Patents by Inventor Etsuteru Inoue

Etsuteru Inoue 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: 10391765
    Abstract: A control circuit includes a memory interface and a power interface. The control circuit is configured to: read out identifiers and voltage values from a memory via the memory interface, the memory storing the identifiers and the voltage values associated with the identifiers, the identifiers identifying actuators for jetting liquid, the voltage values corresponding to values of voltages to be supplied to the actuators; based on the voltage values, associate each of the identifiers with one of power circuits; detect whether failure occurs in any of the power circuits via the power interface communicated with the power circuits each changeable in output voltage; and based on detection of the failure occurring in any power circuits, associate specified identifiers with a non-failure power circuit in which the failure does not occur, the specified identifiers associated with a failure power circuit in which the failure is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Etsuteru Inoue
  • Publication number: 20170282546
    Abstract: A control circuit includes a memory interface and a power interface. The control circuit is configured to: read out identifiers and voltage values from a memory via the memory interface, the memory storing the identifiers and the voltage values associated with the identifiers, the identifiers identifying actuators for jetting liquid, the voltage values corresponding to values of voltages to be supplied to the actuators; based on the voltage values, associate each of the identifiers with one of power circuits; detect whether failure occurs in any of the power circuits via the power interface communicated with the power circuits each changeable in output voltage; and based on detection of the failure occurring in any power circuits, associate specified identifiers with a non-failure power circuit in which the failure does not occur, the specified identifiers associated with a failure power circuit in which the failure is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventor: Etsuteru INOUE
  • Patent number: 9673869
    Abstract: In response to receiving process-request information from an external device after starting operation by second power, a communication controller is configured to perform: a first supplying process of controlling a second power supply to supply the second power to a first communication node; a first data communication process of performing data communication with the first communication node after starting the first supplying process, wherein the first data communication process includes receiving process-related information from the first communication node; a determining process of, after finishing the first data communication process, determining whether data communication with a second communication node is necessary, based on the process-request information and on the process-related information; and a second supplying process of controlling the second power supply to supply the second power to the second communication node, in response to determining in the determining process that data communication wi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Etsuteru Inoue
  • Patent number: 9661167
    Abstract: A communication controller controls non-contact communication with an external device via an antenna while at least one of first and second power is supplied. A first circuit electrically connects a first power supply to a communication node. A second circuit electrically connects a second power supply to the communication node. The first circuit includes a first electrical component configured to prevent second power from being supplied to a particular target electrically connected to the first power supply while the second power is supplied to the communication node. The communication controller communicates with the communication node in a certain data communication method while the second power is supplied to the communication node. In response to reception of electric power from the external device via the antenna, the second power supply supplies the second power to the communication controller, and supplies the second power to the communication node through the second circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhito Misumi, Wataru Fujishiro, Kentaro Aoyama, Etsuteru Inoue
  • Patent number: 9479657
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a wireless communication unit, an image processing unit, and a controller configured to establish a wireless connection to perform wireless signal communication between the wireless communication unit and an external device, acquire a reception intensity of a wireless signal received from the external device via the wireless communication unit, determine whether the reception intensity is more than a threshold value, when determining that the reception intensity is more than the threshold value, control the image processing unit to execute an image processing instruction received from the external device via the wireless communication unit, and when determining that the reception intensity is not more than the threshold value, transmit an instruction to display a warning on the external device, to the external device via the wireless communication unit, without controlling the image processing unit to execute the image processing instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazuhito Misumi, Wataru Fujishiro, Etsuteru Inoue, Nobumasa Tanaka, Takuya Nagai
  • Publication number: 20160094734
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a wireless communication unit, an image processing unit, and a controller configured to establish a wireless connection to perform wireless signal communication between the wireless communication unit and an external device, acquire a reception intensity of a wireless signal received from the external device via the wireless communication unit, determine whether the reception intensity is more than a threshold value, when determining that the reception intensity is more than the threshold value, control the image processing unit to execute an image processing instruction received from the external device via the wireless communication unit, and when determining that the reception intensity is not more than the threshold value, transmit an instruction to display a warning on the external device, to the external device via the wireless communication unit, without controlling the image processing unit to execute the image processing instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi OHASHI, Kazuhito MISUMI, Wataru FUJISHIRO, Etsuteru INOUE, Nobumasa TANAKA, Takuya NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20150188609
    Abstract: In response to receiving process-request information from an external device after starting operation by second power, a communication controller is configured to perform: a first supplying process of controlling a second power supply to supply the second power to a first communication node; a first data communication process of performing data communication with the first communication node after starting the first supplying process, wherein the first data communication process includes receiving process-related information from the first communication node; a determining process of, after finishing the first data communication process, determining whether data communication with a second communication node is necessary, based on the process-request information and on the process-related information; and a second supplying process of controlling the second power supply to supply the second power to the second communication node, in response to determining in the determining process that data communication wi
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventor: Etsuteru INOUE
  • Publication number: 20150189112
    Abstract: A communication controller controls non-contact communication with an external device via an antenna while at least one of first and second power is supplied. A first circuit electrically connects a first power supply to a communication node. A second circuit electrically connects a second power supply to the communication node. The first circuit includes a first electrical component configured to prevent second power from being supplied to a particular target electrically connected to the first power supply while the second power is supplied to the communication node. The communication controller communicates with the communication node in a certain data communication method while the second power is supplied to the communication node. In response to reception of electric power from the external device via the antenna, the second power supply supplies the second power to the communication controller, and supplies the second power to the communication node through the second circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhito MISUMI, Wataru FUJISHIRO, Kentaro AOYAMA, Etsuteru INOUE
  • Publication number: 20110074797
    Abstract: A display terminal device is provided. The device includes a display unit including a display area for displaying image information, a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display a plurality of image information by switching the image information, an image information acquiring unit configured to acquire display information to be displayed while being added to the image information and acquire the image information which is associated with a plurality of display information, a display condition control unit configured to control a reproduction display condition, under which while image information is displayed on the display unit, a plurality of display information associated with the image information are consecutively reproduced and displayed, and control a switching condition, under which one of the image information is switched into another of the image information, based on the plurality of display information acquired by the image information acquiring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Etsuteru Inoue