Patents by Inventor Akira Sago

Akira Sago 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).

  • Tape cassette
    Patent number: 8764326
    Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a housing, at least one tape, and a color indicator portion disposed between the tape housing area and the periphery, and in a specified area adjacent to the tape housing area on a rear edge side of the bottom wall, the color indicator portion indicating color information relating to the at least one tape and including a plurality of lateral information sections that are a plurality of strip-shaped sections extending along the left-and-right direction of the housing and aligned in a front-rear direction of the housing, wherein, of the plurality of lateral information sections, whether a protrusion is formed in a first lateral information section indicates a base material color of the at least one tape, and whether a protrusion is formed in a second lateral information section indicates a print color of the at least one tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Takashi Horiuchi, Akira Sago, Yasuhiro Iriyama, Yasuhiro Shibata, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Masato Kato, Teruo Imamaki
  • TAPE CASSETTE
    Publication number: 20140175204
    Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koshiro YAMAGUCHI, Akira SAGO
  • Tape cassette
    Patent number: 8757907
    Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a generally rectangular box-like housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a side wall defining a periphery of the housing, at least one tape wound and mounted within the housing in a tape containing area defined within the periphery, and a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and disposed between the tape containing area and the periphery at opposite ends of a diagonal of the generally rectangular box-like housing, the diagonal connecting a first corner portion and a second corner portion of the generally rectangular box-like housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Akira Sago
  • Tape printer
    Patent number: 8740482
    Abstract: A tape printer that includes a tape cassette having a housing, a tape, a head holder insertion portion, and a first support receiving portion that is a first indentation extending from the bottom surface in a direction toward the top surface, a cassette housing portion in which the tape cassette is inserted or removed, a head holder extending from the cassette housing portion in a direction of insertion and removal of the tape cassette with respect to the cassette housing portion and supporting a printhead, the head holder being adapted to be inserted in the head holder insertion portion, and a first supporting portion provided on the head holder to support a ceiling wall portion of the first indentation as the first support receiving portion, the first supporting portion being provided on an upstream side of the printhead in a feed direction of the tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Akira Sago, Takashi Horiuchi, Tsutomu Kato, Teruo Imamaki, Yasuhiro Shibata, Susumu Murata, Kengo Noda
  • ROTARY CUTTER APPARATUS AND PRINTER
    Publication number: 20140126947
    Abstract: A rotary cutter apparatus comprises a rotary body and a holding body. The rotary body is supported by a housing so as to rotate along a rotating direction. The holding body is supported by the housing. The rotary body has a rotary blade including a first edge portion. The holding body has a fixed blade including a second edge portion. The first edge portion is configured to be in contact with the second edge portion and to be rubbed with the second edge portion. The first edge portion and the second edge portion are configured to perform cutting of an object to be cut. The object is located in an introduction path. The rotary cutter apparatus further comprises a guide member configured to be in contact with the object and to guide it when the object is fed to an inside of a rotation trajectory of the rotary body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira SAGO, Nobuo KATO
  • TAPE CASSETTE
    Publication number: 20140112694
    Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a housing, at least one tape, and a color indicator portion disposed between the tape housing area and the periphery, and in a specified area adjacent to the tape housing area on a rear edge side of the bottom wall, the color indicator portion indicating color information relating to the at least one tape and including a plurality of lateral information sections that are a plurality of strip-shaped sections extending along the left-and-right direction of the housing and aligned in a front-rear direction of the housing, wherein, of the plurality of lateral information sections, whether a protrusion is formed in a first lateral information section indicates a base material color of the at least one tape, and whether a protrusion is formed in a second lateral information section indicates a print color of the at least one tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koshiro YAMAGUCHI, Takashi HORIUCHI, Akira SAGO, Yasuhiro IRIYAMA, Yasuhiro SHIBATA, Tsuyoshi NAGAE, Masato KATO, Teruo IMAMAKI
  • TAPE CASSETTE
    Publication number: 20140105663
    Abstract: A tape cassette includes a cassette case, a tape roll housed in the cassette case, an arm portion that guides a tape, and a long hole extending in a left-right direction of the cassette case and formed straddling a center position of the cassette case in the left-right direction, wherein a first distance (a length of the tong hole in the left-right direction) is larger than a second distance (a length from an end portion of the tape cassette in an opposite direction to a feed direction of the tape fed in the arm portion, to an end portion of the long hole in the opposite direction), and a center of gravity of the tape cassette is located in a specific area whose both end positions in the left-right direction are the same as those of the long hole, and which extends in a front-rear direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koshiro YAMAGUCHI, Akira SAGO
