Patents by Inventor Akinori IGARASHI
Akinori IGARASHI 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: 20170120643Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus which includes a tank including a liquid storage chamber, an inlet, a liquid lead-out channel, and an atmosphere communication channel, a conveyance mechanism, a carriage, and a head. A lower end of the inlet is positioned at a lower side of the nozzles, and the liquid storage chamber is arranged at a position shifted from the nozzles, in a first-direction side of the front-rear direction, and shifted from the conveyance route, to a second-direction side of the left-right direction. The liquid storage chamber is connected to the liquid outflow channel at a position on a lower side of a center in a up-down direction of the liquid storage chamber, and in the first direction from a center in the front-rear direction of the liquid storage chamber, and on the second-direction side of a center in the left-right direction of the liquid storage chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: May 4, 2017Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinori IGARASHI, Masataka KAMIYA
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Publication number: 20170008296Abstract: There is provided a tank including: a wall defining a liquid storage chamber, the wall including: an upper wall defining an upper end of the liquid storage chamber, a lower wall defining a lower end of the liquid storage chamber, and an erected wall between the upper wall and the lower wall and through which the liquid inside the liquid storage chamber is visible from outside of the tank; an inlet penetrating through the upper wall or the erected wall; and an outlet, wherein the lower wall includes an upper stage wall making contact with the erected wall; a lower stage wall located at a position separated and away from the erected wall and below the upper stage wall; and a connecting wall connecting the upper and lower stage walls; and the outlet is disposed below the upper stage wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akinori IGARASHI
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Publication number: 20160375690Abstract: There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus including a casing, a liquid consuming section, and a tank. The tank includes a box-shaped body having a light-transmitting property and having five walls and a partition wall; a film adhered to rear end portions of the walls; and a positioning section disposed at least on an outer surface of each of the upper and lower walls, or of each of the right and left walls. In a state that the liquid consuming apparatus is placed on a horizontal plane, the box-shaped body is positioned at a posture at which the positioning section is brought into contact with the casing to thereby allow the front wall to be exposed from a side surface of the casing which extends in a direction crossing the horizontal plane, and at which the rear end portions are located inside the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akinori IGARASHI
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Patent number: 9505222Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus which includes a tank including a liquid storage chamber, an inlet, a liquid lead-out channel, and an atmosphere communication channel, a conveyance mechanism, a carriage, and a head. A lower end of the inlet is positioned at a lower side of the nozzles, and the liquid storage chamber is arranged at a position shifted from the nozzles, in a first-direction side of the front-rear direction, and shifted from the conveyance route, to a second-direction side of the left-right direction. The liquid storage chamber is connected to the liquid outflow channel at a position on a lower side of a center in a up-down direction of the liquid storage chamber, and in the first direction from a center in the front-rear direction of the liquid storage chamber, and on the second-direction side of a center in the left-right direction of the liquid storage chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinori Igarashi, Masataka Kamiya
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Patent number: 9457581Abstract: There is provided a tank including: a wall defining a liquid storage chamber, the wall including: an upper wall defining an upper end of the liquid storage chamber, a lower wall defining a lower end of the liquid storage chamber, and an erected wall between the upper wall and the lower wall and through which the liquid inside the liquid storage chamber is visible from outside of the tank; an inlet penetrating through the upper wall or the erected wall; and an outlet, wherein the lower wall includes an upper stage wall making contact with the erected wall; a lower stage wall located at a position separated and away from the erected wall and below the upper stage wall; and a connecting wall connecting the upper and lower stage walls; and the outlet is disposed below the upper stage wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akinori Igarashi
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Patent number: 9440445Abstract: There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus including a casing, a liquid consuming section, and a tank. The tank includes a box-shaped body having a light-transmitting property and having five walls and a partition wall; a film adhered to rear end portions of the walls; and a positioning section disposed at least on an outer surface of each of the upper and lower walls, or of each of the right and left walls. In a state that the liquid consuming apparatus is placed on a horizontal plane, the box-shaped body is positioned at a posture at which the positioning section is brought into contact with the casing to thereby allow the front wall to be exposed from a side surface of the casing which extends in a direction crossing the horizontal plane, and at which the rear end portions are located inside the casing.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akinori Igarashi
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Publication number: 20160176194Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes a casing, a tank formed with a liquid storage chamber which stores liquid, an inlet which allows the liquid to be poured into the liquid storage chamber, and a liquid outflow channel which allows the liquid to flow out from the liquid storage chamber, a conveying mechanism which conveys a recording medium along a conveying path extending in a front-rear direction, a carriage which moves in a left-right direction, and a head mounted on the carriage and having a nozzle which jets the liquid onto the recording medium conveyed by the conveying mechanism. The tank, the conveying path, and the carriage are arranged inside the casing, the tank is arranged outside the conveying path in the left-right direction, and at least a part of the tank is arranged inside both ends of a movement area of the carriage in the left-right direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshinori OSAKABE, Tomohisa HIGUCHI, Akira SHINODA, Akinori IGARASHI, Suguru TOMOGUCHI, Hisaki SAKURAI
