Patents by Inventor Kunihiro Yasui
Kunihiro Yasui 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).
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Patent number: 8525676Abstract: The RFID circuit element cartridge stores multiple RFID circuit elements for producing RFID labels. Each of the elements includes an IC circuit part configured to store information and an antenna connected to the IC circuit part. The RFID circuit element cartridge is detachably mounted to an apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag. The apparatus includes an antenna configured to carry out wireless communication with each RFID circuit element for producing a RFID label. The RFID circuit element cartridge includes a RFID circuit element Tc for cartridge identifying configured to store identification information for identifying the cartridge. The identification information serves as a communication factor that determines a performance of communication between the antenna and each RFID circuit element for producing a RFID label.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kunihiro Yasui, Takuya Nagai, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Katsuo Saito
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Publication number: 20130188212Abstract: A data server is connected to an image scanning device via a network. The data server performs the steps of: acquiring location information indicating a location of a service providing device in the network. The service providing device is operated in the network via a web page and the web page includes operating information for instructing the image scanning device to execute a scanning process. The data server also performs the steps of determining an image scanning device to which an operation signal for executing an image scanning process is transmitted, transmitting the operation signal to the determined image scanning device to cause the determined image scanning device to execute an image scanning process, storing scanned data obtained from the image scanning process, and instructing the service providing device indicated by the acquired location information to acquire the scanned data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Inventors: Salil Pardhan, Gary Marsh, Ichiro Sasaki, Kunihiro Yasui, Takafumi Mori
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Patent number: 8363254Abstract: This disclosure discloses a document management system comprising: a scan apparatus provided with an optical reading device configured to optically read a paper medium to be processed and to create image data corresponding to said paper medium; a radio frequency identification (RFID) label producing apparatus configured to produce an RFID label to be affixed onto said paper medium, having a tag communication device that carries out radio communication to an RFID tag circuit element provided with an IC circuit part storing information and a tag antenna that transmits and receives information in reading by said optical reading device; and a database configured to store said image data corresponding to said paper medium and tag identification information of said RFID tag circuit element provided at said RFID label corresponding to said paper medium in association with each other, provided inside said scan apparatus or separately from said scan apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Takuya Nagai, Hiroaki Fujino, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuru Kobayashi, Kunihiro Yasui
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Patent number: 8335006Abstract: This disclosure discloses a document management system comprising: a scan apparatus provided with an optical reading device configured to optically read a paper medium to be processed and to create image data corresponding to said paper medium; a radio frequency identification (RFID) label producing apparatus configured to produce an RFID label to be affixed onto said paper medium, having a tag communication device that carries out radio communication to an RFID tag circuit element provided with an IC circuit part storing information and a tag antenna that transmits and receives information in reading by said optical reading device; and a database configured to store said image data corresponding to said paper medium and tag identification information of said RFID tag circuit element provided at said RFID label corresponding to said paper medium in association with each other, provided inside said scan apparatus or separately from said scan apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Takuya Nagai, Hiroaki Fujino, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuru Kobayashi, Kunihiro Yasui
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Patent number: 8248246Abstract: An RFID-tag fabricating apparatus for fabricating an RFID tag provided with an IC circuit, including a substrate-accommodating device for accommodating a first substrate in the form of a tape having a printable surface and a second substrate in the form of a tape to be bonded to the first substrate, a printing device operable to form a predetermined printed indicium on the printable surface of the first substrate, a tag-tape forming device operable to form a tag tape, by bonding together the first and second substrates such that a plurality of IC circuit portions are interposed between the first and second substrates, a tag-tape cutting device operable to cut the tag tape formed by the tag-tape forming device, and a tag-tape cutting control portion operable to change a length of a segment of the tag tape to be obtained as the RFID tag by cutting of the tag tape by the tag-tape cutting device, on the basis of a length of the printed indicium formed on the first substrate, and such that the segment includes atType: GrantFiled: May 25, 2006Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazunari Taki, Kunihiro Yasui, Koji Sugiyama, Mitsugi Tanaka, Hiroshi Uchigashima, Koji Takito
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Patent number: 8162228Abstract: Data is transferred from an operating device to a printer for printing with a simple operation. It is determined whether or not a printer ID received by a RFID tag for a printer of a printer via radio communication from a mobile terminal matches a printer ID of the printer of itself, and when the printer ID matches, printing data received by the RFID tag for a printer via radio communication from the mobile terminal is stored in a memory part of the RFID tag for a printer and then, the printing data is transmitted to a printer main body through a reader from the RFID tag for a printer and printed by a print head of the printer main body.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kunihiro Yasui, Shiro Yamada
