Patents by Inventor Junya Kawai
Junya Kawai 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: 10183515Abstract: A printing apparatus, having a cassette, an attachable section, a printer, and a controller, is provided. The controller is configured to determine whether a medium remainder in a first cassette is equal to a predetermined amount; execute a reading action to read specific data from a first-typed memory device in the first cassette and store the specific data in a second-typed memory device, delete the specific data from the first-typed memory device in the first cassette; determine whether a second cassette being another cassette attached to the attachable section after execution of the reading action is a new cassette, in which the medium remainder is greater than the predetermined amount and in which the specific data is not stored in the first-typed memory device; and execute a writing action to write the specific data stored in the second-typed memory device to the first-typed memory device in the second cassette.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoto Ito, Junya Kawai
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Patent number: 10112421Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor that conveys a medium including a base layer and a separation layer and including a first through third regions; a printer; and a controller. The controller is configured to: obtain wrapping-manner information indicating (a) a first wrapping manner in which the second region and the third region are wrapped around a wrapped member after the first region and the third region are stuck to each other such that the printed medium is located around the wrapped member or (b) a second wrapping manner in which the second region and the third region are wrapped around the wrapped member after the first region is stuck to the wrapped member; and change control of the conveyor and the printer, depending upon whether the obtained wrapping-manner information indicates the first or second wrapping manner.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoto Ito, Junya Kawai, Shuhei Nohara, Harumitsu Inoue, Yukihiko Sato, Haruki Matsumoto, Kentaro Murayama
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Publication number: 20180281480Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor configured to convey a medium including a transparent base layer and a separation layer stacked on each other, the medium further including a printing background layer; a printer configured to print a character on the medium conveyed by the conveyor, wherein the medium on which the character is printed is a printed medium; and a controller configured to control the conveyor and the printer. The controller is configured to: obtain outside-diameter relating information relating to an outside diameter of a wrapped member; and based on the obtained outside-diameter relating information, set a character printable region in which the printer is allowed to print the character on the printing background layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Minako ISHIDA, Junya KAWAI, Naoto ITO, Shuhei NOHARA, Harumitsu INOUE, Yukihiko SATO, Haruki MATSUMOTO, Kentaro MURAYAMA
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Publication number: 20180281471Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor that conveys a medium including a base layer and a separation layer and including a first region, a second region, and a third region; a printer; and a controller. The controller is configured to control the printer to print a first mark on a portion of the medium in one of the first region and a first-region-side portion of the second region and to print a second mark on a portion of the medium in one of the third region and a third-region-side portion of the second region such that the first mark and the second mark are arranged in a line in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Naoto ITO, Junya KAWAI, Shuhei NOHARA, Harumitsu INOUE, Yukihiko SATO, Haruki MATSUMOTO, Kentaro MURAYAMA
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Publication number: 20180281476Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor that conveys a medium including a base layer and a separation layer and including a first through third regions; a printer; and a controller. The controller is configured to: obtain wrapping-manner information indicating (a) a first wrapping manner in which the second region and the third region are wrapped around a wrapped member after the first region and the third region are stuck to each other such that the printed medium is located around the wrapped member or (b) a second wrapping manner in which the second region and the third region are wrapped around the wrapped member after the first region is stuck to the wrapped member; and change control of the conveyor and the printer, depending upon whether the obtained wrapping-manner information indicates the first or second wrapping manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Naoto ITO, Junya KAWAI, Shuhei NOHARA, Harumitsu INOUE, Yukihiko SATO, Haruki MATSUMOTO, Kentaro MURAYAMA
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Publication number: 20180250973Abstract: A second-side end portion of one second portion and a first-side end portion of another second portion are respectively connected to a first-side end portion and a second-side end portion of one first portion. The largest dimension of the one and another second portions is greater than a first length of the one first portion in a tape widthwise direction. The tape includes: a first mark or opening between the second-side end portion of the one first portion and the first-side end portion of the one second portion; and a second mark or opening between the second-side end portion of the one first portion and the first-side end portion of the one second portion. A first-side end portion of the first mark or opening is located on a second side of a second-side end portion of the second mark or opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Harumitsu Inoue, Yukihiko Sato, Junya Kawai, Takaaki Banno, Tsutomu Kato, Yukiko Takami, Haruki Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20180251252Abstract: A controller of a label creating apparatus obtains label information corresponding to a shape of a label to be created. When the controller does not obtain a first detection signal but obtains a second detection signal, the controller determines, based on the second detection signal and the label information, whether the label having a first shape related to the obtained label information is creatable from a pair of one first portion and one second portion. When the controller obtains the first detection signal, the controller controls a conveyor and a cutter to cut the pair of the one first portion and the one second portion, at a cutting position related to the label information, based on the first detection signal regardless of the second detection signal obtained after obtainment of the first detection signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Junya Kawai, Yukihiko Sato, Kentaro Murayama, Shuhei Nohara, Tsutomu Kato, Takaaki Banno, Yukiko Takami, Haruki Matsumoto, Harumitsu Inoue
