Patents by Inventor Shigeru Nakata

Shigeru Nakata 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: 5271789
    Abstract: A tape end processing unit has a guide path for guiding a tape piece from an insertion port into which the tape piece is inserted to a cutting blade to cut off the tape piece. The guide path is bent in a convex form in a direction in which the cutting blade moves when the tape piece is cut. With this configuration, the curl of the tape piece can be cured, and an end of the tape piece can be cut off with an accurate length. The tape end processing unit may have a blade receiving stand which has a concave section having a width narrower than the length of the cutting blade and a depth smaller than the thickness of a releasable paper constituting a part of the tape piece. With this configuration, the tape end processing unit can cut off an end of the tape piece in a state where the releasable paper can easily be separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihito Takagi, Shigeru Nakata, Teruo Imamaki, Mikio Sakuma
  • Patent number: 5224786
    Abstract: A tape printer for making adhesive labels includes a tape supply, a printer for reverse printing on the tape and a double-sided adhesive film, one side of which is laminated to the printer tape and the other side of which carries a release paper. The printer has a cutter for cutting the tape from the continuous supply tape and includes a trimmer for rounding the corners of the tape to reduce defoliation of the tape from the surface to which it is applied. The cutting blade of the trimmer has a central straight section, contiguous arcuate sections at each end of the central straight section and auxiliary straight cutting edges contiguous with the arcuate sections and extending at an obtuse angle to the central straight section. The cutting blade is mounted in an integrally molded support unit which includes guide members for guiding the width of tape to be trimmed by the cutting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1993
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihito Takagi, Teruo Imamaki, Shigeru Nakata
  • Patent number: 5209151
    Abstract: In a tape cutter capable of cutting a tape completely and enhancing the durability of the cutter blade, a cutter holder is rotated by the engagement of a holder gear portion with a lever gear portion according to the rotation of an operation lever so that a cutter blade is moved toward a tape face. A sliding projection slides upwardly along an inclined face and the cutter holder is moved in the widthwise direction of the tape T. Therefore the cutter blade 13 presses the tape face and cuts the tape T while sliding in the widthwise direction of the tape T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihito Takagi, Shigeru Nakata, Takashi Miki
  • Patent number: 5174670
    Abstract: A tape printer for making adhesive labels includes a tape supply, a printer for reverse printing on the tape and a double-sided adhesive film, one side of which is laminated to the printer tape and the other side of which carries a release paper. The printer has a cutter for cutting the tape from the continuous supply tape and includes a trimmer for rounding the corners of the tape to reduce defoliation of the tape from the surface to which it is applied. The cutting blade of the trimmer has a central straight section, contiguous arcuate sections at each end of the central straight section and auxiliary straight cutting edges contiguous with the arcuate sections and extending at an obtuse angle to the central straight section. The cutting blade is mounted in an integrally molded support unit which includes guide members for guiding the width of tape to be trimmed by the cutting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihito Takagi, Teruo Imamaki, Shigeru Nakata
  • Patent number: 5163349
    Abstract: A tape printer for making adhesive labels includes a tape supply, a printer for reverse printing on the tape and a double-sided adhesive film, one side of which is laminated to the printer tape and the other side of which carries a release paper. The printer has a cutter for cutting the tape from the continuous supply tape and includes a trimmer for rounding the corners of the tape to reduce defoliation of the tape from the surface to which it is applied. The cutting blade of the trimmer has a central straight section, contiguous arcuate section at each end of the central straight section and auxiliary straight cutting edges contiguous with the arcuate sections and extending at an obtuse angle to the central straight section. The cutting blade is mounted in an integrally molded support unit which includes guide members for guiding tape of a width to be trimmed by the cutting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihito Takagi, Teruo Imamaki, Shigeru Nakata
  • Patent number: 5160573
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a tape cutter device for cutting a tape which comprises a tape substrate coated with an adhesive layer and a separable sheet laid on the adhesive layer comprises: means for receiving the tape; and a cutter blade for cutting the tape received on the tape receiving means to thereby divide the tape into two sections such that at least the adhesive layers of the two sections being separated from each other; wherein, in each section of the tape, an adhesive force of the adhesive layer relative to the separable sheet is greater than an adhesive force of the adhesive layer relative to the cutter blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihito Takagi, Teruo Imamaki, Shigeru Nakata, Mikio Sakuma
  • Patent number: 5117719
    Abstract: A tape printer for making adhesive labels includes a tape supply, a printer for reverse printing on the tape and a double-sided adhesive film, one side of which is laminated to the printed tape and the other side of which carries a release paper. The printer has a cutter for cutting the tape from the continuous supply tape and includes a trimmer for rounding the corners of the tape to reduce defoliation of the tape from the surface to which it is applied. The cutting blade of the trimmer has a central straight section, contiguous arcuate sections at each end of the central straight section and auxiliary straight cutting edges contiguous with the arcuate sections and extending at an obtuse angle to the central straight section. The cutting blade is mounted in an integrally molded support unit which includes guide members for guiding the width of tape to be trimmed by the cutting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihito Takagi, Teruo Imamaki, Shigeru Nakata, Mikio Sakuma
  • Patent number: 5111364
    Abstract: A resist film for protecting a circuit pattern is coated onto a circuit pattern formed on a circuit board, and further, a part of the resist film with which another unit comes into contact is coated with a thermosetting film. Namely, the other unit is brought into contact with a part of the circuit pattern coated with the thermosetting film, and thus, the other unit and the resist film do not come into contact with each other directly, regardless of whether or not the other unit has a high temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshimoto, Shigeru Nakata, Noboru Takama, Minoru Taniguchi