Patents by Inventor Tetsuhiro KUNIFUJI
Tetsuhiro KUNIFUJI 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: 11007666Abstract: A cutting machine can be configured to set a cutting line with respect to a cutting material that is placed on a supporting platform, cut the cutting material along one cutting line that intersect with and changes direction at a second cutting line at a corner portion, leaving a part of the cutting material connected along a predetermined distance from a point of intersection of the corner portion, and cutting along the other cutting line so as to not leave a connected part, up to a predetermined distance from the point of intersection of the corner portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Roland DG CorporationInventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Masakazu Igarashi, Takeshi Tozuka, Tetsuhiro Kunifuji
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Publication number: 20200276726Abstract: A cutting machine can be configured to set a cutting line with respect to a cutting material that is placed on a supporting platform, cut the cutting material along one cutting line that intersect with and changes direction at a second cutting line at a corner portion, leaving a part of the cutting material connected along a predetermined distance from a point of intersection of the corner portion, and cutting along the other cutting line so as to not leave a connected part, up to a predetermined distance from the point of intersection of the corner portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Masakazu Igarashi, Takeshi Tozuka, Tetsuhiro Kunifuji
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Patent number: 10639601Abstract: A printer includes a first cartridge holder including a first insertion port in which a first ink cartridge housing a first ink pack charged with a sedimentation ink is inserted and which is open horizontally, the first cartridge holder housing the inserted first ink cartridge, a first shaft pivotably supporting the first cartridge holder, a first driving mechanism that causes the first cartridge holder to pivot about the first shaft, and a controller that controls the first driving mechanism. The controller includes a first controller that controls the first driving mechanism to cause the first cartridge holder to pivot and agitate the sedimentation ink contained in the first ink pack.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuhiro Kunifuji, Hironobu Suzuki, Akihiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 10556435Abstract: A printer capable includes a pivot mechanism that causes a first ink cartridge housing a first ink pack containing sedimentation ink to pivot. A controller includes a memory storing first data defining a relationship between a determined ink agitation degree and a pivot angle of the ink cartridge from an initial position, an angle determiner that determines a pivot angle based on the determined ink agitation degree and the first data, and a first controller that controls the pivot mechanism to cause the first ink cartridge to pivot by the determined pivot angle and move to a pivot position, and then cause the first ink cartridge to pivot in the opposite direction and return to the initial position. A first pivot angle when the ink agitation degree is less than a first value is smaller than a second pivot angle when the ink agitation degree is the first value or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuhiro Kunifuji, Hironobu Suzuki, Akihiro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20190329560Abstract: A printer capable includes a pivot mechanism that causes a first ink cartridge housing a first ink pack containing sedimentation ink to pivot. A controller includes; a memory storing first data defining a relationship between a determined ink agitation degree and a pivot angle of the ink cartridge from an initial position, an angle determiner that determines a pivot angle based on the determined ink agitation degree and the first data, and a first controller that controls the pivot mechanism to thereby cause the first ink cartridge to pivot by the determined pivot angle and move to a pivot position, and then cause the first ink cartridge to pivot in the opposite direction and return to the initial position. A first pivot angle when the ink agitation degree is less than a first value is smaller than a second pivot angle when the ink agitation degree is the first value or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Tetsuhiro KUNIFUJI, Hironobu SUZUKI, Akihiro SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10456981Abstract: A three-dimensional printing data generation device includes a storage storing data of a three-dimensional target object model, a support model generation processor generating, based on the data stored in the storage, data of a three-dimensional support model including a substrate portion located below the target object model and a handle portion extending upward from the substrate portion, the substrate portion including a through-hole larger than a particle diameter of a powder material, and an output processor outputting the data of the target object model and the data of the support model as three-dimensional printing data.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATIONInventors: Fumiyoshi Iwase, Akihiro Yamamoto, Tetsuhiro Kunifuji
