Patents Assigned to Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10591765
    Abstract: A display device includes a display that displays images, a light source that irradiates light toward a back surface of the display, a metal material that radiates heat generated by the light source, a protective part provided in proximity to the perimeter of the display, wherein the protective part opposes the metal material, and a conductive part interposed between and electrically connects the protective part and the metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kodai Nakano, Tatsuji Sudo
  • Publication number: 20200062004
    Abstract: A finger nail printer in which a mounting table can be easily pressed downward against a biasing force even when a biasing member with a large biasing force is used is provided. The finger nail printer includes a placing unit and a positioning unit, the placing unit includes a placing table, an extension portion, and a biasing member, a finger is fixed between the placing table and the positioning unit with the biasing force of the biasing member, and the finger can be inserted and removed as the extension portion is pressed downward against the biasing force of the biasing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Yasumoto, Toshiro Tani
  • Publication number: 20200064543
    Abstract: A display device of which an entire thickness in front and rear directions can be reduced and in which temperature of a lower portion can be prevented from being high is provided. A television device (display device) (100) includes a light source part (2), an optical sheet (5), and a rear frame (6). The light source part (2) is disposed in the upper portion of the television device (television device) (100) and a hollow light-guiding region (7) is provided between the reflection sheet (4) and the optical sheet (5). In the reflection sheet (4), a distance to the optical sheet (5) is less in the lower portion than in the upper portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200050059
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; a housing that comprises a front face in which the display panel is disposed; a light source unit that is disposed on an inner surface of the housing, and comprises a light source and an optical lens covering the light source; an attenuating plate that is disposed between the light source unit and the display panel, and attenuates an intensity of light irradiated from the light source unit, the light passing through the attenuating plate toward the display panel; and a reflection plate that reflects the light having passed through the attenuating plate toward the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Seiji Takemoto
  • Patent number: 10558032
    Abstract: A light-projecting device includes a light source that emits a light, and a scanner that performs a first scan of the light in a first direction and a second direction opposed to the first direction, and performs a second scan of the light in a direction orthogonal to the first direction. The scanner performs the second scan while the scanner is swinging in a first angle range when the scanner performs the first scan in the first direction. The scanner performs the second scan while the scanner is swinging in a second angle range that is greater than the first angle range when the scanner performs the first scan in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Ito
  • Patent number: 10557984
    Abstract: A display device includes a display screen, a reflective sheet disposed opposite the display screen and that reflects irradiated light toward the display screen, a plurality of light emitters disposed at one side of the reflective sheet and that irradiates light to different reflective regions of the reflective sheet, and a controller that adjusts an amount of light generated in each of the plurality of light emitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 10545241
    Abstract: A position detecting apparatus includes a light-transmitting mirror that pivots around a pivot shaft and reflects measuring light from a light source; a light-receiving mirror that pivots around the pivot shaft and reflects returning light from an object; and a light-receiving element that receives the returning light from the light-receiving mirror. When the light-transmitting mirror and the light-receiving mirror are at rest, a first mirror angle between a mirror surface of the light-receiving mirror and a direction from the pivot shaft to the light-receiving element is larger than a second mirror angle between a mirror surface of the light-transmitting mirror and the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Murayama, Yuichiro Masuda, Tomohisa Hirai
  • Patent number: 10534220
    Abstract: A light reflecting assembly includes a cabinet and a light reflecting member. The light reflecting member includes a center reflecting part, four peripheral reflecting parts and a tongue part. Side end portions of an adjacent pair of the peripheral reflecting parts 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. The tongue part extends from one of the side end portions of the adjacent pair of the peripheral reflecting parts towards the other of the side end portions of the adjacent pair of the peripheral reflecting parts. The tongue part at least partially overlaps with the other of the side end portions of the adjacent pair of the peripheral reflecting parts while the light reflecting member is attached to the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Kawada
  • Patent number: 10525716
    Abstract: A system tracks the fluid information in fluid cartridges used in digital dispense devices connected to a network. Each device stores a history of cartridges that have been used in the device. Each cartridge stores a fluid information value and/or an indicator that indicates whether the cartridge has been used before in any device. When a device receives a previously-used cartridge, the device broadcasts a request for information about that cartridge from the other devices. Each device having the matching cartridge identification value in its history reports over the network the latest fluid information value associated with the matching cartridge identification value. The requesting device chooses the most up-to-date response based on the latest value of fluid information. The requesting device then updates its memory using the latest value and begins incrementing the information from that latest information for subsequent fluid dispense jobs performed using the installed cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bruce Deboard, Brian Jones
  • Patent number: 10527779
