Patents by Inventor Osamu Fukuzawa

Osamu Fukuzawa 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).

  • Thermal transfer printer ribbon cassette apparatus and ribbon cassette mounting method
    Patent number: 7586509
    Abstract: A thermal transfer ribbon printer ribbon cassette apparatus and a ribbon cassette mounting method by which a ribbon cassette for a thermal transfer ribbon of large roller size can be easily and reliably set in a thermal transfer printer. Focussing on the use of a main guide shaft as an initial guide, guidability along a printer main body stay and, finally, engageability of a final positioning engagement pin and a final position engagement hole, a cassette main body is formed to be attachable to a printer main body by providing a cassette main body stay in which a main guide hole to which a main guide shaft is formed detachably, a final positioning engagement pin formed in a printer main body stay, and a final positioning engagement hole formed in a handle-side base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sato
    Inventors: Hideaki Koizumi, Osamu Fukuzawa
  • THERMAL TRANSFER PRINTER RIBBON CASSETTE APPARATUS AND RIBBON CASSETTE MOUNTING METHOD
    Publication number: 20080213023
    Abstract: A thermal transfer ribbon printer ribbon cassette apparatus and a ribbon cassette mounting method by which a ribbon cassette for a thermal transfer ribbon of large roller size can be easily and reliably set in a thermal transfer printer. Focussing on the use of a main guide shaft as an initial guide, guidability along a printer main body stay and, finally, engageability of a final positioning engagement pin and a final position engagement hole, a cassette main body is formed to be attachable to a printer main body by providing a cassette main body stay in which a main guide hole to which a main guide shaft is formed detachably, a final positioning engagement pin formed in a printer main body stay, and a final positioning engagement hole formed in a handle-side base plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Hideaki KOIZUMI, Osamu FUKUZAWA