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).
-
Publication number: 20170087897Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventor: Junya Kawai
-
Patent number: 9550373Abstract: A field for which a first priority level that has been set is the same as a second priority level that is stored in a priority level storage portion is specified as an update field from among a plurality of fields that have been defined in a content that is stored in a data storage portion. At least one character that is contained in the update field is updated in the specified order. A level of the second priority level is lowering by one level in a case where a character rollover has occurred during the updating of the at least one character. Printable data for the content in which the at least one character has been updated is created in a case where the character rollover has not occurred during the updating of the at least one character. The update field is specified every time the second priority level that is stored in the priority level storage portion is lowered.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Junya Kawai
-
Publication number: 20160276832Abstract: To integrally manage energy for a plurality of districts and optimize energy supply and demand of the plurality of districts. In order to manage energy for a plurality of districts including a plurality of facilities, an energy management system includes a management computer connected to the plurality of districts via a communication network. The management computer stores, for each district of the plurality of districts, an actual value of an amount of grid energy which is supplied from outside of the plurality of districts to facilities inside the district, an actual value of an amount of output energy which is output from the facilities in the district, and an actual value of an amount of consumed energy which is consumed by the facilities in the district, and calculates and outputs, for the district, predicted values in a specific time slot, based on the actual values.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Junya KAWAI, Kazunori SEKIYA, Chiharu SAKAE, Yutaka SANO
-
Patent number: 9440454Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a storage part, a feeding roller, a printing head, a core driving device, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute a feeding process, a printing process, a taking-up process, and a torque correction process. In the feeding process, the feeding roller is driven to feed the print-receiving tape fed out from the print-receiving tape roll. In the printing process the printing head is controlled to form a desired print, thereby a printed tape is formed. In the taking-up process, the core driving device is driven to sequentially take up the printed tape around an outer circumferential portion of a second core. In the torque correction process, a drive torque of the core driving device is corrected from a first drive torque to a second drive torque corresponding to a tape width of the print-receiving tape.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Junya Kawai
-
Publication number: 20160214415Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer includes a storage part, a feeding roller, a printing head, a core driving device, a controller. The controller is configured to execute a feeding process, a printing process, a taking-up process, a torque correction process. In the taking-up process, the core driving device is driven to sequentially taking up a printed tape around an outer circumferential portion of a second core into a roll shape. In the torque correction process, a drive torque of the core driving device is corrected from a first drive torque to a second drive torque, the first drive torque corresponding to the absence of a slip between the feeding roller and a tape to be printed in contact with the feeding roller, the second drive torque corresponding to a tape remaining amount of the tape in a roll of tape to be printed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Junya Kawai
-
Publication number: 20160214400Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a storage part, a feeding roller, a printing head, a core driving device, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute a feeding process, a printing process, a taking-up process, and a torque correction process. In the feeding process, the feeding roller is driven to feed the print-receiving tape fed out from the print-receiving tape roll. In the printing process the printing head is controlled to form a desired print, thereby a printed tape is formed. In the taking-up process, the core driving device is driven to sequentially take up the printed tape around an outer circumferential portion of a second core. In the torque correction process, a drive torque of the core driving device is corrected from a first drive torque to a second drive torque corresponding to a tape width of the print-receiving tape.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Junya Kawai
-
Patent number: 9323377Abstract: A panel control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform processes including acquiring a plurality of pressed cells and a plurality of cell coordinates, the plurality of pressed cells being a plurality of cells, among pluralities of cells that divide a panel into a plurality of regions, to which pressing forces are applied simultaneously, and each of the plurality of cell coordinates being coordinate information that indicates a position within one of the pressed cells to which the pressing forces have been applied, specifying, as at least one candidate cell, at least one of the plurality of pressed cells based on positional relationships among the plurality of cell coordinates included in an adjacency group, and specifying designation coordinates based on cell coordinates, among the plurality of cell coordinates, that indicates a position within the at least one candidate cell.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Junya Kawai
-
Patent number: 9274640Abstract: A panel control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform processes including acquiring a plurality of pressed cells and a plurality of cell coordinates, the plurality of pressed cells being a plurality of cells, among pluralities of cells that divide a panel into a plurality of regions, to which pressing forces are applied simultaneously, and each of the plurality of cell coordinates being coordinate information that indicates a position within one of the pressed cells to which the pressing forces have been applied, specifying, as at least one candidate cell, at least one of the plurality of pressed cells based on positional relationships among the plurality of cell coordinates included in an adjacency group, and specifying designation coordinates based on cell coordinates, among the plurality of cell coordinates, that indicates a position within the at least one candidate cell.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Junya Kawai
-
Patent number: 9249257Abstract: A copolymer containing a repeating unit having a dioxopyrrole condensed ring skeleton and a repeating unit having a dithieno condensed ring skeleton and also having a specific substituent is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Junya Kawai, Rieko Fujita, Wataru Sato, Mitsunori Furuya, Kenichi Satake, Maki Oba
-
Patent number: 9212254Abstract: A copolymer containing a repeating unit having a dioxopyrrole condensed ring skeleton and a repeating unit having a dithieno condensed ring skeleton and also having a specific substituent is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Junya Kawai, Rieko Fujita, Wataru Sato, Mitsunori Furuya, Kenichi Satake, Maki Oba
-
Patent number: 9195338Abstract: A touch panel control device includes a first identification portion that periodically identifies a plurality of pressed cells, a second identification portion that identifies at least one separation distance based on positions of a plurality of first pressed cells that are identified by the first identification portion at a first timing, a first invalidation portion that invalidates at least one pair of first cells among the plurality of first pressed cells identified at the first timing, a second invalidation portion that invalidates second cell among a plurality of second pressed cells identified by the first identification portion at a second timing, and a decision portion that decides, as a specified position, a position of at least one pressed cell from among a plurality of pressed cells included in at least one first valid pressed cell and at least one second valid pressed cell.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junya Kawai, Yoshihiko Sugimura
