Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Kanda

Mitsuhiro Kanda 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: 10953674
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a feeder configured to feed one print-receiving medium that comprises a plurality of print-receiving parts. A printing head is configured to form a plurality of print parts by sequentially forming desired prints on the plurality of print-receiving parts. A CPU executes a determination process and a printing control process. In the determination process, a type of the one print-receiving medium is determined on the basis of a comparison between the parameters of the one print-receiving medium detected by a sensor and the parameters of each of the plural types of print-receiving medium stored in a memory. In the printing control process, controlling a print formation operation of the printing head is controlled on the basis of a determination result in the determination process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Masaru Uno, Yuji Iida
  • Publication number: 20190217638
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a feeder configured to feed one print-receiving medium that comprises a plurality of print-receiving parts. A printing head is configured to form a plurality of print parts by sequentially forming desired prints on the plurality of print-receiving parts. A CPU executes a determination process and a printing control process. In the determination process, a type of the one print-receiving medium is determined on the basis of a comparison between the parameters of the one print-receiving medium detected by a sensor and the parameters of each of the plural types of print-receiving medium stored in a memory. In the printing control process, controlling a print formation operation of the printing head is controlled on the basis of a determination result in the determination process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Masaru Uno, Yuji Iida
  • Patent number: 10189290
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer configured to perform a forcible a first discontinuation control process, a first resuming control process, a second discontinuation control process, and a second resuming control process. In the first discontinuation control process, the printing is discontinued to execute forcible cooling when the detected temperature reaches a forcible cooling temperature. In the first resuming control process, the printing is resumed while doubly forming dots on the print line a print-receiving medium when the detected temperature is decreased to a forcible cooling cancellation temperature after a start of an execution of the forcible cooling. In the second discontinuation control process, the printing is discontinued to execute between-page cooling when the detected temperature reaches a between-page cooling temperature. In the second resuming control process, the printing is resumed when the detected temperature is decreased to between-page cooling cancellation temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Kanda
  • Patent number: 10093089
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printed matter producing device including a unique information acquiring portion, an identifier determining portion, a bar-coding portion, and a control portion. The unique information acquiring portion is configured to acquire unique information uniquely retained by the printed matter producing device. The identifier determining portion is configured to read a template so as to determine whether a predetermined collection identifier exists or not in the read template. The bar-coding portion is configured to generate and expand print data to a printing buffer in the case that the collection identifier is present, the print data having the unique information acquired and assigned to contents of the bar-code object included in the template. The control portion is configured to, by using the print data expanded to the printing buffer, to produce the printed matter having a bar-code print portion corresponding to the bar-code object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20180093514
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer configured to perform a forcible a first discontinuation control process, a first resuming control process, a second discontinuation control process, and a second resuming control process. In the first discontinuation control process, the printing is discontinued to execute forcible cooling when the detected temperature reaches a forcible cooling temperature. In the first resuming control process, the printing is resumed while doubly forming dots on the print line a print-receiving medium when the detected temperature is decreased to a forcible cooling cancellation temperature after a start of an execution of the forcible cooling. In the second discontinuation control process, the printing is discontinued to execute between-page cooling when the detected temperature reaches a between-page cooling temperature. In the second resuming control process, the printing is resumed when the detected temperature is decreased to between-page cooling cancellation temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro KANDA
  • Publication number: 20170253027
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printed matter producing device including a unique information acquiring portion, an identifier determining portion, a bar-coding portion, and a control portion. The unique information acquiring portion is configured to acquire unique information uniquely retained by the printed matter producing device. The identifier determining portion is configured to read a template so as to determine whether a predetermined collection identifier exists or not in the read template. The bar-coding portion is configured to generate and expand print data to a printing buffer in the case that the collection identifier is present, the print data having the unique information acquired and assigned to contents of the bar-code object included in the template. The control portion is configured to, by using the print data expanded to the printing buffer, to produce the printed matter having a bar-code print portion corresponding to the bar-code object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
  • Patent number: 9710732
