Patents by Inventor Yasuo Ono

Yasuo Ono 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: 12005720
    Abstract: A first cover moves between a first closed position and a first open position. The first cover is located at another end of a housing when the first cover is located at the first closed position. A second cover moves between a second closed position and a second open position. The second cover is located closer to one end than the first cover is at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A first portion of a first conveyance path is formed between the first cover and the second cover at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A second portion of a second conveyance path is formed at a side of the second cover facing the one end at the second closed position. When the first cover opens the first portion, the second cover is located at the second closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyase, Yoshinori Osakabe, Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Jun Morikawa, Haruka Azechi, Yasuo Ono, Yuto Chiba
  • Publication number: 20240056014
    Abstract: A motor drive system includes: a first inverter connected to one end of an open-end winding of a three-phase motor, an input voltage from a single-phase AC power source being rectified into a rectified voltage and input to the first inverter; a second inverter connected to another end of the open-end winding and including a DC link capacitor; and a control unit that controls the first inverter so that a first inverter output voltage supplied from the first inverter to the three-phase motor is in phase with a motor current flowing in the three-phase motor, controls the second inverter to supply reactive power to the three-phase motor by making a second inverter output voltage supplied from the second inverter to the three-phase motor orthogonal to the motor current in order to make an instantaneous power supplied from the DC link capacitor to the three-phase motor zero, and also controls the second inverter so that a q-axis component of the second inverter output voltage orthogonal to a d-axis component, which
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Yasuo ONO, Kazuhito NAKAMURA, Michael HAIDER, Dominik BORTIS, Miric SPASOJE, Walter Johann KOLAR
  • Publication number: 20230382139
    Abstract: A first cover moves between a first closed position and a first open position. The first cover is located at another end of a housing when the first cover is located at the first closed position. A second cover moves between a second closed position and a second open position. The second cover is located closer to one end than the first cover is at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A first portion of a first conveyance path is formed between the first cover and the second cover at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A second portion of a second conveyance path is formed at a side of the second cover facing the one end at the second closed position. When the first cover opens the first portion, the second cover is located at the second closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi MIYASE, Yoshinori OSAKABE, Tsuyoshi KUWAYAMA, Jun MORIKAWA, Haruka AZECHI, Yasuo ONO, Yuto CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20230361692
    Abstract: An inverter includes: a high electric potential input terminal, a low electric potential input terminal, an output terminal that outputs AC power, a transistor pair, a driver that performs complementary switching control of the transistor pair. The driver includes a current adjustment element that adjusts the channel current and a voltage adjustment element that adjusts the channel voltage of the transistor pair, and adjusts, in the switching control of the transistor pair, the time change rate of the channel current to be larger than the time change rate of the channel voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuo ONO, Michael HAIDER, Dominik BORTIS, Johann W. KOLAR
  • Publication number: 20230273563
    Abstract: An image forming device comprises a media container accommodating a sheet-type medium, an image forming engine, a media conveyor configured to convey the sheet-type medium along a conveyance path from the media container to the image forming engine. The media conveyor has a plurality of conveying rollers including a first conveying roller arranged on an upstream side of the image forming engine and a second conveying roller arranged on a downstream side of the image forming engine. The image forming device further comprises a cutter arranged on an upstream side along the conveyance path with respect to the second conveying roller, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the media conveyor in such a manner that the cut sheet-type medium is conveyed and discharged toward outside after a power is on and before first execution of the image forming process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuo ONO, Tomoya OGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11738583
    Abstract: A first cover moves between a first closed position and a first open position. The first cover is located at another end of a housing when the first cover is located at the first closed position. A second cover moves between a second closed position and a second open position. The second cover is located closer to one end than the first cover is at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A first portion of a first conveyance path is formed between the first cover and the second cover at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A second portion of a second conveyance path is formed at a side of the second cover facing the one end at the second closed position. When the first cover opens the first portion, the second cover is located at the second closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyase, Yoshinori Osakabe, Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Jun Morikawa, Haruka Azechi, Yasuo Ono, Yuto Chiba
  • Patent number: 11724525
