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Utility
Identification Device, Equipment System, and Identification Method
21 Dec 23
An identification apparatus identifies a person present in a target space.
Eri SAKAI
Filed: 15 Dec 20
Utility
Fan
21 Dec 23
A fan includes an impeller including a boss and a plurality of blades; an air guide portion through which an airflow moves from one end to the other end of the air guide portion; and a bell mouth defining a first suction passage inside the bell mouth and defining, together with an inner surface of the air guide portion, a second suction passage outside the bell mouth.
Tomoya FUKUI, Makoto TANISHIMA, Ryutaro ASANO, Kisho HATAKENAKA, Kenichi SAKODA
Filed: 23 Dec 20
Utility
Outdoor Air Processing Apparatus
21 Dec 23
An outdoor air processing apparatus includes a heat exchanger that functions as a heater and as a cooler and that exchanges heat with outdoor air, a desiccant through which the outdoor air passes after the heat has been exchanged by the heat exchanger, and a damper device that selectively sends the outdoor air that has passed the desiccant into one of a first flow path and a second flow path, based on whether the heat exchanger is functioning as the heater or as the cooler.
Hayato HORIE, Mamoru HAMADA
Filed: 29 Jan 21
Utility
Optical Waveguide Element and Optical Axis Adjustment Method
21 Dec 23
An optical waveguide element of the present disclosure includes: a waveguide for propagating light; a clad including an upper clad whose lower surface is in contact with one surface of the waveguide and whose upper surface exposed to the outside is formed with a rough surface, and a lower clad whose upper surface is in contact with the other surface of the waveguide and whose lower surface is formed with a reflective surface; an incident end surface provided at one end of the waveguide and the clad; and an emission end surface provided at the other end of the waveguide and the clad, whereby incident light is optically coupled to the waveguide with high efficiency.
Shuhei YAMAMOTO
Filed: 19 Jan 21
Utility
Occupant Determination Apparatus and Occupant Determination Method
21 Dec 23
It is an object to provide technology enabling an increase in accuracy of determination of an occupant in an interior of a vehicle.
Taro KUMAGAI, Takumi TAKEI
Filed: 29 Jan 21
Utility
Central Apparatus and Failure Level Changing Method
21 Dec 23
A central apparatus to be installed on a train, includes: a communication unit that acquires device information indicating a state of a device from the device installed on the train; and a control unit that determines whether to change a failure level to be displayed, with reference to a failure level display definition on the basis of the device information acquired from the device, the failure level display definition defining a condition for changing the failure level indicating a state of a failure of the device to be displayed when the failure of the device is displayed on a display apparatus.
Kiyomasa MIWA, Takahiro ITO, Ken SHIBATA
Filed: 14 Sep 20
Utility
Vessel Azimuth Control Apparatus and Azimuth Control Method
21 Dec 23
Toru IKEGAME, Naoki Imamura, Ryo Sakaguchi, Takuya Ishioka
Filed: 20 Apr 23
Utility
Elevating Body Derailment Detection Device
21 Dec 23
An elevating body derailment detection device includes a wire, a suspension member, a detection circuit, an arm, and a detection unit.
Yoshimasa KOBA
Filed: 13 Oct 22
Utility
Vehicle Control System
21 Dec 23
In the case of an automated driving vehicle capable of autonomous traveling, it has to deal also with failures at two spots.
Hajime HASEGAWA, Shigeki TSUJII, Daisuke YASE, Osamu MAEDA, Tatsuya MAEKOBA
Filed: 16 Nov 20
Utility
Journal Bearing and Rotating Machine
21 Dec 23
Oil outlets penetrating from an inner circumferential surface to an outer circumferential surface of a carrier ring are located in at least two of: a range that is on a forward side in a rotation direction of a rotary shaft from an upstream pivot and on a backward side in the rotation direction of the rotary shaft from a downstream pivot, a range that is from 180 degrees to 360 degrees and is from a position at a vertical height of the downstream pivot to a position at a topmost vertical height of the rotary shaft, or a range that is from 0 degrees to 180 degrees and is from a position at a vertical height of the upstream pivot to the position at the topmost vertical height of the rotary shaft.
Naokatsu TAKARA, Yosuke UCHIDA, Saya OKANO
Filed: 20 Jan 21
Utility
Air-conditioning Device
21 Dec 23
An air-conditioning device includes: a main circuit in which a refrigerant circulates; a flow channel-switching unit configured to select a certain parallel heat exchanger as a defrosting target; a bypass pipe; a temperature-detecting unit; an operation control unit configured to operate the flow channel-switching unit such that an operation mode is switched between a normal heating operation mode in which the plurality of parallel heat exchangers serve as evaporators and a defrosting heating operation mode in which one parallel heat exchanger is selected as the defrosting target to cause part of the refrigerant to flow thereinto via the bypass pipe and the other parallel heat exchangers serves as an evaporator; and an erroneous installation-sensing unit configured to sense erroneous installation of an installed component based on a magnitude relationship between the detected temperatures in the plurality of parallel heat exchangers detected by the temperature-detecting unit.
