Patents Assigned to NEC PLATFORMS, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20240074086
    Abstract: A device mounting mechanism that loads a device into an internal space within a plurality of columns constituting a rack mount includes: a pair of columns provided parallel to each other; mounters respectively supported by the pair of columns so as to be movable in a direction intersecting a plane containing these columns; and a mount bar supported substantially horizontally by connecting one end to one mounter and the other end to the other mounter so as to be rotatable about shafts substantially parallel to the columns. The mount bar supports an upper surface of the device within a space surrounded by the columns, and at least one of the one end and the other end is connected to a shaft so as to be movable in a direction connecting the shafts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Horii
  • Publication number: 20240073288
    Abstract: An address correspondence formation unit in a security device forms session-establishment address correspondence that associates a first type external address information unit of a main device, a first type external address information unit of the security device containing an IP address of the security device on a router side and a session establishment port number for a connection target telephone on a WAN side, and a terminal number and a session-establishment address information unit of the connection target telephone. The first type external address information unit of the main device contains an IP address and a session establishment port number of the main device. A setting control unit sets, to the main device, the first type external address information unit of the main device and a first type internal address information unit of the security device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Kinouchi
  • Patent number: 11915565
    Abstract: A commodity imaging apparatus in which a camera does not protrude into a space above a commodity placement table is provided. A commodity imaging apparatus (10) includes a commodity placement table (1), a support pillar (2), and an imaging unit (3). The commodity placement table (1) includes a roughly square placement surface (1e). The support pillar (2) is disposed at one corner (1a) of the placement surface (1e). The imaging unit (3) is disposed in the support pillar (2) so as to take an image of a commodity (G1) placed on the placement surface (1e) from obliquely above the commodity (G1). A camera (31) of the imaging unit (3) does not protrude into a space above the commodity placement table (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Reo Masuda
  • Patent number: 11910553
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-dissipating waterproof structure having both excellent heat dissipation ability and high waterproofness. A heat-dissipating waterproof structure (300) provided between a top part (203) of a casing (200) to accommodate a heat source (102) and the heat source (102) includes a water receiving part (301) that guides a liquid having entered into the casing (200) through an outlet (203A) provided in the top part (203) of the casing (200), and a water guide channel (302) that guides the liquid having been guided by the water receiving part (301) to be discharged to outside of a space where the heat source (102) is accommodated, and the water receiving part (301) has at least a sloping surface which gradually becomes higher the further it is from being immediately above the heat source (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yagi, Kiyotaka Yokoyama, Akira Katsumata, Wataru Imura
  • Patent number: 11908306
    Abstract: A rescue request apparatus (1) includes a radio communication unit (2) configured to perform radio communication, a trajectory acquisition unit (3) configured to acquire a movement trajectory of the rescue request apparatus when the radio communication cannot be performed by the radio communication unit (2), a user-state determination unit (4) configured to determine whether or not a user of the rescue request apparatus is in a dangerous state, and a drive control unit (5) configured to drive and control the rescue request apparatus so as to trace the movement trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquisition unit (3) when the user-state determination unit (4) determines that the user is in the dangerous state. The radio communication unit (2) transmits a rescue request signal to a pre-registered destination when the radio communication becomes possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naruki Saito
  • Publication number: 20240049894
    Abstract: A stand for a droplet prevention sheet attached to a POS terminal including a body part, a hole part being formed on an upper surface of the body part, the stand including: a stand pole including a pole body part that is extended in a rod-like shape, a first pole end, and a second pole end, the first and the second pole ends being both ends of the pole body part; and a sheet fixing part configured to fix a droplet prevention sheet, the sheet fixing part being coupled to the stand pole, in which the stand pole is vertically disposed in the body part of the POS terminal by the first pole end being fixed to the hole part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Kobata
  • Publication number: 20240053952
    Abstract: A teleconference system (1) capable of smoothly progressing a teleconference is provided. A speech determination unit (2) determines whether a voice of each of a plurality of participants in a teleconference indicates speech or back-channel. A voice output control unit (4) performs control so that the voice of each of a plurality of the participants is output by a communication terminal of each of a plurality of the participants. The voice output control unit (4) performs control, when, while one of a plurality of the participants makes speech, another participant makes speech, so as to suppress an output of the speech of the another participant. A count unit (6) counts the number of collision speeches, for each participant. A number display control unit (8) performs control so that a display related to the number of times is made at the communication terminals of a plurality of the participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mayuko TERATA
