US 10,540,581 B2Granted

Printer

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorZhipeng Yu

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Abstract

The disclosure discloses a printer comprising a feeder, a printing head, a printer RFID tag comprising a tag antenna and an IC circuit part, a communication antenna, and a control device. The control device being configured to execute an information acquisition process for acquiring access point information via a wired communication connecting part from the printer RFID tag, the access point information being acquired by the printer RFID tag by tag communication, a transmission and reception attempting process for attempting information transmission and reception with an access point, by means of the mutually recognized wireless communication, a data acquisition process for acquiring desired print data acquired by the mutually recognized wireless communication when information transmission and reception by the transmission and reception attempting process succeed, and a printing control process for controlling the feeder and the printing head so that printing is performed on a print-receiving medium.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A printer configured to communicate with a handheld terminal and an access point, comprising:

a feeder configured to feed a sheet;
a printing head configured to perform printing on the sheet fed by the feeder;
a RFID tag comprising a tag antenna configured to transmit and receive information through tag communication, and a memory configured to store information, the RFID tag being configured to receive an access point identifier (ID) for identifying an access point and a password for establishing a connection with the access point from the handheld terminal through the tag communication using the tag antenna;
a communication antenna configured to transmit and receive information through wireless communication, the wireless communication being different from the tag communication;
and
a controller configured to execute:
acquiring the access point ID and the password from the RFID tag via a wired connection;
wirelessly connecting with the access point using the access point ID and the password acquired from the RFID tag;
acquiring print data acquired through the wireless communication using the communication antenna, after wirelessly connecting with the access point;
and
controlling the feeder and the printing head to perform printing on the sheet according to the print data acquired.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/102,101Filed 13 Aug 2018 · continuation
Priority: JP 2012-06980626 Mar 2012
Published: US 2019/0073573 A17 Mar 2019
Granted: 21 Jan 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G06K 15/4045
Details not directly involved in printing, e.g. machine management, management of the arrangement as a whole or of its constitutive parts:…
B41J 3/36
Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed: for portability , i.e.…
B41J 3/44
Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed: typewriters or selective…
G06F 3/1204
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic…

Family

Application13/846,964Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Mar 2013
US 2019/0073573 A1Pre-grant publication · published 7 Mar 2019
US 10,049,313 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2013/0250357 A1Published application
US 10,540,581 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.