Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Asaka

Toshihiro Asaka 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).

  • Ink jet printer that carries out printing with strut moving along arc
    Patent number: 6336756
    Abstract: A compact ink jet printer having a small amplitude width in the horizontal direction of an ink carriage includes: a shaft provided rotatably about a predetermined axis; a strut fixed to the shaft so as to move along an arc about the axis with rotation of the shaft; an ink carriage having a plurality of ink heads provided at a predetermined direction from the shaft of the strut; and a control device controlling forwarding of a recording sheet, rotational motion of the shaft, and ink jetting from the plurality of ink heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Toyama, Nobuya Kishi, Yoshiaki Tomaru, Nobuyoshi Miyao, Toshihiro Asaka, Takeshi Arai, Seiji Takeda, Masatsugu Hatanaka