Patents Assigned to Aiphone Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 12059229Abstract: A nurse call system includes a nurse call slave device, a nurse call master device, a plate slave device, a bedside monitor, a corridor light, a control unit, and nurse mobile phones. The nurse call slave device is provided for each bed in a hospital room for allowing a hospitalized patient to call a nurse. The nurse call master device is provided at a nurse station for answering a call from the nurse call slave device. The plate slave device, the corridor light, or the control unit has an automatic answering unit for automatically answering a call from the nurse call slave device, and causes the automatic answering unit to automatically answer at least a part of calls from the nurse call slave device without calling the nurse call master device and the nurse mobile phones.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenichi Ogawa
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Patent number: 12052384Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and a dwelling room master device. Each automatic door requires an unlock operation to pass through for proceeding to each area, and a part of the areas are occupied by facilities other than dwelling units. The collective entrance machine includes a card information input section, and the automatic doors each include an unlock operation section for unlocking using the card medium. The collective entrance machine further includes a card authentication section, an unlocking door storage section, and a card information storage section. The card authentication section permits the unlocking by the card medium when the information input to the card information input section matches the information registered in the card information storage section. The permitted card medium enables unlocking the automatic door stored in the unlocking door storage section in association with the information of the card medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta Shimomura, Masashi Hattori, Ryoji Uno, Kimiaki Fujishima
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Patent number: 11758054Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and dwelling room master devices. When a calling operation section is operated and a dwelling unit number of a calling destination is input, a master device speech control section of the dwelling room master device of the dwelling unit including a plurality of dwelling room master devices performs a calling control of transmitting a call signal to the dwelling room master device of the calling destination having its master device ID, and subsequently forming a speech path when a response operation of the dwelling room master device of the calling destination is performed. The calling and speaking to the other dwelling unit are allowed even in a state where another dwelling room master device of the dwelling unit itself has formed a speech path with the dwelling room master device of the other dwelling unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: AiPhone Co., LtdInventors: Yuta Shimomura, Masashi Hattori, Kimiaki Fujishima, Ryoji Uno
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Publication number: 20220385766Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a communication management device that controls communication between the collective entrance machine and the mobile phone. The communication management device relays the communication to the mobile phone registered as a calling destination of the collective entrance machine to be linked to the dwelling room master device using a predetermined application based on a VOIP. When a predetermined registration operation to allow communication with the communication management device based on the VOIP is performed to link the mobile phone to the dwelling room master device, information list on mobile phones already registered relative to the dwelling room master device as a link target is transmitted from the communication management device having accepted the registration in addition to an application for a download, and the mobile phone that has downloaded the application displays the information list on a display section of the mobile phone.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu HARIMA, Hiroki KOTO, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
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Patent number: 11515034Abstract: A nurse call system that enables a call for a nurse from anywhere in a hospital ward while a patient carries a mobile phone is provided. The nurse call system includes a plurality of patient mobile phones 10 are carried by hospitalized patients and connected to a controller 8 via a base station 12 as with nurse mobile phones 9, and each patient mobile phone 10 has a hospital room ID and a nurse call slave device ID registered therein for recognizing a bed location of the patient carrying the patient mobile phone 10, thus enabling a nurse call operation for transmitting a call signal with the hospital room ID and the slave device ID added thereto, to the nurse call master device 7 and at least one of the nurse mobile phones 9, through a predetermined operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenichi Ogawa
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Publication number: 20220311869Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and a dwelling room master device. Each automatic door requires an unlock operation to pass through for proceeding to each area, and a part of the areas are occupied by facilities other than dwelling units. The collective entrance machine includes a card information input section, and the automatic doors each include an unlock operation section for unlocking using the card medium. The collective entrance machine further includes a card authentication section, an unlocking door storage section, and a card information storage section. The card authentication section permits the unlocking by the card medium when the information input to the card information input section matches the information registered in the card information storage section. The permitted card medium enables unlocking the automatic door stored in the unlocking door storage section in association with the information of the card medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Ryoji UNO, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA
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Publication number: 20220292903Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and a plurality of dwelling room master devices. The collective entrance machine is for a visitor to call and speak to a dweller. The plurality of dwelling room master devices are for the dweller to respond to the call from the collective entrance machine. The dwelling room master devices each include an unlock button to unlock an entrance door through which the visitor enters the dwelling area from an entrance. Some of the dwelling room master devices have an automatic unlock mode that unlocks the entrance door without waiting for an operation of the unlock button when a call signal is transmitted from the collective entrance machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta Shimomura, Masashi Hattori, Ryoji Uno, Kimiaki Fujishima
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Publication number: 20220294909Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine, a dwelling room master device, and a management master device. The collective entrance machine is for calling a visit destination by a visitor. The dwelling room master device is for responding to the call by a dweller. The management master device is for speaking with the dweller by a manager. The management master device includes a speech permissibility storage section and a speech control section. The speech permissibility storage section registers a permissibility of calling and speaking to the dwelling room master device for each dwelling unit. The speech control section controls the calling and speaking. The speech control section does not perform the calling control when a calling operation by the management master device is performed towards the dwelling room master device of a dwelling unit registered as “unpermitted” in the speech permissibility storage section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Ryoji UNO, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA
