Patents by Inventor Yushi DEURA
Yushi DEURA 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).
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Patent number: 11989467Abstract: An image recording device stores correspondence information associating a plurality of status information types, output determination information and request type information. The status information is related to at least one of information on a cartridge and information corresponding to operation of a printing head. The output determination information corresponds to usage type information. The request type information is used to determine a type of a person requesting the status information. A controller of the image recording device is configured to perform receiving an output request of output of the status information, determining a type of the request type information, and identifying the status information of which type is associated with the determined request type information and the output determination information based on the correspondence information from among a plurality of types of the status information.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinya Esaki, Yushi Deura, Haruka Azechi, Tetsuya Okuno, Shunsuke Minamikawa
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Publication number: 20240126488Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a consumer receptacle and a controller to determine whether the processing apparatus is in a contracted status where a delivery contract for consumables is concluded or in an uncontracted status before the delivery contract is concluded. The consumable receptacle is configured to hold any of an exclusive consumable that is unusable when the processing apparatus is in the uncontracted status and a non-exclusive consumable different from the exclusive consumable. When the processing apparatus is in the contracted status, and the non-exclusive consumable is held in the consumable receptacle, the controller determines whether a specific condition for execution of a first particular process in which the non-exclusive consumable is consumed is satisfied. The controller allows the execution of the first particular process when the specific condition is satisfied, whereas restricting the execution of the first particular process when the specific condition is not satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taichiro KIMOTO, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Koichi TSUGIMURA, Yushi DEURA, Yuki KITAHASHI
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Patent number: 11962735Abstract: A printing system controls a printing member to perform printing based on a print job for which a charged fee is already settled. The printing system receives a first instruction to suspend the printing started by the printing member and suspends the printing started by the printing member in response to reception of the first instruction. The printing system receives a second instruction as to a post suspending process to be executed after the printing is suspended. The printing system performs one of a post fee-settlement process and a restart process, as the post suspending process. The post fee-settlement process is related to provision of a benefit corresponding to refunding at least part of the charged fee. The restart process is to restart the suspended printing to complete the print job after a reason that the first instruction is made is resolved.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ayaka Hotta, Shunsuke Minamikawa, Tetsuya Okuno, Haruka Azechi, Yushi Deura
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Patent number: 11934732Abstract: A printing device includes: a printing unit; and a controller. The printing unit is configured to print an image on a print medium. The controller is configured to perform: (a) receiving; (b) transmitting; (c) receiving; and (d) transmitting. The (a) receiving receives a print job from an external device. The (b) receiving receives a print job from an external device. The (b) transmitting transmits the print job to a data processing server. The (c) receiving receives, from the external device, destination information representing a destination of payment information of a fee required for executing the print job with the printing unit. The (d) transmitting transmits the destination information to the data processing server to cause the data processing server to provide the payment information to the external device.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shunsuke Minamikawa, Tetsuya Okuno, Haruka Azechi, Ayaka Hotta, Yushi Deura
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Patent number: 11922086Abstract: A printing system includes a printing device and a data processing server. The printing device includes a first controller. The data processing server includes a second controller. The first controller acquires a print job from an external device and transmits the print job to the server. The second controller receives the print job and stores the print job in a server memory. The first controller receives designation of the print job subject to printing and transmits a print request for printing the print job subject to printing to the server. After a fee payment approval to approve a payment for execution of the designated print job is transmitted, the second controller transmits to the printing device the print job. The first controller receives the print job and performs printing the print job on a print medium by controlling a printing member.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shunsuke Minamikawa, Tetsuya Okuno, Haruka Azechi, Ayaka Hotta, Yushi Deura
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Publication number: 20240064258Abstract: In a consuming device, a controller is configured to perform, when an operating mode is set to a non-billing mode: executing. The executing executes, in response to receiving an execution instruction, a prescribed operation consuming a consumable. The prescribed operation is executed while consuming the consumable irrespective of a permitted consumption quantity without decreasing the permitted consumption quantity. The controller is configured to perform: when the operating mode is set to a billing mode: acquiring; and executing. The acquiring acquires the permitted consumption quantity including a newly purchased consumption quantity paid for by a user. The executing executes, in response to receiving the execution instruction, the prescribed operation. The prescribed operation is executed while consuming the consumable and decreasing the permitted consumption quantity acquired in the acquiring until the decreased permitted consumption quantity reaches a predetermined quantity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Koichi TSUGIMURA, Taichiro KIMOTO, Yushi DEURA, Yuki KITAHASHI