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Publication number: 20160121615Abstract: There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus including a casing, a liquid consuming section, and a tank. The tank includes a box-shaped body having a light-transmitting property and having five walls and a partition wall; a film adhered to rear end portions of the walls; and a positioning section disposed at least on an outer surface of each of the upper and lower walls, or of each of the right and left walls. In a state that the liquid consuming apparatus is placed on a horizontal plane, the box-shaped body is positioned at a posture at which the positioning section is brought into contact with the casing to thereby allow the front wall to be exposed from a side surface of the casing which extends in a direction crossing the horizontal plane, and at which the rear end portions are located inside the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akinori IGARASHI
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Patent number: 9302516Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes a casing, a tank formed with a liquid storage chamber which stores liquid, an inlet which allows the liquid to be poured into the liquid storage chamber, and a liquid outflow channel which allows the liquid to flow out from the liquid storage chamber, a conveying mechanism which conveys a recording medium along a conveying path extending in a front-rear direction, a carriage which moves in a left-right direction, and a head mounted on the carriage and having a nozzle which jets the liquid onto the recording medium conveyed by the conveying mechanism. The tank, the conveying path, and the carriage are arranged inside the casing, the tank is arranged outside the conveying path in the left-right direction, and at least a part of the tank is arranged inside both ends of a movement area of the carriage in the left-right direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshinori Osakabe, Tomohisa Higuchi, Akira Shinoda, Akinori Igarashi, Suguru Tomoguchi, Hisaki Sakurai
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Patent number: 9272519Abstract: There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus which includes a tank including first and second liquid storage chambers, and a liquid consuming unit. The tank includes a first inlet, a first atmosphere communication channel, a first liquid outflow channel, a first return channel, a second inlet, a second atmosphere communication channel, a second liquid outflow channel, and a second return channel. A volume of the first liquid outflow channel from the first position up to the second position and a volume of the second liquid outflow channel from the fourth position up to the fifth position differ mutually.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akinori Igarashi
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Patent number: 9259938Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge test method using a liquid discharge apparatus provided with a liquid storage tank and a liquid discharge unit, the method including: blocking communication between a first channel in a first channel forming member and a second channel in a second channel forming member; allowing the second channel to communicate with a third channel in a third channel forming member; discharging the liquid, which is supplied from the exterior liquid supply source through the third channel and the second channel, by the liquid discharge unit after blocking the communication between the first channel and the second channel and allowing the second channel to communicate with the third channel; blocking the communication between the second channel and the third channel after discharging the liquid; and allowing the first channel to communicate with the second channel after discharging the liquid.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akinori Igarashi
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Publication number: 20150360474Abstract: There is provided a tank including: a wall defining a liquid storage chamber, the wall including: an upper wall defining an upper end of the liquid storage chamber, a lower wall defining a lower end of the liquid storage chamber, and an erected wall between the upper wall and the lower wall and through which the liquid inside the liquid storage chamber is visible from outside of the tank; an inlet penetrating through the upper wall or the erected wall; and an outlet, wherein the lower wall includes an upper stage wall making contact with the erected wall; a lower stage wall located at a position separated and away from the erected wall and below the upper stage wall; and a connecting wall connecting the upper and lower stage walls; and the outlet is disposed below the upper stage wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akinori IGARASHI
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Publication number: 20150306885Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge test method using a liquid discharge apparatus provided with a liquid storage tank and a liquid discharge unit, the method including: blocking communication between a first channel in a first channel forming member and a second channel in a second channel forming member; allowing the second channel to communicate with a third channel in a third channel forming member; discharging the liquid, which is supplied from the exterior liquid supply source through the third channel and the second channel, by the liquid discharge unit after blocking the communication between the first channel and the second channel and allowing the second channel to communicate with the third channel; blocking the communication between the second channel and the third channel after discharging the liquid; and allowing the first channel to communicate with the second channel after discharging the liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akinori IGARASHI
