Patents by Inventor Shiro Yamada
Shiro Yamada 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: 8179262Abstract: An article management system includes a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) circuit elements respectively handled in association with articles to be managed; and an apparatus for communicating with an RFID tag, each of the RFID tag circuit elements having an IC circuit part storing tag identification information, own target information, and management position information, and the apparatus having a communicating device; a position-information obtainment portion configured to obtain the management position information; and a position-information display output portion configured to output a signal for displaying the management position information.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Takuya Nagai, Shiro Yamada
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Patent number: 8162228Abstract: Data is transferred from an operating device to a printer for printing with a simple operation. It is determined whether or not a printer ID received by a RFID tag for a printer of a printer via radio communication from a mobile terminal matches a printer ID of the printer of itself, and when the printer ID matches, printing data received by the RFID tag for a printer via radio communication from the mobile terminal is stored in a memory part of the RFID tag for a printer and then, the printing data is transmitted to a printer main body through a reader from the RFID tag for a printer and printed by a print head of the printer main body.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kunihiro Yasui, Shiro Yamada
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Patent number: 8040222Abstract: A radio-frequency tag communication system including (a) a radio-frequency tag, (b) a radio-frequency tag communication device configured to transmit a transmitted signal toward the radio-frequency tag, and to receive a reply signal transmitted from the radio-frequency tag in response to the transmitted signal, for thereby effecting radio communication with the radio-frequency tag, and (c) at least one reference tag disposed fixedly in an area of communication of the radio-frequency tag communication system and configured to transmit a reply signal in response to the transmitted signal, for thereby effecting radio communication with the radio-frequency tag communication device, and wherein the radio-frequency tag communication device includes a directivity control portion configured to control a directivity of communication with the radio-frequency tag, on the basis of a result of the radio communication of the radio-frequency tag communication device with the at least one reference tag.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2007Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuyuki Kuramoto, Shiro Yamada
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Patent number: 7994917Abstract: An apparatus for fixing RFID tags fixes a RFID circuit element on a print label to produce a RFID label. At this time, a barcode provided on the print label side is read by a barcode sensor, and information to be written corresponding to barcode information is written into the RFID circuit element through an antenna via wireless communication. The barcode on the print label is associated with the label print, whereby a RFID label with print can be produced in which the label print and the information to be stored in the RFID circuit element are associated with each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuo Hirota, Koshiro Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Akira Ito, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Shiro Yamada
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Patent number: 7876223Abstract: An RFID tag information communicating apparatus includes a feeding roller driving shaft that is provided within a housing constituting a shell of an apparatus main body and feeds a base tape, and an antenna for label production and an antenna for information transmission and reception, which are capable of transmitting and receiving information with an RFID circuit element for label production included in a base tape and an RFID circuit element for information transmission and reception located outside the housing. Each of the RFID circuit elements has an IC circuit part that stores information and an antenna that transmits and receives information. The apparatus is configured capable of performing both of the information reading and information writing with the RFID circuit element for label production and the RFID circuit element for information transmission and reception via the antennas.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Kunihiro Yasui, Hisayoshi Wanibe, Tomoaki Shibata, Shigeki Kato, Shiro Yamada
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Patent number: 7871212Abstract: A label producing apparatus has a pressure roller drive shaft for feeding a cover film supplied from a cartridge storing a cover film capable of supply, acquires the arrangement information by accessing a database storing and holding arrangement information of the article to be arranged, and has a print head and a cutter for producing an auxiliary label by forming the acquired arrangement information for the cover film fed by the pressure roller drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2007Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Ito, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Osamu Nishikawa, Shiro Yamada
