公开(公告)号：US11104161B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-31

申请号：US16882853

申请日：2020-05-26

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Shinsaku Kosuge ,  Hirosuke Yasuki ,  Hideki Sakano

IPC: B41J11/70

Abstract: Provided is a tape cutter including a full-receiving portion having a full-receiving blade and a positioning hole, and a full-movable portion having a full-movable blade and a positioning pin, and that comes into contact with or separates from the full-receiving portion. The full-receiving blade and the full-movable blade overlap and rub against each other to cut a tape, and when the full-movable portion moves toward the full-receiving portion, the positioning hole and the positioning pin are engaged with each other, so that the full-receiving blade is positioned with respect to the full-movable blade in a direction in which the full-receiving blade and the full-movable blade overlap.

公开(公告)号：US11247487B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-15

申请号：US16883161

申请日：2020-05-26

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Hirosuke Yasuki

IPC: B41J3/407 ,  B41J11/70 ,  B41J29/13 ,  B26D7/01 ,  B41J29/02 ,  B41J3/36

Abstract: Provided is a tape printing apparatus including a recessed portion having an open first side, a mounting portion lid that opens and closes the recessed portion, a support target portion that extends from a bottom surface of the recessed portion to the first side, and a cantilever support portion that is provided on a second side of the support target portion opposite to the first side and supports the support target portion in a cantilever manner. The mounting portion lid is provided with a lid-side support portion that supports an end on the first side of the support target portion when the mounting portion lid is closed.

公开(公告)号：US11590769B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US17488949

申请日：2021-09-29

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Kenji Motai ,  Hirosuke Yasuki ,  Keisuke Taruya

IPC: B41J3/407 ,  B41J11/04 ,  B41J15/04 ,  B41J2/325

Abstract: A tape printing device includes a platen shaft that engages with a platen roller; a thermal head that prints on a tape sandwiched with the platen roller engaged with the platen shaft; a head holder that has a rotating shaft and rotatably holds the thermal head about the rotating shaft; and a pressing member that is provided to be rotatable about the rotating shaft together with the thermal head and presses the thermal head against the platen roller, in which the pressing member has a convex portion that protrudes toward the thermal head and presses the thermal head against the platen roller.

公开(公告)号：US11420452B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-23

申请号：US16880166

申请日：2020-05-21

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Hirosuke Yasuki

IPC: B41J11/66 ,  B41J11/70 ,  B26D1/08

Abstract: A half cutter includes a blade, a blade holder to which the blade is fixed, and a blade receiving member which the blade approaches to or departs from. The blade holder has a pressure receiving portion that receives a pressing force which presses the blade holder against the blade receiving member, and a transmission section that transmits the pressing force received by the pressure receiving portion to both end portions of the blade in an extending direction of a blade edge of the blade.

公开(公告)号：US11787207B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-17

申请号：US17696176

申请日：2022-03-16

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Hirosuke Yasuki ,  Kenji Motai ,  Keisuke Taruya ,  Keishin Sakamoto

IPC: B41J15/04 ,  B41J35/28 ,  B41J3/407

CPC classification number: B41J15/044 ,  B41J3/4075 ,  B41J35/28

Abstract: An opening/closing mechanism for an opening/closing cover includes the opening/closing cover, a cover protrusion, a protrusion engagement lever, an elastic member, and a cover opening section having an operation section, the cover opening section being configured to rotate the opening/closing cover in the closed position to a second position. The cover protrusion includes a second engaging portion configured to be pushed by the protrusion engagement member when the opening/closing cover is in the second position such that the opening/closing cover remains in the second position and includes a third engaging portion configured to be pushed by the protrusion engagement member when the opening/closing cover is in a third position between the second position and the open position such that the opening/closing cover rotates from the third position to the open position.

公开(公告)号：US11285742B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-29

申请号：US16880157

申请日：2020-05-21

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Hirosuke Yasuki

IPC: B41J11/70 ,  B41J3/407 ,  B41J11/66

Abstract: A half cutter includes a blade, a blade holder to which the blade is fixed, a blade receiving member which the blade approaches to or departs from, a blade receiving holder to which the blade receiving member is fixed, a spacer which is provided to at least one of the blade and the blade receiving member and generates a gap between the blade and the blade receiving member when the blade approaches the blade receiving member, and a fixing member that fixes the spacer to at least one of the blade holder and the blade receiving holder.

