Brother Kogyo Kabushikikaisha

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1.

LAYER FORMATION METHOD, BASE MATERIAL REGENERATION METHOD, AND PRINTED MATTER PRODUCTION METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023030684
Publication Number 2024/057879
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-25
Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kawakami Takefumi

Abstract

Provided is a layer formation method which facilitates reuse of a base material and is also capable of reducing a risk to the human and the environment. This layer formation method includes an application step of applying or discharging an aqueous composition containing an ultraviolet curing agent and the water on the base material and a drying step of drying the aqueous composition applied or discharged on the base material, and forms on the base material a peelable coating film layer based on the aqueous composition.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
  • B41J 2/01 - Ink jet

2.

NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE, MACHINE TOOL, NUMERICAL CONTROL METHOD, AND NUMERICAL CONTROL PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023031130
Publication Number 2024/057910
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-29
Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ishikawa Tomoya
  • Ogi Shunsuke

Abstract

Provided are a numerical control device, a machine tool, a numerical control method, and a numerical control program which contribute in achieving an advantage that an increase in moving time of a moving part is suppressed while suppressing the amount of computation for calculating a speed curve prior to acceleration/deceleration processing. A CPU of this numerical control device reads the current block Nnow and a prefetch block and determines a target block Nd and a target speed Vd at a command point for the target block Nd. The CPU calculates a first rising speed V1 at the position where tip acceleration becomes zero from the current tip acceleration. The CPU calculates a reverse interpolation point Prev. Every time the reverse interpolation point Prev is calculated, the CPU calculates a second rising speed V2 at the position where the tip acceleration becomes zero from the tip acceleration at the reverse interpolation point Prev.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G05B 19/416 - Numerical control (NC), i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to execute positioning, movement or co-ordinated operations by means of programme data in numerical form characterised by control of velocity, acceleration or deceleration
  • G05B 19/4103 - Digital interpolation

3.

AQUEOUS COMPOSITION AND PRINTED MATTER

      
Application Number JP2023030685
Publication Number 2024/057880
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-25
Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kawakami Takefumi

Abstract

Provided are an aqueous composition and printed matter that achieve both adhesion to a base material and film removability during recycling and pose little risk to humans or the environment. The aqueous composition contains at least a photopolymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound, a resin component, and water. The photopolymerization initiator has a solubility in the water of 1 wt% or more and has an absorption wavelength peak within the range from 350 nm to 400 nm. The polymerizable compound has a solubility in the water of 1 wt% or more and has a plurality of polymerization-reactive functional groups. The aqueous composition is in the form of an emulsion in which the resin component is dispersed in the water.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C08F 2/48 - Polymerisation initiated by wave energy or particle radiation by ultraviolet or visible light
  • B41M 7/00 - After-treatment of printed works, e.g. heating, irradiating
  • C08F 2/44 - Polymerisation in the presence of compounding ingredients, e.g. plasticisers, dyestuffs, fillers
  • C08K 5/5313 - Phosphinic compounds, e.g. R2=P(:O)OR'
  • C08L 101/00 - Compositions of unspecified macromolecular compounds
  • C09D 4/00 - Coating compositions, e.g. paints, varnishes or lacquers, based on organic non-macromolecular compounds having at least one polymerisable carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bond
  • C09D 5/20 - Coating compositions, e.g. paints, varnishes or lacquers, characterised by their physical nature or the effects produced; Filling pastes for coatings strippable as coherent films, e.g. temporary coatings strippable as coherent films
  • C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing

4.

IMAGE FORMING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023028882
Publication Number 2024/048218
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-08
Publication Date 2024-03-07
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Koyama Tatsuya
  • Shinoya Shota
  • Mizuno Tomoyuki

Abstract

The present invention provides an image forming device that can limit the reduction of cutting accuracy and durability of a cutter. An image forming device (1) includes: an image forming unit (40) for forming a toner image on a sheet (S); a fixing unit (80) for heating and fixing the toner image formed on the sheet (S); a cutter (93) that is disposed above the fixing unit (80) and cuts the sheet (S) having the toner image fixed thereon; and a fan (101) that is disposed between the fixing unit (80) and cutter (93) in the vertical direction and limits the heat transfer from the fixing unit (80) to the cutter (93).

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
  • B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
  • B41J 29/00 - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
  • B41J 29/377 - Cooling or ventilating arrangements
  • G03G 15/20 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for fixing, e.g. by using heat

5.

IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023030683
Publication Number 2024/048441
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-25
Publication Date 2024-03-07
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sakaguchi Shintaro
  • Nakayama Rui
  • Suzuki Takayuki
  • Ichikawa Shuya

Abstract

Provided is an image formation device with which it is possible to execute processing for cutting a print medium that has printing applied on both surfaces thereof. This image formation device comprises: an image-forming unit (4) that has a photoconductive drum (46), a developing roller (44R) for feeding toner onto the photoconductive drum, a transfer unit (42) for transferring, to a print medium (S), the toner having been fed onto the photoconductive drum, and a fixing unit for causing the toner transferred to the print medium to be fixed on the print medium; a processing unit (100) that is provided on the downstream of the fixing unit in the conveyance direction of the print medium and that performs a process for cutting the print medium; and a control unit (C) that executes a double-sided printing process in which printing is performed on both surfaces of the print medium. After the execution of the double-sided printing process, the control unit executes a process for cutting the print medium by the processing unit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65H 15/00 - Overturning articles
  • B65H 85/00 - Recirculating articles, i.e. feeding each article to, and delivering it from, the same machine work-station more than once
  • G03G 21/14 - Electronic sequencing control
  • B41J 29/00 - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • G03G 15/00 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern

6.

FILM TO WHICH TRANSFER HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR FILM TO WHICH TRANSFER HAS BEEN COMPLETED

      
Application Number JP2023028228
Publication Number 2024/029550
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-02
Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner
  • BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • GENERAL CO., LTD. (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ito, Satoru
  • Fujita, Masaya
  • Takechi, Mina
  • Matsumoto, Haruki
  • Hokari, Yuki
  • Naruse, Hiroaki
  • Hirano, Jiro

Abstract

Provided is a film to which transfer has been completed comprising a transparent film, a laminate of a first ink layer and a second ink layer having a different color from that of the first ink layer, and a base material layer are laminated in the stated order, wherein the first ink layer and the second ink layer are transfer layers transferred using an ink ribbon including the laminate of the first ink layer and the second ink layer. The transfer layers may be formed by thermal transfer. The laminate of the first ink layer and the second ink layer includes an obverse-side ink layer that is close to the transparent film and a reverse-side ink layer that is on the reverse side therefrom, and the transparent film may be thicker than the obverse-side ink layer.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41M 5/382 - Contact transfer or sublimation processes
  • B32B 27/00 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin
  • B41M 5/385 - Contact transfer or sublimation processes characterised by the transferable dyes or pigments
  • B41M 5/40 - Thermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registration; Special originals for reproduction by thermography
  • B41M 5/52 - Macromolecular coatings

7.

VOLTAGE CONTROL PROGRAM AND AIR PURIFIER

      
Application Number JP2023025547
Publication Number 2024/029283
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-11
Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hamaya Masahito
  • Inukai Katsumi

Abstract

Provided are a voltage control program and an air purifier that contribute to minimizing the occurrence of inrush current. A CPU of this air purifier outputs, to a voltage control unit, a PWM control signal indicating a duty ratio (S62). The CPU receives an instruction to increase a voltage applied to a motor by the voltage control unit to a target voltage. The CPU sets a target setting value that is a duty ratio corresponding to the target voltage if the instruction is received (S41). Until a first computation value, which is the result of proportional computation based on the difference between the target setting value and a command value (n−1) that is a duty ratio indicated by the PWM control signal outputted last time, reaches a prescribed value, the CPU periodically sets a second computation value, which is the result of adding/subtracting the first computation value to/from the command value (n−1) such that the command value (n−1) approaches the target setting value, to a command value (n) that is a duty ratio indicated by the PWM control signal to be output this time (S54).

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02P 29/00 - Arrangements for regulating or controlling electric motors, appropriate for both AC and DC motors
  • A61L 9/16 - Disinfection, sterilisation or deodorisation of air using physical phenomena

8.

THERMAL TRANSFER RECORDING MEDIUM, TRANSFER-COMPLETED FILM, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR TRANSFER-COMPLETED FILM

      
Application Number JP2023028227
Publication Number 2024/029549
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-02
Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner
  • GENERAL CO., LTD. (Japan)
  • BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Naruse, Hiroaki
  • Hirano, Jiro
  • Fujita, Masaya
  • Ito, Satoru
  • Takechi, Mina
  • Matsumoto, Haruki
  • Hokari, Yuki

Abstract

A thermal transfer recording medium according to the present invention is to be transferred onto a transparent film and includes a substrate layer and a first ink layer and a second ink layer that are layered in sequence on the substrate layer, the second ink layer having a translucence that makes it possible to see the first ink layer, and the L value of the color difference of reflected light from the second ink layer being no more than 20. A transfer-completed film according to the present invention is formed by layering, in order, a first ink layer, a second ink layer that has a translucence that makes it possible to see the first ink layer, and a transparent film, the total light transmittance of the second ink layer being at least 16%, and the total light transmittance of the transparent film being at least 80%.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41M 5/382 - Contact transfer or sublimation processes
  • B41J 31/00 - Ink ribbons; Renovating or testing ink ribbons
  • B41M 5/385 - Contact transfer or sublimation processes characterised by the transferable dyes or pigments
  • B41M 5/395 - Macromolecular additives, e.g. binders
  • B41M 5/40 - Thermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registration; Special originals for reproduction by thermography
  • B41M 5/44 - Intermediate or covering layers characterised by the macromolecular compounds

9.

THERMAL-TRANSFER RECORDING MEDIUM, TRANSFERRED-MEDIUM FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TRANSFERRED-MEDIUM FILM

      
Application Number JP2023028229
Publication Number 2024/029551
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-02
Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner
  • BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • GENERAL CO., LTD. (Japan)
Inventor
  • Fujita, Masaya
  • Ito, Satoru
  • Takechi, Mina
  • Matsumoto, Haruki
  • Hokari, Yuki
  • Naruse, Hiroaki
  • Hirano, Jiro

Abstract

A thermal-transfer recording medium which is to be transferred to a transparent film and which comprises a substrate layer and, superposed thereon in the following order, a first ink layer and a second ink layer, wherein the second ink layer has light-transmitting properties which make the first ink layer visible and has a complementary-color relationship with the first ink layer; and a transferred-medium film which comprises a first ink layer, a second ink layer having light-transmitting properties which make the first ink layer visible, and a transparent film which have been superposed in this order, wherein the second ink layer has a complementary-color relationship with the first ink layer.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41M 5/382 - Contact transfer or sublimation processes
  • B32B 27/20 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin characterised by the use of special additives using fillers, pigments, thixotroping agents
  • B41J 2/325 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
  • B41M 5/385 - Contact transfer or sublimation processes characterised by the transferable dyes or pigments
  • B41M 5/395 - Macromolecular additives, e.g. binders
  • B41M 5/40 - Thermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registration; Special originals for reproduction by thermography

10.

IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND INITIALIZATION METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023024359
Publication Number 2024/024390
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-30
Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kyotani Tadao

Abstract

Provided is an image forming device capable of easily initializing a consumable memory. This image forming device (1) executes: a reception process (S12) in which first service life information (224, 225, 426-428) is stored in a first consumable memory (22, 42) provided to a first consumable (4, 20), second service life information (224, 225, 426-428) is stored in a second consumable memory (22, 42) provided to a second consumable (4, 20), and an instruction to initialize the first service life information and the second service life information is received; an initialization process (S313, S314) in which the first service life information and the second service life information are initialized according to the received instruction; and a write process (S415, S434) in which first initialization information indicating that the first service life information has been initialized is written to the first consumable memory, and second initialization information indicating that the second service life information has been initialized is written to the second consumable memory.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • B41J 29/00 - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
  • B41J 29/42 - Scales and indicators, e.g. for determining side margins
  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
  • G06Q 10/20 - Administration of product repair or maintenance

11.

IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023026198
Publication Number 2024/024559
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-18
Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Shinoya Shota
  • Mizuno Tomoyuki
  • Shingai Hiroyuki

Abstract

The present invention suppresses delays in the completion of work even when cutting a plurality of sheets. The image forming device comprises: a fixing unit, a cutter, and a control unit. The fixing unit includes a heating rotary body, and a pressure rotary body that forms a nip portion between the heating rotary body and the pressure rotary body. The fixing unit fixes an image on a sheet. The cutter is disposed downstream of the fixing unit in the sheet conveyance direction. The cutter is capable of cutting the sheet. When receiving a command to cut a plurality of sheets (S12, Yes), the control unit starts feeding the next sheet (S13) before the cutting of the preceding sheet is completed (S14).

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
  • B65H 85/00 - Recirculating articles, i.e. feeding each article to, and delivering it from, the same machine work-station more than once
  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
  • G03G 21/14 - Electronic sequencing control
  • B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed

12.

IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023026199
Publication Number 2024/024560
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-18
Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Shinoya Shota
  • Mizuno Tomoyuki

Abstract

The present invention cuts a sheet in a state in which the sheet has passed through a nip part in its entirety. An image formation device 1 comprises a device body 2, an image formation unit, a fixing device 6, and a cutter 7. The image formation unit forms an image on a sheet. The fixing device 6 has a heating rotor 61 and a pressurizing rotor 62 that forms a nip part NP with the heating rotor 61, and fixes the image on the sheet S. The cutter 7 is disposed on the downstream side of the fixing device 6 in the conveying direction of the sheet S, and can cut the sheet S. The cutter 7 can cut the sheet S to be cut at a central position P of the sheet S in the conveying direction. A distance D1 by which the sheet S is conveyed from the nip part NP to the cutter 7 is larger than half a dimension LS of the sheet S in the conveying direction (D1 > LS/2).

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines by rollers
  • B65H 29/60 - Article switches or diverters diverting the stream into alternative paths
  • B65H 85/00 - Recirculating articles, i.e. feeding each article to, and delivering it from, the same machine work-station more than once
  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
  • G03G 21/14 - Electronic sequencing control
  • B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed

13.

FOIL TRANSFER DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023024358
Publication Number 2024/024389
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-30
Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yamada Hideaki
  • Sato Seiya
  • Kawasaki Shuji
  • Sueyasu Masato
  • Shiba Kayo

Abstract

Provided is a foil transfer device having a new function. A foil transfer device 1 is provided with: a supply reel 31 on which a foil film F including foil is wound; a winding-up reel 35 for winding up the foil film F from the supply reel 31; a foil transfer unit 50 that superimposes a sheet S on the foil film F transported toward the winding-up reel 35 from the supply reel 31 to transfer foil onto a toner image formed on the sheet S; and a reading sensor 100 capable of reading an image of the sheet S passing through a transporting path for the sheet S.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41F 16/00 - Transfer printing apparatus
  • B65C 9/24 - Gluing the labels or articles by heat
  • B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein

14.

IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023026197
Publication Number 2024/024558
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-18
Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Shinoya Shota
  • Mizuno Tomoyuki
  • Shingai Hiroyuki
  • Koyama Tatsuya

Abstract

Provided is an image formation device that makes it easy to retrieve cut sheets. An image formation device 1 comprises a device body 2, an image formation unit (an exposure device 4, a drum cartridge 5), a cutter 7, a first discharge roller 84, and a second discharge roller 85. The image formation unit is arranged inside the device body 2 and forms images on sheets. The cutter 7 can cut the sheets S. The first discharge roller 84 discharges sheets S not cut by the cutter 7 to the outside of the device body 2. The second discharge roller 85 discharges sheets S cut by the cutter 7 to the outside of the device body 2. The second discharge roller 85 is positioned downstream of the first discharge roller 84 in the direction in which sheets S are discharged by the first discharge roller 84.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65H 29/58 - Article switches or diverters
  • B65H 29/60 - Article switches or diverters diverting the stream into alternative paths
  • B65H 31/00 - Pile receivers
  • B65H 31/24 - Pile receivers multiple or compartmented, e.g. for alternate, programmed, or selective filling
  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
  • B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
  • G03G 15/00 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern

15.

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023026721
Publication Number 2024/019134
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-07-21
Publication Date 2024-01-25
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Suzuki Takashi
  • Misumi Noriko

Abstract

An apparatus memory stores first type information indicating whether an apparatus main body is a contract apparatus or a normal apparatus. The contract apparatus is usable in a case where an apparatus contract for an image forming apparatus is set. A consumable memory stores second type information indicating whether a consumable is a contract consumable or a normal consumable. The contract consumable is usable in a case where a consumable contract for an image forming apparatus is set. A controller is configured to: determine whether the first type information indicates that the apparatus main body is the contract apparatus; determine whether the second type information indicates that the consumable attached to the apparatus main body is the contract consumable; and switch a function usable in the image forming apparatus based on a combination of the first type information and the second type information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • B41J 29/46 - Applications of alarms, e.g. responsive to approach of end of line
  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge

16.

AIR CONDITIONER

      
Application Number JP2023023301
Publication Number 2024/014262
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-23
Publication Date 2024-01-18
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ochiai Yusuke
  • Sakano Yuji
  • Yoshida Shigeki
  • Matsumoto Daiki
  • Sato Ryosuke
  • Akatsuka Kazuo
  • Shirai Manabu

Abstract

Provided is an air conditioner with which the efficiency of maintenance work can be improved. This air conditioner comprises a cooling unit and a water supply portion for supplying water to one surface of the cooling unit, wherein the water supply portion moves between a first orientation facing the one surface in a perpendicular line direction of the one surface, and a second orientation disposed in a position separated from the one surface in a horizontal direction orthogonal to the perpendicular line direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24F 1/039 - Self-contained room units for air-conditioning, i.e. with all apparatus for treatment installed in a common casing using water to enhance cooling, e.g. spraying onto condensers

17.

FUEL CELL SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023009798
Publication Number 2024/009567
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-14
Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Tanno Norihiko

Abstract

The present invention provides a fuel cell system which is capable of reducing the supply amount of air supplied to a cell stack, while maintaining the power generation performance of the cell stack. This fuel cell system makes a fuel cell start power generation by supplying hydrogen to an anode electrode, while supplying air to a cathode electrode. This fuel cell system supplies a first supply amount of air to the cathode electrode (S41) in cases where the temperature of a thermal catalyst is less than the threshold temperature (S43: NO) in a state in which the fuel cell is generating power. This fuel cell system decreases the air supplied to the cathode electrode in stages to a second supply amount that is smaller than the first supply amount (S45) in cases where the temperature of the thermal catalyst is not less than the threshold temperature (S43: YES) in a state in which the fuel cell is generating power. This fuel cell system continuously supplies the second supply mount of air to the cathode electrode (S49) in cases where the supply amount of air to the cathode electrode falls to the second supply amount.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H01M 8/04746 - Pressure; Flow
  • H01M 8/04225 - Auxiliary arrangements, e.g. for control of pressure or for circulation of fluids during start-up or shut-down; Depolarisation or activation, e.g. purging; Means for short-circuiting defective fuel cells during start-up
  • H01M 8/043 - Processes for controlling fuel cells or fuel cell systems applied during specific periods
  • H01M 8/04302 - Processes for controlling fuel cells or fuel cell systems applied during specific periods applied during start-up
  • H01M 8/0432 - Temperature; Ambient temperature
  • H01M 8/04537 - Electric variables
  • H01M 8/04858 - Electric variables
  • H01M 8/10 - Fuel cells with solid electrolytes

18.

UNCLAMPING ARM AND MACHINE TOOL

      
Application Number JP2023022733
Publication Number 2024/004757
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-20
Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Amano Masahito

Abstract

Provided are: an unclamping arm capable of avoiding interference with other members; and a machine tool. An unclamping arm 50 comprises a right fulcrum section 63, a left fulcrum section 64, a cam follower 54, and pressing sections 57, 58. The right fulcrum section 63 and the left fulcrum section 64 are rotatably supported within a main shaft head. The cam follower 54, in conjunction with the movement of the main shaft head, comes into contact with a cam surface provided to an upright column, and receives external pressure. As a result of the cam follower 54 receiving external pressure, the pressing sections 57, 58 rotate about the right fulcrum section 63 and the left fulcrum section 64, thereby pressing or not pressing pins of a draw bar provided within a main shaft. The pressing sections 57, 58 are positioned between the cam follower 54 and the right fulcrum section 63 and left fulcrum section 64; the right fulcrum section 63, the left fulcrum section 64, and the pressing sections 57, 58 are positioned on a straight line intersecting the axial direction of the main shaft; and the cam follower 54 is positioned at a location separated to the upright column-side from the right fulcrum section 63 and left fulcrum section 64.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B23B 31/117 - Retention by friction only, e.g. using springs, resilient sleeves, tapers

19.

COLUMN AND MACHINE TOOL

      
Application Number JP2023022735
Publication Number 2024/004759
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-20
Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Amano Masahito

Abstract

Provided is a column that achieves a reduction in displacement due to torsion and a machine tool. In this machine tool, a spindle head extends in the Z-axis direction and is disposed on the front surface of a column 5 through a Y-axis moving mechanism. A rotary table is located forward of the spindle head. The spindle head is movable in the Y-axis direction (up-down direction) by being guided by a pair of guides 24 that are mounted on mounting surfaces 52R, 52L of the column 5. The mounting surface 52R is located at a left front end of a right wall 51A. The mounting surface 52L is located at a right front end of a left wall 51B. The column 5 is movable in the Z-axis direction (front-back direction) through sliding members 57, 58 thereof being guided by a pair of guides. The sliding member 57 has a portion located further forward than the mounting surfaces 52R, 52L in a plan view.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B23Q 1/01 - Frames, beds, pillars or like members; Arrangement of ways

20.

PRINTING ALLOWANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND PRINTING ALLOWANCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023022737
Publication Number 2024/004761
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-20
Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kamiya Nobuyuki

Abstract

The present invention increases convenience by eliminating burdens associated with purchasing additional prepaid type printing allowances. A printing service provision system 1 receives a request for purchase of printing allowances in response to a user's operation in S65, grants the printing allowances to the corresponding user or multifunction peripheral 200 in S75, adds the number of pages corresponding to the charged printing allowances to the number of printable pages in the multifunction peripheral 200 in S80, and executes automatic charging not based on the user's request for purchase if predetermined conditions are met in S25, S45.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/00 - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
  • G06Q 50/10 - Services

21.

LAYER TRANSFER DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023023299
Publication Number 2024/004852
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-23
Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Ichikawa Tomoya

Abstract

The present invention reads information stored in a memory and suppresses sagging of a multilayer film. This layer transfer device 1A transfers a transfer layer onto a sheet S and comprises: a housing body 21 having an opening; a cartridge (transfer layer film cartridge FC) that can be attached to/detached from the housing body 21 from an opening 21A; an electrical contact 150A; and a resistance imparting member RM. The cartridge has a supply reel 31 around which is wound a multilayer film F having a transfer layer F22 and a support layer F1 supporting the transfer layer F22, a winding reel 35 for winding up the multilayer film F, and a memory 100A having a contact surface. The electrical contact 150A contacts the contact surface when the cartridge is fitted to the housing body 21. The resistance imparting member RM imparts resistance to the rotation of the supply reel 31.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65C 9/00 - LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES - Details of labelling machines or apparatus

22.

DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE

      
Application Number JP2023022732
Publication Number 2024/004756
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-20
Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Abe Koji

Abstract

Provided is a developer cartridge with which a load applied to a separating member during a separation operation can be reduced. This developer cartridge 1 comprises a housing 10, a developer roller 30, a shaft 63, and a first cam. The shaft 63 and the first cam are capable of moving in a first direction relative to the housing 10 and the developer roller 30. The developer roller 30 is positioned at one end of the housing 10 in a third direction. The shaft 63 and the first cam are positioned at the other end of the housing 10 in the third direction. Specifically, the shaft 63 and the first cam are positioned on the side opposite from the developer roller 30 in the third direction. The position of the shaft 63 can thereby be disposed near a position aligned with the center of gravity G of the developer cartridge 1 in a second direction. Therefore, a load applied to the shaft 63 can be reduced in order to move the developer cartridge 1 in the second direction during a separation operation.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer
  • G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements
  • G03G 21/18 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements using a processing cartridge

23.

TOOL-GRIPPING MEMBER, TOOL MAGAZINE, MACHINE TOOL

      
Application Number JP2023022734
Publication Number 2024/004758
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-20
Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Amano Masahito

Abstract

The present invention provides a tool-gripping member, a tool magazine, and a machine tool that can reduce the possibility of tool magazine damage. This tool-gripping member 35 is provided to the tool magazine and grips a tool holder that supports a tool. A stand 351 is fixed to a magazine base of the tool magazine and comprises an engaging section 354 with which the tool holder engages. A pair of claw members 352A, 352B rotate around fulcrums C1, C2 provided to the stand 351, and sandwich and grip the tool holder while the tool holder is being engaged with the engaging section 354. The engaging section 354 of the stand 351 comprises groove sections 356, 360 extending in a direction perpendicular to the left-right direction in which the pair of claw members 352A, 352B face each other and the axial direction of the fulcrum sections C1, C2.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B23Q 3/157 - Arrangements for automatic insertion or removal of tools of rotary tools

24.

PRINT AUTHORIZATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PRINT AUTHORIZATION DISPLAY PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023022736
Publication Number 2024/004760
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-20
Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kamiya Nobuyuki

Abstract

The present invention improves convenience by proposing the print authorization acquisition method that is most appropriate for the printing device or the user. A print service providing system 1: obtains change information related to a change in the guaranteed print volume or the printable number of sheets on a multi-function peripheral 200 in S5, S15, S40; determines a new print authorization acquisition method to propose to the relevant user or the multi-function peripheral 200 on the basis of the acquired change information in S10, S20, S45; and outputs proposal information corresponding to the determined print authorization acquisition method to a mobile terminal 300 corresponding to the user or the multi-function peripheral 200 in S25, S50, S60.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/00 - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
  • H04N 1/34 - Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver for coin-freed systems

25.

