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).
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Patent number: 8885234Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 5, 2013Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takatoshi Takemoto, Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi, Kazuma Aoki, Masahiko Furuhashi, Manabu Isshiki, Hiroaki Yazawa
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Publication number: 20140002869Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takatoshi Takemoto, Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi, Kazuma Aoki, Masahiko Furuhashi, Manabu Isshiki, Hiroaki Yazawa
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Patent number: 8503043Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Yazawa, Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi, Kazuma Aoki, Masahiko Furuhashi, Manabu Isshiki
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Publication number: 20100321746Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki YAZAWA, Michifumi ISHIGAMI, Sakiko KOBAYASHI, Kazuma AOKI, Masahiko FURUHASHI, Manabu ISSHIKI
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Patent number: 7800788Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 21, 2005Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Yazawa, Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi, Kazuma Aoki, Masahiko Furuhashi, Manabu Isshiki
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Publication number: 20080082557Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kiyotaka Ohara, Sakiko Kobayashi, Syuichiro Shimoki, Takao Seki, Masafumi Miyazawa, Tomoko Saito, Masanori Oda
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Publication number: 20060209145Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2006Publication date: September 21, 2006Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Yazawa, Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20060083564Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2005Publication date: April 20, 2006Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Yazawa, Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi, Kazuma Aoki, Masahiko Furuhashi, Manabu Isshiki
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Patent number: D507595Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2004Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Fumio Morita, Shigeharu Katayama, Tsutomu Suzuki
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Patent number: D507597Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2004Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Fumio Morita, Shigeharu Katayama, Tsutomu Suzuki
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Patent number: D507809Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2004Date of Patent: July 26, 2005Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Fumio Morita, Shigeharu Katayama, Tsutomu Suzuki
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Patent number: D512092Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2004Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Fumio Morita, Shigeharu Katayama, Tsutomu Suzuki
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Patent number: D532041Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi
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Patent number: D533583Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2004Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Fumio Morita, Shigeharu Katayama, Tsutomu Suzuki
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Patent number: D551287Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Michifumi Ishigami, Sakiko Kobayashi
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Patent number: D551701Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2006Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Sakiko Kobayashi
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Patent number: D563461Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2006Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Mitsuharu Hattori
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Patent number: D593553Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2008Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyuki Okamoto, Koichi Kondo, Mitsuo Hirota, Sakiko Kobayashi
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Patent number: D599373Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2008Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Sakiko Kobayashi, Syuichiro Shimoki
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Patent number: D617791Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Sakiko Kobayashi