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Patent number: 7683784Abstract: A radio-frequency communication system including a plurality of apparatus for communication with a radio-frequency tag, and at least one radio-frequency relay tag, wherein each of the apparatus for communication with a radio-frequency tag includes a transmitter portion configured to transmit to the relay tag a message writing command for writing on the relay tag a desired message to be transmitted to another apparatus for communication with a radio-frequency tag via the relay tag, and each relay tag includes a plurality of message storage portions provided to store the messages transmitted from the respective apparatus for communication with a radio-frequency tag.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takuya Nagai, Shiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20090251319Abstract: This disclosure discloses an article management system comprising a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) circuit elements respectively handled in association with articles to be managed; and an apparatus for communicating with an RFID tag, each of the RFID tag circuit elements having an IC circuit part storing tag identification information, own target information, and management position information, and the apparatus having a communicating device; a position-information obtainment portion configured to obtain the management position information; and a position-information display output portion configured to output a signal for displaying the management position information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Takuya Nagai, Shiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20090174531Abstract: There are provided an antenna of an apparatus for producing RFID label configured to transmit/receive information via radio communication with a RFID circuit element provided with an IC circuit part storing information, a control circuit of the apparatus for producing RFID label configured to create file additional information relating to an electronic file to be processed and to create tag access information to the IC circuit part, and a radio frequency circuit configured to transmit at least the file additional information and the tag access information to the RFID circuit element via the antenna and to write the information in the IC circuit part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: July 9, 2009Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Hirokazu Sato, Kunihiro Yasui, Atsushi Matsubara, Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Yasuhiro Kudo, Shiro Yamada
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Patent number: 7510076Abstract: The present invention relates to a case that can house an image pickup apparatus or the like and can be used as a cover of the image pickup apparatus for preventing the adhesion of water droplets to the image pickup apparatus during shooting. The case according to the present invention a first cover portion 20 and a second cover portion 21, and an outer periphery of the first cover portion has the same length as an outer periphery of the second cover portion. The first cover portion and the second cover portion change between a first state where the outer peripheries of the first cover portion and the second cover portion are joined to each other so as to provide a space inside and a second state where the outer peripheries of the first cover portion and the second cover portion are separated from each other with the outer peripheries being partially fixed to each other so that the outer peripheries as a whole assume a substantially T-shape.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2005Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shiro Yamada, Toshihiko Fujihara
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Publication number: 20090072019Abstract: This disclosure discloses an apparatus capable of producing RFID labels comprising: a feeding device configured to feed a tag medium; a printing device configured to make a desired print on the tag medium or on a print-receiving medium; a tag accessing device configured to make an access to a RFID circuit element; and a region generation instruction portion configured to output a generation instruction signal for generating one storage region for the tag identification information corresponding to the remaining RFID labels, in association with the storage region for the tag identification information corresponding to the one RFID label.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoaki Shibata, Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Shiro Yamada, Kazuya Nishimura
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Publication number: 20090065569Abstract: This disclosure discloses a progress display apparatus displaying a progress state of an event by a plurality of work procedures along a chronological order, comprising: a display signal output portion for a total procedure configured to output a display signal for displaying a total-procedure display part corresponding to all the procedures of the plurality of work procedures to be completed; and a display signal output portion for a completed procedure configured to output a display signal for displaying a completed-procedure display part corresponding to at least one work procedure having been completed so far among the plurality of work procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoaki SHIBATA, Yasuhisa ICHIKAWA, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Shiro YAMADA
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Publication number: 20090039147Abstract: Data is transferred from an operating device to a printer for printing with a simple operation. It is determined whether or not a printer ID received by a RFID tag for a printer of a printer via radio communication from a mobile terminal matches a printer ID of the printer of itself, and when the printer ID matches, printing data received by the RFID tag for a printer via radio communication from the mobile terminal is stored in a memory part of the RFID tag for a printer and then, the printing data is transmitted to a printer main body through a reader from the RFID tag for a printer and printed by a print head of the printer main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazutaka Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kunihiro Yasui, Shiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20080278291Abstract: A radio-frequency tag communication system including (a) a radio-frequency tag, (b) a radio-frequency tag communication device configured to transmit a transmitted signal toward the radio-frequency tag, and to receive a reply signal transmitted from the radio-frequency tag in response to the transmitted signal, for thereby effecting radio communication with the radio-frequency tag, and (c) at least one reference tag disposed fixedly in an area of communication of the radio-frequency tag communication system and configured to transmit a reply signal in response to the transmitted signal, for thereby effecting radio communication