Patents Assigned to Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
  • Image display device
    Patent number: 10705383
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display panel, a plurality of light emitting elements, a reflective sheet, and a first optical sheet. The display panel displays an image on a front face of the display panel. The light emitting elements are disposed along one edge of the display panel. The reflective sheet is disposed opposite a rear face of the display panel. The reflective sheet reflects light from the light emitting elements toward the rear face of the display panel. The first optical sheet is disposed between the display panel and the reflective sheet. The first optical sheet has a plurality of protrusions on a face of the first optical sheet that is opposite the reflective sheet. The protrusions have ridgelines extending along a direction that is different from a direction in which the one edge of the display panel extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akihisa Ogawa
  • PRINTER
    Publication number: 20200207080
    Abstract: A printer is provided to includes an ink head; a placement unit; a positional reference arranged near the placement unit as a reference for performing position adjustment in the up-down direction; and a first reflection member configured to be disposed at a lateral position separated from the placement unit toward a lateral side so that a position of the first reflection member in the up-down direction overlaps the positional reference and the printing target in a lateral view, wherein the first reflection member reflects light arriving from a lateral surface of the printing target and the positional reference, and an upper end of a reflective surface which reflects light is positioned above the positional reference and a lower end is positioned below the positional reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hayashi, Masaaki Takagi
  • POWER FEEDING DEVICE AND POWER FEEDING METHOD
    Publication number: 20200204214
    Abstract: A power feeding device includes: a power feeder that wirelessly feeds power to power receivers; a transceiver that communicates with the power receivers; and a controller that controls the power feeder and the transceiver. When the transceiver receives signals from two or more of the power receivers, the controller suspends feeding of power to the power feeder for a predetermined period and resumes feeding of power to the power feeder after the predetermined period. When the transceiver receives signals from only one of the power receivers, the controller continues feeding of power to the power feeder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Takafumi Nakase
  • Fluidic dispensing apparatus and fluid dispensing cartridge therefor
    Patent number: 10688793
    Abstract: A fluid dispensing cartridge includes a housing body having a proximal end wall, a distal end wall, a fluid chamber, and a hollow throat portion. The fluid chamber is in fluid communication with the hollow throat portion, and the distal end wall provides a distal termination of the hollow throat portion. A fluid jetting chip is located on, and is attached to, the distal end wall. The hollow throat portion includes a fluid channel. The fluid channel has an interior wall that has a plurality of elongate protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: James D. Anderson, Jr., Michael A. Marra, III
  • Display device
    Patent number: 10681301
    Abstract: A display device includes a signal processor, a display component, a substrate, and a conductive housing. The signal processor includes an oscillator that outputs oscillation signal, the signal processor processing signal whose frequency is higher than a specific threshold. The display component displays video. The substrate has a ground component, the signal processor being disposed on the substrate. The conductive housing is connected to a first site of the ground component and to a second site that is different from the first site. The first site and the second site are disposed at positions where a first area of the housing that is an odd-numbered multiple of ¼ wavelength of the oscillation signal away from the first site overlaps at least part of a second area of the housing that is a multiple of ¼ wavelength of the oscillation signal away from the second site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi Kodama
  • Lighting device and display device
    Patent number: 10656320
    Abstract: A lighting device includes at least one light source, and a lens. The lens directs light emitted from the at least one light source. The lens has a concave component with an inner bottom face and an inner face, the light emitted from the at least one light source being incident on the concave component, an emission face located on an opposite side from the concave component, and an outer face located to the side of the concave component. The inner face forms a convex face that faces toward inside of the concave component. The outer face reflects the light that has entered the lens through the inner face toward the emission face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka Tanabe, Seiji Takemoto
  • Method for fabricating fluid ejection device
    Patent number: 10647119
