Patents by Inventor Reiko HIGASHIKAWA

Reiko HIGASHIKAWA 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: 8888237
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid jetting apparatus including: a liquid jetting head configured to jet liquid; a liquid discharge unit configured to discharge the liquid from the liquid jetting head; a waste liquid recover unit including a waste liquid absorber configured to absorb a waste liquid discharged from the liquid jetting head by the liquid discharge unit and detection electrodes configured to detect a waste liquid amount absorbed into the waste liquid absorber; and a vibration generating source configured to vibrate the waste liquid absorber in a vibration direction, wherein the detection electrodes are disposed to make contact with an end surface defining the waste liquid absorber, and a normal direction of the end surface intersects with the vibration direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kondo, Shuhei Hiwada, Masato Sueyasu, Yasuhiro Kato, Reiko Higashikawa, Tomoyuki Kubo, Toru Yamashita, Shigeru Suzuki, Hiroto Sugahara, Masayoshi Hayashi, Tatsuya Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 8876236
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a liquid jetting head in which nozzles for jetting the liquid are formed and which has an actuator for jetting the liquid from the nozzles; an interposer substrate which is provided to the liquid jetting head and on which a driver IC is mounted; a control substrate which controls the liquid jetting head; a wire member which connects the interposer substrate and the control substrate; and a flexible circuit board which connects the interposer substrate and the actuator, wherein the interposer substrate has a first connecting portion to which the wire member is to be connected, and a second connecting portion to which the flexible circuit board is to be connected, and the driver IC is arranged nearer to the first connecting portion than the second connecting portion of the interposer substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kondo, Yasuhiro Kato, Masayoshi Hayashi, Tatsuya Nishikawa, Reiko Higashikawa, Toru Yamashita, Masato Sueyasu
  • Patent number: 8657406
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus is provided including: a liquid jetting head having a nozzle formed therein through which the liquid is jetted; a driving unit which is configured to output energy to the liquid jetting head; an energy recovery mechanism which is configured to recover and supply a part of the energy supplied from the driving unit to the liquid jetting head; and a mist removing unit to which the part of the energy recovered by the energy recovery mechanism is supplied so that the supplied energy is used to remove a mist generated under a condition that the liquid jetting head jets the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Reiko Higashikawa, Hirofumi Kondo, Tomoyuki Kubo, Masayoshi Hayashi, Masato Sueyasu, Toru Yamashita, Tatsuya Nishikawa, Yasuhiro Kato, Shuhei Hiwada
  • Patent number: 8602514
    Abstract: There is provided a drive control device including: a wiring board connected to an actuator; two driver ICs each having a plurality of common signal input terminals and selection signal input terminals arranged in one direction; and a control section transmitting a plurality of types of common signals and selection signals to the two driver ICs, respectively, in which the two driver ICs are disposed to face to each other on the wiring board so that the common signal input terminals in the respective driver ICs are each arranged in reverse directions to each other, and the paired common signal input terminals that are disposed in the one direction in the same order when counted from one side are wired respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Reiko Higashikawa
  • Publication number: 20130083102
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a liquid jetting head in which nozzles for jetting the liquid are formed and which has an actuator for jetting the liquid from the nozzles; an interposer substrate which is provided to the liquid jetting head and on which a driver IC is mounted; a control substrate which controls the liquid jetting head; a wire member which connects the interposer substrate and the control substrate; and a flexible circuit board which connects the interposer substrate and the actuator, wherein the interposer substrate has a first connecting portion to which the wire member is to be connected, and a second connecting portion to which the flexible circuit board is to be connected, and the driver IC is arranged nearer to the first connecting portion than the second connecting portion of the interposer substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi KONDO, Yasuhiro KATO, Masayoshi HAYASHI, Tatsuya NISHIKAWA, Reiko HIGASHIKAWA, Toru YAMASHITA, Masato SUEYASU
  • Publication number: 20130083121
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus is provided including: a liquid jetting head having a nozzle formed therein through which the liquid is jetted; a driving unit which is configured to output energy to the liquid jetting head; an energy recovery mechanism which is configured to recover and supply a part of the energy supplied from the driving unit to the liquid jetting head; and a mist removing unit to which the part of the energy recovered by the energy recovery mechanism is supplied so that the supplied energy is used to remove a mist generated under a condition that the liquid jetting head jets the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Reiko HIGASHIKAWA, Hirofumi KONDO, Tomoyuki KUBO, Masayoshi HAYASHI, Masato SUEYASU, Toru YAMASHITA, Tatsuya NISHIKAWA, Yasuhiro KATO, Shuhei HIWADA
  • Publication number: 20130076827
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid jetting apparatus including: a liquid jetting head configured to jet liquid; a liquid discharge unit configured to discharge the liquid from the liquid jetting head; a waste liquid recover unit including a waste liquid absorber configured to absorb a waste liquid discharged from the liquid jetting head by the liquid discharge unit and detection electrodes configured to detect a waste liquid amount absorbed into the waste liquid absorber; and a vibration generating source configured to vibrate the waste liquid absorber in a vibration direction, wherein the detection electrodes are disposed to make contact with an end surface defining the waste liquid absorber, and a normal direction of the end surface intersects with the vibration direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kondo, Shuhei Hiwada, Masato Sueyasu, Yasuhiro Kato, Reiko Higashikawa, Tomoyuki Kubo, Toru Yamashita, Shigeru Suzuki, Hiroto Sugahara, Masayoshi Hayashi, Tatsuya Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20110210999
    Abstract: There is provided a drive control device including: a wiring board connected to an actuator; two driver ICs each having a plurality of common signal input terminals and selection signal input terminals arranged in one direction; and a control section transmitting a plurality of types of common signals and selection signals to the two driver ICs, respectively, in which the two driver ICs are disposed to face to each other on the wiring board so that the common signal input terminals in the respective driver ICs are each arranged in reverse directions to each other, and the paired common signal input terminals that are disposed in the one direction in the same order when counted from one side are wired respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventor: Reiko HIGASHIKAWA