Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Kawaji

Masatoshi Kawaji 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).

  • Patent number: 6092798
    Abstract: A ticket issuing apparatus includes a feed passage which is branched into plural guides at one end thereof which are connected with each of a plurality of medium accommodating parts and arranged in strata, and merged into one. The apparatus has a feed passage which passes through the upper, rear and lower parts of the medium accommodating parts in this order and is guided to a front wall thereof. A medium separating part, a magnetic processing part and a printing part are respectively disposed along the feed passage, and a discharge stacker is connected with the other end of the feed passage. The medium handling apparatus removes curl of the medium before it is issued by returning the medium to the medium accommodating parts by a given amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuuiti Hiratuka, Takahiro Amada, Ryuji Ishii, Sadao Sone, Masatoshi Kawaji, Takashi Okada
  • Patent number: 5854477
    Abstract: A ticket processing apparatus for reusable tickets, having a thermal print portion capable of repeatedly printing by heating at a predetermined write temperature and deleting the printed characters and the like by heating at a deletion temperature, and also capable of setting information about the number of printing times, wherein a control unit 23 causes a magnetic read head 10 to read reservation information and information about the number of printing done from a magnetic recording stripe 1b of a reservation airline ticket 1, and also causes a thermal head 8 to heat a thermal print portion 1a of the reservation airline ticket 1 at a deletion temperature to delete printed reservation information of the thermal print portion 1a, and when the number of times printing done of the reservation airline ticket 1 is less than a preset value, causes the thermal head 8 to print real-ticket information on the thermal print portion 1a and also causes information about the number of printing done added with "1" to be wr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kawaji, Yoshio Murakami, Toshihiro Ikeda