FOIL TRANSFER APPARATUS AND FILM CARTRIDGE

      
Application Number JP2023023300
Publication Number 2024/004853
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-06-23
Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ichikawa Tomoya
  • Nakanishi Yukiko
  • Horikawa Ryutaro

Abstract

Provided are: a foil transfer apparatus which, even when foil is replaced before the foil is used up, enables said foil to be reused; and a film cartridge. A foil transfer apparatus 1 comprises: a housing 2; a film cartridge FC which is attachable to and detachable from the housing 2 and which has a feed reel 31 around which a foil film F including foil is wound, a take-up reel 35 which takes up the foil film F, and a cartridge memory 100 having an electrical contact surface 120 that comes into contact with an electric contact 151 disposed in the housing 2; a foil transfer unit 50 which transfers the foil onto a sheet S by placing the foil film F over the sheet S; and a control unit 160. The cartridge memory 100 stores therein foil-use history information including information about used area of the foil film F from which foil has been transferred onto the sheet S and/or information about unused area of the foil film F from which no foil has been transferred onto the sheet S. The control unit 160 can acquire the foil-use history information stored in the cartridge memory 100.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65C 9/00 - LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES - Details of labelling machines or apparatus
  • B41J 5/30 - Character or syllable selection controlled by recorded information
  • B41J 29/00 - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
  • B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge

26.

COMPUTER PROGRAM, PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROCESSING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023019670
Publication Number 2023/238702
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-26
Publication Date 2023-12-14
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Tanaka Yoshiyuki

Abstract

The present invention reduces a burden for preparing image data for input to a machine learning model. This computer program realizes: a function for acquiring relevant image data that indicates a relevant image including an object; a function for generating mask image data that indicates a mask image; a function for executing, on the relevant image data, a process that includes an adjustment process using the mask image data, and generating input image data that indicates an input image; and a function for executing a specific process using the input image data and a machine learning model. The mask image indicates a brightness that is defined in accordance with a specific change pattern. The specific change pattern is one in which the brightness decreases progressively with increasing distance in a specific direction from a specific position. The adjustment process involves adjusting the brightness of pixels in the relevant image on the basis of the values of corresponding pixels of the mask image. The specific process includes a process for inputting the input image data to the machine learning model, thereby generating output data.

IPC Classes  ?

27.

MOLDING DATA GENERATION PROGRAM AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOLDING SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023019669
Publication Number 2023/238701
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-26
Publication Date 2023-12-14
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Yazawa Hiroaki

Abstract

Provided are a molding data generation program and a three-dimensional molding system that enable generation of data for molding a post that is connected to, and extends from, a three-dimensional product and that is cut from the three-dimensional product more easily than in the prior art. According to the molding data generation program, a control unit of a computer acquires three-dimensional data representing a three-dimensional shape of the three-dimensional product (S30). On the basis of the three-dimensional data, the control unit sets: a plurality of posts to be connected to the three-dimensional product; and support members that are to be respectively connected to the plurality of posts, and each of which, when viewed from a reference direction intersecting each of the plurality of posts, is offset in a position such that the length of each of the plurality of posts in a length direction thereof is a predetermined amount, from an outer circumference of the three-dimensional product to the outside of the three-dimensional product (from S47 to S50). The control unit generates three-dimensional molding data for molding a molded object, using the three-dimensional molding device, the molded object including the three-dimensional product, the plurality of posts, and the support members (S51).

IPC Classes  ?

  • B29C 64/386 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
  • B29C 64/40 - Structures for supporting 3D objects during manufacture and intended to be sacrificed after completion thereof
  • B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
  • B33Y 40/20 - Post-treatment, e.g. curing, coating or polishing
  • B33Y 50/00 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing

28.

SERVER, PRINTER, AND APPLICATION PROGRAM FOR TERMINAL DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023018730
Publication Number 2023/228880
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-19
Publication Date 2023-11-30
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Noguchi Sho

Abstract

Disclosed is a technology enabling improvement in user convenience. A server receives, from a printer, cartridge information related to whether a cartridge installed in the printer is a genuine cartridge or a compatible cartridge. If identification information for identifying the printer is received from a terminal device and the cartridge information received from the printer identified by the identification information indicates that a genuine cartridge is installed in the printer, the server transmits a first message prompting subscription to a service to the terminal device. If the identification information is received from the terminal device and the cartridge information received from the printer identified by the identification information indicates that a compatible cartridge is installed in the printer, the server transmits a second message prompting subscription to a service to the terminal device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/00 - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • B41J 29/42 - Scales and indicators, e.g. for determining side margins
  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
  • G06Q 10/20 - Administration of product repair or maintenance

29.

COMPUTER PROGRAM, PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROCESSING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023017389
Publication Number 2023/228717
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-09
Publication Date 2023-11-30
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Sawano Kentaro

Abstract

The present invention reduces the burden of preparing input image data for input into a machine learning model. According to the present invention, a computer program makes a computer execute: a function that acquires object image data that represents an object image that includes an object, and a plurality of instances of specific image data that each represent a specific image that does not include the object; a function that uses the plurality of instances of specific image data to perform first synthesis processing to generate background image data that represents a background image; a function that uses the object image data and the background image data to perform second synthesis processing to generate input image data that represents an input image; and a function that uses the input image data and a machine learning model to perform specific processing. The first synthesis processing includes processing that synthesizes the plurality of specific images. The second synthesis processing includes processing that synthesizes the background image and the object image using the background image as the background and the object image as the foreground. The specific processing includes processing that inputs the input image data into the machine learning model to generate output data.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 7/00 - Image analysis
  • G06T 5/50 - Image enhancement or restoration by the use of more than one image, e.g. averaging, subtraction

30.

COMPUTER PROGRAM AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023017387
Publication Number 2023/223883
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-09
Publication Date 2023-11-23
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kondo Masaki

Abstract

The present invention detects a region representing at least a part of an object. First image data of a captured image of a first object, the first image data representing the first object with a first number of pixels, is used to detect a first type region representing the first object from the captured image. Second image data representing a partial image including the first type region of the captured image and not including at least a part of a remaining region obtained by excluding the first type region from the captured image is used to detect a second type region representing at least a part of the first object from the partial image. The second image data represents the first object with a second number of pixels larger than the first number of pixels. The first object is inspected using the result of detection of the second type region.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 7/00 - Image analysis
  • G06T 7/11 - Region-based segmentation
  • G06N 20/00 - Machine learning
  • G06V 10/82 - Arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding using pattern recognition or machine learning using neural networks

31.

COMPUTER PROGRAM AND INSPECTION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023017388
Publication Number 2023/223884
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-09
Publication Date 2023-11-23
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Sakurai Koichi

Abstract

The present invention detects, by using a machine learning model, a difference between an object to be inspected and an object for comparison. This computer program causes a computer to realize: a first generation function of generating first reproduction image data indicating a reproduction image by inputting, to an image generation model, target image data indicating a target image in which the object to be inspected is included; a second generation function of generating, using the target image data and the reproduction image data, differential image data indicating a differential between the target image and the reproduction image; a third generation function of generating first feature data indicating a feature of the differential image data by inputting the differential image data to a feature extraction model; and a detection function of detecting, using the first feature data, a difference between the object to be inspected and the object for comparison.

IPC Classes  ?

32.

THERMAL TRANSFER RECORDING MEDIUM AND PRINTING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023016617
Publication Number 2023/210736
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-04-27
Publication Date 2023-11-02
Owner
  • BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • GENERAL CO., LTD. (Japan)
Inventor
  • Fujita, Masaya
  • Ito, Satoru
  • Takechi, Mina
  • Matsumoto, Haruki
  • Hokari, Yuki
  • Naruse, Hiroaki
  • Hirano, Jiro

Abstract

This thermal transfer recording medium includes: a base material layer having a first surface and a second surface; and a first thermal transfer layer, an intermediate layer, and a second thermal transfer layer laminated in direct contact with each other in this order on the first surface of the base material layer, wherein the intermediate layer contains a thermoplastic elastomer. The thermal transfer recording medium comprises the intermediate layer containing the thermoplastic elastomer, and thus can record characters of at least two colors having good sharpness.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41M 5/382 - Contact transfer or sublimation processes
  • B41M 5/385 - Contact transfer or sublimation processes characterised by the transferable dyes or pigments
  • B41M 5/395 - Macromolecular additives, e.g. binders
  • B41M 5/40 - Thermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registration; Special originals for reproduction by thermography
  • B41M 5/44 - Intermediate or covering layers characterised by the macromolecular compounds
  • B41J 2/325 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
  • B41J 31/00 - Ink ribbons; Renovating or testing ink ribbons

33.

PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023016246
Publication Number 2023/210624
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-04-25
Publication Date 2023-11-02
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ito Satoru
  • Fujita Masaya
  • Takechi Mina
  • Matsumoto Haruki
  • Hokari Yuki

Abstract

Provided are a printing device and a printing method capable of performing multi-color printing, and having a configuration that can be made simple, thereby enabling a reduction in size and good ease of maintenance. The printing device conveys an ink ribbon R and a printing target medium M in a sub-scanning direction, the ink ribbon R being obtained by laminating a base material layer, a first ink layer containing first ink, and a second ink layer containing second ink different from the first ink, in the order of the base material layer, the first ink layer, the second ink layer. The printing device heats the ink ribbon R by applying first energy to a first heat generating element 51 among a plurality of heat generating elements 5A of a thermal head 5, and heats the ink ribbon R by applying second energy to a second heat generating element 52 different from the first heat generating element. The printing device transfers the first ink and the second ink from the ink ribbon R to the printing target medium M by means of the application of the first energy. The printing device transfers the second ink from the ink ribbon R to the printing target medium M by means of the application of the second energy.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/325 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
  • B41J 31/00 - Ink ribbons; Renovating or testing ink ribbons

34.

THERMAL TRANSFER RECORDING MEDIUM AND PRINTING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023016247
Publication Number 2023/210625
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-04-25
Publication Date 2023-11-02
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Fujita Masaya
  • Ito Satoru
  • Takechi Mina
  • Matsumoto Haruki
  • Hokari Yuki
  • Naruse Hiroaki
  • Hirano Jiro

Abstract

Provided is a thermal transfer recording medium capable of recording at least two colors of characters with satisfactory clarity. A thermal transfer recording medium 47 comprises: a base material layer 48 having a front surface 53 and a back surface 54; and a welding layer 70, a first thermal transfer layer 50, an intermediate layer 51, and a second thermal transfer layer 52 which are laminated in direct contact with each other and in order on the front surface 53 of the base material layer 48. The welding layer 70 has a solubility parameter (SP value) higher than a solubility parameter (SP value) of each of the base material layer 48 and the first thermal transfer layer 50.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41M 5/40 - Thermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registration; Special originals for reproduction by thermography
  • B41J 2/325 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
  • B41J 31/00 - Ink ribbons; Renovating or testing ink ribbons
  • B41M 5/382 - Contact transfer or sublimation processes
  • B41M 5/395 - Macromolecular additives, e.g. binders
  • B41M 5/44 - Intermediate or covering layers characterised by the macromolecular compounds

35.

THERMAL TRANSFER RECORDING MEDIUM AND PRINTING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023016248
Publication Number 2023/210626
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-04-25
Publication Date 2023-11-02
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ito Satoru
  • Fujita Masaya
  • Takechi Mina
  • Matsumoto Haruki
  • Hokari Yuki
  • Naruse Hiroaki
  • Hirano Jiro

Abstract

Provided is a thermal transfer recording medium which is capable of recording characters in two colors and which makes it possible to minimize, when transferring one of the colors, generation of color fringes caused by the other color. A thermal transfer recording medium 47 comprises: a base material layer 48 having an obverse surface 53 and a reverse surface 54; and a deposition layer 70, a first thermal transfer layer 50, an intermediate layer 51, and a second thermal transfer layer 52 that are sequentially laminated directly in contact with one another on the obverse surface 53 of the base material layer 48. If the thermal transfer recording medium 47 is fractured under a first condition (e.g., during low-temperature heating) in which said medium has been heated to at least a first temperature and at most a second temperature and then cooled down to a third temperature or lower, the sum of the thicknesses, before thermal transfer, of all the layers separated from the base material layer 48 side is less than the thickness of the first thermal transfer layer 50.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41M 5/40 - Thermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registration; Special originals for reproduction by thermography
  • B41M 5/42 - Intermediate or covering layers
  • B41J 2/325 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
  • B41J 31/00 - Ink ribbons; Renovating or testing ink ribbons

36.

