Patents by Inventor Haruka AZECHI

Haruka AZECHI 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).

  • Publication number: 20220221816
    Abstract: A monitoring device is configured to monitor image recordation by a recorder using a recording material supplied from a first cartridge and a second cartridge. the monitoring device includes a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to obtain number-of-sheet information indicating a number of sheets on which the image recordation has been performed, first consumption amount information indicating a consumption amount of a recording material consumed from the first cartridge, and second consumption amount information indicating a consumption amount of a recording material consumed from the second cartridge, determine ratio information indicating a ratio of the recording material consumed from the second cartridge to a total consumption amount of the recording material consumed from the first and second cartridges based on the obtained first and second consumption amount information, and store the obtained number-of-sheet information and the determined ratio information in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Yushi DEURA, Shinya ESAKI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Tetsuya OKUNO, Haruka AZECHI
  • Publication number: 20220121404
    Abstract: An image recording device stores correspondence information associating a plurality of status information types, output determination information and request type information. The status information is related to at least one of information on a cartridge and information corresponding to operation of a printing head. The output determination information corresponds to usage type information. The request type information is used to determine a type of a person requesting the status information. A controller of the image recording device is configured to perform receiving an output request of output of the status information, determining a type of the request type information, and identifying the status information of which type is associated with the determined request type information and the output determination information based on the correspondence information from among a plurality of types of the status information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Shinya ESAKI, Yushi DEURA, Haruka AZECHI, Tetsuya OKUNO, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11243729
    Abstract: An image recording system includes a plurality of image recording apparatuses. In a case where a certain image recording apparatus of the image recording apparatuses has a failure nozzle proportion of failure nozzles of all the nozzles of the recording head smaller than or equal to a threshold, image recording is performed on the certain image recording apparatus based on a recording instruction. In a case where the certain image recording apparatus has a failure nozzle proportion exceeding the threshold, a recording instruction is transmitted to a different image recording apparatus having a failure nozzle proportion smaller than that of the certain image recording apparatus, and image recording is performed on the different image recording apparatus based on the recording instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuta Toda, Masayoshi Hayashi, Yasuhiro Nakano, Shunsuke Minamikawa, Toshiro Ueda, Haruka Azechi
  • Publication number: 20220019167
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a casing having a front end and a rear end, a first tray, a first print engine, a second tray, a second print engine and a controller. The controller configured to perform: receiving first image data representing the first image and second image data representing the second image; executing a first process including a first conveying process and a first recording process; executing a second process including a second conveying process and a second recording process; determining whether an error has occurred in the second process; and in a case where the error has occurred in the second process, stopping the second process while continuing the first process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Miyase, Yoshinori Osakabe, Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Yasuo Ono, Yuto Chiba, Jun Morikawa, Haruka Azechi
  • Publication number: 20220011985
    Abstract: A controller of an image reading device is configured to obtain template data from an information processing device through a communication interface. The template data includes format data, first replacement data, and second replacement data. The controller replaces the first replacement data with identification data of the image recording device, replaces the second replacement data with detailed information, and generates transmission data containing the format data, the identification data, and the detailed information. The controller transmits the generated transmission data to the information processing device through the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya OKUNO, Shinya ESAKI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Haruka AZECHI, Yushi DEURA
  • Publication number: 20220011986
    Abstract: An image recording device includes a cartridge mount configured to hold a cartridge detachably, a cartridge interface, a print engine configured to execute printing, a communication interface configured to connect to a communication network connected to the Internet, memory and a controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Haruka AZECHI, Tetsuya OKUNO, Shinya ESAKI, Yushi DEURA, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Sadaaki MIYAZAKI, Tony LEE
  • Publication number: 20220009242
    Abstract: An image recording device includes a cartridge mount to which a cartridge is mounted, a cartridge interface, a memory, a communication interface, a print engine configured to execute printing, and a controller. The controller is configured to obtain a transmission address stored in a cartridge memory of the cartridge through the cartridge interface, store the obtained transmission address in the memory, obtain, from the memory, notification information including at least one from a group of remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of consumable in the cartridge mounted to the cartridge mount, order information indicating an order for the cartridge and status information indicating a state of the print engine, and transmission source information, and transmit the obtained notification information and the obtained transmission source information to the obtained transmission address through the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yushi DEURA, Shinya ESAKI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Tetsuya OKUNO, Haruka AZECHI, Tony LEE
  • Publication number: 20220011991
    Abstract: An image recording device includes a cartridge mount to which a cartridge is mounted, a print engine that performs printing, a cartridge interface, an information interface, a memory, and a controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya OKUNO, Shinya ESAKI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Haruka AZECHI, Yushi DEURA, Tony LEE
  • Publication number: 20220009241
    Abstract: An image recording device includes a display panel, a cartridge mount, an information input interface, memory, and a controller. The controller obtains service provider information through the information input interface, stores the obtained service provider information in the memory, obtains first identification information or second identification information related to a cartridge mounted in the cartridge mount, sets an operation mode to a first mode in response to obtaining the first identification information, sets the operation mode to a second mode in response to obtaining the second identification information, causes the display panel to display a type of the cartridge in response to setting the operation mode to the first mode, and causes the display panel to display the service provider information in response to setting the operation mode to the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Haruka AZECHI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Shinya ESAKI, Yushi DEURA, Tetsuya OKUNO, Tony LEE
  • Publication number: 20210303245
    Abstract: An image recording system includes a plurality of image recording apparatuses. In a case where a certain image recording apparatus of the image recording apparatuses has a failure nozzle proportion of failure nozzles of all the nozzles of the recording head smaller than or equal to a threshold, image recording is performed on the certain image recording apparatus based on a recording instruction. In a case where the certain image recording apparatus has a failure nozzle proportion exceeding the threshold, a recording instruction is transmitted to a different image recording apparatus having a failure nozzle proportion smaller than that of the certain image recording apparatus, and image recording is performed on the different image recording apparatus based on the recording instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yuta Toda, Masayoshi Hayashi, Yasuhiro Nakano, Shunsuke Minamikawa, Toshiro Ueda, Haruka Azechi
  • Publication number: 20210300087
    Abstract: A first conveyance path and a second conveyance path are formed in a housing. The first conveyance path extends in a conveyance direction to reach a first discharge port for discharging a sheet. The second conveyance path extends in the conveyance direction at a position higher than the first conveyance path to reach a second discharge port for discharging a sheet. The second discharge port is located at a position upstream of the first discharge port in the conveyance direction. A first print engine is provided at the first conveyance path. The first print engine is configured to print an image by using a recording agent on a sheet conveyed along the first conveyance path. A second print engine is provided at the second conveyance path. The second print engine is configured to print an image by using a recording agent on a sheet conveyed along the second conveyance path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi MIYASE, Yoshinori OSAKABE, Tsuyoshi KUWAYAMA, Jun MORIKAWA, Haruka AZECHI, Yasuo ONO, Yuto CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20210300095
    Abstract: A first cover moves between a first closed position and a first open position. The first cover is located at another end of a housing when the first cover is located at the first closed position. A second cover moves between a second closed position and a second open position. The second cover is located closer to one end than the first cover is at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A first portion of a first conveyance path is formed between the first cover and the second cover at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A second portion of a second conveyance path is formed at a side of the second cover facing the one end at the second closed position. When the first cover opens the first portion, the second cover is located at the second closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi MIYASE, Yoshinori OSAKABE, Tsuyoshi KUWAYAMA, Jun MORIKAWA, Haruka AZECHI, Yasuo ONO, Yuto CHIBA