Patents by Inventor Hajime Nishizawa

Hajime Nishizawa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200258026
    Abstract: A service person selecting device includes a storage that stores a machine-learned model subjected to machine learning using teaching data in which service person selection information, which is at least one of error information of a printing device, estimated required time period information of service persons that is related to estimated required time periods up to times when the service persons perform a task of maintaining the printing device in which an error has occurred, skill information of the service persons, and held component information of the service persons, is associated with a service person dispatched to maintain the printing device in which the error has occurred, and a controller that acquires the service person selection information and uses the acquired service person selection information and the machine-learned model to select a service person to be dispatched to maintain the printing device in which the error has occurred upon the occurrence of the error in the printing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Hajime NISHIZAWA, Hiroyuki GUNJI
  • Patent number: 7333222
    Abstract: A printer driver (31) divides printing data, which controls printing of a printer, into one or plural data to record the data, to each of which information for discriminating the data is added, as a sub-file (70), as well as creates a sub-file name data (61) for specifying the sub-file (70) and records it as a spooling file (60). The printer driver (31) also creates a file (71) for writing a print controlling command and records the file name thereof in the spooling file (60). When a print cancellation instruction is received during the printing performance, a print cancellation command is written in the file (71). The print processor (42) refers the print spooling file (60) to read the sub-file (70) in order, so that the printing data included in the file would be transferred to a printer (20). The completely transferred sub-file is deleted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Someno, Hajime Nishizawa, Shoji Kojima
  • Patent number: 7330284
    Abstract: A printer driver (31) divides printing data, which controls printing of a printer, into one or plural data to record the data, to each of which information for discriminating the data is added, as a sub-file (70), as well as creates a sub-file name data (61) for specifying the sub-file (70) and records it as a spooling file (60). The printer driver (31) also creates a file (71) for writing a print controlling command and records the file name thereof in the spooling file (60). When a print cancellation instruction is received during the printing performance, a print cancellation command is written in the file (71). The print processor (42) refers the print spooling file (60) to read the sub-file (70) in order, so that the printing data included in the file would be transferred to a printer (20). The completely transferred sub-file is deleted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Someno, Hajime Nishizawa, Shoji Kojima
  • Publication number: 20070070413
    Abstract: A printer driver (31) divides printing data, which controls printing of a printer, into one or plural data to record the data, to each of which information for discriminating the data is added, as a sub-file (70), as well as creates a sub-file name data (61) for specifying the sub-file (70) and records it as a spooling file (60). The printer driver (31) also creates a file (71) for writing a print controlling command and records the file name thereof in the spooling file (60). When a print cancellation instruction is received during the printing performance, a print cancellation command is written in the file (71). The print processor (42) refers the print spooling file (60) to read the sub-file (70) in order, so that the printing data included in the file would be transferred to a printer (20). The completely transferred sub-file is deleted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro SOMENO, Hajime Nishizawa, Shoji Kojima
  • Publication number: 20020051179
    Abstract: A printer driver (31) divides printing data, which controls printing of a printer, into one or plural data to record the data, to each of which information for discriminating the data is added, as a sub-file (70), as well as creates a sub-file name data (61) for specifying the sub-file (70) and records it as a spooling file (60). The printer driver (31) also creates a file (71) for writing a print controlling command and records the file name thereof in the spooling file (60). When a print cancellation instruction is received during the printing performance, a print cancellation command is written in the file (71). The print processor (42) refers the print spooling file (60) to read the sub-file (70) in order, so that the printing data included in the file would be transferred to a printer (20). The completely transferred sub-file is deleted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Masahiro Someno, Hajime Nishizawa, Shoji Kojima
  • Patent number: 5592595
    Abstract: The image processing performance of a present day or existing page printer, e.g., electrophotographic printer, is improved and accelerated with the use of a detachable intelligent cartridge which contains a CPU and necessary memory to process print data into image dated for the electronic control unit of the printer to which the cartridge is attached. Depending, upon the page description language (PDL) to be employed, a cartridge can be selected for use with the printer and accelerate its PDL conversion and printing output. The intelligent cartridge CPU, which is different from the printer CPU, receives print data are from the printer and, since the data bus connecting the intelligent cartridge and the electronic control unit of the printer has only a read only capability from the electronic control unit, data transfer to the cartridge is made possible by utilizing the print data as an index for the read address accomplished by the printer CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Wakabayashi, Kaoru Hatakoshi, Kiyotaka Nishimura, Tsuyoshi Morikawa, Tadashi Shiozaki, Akira Nakajima, Hajime Nishizawa, Chitoshi Takayama
  • Patent number: 5410641
    Abstract: The image processing performance of a present day or existing page printer, e.g., electrophotographic printer, is improved and accelerated with the use of a detachable intelligent cartridge which contains a CPU and necessary memory to process print data into image dated for the electronic control unit of the printer to which the cartridge is attached. Depending upon the page description language (PDL) to be employed, a cartridge can be selected for use with the printer and accelerate its PDL conversion and printing output. The intelligent cartridge CPU, which is different from the printer CPU, receives print data from the printer and, since the data bus connecting the intelligent cartridge and the electronic control unit of the printer has only a read only capability from the electronic control unit, data transfer to the cartridge is made possible by utilizing the print data as an index for the read address accomplished by the printer CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Wakabayashi, Kaoru Hatakoshi, Kiyotaka Nishimura, Tsuyoshi Morikawa, Tadashi Shiozaki, Akira Nakajima, Hajime Nishizawa, Chitoshi Takayama
  • Patent number: 5287628
    Abstract: A solid-state omni range incline-compass having a gravity sensor and a geomagnetic flux sensor provided on, each of three orthogonal axes established on a moving body a unit for generating a mathematic horizontal plane by making a gimbal mechanism as a mathematic equation on the basis of outputs from the gravity sensor located on each of the three orthogonal axes and a unit for calculating an azimuth angle of the moving body on the basis of two orthogonal axes on the mathematic horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Takao Yamaguchi
    Inventors: Takao Yamaguchi, Hajime Nishizawa, Toshimi Kumakura
  • Patent number: 5253527
    Abstract: A torque balancer used in inclinometers, angular accelerometers or the like includes a magnet, a yoke, a movable coil, a weight, a relative declination detector and a feedback apparatus to hold the movable coil always in a reference position. The magnet is generally bar-shaped, and a magnetic field gap defined by a pole surface of the magnet and the opposed yoke is so defined that the size in the rotational direction of the movable coil is larger by a small amount than the size of the movable coil in its rotational direction. This small amount is selected to ensure that the movable coil does not fail to be located in the magnetic field gap even when it is moved to a maximum declined position detectable by the relative declination detector. A torsion band supporting the movable coil is fit on a pin extending in parallel orientation with a line connecting the pivotal center of the movable coil and the center of the weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Inventors: Takao Yamaguchi, Hajime Nishizawa