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).

  • Patent number: 9102177
    Abstract: A printing device includes a feeding portion configured to feed a print medium along a feed direction, a printing portion configured to perform printing on the print medium fed by the feeding portion, the printing being performed for each of a print line extending in a direction orthogonal to the feed direction, a storage portion configured to sequentially store print data received from the external device, and a processor configured to determine whether consecutive identical data are accumulated in the storage portion, the consecutive identical data being identical print data for a predetermined number of the print lines that are consecutive in the feed direction, and cause the printing portion to start the printing based on the print data stored in the storage portion when it is determined that the consecutive identical data are accumulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Iida, Yoshihiko Sugimura, Junya Kawai
  • Publication number: 20150202901
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu, Junya Kawai
  • Patent number: 9016964
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a feeder, a printing head configured to form desired print and producing a print, a discharge port disposed on one side of a housing, a display portion configured to display a print image, an operation portion disposed above the display portion, a detecting device configured to detect the operation input through contact to the operation portion, a first trajectory determining portion configured to determine whether or not a contact trajectory with a first predetermined pattern along a first direction has been input in a state where the print image is displayed on the display portion, and a printing control portion configured to control the feeder and the printing head when it is determined that the contact trajectory has been input so as to produce the print corresponding to the print image displayed and to discharge the print.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu, Junya Kawai, Zhi Yuan, Yoshiyuki Kaneno
  • Publication number: 20150094436
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junya KAWAI, Rieko FUJITA, Wataru SATO, Mitsunori FURUYA, Kenichi SATAKE, Maki OBA
  • Publication number: 20150092202
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Junya Kawai, Naoki Tanjima
  • Patent number: 8963975
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a printing-head, a cutter, a print object receiving portion, an increment mode receiving portion, a cutting mode receiving portion, and a printing control portion. The printer continually produces a plurality of printed matter wherein the print object is respectively formed in a predetermined order. The print object receiving portion receives an input operation for the print object which is disposed in at least one block that includes a print identifier that can be incremented. The increment mode receiving portion receives a setup operation for an increment mode. The cutting mode receiving portion receives a setup operation for a cutting mode at a boundary. The printing control portion controls the feeder and the printing-head to generate a plurality of the printed matter in which is respectively formed the print object which includes the print identifier incremented, and which is cut using the cutting mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu, Junya Kawai, Hidekazu Ishii
  • Patent number: 8913043
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses an electronic writing apparatus. The electronic writing apparatus comprises a position acquisition portion that acquires a plurality of pieces of positional information of a writing instrument moving, a first visual object detecting portion that detects a visual object for identification entered at a desired position of the media, a first data creating portion that creates image data corresponding to writing on the media and having a predetermined positional relationship with the visual object for identification, a first storage device that temporarily stores image data created by the first data creating portion, a first communication device that transmits the image data for storing the image data in the external storage device, and a first transmission control portion that controls the first communication device and performs transmission for storing the image data stored in the first storage device in the storage destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junya Kawai, Atsushi Kasugai, Takehiko Inaba
  • Publication number: 20140362157
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a printing-head, a cutter, a print object receiving portion, an increment mode receiving portion, a cutting mode receiving portion, and a printing control portion. The printer continually produces a plurality of printed matter wherein the print object is respectively formed in a predetermined order. The print object receiving portion receives an input operation for the print object which is disposed in at least one block that includes a print identifier that can be incremented. The increment mode receiving portion receives a setup operation for an increment mode. The cutting mode receiving portion receives a setup operation for a cutting mode at a boundary. The printing control portion controls the feeder and the printing-head to generate a plurality of the printed matter in which is respectively formed the print object which includes the print identifier incremented, and which is cut using the cutting mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu, Junya Kawai, Hidekazu Ishii
  • Publication number: 20140310485
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junya Kawai
  • Publication number: 20140085234
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junya Kawai
  • Publication number: 20140078084
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising at least one operation portion, a touch panel, a detecting portion, a memory, a trajectory determination processing portion, an operation control portion, a start point determining portion, a display control portion. The operation portion executes a predetermined processing operation. The detecting portion detects an operational input to the touch panel portion. The memory stores correlation between contact trajectories with predetermined patterns and the processing operations. The operation control portion, when it is determined that a contact trajectory with the predetermined pattern has been operationally input, refers to the correlation and control the operation portion so as to perform the processing operation. The display control portion, when it is determined that can become the start point has been made, refers to the correlation and control the display portion so as to perform guide display corresponding to the contact trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junya KAWAI, Yuji IIDA
