Patents by Inventor Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI

Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI 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: 20240092099
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a printing part having an installment part in which a cartridge usable for printing an image is installable, the printing part being configured to print the image on a print medium and configured to move to an exchange position in a scanning direction; and a processing unit having a processing part configured to move while making contact with the print medium, which has the image printed thereon by the printing part, to thereby perform a processing of the print medium, at least a part of the processing unit being positioned at a standby position which is shifted in the scanning direction with respect to the exchange position in a case that the cartridge is installed or detached with respect to the printing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Kosuke INUZUKA, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Yasuo NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240092102
    Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a casing, an opening/closing part, a printing part, a processing unit and a shielding part. The casing has an opening. The opening/closing part is movable to a first position to a second position. The printing part has an installment part and prints an image on a print medium. The processing unit is arranged on a downstream side in a conveyance direction, of the print medium, with respect to the printing part and processes the print medium. The shielding part shields at least a part of the processing unit. When the opening/closing part is at the second position, the opening is capable of releasing a location above the installment part or a part, of the installment part. When the opening/closing part is at the second position, the shielding part shields at least the part of the processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Yasuo NISHIKAWA, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Kosuke INUZUKA
  • Publication number: 20240092100
    Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a housing including a wall with an opening; a mounting section configured to allow a cartridge to be mounted through the opening; a head with a nozzle to eject a liquid; a processing unit including a processing section configured to process a print medium; and a head carriage holding the mounting section and the head. The processing unit is located upstream of the head carriage in a conveyance direction of the print medium, the conveyance direction being a direction in which the print medium passes through a support facing the head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yasuo NISHIKAWA, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Kosuke INUZUKA, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240066896
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a container which accommodates a print medium; a conveyor which has a first conveying route and which conveys the print medium from the container in a conveying direction along the first conveying route; a printing unit which prints an image on the print medium conveyed in the first conveying route; and a dividing unit which performs a dividing processing with respect to the print medium conveyed in the first conveying route. The conveyor is provided with a second conveying route which is branched from the first conveying route at a branching part and in which the print medium having the image printed thereon by the printing unit is conveyed, the printing unit and the dividing unit are positioned above the container; and the dividing unit and the branching part are positioned on an upstream side in the conveying direction with respect to the printing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Yasuo NISHIKAWA, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Kosuke INUZUKA
  • Publication number: 20240001575
    Abstract: There is provided a sheet cutting apparatus including: a cutter including first and second blades and a shifter including an actuator; a signal outputter; and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: a first cutting processing of moving the first blade in a cutting direction by setting a power value of the actuator to be a first power value; a first determining processing of determining whether abnormality in a moving state of the first blade exists; a first stopping processing of stopping the first blade at a first stop position, in a case that the abnormality is determined to exist; a first returning processing of moving the first blade upstream in the cutting direction; and a second cutting processing of moving the first blade in the cutting direction by setting the power value of the actuator to be a second power value greater than the first power value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke ARAI, Isao KOBAYASHI, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230331009
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a divider disposed downstream of a print engine in a conveyance direction, and a controller. The controller causes a conveyor to convey a print medium until a planned dividing position of the print medium reaches a dividing position of the divider, when a first conveyance amount is larger than a second conveyance amount. The first conveyance amount corresponds to a print width for a printing process by the print engine. The second conveyance amount is calculated using a distance between a reference position and the dividing position and a distance between the reference position and the planned dividing position. After the planned dividing position of the print medium reaches the dividing position, the controller causes the divider to divide the print medium into first and second print media. The controller causes the conveyor to convey the second sheet to a printing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke ARAI, Isao KOBAYASHI, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230202215
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveying unit configured to convey a printing medium in a conveying direction; a printing unit configured to print an image on the printing medium based on print data included in a print job; a processing unit including a processing member and configured to process the printing medium by moving the processing member in a state that the processing member contacts the printing medium; and a controller configured to execute no processing process for the printing medium by the processing unit, in a case that the controller determines that a first length in the conveying direction of the printing medium conveyed by the conveying unit is shorter than a predetermined second length, during a printing process in which the image is printed on the printing medium based on the print data by the printing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Yusuke ARAI