THERMAL TRANSFER RECORDING MEDIUM AND PRINTING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023016620
Publication Number 2023/210739
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-04-27
Publication Date 2023-11-02
Owner
  • BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
  • GENERAL CO., LTD. (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ito, Satoru
  • Fujita, Masaya
  • Takechi, Mina
  • Matsumoto, Haruki
  • Hokari, Yuki
  • Naruse, Hiroaki
  • Hirano, Jiro

Abstract

This thermal transfer recording medium is such that, when an external force is applied in a direction such that a base layer and a second ink layer separate from each other in a first state in which the heat transfer recording medium has been heated to a temperature between a first temperature and a second temperature and then cooled to a third temperature, a break is created between a first ink layer and the base layer or within the first ink layer, and when the external force is applied in a second state in which the thermal transfer recording medium has been heated to a temperature exceeding the second temperature and then cooled to the third temperature, a break is created between the first ink layer and the second ink layer or within the second ink layer. The total thickness of all layers separated away from the base layer when the break occurs in the second state is greater than that of any of the layers prior to thermal transfer in the remaining portion which has not separated from the base layer, excluding the base layer.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41M 5/40 - Thermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registration; Special originals for reproduction by thermography
  • B41J 2/325 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
  • B41J 31/00 - Ink ribbons; Renovating or testing ink ribbons
  • B41M 5/42 - Intermediate or covering layers

37.

AQUEOUS INK FOR INKJET RECORDING, FIXING AGENT, INKJET RECORDING METHOD, INKJET RECORDING DEVICE, AND INK HOLDING CONTAINER

      
Application Number JP2023013544
Publication Number 2023/195424
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-31
Publication Date 2023-10-12
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Isogai Masato
  • Tsuzaka Yuka
  • Maeda Mitsunori

Abstract

Provided is an aqueous ink that is for inkjet recording and that contains polylactic acid as a fixing agent. The aqueous ink for inkjet recording is characterized by comprising water, a coloring agent, and a fixing agent, and is characterized in that the fixing agent contains polylactic acid.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C09D 11/38 - Inkjet printing inks characterised by non-macromolecular additives other than solvents, pigments or dyes
  • B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
  • B41J 2/01 - Ink jet

38.

WATER-BASED INK FOR INKJET RECORDING, INKJET RECORDING METHOD, INKJET RECORDING DEVICE, AND INK STORAGE CONTAINER

      
Application Number JP2023013543
Publication Number 2023/195423
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-31
Publication Date 2023-10-12
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tsuzaka Yuka
  • Isogai Masato
  • Maeda Mitsunori

Abstract

Provided is a water-based ink for inkjet recording, the water-based ink containing lignosulfonic acid or a salt thereof and having preservative properties. A water-based ink for inkjet recording according to the present invention contains water, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a colorant, and furthermore contains lignosulfonic acid or a salt thereof. The colorant contains at least one of a self-dispersing pigment, a resin-dispersed pigment, and a water-soluble dye.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C09D 11/38 - Inkjet printing inks characterised by non-macromolecular additives other than solvents, pigments or dyes
  • B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
  • B41J 2/01 - Ink jet
  • B41J 2/175 - Ink supply systems

39.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023009282
Publication Number 2023/189412
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-10
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Narita Kenju
  • Hosomizo Yoshito

Abstract

Provided is a technique of improving the display procedure of a web page of an EWS embedded a printer, in an information processing device embedded with an OS-standard general-purpose printing program. An assistance program 42 which corresponds to a printer 2 connected to a PC 1 and supports a general-purpose printing program 41 embedded in advance in an OS 40 of the PC 1 is installed in the PC 1. The printer 2 has an embedded web server (EWS) 23 that functions as a web server. When a process is requested from the general-purpose printing program 41 due to the OS 40 receiving a startup instruction while the printer 2 has been selected, the assistance program 42 causes a CPU 11 of the PC 1 to execute a process of acquiring from the general-purpose printing program 41 connection information indicating what the printer 2 is connected to, and a process of displaying a web page provided by the EWS 23 embedded in the printer 2, using the acquired connection information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof

40.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023009283
Publication Number 2023/189413
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-10
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hosomizo Yoshito
  • Narita Kenju

Abstract

The present invention suppresses deterioration in image quality by a simple processing procedure when causing a printer to perform printing from an OS-standard general printing program via a cloud printing system. A PC 1 is capable of executing pass-through registration for registering a PDF as a file format that does not generate intermediate data when a virtual printer 5 is set as the destination of a print job by an auxiliary program 42. When a print instruction that causes the virtual printer 5 to perform printing is output from an information application 43 and intermediate data is transferred from a general printing program 41, the auxiliary program 42 generates print data on the basis of the transferred intermediate data and transmits a print job including the generated print data to the virtual printer 5. On the other hand, when PDF image data is transferred from the general printing program 41, the auxiliary program 42 transmits a print job including the transferred PDF image data to the virtual printer 5.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

41.

MACHINE TOOL

      
Application Number JP2023009796
Publication Number 2023/189524
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-14
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tanaka Hiroyuki
  • Kondo Masato

Abstract

The present invention provides a machine tool for which the machine width can be reduced while ensuring the opening width is the minimum required. A machine tool 1 comprises, on a front wall 11 of a cover 3, a primary door 21 and a secondary door 22. The primary door 21 and the secondary door 22 open/close an opening provided to the front wall 11. The primary door 21 and the secondary door 22 are of a double-opening type; the primary door 21 moves on the right side of the opening 20 and the secondary door 22 moves on the left side of the opening 20. An operation panel 15 is attached to the right side of the opening 20 on the front wall 11. Therefore, the opening 20 is shifted to the left from the widthwise center of the front wall 11. When the opening 20 is opened/closed, the length of the secondary door 22 in the direction of movement is half the length of the primary door 21 in the direction of movement. Consequently, even if the area on the left side of the opening 20 is narrow, the secondary door 22 can be positioned in the area on the left side by moving the secondary door 22 by half the amount of movement according to the movement of the primary door 21.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B23Q 11/08 - Protective coverings for parts of machine tools; Splash guards
  • E05F 17/00 - Special devices for shifting a plurality of wings operated simultaneously

42.

AIR PURIFIER

      
Application Number JP2023009801
Publication Number 2023/189528
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-14
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Furukawa Masaaki
  • Iijima Ryuta
  • Omori Keisuke
  • Tokoro Yuji
  • Noda Masahiro

Abstract

Provided is an air purifier for which increase in the number of components can be suppressed. A rear face 24 of a housing 2 is provided with a suction port 53 and a sensor suction port 14. A right face 26 is provided with a discharge port 56 and a sensor discharge port 15. A dust sensor channel section is provided on the bottom inside the housing 2. The dust sensor channel section is provided between the sensor suction port 14 and the sensor discharge port 15. The dust sensor channel section supports a dust sensor. In the right face 26, the discharge port 56 and the sensor discharge port 15 open to the same side of the housing 2, which is the right side, and as a result thereof, pressure in the vicinity of the sensor discharge port 15 is negative due to an air flow discharged from the discharge port 56. Due to the foregoing, an air flow is generated in the dust sensor channel section, from the sensor suction port 14 toward the sensor discharge port 15.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F24F 8/80 - Self-contained air purifiers
  • A61L 9/00 - Disinfection, sterilisation or deodorisation of air
  • F24F 8/108 - Treatment, e.g. purification, of air supplied to human living or working spaces otherwise than by heating, cooling, humidifying or drying by separation, e.g. by filtering using dry filter elements
  • F24F 13/08 - Air-flow control members, e.g. louvres, grilles, flaps or guide plates

43.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023011792
Publication Number 2023/190148
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-24
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Narita Kenju
  • Hosomizo Yoshito

Abstract

Provided is a technology, capable of easily sending a command to a printer to execute a special process, in an information processing device in which an OS-standard general-purpose printing program is installed. An auxiliary program 42 receives a request from a general-purpose printing program 41 to execute a process when a print command is outputted from an edit application 43 or the like, and also receives a request from the general-purpose printing program 41 to execute a process when an OS 21 receives a start-up command in a state where a printer 2 is selected. The auxiliary program 42 causes, when the request to execute the process is received in response to the OS 21 having received the start-up command, a CPU 11 of a PC 1 to acquire main unit information held by the printer 2 and to transmit, to the printer 2, a main unit order for causing the printer 2 to execute a process based on the acquired main unit information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

44.

SUPPORT PROGRAM AND PRINT SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023011793
Publication Number 2023/190149
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-24
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Hosomizo Yoshito

Abstract

The present invention reduces the possibility of storage of print jobs, which cannot be handled by a printer, in the printer when an OS-standard general-purpose printing program causes the printer to execute storage printing. A PC 1 having a general-purpose printing program 41 and an auxiliary program 42 pre-installed determines user identification information that can be handled by the auxiliary program 42 in a printer 2 when storage printing is effective. When storage printing is effective and the auxiliary program 42 is activated by the general-purpose printing program 41 using a print command, the auxiliary program 42 assigns the determined user identification information to a print job, and transmits the print job to the printer 2.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

45.

ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023011795
Publication Number 2023/190151
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-24
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hosomizo Yoshito
  • Narita Kenju

Abstract

The present invention realizes a technology for improving a process while preventing an error from occurring in a printer in an information processing device having an OS standard general-purpose printing program installed therein. A PC 1 has installed therein an auxiliary program 42 that is compatible with a printer 2 and that assists a general-purpose printing program 41 incorporated beforehand in an OS 21. The auxiliary program 42 registers, in the general-purpose printing program 41, a prescribed file format as a file format for which intermediate data is not generated. The auxiliary program 42 acquires ability information indicating ability of the printer 2 when a printing instruction for causing the printer 2 to execute printing is received from an information application 43 and image data of the prescribed file format is received from the general-purpose printing program 41, and transmits a print job including the received image data to the printer 2 upon determination, on the basis of the ability information, that the printer 2 can handle the type of the prescribed file format of the image data.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

46.

IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023012458
Publication Number 2023/190490
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-28
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Shinoya Shota
  • Mizuno Tomoyuki

Abstract

Provided is an image formation device that can mitigate, with a high degree of reliability, the curling of a sheet dispensed along a first dispensing path. An image formation device 1 comprises: a case 9; an image formation unit 3; a conveyance unit 26; and a cover 100 that can move between a closed position and an open position. The image formation device 1 further comprises: a dispensing guide 50 that can move between a first position where the guide is accommodated in the case 9 and a second position where said guide is protruding downstream from inside the case 9 in a dispensing direction DE1, and where said guide can abut from above a sheet SH conveyed by the conveyance unit 26; and a linking unit 60 that links the cover 100 to the dispensing guide 50, the linking unit moving the dispensing guide 50 from the second position to the first position in conjunction with movement of the cover 100 from the open position to the closed position, and moving the dispensing guide 50 from the first position to the second position in conjunction with movement of the cover 100 from the closed position to the open position.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements
  • B41J 29/13 - Cases or covers
  • B65H 29/58 - Article switches or diverters

47.

FOIL TRANSFER DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023009284
Publication Number 2023/189414
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-10
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kawasaki Shuji
  • Yamada Hideaki
  • Fujisawa Isami
  • Ichikawa Tomoya

Abstract

The objective of the present invention is to achieve favorable foil transfer using information in a memory of a film cartridge. A foil transfer device 1 comprises an enclosure body 21, an electrical contact 151 disposed inside the enclosure body 21, a film cartridge FC that can be attached to and detached from the enclosure body 21, a transfer unit 50 that transfers a foil to a sheet, and a control unit 160. The film cartridge FC includes a supply reel 31 around which a foil film F including a foil is wound, a take-up reel 35 that takes up the foil film F, and a memory 100 storing the type of the foil film F. The memory 100 has an electrical contact surface 120 that comes into contact with the electrical contact 151 at a mounting position where the film cartridge FC is mounted in the enclosure body 21. The control unit 160 changes the amount of heat applied to a unit area of the foil film F from the transfer unit 50 on the basis of the type of foil film F acquired from the memory 100.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65C 9/00 - LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES - Details of labelling machines or apparatus
  • B41F 16/00 - Transfer printing apparatus
  • B65C 9/24 - Gluing the labels or articles by heat
  • B65C 9/40 - Controls; Safety devices
  • G03G 15/20 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for fixing, e.g. by using heat
  • G03G 15/22 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern involving the combination of more than one step according to groups

48.

NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023009797
Publication Number 2023/189525
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-14
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kurahashi Yugo

Abstract

Provided are: a numerical control device capable of shortening tool exchange time according to return position; a control method; and a program. After a workpiece secured onto a table 27 by a jig is processed, a CPU of this numerical control device moves the main shaft 20 to an R point, and thereafter, moves the same to the Y-axis ATC origin via an ATC preparation position. While in a state in which the main shaft 20 has been moved to the Y-axis ATC origin, a replacement exchange between the tool mounted to the main shaft 20 and a tool stored in a magazine is performed on the basis of the reciprocal movement in the Z-axis direction of the main shaft 20. The CPU switches between first and second routes when selecting a route for the outward movement of the main shaft 20 from the R-point to the ATC preparation position on the basis of the R-point. The first route involves movement by the main shaft 20 from the R-point to the ATC preparation position. The second route involves movement by the main shaft 20 from the R-point to the Y-axis origin, and thereafter, from the Y-axis origin to the ATC preparation position.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G05B 19/4155 - Numerical control (NC), i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to execute positioning, movement or co-ordinated operations by means of programme data in numerical form characterised by programme execution, i.e. part programme or machine function execution, e.g. selection of a programme
  • B23Q 3/155 - Arrangements for automatic insertion or removal of tools

49.