-
Patent number: 9189710Abstract: The disclosure discloses a recorded matter producing apparatus comprising a data acquisition portion and an end adjusting portion. A printing head performs printing on a medium to be recorded and produce recorded matter where desired print based on print data is formed. The data acquisition portion acquires unit print data for periodically performing print formation per data print area and total length data. The data print area comprises a predetermined unit length. The total length data indicates a total length of a recorded matter print area on which a unit image corresponding to the unit print data is periodically printed. The end adjusting portion makes adjustments so as to match an end position both of the recorded matter print area and the data print area where the unit image is formed in a last sequence, by either print data mode adjustment or total length data adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junya Kawai, Naoki Tanjima
-
Patent number: 9174472Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a take-up portion, a first memory, a consumed amount calculating portion, a first correcting portion, an operation signal input portion, and a second correcting portion. The take-up portion takes up a recording medium on which printing was performed by the printing head. The first memory stores a value related to a remaining amount or a consumed amount of the recording medium. The consumed amount calculating portion calculates a first consumed amount based on a fed amount by the feeder. The first correcting portion corrects the value stored in the first memory by the first consumed amount. The second correcting portion corrects the value r stored in the first memory by using a predetermined second consumed amount, triggered by input of the operation signal to the operation signal input portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junya Kawai, Naoki Tanjima
-
Patent number: 9174468Abstract: The disclosure discloses a recording apparatus comprising a take-up body, a recording speed determining portion, a total length acquiring portion, and a take-up time determining portion. The take-up body sequentially takes up a recorded medium around a predetermined axis and produces a roll-shaped recorded matter. The recording speed determining portion determines a recording speed by a recording head based on a medium information acquired by a medium information acquiring portion. The total length acquiring portion acquires a total recording length by the recording head. The take-up time determining portion predicts and determines a take-up time by the take-up body before the take-up body starts take-up of the recorded medium, based on the total recording length acquired by the total length determining portion and the recording speed determined by the recording speed determining portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu, Junya Kawai
-
Patent number: 9164616Abstract: A touch panel control device includes a first identification portion, a second identification portion, an extraction portion, and a decision portion. The first identification portion identifies a plurality of pressed cells. The plurality of pressed cells is a plurality of cells to which a pressing force is applied, among a plurality of cells arranged in a matrix manner on a panel surface of a touch panel. The second identification portion identifies a separation distance between the plurality of pressed cells. The extraction portion extracts, from a pair of the pressed cells indicating a separation distance that is largest among the separation distances identified by the second identification portion, one of the pressed cells. The decision portion decides, as a specified position, a position of the pressed cell extracted by the extraction portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Junya Kawai
-
Patent number: 9162489Abstract: This is disclosed a printer comprising a visual confirmation window, a first coordination control portion, and a second coordination control portion. The visual confirmation window is for visually confirming a recording medium with print taken up by a take-up body from an exterior of a housing. The first coordination control portion controls a feeding motor, a take-up motor, and heating elements in coordination so as to form a predetermined test pattern on the recording medium prior to the start of production of a printed matter. The second coordination control portion controls the feeding motor and the take-up motor in coordination so that, after formation of the test pattern, the test pattern formed on the recording medium arrives and stops near the visual confirmation window.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Junya Kawai
-
Patent number: 9152358Abstract: This disclosure discloses a printer comprising a USB port, memory, a printing device, and a processor configured to control the printing device and the memory, wherein the regular storage area includes a first memory area, and at least a second memory area in which at least an instruction file including the print data, and wherein, the processor executes a plurality of processing while concurrently performing at least one processing thereof, the plurality of processing including file write processing for updating a content of original instruction file stored in the second memory area by writing the instruction file in the second memory area, update preparation processing for enabling to be updated later a content of the instruction file stored in the second memory area, and print processing for making the printing device execute printing of print data corresponding to the instruction file written in the second memory area.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu, Junya Kawai, Nako Yoshimura
-
Publication number: 20150251455Abstract: This is disclosed a printer comprising a visual confirmation window, a first coordination control portion, and a second coordination control portion. The visual confirmation window is for visually confirming a recording medium with print taken up by a take-up body from an exterior of a housing. The first coordination control portion controls a feeding motor, a take-up motor, and heating elements in coordination so as to form a predetermined test pattern on the recording medium prior to the start of production of a printed matter. The second coordination control portion controls the feeding motor and the take-up motor in coordination so that, after formation of the test pattern, the test pattern formed on the recording medium arrives and stops near the visual confirmation window.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventor: Junya Kawai
-
Publication number: 20150246567Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2015Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventor: Junya Kawai
-
Publication number: 20150246561Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a take-up portion, a first memory, a consumed amount calculating portion, a first correcting portion, an operation signal input portion, and a second correcting portion. The take-up portion takes up a recording medium on which printing was performed by the printing head. The first memory stores a value related to a remaining amount or a consumed amount of the recording medium. The consumed amount calculating portion calculates a first consumed amount based on a fed amount by the feeder. The first correcting portion corrects the value stored in the first memory by the first consumed amount. The second correcting portion corrects the value r stored in the first memory by using a predetermined second consumed amount, triggered by input of the operation signal to the operation signal input portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2015Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventors: Junya Kawai, Naoki Tanjima