Patents Assigned to NEC PLATFORMS, LTD.
  • 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: 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: 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20240074086
    Abstract: A device mounting mechanism that loads a device into an internal space within a plurality of columns constituting a rack mount includes: a pair of columns provided parallel to each other; mounters respectively supported by the pair of columns so as to be movable in a direction intersecting a plane containing these columns; and a mount bar supported substantially horizontally by connecting one end to one mounter and the other end to the other mounter so as to be rotatable about shafts substantially parallel to the columns. The mount bar supports an upper surface of the device within a space surrounded by the columns, and at least one of the one end and the other end is connected to a shaft so as to be movable in a direction connecting the shafts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Horii
  • Publication number: 20240073288
    Abstract: An address correspondence formation unit in a security device forms session-establishment address correspondence that associates a first type external address information unit of a main device, a first type external address information unit of the security device containing an IP address of the security device on a router side and a session establishment port number for a connection target telephone on a WAN side, and a terminal number and a session-establishment address information unit of the connection target telephone. The first type external address information unit of the main device contains an IP address and a session establishment port number of the main device. A setting control unit sets, to the main device, the first type external address information unit of the main device and a first type internal address information unit of the security device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Kinouchi
  • Patent number: 11915565
    Abstract: A commodity imaging apparatus in which a camera does not protrude into a space above a commodity placement table is provided. A commodity imaging apparatus (10) includes a commodity placement table (1), a support pillar (2), and an imaging unit (3). The commodity placement table (1) includes a roughly square placement surface (1e). The support pillar (2) is disposed at one corner (1a) of the placement surface (1e). The imaging unit (3) is disposed in the support pillar (2) so as to take an image of a commodity (G1) placed on the placement surface (1e) from obliquely above the commodity (G1). A camera (31) of the imaging unit (3) does not protrude into a space above the commodity placement table (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Reo Masuda
  • Patent number: 11910553
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yagi, Kiyotaka Yokoyama, Akira Katsumata, Wataru Imura
  • Patent number: 11908306
    Abstract: A rescue request apparatus (1) includes a radio communication unit (2) configured to perform radio communication, a trajectory acquisition unit (3) configured to acquire a movement trajectory of the rescue request apparatus when the radio communication cannot be performed by the radio communication unit (2), a user-state determination unit (4) configured to determine whether or not a user of the rescue request apparatus is in a dangerous state, and a drive control unit (5) configured to drive and control the rescue request apparatus so as to trace the movement trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquisition unit (3) when the user-state determination unit (4) determines that the user is in the dangerous state. The radio communication unit (2) transmits a rescue request signal to a pre-registered destination when the radio communication becomes possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naruki Saito
  • Publication number: 20240049894
    Abstract: A stand for a droplet prevention sheet attached to a POS terminal including a body part, a hole part being formed on an upper surface of the body part, the stand including: a stand pole including a pole body part that is extended in a rod-like shape, a first pole end, and a second pole end, the first and the second pole ends being both ends of the pole body part; and a sheet fixing part configured to fix a droplet prevention sheet, the sheet fixing part being coupled to the stand pole, in which the stand pole is vertically disposed in the body part of the POS terminal by the first pole end being fixed to the hole part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Kobata
  • Publication number: 20240053952
    Abstract: A teleconference system (1) capable of smoothly progressing a teleconference is provided. A speech determination unit (2) determines whether a voice of each of a plurality of participants in a teleconference indicates speech or back-channel. A voice output control unit (4) performs control so that the voice of each of a plurality of the participants is output by a communication terminal of each of a plurality of the participants. The voice output control unit (4) performs control, when, while one of a plurality of the participants makes speech, another participant makes speech, so as to suppress an output of the speech of the another participant. A count unit (6) counts the number of collision speeches, for each participant. A number display control unit (8) performs control so that a display related to the number of times is made at the communication terminals of a plurality of the participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mayuko TERATA
  • Patent number: 11900207
    Abstract: A scanner apparatus (1A) includes: a housing (11); a hand scanner (20); and a hand scanner holder (30) attached to a side of the housing (11) and configured to hold the hand scanner (20), in which the hand scanner holder (30) includes a base part (31) configured to be attached to the side of the housing (11), the base part (31) includes a pair of holding pieces (34a, 34b) opposed to each other with a first interval therebetween, and the pair of holding pieces (34a, 34b) form a holding recess (34) configured to hold a lower part (21a) of a grasping part (21) of the hand scanner (20), which is inserted, from above the pair of the holding pieces (34a, 34b), between the pair of holding pieces (34a, 34b), in a state in which an upper part (21b) of the grasping part (21) protrudes upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihisa Iwata, Katsumi Harashima, Yuta Sasaki