    Abstract: A communication portion receives object data corresponding to an object. A processor receives a record including single object data and object names from an external device. The processor first stores the record and object names and first selects the object name having a predetermined configuration. The processor second selects, as at least two selected object data, at least two of the single object data, from the plurality of single object data included in the record, based on the configuration of the object name selected by the first selecting. The processor generates the combined object data that includes the at least two selected object data selected by the second selecting, as at least two setting object data. The processor second stores the generated combined object data. The processor prints a print image on the print medium, using the printing mechanism, based on the combined object data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
  • Patent number: 9656486
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a controller configured to execute a setting process, a transport stop process, and a first transport control process. In the transport stop process, a driving device is controlled to stop transport of a print-receiving medium in a state in which an intermediate position faces a cutter. The intermediate position is between a print part last in order and a print-receiving part located immediately after the print part last in order. In the first transport control process, the driving device is control to transport the print-receiving medium to an upstream side by a first unit transport amount in accordance with an operation of a first operation device or to transport the print-receiving medium to a downstream side by a second unit transport amount in accordance with an operation of a second operation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Kanda
  • Patent number: 9597908
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing portion, a display, and a processor. The printing portion includes a plurality of heating elements arrayed in a specified direction. The printing portion is configured to perform printing on a print medium. The display is configured to display an image. The processor is configured to cause the display to display a first image, the first image being an image that shows the plurality of heating elements, receive specification of a check range, the check range being a range that includes a heating element to be checked among the plurality of heating elements, check, in a case where the specification of the check range is received, a state of the heating element included in the check range, and cause the display to display a check result of the state of the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Kanda
  • Publication number: 20170028747
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a controller configured to execute a setting process, a transport stop process, and a first transport control process. In the transport stop process, a driving device is controlled to stop transport of a print-receiving medium in a state in which an intermediate position faces a cutter. The intermediate position is between a print part last in order and a print-receiving part located immediately after the print part last in order. In the first transport control process, the driving device is control to transport the print-receiving medium to an upstream side by a first unit transport amount in accordance with an operation of a first operation device or to transport the print-receiving medium to a downstream side by a second unit transport amount in accordance with an operation of a second operation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Kanda
  • Patent number: 9393815
    Abstract: A printer comprises a feeder, a printing head, and a detecting device. The feeder feeds a print-receiving tape having multiple print-receiving portions, each of the print-receiving portions having a detected element. The printing head forms desired printing on the print-receiving tape. The detecting device detects the detected element, provided on an upstream side of the printing head by a predetermined distance X. A first positioning reference is generated when the detecting device detects the detected element of a first print-receiving portion. The printing head may be controlled, when the detecting device detects the detected element of the first print-receiving portion, to perform print formation on a second print-receiving portion preceding the first print-receiving portion and facing the printing head, using the first positioning reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
  • Patent number: 9373231
    Abstract: A print data generation apparatus generating print data includes a processor, and a memory configured to store a database having a plurality of records in which texts are respectively set for fields, template data which is associated with one of operation keys and in which at least arrangement positions of the texts to be printed are set, link information associating arrangement positions in the template data with the fields of the database, and computer-readable instructions instructing the processor to execute steps including detecting operation of the operation keys, selecting, from among the plurality of records of the database, the record to be used for printing, and generating print data such that the texts that are respectively set for the fields of the selected record are arranged in the arrangement positions associated with the fields by link information, by using the template data corresponding to the operated operation key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Moriyama, Mitsuhiro Kanda, Minako Ishida
  • Patent number: 9373232
    Abstract: A print data generation apparatus generating print data to print texts on a print medium, includes a processor, and a memory configured to store a database having a plurality of records in which texts are respectively set for fields and associating the records with operation keys, template data in which at least arrangement positions of the texts to be printed on a print medium are set, link information associating the arrangement positions in the template data with the fields of the database, and computer-readable instructions that instruct the processor to execute steps including detecting operation of the operation keys, and generating, when it is detected that one of the operation keys has been operated, print data such that the texts that are respectively set, in the database, for the fields of the record that corresponds to the operated operation key are arranged in the arrangement positions associated with the fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Moriyama, Mitsuhiro Kanda, Minako Ishida
  • Publication number: 20160089917