with the radio-frequency tag communication device, and wherein the radio-frequency tag communication device includes a directivity control portion configured to control a directivity of communication with the radio-frequency tag, on the basis of a result of the radio communication of the radio-frequency tag communication device with the at least one reference tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2007Publication date: November 13, 2008Inventors: Katsuyuki Kuramoto, Shiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20080217409Abstract: Article can be managed relatively inexpensively without using an expensive database or communication infrastructure. An RFID tag communicating apparatus has an antenna that transmits/receives a signal by wireless communication with RFID circuit elements provided at the tag labels provided at a bookshelf on which books are placed and an operator, respectively, a radio frequency circuit, a barcode reader that optically detects information of a barcode provided at a book; and a control circuit. The control circuit has a function to write various work information of the book in an IC circuit part of the RFID circuit element provided for management of the book via the antenna and the radio frequency circuit in accordance with a detection result of the barcode information by the barcode reader.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Inventors: Akira Ito, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Osamu Nishikawa, Yasuhisa Ichikawa, Shiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20080124162Abstract: An RFID tag information communicating apparatus includes a feeding roller driving shaft that is provided within a housing constituting a shell of an apparatus main body and feeds a base tape, and an antenna for label production and an antenna for information transmission and reception, which are capable of transmitting and receiving information with an RFID circuit element for label production included in a base tape and an RFID circuit element for information transmission and reception located outside the housing. Each of the RFID circuit elements has an IC circuit part that stores information and an antenna that transmits and receives information. The apparatus is configured capable of performing both of the information reading and information writing with the RFID circuit element for label production and the RFID circuit element for information transmission and reception via the antennas.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2007Publication date: May 29, 2008Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Kunihiro Yasui, Hisayoshi Wanibe, Tomoaki Shibata, Shigeki Kato, Shiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20080079585Abstract: An apparatus for fixing RFID tags fixes a RFID circuit element on a print label to produce a RFID label. At this time, a barcode provided on the print label side is read by a barcode sensor, and information to be written corresponding to barcode information is written into the RFID circuit element through an antenna via wireless communication. The barcode on the print label is associated with the label print, whereby a RFID label with print can be produced in which the label print and the information to be stored in the RFID circuit element are associated with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuo Hirota, Koshiro Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Akira Ito, Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Shiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20080063452Abstract: A label producing apparatus has a pressure roller drive shaft for feeding a cover film supplied from a cartridge storing a cover film capable of supply, acquires the arrangement information by accessing a database storing and holding arrangement information of the article to be arranged, and has a print head and a cutter for producing an auxiliary label by forming the acquired arrangement information for the cover film fed by the pressure roller drive shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2007Publication date: March 13, 2008Inventors: Akira Ito, Tsuoshi Ohashi, Kazunari Taki, Osamu Nishikawa, Shiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20080025778Abstract: In a tag-label producing apparatus for producing an RFID label using a tag-label tape having an adhesive layer, a separation sheet, and an RFID circuit element, a tape feeding roller, a loop antenna for information transmission/reception, and a print head are provided, in which a tag print corresponding to transmission/reception contents by the loop antenna is carried out by a control circuit on a tag print area provided at a position corresponding to the RFID circuit element in a cover film, and the print head and the tape feeding roller are controlled in coordination so that a predetermined pattern print is carried out on a front print area located on the tape tip end side than the tag print area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2007Publication date: January 31, 2008Inventors: Akira Ito, Kiyoiohi Ohta, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Shiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20070221522Abstract: The present invention relates to a case that can house an image pickup apparatus or the like and can be used as a cover of the image pickup apparatus for preventing the adhesion of water droplets to the image pickup apparatus during shooting. The case according to the present invention a first cover portion 20 and a second cover portion 21, and an outer periphery of the first cover portion has the same length as an outer periphery of the second cover portion. The first cover portion and the second cover portion change between a first state where the outer peripheries of the first cover portion and the second cover portion are joined to each other so as to provide a space inside and a second state where the outer peripheries of the first cover portion and the second cover portion are separated from each other with the outer peripheries being partially fixed to each other so that the outer peripheries as a whole assume a substantially T-shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2005Publication date: September 27, 2007Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Shiro Yamada, Toshihiko Fujihara