Patents by Inventor Akihiro Sakakibara
Akihiro Sakakibara 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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Publication number: 20240025176Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head including a nozzle surface on which a nozzle is opened; a carriage holding the head and configured to move in the scanning direction; a cap configured to contact the nozzle surface to cover the nozzle in a case that the carriage is located in a first position; and a contact member. The head includes a contact part configured to make contact with the contact member. In a case that a load of a vertical component of the nozzle surface is applied to the head by the cap contacting the nozzle surface, the contact member is configured to make contact with the contact part of the head to receive the load applied to the head.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Yoshinori OSAKABE, Akihiro SAKAKIBARA, Yuta ARAKAWA, Taichi SHIRONO, Fumio NAKAZAWA
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Publication number: 20230323073Abstract: A carbon black wherein a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area (N2SA) is 25 to 60 m2/g, a DBP absorption number is 90 to 180 cm3/100 g, a ratio of the nitrogen adsorption specific surface area (N2SA) to an iodine adsorption number (IA) (N2SA/IA) is 1.10×103 to 1.50×103 m2/g, a hydrogen content by NMR is 150 to 250 /g, and ?D is 260 to 290 cm?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: TOKAI CARBON CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro SAKAKIBARA, Yuki KUBOTA, Keisuke OSAMURA
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Publication number: 20190265736Abstract: An information provision system includes: a flying device for imaging a periphery of a vehicle from above, communicating with the vehicle, controlling flight by remote control and flight by autonomous control, and controlling to transmit an image to the vehicle; and a vehicular device for communicating with the flying device, and controlling to display the image on a vehicle-side display unit in real time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Akira GOTO, Akihiro SAKAKIBARA
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Patent number: 9044951Abstract: The liquid ejection apparatus with a liquid jetting head and support members is described. A first support member and a second support member support a guide and feeding roller in a scanning direction and are attached to a housing of the liquid ejection apparatus. The housing at the location to which the first support member is attached is easier to deform in the scanning direction than housing at the location to which the second support member is attached. Further, the housing at the first location may include a projection. The first support member may be attached to the projection.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2014Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akihiro Sakakibara
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Patent number: 8950840Abstract: An inkjet printer is provided that includes a control device configured to determine ink discharge moments to sequentially discharge ink droplets from a specific one of nozzles, in such a manner that a time interval between any two successive ones of the ink discharge moments is longer than a predetermined time period required for an operation to be executed by an inkjet head when forming a single dot, based on gap variation information related to a variation, in a scanning direction, of a gap between an ink discharge surface and a recording sheet held in a wave shape.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akihiro Sakakibara
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Publication number: 20140253635Abstract: The liquid ejection apparatus with a liquid jetting head and support members is described. A first support member and a second support member support a guide and feeding roller in a scanning direction and are attached to a housing of the liquid ejection apparatus. The housing at the location to which the first support member is attached is easier to deform in the scanning direction than housing at the location to which the second support member is attached. Further, the housing at the first location may include a projection. The first support member may be attached to the projection.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akihiro Sakakibara
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Publication number: 20130278655Abstract: An inkjet printer is provided that includes a control device configured to determine ink discharge moments to sequentially discharge ink droplets from a specific one of nozzles, in such a manner that a time interval between any two successive ones of the ink discharge moments is longer than a predetermined time period required for an operation to be executed by an inkjet head when forming a single dot, based on gap variation information related to a variation, in a scanning direction, of a gap between an ink discharge surface and a recording sheet held in a wave shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akihiro SAKAKIBARA
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Patent number: 8472086Abstract: A scanner is provided with a main body, hinge, cover member, and plurality of sets of pins and pin holes. The main body includes a transparent plate on the top surface for placing a document. The hinge connects the main body and the cover member. The cover member rotates between an opened and closed state with respect to the main body. The cover member has a bottom surface, which contacts the top surface of the main body when closed. The pins are fanned on either the top surface of the main body or the bottom surface of the cover member, while the pin holes are formed on the opposing surface. The plurality of sets adjusts a positional relationship between the main body and the cover member in the closed state.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Osakabe, Akihiro Sakakibara
