公开(公告)号：US11192384B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-07

申请号：US16226996

申请日：2018-12-20

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Kenta Horade ,  Sadaaki Miyazaki ,  Jun Morikawa ,  Hajime Inada ,  Masafumi Miyazawa

IPC: B41J2/175 ,  B41J29/393 ,  G06Q10/08

Abstract: A liquid consuming system includes: an installation case configured to receive a cartridge having a first liquid chamber storing a liquid; a tank including a second liquid chamber; a flow path configured to communicate with the second liquid chamber and the first liquid chamber of the cartridge installed in the installation case; a head communicated with the second liquid chamber; a first communication interface; and a controller system configured to: determine a residual amount including at least an amount of liquid in the second liquid chamber of the tank; determine whether the determined residual amount reaches a predetermined amount; and based on determining that the determined residual amount reaches the predetermined amount, transmit first information through the first communication interface, the first information indicating an order instruction of the cartridge.

公开(公告)号：US20190193412A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-27

申请号：US16226996

申请日：2018-12-20

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Kenta HORADE ,  Sadaaki MIYAZAKI ,  Jun MORIKAWA ,  Hajime Inada ,  Masafumi MIYAZAWA

IPC: B41J2/175

CPC classification number: B41J2/17566 ,  B41J2/175 ,  B41J2/17513 ,  B41J2/1752 ,  B41J2/17523 ,  B41J2/1753 ,  B41J2/17546 ,  B41J2/17553 ,  B41J29/393 ,  B41J2002/17573 ,  B41J2002/17576

Abstract: A liquid consuming system includes: an installation case configured to receive a cartridge having a first liquid chamber storing a liquid; a tank including a second liquid chamber; a flow path configured to communicate with the second liquid chamber and the first liquid chamber of the cartridge installed in the installation case; a head communicated with the second liquid chamber; a first communication interface; and a controller system configured to: determine a residual amount including at least an amount of liquid in the second liquid chamber of the tank; determine whether the determined residual amount reaches a predetermined amount; and based on determining that the determined residual amount reaches the predetermined amount, transmit first information through the first communication interface, the first information indicating an order instruction of the cartridge.

公开(公告)号：US09225872B2

公开(公告)日：2015-12-29

申请号：US14688453

申请日：2015-04-16

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Hajime Inada

IPC: G06F15/00 ,  G06F3/12 ,  G06K1/00 ,  H04N1/21 ,  H04N1/00

CPC classification number: H04N1/21 ,  G06F3/1228 ,  H04N1/00204 ,  H04N2201/0074

Abstract: To provide a technology enabling a terminal device to use various functions provided in a data processing device without the use of a device driver. A multifunction device executes a process for implementing a function indicated by instruction data when such instruction data is stored in a shared area of the RAM. Here, the shared area of the RAM in which the instruction data is stored can be recognized by a personal computer connected to the multifunction device as a storage area that can be accessed through the file system, which is a function provided as a standard feature of the operating system. Accordingly, operations of the multifunction device can be controlled from the personal computer end simply by storing instruction data in the shared area via the operating system, eliminating the need for a special device driver to control the operations of the multifunction device.

Abstract translation: 提供使得终端设备能够使用在数据处理设备中提供的各种功能而不使用设备驱动程序的技术。 当这种指令数据存储在RAM的共享区域中时，多功能装置执行用于实现由指令数据指示的功能的处理。 这里，存储有指示数据的RAM的共享区域可以由连接到多功能设备的个人计算机识别为可以通过文件系统访问的存储区域，该文件系统是作为 操作系统。 因此，可以简单地通过操作系统将指令数据存储在共享区域中，从个人计算机端部控制多功能设备的操作，从而无需专门的设备驱动程序来控制多功能设备的操作。