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: 20230373225Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventor: Shoko OTA
-
Publication number: 20230311490Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi MAEDA, Shoko OTA, Shuhei HIWADA
-
Publication number: 20230311491Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shoko OTA
-
Patent number: 11775232Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shoko Ota
-
Publication number: 20220317946Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventor: Shoko OTA
-
Patent number: 11390073Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoko Ota, Shoji Sato
-
Patent number: 11358404Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Satoru Arakane, Kenji Kawamoto, Shoji Sato, Shoko Ota
-
Publication number: 20210213733Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoko OTA, Shoji SATO
-
Publication number: 20200070552Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Satoru Arakane, Kenji Kawamoto, Shoji Sato, Shoko Ota
-
Patent number: 10470298Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoko Ota, Nobumasa Tanaka, Ryuji Horata
-
Patent number: 10105958Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobumasa Tanaka, Shoko Ota
-
Publication number: 20180288869Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Shoko OTA, Nobumasa TANAKA, Ryuji HORATA
-
Patent number: 10029064Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: TEIJIN PHARMA LIMITEDInventors: Shoko Ota, Katsunori Kuwabara
-
Publication number: 20180093487Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobumasa TANAKA, Shoko OTA
-
Publication number: 20150059741Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Shoko Ota, Katsunori Kuwabara