Patents Assigned to NEC PLATFORMS, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20240155795
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-dissipating waterproof structure having both excellent heat dissipation ability and high waterproofness. A heat-dissipating waterproof structure (300) provided between a top part (203) of a casing (200) to accommodate a heat source (102) and the heat source (102) includes a water receiving part (301) that guides a liquid having entered into the casing (200) through an outlet (203A) provided in the top part (203) of the casing (200), and a water guide channel (302) that guides the liquid having been guided by the water receiving part (301) to be discharged to outside of a space where the heat source (102) is accommodated, and the water receiving part (301) has at least a sloping surface which gradually becomes higher the further it is from being immediately above the heat source (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yagi, Kiyotaka Yokoyama, Akira Katsumata, Wataru Imura
  • Patent number: 11979993
    Abstract: A heat dissipation structure (1) includes a heat generation part (2) and an internal heat dissipation part (3), inside a housing (8); a heat transport member (4); an external heat dissipation part (5); and a fixing member (6), wherein edges are vertically disposed on both sides of the heat transport member (4), in the vicinity of the fixing member (6) in a first groove (3a); a second groove (6b) extending from the through hole (6a) toward an area not covered with the external heat dissipation part (5) is formed in the second surface (6d); and a gap portion between the heat transport member (4) and the through hole (6a), a portion between the edges vertically disposed on both sides of the heat transport member (4), and the second groove (6b) are filled with a sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuma Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11979775
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication system that prevents a wireless LAN terminal fixedly installed from performing roaming. A communication system (1) includes: a wireless LAN terminal (10) that transmits first information indicating whether or not the wireless LAN terminal is a fixed station fixedly installed; and an access point (20) that selects, when the first information indicates that the wireless LAN terminal is the fixed station, communication rates including a maximum communication rate and a minimum communication rate from among a plurality of communication rates that can be set in communication with the wireless LAN terminal (10) and transmit second information about the selected communication rates to the wireless LAN terminal (10). The wireless LAN terminal (10) attempts communication based on the communication rates included in the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Hodoshima
  • Publication number: 20240142743
    Abstract: An optical apparatus that allows easy adjustment of the position of an optical unit is provided. An optical apparatus (1) includes: a ball lens (10); an optical unit (20); a base (30); and a cover (40). The optical unit (20) includes a magnet (21), and is mounted on the base (30) so as to rotate around the ball lens (10) in response to magnetic force by which the magnet (21) is attracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Issei SHIDA, Kenichi KURATA
  • Patent number: 11972750
    Abstract: There is provided a voice output apparatus for providing a high-quality sound to an eardrum of a user. The voice output apparatus includes a first voice output unit outputting a voice to an ear canal of a user based on an output voice signal, a first noise acquirer arranged to face outward from a body of the user and captures a mixed voice including first external noise arriving from an outside of the user to output a mixed voice signal, an echo canceler cancelling an influence, on the first external noise, of a leaked voice output from the first voice output unit and leaking to the outside of the user, and a noise canceler generating a first external noise signal corresponding to the first external noise, and processing, using the first external noise signal, an input voice signal input from the outside to generate the output voice signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Oosugi, Ryoji Miyahara
  • Patent number: 11961374
    Abstract: In a POS terminal device (1) according to the present invention, a rotation center of an operator-side rotation shaft (31) is at a position spaced apart from a longitudinal center line of a housing (2), a rotation center of a customer-side rotation shaft (41) is at a position spaced apart from the center line on an opposite side of the operator-side rotation shaft (31), an operator display (3) is rotated by 90 degrees in a horizontal direction around the operator-side rotation shaft (31) in such a way that a lateral end surface having a shorter distance from the rotation center of the operator-side rotation shaft (31) approaches a customer display (4), and the customer display (4) is rotated by 90 degrees in the horizontal direction around the customer-side rotation shaft (41) in the same direction as the operator display (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Akaba, Katsumi Harashima, Akihisa Iwata
  • Publication number: 20240112226
    Abstract: An information transmission apparatus can use a salesclerk information storage unit. The salesclerk information storage unit stores, by a plurality of salesclerks, salesclerk identification information about the salesclerk and detailed information about the salesclerk in association with each other. Then, the information transmission apparatus includes a salesclerk position transmission unit and a detailed information transmission unit. The salesclerk position transmission unit transmits, for each of a plurality of salesclerks present in a store, salesclerk position information about the salesclerk and salesclerk identification information about the salesclerk in association with each other to a customer terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunya MARUYAMA, Yoshiki MATSUMOTO, Hiroaki SATO, Erina TANAKA, Mami KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11947014
    Abstract: Provided is a passenger monitoring system comprising: a ranging sensor that is provided in a vehicle and capable of outputting a distance information corresponding to a distance to a passenger in the vehicle; and a control unit that estimates a state of congestion of the vehicle based on the distance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Uchimura, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240106129
    Abstract: Three elements of a first (¼) wavelength element and a second (¼) wavelength element which have a length of (¼) wavelength at an arbitrary frequency designated in advance and a half-wavelength element which has a length of a half-wavelength at the arbitrary frequency are arranged in a three-orthogonal state where those are orthogonal to each other, one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, another end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the half-wavelength element, a feeding point for antenna power feeding is arranged in a position in which the one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to the one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, and an antenna is formed as a one-wavelength twisted Z-shaped three-orthogonal dipole antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240107673
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to compactly interconnect at least three substrates with flat cables. A composite substrate according to the present invention includes: a first substrate including a first connector and a second connector in which the width directions thereof are parallel to a first direction; a second substrate including a third connector and a fourth connector in which the width directions thereof are parallel to the first direction; a third substrate including a fifth connector and a sixth connector in which the width directions thereof are parallel to the first direction; a first flat cable connecting the first connector and the third connector; a second flat cable connecting the second connector and the fifth connector; and a third flat cable connecting the fourth connector and the sixth connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Horii
  • Publication number: 20240107708