    Abstract: A first conveyance path and a second conveyance path are formed in a housing. The first conveyance path extends in a conveyance direction to reach a first discharge port for discharging a sheet. The second conveyance path extends in the conveyance direction at a position higher than the first conveyance path to reach a second discharge port for discharging a sheet. The second discharge port is located at a position upstream of the first discharge port in the conveyance direction. A first print engine is provided at the first conveyance path. The first print engine is configured to print an image by using a recording agent on a sheet conveyed along the first conveyance path. A second print engine is provided at the second conveyance path. The second print engine is configured to print an image by using a recording agent on a sheet conveyed along the second conveyance path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyase, Yoshinori Osakabe, Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Jun Morikawa, Haruka Azechi, Yasuo Ono, Yuto Chiba
  • Patent number: 11720044
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a casing having a front end and a rear end, a first tray, a first print engine, a second tray, a second print engine and a controller. The controller configured to perform: receiving first image data representing the first image and second image data representing the second image; executing a first process including a first conveying process and a first recording process; executing a second process including a second conveying process and a second recording process; determining whether an error has occurred in the second process; and in a case where the error has occurred in the second process, stopping the second process while continuing the first process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyase, Yoshinori Osakabe, Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Yasuo Ono, Yuto Chiba, Jun Morikawa, Haruka Azechi
  • Publication number: 20230029314
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a casing having a front end and a rear end, a first tray, a first print engine, a second tray, a second print engine and a controller. The controller configured to perform: receiving first image data representing the first image and second image data representing the second image; executing a first process including a first conveying process and a first recording process; executing a second process including a second conveying process and a second recording process; determining whether an error has occurred in the second process; and in a case where the error has occurred in the second process, stopping the second process while continuing the first process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi MIYASE, Yoshinori OSAKABE, Tsuyoshi KUWAYAMA, Yasuo ONO, Yuto CHIBA, Jun MORIKAWA, Haruka AZECHI
  • Publication number: 20230001719
    Abstract: A first cover moves between a first closed position and a first open position. The first cover is located at another end of a housing when the first cover is located at the first closed position. A second cover moves between a second closed position and a second open position. The second cover is located closer to one end than the first cover is at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A first portion of a first conveyance path is formed between the first cover and the second cover at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A second portion of a second conveyance path is formed at a side of the second cover facing the one end at the second closed position. When the first cover opens the first portion, the second cover is located at the second closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi MIYASE, Yoshinori OSAKABE, Tsuyoshi KUWAYAMA, Jun MORIKAWA, Haruka AZECHI, Yasuo ONO, Yuto CHIBA
  • Patent number: 11465409
    Abstract: A controller acquires image recording data for recording a plurality of passes; determines a first movement distance of a carriage for recording each of the plurality of passes; determines a non-usage ratio that is a ratio of a number of unused nozzles in a last pass of the plurality of passes to a total number of the plurality of nozzles arranged in a conveyance direction; determines a second movement distance in a particular pass which is recorded before the last pass, the second movement distance being a movement distance of the carriage assuming that the particular pass is recorded without using nozzles of a first ratio smaller than or equal to the non-usage ratio; and in response to determining that the second movement distance is shorter than the first movement distance, performs image recording of the particular pass without using the nozzles of the first ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuo Ono, Tsuyoshi Ito, Masao Mimoto, Satoru Arakane, Hirotoshi Maehira
  • Patent number: 11465429
    Abstract: A first cover moves between a first closed position and a first open position. The first cover is located at another end of a housing when the first cover is located at the first closed position. A second cover moves between a second closed position and a second open position. The second cover is located closer to one end than the first cover is at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A first portion of a first conveyance path is formed between the first cover and the second cover at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A second portion of a second conveyance path is formed at a side of the second cover facing the one end at the second closed position. When the first cover opens the first portion, the second cover is located at the second closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyase, Yoshinori Osakabe, Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Jun Morikawa, Haruka Azechi, Yasuo Ono, Yuto Chiba
  • Patent number: 11442394
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a casing having a front end and a rear end, a first tray, a first print engine, a second tray, a second print engine and a controller. The controller configured to perform: receiving first image data representing the first image and second image data representing the second image; executing a first process including a first conveying process and a first recording process; executing a second process including a second conveying process and a second recording process; determining whether an error has occurred in the second process; and in a case where the error has occurred in the second process, stopping the second process while continuing the first process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyase, Yoshinori Osakabe, Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Yasuo Ono, Yuto Chiba, Jun Morikawa, Haruka Azechi