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023009799
Publication Number 2023/189526
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-14
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kosaka Raizo
  • Ueda Yuma
  • Yasui Ryo
  • Yamamoto Ryo
  • Sato Hirotaka

Abstract

Provided are an information management program and an information management method that contribute to the advantage that a user can easily manage the storage status of information. According to the present invention, an information editing system makes it possible to edit, via an operation unit, an object in a region displayed on a display unit. An information management program causes a computer of the information editing system to perform a storage process and a condition change process (S43 or S46). When an editing operation for editing the object is performed in the region via the operation unit, the storage process stores history data indicating history corresponding to the editing operation. When a condition change operation for changing the change conditions for the storage status of the history data stored by the storage process is performed via the operation unit, the condition change process changes the change conditions.

IPC Classes  ?

50.

INFORMATION EDITING PROGRAM, INFORMATION EDITING METHOD, AND INFORMATION EDITING SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023009800
Publication Number 2023/189527
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-14
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yasui Ryo
  • Sato Hirotaka
  • Ueda Yuma
  • Yamamoto Ryo

Abstract

Provided are an information editing program, an information editing method, and an information editing system that make it possible to note edits to information as additions to a message. When a document has been edited at a client device 3A, a notification email 70 that is transmitted to a client device 3B includes a screenshot 71 of the entire document before editing, a screenshot 72 of the entire edited document with highlights 72A, a statement 73 on deletions, a statement 82 on handwritten input and a screenshot 77 thereof, text 76 read by OCR processing, a statement 81 on text input and the text 74 thereof, a screenshot 75 of the text 74, a statement 83 on images or video and the images 78 or video, and a statement 84 on edits related to figures or other edit data and a screenshot 79 thereof.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04L 51/08 - Annexed information, e.g. attachments
  • G06F 3/04842 - Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements
  • G06F 3/04883 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
  • G06F 40/166 - Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

51.

PRINTING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND PRINTING SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023010591
Publication Number 2023/189726
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-17
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Mizuno Kodai
  • Miwa Hitomi
  • Morikawa Shota

Abstract

Provided is a printing device that can improve the accuracy of printed image simulation. The printing device 10 comprises a display device 14 and a control unit 50, and the control unit 50 executes a first acquisition operation to acquire first image data for printing a first image F on a print medium A with ink ejected from nozzles 24, a first color conversion operation to perform color conversion on the first image data to generate second image data, a second color conversion operation to perform color conversion on the second image data, in accordance with the display conditions when the first image F is displayed on the display device 14 to generate third image data, and a display operation to display a second image H on the display device 14 on the basis of the third image data. The first color conversion operation performs color conversion in accordance with one of the following: the print media A, printing conditions, or a combination of the print media A and the printing conditions.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 1/60 - Colour correction or control
  • B41J 2/525 - Arrangement for multi-colour printing, not covered by group , e.g. applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking process
  • B41J 5/30 - Character or syllable selection controlled by recorded information

52.

CONVEYANCE CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023010592
Publication Number 2023/189727
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-17
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Morikawa Shota
  • Mizuno Kodai
  • Miwa Hitomi

Abstract

Provided are a conveyance control device capable of enhancing the color reproducibility of printed images if the same job has been executed when conveying a platen to a plurality of printers, a method for controlling the conveyance control device, and a computer program. A conveyance control device 6 comprises: an MPU 20 that is a computer for controlling a conveyance device 2 in a printing system 1; and a memory 21 that is a storage device for storing history information in which first printing data and printers 5, which have executed printing based on the first printing data, are associated. The MPU 20 newly receives second printing data included in printing data and selects, on the basis of the received second printing data and the history data stored in the memory 21, from among the plurality of printers 5 an execution printer 5A to be the printer for carrying out printing based on the second printing data.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 3/54 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed with two or more sets of type or printing elements
  • B41J 2/01 - Ink jet
  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit

53.

IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023010593
Publication Number 2023/189728
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-17
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kobayashi Akihito
  • Kawamata Noriyuki
  • Fukui Yugo

Abstract

The present invention provides an image formation device that, even when a pretreatment agent contains a volatile component, suppresses the pretreatment agent applied to a recording medium from volatilizing and reacting with ink in a head. The image formation device cools a pretreatment agent 80 with cooling units 71-75. The cooling unit 71 cools the pretreatment agent 80 that is stored in a tank 77. The cooling unit 72 cools the pretreatment agent 80 that is accommodated in a sub-pouch 8. A cooling unit 73A cools the pretreatment agent 80 that is inside a pretreatment agent flow path 26. A cooling unit 73B cools the pretreatment agent 80 that is inside a pretreatment agent flow path 27. The cooling unit 74 cools the pretreatment agent 80 that is inside a head 14A. The cooling unit 75 cools the pretreatment agent 80 that has been applied to a recording medium placed on a platen 15.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/01 - Ink jet
  • B41J 2/165 - Prevention of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles

54.

IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023010594
Publication Number 2023/189729
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-17
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Murase Mami

Abstract

Provided is an image forming device capable of forming an image formed section excellent in both whiteness and texture. An image forming device 1 according to the present disclosure comprises: an inkjet head unit 3a; an application unit 3b; and a control unit 5. The inkjet head unit 3a can discharge white ink and color ink to a fabric. The application unit 3b can apply a stripping agent to the fabric. The control unit 5 executes a printing process for forming an image on the fabric by causing the inkjet head unit 3a to discharge the white ink and the color ink and causing the application unit 3b to apply the stripping agent.

IPC Classes  ?

  • D06B 11/00 - Treatment of selected parts of textile materials, e.g. partial dyeing
  • B41J 2/01 - Ink jet
  • B41J 2/21 - Ink jet for multi-colour printing
  • B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein

55.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023011791
Publication Number 2023/190147
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-24
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Narita Kenju
  • Hosomizo Yoshito

Abstract

Provided is a technology for enabling a user to check information on a plurality of printer queues easily via an information processing device having an OS-standard general-purpose printing program pre-installed. An auxiliary program 42 is requested to execute processing by a general-purpose printing program 41 in response to output of a printing command from an editing application 43 or the like. Further, the auxiliary program 42 is requested to execute processing by the general-purpose printing program 41 in response to an OS 21 receiving an activation command in a state in which a printer 2 has been selected. When the auxiliary program 42 is requested to execute processing in response to the OS 21 receiving an activation command, the auxiliary program 42 causes a CPU 11 of a PC 1 to acquire body information held by the selected printer 2, determine whether or not there exists another printer different from the printer 2, acquire body information held by a printer 3 determined to exist, and display the acquired printer 2 body information and printer 3 body information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

56.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023011794
Publication Number 2023/190150
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-24
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Narita Kenju
  • Hosomizo Yoshito

Abstract

The present invention provides a technology, for improving the procedure for accessing a server that provides a service, in an information processing device in which an OS-standard general-purpose printing program is installed. In an OS 40 for a PC 1, when an instruction to start up an auxiliary program 42 is received, the auxiliary program 42 acquires connection information of a printer 2 from the OS 40, acquires access information from the printer 2 using the connection information, and accesses a customer management server 5 using the access information to acquire initial setting information and print service information. Thereafter, on the basis of the acquired initial setting information and print service information, a screen showing a change in use information associated with a user, such as an increase in the number of copies to be printed, is displayed on a display 13a, and the procedure for changing the print service information or the like is received.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04L 67/51 - Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit

57.

DEVELOPING CARTRIDGE

      
Application Number JP2023012157
Publication Number 2023/190312
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-27
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Wang, Yuwen

Abstract

A developing cartridge (1) includes a housing (10), a developing roller (20), a shaft (61), a first cam (62), and an elastic member (35). The housing (10) has a first outer surface (11) at one end portion of the housing (10) in a first direction. The developing roller (20) is rotatable about a first axis (X1) extending in the first direction. The developing roller (20) is at one end portion of the housing (10) in a second direction. The shaft (61) is along a second axis (X2) extending in the first direction. The shaft (61) and the first cam (62) are movable together in the first direction. The first cam (62) is at one end portion of the shaft (61) in the first direction. The elastic member (35) is positioned between the first outer surface (11) and the first cam (62) in the first direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer
  • G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements

58.

IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023012457
Publication Number 2023/190489
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-28
Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Inuzuka Mikio

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a construction capable of rotating a stirring member in a state where a conveyance roller for conveying a sheet is stopped when a user replenishes a process unit with toner from a toner cartridge. A main body housing 10 comprises a first motor M1 capable of driving an agitator 34 as an example of a stirring member and a conveyance roller, and an electromagnetic clutch C1 capable of switching between a transmission state in which driving force from the first motor M1 can be transmitted to the conveyance roller and a non-transmission state in which the driving force is not transmitted. A control unit 70 executes first switching processing for switching the electromagnetic clutch C1 from the transmission state to the non-transmission state when a replenishment part cover 13 is located in a cover open position, and thereafter executes first motor driving processing for driving the first motor M1.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/14 - Electronic sequencing control
  • G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements
  • G03G 21/18 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements using a processing cartridge
  • G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer

59.

SUPPORT PROGRAM AND PRINT SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2023009280
Publication Number 2023/181987
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-10
Publication Date 2023-09-28
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Hosomizo Yoshito

Abstract

The present invention enables the setting based on a unique function of a print to be handled with a simple configuration. PC 1 comprises a general-purpose print program 41 of an OS 21 standard and an auxiliary program 42. PC 1 acquires, by means of the auxiliary program 42, specific information that specifies a selected print and capability information that indicates the capability of the printer. Furthermore, when processing is requested from the general-purpose program 41, PC 1 determines, on the basis of the specific information acquired by the auxiliary program 42, whether the selected printer is a virtual printer 5. When the selected printer is not the virtual printer 5, PC 1 displays, on a display 13a, a first print setting screen which receives the print setting based on the capability information, and, when the selected printer is the virtual printer 5, PC 1 displays, on the display 13a, a second print setting screen which receives a print setting based on the common capability of the printer that is connectable to a cloud server 6.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

60.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023009281
Publication Number 2023/181988
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-10
Publication Date 2023-09-28
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Narita Kenju
  • Hosomizo Yoshito

Abstract

Provided is a technology for enabling various applications for using a printer to be managed easily with an information processing device in which an OS-standard general-purpose printing program has been installed. An auxiliary program 42 is requested to execute processing by a general-purpose printing program 41 in response to output of a printing command from an editing application 43 or the like. Further, the auxiliary program 42 is requested to execute processing by the general-purpose printing program 41 in response to an OS 21 receiving an activation command with a printer 2 selected. When the auxiliary program 42 is requested to execute processing in response to the OS 21 receiving an activation command, the auxiliary program 42 causes a CPU 11 of a PC 1 to acquire capability information indicating the capability of the printer 2 via the general-purpose printing program 41, display a list of information indicating an application using the capability indicated by the acquired capability information among a plurality of managed applications, and receive a command to execute one of the displayed applications.

IPC Classes  ?

61.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023008512
Publication Number 2023/176579
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-07
Publication Date 2023-09-21
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Hosomizo Yoshito

Abstract

Processing delays accompanying communication with a printer are suppressed in an information processing device provided with a standard OS general-purpose printing program. A supplementary program 42 acquires capacity information indicating the capacity of a printer 2 through communication with the printer 2 connected to a PC 1 and stores information based on the acquired capacity information in memory 12 as capacity-dependent information 44. The supplementary program 42 generates display data by reading the capacity-dependent information 44 from the memory 12 without causing the PC 1 to run a process for acquiring the capacity information from the printer 2 when processing has been requested by a general-purpose printing program 41 by selecting the printer 2 in a printing configuration screen D2 with the capacity-dependent information 44 stored in the memory 12, and displays content of configuration items reflecting the capacity information of the printer 2 in the printing configuration screen D2 by passing the display data to the general purpose printing program 41.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

62.

