Patents by Inventor Yoichi Shikai

Yoichi Shikai 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: 20240004593
    Abstract: An image processing device performs, multiple times a candidate displaying process of displaying one or more candidate images on a display, each of the one or more candidate images being a candidate of the print image, and an evaluation obtaining process of obtaining image evaluation information representing evaluation of each of the one or more candidate images displayed on the display, the image evaluation information being information based on a user input. In the candidate displaying process performed a second time or later is a process of determining the one or more candidate images based on the image evaluation information and displaying the same on the display. The image processing device determines the print image based on at least part of a multiple candidate images and at least part of multiple pieces of the image evaluation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yoichi SHIKAI, Masaki KONDO, Kentaro SAWANO, Kohei WATANABE, Takaaki MASUDA, Masayoshi MITA
  • Patent number: 8454123
    Abstract: An assembly includes a frame having a first wall and a second wall, a support shaft, an elastic member, and an engaging member. The engaging member has a first engaging portion, the first wall has a recessed portion, the second wall has a second engaging portion, and the support shaft has an insertion portion. The first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are engaged with each other in a state in which the insertion portion is fitted into the recessed portion and the elastic member is compressed by the engaging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mikio Ogawa, Shingo Ito, Hiroyasu Yano, Yoichi Shikai
  • Patent number: 8240842
    Abstract: An ink-jet recording apparatus, including a movable support member which includes a supporting portion that supports a recording medium fed on a platen and which is slid in a feeding direction so as to the recording medium, wherein the movable support member includes an ink receiving portion which is provided such that a clearance is formed between the ink receiving portion and the supporting portion, which is relatively low in height, and which receives ink droplets ejected to an outside of the recording medium, or wherein the supporting portion includes: a step portion having a transfer preventing face which prevents adhering ink from transferring upward; and an ink receiving face continuous to the transfer preventing face and extending in a generally horizontal direction so as to receive ink droplets ejected to an outside of the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shingo Ito, Noritsugu Ito, Yoichi Shikai, Wataru Sugiyama, Naokazu Tanahashi
  • Publication number: 20090167792
    Abstract: An assembly includes a frame having a first wall and a second wall, a support shaft, an elastic member, and an engaging member. The engaging member has a first engaging portion, the first wall has a recessed portion, the second wall has a second engaging portion, and the support shaft has an insertion portion. The first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are engaged with each other in a state in which the insertion portion is fitted into the recessed portion and the elastic member is compressed by the engaging member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mikio Ogawa, Shingo Ito, Hiroyasu Yano, Yoichi Shikai
  • Publication number: 20080186374
    Abstract: An ink-jet recording apparatus, including a movable support member which includes a supporting portion that supports a recording medium fed on a platen and which is slid in a feeding direction so as to the recording medium, wherein the movable support member includes an ink receiving portion which is provided such that a clearance is formed between the ink receiving portion and the supporting portion, which is relatively low in height, and which receives ink droplets ejected to an outside of the recording medium, or wherein the supporting portion includes: a step portion having a transfer preventing face which prevents adhering ink from transferring upward; and an ink receiving face continuous to the transfer preventing face and extending in a generally horizontal direction so as to receive ink droplets ejected to an outside of the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shingo Ito, Noritsugu Ito, Yoichi Shikai, Wataru Sugiyama, Naokazu Tanahashi
  • Publication number: 20070228649
    Abstract: A printing device includes a printing unit, a discharge roller, and a roller controller. The printing unit performs printing on a recording medium at a printing position. The discharge roller is configured to rotatably contact the recording medium on which the printing unit has performed printing, thereby discharging the recording medium. The roller controller controls the discharge roller to rotate such that the discharge roller discharges a recording medium having thickness greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value at a first speed and that the discharge roller discharges a recording medium having thickness less than the predetermined threshold value at a second speed higher than the first speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke MIZUTANI, Yoichi SHIKAI