Patents by Inventor Akehiro Ono

Akehiro 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: 9592688
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a chassis with an opening, a touch-screen unit, which is arranged to have a first plane thereof toward the opening and is configured to accept an input operation entered through a reactive area in the first plane when the reactive area is touched, a positioning part, which is formed on the chassis and is configured to be in contact with a non-reactive area being different from the reactive area in the touch-screen unit, and a resilient member, which is configured to urge the touch-screen unit against the positioning part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akehiro Ono, Xingjing Chen, Takeo Kojima
  • Publication number: 20130083341
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a chassis with an opening, a touch-screen unit, which is arranged to have a first plane thereof toward the opening and is configured to accept an input operation entered through a reactive area in the first plane when the reactive area is touched, a positioning part, which is formed on the chassis and is configured to be in contact with a non-reactive area being different from the reactive area in the touch-screen unit, and a resilient member, which is configured to urge the touch-screen unit against the positioning part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akehiro Ono, Xingjing Chen, Takeo Kojima
  • Patent number: 8081902
    Abstract: An image-forming device includes a body frame, a belt unit, and a process cartridge. The belt unit includes a belt unit main frame having a first main end portion and a second main end portion in a first direction, a first roller disposed at the first main end portion, a second roller disposed at the second main end portion, a belt mounted around the first roller and the second roller, and a handle part disposed at the first main end portion and has a contacting part. The process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum having a photosensitive surface opposed to the belt in a second direction, and a casing accommodating the photosensitive drum and having a contacted part. The contacting part contacts the contacted part to prevent the photosensitive surface from contacting the belt unit when the process cartridge is mounted in the body frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Hayakawa, Akehiro Ono, Hiroshi Nakano
  • Patent number: 7850298
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that includes a discharge tray on which a sheet discharged from a discharge port is stacked; a sheet retainer, which guides the sheet discharged from the discharge port onto the discharge tray and is displaced in abutment against an uppermost sheet stacked on the discharge tray, the sheet retainer removing electricity of the sheet; and a detection unit, which detects a stack of the sheet on the discharge tray on a basis of a position of the sheet retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akehiro Ono, Masahiro Kamimura
  • Patent number: 7672636
    Abstract: An image reader including a main body with a document bed for supporting an original document; and a document cover rotatably supported at one edge with respect to the main body and capable of rotating between a closed position for covering the document bed and an open position for exposing the document bed. The document cover has a main cover body and a document pressing plate formed of a synthetic resin. The pressing plate is supported on the main cover body with vertical clearance (in a direction orthogonal to the surface of the pressing plate) through the engagement of engaging pieces having through-holes. When the document cover is in the closed position, pressing parts press the center part of the pressing plate against the document bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akehiro Ono
  • Publication number: 20090226210
    Abstract: An image-forming device includes a body frame, a belt unit, and a process cartridge. The belt unit includes a belt unit main frame having a first main end portion and a second main end portion in a first direction, a first roller disposed at the first main end portion, a second roller disposed at the second main end portion, a belt mounted around the first roller and the second roller, and a handle part disposed at the first main end portion and has a contacting part. The process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum having a photosensitive surface opposed to the belt in a second direction, and a casing accommodating the photosensitive drum and having a contacted part. The contacting part contacts the contacted part to prevent the photosensitive from contacting the belt unit when the process cartridge is mounted in the body frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeki HAYAKAWA, Akehiro ONO, Hiroshi NAKANO
  • Patent number: 7484729
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a loading portion that is capable of receiving a recording sheet. The loading portion includes a correction member which has a bending portion, wherein the bending portion selectively moves between a first position and a second position, the second position being located higher than the first position, and a stopper that selectively moves between a closed position and an open position in which the stopper extends upward at a predetermined angle with respect to a horizontal surface when the stopper is at the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akehiro Ono, Masahiro Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20060244804