DRUM CARTRIDGE AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE

      
Application Number JP2023008511
Publication Number 2023/176578
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-03-07
Publication Date 2023-09-21
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hashimoto Junichi
  • Amaike Takuya
  • Wang Yuwen
  • Kakutani Takuya
  • Furukawa Toshio
  • Nakajima Keigo
  • Hinoue Kazuma
  • Fukuta Hiroya
  • Iriyama Shota
  • Oshika Yumiko

Abstract

The present invention enables easy replacement of a transfer roller even in a drum cartridge in which toner and carrier are accommodated in a development container. A drum cartridge 50 has a toner cartridge 70 detachably attached thereto, and is provided with a photosensitive drum 51, a magnetic roller 61, a development container 62, a first auger 63, a second auger 64, and a transfer roller 54. The development container 62 accommodates therein toner and carrier to be fed to the magnetic roller 61. The development container 62 is replenished with toner accommodated in the toner cartridge 70. The first auger conveys the toner and carrier in the development container 62 from one axial side thereof to the other axial side. The second auger 64 conveys the toner and carrier in the development container from one axial side thereof to the other axial side. The transfer roller 54 conveys a sheet while nipping the same together with the photosensitive drum 51, and transfers a toner image from the photosensitive drum 51 onto the sheet.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/18 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements using a processing cartridge
  • G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer
  • G03G 15/16 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern

63.

IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS AND INITIALIZATION METHOD

      
Application Number JP2023004922
Publication Number 2023/162773
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-02-14
Publication Date 2023-08-31
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kyotani Tadao

Abstract

After a controller initializes consumable memory information stored in a consumable memory of a consumable, the consumable can be used immediately. A controller (61) of an image-forming apparatus (1) executes a determination process of determining at least if a cover (11) is in an open state, an initialization process of initializing toner cartridge information for a toner memory (42) upon determining at least that the cover is in an open state, and a reading process of reading toner cartridge information with the cover (11) in a closed state.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
  • B41J 29/13 - Cases or covers
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

64.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023004921
Publication Number 2023/162772
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-02-14
Publication Date 2023-08-31
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Narita Kenju

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to customize a print setting screen displayed by an OS-standard general-purpose printing program in an information processing device in which the OS-standard general-purpose program is embedded. This support program is an auxiliary program 42 that is compatible with a printer 2 connected to a PC 1, and that supports a general-purpose printing program 41 pre-embedded in the OS 21 of the PC 1. When processing is requested from the general-purpose printing program 41 as a result of selection of the printer 2, the auxiliary program 42 causes a CPU 11 of the PC 1 to perform: a process for reading setting data indicating setting content for customizing a print setting screen D2; a process for generating display data indicating the display content of the print setting screen, on the basis of the setting content indicated by the read setting data; and a process for passing the generated display data to the general-purpose printing program 41 so as to display the print setting screen on a display 13a of the PC 1 according to the display data.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof

65.

COMPUTER PROGRAM AND PROCESSING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023004920
Publication Number 2023/157825
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-02-14
Publication Date 2023-08-24
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Hirano Masatoshi

Abstract

The present invention appropriately selects a plurality of feature maps to be used for the specific process of evaluating differences between images. Provided is a processing device using a machine learning model that generates N of feature maps, and the processing device determines a plurality of selection patterns for selecting a map to use from among N of the feature maps, uses the map to use to generate, for each of the selection patterns, first feature data indicating features of a first image and second feature data indicating features of a second image, uses the first feature data and the second feature data to generate, for each of the selection patterns, difference data that is to indicate differences between the first image and the second image, and uses the difference data to calculate an evaluation value. The processing device repeatedly executes these processes to determine a specific selection pattern to be used for specific process of evaluating differences between images. The selection pattern is determined by executing a process that follows an evolutionary computation algorithm using the previous selection pattern and the evaluation value of the previous selection pattern.

IPC Classes  ?

66.

MACHINE TOOL AND PROTECTIVE MEMBER

      
Application Number JP2023006246
Publication Number 2023/157980
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-02-21
Publication Date 2023-08-24
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Mizuno, Naoto
  • Ishibashi, Nobuaki
  • Tsuji, Shunsuke
  • Yasui, Yoshihito

Abstract

In the present invention, a plate-shaped fixing cover (30) is fixed to a lower part of a spindle head (6). The fixing cover (30) protects a moving mechanism inside a column (5) from chips and the like. When the spindle head (6) is positioned at the uppermost end of a movement range, a moving cover (40) covers and protects a part of the column (5) that is not completely covered by the fixing cover (30) and therefore is exposed. When the spindle head (6) moves to the lowermost end of the movement range, the moving cover (40) contacts engagement projections (55A, 55B) and is restricted from moving downward. As the spindle head (6) descends, the moving cover (40) moves upward relative to the fixing cover (30) and is housed on the rear-surface side of the fixing cover (30).

IPC Classes  ?

  • B23Q 11/08 - Protective coverings for parts of machine tools; Splash guards

67.

SEWING MACHINE CONTROL DEVICE AND SEWING MACHINE CONTROL PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023003546
Publication Number 2023/153326
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-02-03
Publication Date 2023-08-17
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Imaizumi Kazutaka

Abstract

The present invention can change the state of a control means between an active state and an inactive state, with respect to each of an imaging control means and a projection control means. Provided is a sewing machine control device for a sewing machine having an imaging unit and a projection unit, comprising: an imaging control means that can change the state of controlling the imaging unit between an active state and an inactive state; a projection control means that can change the state of controlling the projection unit between an active state and an inactive state; and a coordination means that, when one control means is in the active state and the other control means switches to the active state, switches the one control means to the inactive state.

IPC Classes  ?

  • D05B 19/12 - Sewing machines having electronic memory or microprocessor control unit characterised by control of operation of machine
  • D05C 5/02 - Embroidering machines with arrangements for automatic control of a series of individual steps by electrical or magnetic control devices

68.

AIR CONDITIONER

      
Application Number JP2023002622
Publication Number 2023/149369
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-27
Publication Date 2023-08-10
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ochiai Yusuke
  • Sakano Yuji
  • Yoshida Shigeki
  • Matsumoto Daiki
  • Sato Ryosuke

Abstract

Provided is an air conditioner having improved cooling performance. This air conditioner comprises: a sensible heat exchanger including an air supply path and an air discharge path; an exchanger water supply unit for supplying water to the air discharge path in the sensible heat exchanger; an air discharge vaporization filter positioned farther upstream than the sensible heat exchanger in an air discharge flow direction toward the air discharge path in the sensible heat exchanger, the air discharge vaporization filter allowing passage of discharged air; and a filter water supply unit for supplying water to the air discharge vaporization filter.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F28F 3/08 - Elements constructed for building-up into stacks, e.g. capable of being taken apart for cleaning
  • F24F 1/0007 - Indoor units, e.g. fan coil units
  • F24F 1/037 - Self-contained room units for air-conditioning, i.e. with all apparatus for treatment installed in a common casing with humidification means
  • F24F 5/00 - Air-conditioning systems or apparatus not covered by group or
  • F24F 13/22 - Means for preventing condensation or evacuating condensate
  • F28D 9/00 - Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary plate-like or laminated conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall
  • F28F 25/06 - Spray nozzles or spray pipes

69.

METHOD FOR RECYCLING DEVELOPING CARTRIDGE

      
Application Number JP2023002621
Publication Number 2023/149368
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-27
Publication Date 2023-08-10
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kusuda Shinya
  • Fukamachi Yasuo

Abstract

The present invention provides a technology capable of, in recycling a developing cartridge, more easily attaching a holder cover in a state of holding an IC chip holder to a gear cover. A holder assembly 20 has an IC chip 21, an IC chip holder 24 that holds the IC chip, and a holder cover 25 that holds the IC chip holder 24. After the new or recycled holder assembly 20 is attached to a jig 50, a gear cover 18 is attached to the jig 50. Thereafter, the holder assembly 20 is attached to the gear cover 18 by a first screw 253.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/18 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements using a processing cartridge
  • G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer
  • G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements

70.

CARTRIDGE

      
Application Number JP2023002682
Publication Number 2023/149377
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-27
Publication Date 2023-08-10
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kusuda, Shinya
  • Itabashi, Nao
  • Furukawa, Masaaki
  • Hatano, Shuhei
  • Fukamachi, Yasuo

Abstract

A cartridge (10) includes: a housing (11); a storage medium (21) including an electrical contact surface (213); and a storage medium holder (24) holding the storage medium (21) and movable relative to the housing (11). The storage medium holder (24) is positioned at one end portion of the housing (11) in a first direction and includes: a first holder (41) holding the electrical contact surface (213); a second holder (42) positioned spaced away from the first holder (41) in a second direction crossing the first direction; and an elastic member (45) expandable and shrinkable in the second direction between the first holder (41) and the second holder (42). The first holder (41) has a first hole (401) penetrating the first holder (41) in the second direction. The first hole (401) is positioned farther from the housing (11) in the first direction than the second holder (42) and the elastic member (45) are from the housing (45) in the first direction and is overlapped with the electrical contact surface (213) in the second direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/18 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements using a processing cartridge
  • G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer
  • G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements

71.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023001130
Publication Number 2023/145532
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-17
Publication Date 2023-08-03
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Narita Kenju

Abstract

The present invention pertains to an information processing device including a standard general-purpose printing program of an operating system (OS), and provides a technology for displaying information about status of a printer before a print instruction. A general-purpose printing program 41 included in an OS 21 of a personal computer (PC) 1 in advance is capable of handling data for displaying a printing settings screen on a display 13a of the PC 1. An auxiliary program 42 for supporting the general-purpose printing program 41, when processing is requested from the general-purpose printing program 41 upon selection of a printer 2, acquires status information 31 indicating status of the printer 2, generates notification data indicating notification contents to be notified to a user, on the basis of the acquired status information 31, and delivers the generated notification data to the general-purpose printing program 41 to display the notification data in the printing settings screen displayed on the display 13a.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

72.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023001657
Publication Number 2023/145636
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-20
Publication Date 2023-08-03
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Hosomizo Yoshito

Abstract

In the present invention, in an information processing device in which an OS standard general-purpose printing program is incorporated, information based on paper characteristics obtained from a printer is displayed. An auxiliary program 42 is incorporated into a PC 1, the auxiliary program supporting a printer 2 connected to the PC 1 and supporting a general-purpose printing program 41 incorporated in advance into an OS 21 of the PC 1. The auxiliary program 42: acquires, from the printer 2, main unit information relating to paper characteristics stored for each paper feed; and if print settings are changed on a print setting screen D2 displayed on a display 13a using the general-purpose printing program 41, acquires the changed print settings from the general-purpose print program 41. The auxiliary program 42 generates, on the basis of the main body information acquired from the printer 2, notification data containing paper information indicating feed tray paper characteristics set in the changed print settings, transfers the notification data to the general-purpose printing program 41, and displays the notification data to the print setting screen D2.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

73.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023001129
Publication Number 2023/145531
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-17
Publication Date 2023-08-03
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Hosomizo Yoshito

Abstract

The present invention displays, in an information processing device that has an OS-standard general-use printing program incorporated therein, information pertaining to the permissibility of printing settings. An assistance program 42 which corresponds to a printer 2 connected to a PC 1 and supports a general-use printing program 41 incorporated in advance in an OS 21 of the PC 1 is incorporated in the PC 1. The general-use printing program 41 is capable of handling data for displaying a printing settings screen D2 on a display 13a of the PC 1. In the PC 1, an information application 43 uses the general-use printing program 41 to display the printing settings screen D2 on the display 13a, and the assistance program 42 determines the suitability of a combination of printing settings changed on the printing settings screen D2. When it is determined that the changed printing settings are of an unsuitable combination, notification data which indicates that the printing settings are unsuitable is generated, and the generated notification data is displayed on the printing settings screen D2.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

74.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023001132
Publication Number 2023/145533
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-17
Publication Date 2023-08-03
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Narita Kenju

Abstract

Provided, in an information processing device in which an OS standard general-purpose print program is installed, is a technology for issuing a notification of information before a print instruction, when an error occurs in connection with a printer. A general-purpose print program 41 preinstalled in an OS 21 of a PC 1 handles data for displaying a print setting screen D2 on a display 13a of the PC 1. An auxiliary program 42 that supports the general-purpose printing program 41 checks the connection with a printer 2, when processing is requested by selecting the printer 2, and when a connection error is checked in the connection checking, the auxiliary program 42 generates notification data indicating notification content for notifying the user that connection with the printer 2 has failed, passes the generated notification data to the general-purpose printing program 41, and displays the notification data on a print setting screen D2 displayed on the display 13a of the PC 1.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

75.

SEWING MACHINE

      
Application Number JP2023002040
Publication Number 2023/145716
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-24
Publication Date 2023-08-03
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Ito Kunihiro

Abstract

Provided is a sewing machine configured so that the possibility of a tapering pattern being able to be formed at a position intended by a user is improved over the prior art. A control unit of the sewing machine acquires sewing data for continuously forming a practical pattern in a first direction (S1). The control unit acquires a condition for sewing a tapering pattern including a tapering portion in which the practical pattern is deformed in a tapered shape toward one side of the first direction (S2). The control unit generates, on the basis of the sewing data and the condition, a projection image expressing the tapering pattern (S12). The control unit continuously sews the practical pattern in a front-back direction in accordance with the sewing data (S9). After the start of practical pattern sewing processing, the control unit controls a projection unit and projects the projection image at an expected sewing position of the tapering pattern and at an expected sewing size thereof (S13). After the start of projection control processing, the control unit sews the tapering pattern continuous with the practical pattern in accordance with the sewing data and the condition.