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Patent number: 8128001Abstract: A method for producing a RFID label comprises conveying a first label base material which is transparent from a first holding portion holding the first label base material, forming an image on a surface of the first label base material, conveying a second label base material including at least one of a RFID antenna conductor and an IC chip from a second holding portion holding the second label base material and joining the second label base material and the first label base material on which an image has been formed together, wherein, when an image is formed on the first label base material, the image is formed on a surface of the first label base material, the surface being joined to the second label base material.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Kunihiro Yasui, Takuya Nagai, Toshio Takahashi, Yasunori Nakamura
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Patent number: 8068032Abstract: An apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag that can improve versatility of the apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag, and further simplify equipment configuration and reduce costs of users by enabling information transmission/reception with a RFID circuit element in and outside the apparatus is provided. The apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag is provided with a housing constituting an outer profile of an apparatus main body and communicable regions both inside and outside the housing and has a loop antenna LC that can transmit/receive information with a RFID circuit element for a label production and a RFID circuit element for an information reading provided with an IC circuit part storing information and a loop antenna that transmits/receives information and a driving roller provided in the housing and configured to feed a tag label tape with print.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyasu Fukui, Kunihiro Yasui, Kazunari Taki
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Patent number: 8038072Abstract: A method for producing a RFID label comprises conveying a first label base material which is transparent from a first holding portion holding the first label base material, forming an image on a surface of the first label base material, conveying a second label base material including at least one of a RFID antenna conductor and an IC chip from a second holding portion holding the second label base material and joining the second label base material and the first label base material on which an image has been formed together, wherein, when an image is formed on the first label base material, the image is formed on a surface of the first label base material, the surface being joined to the second label base material.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Kunihiro Yasui, Takuya Nagai, Toshio Takahashi, Yasunori Nakamura
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Patent number: 8033465Abstract: The apparatus has an antenna provided with a predetermined directivity for carrying out radio communication with a RFID tag provided at a search target, a transparent display device that can impart a field of view including a natural image of the search target to vision of an operator and is held by the face of the operator, and a control circuit configured to get communication region information corresponding to a communication region generated along the directivity from the antenna, to generate a display signal for visualization display of the communication region in the field of view of the display device on the basis of the gotten communication region information and to output the signal to the display device.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsumi Toda, Kunihiro Yasui, Michihiro Takeda
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Patent number: 7940180Abstract: A projector has an antenna configured to transmit and receives information to and from a RFID circuit element including an IC circuit part configured to store and hold address information of an electronic file and device information about devices capable of executing a processing operation, and a projection control part and a control circuit configured to generate access information, transmit it to the RFID circuit element, acquire device information from its reply signal, and acquire file information based on the acquired device information.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Mitsuaki Koketsu, Kunihiro Yasui, Mika Matsushima, Kazunari Taki
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Patent number: 7876223Abstract: An RFID tag information communicating apparatus includes a feeding roller driving shaft that is provided within a housing constituting a shell of an apparatus main body and feeds a base tape, and an antenna for label production and an antenna for information transmission and reception, which are capable of transmitting and receiving information with an RFID circuit element for label production included in a base tape and an RFID circuit element for information transmission and reception located outside the housing. Each of the RFID circuit elements has an IC circuit part that stores information and an antenna that transmits and receives information. The apparatus is configured capable of performing both of the information reading and information writing with the RFID circuit element for label production and the RFID circuit element for information transmission and reception via the antennas.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Kunihiro Yasui, Hisayoshi Wanibe, Tomoaki Shibata, Shigeki Kato, Shiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20100181383Abstract: A method for producing a RFID label comprises conveying a first label base material which is transparent from a first holding portion holding the first label base material, forming an image on a surface of the first label base material, conveying a second label base material including at least one of a RFID antenna conductor and an IC chip from a second holding portion holding the second label base material and joining the second label base material and the first label base material on which an image has been formed together, wherein, when an image is formed on the first label base material, the image is formed on a surface of the first label base material, the surface being joined to the second label base material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Kunihiro Yasui, Takuya Nagai, Toshio Takahashi, Yasunori Nakamura
