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).

  • Patent number: 8525676
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiro Yasui, Takuya Nagai, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Katsuo Saito
  • Publication number: 20130188212
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Inventors: Salil Pardhan, Gary Marsh, Ichiro Sasaki, Kunihiro Yasui, Takafumi Mori
  • Patent number: 8363254
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Takuya Nagai, Hiroaki Fujino, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuru Kobayashi, Kunihiro Yasui
  • Patent number: 8335006
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Takuya Nagai, Hiroaki Fujino, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuru Kobayashi, Kunihiro Yasui
  • Patent number: 8248246
    Abstract: 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 at
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Taki, Kunihiro Yasui, Koji Sugiyama, Mitsugi Tanaka, Hiroshi Uchigashima, Koji Takito
  • Patent number: 8162228
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kunihiro Yasui, Shiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 8128001
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Kunihiro Yasui, Takuya Nagai, Toshio Takahashi, Yasunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8068032
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Fukui, Kunihiro Yasui, Kazunari Taki
  • Patent number: 8038072
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Kunihiro Yasui, Takuya Nagai, Toshio Takahashi, Yasunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8033465
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsumi Toda, Kunihiro Yasui, Michihiro Takeda
  • Patent number: 7940180
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Mitsuaki Koketsu, Kunihiro Yasui, Mika Matsushima, Kazunari Taki
  • Patent number: 7876223
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Kunihiro Yasui, Hisayoshi Wanibe, Tomoaki Shibata, Shigeki Kato, Shiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20100181383
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Kunihiro Yasui, Takuya Nagai, Toshio Takahashi, Yasunori Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100155491
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Kunihiro Yasui, Takuya Nagai, Toshio Takahashi, Yasunori Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7694883
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Kunihiro Yasui, Takuya Nagai, Toshio Takahashi, Yasunori Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100060931
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Takuya Nagai, Hiroaki Fujino, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuru Kobayashi, Kunihiro Yasui
  • Publication number: 20090224045
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Katsumi Toda, Kunihiro Yasui, Michihiro Takeda
  • Publication number: 20090174531
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Hirokazu Sato, Kunihiro Yasui, Atsushi Matsubara, Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Yasuhiro Kudo, Shiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090045919
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyasu FUKUI, Kunihiro YASUI, Kazunari TAKI
  • Publication number: 20090039147
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kunihiro Yasui, Shiro Yamada