Patents by Inventor Kentaro SAWANO

Kentaro SAWANO 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: 20240004593
    Abstract: An image processing device performs, multiple times a candidate displaying process of displaying one or more candidate images on a display, each of the one or more candidate images being a candidate of the print image, and an evaluation obtaining process of obtaining image evaluation information representing evaluation of each of the one or more candidate images displayed on the display, the image evaluation information being information based on a user input. In the candidate displaying process performed a second time or later is a process of determining the one or more candidate images based on the image evaluation information and displaying the same on the display. The image processing device determines the print image based on at least part of a multiple candidate images and at least part of multiple pieces of the image evaluation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yoichi SHIKAI, Masaki KONDO, Kentaro SAWANO, Kohei WATANABE, Takaaki MASUDA, Masayoshi MITA
  • Patent number: 9459568
    Abstract: A fixing device, including a heat roller, a temperature detector member to detect temperature of the heat roller, a supporting member to support the temperature detector member, and a fixer frame to support the heat roller and the supporting member, is provided. The supporting member includes a supporting part to support the temperature detector member, a first part, a second part which is less rigid than the first part, and an attaching part to be attached to an attachable surface of the fixer frame. The attaching part is arranged on one end of the supporting member along the axial direction. The supporting part is arranged in an intermediate position along the axial direction in the supporting member. The first part and the second part are arranged in positions between the attaching part and the supporting part along the axial direction in the supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noboru Suzuki, Kentaro Sawano
  • Publication number: 20150192883
    Abstract: A fixing device, including a heat roller, a temperature detector member to detect temperature of the heat roller, a supporting member to support the temperature detector member, and a fixer frame to support the heat roller and the supporting member, is provided. The supporting member includes a supporting part to support the temperature detector member, a first part, a second part which is less rigid than the first part, and an attaching part to be attached to an attachable surface of the fixer frame. The attaching part is arranged on one end of the supporting member along the axial direction. The supporting part is arranged in an intermediate position along the axial direction in the supporting member. The first part and the second part are arranged in positions between the attaching part and the supporting part along the axial direction in the supporting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Noboru SUZUKI, Kentaro SAWANO