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Patent number: 8462399Abstract: An image reader includes a casing, a contact glass plate, a contact image sensor, and a sliding mechanism; wherein the contact image sensor has a housing, a light source attached to the housing so as to face the contact glass plate, a plurality of light receiving elements attached to the housing so as to face the contact glass plate and aligned in parallel in a longitudinal direction of the housing, and a bearing formed integral to the housing at a position below a lower surface of the housing; and the sliding mechanism includes a guide shaft provided on the casing and extending in a short direction of the housing and inserted through the bearing, and an urging member elastically which urges the guide shaft toward the contact glass plate so that the housing is pressed against the contact glass plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2012Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Osakabe, Tatsuya Sato, Akihiro Sakakibara, Takashi Ohama
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Publication number: 20130057933Abstract: A scanner is provided with a main body, hinge, cover member, and plurality of sets of pins and pin holes. The main body includes a transparent plate on the top surface for placing a document. The hinge connects the main body and the cover member. The cover member rotates between an opened and closed state with respect to the main body. The cover member has a bottom surface, which contacts the top surface of the main body when closed. The pins are fanned on either the top surface of the main body or the bottom surface of the cover member, while the pin holes are formed on the opposing surface. The plurality of sets adjusts a positional relationship between the main body and the cover member in the closed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Inventors: Yoshinori OSAKABE, Akihiro SAKAKIBARA
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Patent number: 8360553Abstract: A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes a jetting head having a jetting surface on which a plurality of nozzles are formed for jetting liquid droplets; a carriage carrying the jetting head and moving reciprocatingly in a first direction along a surface parallel to the jetting surface; and a guide member having a guide surface perpendicular to the jetting surface and extending in the first direction to guide the carriage along the guide surface. The carriage is provided with a fixed slide member fixed to the carriage to slide along the guide surface; a movable slide member arranged apart from the fixed slide member in the first direction to slide along the guide surface and configured to be movable with respect to the carriage in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and an angle change mechanism for changing an angle of the carriage relative to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akihiro Sakakibara
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Patent number: 8345318Abstract: Disclosed is a scanner with a main body, hinge, cover member, and plurality of sets of pins and pin holes. The main body includes a transparent plate on the top surface for placing a document. The hinge connects the main body and the cover member. The cover member rotates between an opened and closed state with respect to the main body. The cover member has a bottom surface, which contacts the top surface of the main body when closed. The pins are fanned on either the top surface of the main body or the bottom surface of the cover member, while the pin holes are formed on the opposing surface. The plurality of sets adjusts a positional relationship between the main body and the cover member in the closed state.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Osakabe, Akihiro Sakakibara
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Publication number: 20120281259Abstract: An image reader includes a casing, a contact glass plate, a contact image sensor, and a sliding mechanism; wherein the contact image sensor has a housing, a light source attached to the housing so as to face the contact glass plate, a plurality of light receiving elements attached to the housing so as to face the contact glass plate and aligned in parallel in a longitudinal direction of the housing, and a bearing formed integral to the housing at a position below a lower surface of the housing; and the sliding mechanism includes a guide shaft provided on the casing and extending in a short direction of the housing and inserted through the bearing, and an urging member elastically which urges the guide shaft toward the contact glass plate so that the housing is pressed against the contact glass plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshinori OSAKABE, Tatsuya SATO, Akihiro SAKAKIBARA, Takashi OHAMA
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Patent number: 8282094Abstract: A tray which holds documents to be fed has a document holding portion which holds document in a stacked state thereon and guide members which are arranged on the document holding portion in the cross direction (document width direction) and at least one of which is movable in the document width direction. The document feeding tray further has an extending portion which extends from the document holding portion in the feeding direction (document length direction) to freely increase or decrease the extending amount and a adjusting mechanism which decreases the extending amount of the extending portion as a distance between the guide members becomes narrower and increases the extending portion as the distance between the guide members becomes wider.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihiro Sakakibara, Takashi Ohama
