Patents Assigned to BALMUDA INC.
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Publication number: 20240099510Abstract: Cooking is performed to serve tasty food by appropriately managing moisture of an object to be cooked without burning the surface thereof. A box-shaped housing, a cooking cavity for accommodating an object to be cooked, the cooking cavity being arranged within the housing, an upper-face heater and a lower-face heater arranged in the cooking cavity, a boiler arranged within the cooking cavity, a water tray formed outside the cooking cavity and into which a given amount of water that is entirely evaporated in a given steaming time is poured, a water guide passage within the housing, the water guide passage into which water is supplied from the water tray to the boiler; and a control unit for causing an operation to generate steam from the boiler to be performed for at least a steaming time from when cooking starts, are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: BALMUDA INC.Inventor: Daisuke NIIZUMI
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Patent number: 11877692Abstract: Cooking is performed to serve tasty food by appropriately managing moisture of an object to be cooked without burning the surface thereof. A box-shaped housing, a cooking cavity for accommodating an object to be cooked, the cooking cavity being arranged within the housing, an upper-face heater and a lower-face heater arranged in the cooking cavity, a boiler arranged within the cooking cavity, a water tray formed outside the cooking cavity and into which a given amount of water that is entirely evaporated in a given steaming time is poured, a water guide passage within the housing, the water guide passage into which water is supplied from the water tray to the boiler; and a control unit for causing an operation to generate steam from the boiler to be performed for at least a steaming time from when cooking starts are provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: BALMUDA INC.Inventor: Daisuke Niizumi
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Patent number: 11781745Abstract: A speaker outputting sound from a speaker portion arranged facing upward. The speaker is provided with: a first head portion including the speaker portion; a first base portion; a transparent first housing arranged between the first head portion and the first base portion; at least one LED unit arranged inside the first housing; and a control portion for driving LED elements of the LED unit on the basis of a sound signal from the outside. Each LED unit is provided with: a second head portion; a second base portion; and a transparent second housing arranged between the second head portion and the second base portion. As a result, light linked to the sound, emitted from the LED elements of the LED units, can be efficiently delivered to the eye of the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Balmuda Inc.Inventors: Junya Ura, Jun Takano, Tamafumi Sasada, Shu Kokubo
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Publication number: 20210007549Abstract: Cooking is performed to serve tasty food by appropriately managing moisture of an object to be cooked without burning the surface thereof. A box-shaped housing, a cooking cavity for accommodating an object to be cooked, the cooking cavity being arranged within the housing, an upper-face heater and a lower-face heater arranged in the cooking cavity, a boiler arranged within the cooking cavity, a water tray formed outside the cooking cavity and into which a given amount of water that is entirely evaporated in a given steaming time is poured, a water guide passage within the housing, the water guide passage into which water is supplied from the water tray to the boiler; and a control unit for causing an operation to generate steam from the boiler to be performed for at least a steaming time from when cooking starts are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: BALMUDA INC.Inventor: Daisuke NIIZUMI
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Patent number: 10874250Abstract: Cooking is performed to serve tasty food by appropriately managing moisture of an object to be cooked without burning the surface thereof. A box-shaped housing, a cooking cavity for accommodating an object to be cooked, the cooking cavity being arranged within the housing, an upper-face heater and a lower-face heater arranged in the cooking cavity, a boiler arranged within the cooking cavity, a water tray formed outside the cooking cavity and into which a given amount of water that is entirely evaporated in a given steaming time is poured, a water guide passage within the housing, the water guide passage into which water is supplied from the water tray to the boiler; and a control unit for causing an operation to generate steam from the boiler to be performed for at least a steaming time from when cooking starts are provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: BALMUDA INC.Inventor: Daisuke Niizumi
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Patent number: 10561001Abstract: Illumination device maintains distance between eyes of user and object, and lights up desktop with appropriate illuminance. Illumination device includes light source for lighting up desktop, arm mechanism incorporates motor for moving position of light source, face camera detects position of eyes of user, desk cameras detects illuminance distribution on desk, image processing part calculates posture of user and distance between eyes of user and desk, based on face images obtained with face camera and desk images obtained with desk cameras, computation part calculates optimal light source position of light source wherein dispersion of illuminance distribution on desk is minimized, based on posture of user derived with image processing part and illuminance distribution obtained with desk camera, warning part that generates warning, in cases where distance is less than or equal to predetermined value, and control part operates arm mechanism such that light source moves to optimal light source position.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: BALMUDA INC.Inventor: Tomoki Sato
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Publication number: 20190239315Abstract: Illumination device maintains distance between eyes of user and object, and lights up desktop with appropriate illuminance. Illumination device includes light source for lighting up desktop, arm mechanism incorporates motor for moving position of light source, face camera detects position of eyes of user, desk cameras detects illuminance distribution on desk, image processing part calculates posture of user and distance between eyes of user and desk, based on face images obtained with face camera and desk images obtained with desk cameras, computation part calculates optimal light source position of light source wherein dispersion of illuminance distribution on desk is minimized, based on posture of user derived with image processing part and illuminance distribution obtained with desk camera, warning part that generates warning, in cases where distance is less than or equal to predetermined value, and control part operates arm mechanism such that light source moves to optimal light source position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: BALMUDA INC.Inventor: Tomoki Sato
