Patents by Inventor Takafumi Naka

Takafumi Naka 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: 7962239
    Abstract: A sewing machine and a sewing machine operating program stored on a computer-readable medium for changing display items displayed on a liquid crystal display of a sewing machine on a page by page basis, when an output signal of an operation of rolling forward or backward a mouse wheel is detected. The sewing machine may include a display device that displays a variety of information related to sewing and a display item storage device that stores display items to be displayed on the display device. The sewing machine may also include an operation device that includes an operating member for performing plural types of operations and a display control device that changes the display item displayed on the display device in response to at least one of the operation type or the operation quantity outputted by the operation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Hirata, Takafumi Naka, Tsuneo Okuyama
  • Patent number: 7878133
    Abstract: A sewing machine includes a needle bar, a needle bar up-and-down movement mechanism that raises and lowers the needle bar, a needle bar up-and-down movement mechanism that raises and lowers the needle bar and a sewing machine motor for driving the needle bar up-and-down mechanism. The sewing machine further includes an operation device that is provided separately from a body of the sewing machine including at least one operation member to be operated by a user that outputs an output signal corresponding to an operation state of the operation member. The sewing machine also includes a command determination device that determines a command that corresponds to the output signal output by the operation device as a determined command and a drive control device that controls a predetermined operation of the sewing machine in accordance with the determined command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Tokura, Masahiko Nagai, Motoshi Kishi, Tomohiko Mori, Takafumi Naka, Tsuneo Okuyama
  • Publication number: 20080216725
    Abstract: A sewing machine includes a needle bar, a sewing needle mounted to the needle bar, a needle bar up-and-down movement mechanism that raises and lowers the needle bar, a needle bar up-and-down movement mechanism that raises and lowers the needle bar and a sewing machine motor for driving the needle bar up-and-down mechanism. The sewing machine further includes an operation device that is provided separately from a body of the sewing machine including at least one operation member to be operated by a user that outputs an output signal corresponding to an operation state of the operation member. The sewing machine also includes a command determination device that determines a command which corresponds to the output signal output by the operation device as a determined command and a drive control device that controls a predetermined operation of the sewing machine in accordance with the determined command determined by the command determination device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Tokura, Masahiko Nagai, Motoshi Kishi, Tomohiko Mori, Takafumi Naka, Tsuneo Okuyama
  • Publication number: 20080006193
    Abstract: A sewing machine and a sewing machine operating program stored on a computer-readable medium for changing display items displayed on a liquid crystal display of a sewing machine on a page by page basis, when an output signal of an operation of rolling forward or backward a mouse wheel is detected. The sewing machine may include a display device that displays a variety of information related to sewing and a display item storage device that stores display items to be displayed on the display device. The sewing machine may also include an operation device that includes an operating member for performing plural types of operations and a display control device that changes the display item displayed on the display device in response to at least one of the operation type or the operation quantity outputted by the operation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Hirata, Takafumi Naka, Tsuneo Okuyama
  • Publication number: 20070204779
    Abstract: A sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing includes a plurality types of embroidery frames which hold a workpiece cloth; a carriage that has the embroidery frame detachably attached thereto by sliding the embroidery frame in a predetermined direction; a frame moving unit that moves the carriage in two directions intersecting in a horizontal plane; a control unit that controls the frame moving unit; a detection that detects a type of embroidery frame attached to the carriage; an operation instructing portion that allows a user to instruct movement of the embroidery frame to a predetermined position suitable for attachment/detachment of the embroidery frame, the operation instructing portion outputting a movement instructing signal to the control unit when operated; and a validating unit that validates operation of the operation instructing portion provided that an attachment of a specific type of embroidery frame is detected by the detection mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takafumi Naka, Yasuhiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7210419
    Abstract: A sewing machine includes an embroidery stitching data storage storing embroidery stitching data of a plurality of divided patterns with respect to large-size embroidery patterns, a pattern display data storage storing pattern display data for displaying each large-size embroidery pattern in a real image close to an embroidered state, and a display control device reading pattern display data with respect to an appointed large-size embroidery pattern from the pattern display data storage and controls to display an image. The display control device is adapted so that, when each divided pattern constituting the large-size embroidery pattern is subjected to the embroidery stitching, a display is caused to display the pattern display data of the large-size embroidery pattern read from the pattern display data storage and displayed area data indicating the stitching area occupied by each divided pattern in the large-size embroidery pattern in a state being combined with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takafumi Naka, Takashi Hirata, Ayako Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 7085617
