Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Brother Kogyo Kabuhsiki Kaisha

Kohei Terada

Akihito Kobayashi

Yasuhito Shikama

Shinya Yamamoto

Tomoaki Hazeyama

Isao Fukuchi

Kenichi Iesaki

Akira Minami

Yasuhiro Torii

Naokatsu Osawa

Yuki Naruse

Daisuke Ishii

Mina Takechi

Kentaro Murayama

Tsuyoshi Ito

Tomohiro Kondo

Yuji Sakano

Mitsuhiro Nozaki

Shigeki Akiyama

Keisuke Nishihara

Kazushige Muroi

Ryohei Suzuki

Yuji Hayashi

Kenta Horade

Masato Kobayashi

Tsutomu Kato

Haruki Matsumoto

Masako Kawagoe

Masaru Takeuchi

Yasuhira Ota

Naohisa Kinoshita

Akihiro Sakakibara

Yusuke Arai

Harumitsu Inoue

Yukiko Takami

Masahiko Sasa

Takaaki Banno

Nobuo Hiraki

Chie Nakashima

Mariko Niizeki

Ryuta Iijima

Miyuki Kusuda

Sachiko Murakami

Masashi Ichihashi

Tetsuya Saso

In a medium conveyed in a first direction, a first slit has a square shape including first, second, third, and fourth sides. A second slit is positioned downstream from the first slit in the first direction and has a square shape including fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth sides. The first, second, fifth, and sixth sides are parallel to the first direction. The third, fourth, seventh, and eighth sides are parallel to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The third and seventh sides are positioned upstream from the fourth and eighth sides in the first direction, respectively. A first print label spans across the first and second sides. A second print label spans across the fifth and sixth sides. A mark has an upstream edge in the first direction positioned downstream from the fourth side and a downstream edge in the first direction positioned upstream from the seventh side.

Medium used with printer and including label and mark provided on release material

A cartridge includes: a cartridge case; a first supply portion including a heat-sensitive medium; and a second supply portion including an adhesive medium. The heat-sensitive medium includes a base material, a plurality of heat-sensitive layers, and at least one heat-insulating layer in a stacked state. The heat-sensitive layers include: a first heat-sensitive layer for producing a first color when heated above a first temperature; and a second heat-sensitive layer for producing a second color when heated above a second temperature higher than the first temperature. The cartridge case includes: an opening for exposing the heat-sensitive medium; and a guide part positioned downstream of the opening in a conveying direction of the heat-sensitive medium for guiding the heat-sensitive medium and the adhesive medium bonded to a surface of the heat-sensitive medium opposite the base material with respect to the plurality of heat-sensitive layers.

Cartridge, thermal printer using the cartridge, medium for use with the thermal printer, and method for creating laminated medium

A medium includes a heat-sensitive medium and an adhesive medium. The heat-sensitive medium includes a first base material and a first color-developing layer. The first base material has a transparency. The first color-developing layer has a transparency. The first color-developing layer is provided on a first surface of the first base material. The first color-developing layer is configured to become less transparent to develop a first color when heated to a first temperature or higher. The adhesive medium is to be superimposed on and bonded to the heat-sensitive medium in their thickness direction. The adhesive medium includes a second base material and an adhesive layer provided on the second base material. The adhesive medium is to be bonded to the heat-sensitive medium on an opposite side of the first color-developing layer from the first base material. The first base material has one or more images pre-printed thereon.

Medium including heat-sensitive medium and adhesive medium whose base material has image pre-printed thereon

A suturing device includes first and second holding members, a plurality of needles, a needle moving mechanism, and a suture hook. The first and second holding members are configured to move toward and away from each other to sandwich therebetween edges of a cut. The needles are disposed at the first holding member and aligned in a needle arrangement direction with their points pointing to the second holding member. The needles are configured to hold a suture at tips thereof. The needle moving mechanism is configured to move the plurality of needles toward the second holding member. The suture hook is disposed at the second holding member and configured to move along the needle arrangement direction to catch the suture that has reached the second holding member via the edges of the cut by movement of the needles toward the second holding member by the needle moving mechanism.

Suturing device

A print data editing device is configured to perform: editing print data such that when dots constituting an input image represented by the print data are compared by units of columns before and after the editing, a coincidence is maximized when an image of each column in the input image after the editing is the same position as an image of the corresponding column in the input image before the editing or is shifted by a corresponding shift amount in a sub-scanning direction relative to the image of the corresponding column in the input image before the editing. An absolute value of at least one of shift amounts for columns in the input image after the editing is one dot or greater. An absolute difference value for any two neighboring columns in a main scanning direction in the input image after the editing is one dot or less.

Print data editing device editing print data such that partial image corresponding to column is shifted by shift amount in sub-scanning direction

A print data editing device includes a controller configured to performs acquiring print data, and converting the print data. The converting includes determining, as a conversion sub-dot, one or more of sub-dots included in a sub-line for each of all sub-lines constituting one line within printing areas in an image represented by the print data, and editing the print data such that the print data indicates OFF for the one or more sub-dots determined as the conversion sub-dot. Each sub-line is constituted by the sub-dots. The sub-dot is a printing unit obtained by dividing a dot into M parts in a sub-scanning direction, where M is an integer of two or greater. The sub-dot for which the print data indicates ON is a printing area. The sub-dot for which the print data indicates OFF is a non-printing area. An area outside a printing region is also the non-printing area.