  • Publication number: 20230202213
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: an accommodating unit accommodating a print medium; a first conveying unit picking up the print medium from the accommodating unit and conveying the print medium along a first conveying direction; a printing unit printing, on the print medium, print data included in a print job; a first detecting unit detecting front and rear ends in the first conveying direction of the print medium conveyed by the first conveying unit; and a controller. The controller executes: a length calculating process of calculating a print medium length as a length in the first conveying direction of the print medium; a setting process of setting a print starting position as a position at which printing is to be started in the printing unit; and a first printing process based on the print starting position set in the setting process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Isao KOBAYASHI, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230202212
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a holder which holds printing media, a conveying unit which conveys each of the printing media picked up from the holder, along a conveyance direction, a printing unit which prints an image on the printing media, a first detecting unit which detects a front end and a rear end in the conveyance direction of each of the printing media conveyed by the conveying unit, a processing unit which processes each of the printing media, by moving a processing member with the processing member contacting each of the printing media, and a controller configured to: calculate lengths of the printing media by using detected results by the first detecting unit; and based on the lengths of the printing media, set a processing position in the conveyance direction at which the processing unit processes each of the printing media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Isao KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11655115
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus including: a recording unit; an accommodation part configured to accommodate therein a plurality of recording media including first and second recording medium and having a support surface on which the plurality of the recording media is supported; a conveying path; a feeder roller contacting the recording medium in the accommodation part from above; a reversing path; a recording medium detection unit located above the support surface and between the feeder roller and a downstream end of the support surface in the conveying direction; and a controller configured to control the feeder roller so as to feed the second recording medium in a manner that a front end portion of the second recording medium overlaps a rear end portion of the first recording medium, when the recording medium detection unit detects the rear end portion of the first recording medium fed by the feeder roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Ichikawa, Tsuyoshi Ito, Masatake Sato, Keisuke Wakakusa, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20230106292
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a recording unit, first and second rollers, a guide member, and a cutting unit. The recording unit performs image recording on a sheet conveyed in a conveying direction on a first conveyance path. The first roller is located further downstream than the recording unit in the first conveyance path. The second roller is located further downstream than the first roller in the first conveyance path. The guide member has a guide surface that forms a second conveyance path extending from a connection position of the first conveyance path between the first roller and the second roller. The cutting unit is located between the connection position and the second roller, cuts a sheet, and has a cutter. The guide member changes in posture between a first posture for forming the second conveyance path and a second posture for opening the second conveyance path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuo NISHIKAWA, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Takuya TSUJI, Kosuke INUZUKA, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230094327
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a housing, an operation panel, a sheet conveyor, a recording device, and a cutting device. The operation panel is disposed at a first-side face of the housing in a first direction. The first direction is orthogonal to a vertical direction and extends from a first side to a second side of the image recording apparatus. In the first direction, the cutting device is closer to the first side of the image recording apparatus than the recording device is and closer to the second side of the image recording apparatus than the operation panel is. The cutting device includes a cutter, and a cutter carriage to move with the cutter mounted thereon along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and the vertical direction. The operation panel overlaps a movable area of the cutter carriage when viewed in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuo NISHIKAWA, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Takuya TSUJI, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Kosuke INUZUKA
  • Patent number: 11458745
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus is configured to perform a conveying process of a recording medium using a conveying roller and a discharging roller, a recoding process of recording an image on the printing sheet when the conveying process is not performed, and an adjusting process. In the adjusting process, among a plurality of conveying processes performed within a period from the start of the conveying process for an n-th printing sheet until the timing which is after the start of the conveying process for an (n+1)-th printing sheet, the conveying amount of the printing sheet subject to at least one conveying process is adjusted such that a timing when the trailing end of the n-th printing sheet passes through the discharging roller is within one of the acceleration period and the deceleration period of the conveying process for the printing sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Wakakusa, Tsuyoshi Ito, Shohei Ichikawa, Masatake Sato, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11407242
