Patents Assigned to Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20230391075
    Abstract: A digital dispense system and method of using a digital dispense system. The digital dispense system includes a pipette-fillable fluid cartridge having one or more fluid chambers therein and having an ejection head attached thereto. The ejection head contains a plurality of fluid ejectors thereon. The fluid ejectors are in fluid flow communication with the one or more fluid chambers of the pipette-fillable fluid cartridge. A fluid detection circuit is disposed on the ejection head and associated with at least one of the plurality of fluid ejectors for signaling the presence or absence of fluid in the one or more fluid chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bruce A. Deboard, Bruce D. Gibson, Michael A. Marra, III
  • Publication number: 20230391101
    Abstract: A fluid reservoir for a fluid ejection head structure and a method for priming a fluid ejection head for a fluid dispensing device. The fluid reservoir includes an enclosed fluid cavity therein configured for containing fluid, a fluid outlet in fluid flow communication with the enclosed fluid cavity, and a flow inducing pump attached to the fluid reservoir opposite the fluid outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Adam D. CARRITHERS, Bruce A. DeBoard, Sam NORASAK
  • Publication number: 20230364625
    Abstract: A fluid jet ejection device, a method of making a fluid jet ejection head for a fluid ejection device, and a method of improving the plume characteristics of fluid ejected from the fluid jet ejection head. The fluid jet ejection device includes a cartridge body; and a fluid jet ejection cartridge disposed in the cartridge body. The fluid jet ejection cartridge contains a fluid and an ejection head attached to the fluid jet ejection cartridge. The ejection head contains a plurality of fluid ejectors thereon and a nozzle plate having a plurality of fluid ejection nozzles therein associated with the plurality of fluid ejectors, wherein a first portion of the plurality of fluid ejection nozzles have a first axial flow path length and a second portion of the plurality of fluid ejection nozzles have a second axial flow path length greater than the first axial flow path length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael A. Marra, III
  • Publication number: 20230364911
    Abstract: A nozzle plate of a fluid ejection head for a fluid ejection device, a fluid ejection head containing the nozzle plate, and a method for making the fluid ejection head containing the nozzle plate. The nozzle plate includes an array of nozzle holes and a fluid channel layer attached to an exposed surface of the nozzle plate, wherein the fluid channel layer comprises a fluid channel formed in the fluid channel layer adjacent to each nozzle hole for urging fluid from each nozzle hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: David C. Graham, Sean T. Weaver
  • Publication number: 20230364908
    Abstract: A nozzle plate of a fluid ejection head for a fluid ejection device, a fluid ejection head containing the nozzle plate, and a method for making the fluid ejection head containing the nozzle plate. The nozzle plate includes at least two arrays of nozzle holes on opposing sides of a fluid supply via etched in an ejection head substrate and a photoresist layer attached to an exposed surface of the nozzle plate spanning a section of the nozzle plate between the at least two arrays of nozzle holes. The photoresist layer increases a thickness of the nozzle plate between the at least two arrays of nozzle holes to greater than 25 microns up to about 100 microns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: David C. Graham, Sean T. Weaver
  • Patent number: 11809242
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a housing, an electronic unit attached to the housing, a fixing section provided to the housing and including a first hook that holds the electronic unit relative to the housing, and movement restricting section arranged relative to the first hook to restrict movement of the first hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takenori Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230344536
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for providing real-time or recorded content along with customized content augmentation stream to enhance a user's experience of the content. A content provider may receive captured feedback from multiple users and select and aggregate a subset of the received feedback based on preferences and emotional state of a user to be presented with the content. The aggregated feedbacks may be customized for the user and delivered as content augmentation stream along with the content to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Debmalya BISWAS, Seth Adrian MILLER, Mordehai MARGALIT, Nery STRASMAN
  • Publication number: 20230341825
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for dynamic optimization of environmental controls. A system according to some examples may determine a person's environmental preferences and generate a time-based environmental control model for that person. The system may also generate a location model defining current and predicted future locations for the person. The environmental model may take into account person's previous or current activity and be adjusted based on sensed data from interior and exterior environmental sensors and body sensors on the person. Models for multiple people may be combined based on priorities or personal characteristics. Models may also be stored in mobile devices such that settings can be implemented in future locations prior to arrival of the person. Implemented settings may be adjusted for additional people as they arrive at the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vlad Grigore DABIJA, Yanjun MA, David Walter ASH, Phillip SORRELLS
  • Patent number: 11787187
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a recording head, discharging ink to a recording medium; a roller, having an outer circumferential surface provided for ink idly discharged from the recording head to be attached; a motor, rotating the roller in a predetermined direction; and a scraper, provided to scrape off the ink attached to the outer circumferential surface of the roller in a state in which the roller rotates in the predetermined direction. The scraper has: a recessed surface making surface contact with the outer circumferential surface of the roller; and a notch part formed at an end of the recessed surface, making line contact with the outer circumferential surface of the roller, and recessed in a substantially shape along a rotation direction of the roller and from the end of the recessed surface toward another end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiro Tani
  • Patent number: 11785698
    Abstract: Provided is a static eliminator that efficiently eliminates static electricity from a tray of a droplet ejection device of a tray transport type. A static eliminator 20 includes a movable part 22 which is pushed by a tray 12 due to movement of the tray 12 and moves, and an ion generator 24 disposed on a movement path of the tray 12 and configured to generate ions according to the movement of the movable part 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11784283
