Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Brother Industries, Ltd.

Takuya Nagai

Tsuyoshi Ohashi

Kazunari Taki

Kunihiro Yasui

Yasunori Nakamura

Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto

Toshio Takahashi

Yasuhisa Ichikawa

Kentaro Ushiyama

Yuji Kiyohara

Shiro Yamada

Hironori Hirata

Hiroaki Fujino

Yoshinori Maeda

Koshiro Yamaguchi

Hideo Ueno

Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu

Nobuhiko Funato

Ryohei Komiya

Satoru Moriyama

Akihiko Niwa

Nobumasa Tanaka

Kazutaka Yamamoto

Daisuke Nakayama

Tomoyuki Okamoto

Tatsuhiro Ikedo

Masato Sueyasu

Kazuhito Misumi

Yuya Harada

Yoshiaki Komatsu

Mitsuo Hirota

Kazuo Ito

Wataru Fujishiro

Takaaki Kato

Etsuteru Inoue

Keisuke Manoh

Katsuo Saito

Tomohiro Sawazaki

Katsuru Kobayashi

An image forming apparatus to which a cartridge including a cartridge substrate is attachable includes a main body electrical substrate, a main body ground terminal connected to the main body electrical substrate and configured to take a ground voltage, a first main body terminal connected to the main body electrical substrate and configured to transmit one of a power supply voltage, a data signal that indicates information, and a synchronization signal, a second main body terminal connected to the main body electrical substrate and configured to transmit remaining two of the power supply voltage, the data signal, and the synchronization signal. The cartridge substrate includes a cartridge ground terminal connected to the main body ground terminal, a first cartridge terminal connected to the first main body terminal, and a second cartridge terminal connected to the second main body terminal.

Image forming apparatus having three terminals electrically connectable with detachable cartridge

An image forming apparatus including: an image forming device provided in a housing; a fan to cool an interior of the housing; an AC/DC board; a first temperature detecting element configured to output a signal corresponding to a temperature in the housing; a second temperature detecting element configured to output a signal corresponding to a temperature of an element mounted on the AC/DC board; and a controller configured to control the fan when at least one of a first condition and a second condition is satisfied, the first condition being a condition in which a first detection temperature detected based on the signal received from the first temperature detecting element is not less than a first temperature threshold, the second condition being a condition in which a second detection temperature detected based on the signal received from the second temperature detecting element is not less than a second temperature threshold.

Image forming apparatus with controlable fan

An image processing apparatus including a wireless communication unit, an image processing unit, and a controller configured to establish a wireless connection to perform wireless signal communication between the wireless communication unit and an external device, acquire a reception intensity of a wireless signal received from the external device via the wireless communication unit, determine whether the reception intensity is more than a threshold value, when determining that the reception intensity is more than the threshold value, control the image processing unit to execute an image processing instruction received from the external device via the wireless communication unit, and when determining that the reception intensity is not more than the threshold value, transmit an instruction to display a warning on the external device, to the external device via the wireless communication unit, without controlling the image processing unit to execute the image processing instruction.

Image processing apparatus and method for the same

An image reading device includes a sheet setting portion, a reading unit, a detecting unit, and a controller. The conveying unit is configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction at a first velocity. The reading unit is configured to read the sheet at a reading position. The detecting unit is configured to detect the sheet at a detection position upstream of the reading position in the conveying direction. The controller is configured to control the conveying unit to initiate conveyance of sheet, and configured to control the reading unit to start reading the sheet when the sheet is detected. The controller controls the conveying unit to convey the sheet at a second velocity slower than the first velocity when the sheet is not detected after a prescribed period of time has elapsed since the conveying unit initiates the conveyance of sheet.

Image reading device varying conveyance torque based on type of sheet

An image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit, an extraction unit, a determination unit and an addition unit is provided. The acquisition unit acquires an image of one page from images of a plurality of pages included in one file. The extraction unit extracts color information, which is information about a color of the image of the one page acquired by the acquisition unit. The determination unit determines whether the color information extracted by the extraction unit satisfies a predetermined condition for specifying a page partition. The addition unit adds additional information, by which the page partition can be searched, to at least one of the images of the plurality of pages, when the determination unit determines that the color information satisfies the predetermined condition.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and recording medium for attaching additional information to images in an image file to faciltate searching the image file

The RFID circuit element cartridge stores multiple RFID circuit elements for producing RFID labels. Each of the elements includes an IC circuit part configured to store information and an antenna connected to the IC circuit part. The RFID circuit element cartridge is detachably mounted to an apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag. The apparatus includes an antenna configured to carry out wireless communication with each RFID circuit element for producing a RFID label. The RFID circuit element cartridge includes a RFID circuit element Tc for cartridge identifying configured to store identification information for identifying the cartridge. The identification information serves as a communication factor that determines a performance of communication between the antenna and each RFID circuit element for producing a RFID label.

Container for including at least a RFID tag, apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag, management server for managing production information of a RFID tag, and management system for managing production information of a RFID tag

This disclosure discloses an apparatus for reading radio frequency identification (RFID) tag information configured to perform information transmission and reception with a plurality of RFID tag circuit elements having an IC circuit part storing information and a tag antenna connected to the IC circuit part, comprising: a first movement detecting portion configured to detect a moving state of the apparatus for reading RFID tag information; a transmitting portion configured to generate a reading command to acquire the information stored in the IC circuit part and to transmit the command to the RFID tag circuit element; and a first reading control portion configured to control the number of reading trial times per unit time using the reading command by the transmitting portion according to a detection result of the first movement detecting portion.