  • Patent number: 11900207
    Abstract: A scanner apparatus (1A) includes: a housing (11); a hand scanner (20); and a hand scanner holder (30) attached to a side of the housing (11) and configured to hold the hand scanner (20), in which the hand scanner holder (30) includes a base part (31) configured to be attached to the side of the housing (11), the base part (31) includes a pair of holding pieces (34a, 34b) opposed to each other with a first interval therebetween, and the pair of holding pieces (34a, 34b) form a holding recess (34) configured to hold a lower part (21a) of a grasping part (21) of the hand scanner (20), which is inserted, from above the pair of the holding pieces (34a, 34b), between the pair of holding pieces (34a, 34b), in a state in which an upper part (21b) of the grasping part (21) protrudes upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihisa Iwata, Katsumi Harashima, Yuta Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11898689
    Abstract: An angle adjustment mechanism capable of achieving stable quality is provided. An angle adjustment mechanism (10) includes a base member (20), a support member (40) that supports the base member (20) from below, a mount member (30) having a rotation shaft (16) rotatably connecting the base member (20), and a suppression member (50). The support member (40) moves up and down in conjunction with a rotation operation of the base member (20). The suppression member (50) is formed of an elastic material and attached to the mount member (30), and suppresses up-and-down movement of the support member (40) by frictional force. The suppression member (50) is provided with a hole (52) into which a part of the support member is inserted and slides, and frictional force is generated between the suppression member (50) and the support member (40) in the hole (52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaru Kunii
  • Publication number: 20240046726
    Abstract: An information processing system (10) comprises: a first acquiring means (210) for acquiring a first information relating to performance of a specific inspection; a second acquiring means (220) for acquiring a second information for determining that whether or not a user is a person who has gotten the specific inspection; a determining means (300) for performing a determination that whether or not the user has gotten the specific inspection on the basis of the first information and the second information; and an output means (400) for performing an output according to a result of the determination. According to such the information processing system, it is possible to appropriately process information relating to a specific inspection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Inagaki, Fumi Irie
  • Publication number: 20240045936
    Abstract: An authentication system SYS comprises: an imaging unit 12 capable of generating an iris image IMG_I by capturing an image of an iris of an target P; and a display unit 15 capable of displaying information related to authentication of the target using the iris image, wherein at least a part of the imaging unit is disposed in a space SP2 adjacent to a back surface 152 of the display unit, the back surface being located opposite a display surface 151 for displaying the information, and the imaging unit is oriented in a direction different from a direction in which the target is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Oomine, Daisuke Shimada, Daisuke Okamoto, Katsumi Kayama, Shuya Gonda
  • Patent number: 11893559
    Abstract: A unit has a bottom surface, and first and second flange portions. A mounting plate has a first hook portion to be engaged with the first flange portion to control movement of the unit, having been mounted onto an upper plate surface, toward a front side in a depth direction and in a height direction; a second hook portion to be engaged with the second flange portion to control movement of the unit, having been mounted onto the upper plate surface, toward the front side in the depth direction and in the height direction; and a locking portion releasably engaged with the second flange portion to allow movement of the unit, being inserted or removed on the upper plate surface in the depth direction, and to control movement of the unit, having been mounted onto the upper plate surface, toward a rear side in the depth direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Okada, Tetsuya Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20240038442
    Abstract: The multilayer substrate according to the present disclosure includes: a plurality of substrates in which conductors are wired; and an insulation material to which first insulation particles each having a first particle diameter are added. The multilayer substrate has a lamination structure such that, in two of the substrates adjacent to each other among the plurality of substrates having been laminated, the first insulation particles, each having the first particle diameter substantially the same as the interval between the conductors on the two substrates, are disposed so as to be respectively brought into contact with the conductors wired on the adjacent two substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: NEC Platforms, Ltd., NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromitsu TAHARA
  • Publication number: 20240038045
