Patents by Inventor Shoko Ota

Shoko Ota 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).

  • Publication number: 20230373225
    Abstract: A print device includes a print head, a conveyer, a reader, a processor, and a memory. The memory is configured to store computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, instruct the processor to perform processes. The processes include print processing of printing an identification code in the print region, reading processing of acquiring a read image obtained as a result of the reader reading the identification code printed in the print region, judgment processing of judging whether a print quality of the identification code satisfies a predetermined standard, and result print processing of, when it is judged that the print quality does not satisfy the predetermined standard, printing, in the print region, a VOID image indicating, using a color different to a color of the identification code, and at a position at which at least a part of the VOID image overlaps the identification code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Shoko OTA
  • Publication number: 20230311490
    Abstract: A printing device comprises a nozzle configured to eject liquid by an energy generating element, and a signal generator configured to generate a time-division multiplexed signal where first data indicating a first drive waveform and second data indicating a second drive waveform are multiplexed transmittable through a single signal line. The time-division multiplexed signal included a first part and a second part of the first drive waveform, and a third part and a fourth part of the second drive waveform. The third part is arranged between the first part and the second part, and the second part is arranged between the third part and the fourth part. The printing device further comprises a separator configured to separate one of a first drive waveform signal indicating the first drive waveform and a second drive waveform signal indicating the second drive waveform from the time-division multiplexed signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi MAEDA, Shoko OTA, Shuhei HIWADA
  • Publication number: 20230311491
    Abstract: A printing device comprises a nozzle configured to eject liquid by an energy generating element, a first selector configured to select, for each particular time period, data indicating a drive waveform based on a voltage value in the particular time period, a signal generator configured to generate a time-division multiplex signal, and a separator configured to separate a drive waveform signal indicating the drive waveform from the time-division multiplex signal generated by the signal generator. The energy generating element is configured to be driven by the drive waveform separated by the separator, and the signal generator is configured to increase an assigned time period, in the particular time period, assigned per the drive waveform selected by the first selector as a number of the drive waveforms selected by the first selector decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shoko OTA
  • Patent number: 11775232
    Abstract: A printer has a print engine to print images represented by a series of print data on the plurality of printing areas one by one. When an image printed on the printing area is determined to be a low quality image, the controller stops printing and reprint an image corresponding to the low quality image and images corresponding to discard-target images which are being printed or having been printed on the printing areas located upstream in the feeding direction with respect to the printing area on which the NG image has been printed on a new printing area located upstream in the feeding direction with respect to a printing position of the print engine in an order of the print data. The particular image printer is configured to overprint the particular image on the printing area on which the NG image or the discard-target image is printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shoko Ota
  • Publication number: 20220317946
    Abstract: A printer has a print engine to print images represented by a series of print data on the plurality of printing areas one by one. When an image printed on the printing area is determined to be a low quality image, the controller stops printing and reprint an image corresponding to the low quality image and images corresponding to discard-target images which are being printed or having been printed on the printing areas located upstream in the feeding direction with respect to the printing area on which the NG image has been printed on a new printing area located upstream in the feeding direction with respect to a printing position of the print engine in an order of the print data. The particular image printer is configured to overprint the particular image on the printing area on which the NG image or the discard-target image is printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Shoko OTA
  • Patent number: 11390073
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head, a carriage which has the liquid discharge head mounted thereto and moves in a scanning direction, an encoder sensor mounted to the carriage, a slit member extending in the scanning direction and having encoder slits aligned in the scanning direction and detected by the encoder sensor, and a controller. The controller moves the carriage in the scanning direction, generates multiplied signals by multiplying a detection signal obtained based on a detection result of the encoder slits by the encoder sensor when a signal change occurs in the detection signal, and causes the liquid discharge head to discharge liquid from nozzles, based on the multiplied signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoko Ota, Shoji Sato
  • Patent number: 11358404
    Abstract: A printer includes a head having nozzles, a carriage with the head mounted thereon, a carriage motor to move the carriage along a scanning direction, an encoder including a scale having reference marks formed thereon along a particular direction, and a sensor to detect the reference marks while moving relative to the scale along with movement of the carriage along the scanning direction, and a controller configured to perform liquid discharging to control the head to discharge liquid from the nozzles toward a recording medium while performing feedback control of the carriage motor based on velocity information such that the carriage moves at a target velocity along the scanning direction, the velocity information representing a carriage velocity based on detection results of the sensor, and interrupt the liquid discharging when the carriage velocity exceeds an overshoot threshold higher than the target velocity during the liquid discharging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Satoru Arakane, Kenji Kawamoto, Shoji Sato, Shoko Ota
