Patents by Inventor Masafumi Miyazawa

Masafumi Miyazawa 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: 20200097237
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, a control program of the communication apparatus, and a relay apparatus are provided. The communication apparatus is configured to download electronic data from a server storing a first amount or more of electronic data and to output the downloaded electronic data. The communication apparatus includes an output unit configured to output a second amount of electronic data smaller than the first amount at one time, a download information acquiring unit configured to acquire download information necessary for downloading the first amount of electronic data stored in the server, from the server, a download unit configured to download the second amount of electronic data of the first amount of electronic data from the server, using the download information acquired by the download information acquiring unit. The output unit is configured to output the electronic data downloaded by the download unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaka URAKAWA, Satoshi WATANABE, Katsuaki ITO, Hirokazu BANNO, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Masafumi MIYAZAWA, Yusuke SHIMADA, Takeshi NAGASAKI
  • Patent number: 10496346
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, a control program of the communication apparatus, and a relay apparatus are provided. The communication apparatus is configured to download electronic data from a server storing a first amount or more of electronic data and to output the downloaded electronic data. The communication apparatus includes an output unit configured to output a second amount of electronic data smaller than the first amount at one time, a download information acquiring unit configured to acquire download information necessary for downloading the first amount of electronic data stored in the server, from the server, a download unit configured to download the second amount of electronic data of the first amount of electronic data from the server, using the download information acquired by the download information acquiring unit. The output unit is configured to output the electronic data downloaded by the download unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaka Urakawa, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito, Hirokazu Banno, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Masafumi Miyazawa, Yusuke Shimada, Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20190346801
    Abstract: In an information processing device, a controller acquires a plurality of sets of first and second information corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of first cartridges and a plurality of second cartridges replaced with respective ones of the plurality of first cartridges. The controller sets an order level for a target first cartridge using target second information of a target second cartridge, and sets at least one replacement target cartridge including the target first cartridge using the plurality of sets of first information. The at least one replacement target cartridge includes M-number first cartridges if the order level is a first level selected when the target second information represents a final residual quantity of printing agent greater than a reference. The at least one replacement target cartridge includes N-number first cartridges if the order level is a second level. N is greater than or equal to M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masafumi MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190346800
    Abstract: In a communication device, a processor identifies first and second group printing devices in accordance with device information on each printing device, and outputs device information corresponding to the first and second group printing devices in a distinguishable manner. A printing device having a tank accommodating printing agent greater than or equal to a first reference is identified as the first and second group printing devices. A printing device having a tank accommodating printing agent less than the first reference is identified as the second group printing device. A printing device without tank and in which a cartridge accommodating printing agent less than a second reference and greater than or equal to a third reference is identified as the first group printing device. A printing device without tank and in which the cartridge accommodating printing agent less than the third reference is identified as the second group printing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki NOGAWA, Masafumi MIYAZAWA, Akiko MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20190299645
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores program instructions for an information-processing apparatus including a processor. The program instructions, when executed by the processor, causes the information-processing apparatus to perform: determining whether selected printing devices all have the same type; and generating and outputting, on the basis of determination results, screen data representing a screen regarding settings of reference values for the selected printing devices. Each of the reference values is used to determine whether a replenishment condition for the corresponding printing device is met. When all of the selected printing devices have the same type, the generating generates first screen data representing a first screen through which a single instruction common to all to the reference values can inputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masafumi MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190275803
    Abstract: An information-processing apparatus for managing a print executing unit includes a controller configured to: generate screen data representing a settings screen and output the generated screen data. The settings screen contains: an indication of a specific range of possible values for an index value concerning a total residual quantity of: a residual quantity of printing agent in the print executing unit; and a residual quantity of printing agent in a cartridge; an indication of a value designated from the specific range as a reference value for the index value; and an indication of a boundary value within the specific range. The boundary value corresponds to the total residual quantity at the time of transition from a state where the printing agent remains in both the cartridge and the print executing unit to a state where the printing agent vanishes from the cartridge but remains in the print executing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masafumi MIYAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10339105
