Patents by Inventor Kiyoichi Ohta

Kiyoichi Ohta 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).

  • Patent number: 9041752
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer performing printing processing that forms desired print on a print-receiving medium. The printer includes a cartridge holder, a drive device, a thermal head, an energization device, an attribute detecting device, a first determination portion, and a processing portion. The cartridge holder removably mounts a cartridge. The drive device drives a feeding roller to feed the print-receiving medium. The thermal head performs printing on the print-receiving medium fed. The energization device controls energization of the thermal head. The attribute detecting device detects an attribute of the print-receiving medium. The first determination portion determines whether or not a tube cartridge capable of supplying a tubular print-receiving medium is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Susumu Murata, Kiyoichi Ohta, Hisako Tonishi
  • Publication number: 20150015658
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer performing printing processing that forms desired print on a print-receiving medium. The printer includes a cartridge holder, a drive device, a thermal head, an energization device, an attribute detecting device, a first determination portion, and a processing portion. The cartridge holder removably mounts a cartridge. The drive device drives a feeding roller to feed the print-receiving medium. The thermal head performs printing on the print-receiving medium fed. The energization device controls energization of the thermal head. The attribute detecting device detects an attribute of the print-receiving medium. The first determination portion determines whether or not a tube cartridge capable of supplying a tubular print-receiving medium is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Susumu Murata, Kiyoichi Ohta, Hisako Tonishi
  • Patent number: 8692674
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses an RFID tag supplying apparatus that supplies a substantially sheet-like antenna base on which an RFID circuit element provided with an IC circuit part that stores information and an antenna that transmits and receives information is disposed between a first tape and a second tape that are fed to a predetermined bonding position to be mutually bonded, comprising: a tape processing device that makes a tape orderly on said antenna base to prevent the generation of parts out of order in a tag tape including said first tape and said second tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitomi Hioki, Kiyoichi Ohta, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Koshiro Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Ohashi
  • Patent number: 8382096
    Abstract: A sheet package for supplying sheets to a printing apparatus has stacked sheets, and a package member that includes a first flat surface portion covering the sheets, a first side face portion extended from the first flat surface portion, a second flat surface portion extended from the first side face portion, a second side face portion extended from the first flat surface portion, a third flat surface portion extended from the second side face portion, a first cut-out portion formed in the first flat surface portion, a second cut-out portion formed in the second flat surface portion, and a third cut-out portion formed in the third flat surface portion, wherein at least one of an end of the second cut-out portion and an end of the third cut-out portion is disposed more toward the opposite side of the transfer direction of sheets than an end of the first cut-out portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Suito, Kiyoichi Ohta, Yasunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8360123
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a tag label producing apparatus comprising: at least one feeding roller; a printing device; and an apparatus antenna; and a coordination control portion that controls in coordination the feeding roller, the printing device, and the apparatus antenna, such that information transmission/reception is performed between an RFID circuit element and the apparatus antenna when an IC circuit part of the RFID circuit element provided to a tag medium is fed downstream in a transport direction from a segment from a nearest roller to the apparatus antenna along a feeding path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Fukui, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Kiyoichi Ohta, Hitomi Hioki, Shintaro Tomita
  • Patent number: 8330602
    Abstract: A first roll is provided, which is formed by winding a base tape having a tape-state base film in which a plurality of RFID circuit elements are disposed with a predetermined interval in the lengthwise direction, an adhesive layer with a predetermined width for affixing the RFID circuit element to a target to be affixed, disposed on one face of the base film, and a separation sheet with a width larger than that of the adhesive layer and disposed so as to extend in the lengthwise direction of the adhesive layer around a reel axis approximately perpendicular to the lengthwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Mitsugi Tanaka, Toshio Takahashi, Kiyoichi Ohta
  • Patent number: 8192099
    Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to provide a print cassette for producing a print tape comprising a structure which can avoid a bad effect on a feeding performance of a film tape in the print cassette and handling of a print tape when stuck to an adherend even when an adopted to-be-printed medium is a thin-film. A print tape 5 produced in a print cassette is composed of a first tape 11 and a second tape 13. In the first tape 11, a first base material 31 and a to-be-printed medium 33 are stacked via a first adhesive layer 32. In the second tape 13, a second adhesive layer 51 is stacked to a second base material 52. Then, a printing surface 11A of the first tape 11 on which ink 41 is put and the second adhesive layer 51 are overlapped with each other, so that the second tape 13 adhered to the first tape 11 to compose the print tape 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mariko Yamada, Tsutomu Kato, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Kiyoichi Ohta, Takashi Horiuchi, Akira Ito, Koshiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8063741
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a tag label producing apparatus comprising: a printing device; a transmitting/receiving device that performs information transmission/reception; a feeding device that feeds said tag medium; a coordination control portion; a communication determining portion that determines whether or not information transmission/reception has succeeded; and a decision portion that decides a feeding-stop condition for stopping feeding based on a feeding condition for the transmission/reception, and a feeding-condition for printing to a print area; wherein: said coordination control portion controls in coordination operations of said feeding device, said transmitting/receiving device, and said printing device so as to stop feeding based on said feeding-stop condition decided by said decision portion and to perform retry of said information transmission/reception when said communication determining portion determines that said information transmission/reception has failed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitomi Hioki, Kiyoichi Ohta, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Koshiro Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20100326861
