Patents by Inventor Yukihiko Sato

Yukihiko Sato 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: 20180286292
    Abstract: A medium includes a base layer and a separation layer. Regions are defined along a first direction. The regions include: a first region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer includes opposite end portions in a second direction, and at least the opposite end portions are stickable; a second region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is non-stickable; and a third region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is stickable. A longest length of the first region in the second direction is less than a length of the second region or the third region in the second direction at a particular position in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Kentaro MURAYAMA, Kazuyuki KATAGIRI, Daisuke BABA, Yukihiko SATO, Shota IIJIMA, Haruki MATSUMOTO, Harumitsu INOUE
  • Publication number: 20180282583
    Abstract: A medium includes a base layer and a separation layer. Regions defined along a first direction include: a first region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is stickable; a second region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is non-stickable; a third region in which a printing background layer is provided and in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is non-stickable; and a fourth region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is at least partly stickable. A length of the second region is less than that of the fourth region and greater than or equal to that of the first region in the first direction in at least one position in a second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Harumitsu INOUE, Yukiko TAKAMI, Tsutomu KATO, Takaaki BANNO, Haruki MATSUMOTO, Kentaro MURAYAMA, Yukihiko SATO
  • Publication number: 20180281495
    Abstract: A medium includes a base layer and a separation layer. Regions defined along a first direction include: a first region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is stickable; a second region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is non-stickable; and a third region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is at least partly stickable. A first mark is provided on a portion of the medium in the first region. A second mark is provided on a portion of the medium in the third region at a position aligned with the first mark in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Harumitsu INOUE, Yukiko TAKAMI, Takaaki BANNO, Haruki MATSUMOTO, Yukihiko SATO
  • Publication number: 20180281496
    Abstract: A medium includes a base layer and a separation layer stacked on each other. Regions are defined along a first direction. The regions include: a first region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is stickable; a second region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is non-stickable; and a third region in which a portion of the medium which is in contact with the separation layer is at least partly stickable. Four first vertexes of a first imaginary trapezoid shape which are located on an outer shape of the first region and four second vertexes of a second imaginary trapezoid shape which are located on an outer shape of the third region are symmetric with respect to an axis parallel with a second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Harumitsu INOUE, Yukiko TAKAMI, Tsutomu KATO, Takaaki BANNO, Haruki MATSUMOTO, Kentaro MURAYAMA, Yukihiko SATO
  • Publication number: 20180281480
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor configured to convey a medium including a transparent base layer and a separation layer stacked on each other, the medium further including a printing background layer; a printer configured to print a character on the medium conveyed by the conveyor, wherein the medium on which the character is printed is a printed medium; and a controller configured to control the conveyor and the printer. The controller is configured to: obtain outside-diameter relating information relating to an outside diameter of a wrapped member; and based on the obtained outside-diameter relating information, set a character printable region in which the printer is allowed to print the character on the printing background layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Minako ISHIDA, Junya KAWAI, Naoto ITO, Shuhei NOHARA, Harumitsu INOUE, Yukihiko SATO, Haruki MATSUMOTO, Kentaro MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180281471
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor that conveys a medium including a base layer and a separation layer and including a first region, a second region, and a third region; a printer; and a controller. The controller is configured to control the printer to print a first mark on a portion of the medium in one of the first region and a first-region-side portion of the second region and to print a second mark on a portion of the medium in one of the third region and a third-region-side portion of the second region such that the first mark and the second mark are arranged in a line in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Naoto ITO, Junya KAWAI, Shuhei NOHARA, Harumitsu INOUE, Yukihiko SATO, Haruki MATSUMOTO, Kentaro MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180281476
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor that conveys a medium including a base layer and a separation layer and including a first through third regions; a printer; and a controller. The controller is configured to: obtain wrapping-manner information indicating (a) a first wrapping manner in which the second region and the third region are wrapped around a wrapped member after the first region and the third region are stuck to each other such that the printed medium is located around the wrapped member or (b) a second wrapping manner in which the second region and the third region are wrapped around the wrapped member after the first region is stuck to the wrapped member; and change control of the conveyor and the printer, depending upon whether the obtained wrapping-manner information indicates the first or second wrapping manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Naoto ITO, Junya KAWAI, Shuhei NOHARA, Harumitsu INOUE, Yukihiko SATO, Haruki MATSUMOTO, Kentaro MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180250973