Kazuya WATANABE, Mizuo SAKAI, Ryosuke OKAZAWA
Filed: 12 Feb 21
Utility
Data Collection-analysis Module, Method for Operating Data Collection-analysis Module, and Programmable Logic Controller
21 Dec 23
A programmable logic controller (PLC) system includes a PLC module connectable to an external device (19) and a data collection-analysis module (13).
Hidekazu HIGASHI
Filed: 3 Jun 21
Utility
Air-conditioning Apparatus
21 Dec 23
An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit including: a compressor; a high-pressure pipe for high-pressure refrigerant discharged from the compressor; a low-pressure pipe for low-pressure refrigerant to be sucked into the compressor; a first flow switching valve; an indoor heat exchanger; an expansion valve, a first outdoor heat exchanger; a second outdoor heat exchanger; and a second flow switching valve.
Soichiro KOSHI, Atsushi KAWASHIMA, Yusuke TASHIRO, Masakazu KONDO
Filed: 19 Jan 21
Utility
Object Detection Device, Monitoring Device, Training Device, and Model Generation Method
21 Dec 23
An object detection device includes an image data acquiring unit that acquires image data indicating an image captured by a camera, a first feature amount extracting unit that generates a first feature map using the image data, a second feature amount extracting unit that generates a second feature map using the image data, and generates a third feature map by performing addition or multiplication of the second feature map using the first feature map and weighting the second feature map, and the object detection unit that detects an object in the captured image using the third feature map.
Tomoya SAWADA, Ken FUKUCHI
Filed: 25 Dec 20
Utility
Tactile Presentation Device, Tactile Presentation Touch Panel, and Tactile Presentation Touch Display
21 Dec 23
The present disclosure relates to a tactile presentation device presenting tactile to a user, and includes: a touch detection circuit detecting the user having contact with the tactile presentation knob and outputting positional information of the tactile presentation knob; a pressure detection circuit detecting an amount of pressing of the operation surface by the tactile presentation knob; a tactile control circuit determining a voltage signal generating friction force between the tactile presentation knob and the operation surface; and a pressure amount calculation circuit calculating a pressure amount based on the amount of pressing detected in the pressure detection circuit and adding the pressure amount to the pressing information, wherein generated is tactile caused by a change of the friction force between the tactile presentation knob and the operation surface by the voltage signal determined by the tactile control circuit.
Tae ORITA, Takeshi ONO, Takayuki MORIOKA, Naoki NAKAGAWA
Filed: 27 Nov 20
Utility
Inference Apparatus and Learning Apparatus
21 Dec 23
A shape similarity computation unit (2021) computes, as a shape similarity, a similarity in shape between a learning movement path curve which is a movement path curve obtained through learning and an observation movement path curve which is a movement path curve obtained through observation.
Akito ARAI, Katsuhiro KUSANO, Shogo SHIMIZU, Seiji OKUMURA
Filed: 29 Aug 23
Utility
Image Processing Device and Image Processing Method
21 Dec 23
An image processing device includes a detection unit, a feature amount generating unit, a tracking unit, a feature amount change detecting unit, a tracking history extracting unit, and a determination unit, so that when occlusion in a selected cluster has occurred, the image processing device can determine whether or not objects are identical without using data of an image in which the occlusion has occurred.
Kenta SUZUKI, Tetsutaro YAMADA, Hiroshi KAMEDA
Filed: 27 Jul 23
Utility
Direct-current Circuit Breaker and Direct-current Circuit Breaker System
21 Dec 23
A direct-current circuit breaker that includes: an interrupter; a resonance circuit including a capacitor, a reactor, and an activation switch; a voltage detection circuit; a charging circuit including a charging resistor and a charging switch; and a control circuit.
Takashi INAGAKI, Sho TOKOYODA
Filed: 9 Dec 20
Utility
Decoupling Circuit
21 Dec 23
A decoupling circuit includes: a first transmission line whose first end is connected to the first antenna element; a second transmission line whose first end is connected to the second antenna element; a first susceptance circuit whose first end is connected to a second end of the first transmission line; a second susceptance circuit whose first end is connected to a second end of the second transmission line and whose second end is connected to a second end of the first susceptance circuit; a third susceptance circuit whose first end is connected to the second end of the first susceptance circuit and whose second end is connected to the ground conductor; a first input and output terminal connected to the first end of the first susceptance circuit; and a second input and output terminal connected to the first end of the second susceptance circuit.
Kengo NISHIMOTO, Yasuhiro NISHIOKA
Filed: 30 Aug 23
Utility
Semiconductor Device, Semiconductor Device Group, and Power Conversion Apparatus
21 Dec 23
Even if there is a change in the shape of a transfer mold power module is required, a change in a position of the electrode of the module is facilitated by separating electrode terminals of a power module from the electrodes and retrofitting the separated electrode terminals to the electrodes with high precision.
Taketoshi SHIKANO, Kotaro NISHIHARA, Kiyoshi ARAI, Shinya SONEDA
Filed: 17 Mar 23