Seiko Epson Corporation

Tetsuji Takeishi

Hirotomo Tanaka

Kenji Hatada

Shota Hiramatsu

Hidetoshi Kodama

Toshikazu Kotaka

Tsuyoshi Furumido

Hirohisa Adachi

Yuichi Segawa

Toru Hayashi

Masanori Nakata

Hiroki Chino

Sumito Anzai

Toru Nakazawa

Mami Hashizume

Tomoyoshi Kakegawa

Noritsuna Rokuhara

Toshiyuki Takahara

Masayuki Tokunaga

A supply device configured to supply a medium to a processing unit configured to perform processing on the medium, the supply device including an accommodating unit configured to accommodate a plurality of the media in a state of being stacked therein and a vibration imparting unit configured to contact ends of the plurality of media accommodated in the accommodating unit to impart vibration to the medium.

Supply device, processing device, control method and program

A discharging device includes: a pair of medium supporting portions that are provided so as to face each other in a width direction intersecting a transporting direction in which a medium is transported and that support the medium that is transported; and a stacking portion that is provided vertically below the pair of medium supporting portions and on which the medium that drops from the pair of medium supporting portions is stacked, each of the pair of medium supporting portions is configured to move in the width direction, the pair of medium supporting portions are configured to be arranged, after the medium is dropped onto the stacking portion, at positions at which a distance in the width direction becomes a predetermined distance, and the predetermined distance varies in accordance with a width of the medium stacked on the stacking portion.

Discharging device, processing apparatus, and recording system

A recording apparatus includes an apparatus body including a recording section configured to record onto a medium and a discharge section configured to discharge the medium recorded by the recording section, and a post-processing unit attached to the apparatus body, the post-processing unit being configured to receive the medium discharged from the discharge section and perform post-processing. The post-processing unit is configured to be moved between a receiving position at which the medium discharged from the discharge section is to be received and a discharge position to which the post-processing unit is moved from the receiving position and at which the medium discharged from the discharge section is discharged to the outside of the post-processing unit without being received into the post-processing unit.

Movable post processing unit of recording apparatus

A printer including a transport path; a transport mechanism that is disposed in the transport path and transports the medium in a transporting direction caused when printing is executed by a recording section; a discharge-side transport path that forms a part of a downstream side in the transporting direction from the recording section in the transport path and is movable to a position close to the transport mechanism and a position separated from the transport mechanism; and a control section that controls the recording section and the transport mechanism. In a state where a transport failure of the medium occurs in the transport path, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, the control section executes an additional transport process of discharging the medium to the discharge-side transport path by transporting the medium in the transporting direction by a predetermined amount by the transport mechanism.

Recording apparatus and control method of recording apparatus

A recording apparatus includes a recording head performing recording on a recording medium; a cassette on which the recording medium to be transported to the recording head is placed; and a transporting path for transporting the recording medium from the cassette to the recording head. In addition, the recording apparatus includes a medium thickness sensor obtaining thickness information by measuring a thickness of the recording medium in the cassette or the transporting path; a surface information acquisition section acquiring surface information of the recording medium in the cassette or the transporting path; and a determination section specifying a type of the recording medium based on the thickness information and the surface information of the recording medium.

Recording apparatus and method of controlling recording apparatus

A printing apparatus includes a transporting device that transports a medium and a printing unit that prints onto the medium. In addition, the printing apparatus includes an image sensor that images the medium and a controller that detects a displacement amount of the medium in an intersecting direction which intersects a surface to be printed of the medium based on a plurality of images obtained by imaging the medium by the sensor at different times and that controls the transporting device and the printing unit according to the displacement amount.

Printing apparatus and printing method

A control unit causes a carriage to move in a width direction under a first movement control of changing a location of the carriage with a first resolution so that a sensor located forward in movement detects an edge of a medium. Thereafter, the first movement control is switched to a second movement control of changing the location of the carriage with a second resolution higher than the first resolution and the carriage is caused to move in the width direction so that a sensor located rearward in movement detects the edge.