    Abstract: A relay server configured to relay service provision from a service provision server to a communication apparatus. The relay server is configured to perform receiving, in a case that a predetermined instruction is provided to the communication apparatus, a request for specific screen data from the communication apparatus, receiving, in a case that the request for the specific screen data is received, first folder relation information related to a first folder, which is a target folder of past data communication, from a database separately configured from the service provision server and the communication apparatus, generating the specific screen data by which a folder name of the first folder received by using the first folder relation information is preferentially displayed on the communication apparatus, and supplying the generated specific screen data to the communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken Saito, Masafumi Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20190193407
    Abstract: A liquid consuming device includes an installation case configured to receive a cartridge having a first liquid chamber storing a liquid, a tank having a second liquid chamber, a flow path communicated with the first and second liquid chambers, a head communicated with the second liquid chamber and a first controller configured to: determine a total amount Vt of a first liquid amount in the first liquid chamber that is installed in the installation case to communicate with the second liquid chamber through the flow path and a second liquid amount in the second liquid chamber that communicates with the first liquid chamber of the cartridge installed in the installation case through the flow path; and transmit, through a first communication interface that is connected to an external device, total amount information indicating the determined total amount Vt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta HORADE, Masafumi MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190193414
    Abstract: In a control device, a controller sets an order condition using a plurality of sets of timing information and a plurality of index values stored in a memory. The plurality of index values is acquired from a recording device under a condition where a first cartridge is mounted in the recording device. The order condition requires that one of a latest index value and a current timing have reached corresponding one of a reference index value and a reference timing, and is set so that a second cartridge is delivered to a predetermined destination at a first timing at which the first cartridge is expected to be out of a printing agent while a tank of the recording device is expected to still accommodate the printing agent. The controller transmits an order command instructing to order the second cartridge to a relevant device after the order condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi MIYAZAWA, Kenta HORADE
  • Publication number: 20190193412
    Abstract: A liquid consuming system includes: an installation case configured to receive a cartridge having a first liquid chamber storing a liquid; a tank including a second liquid chamber; a flow path configured to communicate with the second liquid chamber and the first liquid chamber of the cartridge installed in the installation case; a head communicated with the second liquid chamber; a first communication interface; and a controller system configured to: determine a residual amount including at least an amount of liquid in the second liquid chamber of the tank; determine whether the determined residual amount reaches a predetermined amount; and based on determining that the determined residual amount reaches the predetermined amount, transmit first information through the first communication interface, the first information indicating an order instruction of the cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta HORADE, Sadaaki MIYAZAKI, Jun MORIKAWA, Hajime Inada, Masafumi MIYAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10225416
    Abstract: A server receives a correlation instruction from an information processing apparatus when the storage stores first device information uniquely assigned to an image processing apparatus. The correlation instruction is for correlating first device information with a service that a service-providing apparatus provides. The server receives first authentication information from the information processing apparatus. The server stores the first authentication information in association with the first device information in the storage. The server receives, from the image processing apparatus, second device information and first information. The second device information is assigned to the image processing apparatus. The first information is generated in the image processing apparatus for receiving the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Watanabe, Hirokazu Banno, Hiroaki Fujino, Takeshi Nagasaki, Masafumi Miyazawa, Kiyotaka Ohara
  • Publication number: 20180375923
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, a control program of the communication apparatus, and a relay apparatus are provided. The communication apparatus is configured to download electronic data from a server storing a first amount or more of electronic data and to output the downloaded electronic data. The communication apparatus includes an output unit configured to output a second amount of electronic data smaller than the first amount at one time, a download information acquiring unit configured to acquire download information necessary for downloading the first amount of electronic data stored in the server, from the server, a download unit configured to download the second amount of electronic data of the first amount of electronic data from the server, using the download information acquired by the download information acquiring unit. The output unit is configured to output the electronic data downloaded by the download unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaka URAKAWA, Satoshi WATANABE, Katsuaki ITO, Hirokazu BANNO, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Masafumi MIYAZAWA, Yusuke SHIMADA, Takeshi NAGASAKI
  • Patent number: 10133523
    Abstract: A controller in a control device is configured to perform: acquiring a first value from a printer, the first value being related to a residual quantity of printing material remaining in a first cartridge at a first calendar date; acquiring a second value from the printer, the second value being related to a residual quantity of printing material remaining in a second cartridge at a second calendar date, the second cartridge being attached to the printer later than detachment of the first cartridge; estimating a third calendar date using the first value, the second value, the first calendar date, and the second calendar date, the third calendar date being a calendar date when a third value related to the residual quantity of printing material remaining in the second cartridge is assumed to be smaller than a prescribed quantity; and executing an output process according to the third calendar date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masafumi Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 10116810
