Patents by Inventor Izumi Fujiwara

Izumi Fujiwara 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: 20240140103
    Abstract: There is provided with a printing apparatus. An ink tank holds ink to be supplied to a print head. Ink can be replenished in the ink tank by a plurality of types of ink bottle of different ink capacities for the same color of ink. A management unit manages information for an ink consumption amount which is an amount of ink consumed in the ink tank. An updating unit updates the information for the ink consumption amount based on an ink capacity corresponding to an ink bottle used to replenish ink among the plurality of types of ink bottle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: IZUMI FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20240053939
    Abstract: Sheet settings for a printing apparatus include first and second sheet settings associated with first and second sheet information on a first sheet determined without user's selection and a second sheet by user's selection, respectively. A first process is executed before printing based on a first error that sheet information set in a received print job is different from sheet information associated with a sheet setting applied to the printing apparatus when the print job is received, and sheet information in the print job is not the first sheet information, A second process is executed before the printing, based on a second error that the sheet information in the print job is different from the sheet information associated with the sheet setting applied to the printing apparatus when the print job is received, but the sheet information in the print job is the first sheet information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventor: Izumi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20240045629
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a control unit configured to control the image forming apparatus not to execute orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) complying with an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard, in wireless communication in a direct communication mode, based on a setting made on a setting screen, and a print processing unit configured to execute print processing onto a sheet based on a print job received via wireless communication in the direct communication mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: IZUMI FUJIWARA
  • Patent number: 11172072
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head, a loading unit, a feeding unit, a cover, a detection unit, and a determination unit. The feeding unit feeds a recording medium loaded on the loading unit to a recording position where the recording head performs the recording. The cover moves between an opening state and a closing state. The determination unit determines a size of the loaded recording medium based on a result of a width detection operation. The recording head records an image per a determination result. If the cover closing is detected before the recording is performed, the determination unit performs the width detection operation to determine the recording medium size loaded on the loading unit. If the cover opening is detected and the recording apparatus receives a recording instruction, the determination unit performs the width detection operation to determine the recording medium size loaded on the loading unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Izumi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20210037145
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head, a loading unit, a feeding unit, a cover, a detection unit, and a determination unit. The feeding unit feeds a recording medium loaded on the loading unit to a recording position where the recording head performs the recording. The cover moves between an opening state and a closing state. The determination unit determines a size of the loaded recording medium based on a result of a width detection operation. The recording head records an image per a determination result. If the cover closing is detected before the recording is performed, the determination unit performs the width detection operation to determine the recording medium size loaded on the loading unit. If the cover opening is detected and the recording apparatus receives a recording instruction, the determination unit performs the width detection operation to determine the recording medium size loaded on the loading unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventor: Izumi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 10498913
    Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus including a scanner unit configured to be openable on an apparatus front side with respect to a printer unit due to a first hinge portion on an apparatus rear side, a cover to cover a feed port configured to be openable due to a second hinge portion on the apparatus front side of the feed port, wherein a rotation axis of the first hinge portion is positioned on the apparatus rear side of a rotation axis of the second hinge portion in an apparatus depth direction. Interlocking with an operation to open the scanner unit, the cover moves while a portion thereof is in contact with a surface of the paper feed tray or the sheet placed thereon to open the cover in an interlocking manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Ishida, Haruo Uchida, Mitsuyuki Fujibayashi, Izumi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20180034986
    Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus including a scanner unit configured to be openable on an apparatus front side with respect to a printer unit due to a first hinge portion on an apparatus rear side, a cover to cover a feed port configured to be openable due to a second hinge portion on the apparatus front side of the feed port, wherein a rotation axis of the first hinge portion is positioned on the apparatus rear side of a rotation axis of the second hinge portion in an apparatus depth direction. Interlocking with an operation to open the scanner unit, the cover moves while a portion thereof is in contact with a surface of the paper feed tray or the sheet placed thereon to open the cover in an interlocking manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Yasushi Ishida, Haruo Uchida, Mitsuyuki Fujibayashi, Izumi Fujiwara