  • Publication number: 20140072358
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a feeder, a printing head configured to form desired print and producing a print, a discharge port disposed on one side of a housing, a display portion configured to display a print image, an operation portion disposed above the display portion, a detecting device configured to detect the operation input through contact to the operation portion, a first trajectory determining portion configured to determine whether or not a contact trajectory with a first predetermined pattern along a first direction has been input in a state where the print image is displayed on the display portion, and a printing control portion configured to control the feeder and the printing head when it is determined that the contact trajectory has been input so as to produce the print corresponding to the print image displayed and to discharge the print.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu TOMOMATSU, Junya KAWAI, Zhi YUAN, Yoshiyuki KANENO
  • Publication number: 20140028591
    Abstract: A panel control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform processes including acquiring a plurality of pressed positions, each of the plurality of pressed positions being a pressed position identified at each of a plurality of timings within a continuous time period, the continuous time period being a time period determined based on an operation time period in which a panel surface is pressed, and the pressed position being a position at which a pressing force is applied to the panel surface, identifying a tendency of change of the pressed positions based on the plurality of pressed positions, and determining each of the plurality of pressed positions as a specified position in a case where the identified tendency of change satisfies a predetermined condition, the specified position being a pressed position, on the panel surface, that is specified by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro KANDA, Junya KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20130257796
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junya KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20130257764
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junya KAWAI, Yoshihiko SUGIMURA
  • Patent number: 8508783
    Abstract: A printer includes a connection port that connects an external storage device to the printer, a command input unit that inputs coded information or text-form information, and a processor that executes a command corresponding to coded information or text-form information inputted in the command input unit by using data stored in the external storage device connected to the connection port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichiro Suzuki, Yuji Iida, Junya Kawai
  • Publication number: 20130050757
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu TOMOMATSU, Junya KAWAI, Nako YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20130016149
    Abstract: A printing device includes a feeding portion configured to feed a print medium along a feed direction, a printing portion configured to perform printing on the print medium fed by the feeding portion, the printing being performed for each of a print line extending in a direction orthogonal to the feed direction, a storage portion configured to sequentially store print data received from the external device, and a processor configured to determine whether consecutive identical data are accumulated in the storage portion, the consecutive identical data being identical print data for a predetermined number of the print lines that are consecutive in the feed direction, and cause the printing portion to start the printing based on the print data stored in the storage portion when it is determined that the consecutive identical data are accumulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji IIDA, Yoshihiko SUGIMURA, Junya KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20120211082
    Abstract: There is provides a photoelectric conversion device material which can be used as an electrode buffer material for a solar cell or the like and can improve durability while maintaining the interaction with an electrode and mobility; a photoelectric conversion device using the photoelectric conversion device material; and a solar cell using the photoelectric conversion device. A photoelectric conversion device containing a buffer layer and an active layer, wherein the buffer layer contains a compound represented by the following general formula (I), the active layer contains an n-type semiconductor, and the n-type semiconductor is a compound having a solubility in toluene of 0.5% by weight or more at 25° C. and having an electron mobility of 1.0×10?6 cm2/Vs or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji AKIYAMA, Hitoshi Oota, Misako Okabe, Saika Ootsubo, Junya Kawai, Yoshiko Moritake, Takaaki Niinomi, Yuhei Ogomi, Takamichi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8038358
    Abstract: A tape printing apparatus includes an input device, a setting device, and a display device. The apparatus further includes a setting tape width image storage device, a character size image storage device, a tape width acquisition device, a character size acquisition device, a setting tape width image reading device that reads out one of setting tape width images from the setting tape width image storage device, and a character size image reading device that reads out one of character size images from the character size image storage device. The apparatus further includes a setting guide image generation device that generates a setting guide image by combining the one of the setting tape width images and the one of the character size images, and a setting display control device that displays the setting guide image on a setting screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichiro Suzuki, Junya Kawai, Hajime Okochi