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating a fluid ejection device. The method includes forming a drive circuitry layer on a substrate. The method further includes fabricating at least one fluid ejection element on the substrate. Furthermore, the method includes forming at least one slot within a top portion of the substrate, and forming at least one fluid feed trench within a bottom portion of the substrate. Each fluid feed trench of the at least one fluid feed trench is in fluid communication with one or more slots of the at least one slot. Additionally, the method includes laminating a flow feature layer and a nozzle plate over the substrate having the at least one slot and the at least one fluid feed trench formed therewithin. Further disclosed is a fluid ejection device fabricated using the aforementioned method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David Bernard, Andrew McNees, James Mrvos
  • Display device
    Patent number: 10645333
    Abstract: A display device includes, a display component, a speaker, a setting component, and a controller. The speaker outputs a first signal having guidance information pertaining to an operation performed on the display device or a status of the display device and a second signal having audio information pertaining to content displayed on the display component. The setting component sets a volume setting value of the display device to performs volume setting. The controller sets output levels of the first signal and the second signal to values corresponding to the volume setting value, respectively, such that the output level of the first signal is greater than or equal to the output level of the second signal, and the output level of the first signal is greater than zero when the volume setting value is set to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Matsumoto, Ikuo Kamikubo, Hiroshi Nishigaki, Yuji Imada
  • Light reflecting assembly
    Patent number: 10642099
    Abstract: A light reflecting assembly for a backlight module includes a cabinet and a light reflecting member. The light reflecting member includes a center reflecting part, four peripheral parts, and a tongue part. The peripheral parts at least partially form trapezoidal peripheral reflecting parts of the light reflecting member, respectively. The tongue part extend from an end edge of one of the peripheral parts towards an adjacent one of the peripheral parts. The tongue part at least partially overlaps with the adjacent one of the peripheral parts while the light reflecting member is attached to the cabinet. The end edge of the one of the peripheral parts is arranged to form a corner section of the light reflecting member at a corner portion of the center reflecting part while the light reflecting member is attached to the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Kawada
  • DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200127057
    Abstract: A display device capable of expanding a reproducible color gamut range while suppressing a decrease in image brightness is provided. The display device includes a display portion in which first groups and second groups are disposed to line up regularly with each other. The first groups include red color filters, blue color filters and first green color filters, and the second groups include the red color filters, the blue color filters and second green color filters. The second group is equal to the first groups in number of color filters and different from the first groups in filter combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamashita, Makoto Nameda
  • HEATER FOR A VAPORIZATION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200120758
    Abstract: A vaporization heater for a fluid vaporization device and a method for vaporizing fluid are provided. The vaporization heater includes at least two fluid reservoirs and heating elements made of an electrically conductive material selected from the group consisting of a conductive mesh and an interwoven wire located within each of the at least two fluid reservoirs. The at least two fluid reservoirs and the heating elements therefor define a fluid volume sufficient to capture and retain a fixed volume of fluid that is ejected from an ejection head associated with a fluid supply cartridge in the fluid vaporization device. The fluid supply cartridge contains at least two different fluids. Application of electrical energy to the heating elements vaporizes the fixed volume of fluid in the at least two fluid reservoirs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., LTD
    Inventors: Byron V. BELL, John Glenn EDELEN
  • Power feeding device and power feeding method
    Patent number: 10623062
    Abstract: A power feeding device includes a power feeder that wirelessly feeds power to one of a plurality of power receivers, a transceiver that communicates with the plurality of power receivers, and a controller that causes, when the transceiver receives a plurality of signals from two or more of the plurality of power receivers, the power feeder to suspend the feeding of power to the one of the plurality of power receivers for a predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Takafumi Nakase
  • Vapor delivery device
    Patent number: 10609957
    Abstract: A vapor delivery device having a reservoir for containing an amount of fluid. An ejector receives the fluid, and a controller fires the ejector to express a given dosage of the fluid through a number of nozzles in the ejector into an airstream at a firing frequency and for a firing duration. As the amount of the fluid within the reservoir decreases, the controller also at least one of reduces the firing frequency of the ejector, increases the number of nozzles, and increases the firing duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen T. Olson, Bruce D. Gibson, J. Glenn Edelen
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 10608023