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Publication number: 20180207966Abstract: A printing apparatus, having a cassette, an attachable section, a printer, and a controller, is provided. The controller is configured to determine whether a medium remainder in a first cassette is equal to a predetermined amount; execute a reading action to read specific data from a first-typed memory device in the first cassette and store the specific data in a second-typed memory device, delete the specific data from the first-typed memory device in the first cassette; determine whether a second cassette being another cassette attached to the attachable section after execution of the reading action is a new cassette, in which the medium remainder is greater than the predetermined amount and in which the specific data is not stored in the first-typed memory device; and execute a writing action to write the specific data stored in the second-typed memory device to the first-typed memory device in the second cassette.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Naoto ITO, Junya KAWAI
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Publication number: 20180152588Abstract: A controller of a printing apparatus causes, in accordance with programs, the printing apparatus to obtain data and temporarily storing the received data in a buffer, create an image to be printed on a printing medium in accordance with the received data, obtain a receiving time period required to receive particular amount of data, obtain an image creating time period to create the image in accordance with the particular amount of data, obtain a total print length of a printing medium on which printing is executed in accordance with the data, calculate an amount of image which can be printed at a designated constant printing speed based on the receiving time period, the image creating time period and the total print length, and, when the calculated amount of image can be created, start a process of printing at the designated constant printing speed in accordance with the created image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventor: Junya Kawai
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Patent number: 9844958Abstract: A printer includes a controller configured to execute a printed matter producing process including printing page images on a medium in a first position on a conveyance path while conveying the medium along the conveyance path, storing a cut target position for each page image and cutting the medium in a second position downstream of the first position in a conveyance direction when the cut target position reaches the second position, an interrupting process including interrupting the printed matter producing process and storing an uncut position as a cut target position located between the first and second positions when the printed matter producing process is interrupted, when an error occurs during the printed matter producing process, and a resuming process including resuming the printed matter producing process when the error is settled during the interruption of the printed matter producing process, and cutting the medium based on the uncut position.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keigo Kako, Tomoki Miyashita, Junya Kawai
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Patent number: 9789702Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a first control portion configured to control a feeder and a conducting device to perform printing on a recording medium. The first control portion executing a first processing, a second processing, and a third processing. In the first processing, printing on the recording medium is performed while feeding the recording medium to a forward direction, based on first print data. In the second processing, printing on a first predetermined section is performed while continuously feeding the recording medium to the forward direction, based on second print data, triggered by receipt of a print stop instruction in the middle of the first processing. In the third processing, feeding the recording medium to a reverse direction is performed and, with current conduction to the heating elements stopped, making the heating elements face the first predetermined section for a first predetermined amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Junya Kawai
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Publication number: 20170266998Abstract: A printer having multiple printing mechanisms has a printing device configured to execute a printing process to repetitively print a character defined for a page with one of the multiple printing mechanisms, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine, while the printing device is executing a first printing process which is the printing process for one page with use of the first printing mechanism, whether a first instruction to suspend the first printing process is received, print a page which is being printed when the first instruction is received to an end, and suspend the first printing process thereafter when the first instruction is received, determine whether a second instruction to start a second printing process with use of a second printing mechanism is received after the first printing process is suspended, and execute the second printing process when the second instruction is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Tomoki Miyashita, Junya Kawai, Naoto Ito
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Patent number: 9764569Abstract: A printer includes a controller configured to perform a through-up printing process to print at least a part of a page while accelerating a conveyance speed of a print medium from zero at a particular acceleration, a constant-speed printing process to print at least a part of the page while maintaining a maximum conveyance speed after the conveyance speed reaches the maximum conveyance speed via the through-up printing process, a through-down printing process to print at least a part of the page while decelerating the conveyance speed at a particular deceleration after performing at least one of the through-up printing process and the constant-speed printing process, and a maximum speed setting process to set the maximum conveyance speed in accordance with a print amount of print data stored in a storage.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Junya Kawai