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Publication number: 20190321794Abstract: A printer includes a first cartridge holder including a first insertion port in which a first ink cartridge housing a first ink pack charged with a sedimentation ink is inserted and which is open horizontally, the first cartridge holder housing the inserted first ink cartridge, a first shaft pivotably supporting the first cartridge holder, a first driving mechanism that causes the first cartridge holder to pivot about the first shaft, and a controller that controls the first driving mechanism. The controller includes a first controller that controls the first driving mechanism to cause the first cartridge holder to pivot and agitate the sedimentation ink contained in the first ink pack.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Tetsuhiro KUNIFUJI, Hironobu SUZUKI, Akihiro SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10300718Abstract: A printer includes a media feeder to feeding media in a feed direction, a print head to eject droplets of ink onto the media, heaters to heat the media, and a controller to perform a printing operation corresponding to received print data by causing the media feeder to feed the media heated by the heaters and causing the print head to eject the droplets of ink onto the media based on the print data, the controller being configured or programmed to move the media and/or the heaters during the print idle time before performing the printing operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Tetsuhiro Kunifuji, Toshikazu Sugita, Yudai Chida
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Patent number: 10232554Abstract: An arrangement determining apparatus includes a center-of-gravity calculating processor that calculates a center of gravity of a three-dimensional model, a placement surface determining processor that determines a placement surface to attach and arranging supports thereon, a reference point setting processor that draws a perpendicular line from the center of gravity toward the placement surface and sets a reference point, a region dividing processor that divides the placement surface into a first region and a second region excluding the first region, and an arranging processor that attaches and arranges the supports on the placement surface so that the contact area per unit area between the first region and the supports in the first region is larger than the contact area per unit area between the second region and the supports in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATIONInventors: Kouichi Kobayashi, Tetsuhiro Kunifuji
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Patent number: 10000072Abstract: A printer includes a table, a print head, a detector, and a controller. The controller includes a storage to store initial print data including information of reference position marks, a reader to acquire, using the detector, positional information of position detection marks, a print data generator to modify the initial print data such that the reference position marks each coincide with an associated one of the position detection marks acquired by the reader, thus generating actual print data; and a printing controller to perform printing in accordance with the actual print data.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko Akao, Kenji Matsushime, Takeomi Ohta, Akira Fujita, Tetsuhiro Kunifuji
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Publication number: 20180154660Abstract: A printer includes a media feeder to feeding media in a feed direction, a print head to eject droplets of ink onto the media, heaters to heat the media, and a controller to perform a printing operation corresponding to received print data by causing the media feeder to feed the media heated by the heaters and causing the print head to eject the droplets of ink onto the media based on the print data, the controller being configured or programmed to move the media and/or the heaters during the print idle time before performing the printing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Tetsuhiro Kunifuji, Toshikazu Sugita, Yudai Chida
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Publication number: 20170282594Abstract: A printer includes a table, a print head, a detector, and a controller. The controller includes a storage to store initial print data including information of reference position marks, a reader to acquire, using the detector, positional information of position detection marks, a print data generator to modify the initial print data such that the reference position marks each coincide with an associated one of the position detection marks acquired by the reader, thus generating actual print data; and a printing controller to perform printing in accordance with the actual print data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Yoshihiko AKAO, Kenji MATSUSHIME, Takeomi OHTA, Akira FUJITA, Tetsuhiro KUNIFUJI
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Publication number: 20170113413Abstract: A three-dimensional printing data generation device includes a storage storing data of a three-dimensional target object model, a support model generation processor generating, based on the data stored in the storage, data of a three-dimensional support model including a substrate portion located below the target object model and a handle portion extending upward from the substrate portion, the substrate portion including a through-hole larger than a particle diameter of a powder material, and an output processor outputting the data of the target object model and the data of the support model as three-dimensional printing data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Fumiyoshi IWASE, Akihiro YAMAMOTO, Tetsuhiro KUNIFUJI
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Publication number: 20160368223Abstract: An arrangement determining apparatus includes a center-of-gravity calculating processor that calculates a center of gravity of a three-dimensional model, a placement surface determining processor that determines a placement surface to attach and arranging supports thereon, a reference point setting processor that draws a perpendicular line from the center of gravity toward the placement surface and sets a reference point, a region dividing processor that divides the placement surface into a first region and a second region excluding the first region, and an arranging processor that attaches and arranges the supports on the placement surface so that the contact area per unit area between the first region and the supports in the first region is larger than the contact area per unit area between the second region and the supports in the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: Kouichi KOBAYASHI, Tetsuhiro KUNIFUJI