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a first module, a second module provided at a different position in a depth direction of a housing with respect to the first module, a third module provided at a different position in a width direction of the housing with respect to the first module and the second module, an upstream side tube configured to supply a cooling medium to a cooling member of the first module, a downstream side tube configured to supply the cooling medium passed through the cooling member of the first module to a cooling member of the second module, and a branch tube configured to branch from the downstream side tube and supply the cooling medium to a cooling member of the third module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhito NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240102591
    Abstract: A joint member includes a joint main body configured to include a flow path portion formed and an opening portion communicating with the flow path portion, and a tube member configured to include an end portion inserted into the opening portion of the joint main body and joined to the joint main body by brazing. The joint main body includes a step portion on which the end portion of the tube member inserted into the opening portion abuts. The tube member includes an annular recessed portion recessed from an outer peripheral surface of the tube member and formed on a flexible tube side with respect to an end surface on a joint main body side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhito NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11942109
    Abstract: In order to enable adjustment of the inclination of a guide roller member with respect to a base body, this member is provided with a base body and a guide roller member that is secured to the base body and that determines the advancement direction for a prescribed tape. The guide roller member includes a base part and a rotating shaft that is secured to the base part. In relation to the base body, the base part comes into contact, simultaneously and on the same side as the rotating shaft, with: the leading ends of a plurality of screws that are passed through a plurality of screw holes penetrating the base body; and projecting parts that are connected to or have come into contact with the base part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Ojima
  • Publication number: 20240096241
    Abstract: A display apparatus (100) includes a shelf tag attachment member (102) being fixed to a front end surface of a product shelf S, and a shelf tag (101) having a display surface (103). The shelf tag (101) is attached to the shelf tag attachment member (102) via a rotation axis A, and is rotatable in a predetermined direction in which the display surface (103) is turned upward. A lower end of the shelf tag (101) is located below a lower surface LS of the product shelf S and a lower end of the shelf tag attachment member (102) in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sugegaya, Akihiko Onita, Shunsuke Tsuda, Benny Goh, Hiromitsu Nakano, Kunihiro Akaba, Kazuhiko Oda
  • Patent number: 11937397
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a plurality of fans aligned in a width direction of the housing, a partition board which is interposed between a plurality of fans adjoining each other in the width direction of the housing and extended in a downstream side of a flow direction of wind caused by a plurality of fans, an electronic part which is disposed to consecutively join the partition board in the downstream side of the flow direction of the wind, and a passage resistor which is disposed in a further downstream side of the flow direction of the wind from the electronic part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Okumura
  • Publication number: 20240090166
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a cooling member including a flow path of a cooling medium configured to cool a heat generating member, a supply side joint provided at a supply side tube and connected to one end of the flow path, a discharge side joint provided at a discharge side tube and connected to another end of the flow path, connection portions respectively provided in the supply side joint and the discharge side joint and connected to the cooling member, connected portions which are respectively formed at both end portions of the flow path and to which the connection portions are connected, and rotation prevention portions configured to prevent the connection portions and the connected portions from rotating relative to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Syoji OCHIAI
  • Publication number: 20240086942
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus (10) includes a customer information acquisition unit (110) and a first information transmission unit (120). The customer information acquisition unit (110) acquires customer identification information and first customer information of the customer in association with each other. The first customer information includes at least one of a first purchase history being a purchase history of a customer at a real shop and an action history of the customer in the real shop. The first information transmission unit (120) generates online shop information being information to be provided to the customer in relation to an online shop by using the first customer information and transmits the online shop information to a customer terminal operated by the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikako MARUYAMA, Juny ENOMOTO, Tsubasa KIKUCHI, Suzuri UCHIKAWA, Takuto MATSUMURA
  • Patent number: 11920335
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquisition unit that acquires excretion information, based on imaging data captured by an image capture apparatus installed in such a way as to include, in an image capture range, an excretion range of excrement in a toilet bowl of a toilet, a generation unit that generates presentation information to be output, based on the excretion information, and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires information that indicates whether a foreign body being an object other than feces and urine is included in the imaging data as a subject excluding the toilet bowl and washing liquid for the toilet bowl. When information including the foreign body is acquired, the control unit outputs a stop command for stopping a washing function of the toilet bowl to the toilet bowl side, and the generation unit generates alert information as at least a part of the presentation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Furuya, Tsutomu Mieno, Haruhiko Yamabuchi
  • Patent number: 11922393
    Abstract: A payment system includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an image including a payment target product; an estimation unit that estimates a product that corresponds to an object identified from the image; a display unit that displays information on the product in association with the object; a reception unit that receives input indicating intention to register the object, which indicates whether to register the object as the payment target product, from a user; and a registration unit that registers the object in accordance with the input. The registration unit registers the object as the payment target product upon receiving an input indicating that the object should be registered, and does not register the object as the payment target product upon receiving an input indicating that the object should be excluded from the payment target products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuhei Itoh
  • Patent number: 11924319
    Abstract: A slave device (10) includes a frequency synchronization unit (11) configured to generate frequency control information synchronized with a frequency of a synchronous Ethernet (registered trademark) signal received from a master device (20), a time synchronization unit (12) configured to generate time control information synchronized with a time based on a time packet received from the master device (20), and a time synchronization signal generation unit (13) configured to generate a time synchronization signal based on the frequency control information and the time control information. The frequency synchronization unit (11) includes a frequency synchronizing PLL including a DCO (11a) configured to output the frequency control information, and the time synchronization unit (12) includes a time synchronizing PLL including a DCO (12a) configured to output the time control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayuki Takahashi