公开(公告)号：US20180043685A1

公开(公告)日：2018-02-15

申请号：US15559583

申请日：2016-02-29

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Kazuaki SAKURADA ,  Takamitsu KONDO ,  Seigo MOMOSE ,  Akira YAMADA

IPC: B41J2/045

CPC classification number: B41J2/04551 ,  B41J2/04556 ,  B41J2/04581 ,  B41J2/04593 ,  B41J2/2128 ,  B41J2/2135 ,  B41J25/308

Abstract: The printing apparatus is provided with a transport mechanism section that transports work, a printing mechanism section that has nozzles, which carry out printing by discharging an ink, as liquid droplets, onto the work transported by the transport mechanism section, and an adjustment section that adjusts a volume per single droplet of the ink discharged from the nozzles on the basis of a separation distance between the nozzles and the work, which is positioned directly below the nozzles.

公开(公告)号：US20170190172A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：US15466992

申请日：2017-03-23

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Kazuaki SAKURADA ,  Takamitsu KONDO ,  Seigo MOMOSE ,  Akira YAMADA

IPC: B41J2/045 ,  B41J13/00 ,  B41J2/21

CPC classification number: B41J2/04508 ,  B41J2/04586 ,  B41J2/2132 ,  B41J13/0009

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport section, a printing section, and a control section. The printing section is configured to move in an intersecting direction intersecting a transport direction of a recording medium. The printing section includes a plurality of nozzles that are configured to perform printing by discharging an ink onto the recording medium. The control section is configured to control the transport section and the printing section. The printing section includes a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row, the first and second nozzle rows form an overlapping section in which the first and second nozzle rows overlap each other as viewed in the intersecting direction. The control section is configured to control a plurality of adjacent nozzles among the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row, which are in the vicinity of the overlapping section, not to discharge the ink.

公开(公告)号：US20160288542A1

公开(公告)日：2016-10-06

申请号：US15055693

申请日：2016-02-29

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Kazuaki SAKURADA ,  Takamitsu KONDO ,  Seigo MOMOSE ,  Akira YAMADA

IPC: B41J13/00

CPC classification number: B41J2/04508 ,  B41J2/04586 ,  B41J2/2132 ,  B41J13/0009

Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided with a transport mechanism section that transports work, a printing mechanism section that has multiple nozzle groups, which perform printing by discharging an ink onto the work as liquid droplets, and control section that controls the actions of the transport mechanism section and the printing mechanism section. In addition, the printing mechanism section includes a first nozzle row that forms a first printing region, a second nozzle row that forms a second printing region, and an overlapping section in which the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row overlap. Further, the control section prohibits overlapping of the first printing region with the second printing region on the work when forming the third printing region.

Abstract translation: 印刷装置具有传送工作的传送机构部分，具有多个喷嘴组的打印机构部分，其通过将油墨喷射到作为液滴的工件上进行打印，以及控制部分，其控制传送机构部分 和打印机构部分。 此外，打印机构部分包括形成第一打印区域的第一喷嘴行，形成第二打印区域的第二喷嘴行以及第一喷嘴列和第二喷嘴行重叠的重叠部分。 此外，当形成第三打印区域时，控制部分禁止第一打印区域与第二打印区域在工作上的重叠。

公开(公告)号：US20170274650A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-28

申请号：US15462252

申请日：2017-03-17

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Kazuaki SAKURADA ,  Toru FUJITA ,  Takamitsu KONDO ,  Seigo MOMOSE ,  Akira YAMADA ,  Masahisa OTAKE

IPC: B41J2/145

CPC classification number: B41J2/145 ,  B41J2/15 ,  B41J2/2132 ,  B41J2/51 ,  B41J2/512

Abstract: A recording device includes, when a transporting direction of a medium is set to a first axis and a direction intersecting with the transporting direction is set to a second axis, a head which includes a nozzle column along the first axis; a pair of heads in which the heads discharging droplets of the same color are paired; and a head unit which includes a plurality of pairs of heads along the second axis. The pair of heads include a predetermined overlapping portion in which the nozzle columns are overlapped with each other in a side view from the second axis, the overlapping portion includes a plurality of nozzle regions divided along the second axis, and a position of the nozzle region which is used in discharge of the droplets is different from a position of the nozzle region of another pair of heads.

公开(公告)号：US20190263139A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-29

申请号：US16283894

申请日：2019-02-25

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Kazuyoshi TANASE ,  Akira YAMADA

IPC: B41J2/21

Abstract: A printing apparatus configured to print an image by discharging inks of different colors from a printing head onto a printing medium includes an edge extractor that extracts an edge pixel constituting a contour of the image from image data and a dot data generator that generates dot data indicating the recording state of dots corresponding to the image data. The dot data generator performs edge processing on a pixel in the image data to reduce the volume of inks discharged when the pixel is the edge pixel to a value that is the product of the volume of inks discharged when the pixel is a non-edge pixel and a coefficient, and the edge processing includes edge processing for maximum brightness for making a minimum value of the coefficient for when the inks discharged onto the edge pixel includes a maximum brightness ink having a highest brightness among the inks of different colors smaller than the minimum value of the coefficient for when the inks discharged onto the edge pixel do not include the maximum brightness ink.

公开(公告)号：US20190014227A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-10

申请号：US16024947

申请日：2018-07-02

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Kazuyoshi TANASE ,  Akira YAMADA

IPC: H04N1/00 ,  G06T7/12 ,  G06K9/46 ,  H04N1/52 ,  H04N1/50

Abstract: The disclosure includes an edge extracting unit configured to, based on image data corresponding to a print image, extract edge pixels forming an outline of a partial image, a dot formation specification determining unit configured to, based on the image data, determine dot formation specifications, and a print data generator configured to, based on the dot formation specifications, generate print data for causing execution of printing by a printing apparatus for printing the print image by discharging first ink on a printing medium and second ink that promotes spreading of the first ink on the printing medium to form the plurality of dots.

公开(公告)号：US20140232781A1

公开(公告)日：2014-08-21

申请号：US14263666

申请日：2014-04-28

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Akira YAMADA ,  Shinichi KAMOSHIDA

IPC: B41J29/393

CPC classification number: B41J29/393 ,  B41J11/002

Abstract: A recording apparatus including a recording head that discharges UV ink onto a recording material and an ultraviolet light irradiation unit that irradiates ultraviolet light to the discharged UV ink so as to harden the UV ink; further includes a failure diagnostic unit that diagnoses a failure condition of the ultraviolet light irradiation unit and a controller that controls operations of the recording head, the ultraviolet light irradiation unit, and the failure diagnostic unit. Further, the controller is so configured as to change the operation mode of the recording apparatus to a failure-state mode when the ultraviolet light irradiation unit has been diagnosed as a failure by the failure diagnostic unit.

Abstract translation: 一种记录装置，包括：将UV油墨排放到记录材料上的记录头;以及紫外光照射单元，其将紫外光照射到排出的UV油墨上，以使UV油墨硬化; 进一步包括诊断紫外线照射单元的故障状态的故障诊断单元和控制记录头，紫外线照射单元和故障诊断单元的操作的控制器。 此外，控制器被配置为当紫外线照射单元已经被故障诊断单元诊断为故障时，将记录装置的操作模式改变为故障状态模式。