Patents by Inventor Hidekazu Ishii
Hidekazu Ishii 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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Patent number: 8721201Abstract: A CPU generates time stamp data using a timed result for the present time timed by timer and a set expression pattern. Then, the CPU generates modified time stamp data for a predetermined time period based on the time stamp data. The CPU identifies the maximum time stamp data through the printing range of the above time stamp data. The CPU reduces the font size until the maximum time stamp data becomes printable onto the printing medium. The CPU then sets the reduced font size as the font size for each time stamp data, etc., and carries out printing.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoki Miyashita, Hidekazu Ishii, Akihiko Niwa
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Publication number: 20140085668Abstract: A printer is configured to print on a tape-type print medium. The printer includes a processor and a memory. The memory is configured to store computer-readable instructions that instruct the printer to perform a process including displaying, on a display portion, characters, a block break line, and block numbers in a case where print data include block data and block break data. The block break line is a line segment that indicates a break position between adjacent blocks of a plurality of blocks. Each of the plurality of blocks contains at least one line's worth of characters. The block numbers indicate sequence numbers for the plurality of blocks. The block data is data for the plurality of blocks. The block break data is data that indicate the break position. The plurality of blocks is to be printed in a first direction in which the plurality of blocks are arrayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidekazu ISHII, Shanshan GUAN, Keisuke TOMATSU
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Publication number: 20130301063Abstract: The disclosure discloses a print label producing apparatus. The apparatus includes a producing apparatus side attaching/detaching portion to and from which a nonvolatile storage device can be attached and detached, an attachment determining portion configured to determine whether or not the storage device is attached to the producing apparatus side attaching/detaching portion, a selection information write portion configured to write unique selection material information to the storage device in an attached state, and a contents acquisition portion configured to acquire contents stored in the storage device and corresponding to the selection material information when the attachment determining portion determines that the storage device is attached to the producing apparatus side attaching/detaching portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidekazu ISHII, Koichi KONDO
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Publication number: 20130243509Abstract: This disclosure discloses print label producing apparatus comprising a controller, a memory including a first sub memory, a second sub memory, and a third sub memory, and the controller being configured to execute a decoration setting process to perform at least one of a first sub decoration setting process for setting a decoration style randomly, a second sub decoration setting process for setting a frame randomly, and a third sub decoration setting process for setting a symbol randomly, a first print data generating process for generating first print data, by means of including at least one or more results of the decoration setting process of any of the decoration style of one or more types randomly set, the frame of one type randomly set, or the symbol of one type randomly set, and a first coordination control process for controlling the feeder and the printing head.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidekazu ISHII, Nako YOSHIMURA, Yasunori SUZUKI, Daisuke MIFUNE
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Patent number: 8477358Abstract: A printer includes a printer memory that stores information, a printer communication device that performs communication with a terminal, a printing device that prints based on print data, a receiving device that receives operating state information, the operating state information indicating that an operating state of the printer is one of a storage device state and a printing device state, the storage device state being an operating state that causes the terminal to recognize the printer as a device capable of using the printer memory, and the printing device state being an operating state that causes the terminal to recognize the printer as a device capable of printing by using the printing device, and a switching device that switches the operating state of the printer to one of the storage device state and the printing device state, based on the operating state information received by the receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2009Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihiko Sugimura, Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu, Hidekazu Ishii
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Publication number: 20130154469Abstract: Provided is a cathode body that comprises a cylindrical cup 30 as a base member, a barrier layer 303 provided on a surface of the cylindrical cup 30 and containing SiC, and a film formed on a surface of the barrier layer 303 and containing a boride of a rare earth element and that can prevent interdiffusion of a constituent element of the base member and the boride.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOHOKU UNIVERSITYInventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Tetsuya Goto, Hidekazu Ishii
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Publication number: 20130120397Abstract: A display device includes an operation portion, a display portion, a character designating portion, and a display control portion. The display control portion displays the at least one character on the display portion. The display control portion displays, in a case where the at least one character displayed on the display portion includes a predetermined special character and the number of at least one display lines is not less than a threshold value, a dot pattern for an alternate character instead of a dot pattern for the special character. The display control portion changes, in a case where a designated character is the alternate character, the dot pattern for the designated character displayed on the display portion to the dot pattern for the special character.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2012Publication date: May 16, 2013Inventors: Tomoki MIYASHITA, Hidekazu ISHII, Nako YOSHIMURA
