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).
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Patent number: 10940703Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a conveyance roller; a head; a discharge roller; a tray; a memory; and a controller that receives printing data, drives the conveyance roller and the discharge roller to convey a sheet at a first velocity in a conveyance direction, and controls the head to jet liquid on the sheet. The controller obtains a first amount and a second amount based on the printing data. After the liquid is jetted from the head on the first area, the conveyance roller and the discharge roller are driven to convey the sheet at a second velocity slower than the first velocity and to discharge the sheet on the tray, or conveyance of the sheet is stopped for a predefined time and then the sheet is conveyed at the first velocity to be discharged on the tray.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shohei Ichikawa, Masao Mimoto, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Ito
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Patent number: 10913625Abstract: A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a conveying roller configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; driven rollers arranged with intervals in a width direction intersecting with the conveying direction, the driven rollers being opposed to the conveying roller in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction and the width direction; and coil springs provided corresponding to the driven rollers respectively and serving as rotating shafts for rotatably supporting the driven rollers, wherein the coil springs include a right-handed twining coil spring and a left-handed twining coil spring.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masao Mimoto, Shohei Ichikawa, Kengo Noda, Tsuyoshi Ito, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi
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Patent number: 10899139Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotoshi Maehira, Tsuyoshi Ito, Masao Mimoto, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Shohei Ichikawa, Kengo Noda
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Patent number: 10870293Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Mimoto, Kengo Noda, Shohei Ichikawa, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Ito
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Patent number: 10821722Abstract: A control device for a printing execution unit, wherein, in a case where a character region and a non-character region are included in an overlap region which includes an upstream end of a partial region configured to be printed by a first partial printing, the printing execution unit is caused to print a print image by: forming a plurality of character dots, which are dots in the character region included in the overlap region, by one of the first partial printing and a second partial printing, and not forming the plurality of character dots by another of the first partial printing and the second partial printing; and forming some of a plurality of non-character dots, which are dots in the non-character region included in the overlap region, by the first partial printing, and forming other dots of the plurality of non-character dots by the second partial printing.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Hirotoshi Maehira, Masao Mimoto, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Shohei Ichikawa, Kengo Noda
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Publication number: 20200276841Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Shohei Ichikawa, Tsuyoshi Ito, Keisuke Wakakusa, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Masatake Sato
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Publication number: 20200277154Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Wakakusa, Shohei Ichikawa, Masatake Sato, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Ito, Hiroaki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20200101772Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Keisuke Wakakusa, Tsuyoshi Ito, Shohei Ichikawa, Masatake Sato, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20190351687Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a conveyance roller; a head; a discharge roller; a tray; a memory; and a controller that receives printing data, drives the conveyance roller and the discharge roller to convey a sheet at a first velocity in a conveyance direction, and controls the head to jet liquid on the sheet. The controller obtains a first amount and a second amount based on the printing data. After the liquid is jetted from the head on the first area, the conveyance roller and the discharge roller are driven to convey the sheet at a second velocity slower than the first velocity and to discharge the sheet on the tray, or conveyance of the sheet is stopped for a predefined time and then the sheet is conveyed at the first velocity to be discharged on the tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Shohei ICHIKAWA, Masao MIMOTO, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Tsuyoshi ITO
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Publication number: 20190299608Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotoshi MAEHIRA, Tsuyoshi ITO, Masao MIMOTO, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Shohei ICHIKAWA, Kengo NODA
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Publication number: 20190299594Abstract: A control device for a printing execution unit, wherein, in a case where a character region and a non-character region are included in an overlap region which includes an upstream end of a partial region configured to be printed by a first partial printing, the printing execution unit is caused to print a print image by: forming a plurality of character dots, which are dots in the character region included in the overlap region, by one of the first partial printing and a second partial printing, and not forming the plurality of character dots by another of the first partial printing and the second partial printing; and forming some of a plurality of non-character dots, which are dots in the non-character region included in the overlap region, by the first partial printing, and forming other dots of the plurality of non-character dots by the second partial printing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi ITO, Hirotoshi MAEHIRA, Masao MIMOTO, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Shohei ICHIKAWA, Kengo NODA
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Publication number: 20190299673Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao MIMOTO, Kengo NODA, Shohei ICHIKAWA, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Tsuyoshi ITO
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Publication number: 20190233231Abstract: A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a conveying roller configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; driven rollers arranged with intervals in a width direction intersecting with the conveying direction, the driven rollers being opposed to the conveying roller in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction and the width direction; and coil springs provided corresponding to the driven rollers respectively and serving as rotating shafts for rotatably supporting the driven rollers, wherein the coil springs include a right-handed twining coil spring and a left-handed twining coil spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Masao Mimoto, Shohei Ichikawa, Kengo Noda, Tsuyoshi Ito, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi