Patents by Inventor Kenji MATSUSHIME

Kenji MATSUSHIME 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: 20200164667
    Abstract: A printer with a cutting head operates such that a medium is pulled out from a roll until at least a cutting area is moved along a conveying path of the medium to be located farther in a first conveying direction than the cutting head. The first conveying direction is a direction in which the medium is pulled out from the roll. Thereafter, the printer with a cutting head performs cutting while conveying the medium in a second conveying direction in which the medium that has been pulled out is moved back. Thereafter, the printer with a cutting head further performs printing while conveying the medium in the first conveying direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji MATSUSHIME, Nobuyoshi SUZUKI, Tamakazu KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 10500750
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a crop mark print controller and a front/back determiner. The crop mark print controller prints a first crop mark on a front side of a medium and then print a second crop mark over the first crop mark. The second crop mark is larger in size than the first crop mark. The front/back determiner determines that the medium is placed, with its front side facing upward, when only the second crop mark is detected by a crop mark detector, and determine that the medium is placed, with its back side facing upward, when a pattern including the first crop mark and the second crop mark overlapping one another is detected by the crop mark detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Fujita, Kenji Matsushime
  • Patent number: 10000072
    Abstract: A printer includes a table, a print head, a detector, and a controller. The controller includes a storage to store initial print data including information of reference position marks, a reader to acquire, using the detector, positional information of position detection marks, a print data generator to modify the initial print data such that the reference position marks each coincide with an associated one of the position detection marks acquired by the reader, thus generating actual print data; and a printing controller to perform printing in accordance with the actual print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Akao, Kenji Matsushime, Takeomi Ohta, Akira Fujita, Tetsuhiro Kunifuji
  • Publication number: 20180021969
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a crop mark print controller and a front/back determiner. The crop mark print controller prints a first crop mark on a front side of a medium and then print a second crop mark over the first crop mark. The second crop mark is larger in size than the first crop mark. The front/back determiner determines that the medium is placed, with its front side facing upward, when only the second crop mark is detected by a crop mark detector, and determine that the medium is placed, with its back side facing upward, when a pattern including the first crop mark and the second crop mark overlapping one another is detected by the crop mark detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Akira FUJITA, Kenji MATSUSHIME
  • Publication number: 20170282594
    Abstract: A printer includes a table, a print head, a detector, and a controller. The controller includes a storage to store initial print data including information of reference position marks, a reader to acquire, using the detector, positional information of position detection marks, a print data generator to modify the initial print data such that the reference position marks each coincide with an associated one of the position detection marks acquired by the reader, thus generating actual print data; and a printing controller to perform printing in accordance with the actual print data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshihiko AKAO, Kenji MATSUSHIME, Takeomi OHTA, Akira FUJITA, Tetsuhiro KUNIFUJI