Patents by Inventor Junsuke KOMITO
Junsuke KOMITO 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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Publication number: 20210213726Abstract: A tablet printing apparatus 1 according to embodiments includes an imaging device 23 that images a side surface of a tablet T on which a split line is formed on one surface, a carrying device 21 that carries the tablet T, a printing head device 24 that prints information on the tablet T carried by the carrying device 21, and a controlling device 50 that specifies an angle of the split line based on an image obtained by the imaging device 23, creates a printing data for printing the information in accordance with the split line using the specified angle, and controls the printing head device 24 using the created printing data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Junpei TANAKA, Junsuke KOMITO, Noritsugu TANIO, Yasutsugu TSURUOKA, Azusa HIRANO
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Patent number: 10814644Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tablet printing apparatus includes a conveyor, an inkjet print head, and a controller. The conveyor is configured to convey a tablet having an outer shape that does not determine the printing direction of a print pattern to be printed thereon. The print head includes a plurality of nozzles each configured to eject a liquid to print the print pattern on the tablet being conveyed. The controller is configured to control the print head to perform printing on the tablet being conveyed such that the printing direction of the print pattern is changed at predetermined intervals at least between a first direction which is parallel to or crosses the conveying direction of the tablet, and a second direction which crosses the conveying direction, and in which more nozzles are used for printing than in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Azusa Hirano, Yasutsugu Tsuruoka, Noritsugu Tanio, Shinichi Ogimoto, Junsuke Komito
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Patent number: 10682849Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tablet printing apparatus includes a conveying device, an inkjet printing device, and a control device. The conveying device is configured to convey a tablet. The printing device includes a nozzle array in which a plurality of nozzles are arranged in a direction crossing a conveying path where the tablet is conveyed by the conveying device, and performs printing by ejecting ink from the nozzles to the tablet being conveyed by the conveying device. The control device increases either one of a resolution in the conveying direction of the tablet at the time of performing the printing and a resolution in the array direction of the nozzles at the time of performing the printing higher than the other according to a print density or a print shape on the tablet, and controls the printing device to perform the printing.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Ikuta, Junsuke Komito, Shinichi Ogimoto
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Patent number: 10421293Abstract: A tablet printing apparatus and a tablet manufacturing method are provided which are capable of distinguishing and collecting a preceding tablet and a following tablet from each other when two or more tablets in contact with each other are carried. A tablet printing apparatus includes a carrying device 20 carrying tablets Tb, a sensor 30 detecting the tablet Tb being carried by the carrying device 20, a printing unit 50 performing, when the status changes from the status in which the sensor 30 the tablet Tb is not detected to the status in which the tablet Tb is detected, printing on the tablet Tb that has changed the status, and a collecting unit R distinguishing and collecting, when the time length at which the sensor 30 is detecting the tablet Tb is longer than the predetermined setting value because two or more tablets Tb in contact with each other are carried, the preceding tablet Tb and the following tablet Tb following thereto among two or more tablets Tb.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Noritsugu Tanio, Jumpei Tanaka, Norihito Mafune, Junsuke Komito
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Publication number: 20190217631Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tablet printing apparatus includes a conveyor, an inkjet print head, and a controller. The conveyor is configured to convey a tablet having an outer shape that does not determine the printing direction of a print pattern to be printed thereon. The print head includes a plurality of nozzles each configured to eject a liquid to print the print pattern on the tablet being conveyed. The controller is configured to control the print head to perform printing on the tablet being conveyed such that the printing direction of the print pattern is changed at predetermined intervals at least between a first direction which is parallel to or crosses the conveying direction of the tablet, and a second direction which crosses the conveying direction, and in which more nozzles are used for printing than in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Azusa Hirano, Yasutsugu Tsuruoka, Noritsugu Tanio, Shinichi Ogimoto, Junsuke Komito
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Patent number: 10343424Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tablet printing apparatus includes: a first conveyor conveying a tablet while holding a other surface of the tablet; a second conveyor conveying the tablet transferred from the first conveyor while holding a one surface of the tablet; a first print head performing printing on the one surface of the tablet; a second print head performing printing on the other surface of the tablet; a first detection mechanism detecting the one surface of the tablet; a second detection mechanism detecting the other surface of the tablet; and a controller sending a printing instruction to the first and the second print heads based on information related to the state of a split line included in detection information on the one surface of the tablet or detection information on the other surface of the tablet.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Aoyagi, Junsuke Komito
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Patent number: 10293597Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tablet printing apparatus includes: a conveyor belt that includes a suction hole connected to a suction chamber, and conveys a tablet while sucking the tablet to the suction hole; an ink jet print head that has a nozzle surface where a nozzle is formed, and is located above the conveyor belt such that the nozzle surface faces the conveyor belt, and performs printing on the tablet conveyed by the conveyor belt; and a control plate that is located on the upstream side of the print head in the conveying direction of the tablet between the conveyor belt and the height position of the nozzle surface of the print head, and controls an airflow generated between the conveyor belt and the print head.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Azusa Hirano, Yasutsugu Tsuruoka, Yuki Umemura, Junsuke Komito