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Publication number: 20150283832Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes a casing, a tank formed with a liquid storage chamber which stores liquid, an inlet which allows the liquid to be poured into the liquid storage chamber, and a liquid outflow channel which allows the liquid to flow out from the liquid storage chamber, a conveying mechanism which conveys a recording medium along a conveying path extending in a front-rear direction, a carriage which moves in a left-right direction, and a head mounted on the carriage and having a nozzle which jets the liquid onto the recording medium conveyed by the conveying mechanism. The tank, the conveying path, and the carriage are arranged inside the casing, the tank is arranged outside the conveying path in the left-right direction, and at least a part of the tank is arranged inside both ends of a movement area of the carriage in the left-right direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshinori OSAKABE, Tomohisa HIGUCHI, Akira SHINODA, Akinori IGARASHI, Suguru TOMOGUCHI, Hisaki SAKURAI
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Publication number: 20150283815Abstract: There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus which includes a tank including first and second liquid storage chambers, and a liquid consuming unit. The tank includes a first inlet, a first atmosphere communication channel, a first liquid outflow channel, a first return channel, a second inlet, a second atmosphere communication channel, a second liquid outflow channel, and a second return channel. A volume of the first liquid outflow channel from the first position up to the second position and a volume of the second liquid outflow channel from the fourth position up to the fifth position differ mutually.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akinori IGARASHI
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Publication number: 20150284170Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus which includes a tank including a liquid storage chamber, an inlet, a liquid lead-out channel, and an atmosphere communication channel, a conveyance mechanism, a carriage, and a head. A lower end of the inlet is positioned at a lower side of the nozzles, and the liquid storage chamber is arranged at a position shifted from the nozzles, in a first-direction side of the front-rear direction, and shifted from the conveyance route, to a second-direction side of the left-right direction. The liquid storage chamber is connected to the liquid outflow channel at a position on a lower side of a center in a up-down direction of the liquid storage chamber, and in the first direction from a center in the front-rear direction of the liquid storage chamber, and on the second-direction side of a center in the left-right direction of the liquid storage chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinori IGARASHI, Masataka KAMIYA
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Patent number: 9058014Abstract: A cartridge includes a substrate and an engagement portion. The first surface faces a first direction and has a first surface on which an electrical terminal is disposed. The engagement portion includes a second surface disposed upstream from the substrate in the first direction and a third surface. The second surface faces a second direction, which forms an obtuse angle with the first direction. The third surface faces a third direction, which forms an acute angle with the first direction. The third surface does not overlap with the substrate in the first direction and the third surface is disposed downstream from the second surface in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Suguru Tomoguchi, Noritsugu Ito, Akinori Igarashi, Tadanobu Chikamoto, Hideki Shioya
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Patent number: 8998357Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus including: a liquid ejection head including an inside channel; a supply channel; a return channel; a supply device; an adjusting device; and a controller, wherein the controller starts a liquid circulation control for circulating liquid through the supply channel, the inside channel, and the return channel in order by controlling: the adjusting device such that a channel resistance value of the return channel is less than a predetermined maximum value; and the supply device to supply the liquid into the inside channel, wherein, when the liquid is circulated, the controller starts a liquid discharge control for discharging the liquid by increasing the channel resistance value, wherein, when the liquid is discharged, the controller starts a liquid-discharge stopping control for stopping the discharge by decreasing the channel resistance value, and wherein the controller controls the supply device such that a liquid amount supplied to the inside channel per unit time when the dischargType: GrantFiled: July 26, 2011Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akinori Igarashi
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Publication number: 20140376948Abstract: A cartridge includes a substrate and an engagement portion. The first surface faces a first direction and has a first surface on which an electrical terminal is disposed. The engagement portion includes a second surface disposed upstream from the substrate in the first direction and a third surface. The second surface faces a second direction, which forms an obtuse angle with the first direction. The third surface faces a third direction, which forms an acute angle with the first direction. The third surface does not overlap with the substrate in the first direction and the third surface is disposed downstream from the second surface in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Suguru TOMOGUCHI, Noritsugu ITO, Akinori IGARASHI, Tadanobu CHIKAMOTO, Hideki SHIOYA
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Patent number: 8857956Abstract: A cartridge includes a substrate and an engagement portion. The first surface faces a first direction and has a first surface on which an electrical terminal is disposed. The engagement portion includes a second surface disposed upstream from the substrate in the first direction and a third surface. The second surface faces a second direction, which forms an obtuse angle with the first direction. The third surface faces a third direction, which forms an acute angle with the first direction. The third surface does not overlap with the substrate in the first direction and the third surface is disposed downstream from the second surface in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Suguru Tomoguchi, Noritsugu Ito, Akinori Igarashi, Tadanobu Chikamoto, Hideki Shioya