IPC Classes  ?

  • D05B 19/08 - Arrangements for inputting stitch or pattern data to memory
  • D05C 5/02 - Embroidering machines with arrangements for automatic control of a series of individual steps by electrical or magnetic control devices

76.

SEWING MACHINE

      
Application Number JP2023002041
Publication Number 2023/145717
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-24
Publication Date 2023-08-03
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Ito Kunihiro

Abstract

Provided is a sewing machine with which the possibility of forming a tapering pattern at a position intended by a user is improved in comparison to the prior art. A control unit of the sewing machine acquires sewing data for continuously forming a utility pattern in a first direction (S1). The control unit acquires a condition for sewing a tapering pattern including a tapering portion in which the utility pattern is deformed in a taper toward one side in the first direction (S2). On the basis of the sewing data, the condition, and the captured image, the control unit generates a display image, in which the image representing the tapering pattern is placed in the intended sewing position of the tapering pattern on the captured image in the intended sewing size (S12). The control unit displays the display image after starting the sewing of the utility pattern (S13). After starting the process of displaying the display image, and in accordance with the sewing data and the condition, the control unit controls a sewing unit, a conveying unit, and a movement unit to sew the tapering pattern as a continuation of the utility pattern (S15).

IPC Classes  ?

  • D05B 19/08 - Arrangements for inputting stitch or pattern data to memory
  • D05C 5/02 - Embroidering machines with arrangements for automatic control of a series of individual steps by electrical or magnetic control devices

77.

METHOD FOR RECYCLING DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE

      
Application Number JP2023002042
Publication Number 2023/145718
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-24
Publication Date 2023-08-03
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Iwasa Go
  • Hatano Shuhei

Abstract

Provided is a method for recycling a developer cartridge in which a lever cover can be attached to a housing while the lever remains held on the outer surface of the housing. First, a lever cover 60 is removed from a housing 10. Next, developer is filled into the housing 10 through a filling port. Then, the lever cover 60 is attached to the housing 10. A jig 900 is then attached to the housing 10 and a lever 50, at the latest before the lever cover 60 is attached to the housing 10. This restricts the movement of the lever 50 with respect to the housing 10. In this manner, the lever cover 60 can be attached to the housing 10 while the lever 50 remains held on the housing 10 via the jig 900. Therefore, the lever cover 60 can be attached to the housing 10 while the lever 50 remains held on the outer surface of the housing 10.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/18 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements using a processing cartridge
  • G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer

78.

DEVELOPING CARTRIDGE

      
Application Number JP2023002702
Publication Number 2023/145897
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-27
Publication Date 2023-08-03
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hatano, Shuhei
  • Itabashi, Nao

Abstract

A developing cartridge (1) includes: a housing (10) accommodating developing agent; a developing roller (30) including a developing-roller shaft (32) extending in a first direction; an electrode (40) made of an electrically conductive resin; and a first collar (50) made of an electrically non-conductive resin. The electrode (40) is positioned at one end portion of the housing (10) in the first direction. The electrode (40) is electrically connected to the developing-roller shaft (32). The first collar (50) covers one end portion of the developing-roller shaft (32) in the first direction. The first collar (50) includes: a first arm (521) extending in the first direction; and a first pawl (522) configured to engage with the electrode (40). The first pawl (522) protrudes from the first arm (521) in a direction away from the developing-roller shaft (32). The first pawl (522) is movable between: a first position at which the first pawl (522) can engage with the electrode (40); and a second position at which the first pawl (522) is separated from the electrode (40).

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer
  • G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements

79.

SUPPORT PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023001131
Publication Number 2023/140240
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-17
Publication Date 2023-07-27
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Narita Kenju

Abstract

Provided is a technique of displaying information related to a service applied to a printer, in an information processing device embedded with an OS-standard general-purpose printing program. A general-purpose printing program 41 embedded in advance in an OS 21 of a PC 1 processes data for displaying a printing configuration window on a display 13a of the PC 1. Service information, which is information related to a service applicable to the printer 2, is stored in the printer 2. An auxiliary program 42 supporting the general-purpose printing program 41 acquires the service information stored in the printer 2 when the general-purpose printing program 41 requests processing in response to selection of the printer 2. Then, on the basis of the acquired service information, the auxiliary program 42 generates notification data indicating a notification content to be notified to a user and passes the generated notification data to the general-purpose printing program 41, to display the notification data on the printing configuration window.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/12 - Digital output to print unit
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism

80.

CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

      
Application Number JP2023001133
Publication Number 2023/140241
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-01-17
Publication Date 2023-07-27
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kurumi Kensuke

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a control device, etc., capable of controlling movement for replacement of pots disposed at cutting positions even in a machine tool in which pots are disposed at unequal intervals. A control device according to the present disclosure is a control device for a machine tool provided with a spindle, an endless rail, and a tool magazine provided with a plurality of pots accommodating tools and disposed at unequal intervals on the rail, the plurality of pots including a current pot which is disposed at a cutting position for mounting on the spindle, and a scheduled pot which is scheduled to be disposed at the cutting position, and the control device comprising: an acquisition unit which acquires distances among the plurality of pots; a calculation unit which calculates a movement amount by which the scheduled pot will move to the cutting position on the basis of the information relating to the current pot and the scheduled pot and the distance acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit which carries out control to move the pot along the rail on the basis of the movement amount calculated by the calculation unit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B23Q 3/157 - Arrangements for automatic insertion or removal of tools of rotary tools
  • B23Q 3/155 - Arrangements for automatic insertion or removal of tools

81.

DRUM UNIT

      
Application Number JP2022043900
Publication Number 2023/127374
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-11-29
Publication Date 2023-07-06
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Fujioka Michio
  • Abe Koji

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to remove deposits on a photosensitive drum and, remove deposits on a charging roller. This drum unit includes: a drum frame 100 that can move with respect to a main body housing of an image forming device, and that detachably supports a developer cartridge; a photosensitive drum 51 supported by the drum frame 100; a cleaning roller that can recover deposits on the photosensitive drum 51 by contacting the photosensitive drum 51; a charging roller 200 that charges the photosensitive drum 51 by contacting the photosensitive drum 51; a charging roller cleaner 300 that removes the deposits on the charging roller 200 by contacting the charging roller 200; and a first bearing 510. The first bearing 510 supports one end in an axial direction of the charging roller 200 and one end in an axial direction of the charging roller cleaner 300. The charging roller 200 and the charging roller cleaner 300 can be mounted on the drum frame 100 while the first bearing 510 is mounted.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements
  • G03G 15/02 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for laying down a uniform charge, e.g. for sensitising; Corona discharge devices

82.

IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2022046812
Publication Number 2023/127588
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-12-20
Publication Date 2023-07-06
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Adachi Aya
  • Sato Shougo
  • Taguchi Kazuna

Abstract

Provided is an image formation device that is able to prevent waste toner from spilling from a first drum cartridge and a second drum cartridge when the first drum cartridge and the second drum cartridge are detached. This image formation device 1 comprises a main body casing 2, a cover 3, drum cartridges 5Y, 5M, 5C, and 5K, a shutter drive member 16, and a linking mechanism 18. Each of the drum cartridges 5Y, 5M, 5C and 5K comprises a photosensitive drum 51, a drum cleaner 55, a discharge unit 56 having a discharge opening 561, and a shutter 57. The drum cleaner 55 cleans the peripheral surface of the photosensitive drum 51. The discharge opening 561 is able to discharge waste toner recovered by the drum cleaner 55. The shutter 57 opens and closes the discharge opening 561. In a state in which the drum cartridges 5Y, 5M, 5C, and 5K are mounted inside the main body casing 2, the shutter drive member 16 is able to link with shutters 57Y, 57M, 57C, and 57M. The linking mechanism 18 links the cover 3 and the shutter drive member 16 to each other.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
  • G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements
  • G03G 21/18 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements using a processing cartridge

83.

MEDIUM-HOLDING BODY AND LABEL CREATION METHOD

      
Application Number JP2022045810
Publication Number 2023/120296
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-12-13
Publication Date 2023-06-29
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nishihara Keisuke
  • Murayama Kentaro
  • Minami Akira

Abstract

Provided are a medium-holding body and a label creation method with which it is possible to reduce the possibility that printing defects will occur. A tape cassette 30 comprises: a first roll 40 on which is wound a printed tape 4 having a printing surface 4A and a reverse surface 4B that face mutually opposite directions; and a second roll 70 on which is wound an adhesive tape 7 that is a medium configured by laminating a double-sided adhesive tape and a separator, slits being formed in the separator. The printed tape 4 includes a first pull-out section 40B that is pulled out from the first roll 40. The adhesive tape 7 includes a second pull-out section 70B that is pulled out from the second roll 70. The reverse surface 4B at the first pull-out section 40B and the double-sided adhesive tape at the second pull-out section 70B are affixed to one another.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 3/36 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for portability
  • B41J 2/32 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads
  • B41J 11/04 - Roller platens
  • B41J 15/06 - Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles characterised by being applied to printers having stationary carriages
  • B65H 37/04 - Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations for securing together articles or webs, e.g. by adhesive, stitching, or stapling

84.

FOIL TRANSFER DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2022045433
Publication Number 2023/112851
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-12-09
Publication Date 2023-06-22
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sakai Ryosuke
  • Yamamoto Tomoya
  • Ichikawa Tomoya

Abstract

Provided is a foil transfer device capable of preventing foil from being transferred onto a portion of a sheet other than a transfer region thereof. This foil transfer device overlaps a sheet S on a foil film F containing foil to transfer the foil onto an image on the sheet S. The foil transfer device comprises: a heating roller 61; a pressing roller 51 for nipping and conveying the foil film F and the sheet S between the pressing roller 51 and the heating roller 61; a releasing member (second guiding shaft 42) that changes the traveling direction of the foil film F to release, from the sheet S, the foil film F having passed through a gap between the heating roller 61 and the pressing roller 51; a press-contact/separation mechanism that moves the heating roller 61 between a press-contact position, at which the heating roller 61 is press-contacted with the pressing roller 51, and a separated position, at which the heating roller 61 is separated from the pressing roller 51; and a control unit. Before a rear end A2 of a transfer region that has been set for the transfer of the foil in the sheet S reaches the release member after passing through the gap between the heating roller 61 and the pressing roller 51, the control unit controls the press-contact/separation mechanism to move the heating roller 61 to the separated position.

IPC Classes  ?

85.

HISTORY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, HISTORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND HISTORY MANAGEMENT DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2022045434
Publication Number 2023/112852
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-12-09
Publication Date 2023-06-22
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kudo Yasuhiro
  • Ueda Yuma

Abstract

Provided are a history management program, a history management method, and a history management device for efficiently realizing a function for cancelling an operation performed immediately prior and reverting to an original state. A display device accepts an input operation for updating display content of a display unit (Yes in S11, Yes in S13). The display device stores a data code Cm indicating display content that is updated in accordance with the accepted input operation as a data code Cm indicating the latest display content (S19). The display device determines an UNDO code required for reverting the latest display content to pre-update display content, which is the display content before the update (S29). The display device associates the determined UNDO code with an operation sequence representing the sequence of accepted input operations and stores the UNDO code as history information (S31).

IPC Classes  ?

86.

IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2022043899
Publication Number 2023/100849
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-11-29
Publication Date 2023-06-08
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Itabashi Nao

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a configuration which makes it possible to electrically connect a toner electric contact of a toner cartridge and an electric contact of a process cartridge in a state where the toner cartridge is attached to the process cartridge. A black and white printer 1 comprises: a main body housing 10, a process cartridge P1 including a second process electric contact 332, and a toner cartridge 200 including a tonner shutter 240 and a toner electric contact 261. In a state where the toner cartridge 200 having a toner discharge port 223A is attached to the process cartridge P1 attached to the main body housing 10, the toner electric contact 261 comes into contact with the second process electric contact 332, and the toner shutter 240 is rotatable between a first position at which the toner discharge port 223A is closed and a second position at which the toner discharge port 223A is opened with respect to the toner electric contact 261 and the second process electric contact 332.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/18 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements using a processing cartridge
  • G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer

87.

HEAD UNIT

      
Application Number JP2022042883
Publication Number 2023/095731
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-11-18
Publication Date 2023-06-01
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Miwa Atsushi

Abstract

The present invention maintains locking by a locking mechanism even when a joint unit is provided on a side surface of a head. On a front surface 10d of a head 10, a joint unit 70 to which an external member is attachable is provided. An arm member 52 constituting a locking mechanism 50 has a support unit 522s that supports the joint unit 70 from a lower side when the head 10 is attached to an attachment member 30.

IPC Classes  ?

88.