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Publication number: 20100155491Abstract: A method for producing a RFID label comprises conveying a first label base material which is transparent from a first holding portion holding the first label base material, forming an image on a surface of the first label base material, conveying a second label base material including at least one of a RFID antenna conductor and an IC chip from a second holding portion holding the second label base material and joining the second label base material and the first label base material on which an image has been formed together, wherein, when an image is formed on the first label base material, the image is formed on a surface of the first label base material, the surface being joined to the second label base material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2010Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Kunihiro Yasui, Takuya Nagai, Toshio Takahashi, Yasunori Nakamura
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Patent number: 7694883Abstract: A method for producing a RFID label comprises conveying a first label base material which is transparent from a first holding portion holding the first label base material, forming an image on a surface of the first label base material, conveying a second label base material including at least one of a RFID antenna conductor and an IC chip from a second holding portion holding the second label base material and joining the second label base material and the first label base material on which an image has been formed together, wherein, when an image is formed on the first label base material, the image is formed on a surface of the first label base material, the surface being joined to the second label base material.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2005Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Kunihiro Yasui, Takuya Nagai, Toshio Takahashi, Yasunori Nakamura
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Publication number: 20100060931Abstract: This disclosure discloses a document management system comprising: a scan apparatus provided with an optical reading device configured to optically read a paper medium to be processed and to create image data corresponding to said paper medium; a radio frequency identification (RFID) label producing apparatus configured to produce an RFID label to be affixed onto said paper medium, having a tag communication device that carries out radio communication to an RFID tag circuit element provided with an IC circuit part storing information and a tag antenna that transmits and receives information in reading by said optical reading device; and a database configured to store said image data corresponding to said paper medium and tag identification information of said RFID tag circuit element provided at said RFID label corresponding to said paper medium in association with each other, provided inside said scan apparatus or separately from said scan apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventors: Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Takuya Nagai, Hiroaki Fujino, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuru Kobayashi, Kunihiro Yasui
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Publication number: 20090224045Abstract: The apparatus has an antenna provided with a predetermined directivity for carrying out radio communication with a RFID tag provided at a search target, a transparent display device that can impart a field of view including a natural image of the search target to vision of an operator and is held by the face of the operator, and a control circuit configured to get communication region information corresponding to a communication region generated along the directivity from the antenna, to generate a display signal for visualization display of the communication region in the field of view of the display device on the basis of the gotten communication region information and to output the signal to the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Katsumi Toda, Kunihiro Yasui, Michihiro Takeda
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Publication number: 20090174531Abstract: There are provided an antenna of an apparatus for producing RFID label configured to transmit/receive information via radio communication with a RFID circuit element provided with an IC circuit part storing information, a control circuit of the apparatus for producing RFID label configured to create file additional information relating to an electronic file to be processed and to create tag access information to the IC circuit part, and a radio frequency circuit configured to transmit at least the file additional information and the tag access information to the RFID circuit element via the antenna and to write the information in the IC circuit part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: July 9, 2009Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Hirokazu Sato, Kunihiro Yasui, Atsushi Matsubara, Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Yasuhiro Kudo, Shiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20090045919Abstract: An apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag that can improve versatility of the apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag, and further simplify equipment configuration and reduce costs of users by enabling information transmission/reception with a RFID circuit element in and outside the apparatus is provided. The apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag is provided with a housing constituting an outer profile of an apparatus main body and communicable regions both inside and outside the housing and has a loop antenna LC that can transmit/receive information with a RFID circuit element for a label production and a RFID circuit element for an information reading provided with an IC circuit part storing information and a loop antenna that transmits/receives information and a driving roller provided in the housing and configured to feed a tag label tape with print.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyasu FUKUI, Kunihiro YASUI, Kazunari TAKI
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Publication number: 20090039147Abstract: Data is transferred from an operating device to a printer for printing with a simple operation. It is determined whether or not a printer ID received by a RFID tag for a printer of a printer via radio communication from a mobile terminal matches a printer ID of the printer of itself, and when the printer ID matches, printing data received by the RFID tag for a printer via radio communication from the mobile terminal is stored in a memory part of the RFID tag for a printer and then, the printing data is transmitted to a printer main body through a reader from the RFID tag for a printer and printed by a print head of the printer main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kunihiro Yasui, Shiro Yamada