    Abstract: A second-side end portion of one second portion and a first-side end portion of another second portion are respectively connected to a first-side end portion and a second-side end portion of one first portion. The largest dimension of the one and another second portions is greater than a first length of the one first portion in a tape widthwise direction. The tape includes: a first mark or opening between the second-side end portion of the one first portion and the first-side end portion of the one second portion; and a second mark or opening between the second-side end portion of the one first portion and the first-side end portion of the one second portion. A first-side end portion of the first mark or opening is located on a second side of a second-side end portion of the second mark or opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Harumitsu Inoue, Yukihiko Sato, Junya Kawai, Takaaki Banno, Tsutomu Kato, Yukiko Takami, Haruki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20180250959
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores a program for: obtaining first to fourth positional information and first and second image information from a storage, displaying a first image indicated by the obtained first image information and a second image indicated by the obtained second image information; receiving selection of one of the first image and the second image displayed on a display, based on an operation of an operation device; and when selection of the first image is received, transmitting information including the first positional information and the second positional information, as cutting-position information indicating cutting positions in a tape, and when selection of the second image is received, transmitting information including the third positional information and the fourth positional information as the cutting-position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yukihiko Sato, Takaaki Banno, Harumitsu Inoue, Haruki Matsumoto, Yukiko Takami, Tsutomu Kato, Kentaro Murayama
  • Publication number: 20180251252
    Abstract: A controller of a label creating apparatus obtains label information corresponding to a shape of a label to be created. When the controller does not obtain a first detection signal but obtains a second detection signal, the controller determines, based on the second detection signal and the label information, whether the label having a first shape related to the obtained label information is creatable from a pair of one first portion and one second portion. When the controller obtains the first detection signal, the controller controls a conveyor and a cutter to cut the pair of the one first portion and the one second portion, at a cutting position related to the label information, based on the first detection signal regardless of the second detection signal obtained after obtainment of the first detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Junya Kawai, Yukihiko Sato, Kentaro Murayama, Shuhei Nohara, Tsutomu Kato, Takaaki Banno, Yukiko Takami, Haruki Matsumoto, Harumitsu Inoue
  • Publication number: 20180250974
    Abstract: A tape includes a sheet and an elongated label that includes first portions and second portions. A second-side end portion of a first-side second portion is connected to a first-side end portion of one first portion, and a first-side end portion of a second-side second portion is connected to a second-side end portion of the one first portion. The one first portion has a first length in a tape widthwise direction. Each of the first-side second portion and the second-side second portion has a second length in the widthwise direction of the tape and a third length in a tape longitudinal direction. The second length is greater than the first length. The one first portion has a fourth length in the tape longitudinal direction which is greater than or equal to a specific length and less than a sum of the specific length and the third length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yukihiko Sato, Takaaki Banno, Harumitsu Inoue, Haruki Matsumoto, Yukiko Takami, Tsutomu Kato, Kentaro Murayama
  • Publication number: 20180250972
    Abstract: A second-side end portion of one second portion and a first-side end portion of another second portion are respectively connected to a first-side end portion and a second-side end portion of one first portion. The largest dimension of the one and another second portions is greater than a first length of the one first portion in a tape widthwise direction. A first connecting portion connects between the first-side end portion of the one first portion and a second-side end portion of the another second portion. The first connecting portion has a first connecting length in the tape widthwise direction at a first position. A second connecting length of the first connecting portion in the tape widthwise direction at a position nearer to a center of the one second portion than the first position is greater than the first connecting length and less than the second length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yukihiko Sato, Harumitsu Inoue, Yukiko Takami, Takaaki Banno, Haruki Matsumoto, Tsutomu Kato, Kentaro Murayama
  • Patent number: 9774241
    Abstract: In a multilevel power conversion circuit, output harmonic waves and electromagnetic noise can be reduced as the number of output levels is increased. This, however, increases the number of elements constituting the circuit, causing the degree of difficulty in mounting to increase, cost to increase, and reliability to decrease. It is necessary to provide a circuit configuration, a design method, and a mounting method for obtaining, at low cost, a multilevel power conversion circuit using a large number of elements. A power conversion circuit is used as a unit module and is equipped with input and output terminals each mounted on the main circuit in an open state, wherein the input and output terminals have a mechanism by which the input and output terminals can be flexibly interconnected with the input and output terminals of another same module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yukihiko Sato, Hidemine Obara, Akira Nakajima, Hiromichi Oohashi, Shinichi Nishizawa
  • Patent number: D800123
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Tashima, Yukihiko Sato
  • Patent number: D800214
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiko Sato, Jiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: D800215
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiko Sato, Jiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: D800216
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiko Sato, Yusaku Seki, Hiromitsu Tanaka
  • Patent number: D806790
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yukihiko Sato
  • Patent number: D818532
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiko Sato, Yusaku Seki, Hiromitsu Tanaka
  • Patent number: D822098
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shino Maeda, Yukihiko Sato, Takaaki Oguchi