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Publication number: 20220286562Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and dwelling room master devices. When a calling operation section is operated and a dwelling unit number of a calling destination is input, a master device speech control section of the dwelling room master device of the dwelling unit including a plurality of dwelling room master devices performs a calling control of transmitting a call signal to the dwelling room master device of the calling destination having its master device ID, and subsequently forming a speech path when a response operation of the dwelling room master device of the calling destination is performed. The calling and speaking to the other dwelling unit are allowed even in a state where another dwelling room master device of the dwelling unit itself has formed a speech path with the dwelling room master device of the other dwelling unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
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Publication number: 20220286563Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system include a collective entrance machine, a dwelling room master device, a management master device, and a sensor. When the sensor detects the occurrence of the abnormality, an abnormality occurrence signal is transmitted from the dwelling room master device to the management master device, and the dwelling room master device and the management master device emit emergency alarms. The management master device includes a display section and a display control section. The display control section displays an alarm stop button to stop an emission operation on the display section when the abnormality occurrence signal is received and the emission is started. When the alarm stop button is operated, the display control section subsequently displays an emission source call button to call the dwelling room master device as a transmission source of the abnormality occurrence signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
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Publication number: 20220286559Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine, a dwelling room master device, and a management master device. The management master device is installed in a manager room to speak with the visitor or the dweller. The multiple dwelling house interphone system has a reception mode in which a call to any dwelling unit from the collective entrance machine is uniformly transmitted to the management master device. The management master device includes a forwarding button and a forwarding control section. The forwarding button re-forwards a call in the reception mode to an original calling destination. The forwarding control section re-forwards the call to the dwelling room master device of a dwelling unit as the original calling destination when the forwarding button is operated when a speech path is formed with the collective entrance machine in response to the call forwarded in the reception mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
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Publication number: 20220286595Abstract: An interphone system includes a slave device and a master device. The slave device includes a camera to obtain an image of a visitor. The slave device is for calling a dweller by a visitor. The master device includes a monitor to display a video image obtained by the camera. The master device is for responding by the dweller. The master device includes a video storage section, a mute setting button, and an operation control section. The video storage section records the video image. The mute setting button is for setting a silent mode in which a call sound is not emitted. The operation control section controls a silent mode operation, so as not to emit a call sound in response to a call from the slave device and to activate the camera to store the video image in the video storage section when the silent mode is set.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
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Patent number: 10944940Abstract: An intercom system for collective housing comprises a main entrance station with a camera, a residential entrance substation with a camera and a residential master station for each residence in the housing, a storage unit that stores videos (V1) of visitors shot by the camera of the main entrance station by associating the videos with residence IDs of the respective residences to visit, and a control unit. The control unit includes a check unit that checks the videos (V1) against a video (V2) shot by the camera of a residential entrance substation. If the check by the check unit indicates a match, the control unit compares the residence ID associated with the match stored in the storage unit with that of the residence in which a call button of the residential entrance substation has been operated. The operation of the call button is invalidated if the IDs are different.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kohei Tanaka, Yuta Shimomura, Masashi Hattori, Shion Kanai
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Publication number: 20200342983Abstract: A nurse call system includes a nurse call slave device, a nurse call master device, a plate slave device, a bedside monitor, a corridor light, a control unit, and nurse mobile phones. The nurse call slave device is provided for each bed in a hospital room for allowing a hospitalized patient to call a nurse. The nurse call master device is provided at a nurse station for answering a call from the nurse call slave device. The plate slave device, the corridor light, or the control unit has an automatic answering unit for automatically answering a call from the nurse call slave device, and causes the automatic answering unit to automatically answer at least a part of calls from the nurse call slave device without calling the nurse call master device and the nurse mobile phones.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenichi OGAWA
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Publication number: 20200258619Abstract: A nurse call system that enables a call for a nurse from anywhere in a hospital ward while a patient carries a mobile phone is provided. The nurse call system includes a plurality of patient mobile phones 10 are carried by hospitalized patients and connected to a controller 8 via a base station 12 as with nurse mobile phones 9, and each patient mobile phone 10 has a hospital room ID and a nurse call slave device ID registered therein for recognizing a bed location of the patient carrying the patient mobile phone 10, thus enabling a nurse call operation for transmitting a call signal with the hospital room ID and the slave device ID added thereto, to the nurse call master device 7 and at least one of the nurse mobile phones 9, through a predetermined operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenichi OGAWA
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Patent number: 10334115Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a centralized collective entrance machine for a visitor to call a dweller of any building, a dwelling unit master device provided to each dwelling unit for a dweller to respond to a call, and a centralized controller which controls communication between the centralized collective entrance machine and each dwelling unit master device. Each dwelling unit master device has an ID storage section storing its own ID. When the ID of the dwelling unit master device is inputted for calling the dweller, a centralized collective entrance machine control section of the centralized collective entrance machine first transmits an ID confirmation request signal to all the dwelling unit master devices and waits for a reply from the corresponding dwelling unit master device, and next, transmits a call signal to the dwelling unit master device that has returned a reply signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuuta Shimomura, Akira Kai
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Patent number: D842262Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kotaro Takahata
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Patent number: D842263Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kotaro Takahata
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Patent number: D844582Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kotaro Takahata
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Patent number: D869424Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Aiphone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kotaro Takahata, Mitsuru Nagatsuka