    Abstract: A system includes a sensor detecting entry/exit of a person to/from a toilet and a sensor detecting leaving/sitting on a toilet seat installed on a toilet bowl; acquires excretion information indicating at least a start and an end of excretion, based on imaging data captured by an image capture apparatus installed in such a way as to include, in an image capture range, an excretion range of excrement in the bowl; authenticates a person performed entry/exit, and determines whether the person is a person to be assisted as a user of the toilet or a helper; outputs notification information to a notification destination, based on a detection event indicated by the excretion information, entry/exit information, leaving/sitting information, and an authentication result, and a notification condition; and stores, as the notification condition, necessity of notification, and the notification information and the notification destination when notification is necessary, for each events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Wakabayashi, Kazuhiro Kakehata, Tsutomu Mieno, Haruhiko Yamabuchi
  • Publication number: 20240037672
    Abstract: A clearing instruction after accounting is completed is automatically sent. An order management apparatus includes: an order entry unit configured to transmit, when order data including dish data and serving destination data is input, the order data to a kitchen apparatus; an order data storage unit configured to store the order data; a serving control unit configured to generate, when cooking of the dish is completed, serving instruction data including serving destination data of the dish and transmit the serving instruction data to a serving robot; an accounting unit configured to perform accounting based on the order data; and a clearing control unit configured to generate clearing instruction data including the serving destination data of the serving destination for which the accounting has been completed and transmitting the clearing instruction data to the serving robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rikako IWAMOTO, Haruo YOSHIDA, Takatsugu YAMANAKA, Yuka YOKOMICHI
  • Publication number: 20240027544
    Abstract: A detection device that fits a second connector provided on a tip of a cable and detects looseness at a connection portion between a first connector to which the cable is connected and the second connector includes a sensor that detects a distance to a tip face of the second connector in a sealed space formed in a state where the first connector and the second connector are fitted to each other; a controller that gives an output instruction to output a predetermined signal when the distance has changed by a predetermined threshold value or more from a reference distance, the reference distance being the distance at a predetermined reference time; and an output device that outputs the predetermined signal according to the output instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki Umeda
  • Patent number: 11880573
    Abstract: In a disk array configured to distribute and store a plurality of data on a plurality of storage devices, a disk array control device is configured to calculate recovery data for a plurality of storage devices upon detecting an incoherency in a redundant configuration without receiving an abnormality report from a storage device having written predetermined data thereon and to identify the storage device, relating to the correct recovery data determined according to a majority logic, as a storage device inviting an unfinished-writing failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Suganuma
  • Publication number: 20240020360
    Abstract: The monitor unit starts an aggregating processing program in a normal world, inputs verification input data to an aggregating processing unit, and obtains normal output data. The monitor unit compares the secure output data with the normal output data. When the secure output data and the normal output data match each other, the monitor unit determines that the aggregating processing program has not been tampered with after the aggregating processing program is installed since the aggregating processing program and the aggregating processing program are identical. When the secure output data and the normal output data do not match each other, the monitor unit determines that the aggregating processing program has been tampered with after the aggregating processing program is installed since the aggregating processing program and the aggregating processing program are not identical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuo OWADA
  • Patent number: 11876309
    Abstract: Three elements of a first (¼) wavelength element and a second (¼) wavelength element which have a length of (¼) wavelength at an arbitrary frequency designated in advance and a half-wavelength element which has a length of a half-wavelength at the arbitrary frequency are arranged in a three-orthogonal state where those are orthogonal to each other, one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, another end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the half-wavelength element, a feeding point for antenna power feeding is arranged in a position in which the one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to the one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, and an antenna is formed as a one-wavelength twisted Z-shaped three-orthogonal dipole antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Uchida
  • Patent number: 11876314
    Abstract: In order to reduce the probability that an electrode of a connector and a terminal part of a printed substrate are broken, this connector is provided with openings including a void, respectively, in at least one of surfaces perpendicular to generating lines of two prismatic surfaces facing each other with the void therebetween and having parallel generating lines, and at least one of surfaces parallel to the generating lines, and is equipped with: a first member which is disposed in the void, and performs a first movement that is a movement in a direction parallel to the generating lines; a second member which, following the first member, performs a second movement that is a movement in a direction corresponding to the direction of the movement of the first member between respectively predetermined first point and second point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kunihiko Endo