  • Publication number: 20210213733
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head, a carriage which has the liquid discharge head mounted thereto and moves in a scanning direction, an encoder sensor mounted to the carriage, a slit member extending in the scanning direction and having encoder slits aligned in the scanning direction and detected by the encoder sensor, and a controller. The controller moves the carriage in the scanning direction, generates multiplied signals by multiplying a detection signal obtained based on a detection result of the encoder slits by the encoder sensor when a signal change occurs in the detection signal, and causes the liquid discharge head to discharge liquid from nozzles, based on the multiplied signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoko OTA, Shoji SATO
  • Publication number: 20200070552
    Abstract: A printer includes a head having nozzles, a carriage with the head mounted thereon, a carriage motor to move the carriage along a scanning direction, an encoder including a scale having reference marks formed thereon along a particular direction, and a sensor to detect the reference marks while moving relative to the scale along with movement of the carriage along the scanning direction, and a controller configured to perform liquid discharging to control the head to discharge liquid from the nozzles toward a recording medium while performing feedback control of the carriage motor based on velocity information such that the carriage moves at a target velocity along the scanning direction, the velocity information representing a carriage velocity based on detection results of the sensor, and interrupt the liquid discharging when the carriage velocity exceeds an overshoot threshold higher than the target velocity during the liquid discharging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Satoru Arakane, Kenji Kawamoto, Shoji Sato, Shoko Ota
  • Patent number: 10470298
    Abstract: A circuit board to be mounted on a casing of a cartridge includes an insulating substrate, an integrated circuit mounted on the substrate, terminals and a dummy electrode. The terminals are electrically connected to the integrated circuit, while the dummy electrode is electrically disconnected from the integrated circuit. The terminals and dummy electrode are formed on the substrate to satisfy an inequity of L1+L2<L3, where L1 is a shortest distance among distances between edges of the terminals and an edge of the dummy electrode in a direction perpendicular to a predetermined direction in which the terminals are aligned with one another; L2 is a shortest distance between an edge of the dummy electrode and an edge of the casing in the predetermined direction; and L3 is a shortest distance among distances between edges of the terminals and the edge of the casing in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoko Ota, Nobumasa Tanaka, Ryuji Horata
  • Patent number: 10105958
    Abstract: There is provided a cartridge accommodating apparatus configured to accommodate a cartridge having an electrical interface. The cartridge accommodating apparatus includes: a body having a first surface defining an internal space into which the cartridge is installed in a first direction; a substrate; a connector having a terminal and a casing. The terminal is provided with: a supporting part fixed to the casing; a first extending part; a second extending part, and a contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobumasa Tanaka, Shoko Ota
  • Publication number: 20180288869
    Abstract: A circuit board to be mounted on a casing of a cartridge includes an insulating substrate, an integrated circuit mounted on the substrate, terminals and a dummy electrode. The terminals are electrically connected to the integrated circuit, while the dummy electrode is electrically disconnected from the integrated circuit. The terminals and dummy electrode are formed on the substrate to satisfy an inequity of L1+L2<L3, where L1 is a shortest distance among distances between edges of the terminals and an edge of the dummy electrode in a direction perpendicular to a predetermined direction in which the terminals are aligned with one another; L2 is a shortest distance between an edge of the dummy electrode and an edge of the casing in the predetermined direction; and L3 is a shortest distance among distances between edges of the terminals and the edge of the casing in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Shoko OTA, Nobumasa TANAKA, Ryuji HORATA
  • Patent number: 10029064
    Abstract: Provided is an expansion-chamber muffler as a downsized sound muffler while keeping a function of noise reduction, comprising: a tube (A) which supplies and evacuates a gas having a noise, wherein the tube (A) in the midway has a cavity with a cross-sectional area larger than that of the tube (A); and at least two or more ports for inflow or outflow of the gas on the lateral side of a tube (B) extending from the expansion-chamber muffler, on the opposite side of the noise source generating the noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: TEIJIN PHARMA LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoko Ota, Katsunori Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20180093487
    Abstract: There is provided a cartridge accommodating apparatus configured to accommodate a cartridge having an electrical interface. The cartridge accommodating apparatus includes: a body having a first surface defining an internal space into which the cartridge is installed in a first direction; a substrate; a connector having a terminal and a casing. The terminal is provided with: a supporting part fixed to the casing; a first extending part; a second extending part, and a contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobumasa TANAKA, Shoko OTA
  • Publication number: 20150059741
    Abstract: Provided is an expansion-chamber muffler as a downsized sound muffler while keeping a function of noise reduction, comprising: a tube (A) which supplies and evacuates a gas having a noise, wherein the tube (A) in the midway has a cavity with a cross-sectional area larger than that of the tube (A); and at least two or more ports for inflow or outflow of the gas on the lateral side of a tube (B) extending from the expansion-chamber muffler, on the opposite side of the noise source generating the noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Shoko Ota, Katsunori Kuwabara