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing portion, a display, and a processor. The printing portion includes a plurality of heating elements arrayed in a specified direction. The printing portion is configured to perform printing on a print medium. The display is configured to display an image. The processor is configured to cause the display to display a first image, the first image being an image that shows the plurality of heating elements, receive specification of a check range, the check range being a range that includes a heating element to be checked among the plurality of heating elements, check, in a case where the specification of the check range is received, a state of the heating element included in the check range, and cause the display to display a check result of the state of the heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Kanda
  • Publication number: 20150347877
    Abstract: A communication portion receives object data corresponds to an object. A processor receives a record including single object data and object names from an external device. The processor first stores the record and object names and first selects the object name having a predetermined configuration. The processor second selects, as at least two selected object data, at least two of the single object data, from the plurality of single object data included in the record, based on the configuration of the object name selected by the first selecting. The processor generates the combined object data that includes the at least two selected object data selected by the second selecting, as at least two setting object data. The processor second stores the generated combined object data. The processor prints a print image on the print medium, using the printing mechanism, based on the combined object data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
  • Patent number: 9162481
    Abstract: A print medium includes a plurality of print areas and a plurality of identification markers. The plurality of print areas are set along a longitudinal direction on a printing surface. The plurality of print areas are a plurality of areas on which printing is to be performed. The plurality of identification markers are intermittently printed along the longitudinal direction on the print medium. Each of the plurality of identification markers includes a set of leading edge information and identification information and is printed in correspondence with a single print area group. The leading edge information is information for setting a leading edge position of the print area in the feed direction. The identification information is information for identifying a type of the print medium. The print area group is formed of a plurality of mutually adjacent print areas among the plurality of print areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Moriyama, Mitsuhiro Kanda
  • Patent number: 9001169
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a storage device, a feeder, a printing head, an instruction input portion, a first control portion, a detection determining portion, and a second control portion. The printing head performs desired printing on the print-receiving medium fed in a forward direction along a transport direction by a feeder. The instruction input portion inputs an operation instruction for starting print processing. The first control portion controls the feeder so as to start feeding of the print-receiving medium in the forward direction. The detection determining portion determines whether or not a detecting device detects the identifier after feeding in the forward direction was started. The second control portion controls the feeder so as to feed the print-receiving medium in a reverse direction, and to position a position of the print-receiving medium in a predetermined first initial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
  • Patent number: 8922345
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses an RFID tag communication system comprising: a communication antenna that performs wireless communication using a plurality of communication formats with a plurality of types of RFID circuit elements, each of the RFID circuit elements having an IC circuit part configured to store information and a tag antenna configured to transmit and receive information, each type of the plurality of types of RFID circuit element having a different compatibility factor and lacking communication compatibility; a format switching portion that sequentially switches the plurality of communication formats in a switching order that corresponds to the frequency of use results of each of the plurality of communication formats used in the past; and an information acquisition portion that performs an acquisition process to acquire information by wireless communication from the RFID circuit elements using each of the communication formats that are sequentially switched by the format switching portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Yuichiro Suzuki, Mai Fukutani, Minako Ishida
  • Publication number: 20140227017
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer comprises a feeder, a printing head, a detecting de The feeder feeds a print-receiving tape comprising a plurality of print-receiving porti wherein each of the print-receiving portions comprises a detected element, for each of a plur of printed matter. The printing head forms a desired print on the print-receiving tape. detecting device detects the detected element, provided on an upstream side than the prin head by a predetermined distance X. A first reference generating portion generates a positioning reference when the detecting device detects the detected element of a print-receiving portion. A first print control portion controls the printing head when the detec device detects the detected element of the first print-receiving portion, and perform the formation on a second print-receiving portion preceding the first print-receiving portion facing the printing head, using the first positioning reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kanda, Satoru Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20140225972
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a storage device, a feeder, a printing head, an instruction input portion, a first control portion, a detection determining portion, and a second control portion. The printing head performs desired printing on the print-receiving medium fed in a forward direction along a transport direction by a feeder. The instruction input portion inputs an operation instruction for starting print processing. The first control portion controls the feeder so as to start feeding of the print-receiving medium in the forward direction. The detection determining portion determines whether or not a detecting device detects the identifier after feeding in the forward direction was started. The second control portion controls the feeder so as to feed the print-receiving medium in a reverse direction, and to position a position of the print-receiving medium in a predetermined first initial position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro KANDA, Satoru MORIYAMA