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that includes a discharge tray on which a sheet discharged from a discharge port is stacked; a sheet retainer, which guides the sheet discharged from the discharge port onto the discharge tray and is displaced in abutment against an uppermost sheet stacked on the discharge tray, the sheet retainer removing electricity of the sheet; and a detection unit, which detects a stack of the sheet on the discharge tray on a basis of a position of the sheet retainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akehiro Ono, Masahiro Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20060114523
    Abstract: An image reader including a main body with a document bed for supporting an original document; and a document cover rotatably supported at one edge with respect to the main body and capable of rotating between a closed position for covering the document bed and an open position for exposing the document bed. The document cover has a main cover body and a document pressing plate formed of a synthetic resin. The pressing plate is supported on the main cover body with vertical clearance (in a direction orthogonal to the surface of the pressing plate) through the engagement of engaging pieces having through-holes. When the document cover is in the closed position, pressing parts press the center part of the pressing plate against the document bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akehiro Ono
  • Publication number: 20050140086
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a loading portion that is capable of receiving a recording sheet. The loading portion includes a correction member which has a bending portion, wherein the bending portion selectively moves between a first position and a second position, the second position being located higher than the first position, and a stopper that selectively moves between a closed position and an open position in which the stopper extends upward at a predetermined angle with respect to a horizontal surface when the stopper is at the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akehiro Ono, Masahiro Kamimura
  • Patent number: 6280025
    Abstract: A pocket assembly for use in an ink jet printer included in a mailing machine. The pocket assembly is adapted to receive an ink cartridge and includes: a housing defining a pocket for receiving the ink cartridge, a needle, a door and a door mechanism. The housing has an open end and a closed end and includes a recess extending away from the pocket. The needle is mounted to the housing closed end and protrudes into the pocket. The door is movably mounted to the housing and is located within the pocket. The door mechanism is operatively coupled with door for repositioning the door between a closed position blocking access to the needle and an open position allowing access to the needle. The door is seated in the recess when in the closed position so that the door is less likely to be manually repositioned to the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: David W. Beckstrom, Akehiro Ono
  • Patent number: 5219236
    Abstract: A recording apparatus for recording information on a continuous rolled recording medium, said recording apparatus comprising a fixed unit and a movable unit. The continuous rolled recording medium is exchangeable in the open position of said movable unit. A printing head is located in either of said fixed unit or said movable unit and a platen is located in the remaining unit. A pair of feed rollers are located downstream of said printing head and said platen with respect to a feeding direction of said recording medium. One of said feed rollers located in said fixed unit is displaceable between a contact position contacting with the other feed roller located in said movable unit when said movable unit is in the closed position and a release position separate from the other feed roller outside a locus of an outer profile of said movable unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Kamimura, Naokazu Shimoda, Eiji Tanaka, Akehiro Ono
  • Patent number: 5137385
    Abstract: A printer for use with an electronic cash register in which both a printer mechanism and an openable/closable unit are housed in a cabinet. A cover member is openably and closeably mounted on the cabinet for lying over the unit. A rib is provided in the rear surface of the cover member, and an abutment block is provided in the openable/closable unit. The rib is brought to abutment with the block when the cover member is closed, while the abutment block is brought to abutment with the rib when the openable/closable unit is moved from the closed position to the open position. The cover is openable in accordance with the opening movement of the openable/closable unit through abutment of the rib and block whereas it is closable in accordance with the closing movement of the cover member through the abutment thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Assignee: Brother Kyogo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Kamimura, Akehiro Ono
  • Patent number: 4826336
    Abstract: Disclosed herewith is a printing apparatus for use in a cash register or the like, in which a receipt sheet and a journal sheet are disposed in parallel to each other on a platen that defines a print line and a movable printing body including a printing head which reciprocates along the platen to perform its printing operation selectively on the receipt and journal sheets in regions respectively facing these sheets. The line-feeding operation of the receipt sheet is controlled to be carried out when the printing head is located at least partially in the region facing the receipt sheet, whereby the line-feeding of the receipt sheet can be performed without interfering with the movement of the movable printing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Kamimura, Akehiro Ono, Susumu Misu, Junji Nakahara