    Abstract: A control unit for controlling an embroidery sewing machine includes an embroidery-data storing portion, a feed-data extracting portion, and a thread-cutting-data adding portion. The embroidery-data storing portion stores embroidery data defining an embroidery pattern sewn by a sewing portion and a workpiece feeding portion. The embroidery data includes stitch data indicating needle drop positions for forming stitches on a workpiece and feed data indicating feed positions for feeding the workpiece. The feed-data extracting portion extracts the feed data from the embroidery data read from the embroidery-data storing portion. The thread-cutting-data adding portion adds thread cutting data immediately prior to the feed data extracted by the feed-data extracting portion. The thread cutting data instructs a thread cutting portion to perform thread cutting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Kaiya, Tsuneo Okuyama, Takafumi Naka
  • Publication number: 20060027154
    Abstract: An electronic sewing machine M capable of embroidery stitching is provided with an embroidery frame driving mechanism for driving a embroidery frame based on embroidery stitching data, in the case of a large-size embroidery pattern larger than the embroidery area of the embroidery frame, capable of dividing the pattern into a plurality of divided patterns to perform the embroidery stitching. Included are an embroidery stitching data storage unit that stores embroidery stitching data of a plurality of divided patterns of a plurality of large-size embroidery patterns; a display adapted to display the embroidery patterns etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takafumi Naka, Takashi Hirata, Ayako Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20060021559
    Abstract: A control unit for controlling an embroidery sewing machine includes an embroidery-data storing portion, a feed-data extracting portion, and a thread-cutting-data adding portion. The embroidery-data storing portion stores embroidery data defining an embroidery pattern sewn by a sewing portion and a workpiece feeding portion. The embroidery data includes stitch data indicating needle drop positions for forming stitches on a workpiece and feed data indicating feed positions for feeding the workpiece. The feed-data extracting portion extracts the feed data from the embroidery data read from the embroidery-data storing portion. The thread-cutting-data adding portion adds thread cutting data immediately prior to the feed data extracted by the feed-data extracting portion. The thread cutting data instructs a thread cutting portion to perform thread cutting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Kaiya, Tsuneo Okuyama, Takafumi Naka
  • Patent number: 6952285
    Abstract: A reference image signal level curve V1 and a predetermined coefficient are provisionally stored in a ROM of a main controller. The predetermined coefficient provides a threshold level curve by multiplying by the curve V1. A white color image signal level curve V2 is formed upon reading a white reference surface by optical sensors. The white color image signal level curve V2 is compared with the reference image signal curve V1. If at least a part of the curve V2 is not coincident with at least a part of the curve V1, the curve V1 is multiplied by ?V percent, and this percentage is stored in a RAM. These are performed repeatedly until a part of the curve V2 is coincident with a part of the curve V1 as a result of increase in cumulative ?V percent. Thus, a correction coefficient K is determined based on the cumulative ?V percent to provide a corrected image signal level curve. The corrected image signal level curve is compared with the threshold level curve to obtain a binary image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takafumi Naka
  • Patent number: 6477219
    Abstract: A nuclear reactor instrumentation system including a plurality of incore nuclear instrumentation assemblies arranged in a gap between a number of fuel assemblies charged in a reactor core. The incore nuclear instrumentation assemblies each include a fixed type neutron detector having a plurality of fixed type neutron detectors dispersively arranged in a core axial direction and a fixed type gamma thermometer assembly having a plurality of fixed type gamma ray heat detectors arranged at least in a same core axial direction as the fixed type neutron detectors. A power range detector signal processing device operatively connected to the fixed type neutron detector assemblies through signal cables. A gamma thermometer signal processing device is operatively connected to the fixed type gamma thermometer assembly of the incore nuclear instrumentation assembly through a signal cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Hirukawa, Shungo Sakurai, Takafumi Naka
  • Publication number: 20010026603
    Abstract: A reactor nuclear instrumentation system comprises: a plurality of incore nuclear instrumentation assemblies arranged in a gap between a number of fuel assemblies charged in a reactor core, the incore nuclear instrumentation assemblies each including a fixed type neutron detector assembly comprising a plurality of fixed type neutron detectors dispersively arranged in a core axial direction and a fixed type gamma thermometer assembly comprising a plurality of fixed type &ggr;-ray heat detectors arranged at least in a same core axial direction as the fixed type neutron detectors; a power range detector signal processing device operatively connected to the fixed type neutron detector assemblies through signal cables; and a gamma thermometer signal processing device operatively connected to the fixed type gamma thermometer assembly of the incore nuclear instrumentation assembly through a signal cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Koji Hirukawa, Shungo Sakurai, Takafumi Naka
  • Patent number: 6236698
    Abstract: A nuclear reactor instrumentation system including a plurality of in core nuclear instrumentation assemblies arranged in a gap between a number of fuel assemblies charged in a reactor core. The income nuclear instrumentation assemblies each include a fixed type neutron detector assembly having a plurality of fixed type neutron detectors dispersively arranged in a core axial direction and a fixed type gamma thermometer assembly having a plurality of fixed type gamma ray heat detectors arranged at least in a same core axial direction as the fixed type neutron detectors. A power range detector signal processing device is operatively connected to the fixed type neutron detector assemblies through signal cables. A gamma thermometer signal processing device is operatively connected to the fixed type gamma thermometer assembly of the in core nuclear instrumentation assembly through a signal cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Hirukawa, Shungo Sakurai, Takafumi Naka