  • Tape cassette
    Patent number: 8651756
    Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front surface and a pair of side surfaces, a tape that is a print medium housed in the housing, a tape exit that discharges, from the housing, the tape guided in the housing along a predetermined feed path, at least a part of the feed path extending parallel to the front surface, and a type indicator portion provided adjacent to the tape exit and in a specified area of the front surface on an upstream side of the tape exit in a feed direction of the tape, the type indicator portion indicating a type of the tape and including vertical information sections and an aperture formed in at least one of the vertical information sections, the vertical information sections being strip-shaped sections extending along a direction orthogonal to the feed direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Masato Kato, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Teruo Imamaki, Takashi Horiuchi, Akira Sago, Yasuhiro Iriyama, Yasuhiro Shibata
  • Sheet processing apparatus
    Patent number: 8627754
    Abstract: There is provided a sheet processing apparatus capable of preventing the roll sheet cut by the cutting device from falling over to the sheet processing apparatus and improving the conveyance capability of the roll sheet when the long size roll sheet is made. Long size roll sheet is fixed at three spots, wherein the three spots are the top edge portion of the roll sheet receiving portion, the top edge portion on the downstream side of the regulatory member, and the bottom edge portion of the projecting portion. The bottom edge portion of the projecting portion is constructed to be always located inside a circular arc which starts from a center O with a maximum radius R of the roll sheet, wherein the circular arc passes the top edge portion of the roll sheet receiving portion and the top edge portion on the downstream side of the regulatory member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Kasugai, Shinji Kobayashi, Akira Sago, Keiji Seo, Takehiko Inaba
  • Printing apparatus with cutter having a blade including a step portion
    Patent number: 8562229
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transfer mechanism that transfers a print medium, a printing device that prints on the print medium, a stationary blade that is provided on a downstream side in a transfer direction of the print medium further than the printing device to cut the print medium, a movable blade that is provided on a downstream side in a transfer direction of the print medium further than the printing device and that cut the print medium, and a step portion that is provided on a reverse face of the downstream blade which is located on downstream side in transferring of the print medium, the reverse face being reverse of a slide face of the downstream blade sliding on the upstream blade which is located on upstream side in transferring of the print medium, and that projects along a thickness direction of the downstream blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehiko Inaba, Keiji Seo, Shinji Kobayashi, Atsushi Kasugai, Akira Sago, Tomohiko Sugino, Sunao Masuda
  • Tape printer
    Patent number: 8562228
    Abstract: A tape printer includes a tape cassette including a housing, a cassette housing portion, a feeding device, a printing device, a plurality of detecting switches that protrude toward a side surface of the housing of the tape cassette installed in the cassette housing portion, a first determining device that, if a part of the detecting switches is pressed, determines that the tape cassette is installed, and a second determining device that, if a specific detecting switch among the detecting switches is pressed, determines that the tape cassette is not installed at a proper position. The tape cassette includes a first pressing portion that, if the tape cassette is installed at the proper position, presses a part of the detecting switches, and a second pressing portion that, if the tape cassette is not installed at the proper position, presses the specific detecting switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Masato Kato, Teruo Imamaki, Takashi Horiuchi, Akira Sago, Yasuhiro Iriyama, Yasuhiro Shibata
  • ROTARY CUTTER DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130247732
    Abstract: A rotary cutter device includes a rotary blade, a fixed blade, a control portion, and a blade member. The rotary blade is configured to be rotatable around a central axis and has a first cutting edge. The fixed blade is provided on an outer side of a trajectory and has a second cutting edge. The control portion is configured to cause the rotary blade to rotate toward the fixed blade around the central axis. The blade member is provided opposite the trajectory in a different position from the fixed blade. The blade member is a plate-shaped member that has a width that extends parallel to the central axis and has a slide portion that is configured to slide in relation to the first cutting edge of the rotating rotary blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teruo IMAMAKI, Akira SAGO
  • Tape printing apparatus with tape cassette identifying unit
    Patent number: 8534939
    Abstract: A CPU detects whether or not a type of a tape cassette housed in a cassette housing portion is a stripped-tape accommodating cassette that creates an after-printed tape with a separator being peeled off from its adhesive layer. In case the CPU detects that the type of the tape cassette in the cassette housing portion is a stripped-tape accommodating cassette that creates an after-printed tape with a separator being peeled off from its adhesive layer, only one after-printed tape in predetermined length with a separator being peeled off from its adhesive layer is made subject to tape printing, and consequently conveyed to a cutting point, whereby tape printing is terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Teruo Imamaki, Akira Sago
