Patents by Inventor Taro Ikawa

Taro Ikawa 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: 20240095486
    Abstract: The present invention provides an RFID tag to be applied to a container for holding liquid. To achieve a good communication distance regardless of the presence or absence of liquid, the RFID is applied to a container for holding liquid, and includes an IC chip on which identification information is recorded, and an antenna made of a loop-shaped conductor connected to the IC chip, and the antenna has a T-shaped opening in which the conductor is not formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Takuro SHIMADA, Alina KHAN, Taro IKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230264898
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a picking assistance robot and a picking assisting system capable of assisting a worker in efficiently picking a product. A picking assistance robot includes a housing for housing a product to which an RFID tag is attached, an RFID reader including an antenna disposed at a position capable of reading of the RFID tag when the product is housed in the housing, a terminal configured to receive a picking instruction, and a mobile body containing the housing and the RFID reader and configured to move to a location where the product is arranged based on location information of the product included in the picking instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Taro IKAWA, Takuro SHIMADA, Masato ONISHI
  • Publication number: 20230174303
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a replenishment assistance robot and a replenishment assisting system capable of assisting a worker in efficiently replenishing a product. A replenishment assistance robot includes a housing for housing a product, an RFID reader including an antenna capable of reading RFID tags attached to the product on a shelf and capable of reading an RFID tag of the product when the product is housed in the housing, a terminal configured to receive a replenishment instruction of a product on the shelf, and a mobile body containing the housing and the RFID reader and configured to move to a location where a stock of the product is arranged based on location information of the product included in the replenishment instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Taro IKAWA, Takuro SHIMADA, Masato ONISHI
  • Publication number: 20230106699
    Abstract: An RFID includes a first conductive layer; a second conductive layer in which an antenna is formed; an insulating layer; and an IC chip. The antenna includes a first slot; a second slot facing the first slot; a coupling slot to couple the first slot with the second slot; a first adjustment slot coupled with one end of the first slot, and being wider than the first slot; a second adjustment slot coupled with another end of the first slot, and being wider than the first slot; a third adjustment slot coupled with one end of the second slot, and being wider than the second slot; a fourth adjustment slot coupled with another end of the second slot, and being wider than the second slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Takuro SHIMADA, Alina BISTA, Taro IKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220391658
    Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes an inlay; a magnetic sheet laminated on an attachment object side of the inlay; and a spacer layer disposed between the magnetic sheet and the attachment object. The inlay includes an IC chip configured to store identification information, a loop conductor connected to the IC chip, and an antenna unit connected to the loop conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Takuro SHIMADA, Ryota KONDO, Taro IKAWA, Daiji MATSUNOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20220343266
    Abstract: A disclosed terminal device includes: an article display unit displaying article information relevant to articles in a list on a display, on the basis of identification information of the articles that is read out from RFID tags provided in storage bodies storing the articles; and a quantity setting screen display unit displaying a screen for setting an inventory quantity of the article selected from the article information displayed on the display, on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato ONISHI, Masahide TAKANASHI, Taro IKAWA, Hiroyuki FUKASE
  • Publication number: 20220289419
    Abstract: A system of manufacturing a corrugated cardboard box to which an electronic tag is attached. The system includes: a corrugated cardboard sheet forming part that forms a corrugated cardboard sheet 14p; a blank forming part that forms a box blank 24p from the corrugated cardboard sheet; a folder gluer that assembles the box blank 24p into a flat plate-shaped corrugated cardboard box; a product stacker that stacks the flat plate-shaped corrugated cardboard box assembled in the folder gluer; and a tag sticking device that sticks the electronic tag having an adhesive portion to a surface that becomes an outer surface of a box as a workpiece by using the adhesive portion between the corrugated cardboard sheet forming part and the product stacker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isamu NAKAMURA, Ryoto TAKAHASHI, Taro IKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220188530
    Abstract: A technology for writing information that varies by object into electronic tags. An electronic tag writing system that includes a writing device that writes writing information into electronic tags; and an information acquisition part that reads writing information and a processing order out of a storage part that stores the processing order in association with writing information for objects that are associated with the electronic tags. The writing information that is associated with the processing order acquired by the information acquisition part is written into the electronic tags by the writing device in accordance with the processing order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicants: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION, DAIO ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taro IKAWA, Koki BEPPU, Hirohide OUCHI, Eiji NISHYAMA, Ryoto TAKAHASHI, Shin KOYAMA, Shuntaro NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11334727
    Abstract: A technology is for writing different information depending on an object into an electronic tag. The above problem is solved by an electronic tag writing system including a writing device that writes write information into an electronic tag, and an information acquisition section that acquires write information related to an object associated with the electronic tag, in which the write information acquired by the information acquisition section is written into the electronic tag using the writing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: Daio Paper Corporation, Daio Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Ikawa, Koki Beppu, Hirohide Ouchi, Eiji Nishiyama, Ryoto Takahashi, Shin Koyama, Shuntaro Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20210081621
    Abstract: A technology is for writing different information depending on an object into an electronic tag. The above problem is solved by an electronic tag writing system including a writing device that writes write information into an electronic tag, and an information acquisition section that acquires write information related to an object associated with the electronic tag, in which the write information acquired by the information acquisition section is written into the electronic tag using the writing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicants: Daio Paper Corporation, Daio Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Ikawa, Koki Beppu, Hirohide Ouchi, Eiji Nishiyama, Ryoto Takahashi, Shin Koyama, Shuntaro Noguchi
  • Patent number: D926166
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bista Alina, Takuro Shimada, Taro Ikawa
  • Patent number: D957369
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuro Shimada, Alina Bista, Taro Ikawa