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Patent number: 8179539Abstract: When a print pattern setting mode is set and a printing apparatus receives print data including object print data from an external device, all arrangement patterns where the object print data is located in each printing areas defined in template data are produced. A setting capability checking process is executed for each arrangement pattern. Preview data is produced for the arrangement patterns where all the object print data can be printed and displayed on a liquid crystal display. When preview data displayed on the liquid crystal display is selected, the arrangement pattern corresponding to the preview data is set to the template data.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoki Miyashita, Hidekazu Ishii, Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu, Akihiko Niwa, Yuji Iida
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Publication number: 20110292150Abstract: This disclosure discloses a label producing apparatus comprising: an apparatus housing; a roll holder arranged on said apparatus housing that detachably mounts thereon a tape roll winding a label producing tape; an optical detecting device that optically detects a plurality of detection mark formed at a predetermined interval along a peripheral direction of a detected body provided so as to rotate at an angular velocity in coordination with an angular velocity of said tape roll on a side of said tape roll mounted to said roll holder or on a side of said apparatus housing; a residual amount identifying portion that identifies a residual tape amount of said tape roll based on a detection result of said optical detecting device; and a residual amount related information output portion that outputs residual amount related information related to said residual tape amount identified to a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidekazu ISHII, Takahiro MIWA, Naoki TANJIMA, Tsutomu KATO
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Patent number: 8004696Abstract: In a printing apparatus, the number of delimiters included in received data from a host apparatus is smaller than the number of input items of a template by one. Therefore, the number of delimiters included in the received data from the host apparatus is calculated to be three. A character string which is periodically repeated in the received data three times as the number of the delimiters is obtained and set to be a delimiter candidate. Further, a print start character string candidate is obtained from a data group which is located after a last delimiter candidate in the received data. Using the provisionally determined candidates for a delimiter and a print start character string, the four item data included in the received data are assumed. Then, a print preview is displayed on a LCD so as to show a state where the four item data is input to each of the input items of the template.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidekazu Ishii, Yuji Iida, Akihiko Niwa
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Publication number: 20090273803Abstract: A printer includes a printer memory that stores information, a printer communication device that performs communication with a terminal, a printing device that prints based on print data, a receiving device that receives operating state information, the operating state information indicating that an operating state of the printer is one of a storage device state and a printing device state, the storage device state being an operating state that causes the terminal to recognize the printer as a device capable of using the printer memory, and the printing device state being an operating state that causes the terminal to recognize the printer as a device capable of printing by using the printing device, and a switching device that switches the operating state of the printer to one of the storage device state and the printing device state, based on the operating state information received by the receiving device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Inventors: Yoshihiko Sugimura, Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu, Hidekazu Ishii
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Patent number: 7525876Abstract: The electric apparatus performs time display that is optimal for a user, without need of operations for switching time display by use of the 12-hour system and 24-hour system. In a tape printer, a keyboard section and a CPU are connected to each other via any one of a plurality of solder points A, B, and C. If the solder point is “A” (YES at S103), an hour system flag is set to “OFF” (S105). If the solder point is not “A” (NO at S103), the hour system flag is set to “ON” (S107). If the hour system flag is OFF, a target country (target district) of the keyboard section is “USA”, so that time is displayed in the 12-hour system on a liquid crystal display section, while if the hour system flag is ON, the target country (target district) of the keyboard section is not “USA”, so that time is displayed in the 24-hour system on the liquid crystal display section.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2007Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Tanjima, Hidekazu Ishii, Nako Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20090029476Abstract: A reaction vessel includes a storage space extending from a first end to a second ends the reaction vessel being configured to retain at least one of a reagent and a specimen in the storage space when the at least one of the reagent and the specimen is dispensed from the first end, and to discharge the at least one of the reagent and the specimen outside the storage space from the second end when a discharge operation is performed from outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Hidekazu ISHII