Printing device and method for controlling printer

The invention relates to a printing apparatus that performs printing by scanning a carriage that has a print head in a main scan direction. The printing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a carriage motor that drives the carriage; a control unit that controls the driving of the carriage motor; a memory unit that stores a plurality of patterns of velocity data regarding at least either one of scanning speeds of the carriage after start of the scanning and driving speeds of the carriage motor corresponding to the scanning speeds of the carriage; and a driving mode switchover unit that switches over the patterns of the velocity data, wherein the control unit controls the driving of the carriage motor in such a manner that the carriage is scanned on the basis of the velocity data selected by the driving mode switchover unit.

Printing apparatus with switchover section that switches over patterns of velocity data

In order to adjust a level of a detection signal output from an optical sensor in accordance with a state of a target object in a liquid ejecting apparatus, the optical sensor includes a light emitting element operable to irradiate the detected object and a light receiving element operable to detect a light amount which varies in accordance with the state of the target object. The detection signal is output from the optical sensor, based on the detected light amount. Luminance of the light emitting element is adjusted based on the detection signal, so that the level of the detection signal falls within a prescribed range.

Method of adjusting output signal level, and liquid ejecting apparatus operable to execute the same

In order to calculate a threshold value for a detection signal output from an optical sensor in accordance with a state of a target object in a liquid ejecting apparatus, the optical sensor includes a light emitting element operable to irradiate the detected object and a light receiving element operable to detect a light amount which varies in accordance with the state of the target object. The detection signal is output from the optical sensor, based on the detected light amount. A level of the detection signal is adjusted so as to fall within a prescribed range. The threshold value is calculated based on the adjusted level of the detection signal.

Method of calculating threshold value, and liquid ejecting apparatus operable to execute the same

The present invention is a motor control device comprising a control system, the control system being capable of controlling the motor by PWM and having integration means being capable of outputting an integrated value obtained by integrating a deviation between a rotation speed and a target rotation speed of a motor, the motor control device being capable of starting control with the control system for causing the motor to rotate at the target rotation speed after rotation of the motor has been started. In this motor control device, an output value of the integration means at a time when control with the control system is to be started is set to have a value that corresponds to a counter electromotive force generated in the motor by its rotation.

Motor control device

A printing apparatus includes: a carrying mechanism that carries a medium; a printing section that carries out printing with respect to the medium; a contact sensor that detects the medium by coming into contact with the medium that is carried by the carrying mechanism; a controller that receives a signal that is output from the contact sensor; and a memory that stores measurement data of a time from when the contact sensor and the medium enter a non-contact state until a signal that is output from the contact sensor and that indicates that the medium is not being detected is received by the controller.

Printing apparatus, media detection apparatus, media detection method, measurement method, computer-readable storage medium, and printing system

A printer-control apparatus, a printer-control method, and a printer according to the invention sequentially record a relative position of a printing medium specified from an accumulated carried amount of the printing medium and/or driving speed of a paper-feed motor for driving a printing medium carrying mechanism for carrying the printing medium for a period longer than reaction delay time at every time interval shorter than the reaction delay time as a time difference between a time when a front edge or a rear edge of the printing medium reaches an initial position of a swing pin of a mechanical paper detection sensor which detects the front edge and/or the rear edge of the printing medium by swinging operation of the swing pin and a time when the front or rear edge of the printing medium is detected.

Printer-control apparatus, printer-control method and printer

Motor controller

A temperature condition of a motor is estimated more accurately based on a drive amount of the motor. An apparatus for determining overheating of a motor, includes: an information obtaining section that obtains information about a drive amount of a motor and information about a stop time etc. between drive operations of the motor; a calculating section that executes a calculation of calculating an integrated value by successively adding up the drive amount of the motor based on the information about the drive amount obtained by the information obtaining section, and a calculation of subtracting, from the integrated value, a subtraction value corresponding to the stop time etc. that is obtained based on the information about the stop time etc. obtained by the information obtaining section; and a determining section that determines that the motor is in an overheated state when the subtracted integrated value obtained by the calculating section reaches a predetermined value.

Apparatus for determining overheating of motor, method for determining overheating of motor, computer-readable medium, motor control apparatus, motor control method, and printing apparatus

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Shiojiri, Japan

Tetsuji Takeishi