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Patent number: 8223405Abstract: An image reader includes a casing, a contact glass plate, a contact image sensor, and a sliding mechanism; wherein the contact image sensor has a housing, a light source attached to the housing so as to face the contact glass plate, a plurality of light receiving elements attached to the housing so as to face the contact glass plate and aligned in parallel in a longitudinal direction of the housing, and a bearing formed integral to the housing at a position below a lower surface of the housing; and the sliding mechanism includes a guide shaft provided on the casing and extending in a short direction of the housing and inserted through the bearing, and an urging member elastically which urges the guide shaft toward the contact glass plate so that the housing is pressed against the contact glass plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Osakabe, Tatsuya Sato, Akihiro Sakakibara, Takashi Ohama
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Publication number: 20120140294Abstract: An image reader includes a casing, a contact glass plate, a contact image sensor, and a sliding mechanism; wherein the contact image sensor has a housing, a light source attached to the housing so as to face the contact glass plate, a plurality of light receiving elements attached to the housing so as to face the contact glass plate and aligned in parallel in a longitudinal direction of the housing, and a bearing formed integral to the housing at a position below a lower surface of the housing; and the sliding mechanism includes a guide shaft provided on the casing and extending in a short direction of the housing and inserted through the bearing, and an urging member elastically which urges the guide shaft toward the contact glass plate so that the housing is pressed against the contact glass plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshinori OSAKABE, Tatsuya SATO, Akihiro SAKAKIBARA, Takashi OHAMA
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Patent number: 8182059Abstract: an image printing device comprises a transfer roller configured to transfer a printing medium in a transfer direction, a first sensor configured to detect a rotation amount of the transfer roller, a carriage mounted with a printhead. The image printing device further comprises a second sensor mounted to the carriage and configured to detect the printing medium. The image printing device further comprises a reference member disposed at a position opposing to the second sensor and a drive transmission mechanism configured to move the reference member in conjunction with a rotation of the transfer roller. The image printing device determines a position of an origin of the transfer roller based on detection results of the first sensor and the second sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2010Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihiro Sakakibara, Yasuhira Ota, Kohei Terada
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Patent number: 8115971Abstract: An image reader includes a casing, a contact glass plate, a contact image sensor, and a sliding mechanism; wherein the contact image sensor has a housing, a light source attached to the housing so as to face the contact glass plate, a plurality of light receiving elements attached to the housing so as to face the contact glass plate and aligned in parallel in a longitudinal direction of the housing, and a bearing formed integral to the housing at a position below a lower surface of the housing; and the sliding mechanism includes a guide shaft provided on the casing and extending in a short direction of the housing and inserted through the bearing, and an urging member elastically which urges the guide shaft toward the contact glass plate so that the housing is pressed against the contact glass plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2006Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Osakabe, Tatsuya Sato, Akihiro Sakakibara, Takashi Ohama
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Publication number: 20110310175Abstract: A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes a jetting head having a jetting surface on which a plurality of nozzles are formed for jetting liquid droplets; a carriage carrying the jetting head and moving reciprocatingly in a first direction along a surface parallel to the jetting surface; and a guide member having a guide surface perpendicular to the jetting surface and extending in the first direction to guide the carriage along the guide surface. The carriage is provided with a fixed slide member fixed to the carriage to slide along the guide surface; a movable slide member arranged apart from the fixed slide member in the first direction to slide along the guide surface and configured to be movable with respect to the carriage in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and an angle change mechanism for changing an angle of the carriage relative to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akihiro SAKAKIBARA
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Patent number: RE47615Abstract: The liquid ejection apparatus with a liquid jetting head and support members is described. A first support member and a second support member support a guide and feeding roller in a scanning direction and are attached to a housing of the liquid ejection apparatus. The housing at the location to which the first support member is attached is easier to deform in the scanning direction than housing at the location to which the second support member is attached. Further, the housing at the first location may include a projection. The first support member may be attached to the projection.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akihiro Sakakibara