  • ROTARY CUTTER MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20130118330
    Abstract: A rotary cutter mechanism includes a rotary blade which is rotatably provided around a shaft center and which includes a first cutting edge portion, a counter blade which is provided to face a locus drawn by the first cutting edge portion of the rotating rotary blade and which includes a second cutting edge portion, and a protruding member which is provided on the edge portion of the rotary blade on the first direction side and which protrudes from the rotary blade toward a rotation direction side, the rotation direction side being a side on which the rotary blade faces the object to be cut in a case where the object to be cut is cut between the first cutting edge portion and the second cutting edge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Akira SAGO, Takashi TAKEUCHI
  • Tape cassette
    Patent number: 8382389
    Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front surface and a pair of side surfaces, a tape that is a print medium housed in the housing, a tape exit that discharges, from the housing, the tape guided in the housing along a predetermined feed path, at least a part of the feed path extending parallel to the front surface, and a type indicator portion provided adjacent to the tape exit and in a specified area of the front surface on an upstream side of the tape exit in a feed direction of the tape, the type indicator portion indicating a type of the tape and including vertical information sections and an aperture formed in at least one of the vertical information sections, the vertical information sections being strip-shaped sections extending along a direction orthogonal to the feed direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Masato Kato, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Teruo Imamaki, Takashi Horiuchi, Akira Sago, Yasuhiro Iriyama, Yasuhiro Shibata
  • Printer
    Patent number: 8360667
    Abstract: A printer that includes a cassette housing portion into which a tape cassette is detachably installed in a vertical direction, a feeding device that feeds the tape mounted in the tape cassette, a printing head that performs printing on the tape, a platen roller that is located facing the printing head, a roller holder that rotatably supports the platen roller, a mechanical sensor having a switch terminal that is capable of protruding and retracting, a sensor holder that holds the mechanical sensor between the shaft of the roller holder and the platen roller and that is capable of moving independently of the roller holder between a third position and a fourth position, and a determination device that determines the type of the tape based on protrusion and retraction of the switch terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Sago
  • TAPE CASSETTE
    Publication number: 20120201588
    Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a generally rectangular box-like housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a side wall defining a periphery of the housing, a first and second cavities extending from the bottom wall and disposed between a tape containing area and the periphery at opposite ends of a diagonal of the generally rectangular box-like housing, at least one tape wound and mounted within the housing in the tape containing area, the at least one tape including a first tape disposed in a first area, the first tape having a hole at a center of winding, and the first area being one of two areas formed by dividing the housing with respect to a line connecting the first and second cavities, and a third cavity that extends in the hole of the first tape from the bottom wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koshiro YAMAGUCHI, Akira Sago
  • TAPE CASSETTE
    Publication number: 20120189366
    Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a generally rectangular box-like housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a side wall defining a periphery of the housing, a first and second cavities extending from the bottom wall and disposed between a tape containing area and the periphery at opposite ends of a diagonal of the generally rectangular box-like housing, at least one tape wound and mounted within the housing in the tape containing area, the at least one tape including a first tape disposed in a first area, the first tape having a hole at a center of winding, and the first area being one of two areas formed by dividing the housing with respect to a line connecting the first and second cavities, and a third cavity that extends in the hole of the first tape from the bottom wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koshiro YAMAGUCHI, Akira SAGO
  • TAPE CASSETTE
    Publication number: 20120188325
    Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a generally rectangular box-like housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a side wall defining a periphery of the housing, a first and second cavities extending from the bottom wall and disposed between a tape containing area and the periphery at opposite ends of a diagonal of the generally rectangular box-like housing, at least one tape wound and mounted within the housing in the tape containing area, the at least one tape including a first tape disposed in a first area, the first tape having a hole at a center of winding, and the first area being one of two areas formed by dividing the housing with respect to a line connecting the first and second cavities, and a third cavity that extends in the hole of the first tape from the bottom wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koshiro YAMAGUCHI, Akira SAGO
  • TAPE CASSETTE
    Publication number: 20120080550
    Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Kato, Masato Kato, Yasuhiro Iriyama, Yasuhiro Shibata, Teruo Imamaki, Akira Sago, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Takashi Horiuchi, Tomohiko Sugino, Kengo Noda