Patents by Inventor Kosuke INUZUKA
Kosuke INUZUKA 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: 12128674Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a housing, an operation panel, a sheet conveyor, a recording device, and a cutting device. The operation panel is disposed at a first-side face of the housing in a first direction. The first direction is orthogonal to a vertical direction and extends from a first side to a second side of the image recording apparatus. In the first direction, the cutting device is closer to the first side of the image recording apparatus than the recording device is and closer to the second side of the image recording apparatus than the operation panel is. The cutting device includes a cutter, and a cutter carriage to move with the cutter mounted thereon along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and the vertical direction. The operation panel overlaps a movable area of the cutter carriage when viewed in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuo Nishikawa, Hiroaki Takahashi, Takuya Tsuji, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Kosuke Inuzuka
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Patent number: 12054349Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a recording unit, first and second rollers, a guide member, and a cutting unit. The recording unit performs image recording on a sheet conveyed in a conveying direction on a first conveyance path. The first roller is located further downstream than the recording unit in the first conveyance path. The second roller is located further downstream than the first roller in the first conveyance path. The guide member has a guide surface that forms a second conveyance path extending from a connection position of the first conveyance path between the first roller and the second roller. The cutting unit is located between the connection position and the second roller, cuts a sheet, and has a cutter. The guide member changes in posture between a first posture for forming the second conveyance path and a second posture for opening the second conveyance path.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuo Nishikawa, Hiroaki Takahashi, Takuya Tsuji, Kosuke Inuzuka, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20240092099Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a printing part having an installment part in which a cartridge usable for printing an image is installable, the printing part being configured to print the image on a print medium and configured to move to an exchange position in a scanning direction; and a processing unit having a processing part configured to move while making contact with the print medium, which has the image printed thereon by the printing part, to thereby perform a processing of the print medium, at least a part of the processing unit being positioned at a standby position which is shifted in the scanning direction with respect to the exchange position in a case that the cartridge is installed or detached with respect to the printing part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Kosuke INUZUKA, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Yasuo NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240092100Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a housing including a wall with an opening; a mounting section configured to allow a cartridge to be mounted through the opening; a head with a nozzle to eject a liquid; a processing unit including a processing section configured to process a print medium; and a head carriage holding the mounting section and the head. The processing unit is located upstream of the head carriage in a conveyance direction of the print medium, the conveyance direction being a direction in which the print medium passes through a support facing the head.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Yasuo NISHIKAWA, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Kosuke INUZUKA, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240092102Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a casing, an opening/closing part, a printing part, a processing unit and a shielding part. The casing has an opening. The opening/closing part is movable to a first position to a second position. The printing part has an installment part and prints an image on a print medium. The processing unit is arranged on a downstream side in a conveyance direction, of the print medium, with respect to the printing part and processes the print medium. The shielding part shields at least a part of the processing unit. When the opening/closing part is at the second position, the opening is capable of releasing a location above the installment part or a part, of the installment part. When the opening/closing part is at the second position, the shielding part shields at least the part of the processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Yasuo NISHIKAWA, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Kosuke INUZUKA
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Publication number: 20240066896Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a container which accommodates a print medium; a conveyor which has a first conveying route and which conveys the print medium from the container in a conveying direction along the first conveying route; a printing unit which prints an image on the print medium conveyed in the first conveying route; and a dividing unit which performs a dividing processing with respect to the print medium conveyed in the first conveying route. The conveyor is provided with a second conveying route which is branched from the first conveying route at a branching part and in which the print medium having the image printed thereon by the printing unit is conveyed, the printing unit and the dividing unit are positioned above the container; and the dividing unit and the branching part are positioned on an upstream side in the conveying direction with respect to the printing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Yasuo NISHIKAWA, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Kosuke INUZUKA
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Publication number: 20230202214Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveying unit which conveys a printing medium in a conveying direction; a printing unit which prints an image on the printing medium conveyed by the conveying unit; a processing unit which includes a processing member and which executes a processing action for processing the printing medium by moving the processing member while causing the processing member to contact the printing medium; and a controller. The controller executes a processing process for causing the processing unit to execute the processing action with respect to the printing medium by moving the processing unit from a first position to a second position in an intersecting direction; a first conveying process for causing the conveying unit to convey a processed printing medium in the conveying direction; and a first moving process for moving the processing unit from the second position to the first position after the first conveying process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Kosuke INUZUKA, Yusuke ARAI, Isao KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230106292Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a recording unit, first and second rollers, a guide member, and a cutting unit. The recording unit performs image recording on a sheet conveyed in a conveying direction on a first conveyance path. The first roller is located further downstream than the recording unit in the first conveyance path. The second roller is located further downstream than the first roller in the first conveyance path. The guide member has a guide surface that forms a second conveyance path extending from a connection position of the first conveyance path between the first roller and the second roller. The cutting unit is located between the connection position and the second roller, cuts a sheet, and has a cutter. The guide member changes in posture between a first posture for forming the second conveyance path and a second posture for opening the second conveyance path.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Yasuo NISHIKAWA, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Takuya TSUJI, Kosuke INUZUKA, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230094327Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a housing, an operation panel, a sheet conveyor, a recording device, and a cutting device. The operation panel is disposed at a first-side face of the housing in a first direction. The first direction is orthogonal to a vertical direction and extends from a first side to a second side of the image recording apparatus. In the first direction, the cutting device is closer to the first side of the image recording apparatus than the recording device is and closer to the second side of the image recording apparatus than the operation panel is. The cutting device includes a cutter, and a cutter carriage to move with the cutter mounted thereon along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and the vertical direction. The operation panel overlaps a movable area of the cutter carriage when viewed in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuo NISHIKAWA, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Takuya TSUJI, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Kosuke INUZUKA