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Publication number: 20080252911Abstract: In a printing apparatus, the number of delimiters included in received data from a host apparatus is smaller than the number of input items of a template by one. Therefore, the number of delimiters included in the received data from the host apparatus is calculated to be three. A character string which is periodically repeated in the received data three times as the number of the delimiters is obtained and set to be a delimiter candidate. Further, a print start character string candidate is obtained from a data group which is located after a last delimiter candidate in the received data. Using the provisionally determined candidates for a delimiter and a print start character string, the four item data included in the received data are assumed. Then, a print preview is displayed on a LCD so as to show a state where the four item data is input to each of the input items of the template.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2007Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Hidekazu Ishii, Yujl Iida, Akihiko Niwa
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Publication number: 20080204809Abstract: When a print pattern setting mode is set and a printing apparatus receives print data including object print data from an external device, all arrangement patterns where the object print data is located in each printing areas defined in template data are produced. A setting capability checking process is executed for each arrangement pattern. Preview data is produced for the arrangement patterns where all the object print data can be printed and displayed on a liquid crystal display. When preview data displayed on the liquid crystal display is selected, the arrangement pattern corresponding to the preview data is set to the template data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventors: Tomoki Miyashita, Hidekazu Ishii, Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu, Akihiko Niwa, Yuji Iida
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Publication number: 20080205959Abstract: A CPU generates time stamp data using a timed result for the present time timed by timer and a set expression pattern. Then, the CPU generates modified time stamp data for a predetermined time period based on the time stamp data. The CPU identifies the maximum time stamp data through the printing range of the above time stamp data. The CPU reduces the font size until the maximum time stamp data becomes printable onto the printing medium. The CPU then sets the reduced font size as the font size for each time stamp data, etc., and carries out printing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventors: Tomoki Miyashita, Hidekazu Ishii, Akihiko Niwa
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Publication number: 20070189826Abstract: This disclosure provides a printing apparatus which enables a user to adjust easily and appropriately a direction of an image that is to be printed onto a recording object medium. When a user gives instructions for the execution of option printing, a personal computer displays on its monitor an option printing screen 100. The option printing screen 100 indicates print patterns 103a-103d representing states in which an “ABC” character string which constitutes an object image for printing is rotated in each of upward, downward, rightward and leftward directions. If a user selects any one of the print patterns 103a-103d, print data is produced based on an image hat has been rotated corresponding to the pattern. A tape printing apparatus prints onto a tape an image that has been rotated based on print data created by the personal computer and, by cutting a tape that has been discharged onto a tray, produces a label.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2007Publication date: August 16, 2007Inventors: Keiko Tsubota, Hidekazu Ishii, Tomoki Miyashita
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Publication number: 20070183267Abstract: The electric apparatus performs time display that is optimal for a user, without need of operations for switching time display by use of the 12-hour system and 24-hor system. In a tape printer, a keyboard section and a CPU are connected to each other via any one of a plurality of solder points A, B, and C. If the solder point is “A” (YES at S103), an hour system flag is set to “OFF” (S105). If the solder point is not “A” (NO at S103), the hour system flag is set to “ON” (S107). If the hour system flag is OFF, a target country (target district) of the keyboard section is “USA”, so that time is displayed in the 12-hour system on a liquid crystal display section, while if the hour system flag is ON, the target country (target district) of the keyboard section is not “USA”, so that time is displayed in the 24-hour system on the liquid crystal display section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: August 9, 2007Inventors: Naoki Tanjima, Hidekazu Ishii, Nako Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20060275893Abstract: A biorelated substance examination apparatus includes a reaction stage which supports a reaction vessel which contains the solid support and promotes a reaction of the solid-state phase, and a microscope which optically observes the solid support. The reaction stage includes a fluid transfer mechanism which transfers a fluid with respect to the reaction vessel and a temperature adjusting mechanism which adjusts a temperature of the solid support in the reaction vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: December 7, 2006Applicant: OLYMPUS COROPORATIONInventors: Hidekazu Ishii, Takami Shibazaki, Hiroyuki Imabayashi
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Patent number: 7114866Abstract: A tape printing apparatus that prints a character string including a plurality of character regions divided by specified delimiting codes, which composes of space codes, tab codes and new block codes, onto a tape, there is provided a normal printing means for performing normal printing with the character region being in a normal order, and an inversed printing means for performing inversed order printing for printing a character string with the character regions being in inversed order.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Ueno, Hajime Okochi, Hidekazu Ishii, Mizue Terai