    Abstract: A server including a network interface, a storage and a controller. The network interface communicates with an image-outputting apparatus. The storage is capable of storing the notification data for transmission to the image-outputting apparatus. The controller receives the query information via the network interface, determines whether or not the notification data is stored in the storage in response to receiving the query information and receives the device information via the network interface in response to determining that the notification data is stored in the storage. The controller determines whether or not the login information included in the device information indicates a specific account. The controller transmits an output instruction to the image-outputting apparatus in response to determining that the login information indicates the specific account, the output instruction being for controlling the image-outputting apparatus to output a notification image represented by the notification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masafumi Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20180227441
    Abstract: A server including a network interface, a storage and a controller. The network interface communicates with an image-outputting apparatus. The storage is capable of storing the notification data for transmission to the image-outputting apparatus. The controller receives the query information via the network interface, determines whether or not the notification data is stored in the storage in response to receiving the query information and receives the device information via the network interface in response to determining that the notification data is stored in the storage. The controller determines whether or not the login information included in the device information indicates a specific account. The controller transmits an output instruction to the image-outputting apparatus in response to determining that the login information indicates the specific account, the output instruction being for controlling the image-outputting apparatus to output a notification image represented by the notification data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: Masafumi MIYAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10044789
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, a control program of the communication apparatus, and a relay apparatus are provided. The communication apparatus is configured to download electronic data from a server storing a first amount or more of electronic data and to output the downloaded electronic data. The communication apparatus includes an output unit configured to output a second amount of electronic data smaller than the first amount at one time, a download information acquiring unit configured to acquire download information necessary for downloading the first amount of electronic data stored in the server, from the server, a download unit configured to download the second amount of electronic data of the first amount of electronic data from the server, using the download information acquired by the download information acquiring unit. The output unit is configured to output the electronic data downloaded by the download unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaka Urakawa, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito, Hirokazu Banno, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Masafumi Miyazawa, Yusuke Shimada, Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20180191919
    Abstract: A server receives a correlation instruction from an information processing apparatus when the storage stores first device information uniquely assigned to an image processing apparatus. The correlation instruction is for correlating first device information with a service that a service-providing apparatus provides. The server receives first authentication information from the information processing apparatus. The server stores the first authentication information in association with the first device information in the storage. The server receives, from the image processing apparatus, second device information and first information. The second device information is assigned to the image processing apparatus. The first information is generated in the image processing apparatus for receiving the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Satoshi Watanabe, Hirokazu Banno, Hiroaki Fujino, Takeshi Nagasaki, Masafumi Miyazawa, Kiyotaka Ohara
  • Publication number: 20180183781
    Abstract: A relay apparatus is connected to a communication apparatus, a service providing apparatus and a browser-equipped apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi MIYAZAWA, Yusuke SHIMADA, Takeshi NAGASAKI, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Hirokazu BANNO, Satoshi WATANABE, Katsuaki ITO
  • Patent number: 10001722
    Abstract: A control device may obtain, at each of a plurality of sets of date-and-time, a current value related to a current remaining amount of a print material used by the print performing unit. The control device may calculate N1 change values by using a plurality of current values obtained at the plurality of sets of date-and-time, each change value being related to a change per unit time of a remaining amount of the print material. The control device may specify a first greatest change value among the N1 change values. The control device may perform a first prediction process that includes calculating a first future value by using the first greatest change value, the first future value being related to a future remaining amount of the print material, and a first output process using the first future value in a case where the first prediction process is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masafumi Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 9992356
    Abstract: An image-outputting apparatus includes a network interface, a storage, an output unit for outputting images, a user interface for receiving user operations including a login operation, and a controller. The controller determines whether the login operation is accepted, and determines what type of machine operation is permitted for the logged user according to the account thereof. The controller receives notification data from a server. The notification data contains information to be transmitted to an authorized user to whom a specific account is assigned. In response to receiving notification data, the controller determines whether an authorized user is logged in. When the authorized user is logged in, the controller controls the output unit to output a notification image represented by the notification data. When the authorized user not is logged in, the controller stores the notification data in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masafumi Miyazawa