Patents by Inventor Kazuo Inui

Kazuo Inui 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).

  • Image forming apparatus capable of readily and conveniently setting an operating condition
    Patent number: 5832339
    Abstract: A copying machine is provided capable of readily and conveniently setting a User's Choice value for an additionally set division. In the copying machine, the User's Choice value of the system which is set for each division is stored in a rewritable storage, such as a hard disc, a back-up memory or the like. The User's Choice of the system is changed in a control unit of the copying machine. The User's Choice value of the system is used as default in registering a new division, and it is thus not necessary to conventionally set a new User's Choice value based on the User's Choice value of the system which is stored in a ROM and thus cannot be changed. Thus, setting User's Choice values is no longer cumbersome for users, and the users can readily and conveniently set User's Choice values for an additionally set divisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Inui, Hiroshi Yamada, Junko Natsume
  • Image forming apparatus displaying job end time
    Patent number: 5809371
    Abstract: In a copying machine according to the invention, a plurality of jobs are read and registered, and printing and reading of thus registered jobs can be independently performed. In the copying machine, if printing is stopped during printing a job registered under number 4, for example and it is highly probable that the estimated ending time for printing of jobs under job numbers 4 and 5 will be changed, the estimated ending times for these jobs are displayed in dots unlike the normal display. As a result, the user can be informed that an estimated time for the end of printing for a certain job becomes inaccurate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Inui, Hiroshi Yamada, Junko Natsume
  • Image forming apparatus capable of forming a plurality of images from different originals on a single copy sheet
    Patent number: 5671463
    Abstract: In the present invention, the image data of a plurality of sheets are separately and appropriately enlarged or reduced so as to be formed on a single copy sheet by independently controlling at output the magnification of the respective images in accordance with the size of the copy sheet and the image data separately stored in the memory means. Furthermore, when a first mode for copying a plurality of original documents on a single copy sheet, and a second mode for copying only a cover page on a copy sheet different from the copy sheet of the other original documents, are simultaneously selected, the cover page is copied on a cover page copy sheet and a plurality of the other original documents are copied on a single copy sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Morikawa, Kazuo Inui