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Patent number: 11882256Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller receives a first e-mail from an external device. The first e-mail has a print file attached thereto and is addressed to a device e-mail address assigned to a printing device. The controller determines a fee to be charged for image formation based on the attached print file. The controller generates a second e-mail including: a first amount that is the amount of the determined fee; and a first URL for a payment page for paying the first amount. The controller transmits the generated second e-mail to the external device in reply to the received first e-mail. After payment of the first amount is completed through access to the first URL included in the transmitted second e-mail, the controller transmits to the external device either print data based on the print file or storage destination information for the print data.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yushi Deura, Shunsuke Minamikawa, Tetsuya Okuno, Haruka Azechi, Ayaka Hotta
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Patent number: 11831838Abstract: A printing system includes: a printing device; and a data processing server. A first controller of the printing device is configured to perform: a reading process to read a reading target to generate image data; a determination process to determine whether to transmit the image data to the data processing server according to at least one of available capacity information and capacity-related information; and a data transmission process to transmit the image data to the data processing server. A second controller of the data processing server is configured to perform: a payment-related process related to a fee payment for printing based on the image data. The first controller is configured to further perform, after the fee payment is completed: an acquisition process to acquire print data corresponding to the image data; and a printing process to form an image corresponding to the print data on a printing medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ayaka Hotta, Haruka Azechi, Shunsuke Minamikawa, Tetsuya Okuno, Yushi Deura
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Patent number: 11816517Abstract: In a case where a first sheet paper having a first size is contained and a second sheet paper having a second size is not contained, a printer sends capability information including first size information indicating that the first size is contained and second size information indicating that the second size is contained to a terminal device. The printer receives image data and selection information indicating that a target size has been selected, and in a case where the selection information indicates that the second size has been selected as the target size, the printer executes the predetermined process on the first sheet paper, and in a case where the selection information indicates that the first size has been selected as the target size, the printer does not execute the predetermined process on the first sheet paper.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yushi Deura, Haruka Azechi, Wataru Hasegawa, Shunsuke Minamikawa, Takatsugu Yamada
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Publication number: 20230348218Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a conveyance mechanism conveying a sheet-shaped medium in a conveyance direction, a recorder recording an image on the conveyed sheet-shaped medium, and a controller. The conveyance mechanism selectively conveys a first sheet-shaped medium accommodated in a first accommodation part, and a second sheet-shaped medium accommodated in a second accommodation part and longer than the first sheet-shaped medium in the conveyance direction. The controller causes, based on a recording command, the conveyance mechanism to convey a sheet-shaped medium from one of the first and second accommodation parts, and causes the recorder to record an image on the sheet-shaped medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Yushi DEURA, Taisei OKUZONO, Haruka AZECHI, Yasuhiro NAKANO, Gakuro KANAZAWA, Yuki TSUJIMURA
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Publication number: 20230308587Abstract: A printing system includes a print engine, and one or more controllers configured to perform a data obtaining process of obtaining print data, a print controlling process of controlling the print engine to print an image corresponding to the print data on a printing medium based on a print setting value, and a fee determining process of determining a fee corresponding to a plurality of the print setting values to be applied when the print engine prints the image on the printing medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Haruka AZECHI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Tetsuya OKUNO, Ayaka HOTTA, Yushi DEURA
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Publication number: 20230308588Abstract: A printing system comprises a print engine and one or more controllers. The one or more controllers perform a data obtaining process of obtaining print data, a print controlling process of controlling the print engine to print an image based on a print setting value, a fee determining process of determining a fee to be charged when printing the image, and a setting value changing process of changing the print setting value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Haruka AZECHI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Tetsuya OKUNO, Ayaka HOTTA, Yushi DEURA
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Publication number: 20230289117Abstract: In a server system, the computer stores in the printer a usable print quantity in association with a printer in response to an increase request from an external device. The increase request is a request to store an increased quantity as the usable print quantity. The usable print quantity indicates one of the number of sheets and an amount of colorant which are usable for printing in the printer. The computer determines, after a communication interface is disconnected from the printer, whether a reconnection is established between the communication interface and the printer. The computer determines, when the reconnection is determined to be established, whether the usable print quantity has been reflected in data in the printer. The computer sends to the printer, when the usable print quantity is determined not to have been reflected in any data in the printer, a reflecting instruction to reflect the usable print quantity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuki KITAHASHI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Taichiro KIMOTO, Yushi DEURA, Ayaka HOTTA
