Patents by Inventor Sakiko Kobayashi

Sakiko Kobayashi 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: 8885234
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an image reading portion which has a box-shaped first housing with a reading surface, and a scanning device displaceable along the reading surface in the first housing, and reads a first image on a document by relatively displacing the document and scanning device; and an image recording portion which includes a recording medium supply device accommodating a recording medium, a feeding mechanism feeding the recording medium fed out of the supply device, a recording device recording a second image on the recording medium, and a second housing incorporating at least the feeding mechanism and recording device. The apparatus is placed on a rest surface in a substantially upright position, and the reading portion is changeable in position between an upright position in which the reading surface is opposed to the recording portion, and a horizontal position in which the reading surface faces upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takatoshi Takemoto, Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi, Kazuma Aoki, Masahiko Furuhashi, Manabu Isshiki, Hiroaki Yazawa
  • Publication number: 20140002869
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an image reading portion which has a box-shaped first housing with a reading surface, and a scanning device displaceable along the reading surface in the first housing, and reads a first image on a document by relatively displacing the document and scanning device; and an image recording portion which includes a recording medium supply device accommodating a recording medium, a feeding mechanism feeding the recording medium fed out of the supply device, a recording device recording a second image on the recording medium, and a second housing incorporating at least the feeding mechanism and recording device. The apparatus is placed on a rest surface in a substantially upright position, and the reading portion is changeable in position between an upright position in which the reading surface is opposed to the recording portion, and a horizontal position in which the reading surface faces upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takatoshi Takemoto, Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi, Kazuma Aoki, Masahiko Furuhashi, Manabu Isshiki, Hiroaki Yazawa
  • Patent number: 8503043
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an image reading portion which has a box-shaped first housing with a reading surface, and a scanning device displaceable along the reading surface in the first housing, and reads a first image on a document by relatively displacing the document and scanning device; and an image recording portion which includes a recording medium supply device accommodating a recording medium, a feeding mechanism feeding the recording medium fed out of the supply device, a recording device recording a second image on the recording medium, and a second housing incorporating at least the feeding mechanism and recording device. The apparatus is placed on a rest surface in a substantially upright position, and the reading portion is changeable in position between an upright position in which the reading surface is opposed to the recording portion, and a horizontal position in which the reading surface faces upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yazawa, Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi, Kazuma Aoki, Masahiko Furuhashi, Manabu Isshiki
  • Publication number: 20100321746
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an image reading portion which has a box-shaped first housing with a reading surface, and a scanning device displaceable along the reading surface in the first housing, and reads a first image on a document by relatively displacing the document and scanning device; and an image recording portion which includes a recording medium supply device accommodating a recording medium, a feeding mechanism feeding the recording medium fed out of the supply device, a recording device recording a second image on the recording medium, and a second housing incorporating at least the feeding mechanism and recording device. The apparatus is placed on a rest surface in a substantially upright position, and the reading portion is changeable in position between an upright position in which the reading surface is opposed to the recording portion, and a horizontal position in which the reading surface faces upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki YAZAWA, Michifumi ISHIGAMI, Sakiko KOBAYASHI, Kazuma AOKI, Masahiko FURUHASHI, Manabu ISSHIKI
  • Patent number: 7800788
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an image reading portion which has a box-shaped first housing with a reading surface, and a scanning device displaceable along the reading surface in the first housing, and reads a first image on a document by relatively displacing the document and scanning device; and an image recording portion which includes a recording medium supply device accommodating a recording medium, a feeding mechanism feeding the recording medium fed out of the supply device, a recording device recording a second image on the recording medium, and a second housing incorporating at least the feeding mechanism and recording device. The apparatus is placed on a rest surface in a substantially upright position, and the reading portion is changeable in position between an upright position in which the reading surface is opposed to the recording portion, and a horizontal position in which the reading surface faces upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yazawa, Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi, Kazuma Aoki, Masahiko Furuhashi, Manabu Isshiki
  • Publication number: 20080082557
    Abstract: There is provided a business card information management system including a server and portable devices. The server includes a storage unit storing a personal table having a record containing a user ID and business card information, an acquaintance table which is associated with a record of the personal table of a certain user and has a record containing a user ID of another user, and a meeting table having a record containing meeting data. The server includes an addition unit to add a new record to the meeting table to store the meeting data. The portable device includes a data exchange unit to exchange user IDs, a date and time obtaining unit to obtain a date and time as the meeting data, and a transmission unit to transmit the meeting data, a portable device's own user ID and another user's ID to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Ohara, Sakiko Kobayashi, Syuichiro Shimoki, Takao Seki, Masafumi Miyazawa, Tomoko Saito, Masanori Oda
  • Publication number: 20060209145
    Abstract: An ink cartridge is provided with a hollow cartridge body which can be attached to and detached from a cartridge attaching unit formed in an ink jet recording device, an ink storage chamber formed inside the cartridge, an ink supply port which can open in order to supply the ink to the ink jet recording device from the ink storage chamber and is sealed by a cap, and a plate-shaped handle which is rotatably provided on a front surface of the cartridge body and can take two postures of a standing posture where the handle stands up with respect to the front surface and a laid-down posture where the handle is laid down with respect to the same. The handle is configured so as to be exposed to outside when the cartridge body is attached to the cartridge attaching unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yazawa, Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20060083564
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an image reading portion which has a box-shaped first housing with a reading surface, and a scanning device displaceable along the reading surface in the first housing, and reads a first image on a document by relatively displacing the document and scanning device; and an image recording portion which includes a recording medium supply device accommodating a recording medium, a feeding mechanism feeding the recording medium fed out of the supply device, a recording device recording a second image on the recording medium, and a second housing incorporating at least the feeding mechanism and recording device. The apparatus is placed on a rest surface in a substantially upright position, and the reading portion is changeable in position between an upright position in which the reading surface is opposed to the recording portion, and a horizontal position in which the reading surface faces upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yazawa, Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi, Kazuma Aoki, Masahiko Furuhashi, Manabu Isshiki
  • Patent number: D507595
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Fumio Morita, Shigeharu Katayama, Tsutomu Suzuki
  • Patent number: D507597
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Fumio Morita, Shigeharu Katayama, Tsutomu Suzuki
  • Patent number: D507809
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Fumio Morita, Shigeharu Katayama, Tsutomu Suzuki
  • Patent number: D512092
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Fumio Morita, Shigeharu Katayama, Tsutomu Suzuki
  • Patent number: D532041
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D533583
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Fumio Morita, Shigeharu Katayama, Tsutomu Suzuki
  • Patent number: D551287
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D551701
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Sakiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D563461
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Mitsuharu Hattori
  • Patent number: D593553
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Okamoto, Koichi Kondo, Mitsuo Hirota, Sakiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D599373
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Syuichiro Shimoki
  • Patent number: D617791
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Sakiko Kobayashi