Patents by Inventor Kazunori Yokouchi

Kazunori Yokouchi 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).

  • Thermal transfer sheet, thermal transfer recording method, and thermal transfer recording system
    Patent number: 6773772
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet is equipped with an approval information of being approved as applicable to the predetermined printer. When the thermal transfer sheet is set on a printer and a determinator determines that the approval information is correct for the printer, the printer is interlocked with the determinator to actuate in the state where the thermal transfer sheet is set thereon. A front part of a thermal transfer sheet may be provided with a mark coded from the approval information. The mark may be formed of a material detectable with the light in a visible region or invisible region, a magnetic material, an electrically conductive material, a material responsive to microwave or a resonance circuit. The approval information may be recorded on an approval card, a resonance circuit or IC card which makes a pair with a thermal transfer sheet. In addition, a host system as a determinator may be connected to a facsimile as a printer via a communication circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: DAI Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Shinozaki, Kazunori Yokouchi, Hideichiro Takeda, Taketomo Katai
  • Thermal transfer sheet, thermal transfer recording method, and thermal transfer recording system
    Publication number: 20020140799
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet is equipped with an approval information of being approved as applicable to the predetermined printer. When the thermal transfer sheet is set on a printer and a determinator determines that the approval information is correct for the printer, the printer is interlocked with the determinator to actuate in the state where the thermal transfer sheet is set thereon. A front part of a thermal transfer sheet may be provided with a mark coded from the approval information. The mark may be formed of a material detectable with the light in a visible region or invisible region, a magnetic material, an electrically conductive material, a material responsive to microwave or a resonance circuit. The approval information may be recorded on an approval card, a resonance circuit or IC card which makes a pair with a thermal transfer sheet. In addition, a host system as a determinator may be connected to a facsimile as a printer via a communication circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Kensuke Shinozaki, Kazunori Yokouchi, Hideichiro Takeda, Taketomo Katai
  • Thermal transfer sheet, thermal transfer recording method, and thermal transfer recording system
    Patent number: 6387846
    Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet is equipped with an approval information of being approved as applicable to the predetermined printer. When the thermal transfer sheet is set on a printer and a determinator determines that the approval information is correct for the printer, the printer is interlocked with the determinator to actuate in the state where the thermal transfer sheet is set thereon. A front part of a thermal transfer sheet may be provided with a mark coded from the approval information. The mark may be formed of a material detectable with the light in a visible region or invisible region, a magnetic material, an electrically conductive material, a material responsive to microwave or a resonance circuit. The approval information may be recorded on an approval card, a resonance circuit or IC card which makes a pair with a thermal transfer sheet. In addition, a host system as a determinator may be connected to a facsimile as a printer via a communication circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: DAI Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Shinozaki, Kazunori Yokouchi, Hideichiro Takeda, Taketomo Katai