Print data editing device editing print data such that number of on-dots in image represented by print data is reduced

A print data editing device performs editing print data such that when dots constituting an input image represented by the print data are compared by units of columns before and after performing the editing, a coincidence is maximized when an image of each column in the input image after the editing is the same position as an image of the corresponding column in the input image before the editing or is shifted by a corresponding shift amount relative to the image of the corresponding column in the input image before the editing and an editing condition is met. The editing condition includes that an absolute value of at least one shift amount is one dot or greater, an absolute difference value for any two neighboring columns is one dot or less, and at least one absolute difference value for all possible combinations of two columns is less than one dot.

Print data editing device editing print data such that partial image corresponding to column is shifted in sub-scanning direction and editing condition is met

In a print data editing device, controller is configured to perform: editing; and converting. The editing edits print data representing an input image such that when sub-dots constituting the input image are compared by units of columns before and after performing the editing, a coincidence is maximized when an image of each column in the input image after the editing is the same position as an image of the corresponding column in the input image before the editing or is shifted by a corresponding shift amount in a sub-scanning direction relative to the image of the corresponding column in the input image before the editing. The converting includes: determining one or more sub-dot as a conversion sub-dot; and editing the print data such that the print data indicates OFF for the one or more sub-dots determined as the conversion sub-dot.

Print data editing device editing print data such that partial image corresponding to column is shifted in sub-scanning direction and number of on-dots in image represented by print data is reduced

In a printing device, a supply portion is configured to convey a tape in its longitudinal direction. The tape includes: a plurality of labels arranged continuously in the longitudinal direction; and a plurality of storage elements provided on respective ones of the plurality of labels. A first storage element is provided on a first label and configured to store first authentication data. The second storage element is provided on a second label and configured to store second authentication data. A printing portion is configured to print on the plurality of labels. A controller is configured to perform: reading the first authentication data from the first storage element and the second authentication data from the second storage element by a reading portion; and determining whether the first authentication data is correlated to the second authentication data to meet an authentication condition.

Printing device reading information from and writing information to storage element provided on tape

An ink-jet recording apparatus is provided, including a first transport section which transports a recording medium; a recording section which is formed with a plurality of nozzles and which records an image on the recording medium by discharging ink droplets from the nozzles; an interference member which is provided at a position separated from the recording section; and a control unit which controls the recording section so that only a part of the nozzles is used for a certain area of the recording medium.

Ink-jet recording apparatus and ink-jet recording method

A suturing device is provided, including a needle and a shuttle. The needle has an elongated shape extending in a predetermined direction and is configured to hold a first thread-like member. The needle is reciprocally movable forward and backward in the predetermined direction and is rotatable about an axis extending in the predetermined direction. Rotation of the needle about the axis permitting the first thread-like member to cross the needle to form a loop in the first thread-like member. The shuttle includes a holding portion. The holding portion is configured to hold a second thread-like member. The shuttle is configured to permit the holding portion to pass through the loop.

Suturing device provided with needle for holding first thread-like member and shuttle for holding second thread-like member

In a suturing device, a casing has an elongated shape extending in a longitudinal direction. A needle is positioned in the casing, is configured to hold a first thread-like member, and has a tip end reciprocally moving along a path extending between a first position and a second position positioned backward than the first position in the longitudinal direction. A depression is formed in a peripheral wall of the casing, is positioned between the first and second positions in the longitudinal direction, and is configured to expose the needle to an outside of the casing. The shuttle includes a holding portion configured to hold a second thread-like member. The shuttle is configured to move within the casing at a third position between the first position and the depression in the longitudinal direction to change relative position between the second thread-like member and a loop formed in the first thread-like member.

Suturing device provided with casing and depression formed in the same for receiving suturing target

A suturing device includes a needle, and a shuttle. The needle has an elongated shape extending in a predetermined direction and is configured to hold a first thread-like member. The needle is reciprocally movable forward and backward in the predetermined direction and is rotatable about an axis extending in the predetermined direction. Rotation of the needle about the axis permitting the first thread-like member to cross the needle to form a loop in the first thread-like member. The shuttle includes a holding portion. The holding portion is configured to hold a second thread-like member. The shuttle is configured to permit the holding portion to pass through the loop.

Suturing device provided with reciprocally movable needle and circularly movable shuttle

First and second arms have first and second retaining members, respectively. A switching mechanism switches a retained state of a first position of a tying medium between first and second states. In the first and second states, the first position is retained by the first and second retaining members at first and second retaining positions, respectively. A loop retaining member retains a loop around the second arm in a path extending from the first retaining position through second and third positions to a fourth position of the tying medium. The second position intersects the third position as a result of the loop such that the third position is closer to the first retaining position than the second position in the path. A moving portion moves the loop relative to the second arm to change a relative positional relationship between the loop and the first position on the path.

Knot forming device forming knot by transferring end of tying medium through mechanical operations

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Kiyosu, Japan

Kohei Terada