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Publication number: 20190099996Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tablet printing apparatus includes a conveying device, an inkjet printing device, and a control device. The conveying device is configured to convey a tablet. The printing device includes a nozzle array in which a plurality of nozzles are arranged in a direction crossing a conveying path where the tablet is conveyed by the conveying device, and performs printing by ejecting ink from the nozzles to the tablet being conveyed by the conveying device. The control device increases either one of a resolution in the conveying direction of the tablet at the time of performing the printing and a resolution in the array direction of the nozzles at the time of performing the printing higher than the other according to a print density or a print shape on the tablet, and controls the printing device to perform the printing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Applicant: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo IKUTA, Junsuke KOMITO, Shinichi OGIMOTO
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Publication number: 20180326747Abstract: A tablet printing apparatus and a tablet manufacturing method are provided which are capable of distinguishing and collecting a preceding tablet and a following tablet from each other when two or more tablets in contact with each other are carried. A tablet printing apparatus includes a carrying device 20 carrying tablets Tb, a sensor 30 detecting the tablet Tb being carried by the carrying device 20, a printing unit 50 performing, when the status changes from the status in which the sensor 30 the tablet Tb is not detected to the status in which the tablet Tb is detected, printing on the tablet Tb that has changed the status, and a collecting unit R distinguishing and collecting, when the time length at which the sensor 30 is detecting the tablet Tb is longer than the predetermined setting value because two or more tablets Tb in contact with each other are carried, the preceding tablet Tb and the following tablet Tb following thereto among two or more tablets Tb.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Noritsugu TANIO, Jumpei TANAKA, Norihito MAFUNE, Junsuke KOMITO
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Patent number: 10124580Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a tablet printing apparatus and a tablet printing method that can perform printing with high quality by ejecting ink droplets to a tablet with a various posture from a plurality of nozzles. [Solution] A tablet printing apparatus includes: inclined posture detector (23, 100) that detects an inclined posture of a conveyed tablet with respect to a conveying surface; a printer including an inkjet head 21 equipped with a plurality of nozzles for ejecting an ink droplet, the printer performing printing on the conveyed tablet by ejecting ink to the conveyed tablet from the plurality of nozzles; and a controller 100 for adjusting preset printing data corresponding to an inclined posture of the tablet detected by the inclined posture detector such that predetermined printing is performed on the tablet, wherein the printer performs printing on the tablet based on printing data adjusted by the printing data adjuster.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Azusa Hirano, Yasutsugu Tsuruoka, Junsuke Komito
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Publication number: 20180229493Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tablet printing apparatus includes: a conveyor belt that includes a suction hole connected to a suction chamber, and conveys a tablet while sucking the tablet to the suction hole; an ink jet print head that has a nozzle surface where a nozzle is formed, and is located above the conveyor belt such that the nozzle surface faces the conveyor belt, and performs printing on the tablet conveyed by the conveyor belt; and a control plate that is located on the upstream side of the print head in the conveying direction of the tablet between the conveyor belt and the height position of the nozzle surface of the print head, and controls an airflow generated between the conveyor belt and the print head.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Azusa HIRANO, Yasutsugu Tsuruoka, Yuki Umemura, Junsuke Komito
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Publication number: 20180194132Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a tablet printing apparatus and a tablet printing method that can perform printing with high quality by ejecting ink droplets to a tablet with a various posture from a plurality of nozzles. [Solution] A tablet printing apparatus includes: inclined posture detector (23, 100) that detects an inclined posture of a conveyed tablet with respect to a conveying surface; a printer including an inkjet head 21 equipped with a plurality of nozzles for ejecting an ink droplet, the printer performing printing on the conveyed tablet by ejecting ink to the conveyed tablet from the plurality of nozzles; and a controller 100 for adjusting preset printing data corresponding to an inclined posture of the tablet detected by the inclined posture detector such that predetermined printing is performed on the tablet, wherein the printer performs printing on the tablet based on printing data adjusted by the printing data adjuster.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Azusa HIRANO, Yasutsugu TSURUOKA, Junsuke KOMITO
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Publication number: 20180104966Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tablet printing apparatus includes: a first conveyor conveying a tablet while holding a other surface of the tablet; a second conveyor conveying the tablet transferred from the first conveyor while holding a one surface of the tablet; a first print head performing printing on the one surface of the tablet; a second print head performing printing on the other surface of the tablet; a first detection mechanism detecting the one surface of the tablet; a second detection mechanism detecting the other surface of the tablet; and a controller sending a printing instruction to the first and the second print heads based on information related to the state of a split line included in detection information on the one surface of the tablet or detection information on the other surface of the tablet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi AOYAGI, Junsuke KOMITO