公开(公告)号：US11889041B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-30

申请号：US18185131

申请日：2023-03-16

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Masaharu Iwamoto

IPC: G03G15/095 ,  H04N1/34 ,  H04N1/00

CPC classification number: H04N1/342 ,  H04N1/00068 ,  H04N1/00909

Abstract: A printing system includes a company server and a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus is used in business-use printing and private-use printing. The printing apparatus includes: a printing section performing printing on a medium by using a printing agent; and a waste agent collecting section collecting as a waste agent, the portion of the printing agent that is consumed by the printing section but is discarded without being used in printing on the medium. The printing system includes a determination section and an estimation section. The determination section determines whether the printing agent as the waste agent is discarded in business-use printing or private-use printing. The estimation section estimates an amount of printing agent determined by the determination section to be discarded in business-use printing.

公开(公告)号：US12162271B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-10

申请号：US17645665

申请日：2021-12-22

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Nobuhisa Nomoto ,  Toshihiro Kumagai ,  Masaharu Iwamoto ,  Keiichi Okamura

IPC: B41J2/01 ,  B41J11/00 ,  B41J11/04 ,  B41J11/24 ,  B41J11/58 ,  B41J13/00 ,  B41J13/03 ,  B41J13/076 ,  B41J13/08 ,  B41J13/10

Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus including: a medium support section that supports a medium before feeding; a feeding roller that sends out the medium; and an apparatus main body, in which the medium support section is configured to switch between a stored state of being stored in the apparatus main body and a protruding state, being a state where an upstream part in a feeding direction protrudes from a first side surface of the apparatus main body, in the protruding state of the medium support section, close to a second side surface, which is a side surface opposite to the first side surface, an assist roller that applies a sending force to the medium fed from the medium support section is provided upstream of the feeding roller in the feeding direction.

公开(公告)号：US11745524B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-05

申请号：US17558753

申请日：2021-12-22

Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation

Inventor： Nobuhisa Nomoto ,  Toshihiro Kumagai ,  Masaharu Iwamoto ,  Keiichi Okamura

IPC: B41J13/10 ,  B41J29/38 ,  B65H1/04 ,  B41J13/02 ,  B65H5/06 ,  B41J29/13

CPC classification number: B41J13/02 ,  B41J13/103 ,  B41J29/38 ,  B65H5/06 ,  B41J29/13 ,  B65H1/04 ,  B65H2405/10 ,  B65H2405/11164 ,  B65H2405/321 ,  B65H2405/324

Abstract: There are provided a medium support section that forms a support surface that supports a medium before feeding; a feeding roller that sends out the medium supported by the medium support section in a feeding direction; and an apparatus main body, the medium support section is configured to switch between a stored state of being stored in the apparatus main body and a protruding state, the protruding state being a state where protrudes from a first side surface which is one of side surfaces that form a periphery of the apparatus main body, and in the protruding state of the medium support section, a downstream end of the support surface in the feeding direction is at a position close to a second side surface, which is a side surface opposite to the first side surface, between the first side surface and the second side surface.