Patents by Inventor Motohito Tsuchiya

Motohito Tsuchiya 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: 20240123746
    Abstract: A printing device for printing on a label sheet includes a first print head to perform printing on a first side of a label sheet being conveyed along a conveyance path. The label sheet is interposed between the first print head and a first roller. A second print head is upstream of the first print head and performs printing on a second side of the label sheet. A second roller is adjacent the second print head across the conveyance path. A cutter is downstream of the first print head to cut off a first portion of the label sheet. A processor is configured to cause the label sheet to be conveyed in a second direction after the first portion is cut off from the sheet so that the cut end of the sheet reaches the first print head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventor: Motohito TSUCHIYA
  • Patent number: 11890884
    Abstract: A printing device for printing on a label sheet includes a first print head to perform printing on a first side of a label sheet being conveyed along a conveyance path. The label sheet is interposed between the first print head and a first roller. A second print head is upstream of the first print head and performs printing on a second side of the label sheet. A second roller is adjacent the second print head across the conveyance path. A cutter is downstream of the first print head to cut off a first portion of the label sheet. A processor is configured to cause the label sheet to be conveyed in a second direction after the first portion is cut off from the sheet so that the cut end of the sheet reaches the first print head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11801697
    Abstract: A printer includes a body including a label sheet storage location and a cover rotatably attached to the body and covering the storage location when closed. The cover includes a roller having a shaft that is used for conveying the label sheet when the cover is closed and a peeling bar extending above the roller. The body includes a pressing member extending along the direction and pressing the sheet against the bar for peeling a label from the label sheet and a release lever arranged at an end of the pressing member. The release lever has a recess and rotates between a first position at which the shaft fits into the recess and a second position at which the shaft is released. The release lever rotates from the first to second positions to open the cover when a release button is pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20220088953
    Abstract: A printing device for printing on a label sheet includes a first print head to perform printing on a first side of a label sheet being conveyed along a conveyance path. The label sheet is interposed between the first print head and a first roller. A second print head is upstream of the first print head and performs printing on a second side of the label sheet. A second roller is adjacent the second print head across the conveyance path. A cutter is downstream of the first print head to cut off a first portion of the label sheet. A processor is configured to cause the label sheet to be conveyed in a second direction after the first portion is cut off from the sheet so that the cut end of the sheet reaches the first print head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventor: Motohito TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20210053375
    Abstract: A printer includes a body including a label sheet storage location and a cover rotatably attached to the body and covering the storage location when closed. The cover includes a roller having a shaft that is used for conveying the label sheet when the cover is closed and a peeling bar extending above the roller. The body includes a pressing member extending along the direction and pressing the sheet against the bar for peeling a label from the label sheet and a release lever arranged at an end of the pressing member. The release lever has a recess and rotates between a first position at which the shaft fits into the recess and a second position at which the shaft is released. The release lever rotates from the first to second positions to open the cover when a release button is pressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventor: Motohito TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20190240998
    Abstract: A cover includes one end rotatably supported by a main body. A paper holding part holds the roll paper. A printing part is provided at a position in the main body contacting with the other end of the cover to perform printing on paper. A peeling bar is provided in the other end of the cover and is located in a width direction of the pasteboard at a downstream of a paper conveyance direction of the printing part. A pressing part presses the conveyed paper to bend the paper and peels off the label from the pasteboard. A first lock part holds the cover at the closed position. A second lock part fixes the pressing part with respect to the cover. An interlocking lock releasing part releases position fixing by the second lock part and releases holding by the first lock part subsequent to the releasing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventor: Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 8866863
    Abstract: A portable thermal printer includes a housing and an anti-skew unit. The housing is provided with a thermal printer head and a platen roller, and is configured to convey a paper between the thermal printer head and the platen roller. The anti-skew unit inside the housing is configured to contact both side edges of the paper in a width direction to prevent the paper, which is being conveyed, from skewing, and the setting of the width of the paper by the anti-skew unit is configured to be adjustable from outside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Ishii, Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 8845088
    Abstract: A printer comprises a paper holding section, a printing and conveying section, a buffer section and a movable section. The paper holding section holds the paper rolled into a roll such that can draw out and convey the paper. The printing and conveying section, which is provided with a print head and a platen roller that are arranged opposite to each other, draws out and conveys the paper and then prints on the paper. The buffer section arranged at the downstream side of the paper conveying direction of the paper holding section and the upstream side of the paper conveying direction of the printing and conveying section to elastically press the paper surface of the paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 8803934
    Abstract: A printer comprises a paper holding section, a conveying section, a printing section and a buffer section. The buffer section, which is arranged at the downstream side of the paper conveying direction of the paper holding section and the upstream side of the paper conveying direction of the conveying section, extends in the width direction of the paper orthogonal to the paper conveying direction and has a propping member that is propped against the paper surface of paper and a pair of elastic support sections that are connected with the two ends of the propping member in the width direction and press the propping member on the paper surface of the paper using an elastic force, wherein the pair of elastic support sections are connected with the propping member in such a manner that each of the elastic support sections can act separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20140168342
