Patents Assigned to BALMUDA INC.
  • Publication number: 20240099510
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventor: Daisuke NIIZUMI
  • Patent number: 11877692
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventor: Daisuke Niizumi
  • Patent number: 11781745
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Balmuda Inc.
    Inventors: Junya Ura, Jun Takano, Tamafumi Sasada, Shu Kokubo
  • Publication number: 20210007549
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventor: Daisuke NIIZUMI
  • Patent number: 10874250
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventor: Daisuke Niizumi
  • Patent number: 10561001
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventor: Tomoki Sato
  • Publication number: 20190239315
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventor: Tomoki Sato
  • Publication number: 20190239314
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventor: Tomoki SATO
  • Patent number: 10349490
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventor: Tomoki Sato
  • Publication number: 20180095540
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventors: Gen TERAO, Tomoki SATO, Naoki TSURU
  • Publication number: 20170330440
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: BALMUDA, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoki SATO
  • Publication number: 20170332460
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventor: Tomoki SATO
  • Publication number: 20170319006
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventor: Daisuke NIIZUMI
  • Patent number: D705410
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: BALMUDA Inc.
    Inventor: Gen Terao
  • Patent number: D965553
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Balmuda Inc.
    Inventor: Jun Takano
  • Patent number: D967052
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Balmuda Inc.
    Inventor: Jun Takano
  • Patent number: D971469
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventors: Gen Terao, Kazuma Higa, Kyouhei Matsufuji, Akihito Ikeuchi
  • Patent number: D997116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BALMUDA Inc.
    Inventor: Gen Terao
  • Patent number: D1004353
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventors: Ryohei Sugimoto, Akihito Ikeuchi, Yasuyuki Ishii
  • Patent number: D1005035
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: BALMUDA INC.
    Inventors: Ryohei Sugimoto, Akihito Ikeuchi, Yasuyuki Ishii