Apparatus for reading RFID tag information and RFID tag information reading system

An apparatus for communicating with an RFID tag having a feeding device that feeds a tag tape including an RFID tag circuit element having an IC circuit part and a tag antenna. The RFID circuit element is disposed on one side area along a width direction. To produce an RFID label a fixed inkjet head applies color printing to the one side area and a thermal head prints on another side area along the width direction. An apparatus antenna transmits and receives information to/from the RFID tag circuit element.

Apparatus for communicating with RFID tag

This disclosure discloses a document management system comprising: a scan apparatus provided with an optical reading device configured to optically read a paper medium to be processed and to create image data corresponding to said paper medium; a radio frequency identification (RFID) label producing apparatus configured to produce an RFID label to be affixed onto said paper medium, having a tag communication device that carries out radio communication to an RFID tag circuit element provided with an IC circuit part storing information and a tag antenna that transmits and receives information in reading by said optical reading device; and a database configured to store said image data corresponding to said paper medium and tag identification information of said RFID tag circuit element provided at said RFID label corresponding to said paper medium in association with each other, provided inside said scan apparatus or separately from said scan apparatus.

Document management system

A one-wavelength loop antenna includes a looped antenna element having a length equivalent to one wavelength related to communication; and a feeding cable for feeding current to a feeding point on the antenna element, wherein an inner conductor is disposed inside an outer conductor in a section between the feeding point and an extraction position of the feeding cable distanced from the feeding point by &#x215b; wavelength or more, at least one of the outer and inner conductors functioning as the feeding cable.

One-wavelength loop antenna

There is provided a radio communication system capable of distinguishing objects from one another while taking advantage of the low power consumption and distance measurement ability of the radio communication of the UWB method. A radio tag TGn includes: a characteristic impedance unit () for generating a response signal by using a pulse signal received from a broad-band antenna (); a transmission path () having a predetermined length, transmitting the pulse signal received by the broad-band antenna () from the broad-band antenna () to the characteristic impedance unit (), and transmitting the generated response signal from the characteristic impedance unit () to the broad-band antenna (); and the broad-band antenna () for receiving the pulse signal and transmitting the response signal. The aforementioned pulse wave is transmitted to the radio tag TGn by the UWB method. The response signal from the radio tag TGn is received and the radio tag TGn is identified from the reception waveform.

Position detecting system, responder and interrogator, wireless communication system, position detecting method, position detecting program, and information recording medium

Since signal transmittance adjustment devices that can suppress transmittance of a receiving signal to a DSP as a receiving processing device from an antenna for reception and a signal transmittance control device configured to control the signal transmittance adjustment devices so that the transmittance of the receiving signal to the DSP from the antenna for reception is suppressed at least when a transmission signal including a modulation signal is transmitted from an antenna for transmission are provided, occurrence of a trouble in which a head portion of a reply signal is crushed by a wrap around signal from a transmission side can be suitably prevented, and particularly, favorable communication can be realized at start of a response from a RFID tag. That is, an apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag that can suitably suppress an influence of a transient response can be provided.

Signal processing unit

There is provided a radio-frequency communication device that can sufficiently eliminate a leakage signal from a transmission side included in a received signal. The communication device includes a cancel amplitude controlling unitselectively suppressing supply of a cancel signal to a cancel signal synthesizing unit, a received-signal terminating unitselectively terminating a received-signal input terminal, a signal strength detecting unitdetecting a signal strength, a memory unitstoring a signal strength detected by the signal strength detecting unit, a signal strength comparing unitcomparing a plurality kinds of signal strengths read out from the memory unit, and a cancel signal controlling unitcontrolling an amplitude and/or a phase of the cancel signal based on a result of the comparison by the signal strength comparing unit. Thus, suppressing the cancel signal by the cancel amplitude controlling unitenables accurate detection of a strength of the received signal, as well as terminating the received signal by the received-signal terminating unitenables accurate detection of a strength of the cancel signal.

Radio-frequency communication device

An article management system includes a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) circuit elements respectively handled in association with articles to be managed; and an apparatus for communicating with an RFID tag, each of the RFID tag circuit elements having an IC circuit part storing tag identification information, own target information, and management position information, and the apparatus having a communicating device; a position-information obtainment portion configured to obtain the management position information; and a position-information display output portion configured to output a signal for displaying the management position information.

Article management system, RFID tag, and apparatus for communicating with RFID tag

Radio-frequency tag communication system and radio-frequency tag communication device, which permit highly efficient coordinated operations of the communication devices while preventing overlapping of communication. The communication system includes a positional-relationship determining portion configured to determine relative positions of the plurality of radio-frequency tag communication devices, and a transmission control portion configured to control transmission of the transmitted signal from each of the plurality of radio-frequency tag communication devices, according to a result of determination of the relative positions by the positional-relationship determining portion, so that a sufficiently long time is provided for the mutually adjacent communication devices to transmit the transmitted signals. Namely, the present invention provides a radio-frequency tag communication system wherein the radio-frequency tag communication devices are operable in a coordinated fashion with high efficiency, while preventing overlapping of communication.

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Nagoya, Japan

Takuya Nagai