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprises a substrate a plurality of light emitting elements provided on the substrate, and a reflective sheet provided to be positioned at a predetermined reference position on the substrate and having a plurality of apertures that expose the light emitting elements therethrough, respectively. The apertures are configured such that a first spacing that is located between each of the apertures and a respective one of the light emitting elements and farther than the respective one of the light emitting elements from the reference position is larger than a second spacing that is located between each of the apertures and the respective one of the light emitting elements and closer than the respective one of the light emitting elements to the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Imahori
  • Publication number: 20230310762
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device and a method for controlling the delivering of a fluid to a user. The fluid delivery device includes a cartridge body; a fluid outlet nozzle attached to the cartridge body; a fluid jet ejection cartridge disposed in the cartridge body, the fluid jet ejection cartridge containing a fluid and an ejection head attached to the fluid jet ejection cartridge; wherein the ejection head contains a plurality of fluid ejectors thereon and a nozzle plate having a plurality of fluid ejection nozzles therein associated with the plurality of fluid ejectors configured to deliver the fluid to a user at a predetermined rate. A control system is disposed in the fluid delivery device that includes a differential pressure sensor for sensing an inhalation differential pressure. The control system is configured to terminate fluid delivery below a threshold inhalation differential pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael A. Marra, III
  • Publication number: 20230311496
    Abstract: A system and method for ejecting one or more fluids from a digital dispense device. The method includes selecting a) fixed target areas and total fluid volumes for the target areas of the substrate; b) a predetermined droplet volume for the target areas; c) calculating a required number of droplets for the target areas; d) determining a maximum number of droplets per pixel based on the target areas; e) calculating a number of droplets per pass of an ejection head over the target areas; f) modifying one or more dimension of the target areas to create modified target areas; g) selecting and centering the modified spot size target areas in the target areas; and h) depositing fluids in the modified target areas while scanning the ejection head over the modified target areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bruce A. Deboard, Michael A. Marra, III
  • Patent number: 11774646
    Abstract: A display device comprises a plurality of light sources, a luminance equalizer sheet and a display. The light sources include a plurality of first light sources arranged in an array on an arrangement region and a plurality of second light sources arranged at corner portions of the arrangement region, respectively. The luminance equalizer sheet is arranged opposite the light sources to equalize luminance, the luminance equalizer sheet including first portions that face the first light sources, respectively, and second portions that face the second light sources, respectively, the second portions being different from the first portions. The display is arranged opposite the luminance equalizer sheet and disposed on an opposite side of the luminance equalizer sheet relative to the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Ito
  • Publication number: 20230303867
    Abstract: An aqueous composition for forming a micro-fluid jet printable dielectric film layer, methods for forming dielectric film layers, and dielectric film layers formed by the method. The aqueous composition includes from about 5 to about 20 percent by 65 weight of a polymeric binder emulsion, from about 10 to about 30 percent by weight of a humectant, from about 0 to about 3 percent by weight of a surfactant, and an aqueous carrier fluid. The aqueous composition has a viscosity ranging from about 2 to about 6 centipoise at a temperature of about 23° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaorong Cai, Michael John Dixon, Yimin Guan, Ann P. Holloway, Jeanne Marie Saldanha Singh, Zhigang Xiao
  • Patent number: 11766133
    Abstract: A mattress 100 includes a movable part 1 and a mattress body 2 including a first mattress part 21 disposed above the movable part 1, and a second mattress part 22 provided separately from the first mattress part 21 and disposed to surround the first mattress part in a plan view. The first mattress part 21 is configured to rotate upward about the predetermined rotation axis by the movable part 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Naoyuki Wakabayashi, Fuminori Tanaka, Jun Sugimoto, Masayuki Hirata, Yuka Omura, Kanae Kusakabe
  • Patent number: 11765491
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display, a rear side member, and a plurality of speaker units. The speaker units each have a speaker main body having first and second surfaces that are attachable to the rear side member and are parallel to each other and a side surface that connects the first surface and the second surface, and at least one sound emitting portion displaced from a center of the side surface on the side surface. When the speaker main body is inverted from a first state in which the first surface is fixed to the rear side member to a second state in which the second surface is fixed to the rear side member, the at least one sound emitting portion in the first state and the at least one sound emitting portion in the second state are arranged to be symmetrical with respect to an axis of inversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230249190
    Abstract: A method of generating a microfluidic ejection chip is provided. The method includes creating an opening in a silicon substrate through multiple iterations of a deep reactive ion etching process, forming a passivation layer over any exposed portion of silicon at the opening following each iteration of the deep reactive ion etching of the silicon substrate, and not removing the passivation layer at a conclusion of the etching of the silicon substrate to define a fluid passageway at the opening in the silicon substrate, such that the passivation layer is permanent on the silicon substrate at the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: David L. Bernard, Sean T. Weaver
  • Patent number: 11689243
    Abstract: A wireless communication device comprises a first communication unit, a second communication unit and a single control unit. The first communication unit wirelessly communicates by a first communication signal according to a first communication standard. The second communication unit wirelessly communicates by a second communication signal according to a second communication standard. The second communication signal has a frequency band that overlaps with that of the first communication signal. The second communication standard is different from the first communication standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuo Ichimura
  • Patent number: 11673397
    Abstract: A fluid interconnect system including a mating component having an inlet port and a liquid outlet, the inlet port configured to support an interconnector and the liquid outlet configured to engage with a print cartridge so that liquid flows from a liquid source, through the interconnector and the inlet port, and out of the liquid outlet into the print cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Steven R. Komplin