    Abstract: A display device includes a light source, a reflection sheet, a display panel, and a supporting unit. The reflection sheet reflects light from the light source. The supporting unit supports the reflection sheet. The supporting unit has a first protruding portion that contacts with a first area of a rear facing surface of the reflection sheet within a predetermined distance from a center portion of the reflection sheet, a second protruding portion that contacts with a second area of the rear facing surface of the reflection sheet that is spaced apart from the first area and a third protruding portion that contacts with a third area of the rear facing surface of the reflection sheet that is spaced apart from the first and second areas, the third area being located between the first and second areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yokawa, Yuki Kita, Akihiro Fujikawa, Yasuyuki Fukumoto, Yasuhiro Mori, Yuto Suzuki, Hirofumi Horiuchi, Hirohiko Tsuji, Takahito Yamanaka, Hideo Yonezawa, Akifumi Kono
  • Patent number: 10524510
    Abstract: A heater for a vaporization device includes a fluid reservoir and a porous and permeable heating element made of an electrically conductive material and located within the reservoir. The reservoir and the heating element located within the reservoir define a fluid volume sufficient to capture and retain a fixed volume of fluid ejected from an ejection head in the vaporization device. Application of electrical energy to the heating element vaporizes the fixed volume of fluid in a fixed amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byron V. Bell
  • Patent number: 10522726
    Abstract: A display device includes a display and at least one light source. The display displays image. The at least one light source emits light to the display. The at least one light source includes a semiconductor element with a substrate, a translucent sealing resin that covers the semiconductor element, and a reflective layer that is disposed on an upper face of the sealing resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noritaka Tanabe
  • Patent number: 10520666
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a light source, a reflection sheet, and a supporting unit. The supporting unit has a first protruding portion that contacts with a first area of a rear facing surface of the reflection sheet, a second protruding portion that contacts with a second area of the rear facing surface, a third protruding portion that contacts with a third area of the rear facing surface and a fourth protruding portion that contacts with a fourth area of the rear facing surface. The first, second, third and fourth areas are spaced apart from a center portion of the reflection sheet. The first and second areas are spaced apart from each other in a first direction. The third and fourth areas are spaced apart from each other in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yokawa, Yuki Kita, Akihiro Fujikawa, Yasuyuki Fukumoto, Yasuhiro Mori, Yuto Suzuki, Hirofumi Horiuchi, Hirohiko Tsuji, Takahito Yamanaka, Hideo Yonezawa, Akifumi Kono
  • Patent number: 10523908
    Abstract: A light projection device includes a plurality of light sources, a transmission component, and a controller. The light sources output light of mutually different wavelengths. The transmission component transmits the light at a transmissivity of the light for each wavelength. The controller controls amount of light of the light sources based on transmissivity information indicating a change in the transmissivity for each wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takao Mizuno
  • Patent number: 10512921
    Abstract: An apparatus for a fluidic ejection device and a fluidic ejection device containing the apparatus. The apparatus includes a pivot member having at least a first position and a second position, a shaft attached on a first end thereof to the pivot member and on a second end distal from the first end to a capping structure, wherein pivot of the pivot member pivots the capping structure from a first capped position to a second uncapped position adjacent an ejection head of the fluidic ejection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sam Norasak, Michael A. Marra, III
  • Publication number: 20190344573
    Abstract: A fluidic ejection cartridge and protective tape system therefor. The fluidic ejection cartridge includes a cartridge body for fluid having a cover closing a first end thereof, an ejection head on a second end thereof opposite the first end, and side walls attached to the first and second ends between the first and second ends. The side walls include a first side wall, a second side wall opposite the first side wall, a first end wall attached to the first and second side walls, and a second end wall opposite the first end wall attached to the first and second side walls. A single ejection head protective tape is attached to a release structure on the first side wall and to the ejection head by an adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Paul W. DRYER, David E. LAROSE
  • Patent number: 10477440
    Abstract: A content receiving apparatus that connects to a first network and one or more access points of a second network includes a communication unit that receives a content distributed from an external apparatus, a memory that stores a first access point of the second network that meets a predetermined first condition, a detector that detects a first access point connectable to the content receiving apparatus of the second network in the memory; and a controller that changes a connection to the detected first access point if a predetermined second condition is met while the content is being played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Takemoto
  • Patent number: 10459270
    Abstract: A display device includes a display, at least one light source unit, a housing and a reflective sheet. The at least one light source unit has a light source, a diffusing lens that covers the light source, and a substrate to which the light source is mounted. The housing includes an inner surface to which the at least one light source unit is attached. The reflective sheet has a plurality of holes corresponding to the light sources, the reflective sheet being disposed between the substrate and the diffusing lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Fukumoto, Akihiro Fujikawa, Akira Yokawa
  • Patent number: 10440289
    Abstract: An audio/video output device includes a first output component for video and audio output, a second output component for audio output, a video memory and a controller. The video memory stores video signal. The controller allocates at least part of an area of the video memory to the second output component in response to determining that an external device connected to the second output component supports video input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Asai
  • Patent number: RE47914
    Abstract: A display device, comprising a display panel, a back surface enclosure disposed on a back surface side of the display panel and comprising a concave portion formed in a concave shape on a display panel side, and a heat generating component disposed between the display panel and the back surface enclosure, wherein the concave portion comprises a plurality of holes that release heat from the heat generating component to an outside of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Ogura