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a display panel, a signal generator, a plurality of wires, and a controller. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel columns, the pixel columns each extending along source lines of the display panel and each having an input end and a plurality of pixels connected to the input end, with the pixels receiving data signal from the input end. The signal generator has a plurality of output ends arranged in a first direction of the signal generator with respect to each other. The wires connect the output ends of the signal generator to the input ends of the pixel columns, respectively. The controller varies voltage waveform of the data signal at the output ends of the signal generator according to location of the output ends of the signal generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ishida, Kenta Ide
  • Sheet feeding apparatus
    Patent number: 10604363
    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a casing that comprises a sheet feeding port, a first sheet feed tray in which a first medium is loaded and that is arranged along a sheet feeding port, and a cover that rotates from a position opposite the first sheet feed tray of the casing to a first sheet feed tray side and covers the sheet feeding port. The cover includes a second sheet feed tray that causes a second medium differing in size from the first medium to be capable of being loaded in the sheet feeding port when the cover covers the sheet feeding port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Takagi, Masanori Yamada, Daisuke Ogawa
  • Optical scanning device
    Patent number: 10606068
    Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a support portion including a swingable coupling portion and a frame swingably supporting the coupling portion, a first reflecting portion coupled to the coupling portion and configured to swing together with the coupling portion, and a swingable connecting portion including a bridge and a second reflecting portion coupled to the first reflecting portion via the bridge and provided at a position away from the first reflecting portion beyond the support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Inoda
  • Downsized reflecting device having oscillation part constituted by mirror pare and hinge part for making mirror part oscillate with respect to support frame for performing wide angle scanning
    Patent number: 10605923
    Abstract: Provided a reflecting device in which a mirror area is large, wide angle scanning is possible, and a size thereof is reduced, and particularly a downsized reflecting device that has a suitable specification as vehicle-mounted LiDAR. The reflecting device includes an oscillation part, and the oscillation part includes a mirror part supported on a support frame, and a hinge part engaging the mirror part and the support frame. The mirror part oscillates with respect to the support frame, and the hinge part has a tensile strength of 1500 MPa or higher. A mass M of the mirror part and a resonance frequency f0 of the oscillation part satisfy a relational expression (1) below, 0.49*f0+6.23?M?68.6*f0+46.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fuminori Tanaka
  • Wireless receiver and wireless transmitter
    Patent number: 10608782
    Abstract: A wireless receiver includes a wireless communication component and a controller. The wireless communication component receives from a wireless transmitter a wireless signal that includes content data and encoded data having first error correction information and second error correction information of a different type from that of the first error correction information, for correcting errors in the content data. The controller determines which of the first error correction information and the second error correction information is to be given priority based on the signal quality of the wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Higashide
  • Method for manufacturing MEMS devices and nano devices with varying degrees of hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity in a composite photoimageable dry film
    Patent number: 10599034
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (“3D”) structure for handling fluids, a fluid handling device containing the 3D structure, and a method of making the 3D structure. The method includes providing a composite photoresist material that includes: (a) a first layer devoid of a hydrophobicity agent and (b) at least a second layer comprising the hydrophobicity agent. The composite photoresist material is devoid of an adhesion promotion layer between layers of the composite photoresist material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David L. Bernard, Christopher A. Craft, David C. Graham, Sean T. Weaver
  • Liquid crystal module with top-cut conical supports on the backlight chassis
    Patent number: RE48071
    Abstract: A liquid crystal module includes: a rectangular-frame-shaped mold frame that is provided with a backlight therein; a liquid crystal cell that is arranged on a front face of the mold frame and is illuminated from a rear side by the backlight; a backlight chassis that is made of metal and fixed on a rear face of the backlight via a reflecting sheet made of synthetic resin; a plurality of supports that are formed on the backlight chassis; and a circuit board that is fixed to the supports by screwing, wherein the support is formed in a top-cut conical shape by swelling the backlight chassis backward by being subjected to drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Kota Sakuma