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Publication number: 20170252383Abstract: Provided is an agent for promoting growth of nonpathogenic oral indigenous bacteria, or an agent for improving oral bacterial flora, which comprises the dry powder of one or more mushrooms selected from the group consisting of Hericium erinaceus, Grifola frondosa, Lyophyllum shimeji, Hypsizygus marmoreus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Agaricus blazei, and Lentinula edodes, or an extract thereof, and which has an excellent growth-promoting effect on nonpathogenic oral indigenous bacteria and an excellent improving effect on oral bacterial flora, and which is effective in maintaining balanced indigenous bacterial flora. Also provided is a composition for oral use containing same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicant: HOKUTO CORPORATIONInventors: Masato MARUYAMA, Toshiaki KOBAYASHI, Junya KAWAI, Kenji OUCHI, Satoshi INATOMI
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Patent number: 9744781Abstract: A printer includes a controller configured to execute a printing process including sequentially printing a plurality of page images on a print medium based on print data while conveying the print medium in a conveyance direction, execute a first interruption process including, when a next cut distance is equal to or less than a printable distance, interrupting the printing process and stopping the print medium such that the next cut position coincides with a cutter position, and cutting the print medium, and execute a second interruption process including, when the next cut distance is more than the printable distance, interrupting the printing process and stopping the print medium such that the next cut position coincides with a position that is located an offset upstream of the cutter position in the conveyance direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Junya Kawai
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Patent number: 9718290Abstract: A printer includes a controller configured to, when determining that print data of a next page is stored in a storage while a through-up printing process or a constant-speed printing process is in execution, perform a nonstop printing process, when a first distance between a cut position and a cut target portion closest to the cut position becomes coincident with a second distance over which a print medium is conveyed while a conveyance speed is decelerated at a particular deceleration from a current speed to zero, during the execution of the nonstop printing process, perform a through-down printing process until conveyance of the print medium is stopped, and when conveyance of the print medium is stopped, control a cutter to cut the cut target portion in the cut position.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Junya Kawai
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Publication number: 20170182805Abstract: A printer includes a controller configured to execute a printing process including sequentially printing a plurality of page images on a print medium based on print data while conveying the print medium in a conveyance direction, execute a first interruption process including, when a next cut distance is equal to or less than a printable distance, interrupting the printing process and stopping the print medium such that the next cut position coincides with a cutter position, and cutting the print medium, and execute a second interruption process including, when the next cut distance is more than the printable distance, interrupting the printing process and stopping the print medium such that the next cut position coincides with a position that is located an offset upstream of the cutter position in the conveyance direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventor: Junya Kawai
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Publication number: 20170182804Abstract: A printer includes a controller configured to execute a printed matter producing process including printing page images on a medium in a first position on a conveyance path while conveying the medium along the conveyance path, storing a cut target position for each page image and cutting the medium in a second position downstream of the first position in a conveyance direction when the cut target position reaches the second position, an interrupting process including interrupting the printed matter producing process and storing an uncut position as a cut target position located between the first and second positions when the printed matter producing process is interrupted, when an error occurs during the printed matter producing process, and a resuming process including resuming the printed matter producing process when the error is settled during the interruption of the printed matter producing process, and cutting the medium based on the uncut position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Keigo Kako, Tomoki Miyashita, Junya Kawai
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Publication number: 20170087896Abstract: A printer includes a controller configured to, when determining that print data of a next page is stored in a storage while a through-up printing process or a constant-speed printing process is in execution, perform a nonstop printing process, when a first distance between a cut position and a cut target portion closest to the cut position becomes coincident with a second distance over which a print medium is conveyed while a conveyance speed is decelerated at a particular deceleration from a current speed to zero, during the execution of the nonstop printing process, perform a through-down printing process until conveyance of the print medium is stopped, and when conveyance of the print medium is stopped, control a cutter to cut the cut target portion in the cut position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventor: Junya Kawai
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Publication number: 20170091598Abstract: A data generating apparatus includes a first storage storing a content having multiple regions, a second storage storing a parent-child relationship table, a first identifier configured to identify a target region, an updater configured to update the characters included in the target region, a changer configured to change the target region to a parent region corresponding to the target region when a carry occurs during updating, and a generator configured to generate print data of the content. The updater is configured to update the characters included in the changed target region, and the data generating apparatus further includes a second identifier configured to identify a deletion region, a first deleter configured to delete the deletion region from the content, and a second deleter configured to delete a parent region and a child region corresponding to the deletion region based on the parent-child relationship table of the deletion region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Junya Kawai, Tomoki Miyashita