  • Patent number: 11407243
    Abstract: An image forming system, having a recording head, a sheet conveyer, an inverting mechanism, and a controller, is provided. The sheet conveyer conveys a sheet in a sheet-conveying direction. The sheet is nipped at nipping points located at positions upstream and downstream in the sheet-conveying direction with respect to a discharging position. The inverting mechanism inverts the sheet from a first side to the second side. The controller determines an initial arrangement of the sheet in the sheet conveyer where image-forming on the second side starts, and controls a length of a period between time, when image-forming on the first side of the sheet in the posture with the first side facing the recording sheet is completed, and time, when the image-forming on the second side of the sheet inverted and refed to the sheet conveyer starts, based on the determined initial arrangement of the sheet in the sheet conveyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Masao Mimoto, Yasuo Ono, Satoru Arakane, Hirotoshi Maehira
  • Patent number: 11409477
    Abstract: There is provide an image processing apparatus including a carriage with a recording head and a sensor mounted thereon, a conveyer, and a controller. The controller carries out: acquiring a recording data, a front edge margin, and a tail edge margin, determining whether or not at least one of first and second reference values is less than a threshold value, and a positioning process. When at least one of the first and second reference values is less than the threshold value, then the controller carries out: a front edge detecting process, a first recording preparation process, and a recording process. When at least one of the first and second reference values is not less than the threshold value, then the controller carries out: a second recording preparation process, and the recording process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Arakane, Hirotoshi Maehira, Masao Mimoto, Tsuyoshi Ito, Yasuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20220098646
    Abstract: A detection method for pan-resistant K. pneumoniae comprising of: performing complete genome analysis of the bacteria contained in the sample; and comparing a nucleotide sequence contained in the obtained complete genome with nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, and determining whether or not the bacteria in the sample is pan-resistant K. pneumoniae based on the rate of agreement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: TEIKYO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Satoshi NISHIDA, Yasuo ONO
  • Publication number: 20220019167
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a casing having a front end and a rear end, a first tray, a first print engine, a second tray, a second print engine and a controller. The controller configured to perform: receiving first image data representing the first image and second image data representing the second image; executing a first process including a first conveying process and a first recording process; executing a second process including a second conveying process and a second recording process; determining whether an error has occurred in the second process; and in a case where the error has occurred in the second process, stopping the second process while continuing the first process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyase, Yoshinori Osakabe, Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Yasuo Ono, Yuto Chiba, Jun Morikawa, Haruka Azechi
  • Patent number: 11177741
    Abstract: An AC-AC converter circuit converts an AC voltage into a further AC voltage. A rectifier circuit rectifies the AC voltage. An inverter circuit generates the further AC voltage. AZ source circuit is provided between the rectifier circuit and the inverter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Ono, Kazuhito Nakamura, Michael Haider, Dominik Bortis, Johann W. Kolar
  • Patent number: 11161350
    Abstract: A control device is configured to cause a print execution unit to print an image by repetitively executing: partial printing of causing a print head to eject ink while causing a main scanning unit to perform the main scanning; and conveying processing of causing a conveyor to perform a conveyance, and the control device is configured to execute: selection processing of selecting one of first processing and second processing for printing an Nth band area when the Nth band area includes a blank pixel line extending in a second direction; and execution processing of executing the one of the first processing and the second processing, and in the selection processing, the control device is configured to: select the second processing when a total count condition is satisfied; and select the first processing when the total count condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Yasuo Ono, Satoru Arakane
  • Publication number: 20210300087
    Abstract: A first conveyance path and a second conveyance path are formed in a housing. The first conveyance path extends in a conveyance direction to reach a first discharge port for discharging a sheet. The second conveyance path extends in the conveyance direction at a position higher than the first conveyance path to reach a second discharge port for discharging a sheet. The second discharge port is located at a position upstream of the first discharge port in the conveyance direction. A first print engine is provided at the first conveyance path. The first print engine is configured to print an image by using a recording agent on a sheet conveyed along the first conveyance path. A second print engine is provided at the second conveyance path. The second print engine is configured to print an image by using a recording agent on a sheet conveyed along the second conveyance path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi MIYASE, Yoshinori OSAKABE, Tsuyoshi KUWAYAMA, Jun MORIKAWA, Haruka AZECHI, Yasuo ONO, Yuto CHIBA