving the gripper, and a first controller controlling operation of the driver based on the detection signal, wherein the first controller operates the driver in a first drive mode for decreasing the distance at a first speed when the detection signal is not output, and operates the driver in a second drive mode for decreasing the distance at a second speed lower than the first speed when the detection signal is output.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B25J 13/08 - Controls for manipulators by means of sensing devices, e.g. viewing or touching devices
  • B25J 9/16 - Programme controls

96.

IMAGE READING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18472357
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-22
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Namiki, Masaki

Abstract

An image reading apparatus includes a first displacement member configured to be displaced between a first non-contact position at which a medium and a feeding roller do not contact with each other and a first contact position at which those contact with other, and a second displacement member configured to be displaced between a second non-contact position at which the medium and the feeding roller do not contact with each other and a second contact position at which those contact with other. The second displacement member is displaced from the second non-contact position to the second contact position as the first displacement member is displaced from the first non-contact position to the first contact position, and is displaced from the second contact position to the second non-contact position as the first displacement member is displaced from the first contact position to the first non-contact position.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65H 3/06 - Rollers or like rotary separators
  • B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof

97.

ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18473269
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-24
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Koga, Yuki

Abstract

A liquid crystal device includes a transistor, a pixel electrode provided corresponding to the transistor, a lens layer provided in a layer between the transistor and the pixel electrode, a capacitance electrode provided in a layer between the transistor and the lens layer, and a relay layer provided in a layer between the capacitance electrode and the pixel electrode to be electrically connected to the capacitance electrode via a contact hole and electrically connected to the pixel electrode via a second contact hole, wherein the relay layer is provided in a region overlapping the capacitance electrode in plan view.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02F 1/1368 - Active matrix addressed cells in which the switching element is a three-electrode device
  • G02F 1/1362 - Active matrix addressed cells

98.

PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTED MATTER PRODUCTION METHOD

      
Application Number 18473334
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-25
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ishikawa, Yuji
  • Sakai, Toshifumi

Abstract

A printing system includes: a communication interface that acquires printing data from a device; a first printing mechanism that performs printing on a first medium; a second printing mechanism that performs printing on a second medium; and a processor that analyzes an image of the acquired printing data, permits printing on the first medium and printing on the second medium when it is determined that the image of the printing data is a first type image, and permits printing on the first medium and prohibits printing on the second medium when it is determined that the image of the printing data is a second type image.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 15/02 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data using printers
  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit

99.

MOLDING MATERIAL

      
Application Number 18473337
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-25
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Fujita, Tomohiro
  • Yokokawa, Shinobu
  • Nakajima, Chieko

Abstract

A molding material includes a resin and cellulose fibers, in which the content of the cellulose fibers is 50% by mass or more based on the total mass of the molding material, the resin has a Hansen solubility parameter HSP of 20.0 or more and 32.0 or less in total, a hydrogen bonding term δH of 4.0 or more and 15.0 or less in total, and a polarity term δP of 8.5 or more and 17.0 or less in total, and when a molded body obtained by using the molding material is fractured, the resin present on the cellulose fibers accounts for 30% or more of an area of 1 mm square of the fracture surface of the molded body.

IPC Classes  ?

100.

LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 18474145
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-25
First Publication Date 2024-03-28
Owner SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Watanabe, Eiichiro

Abstract

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a mode controller that controls execution of a first mode in which an operation of the liquid ejecting head is controlled under pressurization at first pressure by the pressurizing mechanism and depressurization at second pressure by the depressurizing mechanism and execution of a second mode in which the operation of the liquid ejecting head is controlled under pressurization at third pressure by the pressurizing mechanism and depressurization at fourth pressure by the depressurizing mechanism. To switch from the execution of the first mode to the execution of the second mode, the mode controller gradually changes, from the first pressure to the third pressure, pressure at which the pressurization operation is performed by the pressurizing mechanism, and gradually changes, from the second pressure to the fourth pressure, pressure at which the depressurization operation is performed by the depressurizing mechanism.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
  • B41J 2/19 - Ink jet characterised by ink handling for removing air bubbles
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