    Abstract: A sheet package for supplying sheets to a printing apparatus has stacked sheets, and a package member that includes a first flat surface portion covering the sheets, a first side face portion extended from the first flat surface portion, a second flat surface portion extended from the first side face portion, a second side face portion extended from the first flat surface portion, a third flat surface portion extended from the second side face portion, a first cut-out portion formed in the first flat surface portion, a second cut-out portion formed in the second flat surface portion, and a third cut-out portion formed in the third flat surface portion, wherein at least one of an end of the second cut-out portion and an end of the third cut-out portion is disposed more toward the opposite side of the transfer direction of sheets than an end of the first cut-out portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu SUITO, Kiyoichi OHTA, Yasunori NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20100045437
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses an RFID tag supplying apparatus that supplies a substantially sheet-like antenna base on which an RFID circuit element provided with an IC circuit part that stores information and an antenna that transmits and receives information is disposed between a first tape and a second tape that are fed to a predetermined bonding position to be mutually bonded, comprising: a tape processing device that makes a tape orderly on said antenna base to prevent the generation of parts out of order in a tag tape including said first tape and said second tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Hitomi Hioki, Kiyoichi Ohta, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Koshiro Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20090295542
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a tag label producing apparatus comprising: a printing device; a transmitting/receiving device that performs information transmission/reception; a feeding device that feeds said tag medium; a coordination control portion; a communication determining portion that determines whether or not information transmission/reception has succeeded; and a decision portion that decides a feeding-stop condition for stopping feeding based on a feeding condition for the transmission/reception, and a feeding-condition for printing to a print area; wherein: said coordination control portion controls in coordination operations of said feeding device, said transmitting/receiving device, and said printing device so as to stop feeding based on said feeding-stop condition decided by said decision portion and to perform retry of said information transmission/reception when said communication determining portion determines that said information transmission/reception has failed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Hitomi Hioki, Kiyoichi Ohta, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Koshiro Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20090129844
    Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to provide a print cassette for producing a print tape comprising a structure which can avoid a bad effect on a feeding performance of a film tape in the print cassette and handling of a print tape when stuck to an adherend even when an adopted to-be-printed medium is a thin-film. A print tape 5 produced in a print cassette is composed of a first tape 11 and a second tape 13. In the first tape 11, a first base material 31 and a to-be-printed medium 33 are stacked via a first adhesive layer 32. In the second tape 13, a second adhesive layer 51 is stacked to a second base material 52. Then, a printing surface 11A of the first tape 11 on which ink 41 is put and the second adhesive layer 51 are overlapped with each other, so that the second tape 13 adhered to the first tape 11 to compose the print tape 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Mariko Yamada, Tsutomu Kato, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Kiyoichi Ohta, Takashi Horiuchi, Akira Ito, Koshiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20090032193
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a tag label producing apparatus comprising: at least one feeding roller; a printing device; and an apparatus antenna; and a coordination control portion that controls in coordination the feeding roller, the printing device, and the apparatus antenna, such that information transmission/reception is performed between an RFID circuit element and the apparatus antenna when an IC circuit part of the RFID circuit element provided to a tag medium is fed downstream in a transport direction from a segment from a nearest roller to the apparatus antenna along a feeding path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Fukui, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Kiyoichi Ohta, Hitomi Hioki, Shintaro Tomita
  • Publication number: 20080084274
    Abstract: A first roll is provided, which is formed by winding a base tape having a tape-state base film in which a plurality of RFID circuit elements are disposed with a predetermined interval in the lengthwise direction, an adhesive layer with a predetermined width for affixing the RFID circuit element to a target to be affixed, disposed on one face of the base film, and a separation sheet with a width larger than that of the adhesive layer and disposed so as to extend in the lengthwise direction of the adhesive layer around a reel axis approximately perpendicular to the lengthwise direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Mitsugi Tanaka, Toshio Takahashi, Kiyoichi Ohta
  • Publication number: 20070147937
    Abstract: A print cassette comprises a double-sided adhesive tape composing a print tape. The double-sided adhesive tape from which a release paper is removed so that a second-sided adhesive layer is exposed, can be adhered to an adherend. The second-sided adhesive layer which is in contact with the adherend is made of an acid-free adhesive (containing no unsaturated carboxylic acid).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Hitomi Hioki, Kiyoichi Ohta
  • Patent number: 7132387
    Abstract: A heat sensitive recording material comprises a heat sensitive color forming layer formed on a support and containing a color forming compound and a color developing compound in reaction with the color forming compound to develop a color; an intermediate layer formed on the heat sensitive color forming layer; and a protective layer formed on the intermediate layer and comprising a UV-ray curable resin. The intermediate layer is formed of a composition containing an acrylic emulsion and a polyvinyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoya Yamagishi, Hitomi Hioki, Kiyoichi Ohta
  • Publication number: 20050070432
    Abstract: A heat sensitive recording material comprises a heat sensitive color forming layer formed on a support and containing a color forming compound and a color developing compound in reaction with the color forming compound to develop a color; an intermediate layer formed on the heat sensitive color forming layer; and a protective layer formed on the intermediate layer and comprising a UV-ray curable resin. The intermediate layer is formed of a composition containing an acrylic emulsion and a polyvinyl alcohol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoya Yamagishi, Hitomi Hioki, Kiyoichi Ohta
  • Patent number: D635184
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Suito, Kiyoichi Ohta, Yasunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: D635185
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Suito, Kiyoichi Ohta, Yasunori Nakamura