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Publication number: 20190239314Abstract: Illumination device maintains distance between eyes of user and object, and lights up desktop with appropriate illuminance. Illumination device includes light source for lighting up desktop, arm mechanism incorporates motor for moving position of light source, face camera detects position of eyes of user, desk cameras detects illuminance distribution on desk, image processing part calculates posture of user and distance between eyes of user and desk, based on face images obtained with face camera and desk images obtained with desk cameras, computation part calculates optimal light source position of light source wherein dispersion of illuminance distribution on desk is minimized, based on posture of user derived with image processing part and illuminance distribution obtained with desk camera, warning part that generates warning, in cases where distance is less than or equal to predetermined value, and control part operates arm mechanism such that light source moves to optimal light source position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: BALMUDA INC.Inventor: Tomoki SATO
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Patent number: 10349490Abstract: Illumination device maintains distance between eyes of user and object, and lights up desktop with appropriate illuminance. Illumination device includes light source for lighting up desktop, arm mechanism incorporates motor for moving position of light source, face camera detects position of eyes of user, desk cameras detects illuminance distribution on desk, image processing part calculates posture of user and distance between eyes of user and desk, based on face images obtained with face camera and desk images obtained with desk cameras, computation part calculates optimal light source position of light source wherein dispersion of illuminance distribution on desk is minimized, based on posture of user derived with image processing part and illuminance distribution obtained with desk camera, warning part that generates warning, in cases where distance is less than or equal to predetermined value, and control part operates arm mechanism such that light source moves to optimal light source position.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: BALMUDA INC.Inventor: Tomoki Sato
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Publication number: 20180095540Abstract: Provided is an illumination device that enables a user's activity situation to be checked remotely and easily. An illumination device according to the present invention has a light source, cameras and that recognizes a part of a user's body, a control part, a computation part and an image processing part that generate data relating to activities of the user, based on the recognition result of the cameras, and a communication processing part that sends the data relating to activities of the user to a network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: BALMUDA INC.Inventors: Gen TERAO, Tomoki SATO, Naoki TSURU
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Publication number: 20170330440Abstract: An illumination device that maintains or improves a user's concentration, by measuring the user's concentration and, when he or she loses concentration, notifying the user of this fact with stimulus or the like. The illumination device includes a light source for lighting up a top of a desk, an arm that holds the light source upward of the desk, a face camera that detects the eyes of the user, an image processing part that calculates the frequency of blinking by the user, based on the detection result of the face camera, a computation device that counts the frequency of blinking derived by the image processing part and determines whether the frequency of blinking exceeds a predetermined frequency, and a control part that notifies the user through changing of the illuminance of the light source or the like, in the case where the frequency of blinking exceeds the predetermined frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: BALMUDA, INC.Inventor: Tomoki SATO
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Publication number: 20170332460Abstract: Illumination device maintains distance between eyes of user and object, and lights up desktop with appropriate illuminance. Illumination device includes light source for lighting up desktop, arm mechanism incorporates motor for moving position of light source, face camera detects position of eyes of user, desk cameras detects illuminance distribution on desk, image processing part calculates posture of user and distance between eyes of user and desk, based on face images obtained with face camera and desk images obtained with desk cameras, computation part calculates optimal light source position of light source wherein dispersion of illuminance distribution on desk is minimized, based on posture of user derived with image processing part and illuminance distribution obtained with desk camera, warning part that generates warning, in cases where distance is less than or equal to predetermined value, and control part operates arm mechanism such that light source moves to optimal light source position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: BALMUDA INC.Inventor: Tomoki SATO
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Publication number: 20170319006Abstract: Cooking is performed to serve tasty food by appropriately managing moisture of an object to be cooked without burning the surface thereof. A box-shaped housing, a cooking cavity for accommodating an object to be cooked, the cooking cavity being arranged within the housing, an upper-face heater and a lower-face heater arranged in the cooking cavity, a boiler arranged within the cooking cavity, a water tray formed outside the cooking cavity and into which a given amount of water that is entirely evaporated in a given steaming time is poured, a water guide passage within the housing, the water guide passage into which water is supplied from the water tray to the boiler; and a control unit for causing an operation to generate steam from the boiler to be performed for at least a steaming time from when cooking starts are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2016Publication date: November 9, 2017Applicant: BALMUDA INC.Inventor: Daisuke NIIZUMI
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Patent number: D705410Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: BALMUDA Inc.Inventor: Gen Terao
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Patent number: D965553Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Balmuda Inc.Inventor: Jun Takano
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Patent number: D967052Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Balmuda Inc.Inventor: Jun Takano
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Patent number: D971469Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: BALMUDA INC.Inventors: Gen Terao, Kazuma Higa, Kyouhei Matsufuji, Akihito Ikeuchi
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Patent number: D997116Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: BALMUDA Inc.Inventor: Gen Terao
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Patent number: D1004353Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: BALMUDA INC.Inventors: Ryohei Sugimoto, Akihito Ikeuchi, Yasuyuki Ishii
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Patent number: D1005035Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: BALMUDA INC.Inventors: Ryohei Sugimoto, Akihito Ikeuchi, Yasuyuki Ishii