Patents by Inventor Masataka Yoshikawa

Masataka Yoshikawa 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).

  • Printer including apparatus for controlling underscore position relative to characters
    Patent number: 4804280
    Abstract: A printer having a first memory for storing character data representative of lines of characters to be printed on a recording medium, a second memory for storing line-space data representative of a line spacing between the lines of characters, and a control device for activating a print head according to the character data stored in the first memory, and controlling the print head and a paper feed device according to the line-space data stored in the second memory, to underscore at least one of the characters of the printed lines. The position of the underscore is controlled such that a distance between the underscore and the underscored characters is varied depending upon the line spacing represented by the line-space data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Kurokawa, Masataka Yoshikawa, Takao Kato, Hiroyuki Kikukawa, Yukiyoshi Muto