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Patent number: 11740578Abstract: A monitoring device is configured to monitor image recordation by a recorder using a recording material supplied from a first cartridge and a second cartridge. the monitoring device includes a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to obtain number-of-sheet information indicating a number of sheets on which the image recordation has been performed, first consumption amount information indicating a consumption amount of a recording material consumed from the first cartridge, and second consumption amount information indicating a consumption amount of a recording material consumed from the second cartridge, determine ratio information indicating a ratio of the recording material consumed from the second cartridge to a total consumption amount of the recording material consumed from the first and second cartridges based on the obtained first and second consumption amount information, and store the obtained number-of-sheet information and the determined ratio information in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yushi Deura, Shinya Esaki, Shunsuke Minamikawa, Tetsuya Okuno, Haruka Azechi
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Patent number: 11733933Abstract: An image recording device includes a cartridge mount configured to hold a cartridge detachably, a cartridge interface, a print engine configured to execute printing, a communication interface configured to connect to a communication network connected to the Internet, memory and a controller.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Haruka Azechi, Tetsuya Okuno, Shinya Esaki, Yushi Deura, Shunsuke Minamikawa, Sadaaki Miyazaki, Tony Lee
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Publication number: 20230234381Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a controller to calculate n that is a maximum natural number satisfying nX?X0, where X0 represents a width of a sheet medium, and X represents a longest one of respective lengths, in a width direction of the sheet medium, of a plurality of first images or a single second image based on image data. The plurality of first images are arranged along a longitudinal direction of the sheet medium. When the calculated n is equal to or more than two, the controller performs a juxtaposed image recording process to control a print engine in such a manner that two or more and n or less images, among the plurality of first images or among a plurality of divisional images into which the single second image is divided, are recorded to be arranged side by side along the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Yushi DEURA, Taisei OKUZONO, Haruka AZECHI, Yasuhiro NAKANO, Gakuro KANAZAWA, Yuki TSUJIMURA
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Patent number: 11698764Abstract: An image recording device includes a cartridge mount to which a cartridge is mounted, a print engine that performs printing, a cartridge interface, an information interface, a memory, and a controller.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Okuno, Shinya Esaki, Shunsuke Minamikawa, Haruka Azechi, Yushi Deura, Tony Lee
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Publication number: 20230202208Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller that performs one or more times a first image forming process including performing image formation on a sheet medium, and conveying the sheet medium in a conveyance direction by rotating a first roller by a first number of rotations and rotating a second roller disposed downstream of the first roller in the conveyance direction by a second number of rotations smaller than the first number of rotations. When a count of times the first image forming process has been performed becomes a particular number of times, the controller performs a second image forming process including performing image formation on the sheet medium, and conveying the sheet medium by rotating the first roller by a third number of rotations smaller than the first number of rotations and rotating the second roller by the second number of rotations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Gakuro KANAZAWA, Taisei OKUZONO, Yushi DEURA, Yasuhiro NAKANO, Haruka AZECHI, Yuki TSUJIMURA
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Publication number: 20230205471Abstract: A printer includes: a print executing unit configured to execute printing on a sheet paper; a process executing unit configured to execute a predetermined process related to cutting of the sheet paper; and a controller. The controller is configured to, in a case where a first sheet paper having a first size is contained, send capability information to a terminal device, wherein the capability information includes specific size information indicating a sheet paper having a specific size. The specific size information includes a specific character string. The controller is configured to receive selection information indicating that the specific size was selected from the terminal device in response to a user selecting the specific character string. The controller is configured to, in a case where the selection information is received from the terminal device, cause the process executing unit to execute the predetermined process on the first sheet paper.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Haruka AZECHI, Yushi DEURA, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Takatsugu YAMADA, Wataru HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20230177296Abstract: In a case where a first sheet paper having a first size is contained and a second sheet paper having a second size is not contained, a printer sends capability information including first size information indicating that the first size is contained and second size information indicating that the second size is contained to a terminal device. The printer receives image data and selection information indicating that a target size has been selected, and in a case where the selection information indicates that the second size has been selected as the target size, the printer executes the predetermined process on the first sheet paper, and in a case where the selection information indicates that the first size has been selected as the target size, the printer does not execute the predetermined process on the first sheet paper.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yushi DEURA, Haruka AZECHI, Wataru HASEGAWA, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Takatsugu YAMADA