Patents Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabsuhiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 8160472
    Abstract: An image forming device having a frame, a door, and a movable image forming unit to be assembled in the frame when the door is open. Positioning of the image forming unit relative to the frame and a closing position of the door are maintainable when the door is closed. When the door is closed, a hook at the door side is engaged with a hook of a lock unit at the frame side. The lock unit is movable in association with the movement of the door to its closed position to move a pressure portion, so that a part of the image forming unit is pressed by the pressure portion for positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabsuhiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiya Tomatsu
  • Patent number: 8052256
    Abstract: A liquid discharge device may be provided with a transferring device, a discharge head, a tank, a liquid replenishment device, and a member. The transferring device transfers a recording medium along a feeding path. The discharge head is capable of moving along a movement path. The movement path is disposed above the feeding path. The discharge head comprises a nozzle for discharging liquid toward the recording medium transferred by the transferring device. The tank is capable of moving along the movement path with the discharge head. The tank comprises a liquid inlet hole and a liquid outlet hole. The tank is capable of storing liquid replenished from the liquid inlet hole. The liquid within the tank is to be supplied to the discharge head via the liquid outlet hole. The liquid replenishment device is capable of being connected to and disconnected from the tank. The liquid is supplied to the tank when the liquid replenishment device is in a connected state with the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabsuhiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirotake Nakamura, Takaichiro Umeda
  • Patent number: 7597493
    Abstract: There is provided a tape printing device capable of using long tape-like print media such as label tape having a plurality of label areas as targets of printing arranged on a long support tape along the length of the support tape and normal tape allowing printing at any position on a long tape-like image receiving medium, comprising judgment means for judging whether the print medium currently used is label tape or normal tape and feed cut control means for performing a feed cut operation of feeding the print medium and thereafter cutting the print medium. The feed cut control means includes feeding distance control means for controlling feeding distance before the cutting in the feed cut operation depending on the judgment by the judgment means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabsuhiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaharu Mori, Jun Itakura, Satoru Moriyama, Takeo Ito