FOIL TRANSFER DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2022042884
Publication Number 2023/095732
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-11-18
Publication Date 2023-06-01
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yamamoto Tomoya
  • Sakai Ryosuke
  • Ichikawa Tomoya
  • Ohira Ayaka

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to determine whether or not a foil film is present on a supply reel, on the basis of the rotation speed of a take-up reel. This foil transfer device comprises: a heating member (heating roller); a pressure application member (pressure roller); a supply reel; a take-up reel; a motor for driving the take-up reel; a first rotation speed detection unit capable of detecting the rotation speed of the take-up reel; and a control unit. When the driving of the take-up reel is initiated (S10), the control unit determines that a foil film is present on the supply reel (S13) in the case where the rotation speed detected by the first rotation speed detection unit is less than a first threshold (S12, Yes), and determines that no foil film is present on the supply reel (S14) in the case where the rotation speed detected by the first rotation speed detection unit is equal to or higher than the first threshold (S12, No).

IPC Classes  ?

89.

SUPPORT PROGRAM AND PRINTING SYSTEM

      
Application Number JP2022043135
Publication Number 2023/095776
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-11-22
Publication Date 2023-06-01
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Hosomizo Yoshito

Abstract

The present invention obtains a desired printing quality while preventing an increase in cost even in the case of executing driverless printing based on a general-purpose printing program. Provided is an auxiliary program 123 that is executable by a CPU 110 of a PC 100 and is used for printing with a printer 200 connected. The auxiliary program 123 causes the execution of step STST10 for acquiring printing capability information from the printer 200, step ST135 for accepting the input of a printing quality setting corresponding to the printing capability information, and determining a corresponding data correction manner on the basis of the acceptance result, step ST165 for acquiring intermediate printing data from a general-purpose printing program 122 incorporated in advance in an OS 121 of the PC 100, step ST170, ST180 for generating printing output data from the intermediate printing data by performing correction based on the data correction manner, and step ST185 for outputting the printing output data to the printer 200 as a transmission destination.

IPC Classes  ?

90.

LIGATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2022043550
Publication Number 2023/095875
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-11-25
Publication Date 2023-06-01
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Osawa Naokatsu
  • Yamano Junji
  • Iijima Ryuta
  • Ichihashi Masashi

Abstract

Provided is a ligation device that makes it possible to reliably form loops of thread. When a fixed first thread loop LP1 and a fixed second thread loop LP2 have been formed by a loop formation part 71, a first thread hook 62 is moved through the first thread loop LP1 and the second thread loop LP2 and grips a thread L when a pinhole (a thread catching part) 38 on which the thread L is caught is at a specific position over a ligation target 30, and the thread L as gripped by the first hook 62 is passed through the first thread loop LP1 and the second thread loop LP2 such that a ligature is formed with the thread L. The first thread loop LP1 and the second thread loop LP2 that are formed by the loop formation part 71 are fixed, making it possible for the first thread loop LP1 and the second thread loop LP2 to be reliably formed without being affected, for example, by the surface tension, adhesion weight, etc. of a body fluid.

IPC Classes  ?

91.

FOIL TRANSFER DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2022042881
Publication Number 2023/095729
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-11-18
Publication Date 2023-06-01
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ohira Ayaka
  • Yamamoto Tomoya
  • Sakai Ryosuke
  • Ichikawa Tomoya

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to detect the presence/absence of a foil film on the upstream side of a transfer position without rotating a feed reel. This foil transfer device is for transferring, in a condition in which a sheet has been placed on top of a foil film F including a foil, the foil onto an image on the sheet, said foil transfer device comprising: a heating member (heating roller 61) having a heater and heating the foil film F and the sheet; a pressure member (pressure roller 51) for sandwiching the foil film F and the sheet with the heating member; a feed reel 31 on which the foil film F is wound; a take-up reel 35 for taking up the foil film F fed from the feed reel 31; a motor M for driving the take-up reel 35; and a film sensor 110 capable of detecting the foil film F wound on the feed reel 31, or the foil film F placed between the heating member and the feed reel 31, without driving the motor M.

IPC Classes  ?

92.

FOIL TRANSFER DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2022042882
Publication Number 2023/095730
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-11-18
Publication Date 2023-06-01
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Yamamoto Tomoya

Abstract

Provided is a foil transfer device wherein a mechanism that can implement both supply and rewinding of a foil film can be made compact. This foil transfer device comprises: a supply reel 31; a take-up reel 35; a motor M; a first gear train 100; a second gear train 200; and a control unit 300 that can implement a supply action in which a foil film F is reeled in by the take-up reel 35, and a rewind action in which the foil film F is rewound onto the supply reel 31. The first gear train 100 has a pendulum gear 110 that, during implementation of the supply action, permits the supply reel 31 to rotate in an outgoing direction in which the foil film F is sent out, and when the rewind action is implemented, transmits a driving force and causes the supply reel 31 to rotate in the opposite direction from the outgoing direction. The second gear train 200 has a pendulum gear 210 that, during implementation of the supply action, transmits a driving force and causes the take-up reel 35 to rotate in a take-up direction in which the foil film F is reeled in, and when the rewind action is implemented, permits the take-up reel 35 to rotate in the opposite direction from the take-up direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65C 5/04 - Thermo-activatable adhesives
  • B65C 9/24 - Gluing the labels or articles by heat
  • B41M 1/30 - Printing on other surfaces than ordinary paper on organic plastics, horn, or like materials

93.

FOIL TRANSFER DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2022040863
Publication Number 2023/085169
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-11-01
Publication Date 2023-05-19
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Mori Kentaro
  • Ichikawa Tomoya

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a foil transfer device capable of improving the releasability of a foil film from a sheet and promptly reducing the temperature of, e.g., a heating member. A foil transfer device 1 is provided with: a heating member (heating roller 61) that heats a foil film F; a pressurizing member (pressurizing roller 51) that holds the foil film F and a sheet S with the heating member; a releasing member (releasing roller 42) that releases the foil film F from the sheet S; fans 210, 220 that form an airflow inside the foil transfer device 1; and a switching mechanism 400 that is capable switching the airflow by the fans 210, 220. The switching mechanism 400 switches between a first state in which air is supplied to the foil film F positioned between the heating member and the releasing member and a second state in which air is supplied to the heating member or the pressurizing member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B65C 5/02 - Labelling fabrics or comparable materials or articles with deformable surface, e.g. paper, fabric rolls, stockings, shoes using adhesives
  • B65C 9/38 - Label cooling or drying
  • G03G 15/24 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern involving the combination of more than one step according to groups whereby at least two steps are performed simultaneously

94.

IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE, AND METHOD RELATING TO CONTINUOUS USE OF CONSUMABLE MEMORY

      
Application Number JP2022039282
Publication Number 2023/079983
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-10-21
Publication Date 2023-05-11
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kyotani Tadao

Abstract

Whether a consumable memory can be used is determined without using information representing the number of times information is written to the consumable memory when a consumable is filled with a printing material without replacing the consumable memory. On the basis of capacity information stored in a toner member (42) and upper limit print amount information stored in the toner member (42) or a body memory (62), a controller (61) of an image-forming device (1) executes a determination process for determining whether the toner memory (42) can be continuously used even if print amount information is changed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
  • B41J 2/175 - Ink supply systems
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • G03G 21/18 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements using a processing cartridge

95.

IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CONSUMABLE MEMORY, AND TONER CARTRIDGE

      
Application Number JP2022037807
Publication Number 2023/074343
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-10-11
Publication Date 2023-05-04
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Suzuki Takashi

Abstract

Provided is a technique that enables managing of the service life of a consumable longer even when there is a limit set on a counter mounted to a consumable memory. A controller (61) executes: a first setting process for setting a value of a first unidirectional counter in a second unidirectional counter after a consumable is recycled for the first time; a second calculation process for subtracting the used amount of the consumable from a value of the second unidirectional counter in place of the first unidirectional counter; and a second residual amount calculation process for calculating the used amount of the consumable by subtracting the value of the second unidirectional counter from the value of the first unidirectional counter, and calculating the residual amount of the consumable by subtracting the used amount of the consumable from capacity information.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
  • B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
  • B41J 29/42 - Scales and indicators, e.g. for determining side margins
  • H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof

96.

FOIL TRANSFER DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2022039281
Publication Number 2023/074564
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-10-21
Publication Date 2023-05-04
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Sakai Ryosuke

Abstract

The present invention makes it possible to forcibly unlock a cover even in a state in which the cover is locked by a locking member. A foil transfer device 1 is provided with: a housing body 21; a first cover 22; a locking member (rotating member 93); a temperature sensor that detects a temperature inside the housing body; a control unit; and a forcibly unlocking member CR. The first cover 22 moves between a first closing position at which an opening of the housing body 21 is closed and a first opening position at which the opening is opened. The locking member moves between a locking position at which the first cover 22 is locked to the first closing position and an unlocking position at which the first cover 22 is unlocked. The control unit positions the locking member at the locking position when a detected temperature of the temperature sensor is a first prescribed value or more, and positions the locking member at the unlocking position when the detected temperature is less than the first prescribed value. When the first cover 22 is at the first closing position, the forcibly unlocking member CR is operable from the outside of the housing body 21 to move the locking member from the locking position to the unlocking position.

IPC Classes  ?

97.

MACHINE LEARNING MODEL, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND METHOD

      
Application Number JP2022039283
Publication Number 2023/074565
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-10-21
Publication Date 2023-05-04
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Kondo Masaki

Abstract

The present invention reduces the number of items of captured image data required for anomaly detection using a machine learning model. This machine learning model for detecting an anomaly of a target object includes an encoder that creates feature data of the target object under inspection upon input of captured image data obtained by imaging the target object under inspection. At least one of training image data for training the encoder, and extraction image data for creating the feature data of a normal target object by being input to the trained encoder is original image data representing an image of the target object and used to prepare the target object, or is image data obtained by executing predetermined processing on original image data obtained by imaging the target object.

IPC Classes  ?

98.

COMPUTER PROGRAM AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2022039284
Publication Number 2023/074566
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-10-21
Publication Date 2023-05-04
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Onoto Shoji

Abstract

The present invention generates data pertaining to an appearance defect. Processed original image data is generated by executing first image processing by using original data. Processed captured image data is generated by executing second image processing by using the captured image data. By using the processed original data and the processed captured image data, output data, which is data pertaining to an appearance defect, is generated. The first image processing includes the first processing that is not included in second image processing, and the second image processing includes the second processing that is not included in the first image processing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 7/00 - Image analysis
  • G06V 10/74 - Image or video pattern matching; Proximity measures in feature spaces

99.

SEWING MACHINE AND PROGRAM FOR SEWING MACHINE CAPABLE OF CIRCULAR STITCHING

      
Application Number JP2022037803
Publication Number 2023/068097
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-10-11
Publication Date 2023-04-27
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Imaizumi Kazutaka

Abstract

A projector provided to this sewing machine projects a projection image representing an actual-size circular stitch pattern toward a bed section, thereby making it possible for the user to accurately ascertain the shape, size, etc. of the circular stitch pattern which will actually be sewn. This sewing machine is capable of having a circular stitching device mounted thereon and is provided with a projector and a control unit. The control unit executes: a size specification process for specifying the size of a circular stitch pattern; a pattern specification process for specifying a unit pattern constituting the circular stitch pattern; a projection image generation process for generating a projection image representing at least a portion of the circular stitch pattern which has the size specified by the size specification process and in which the unit pattern is arranged continuously in a circle; and a projection control process which causes the projector to project the projection image.

IPC Classes  ?

  • D05B 19/16 - Control of workpiece movement, e.g. modulation of travel of feed dog
  • D05B 35/00 - Work-feeding or work-handling elements for sewing machines, not otherwise provided for

100.

FUEL CELL UNIT

      
Application Number JP2022037804
Publication Number 2023/068098
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-10-11
Publication Date 2023-04-27
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor Tanno Norihiko

Abstract

Provided is fuel cell unit that can suppress a decrease in performance even when stored for a long period of time. While a stack is not supplying power to an external load, the fuel cell unit uses an air supply valve to block (S17) an air supply passage, uses an air exhaust valve to block (S19) an air exhaust passage, and shuts off the supply of air to a cathode electrode. The fuel cell unit uses a hydrogen exhaust valve to block (S21) a hydrogen exhaust passage, uses a hydrogen supply valve to open (S23) a hydrogen supply passage, and supplies hydrogen to an anode electrode. The fuel cell unit uses the hydrogen supply valve to block (S25) the hydrogen supply passage, and shuts off the supply of hydrogen to the anode electrode. After shutting off the supply of hydrogen to the anode electrode, the fuel cell unit waits (S27) on standby until the stack voltage measured by a voltage measurement part becomes less than a prescribed voltage threshold value.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H01M 8/04228 - Auxiliary arrangements, e.g. for control of pressure or for circulation of fluids during start-up or shut-down; Depolarisation or activation, e.g. purging; Means for short-circuiting defective fuel cells during shut-down
  • H01M 8/04303 - Processes for controlling fuel cells or fuel cell systems applied during specific periods applied during shut-down
  • H01M 8/04537 - Electric variables
  • H01M 8/04746 - Pressure; Flow
  • H01M 8/10 - Fuel cells with solid electrolytes
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