    Abstract: When an image recording apparatus records an specific image over a boundary between a first dot formation range where dots are to be formed in a preceding recording operation of two consecutive recording operations and a second dot formation range where dots are to be formed in a subsequent recording operation of the two consecutive recording operations, the apparatus sets, as a correction portion, an end portion in a scanning direction of a specific region including at least one of a first boundary region adjacent to the second dot formation range and a second boundary region adjacent to the first dot formation range in the specific image, and forms the dot placed at the correction portion by discharging liquid of a discharge amount smaller than the discharge amount set for a dot element corresponding to the dot from nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Mimoto, Kengo Noda, Shohei Ichikawa, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 11383537
    Abstract: A controller determines whether, in a case where feeding of a subsequent sheet is performed in a first feed condition, a subsequent sheet contacts conveyance rollers during recording on a preceding sheet, the first feed condition being that feeding of the subsequent sheet is started at a first timing before recording on the preceding sheet ends and that the subsequent sheet is fed at a first velocity, and in response to determining that the subsequent sheet contacts the conveyance rollers during recording on the preceding sheet, controls the feed roller to perform feeding of the subsequent sheet in a second feed condition or a third feed condition, the second feed condition being that the feeding of the subsequent sheet is started at a second timing later than the first timing, the third feed condition being that the subsequent sheet is fed at a second velocity lower than the first velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shohei Ichikawa, Tsuyoshi Ito, Keisuke Wakakusa, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Masatake Sato
  • Patent number: 11305551
    Abstract: A control device for a printing execution unit including a printing head, a head drive unit, and a movement unit, wherein, in a case where a non-character object region is located at an upstream end of a partial region which is configured to be printed by a first partial printing: dots are formed in a first overlap region by both the first partial printing and a second partial printing, the first overlap region including the upstream end of the partial region, wherein, in a case where a character region is located at the upstream end of the partial region, dots are formed in a second overlap region by both the first partial printing and the second partial printing, the second overlap region including the upstream end of the partial region, and wherein a length of the second overlap region is shorter than a length of the first overlap region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Maehira, Tsuyoshi Ito, Masao Mimoto, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Shohei Ichikawa, Kengo Noda
  • Patent number: 11279153
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a roller pair for transporting a sheet, a recording head, and a controller. The controller determines a linefeed amount by which the sheet is transported by the roller pair between corresponding two adjacent passes of the recording head. The controller executes image recording on the sheet by alternately repeating a linefeed operation for rotating the roller pair by the determined linefeed amount to transport the sheet in a transport direction, and a pass recording operation in which the controller causes the roller pair to stop and the recording head to perform a pass and to record part of an image on the sheet. Upon determining that a linefeed operation would cause the sheet to travel past the roller pair while the roller pair is decelerating, replace for the linefeed operation a determined linefeed amount by an adjusted linefeed amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Wakakusa, Shohei Ichikawa, Masatake Sato, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Ito, Hiroaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210300701
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus including: a recording unit; an accommodation part configured to accommodate therein a plurality of recording media including first and second recording medium and having a support surface on which the plurality of the recording media is supported; a conveying path; a feeder roller contacting the recording medium in the accommodation part from above; a reversing path; a recording medium detection unit located above the support surface and between the feeder roller and a downstream end of the support surface in the conveying direction; and a controller configured to control the feeder roller so as to feed the second recording medium in a manner that a front end portion of the second recording medium overlaps a rear end portion of the first recording medium, when the recording medium detection unit detects the rear end portion of the first recording medium fed by the feeder roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoehei ICHIKAWA, Tsuyoshi ITO, Masatake SATO, Keisuke WAKAKUSA, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210114380
    Abstract: A control device for a printing execution unit including a printing head, a head drive unit, and a movement unit, wherein, in a case where a non-character object region is located at an upstream end of a partial region which is configured to be printed by a first partial printing: dots are formed in a first overlap region by both the first partial printing and a second partial printing, the first overlap region including the upstream end of the partial region, wherein, in a case where a character region is located at the upstream end of the partial region, dots are formed in a second overlap region by both the first partial printing and the second partial printing, the second overlap region including the upstream end of the partial region, and wherein a length of the second overlap region is shorter than a length of the first overlap region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotoshi MAEHIRA, Tsuyoshi ITO, Masao MIMOTO, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Shohei ICHIKAWA, Kengo NODA
  • Publication number: 20210107304
    Abstract: When an image recording apparatus records an specific image over a boundary between a first dot formation range where dots are to be formed in a preceding recording operation of two consecutive recording operations and a second dot formation range where dots are to be formed in a subsequent recording operation of the two consecutive recording operations, the apparatus sets, as a correction portion, an end portion in a scanning direction of a specific region including at least one of a first boundary region adjacent to the second dot formation range and a second boundary region adjacent to the first dot formation range in the specific image, and forms the dot placed at the correction portion by discharging liquid of a discharge amount smaller than the discharge amount set for a dot element corresponding to the dot from nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao MIMOTO, Kengo NODA, Shohei ICHIKAWA, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Tsuyoshi ITO