    Abstract: A portable thermal printer includes a housing and an anti-skew unit. The housing is provided with a thermal printer head and a platen roller, and is configured to convey a paper between the thermal printer head and the platen roller. The anti-skew unit inside the housing is configured to contact both side edges of the paper in a width direction to prevent the paper, which is being conveyed, from skewing, and the setting of the width of the paper by the anti-skew unit is configured to be adjustable from outside the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Ishii, Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 8692858
    Abstract: A portable thermal printer includes a housing and an anti-skew unit. The housing is provided with a thermal printer head and a platen roller, and is configured to convey a paper between the thermal printer head and the platen roller. The anti-skew unit inside the housing is configured to contact both side edges of the paper in a width direction to prevent the paper, which is being conveyed, from skewing, and the setting of the width of the paper by the anti-skew unit is configured to be adjustable from outside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Ishii, Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 8614725
    Abstract: In a rewritable printer of one embodiment which reprints information on a rewritable paper with a thermal print system after erasing by heat information printed on the rewritable paper and discharges it to the outside of the printer through a paper issue port, the printer includes an auxiliary guide having a smooth surface, provided at the paper issue port, to guide the rewritable paper, on which information is reprinted, discharged to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Ishii, Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20130278702
    Abstract: A portable thermal printer includes a housing and an anti-skew unit. The housing is provided with a thermal printer head and a platen roller, and is configured to convey a paper between the thermal printer head and the platen roller. The anti-skew unit inside the housing is configured to contact both side edges of the paper in a width direction to prevent the paper, which is being conveyed, from skewing, and the setting of the width of the paper by the anti-skew unit is configured to be adjustable from outside the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Ishii, Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 8537188
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a portable thermal printer is disclosed. The portable thermal printer comprises: a housing provided with a thermal printer head; a cover openably attached to an opening portion of the housing by a pivotal shaft, the cover being provided with a platen roller arranged to make contact with the thermal printer head when the opening portion of the housing is closed by the cover; and a drive power source provided within the housing. The drive power source, the pivotal shaft and the platen roller are connected by a belt mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Ishii, Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 8405697
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a printer includes a thermal head, a platen roller, and an urging mechanism configured to urge the thermal head against the platen roller. The printer further includes a first separation mechanism configured to move the thermal head from a proximal position where the thermal head is placed adjacent to the platen roller, to a first separation position where the thermal head is placed farther away from the platen roller than the proximal position, and a second separation mechanism configured to move the thermal head from the proximal position to a second separation position where the thermal head is placed farther away from the platen roller than the proximal position and placed closer to the platen roller than the first separation position. The printer further includes an electric-powered actuator having a movable member configured to reciprocate along a lengthwise direction of the printing medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motohito Tsuchiya, Hiroyasu Ishii, Hajime Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130056513
    Abstract: A printer comprises a paper holding section, a conveying section, a printing section and a buffer section. The buffer section, which is arranged at the downstream side of the paper conveying direction of the paper holding section and the upstream side of the paper conveying direction of the conveying section, extends in the width direction of the paper orthogonal to the paper conveying direction and has a propping member that is propped against the paper surface of paper and a pair of elastic support sections that are connected with the two ends of the propping member in the width direction and press the propping member on the paper surface of the paper using an elastic force, wherein the pair of elastic support sections are connected with the propping member in such a manner that each of the elastic support sections can act separately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20130057631
    Abstract: A printer comprises a paper holding section, a printing and conveying section, a buffer section and a movable section. The paper holding section holds the paper rolled into a roll such that can draw out and convey the paper. The printing and conveying section, which is provided with a print head and a platen roller that are arranged opposite to each other, draws out and conveys the paper and then prints on the paper. The buffer section arranged at the downstream side of the paper conveying direction of the paper holding section and the upstream side of the paper conveying direction of the printing and conveying section to elastically press the paper surface of the paper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20120212559
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a portable thermal printer is disclosed. The portable thermal printer comprises: a housing provided with a thermal printer head; a cover openably attached to an opening portion of the housing by a pivotal shaft, the cover being provided with a platen roller arranged to make contact with the thermal printer head when the opening portion of the housing is closed by the cover; and a drive power source provided within the housing. The drive power source, the pivotal shaft and the platen roller are connected by a belt mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Ishii, Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20120212556
    Abstract: In a rewritable printer of one embodiment which reprints information on a rewritable paper with a thermal print system after erasing by heat information printed on the rewritable paper and discharges it to the outside of the printer through a paper issue port, the printer includes an auxiliary guide having a smooth surface, provided at the paper issue port, to guide the rewritable paper, on which information is reprinted, discharged to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Ishii, Motohito Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 8212851
    Abstract: A portable printer includes: a housing; a platen roller configured to convey a label sheet having a base sheet; a pinch roller configured to rotate following the platen roller via the base sheet; a supporting shaft configured to support the pinch roller; a shaft holder configured to hold the supporting shaft; a removing and inserting section configured to hold the shaft holder to be removable therefrom and insertable thereinto; a pawl section provided in the shaft holder, configured to resiliently hook to the removing and inserting section; a member holding section provided in the housing; and an urging member detachably attachable to the member holding section, nipped by the member holding section and the supporting shaft, and configured to apply pressing force on the platen roller to the pinch roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motohito Tsuchiya, Hiroyasu Ishii