公开(公告)号：US11945244B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-02

申请号：US18180454

申请日：2023-03-08

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Keisuke Taruya ,  Taishi Sasaki ,  Akio Ishimoto ,  Hirosuke Yasuki

IPC: B41J32/00 ,  B41J15/04 ,  B41J3/407

CPC classification number: B41J32/00 ,  B41J15/044 ,  B41J3/4075

Abstract: A cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer, the cartridge includes a ribbon roll around which an ink ribbon is wound, and a cartridge case configured to accommodate a tape roll around which a tape is wound and that accommodates the ribbon roll, in which the cartridge case includes a third case portion, a first case portion that constitutes a tape roll accommodating portion accommodating the tape roll between the first case portion and the third case portion, and a second case portion that is separated from the first case portion and accommodates the ribbon roll between the second case portion and the third case portion, and the first case portion is configured to open and close the tape roll accommodating portion.

公开(公告)号：US11504870B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-22

申请号：US16883064

申请日：2020-05-26

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Shinsaku Kosuge ,  Hirosuke Yasuki

IPC: B41J11/66 ,  B41J29/13 ,  B26D3/08 ,  B26D7/26 ,  B41J11/70 ,  B41J3/36 ,  B41J3/407

Abstract: Provided is a tape printing apparatus including a half cutter and a mounting portion lid. The half cutter has a half-receiving portion and a half-movable portion, the half-movable portion includes a half-movable blade and comes into contact with or separates from the half-receiving portion, a first side, which is one side of the half-movable blade in a blade length direction, is open between the half-receiving portion and the half-movable portion, and the mounting portion lid opens and closes a cutter mounting portion on which the half cutter is mounted. The mounting portion lid is provided with a lid-side half-receiving support portion that supports at least one of an end on the first side of the half-receiving portion and an end on the first side of a third frame portion that supports the half-receiving portion pressed by the half-movable portion when the mounting portion lid is closed.

公开(公告)号：US11318764B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-03

申请号：US16883254

申请日：2020-05-26

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Shinsaku Kosuge ,  Hirosuke Yasuki

IPC: B41J11/70 ,  B26D3/08 ,  B26D7/26 ,  B26D1/08 ,  B41J3/36 ,  B41J11/66 ,  B41J3/407

Abstract: Provided is a tape cutter including a full-receiving portion, a full-movable portion that comes into contact with or separates from the full-receiving portion, a full-pressing portion that presses the full-movable portion, and a full second lever portion to which the full-pressing portion is fixed. The full-pressing portion has a full first pressing portion that presses a full first pressing target portion of the full-movable portion toward the full-receiving portion so that the full-movable portion approaches the full-receiving portion, and a full second pressing portion that engages with a full second pressing target portion of the full-movable portion and pulls the full second pressing target portion toward a side opposite to the full-receiving portion so that the full-movable portion separates from the full-receiving portion, and the full first pressing portion and the full second pressing portion are overlapping with the full second lever portion in a feed direction of the tape.

公开(公告)号：US10336104B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-02

申请号：US15906686

申请日：2018-02-27

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Hirosuke Yasuki

IPC: B41J11/00 ,  B41J11/66 ,  B41J3/407 ,  B41J15/04 ,  B41J2/355 ,  B41J2/32 ,  B41J11/70

Abstract: A tape printing apparatus includes a cartridge mounting portion in which a tape cartridge is mounted, the tape cartridge including a first case that has a peripheral wall portion in which a first hook projects from a tip end surface, and for which, on an outer peripheral surface of the peripheral wall portion, depths of recessed parts of a first base-end-side part, which is a site that is further on a base end side than a base end portion of the first hook, are different for a plurality of types of tape cartridge, and a second case that has a first hook receiving portion with which the first hook engages, and a first base-end-side part detection sensor, an output of which changes depending on the depths of the recessed parts at the first base-end-side part in a state in which a tape cartridge is mounted in the cartridge mounting portion.