Patents Assigned to Solutions
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Publication number: 20190386271Abstract: According to embodiments, a pressure relief mechanism comprises a case with an installation hole formed therein, and a pressure relief valve. The pressure relief valve comprises an insertion portion which comprising a vent path formed in an axial portion of the insertion portion and a slit formed in a peripheral wall portion of the insertion portion so as to communicate with the vent path, a pedestal portion provided at an outer end of the insertion portion, a locking portion provided at an inner end of the insertion portion and locked on an inner edge of the installation hole, and a ring-like seal member interposed between around the installation hole and the pedestal portion, the seal portion comprising an elastic member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Takaya OGAWA, Kaoru KOIWA, Keitaro HINO, Shinya AIKAWA, Hiroaki ASAI
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Publication number: 20190383946Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a distance measurement apparatus, a distance measurement method, and a distance measurement system that permits speedup of operation of a TOF sensor as a whole by speeding up operation of ADCs. In a distance measurement apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure, a light reception section includes a plurality of AD conversion sections for AD conversion of pixel signals read out from the pixels. The AD conversion sections switch between first AD conversion performed with an accuracy of a first bit count and second AD conversion performed with an accuracy of a second bit count that is larger than the first bit count. The calculation section measures a distance to the target by using a result of the first or second AD conversion by the AD conversion sections. The present disclosure is applicable to a vehicle-mounted TOF sensor, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Kazuhide Namba
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Publication number: 20190382661Abstract: This disclosure relates to fugitive color systems and storage-stable fugitive colored liquid long-term fire retardant compositions comprising a fugitive color system. The fugitive color system comprises a fugitive color pigment. In particular, disclosed herein is the identification of fugitive color pigments exhibiting hydrophilic or diminished hydrophobic tendencies. And, in certain aspects, the fugitive color pigment is fluorescent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: Perimeter Solutions LPInventors: Melissa Kim, Marcela Muñoz, Howard L. Vandersall, Juan Robles
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Publication number: 20190381799Abstract: A cap includes a cap body and a check valve. The cap body is attached to a spout of an ink container supplying an ink to one direction. The check valve has a check valve ball inside and prevents backward flow of the ink to the other direction. The cap body includes a first thread portion, a supplying port and a second thread portion. The first thread portion is screwed with an outer circumference face of the spout to seal the spout. The supplying port is provided inside the first thread portion and has an inner diameter smaller than the spout. The second thread portion is provided around the supplying port inside the spout. The check valve is screwed with the second thread portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Daijiro UENO
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Publication number: 20190386386Abstract: An antenna includes a first element having a first conductive grid structure, a second element having a second conductive grid structure, and one or more spacers made of an electrically isolating material extending out of the first element to the second element, wherein the first conductive grid structure is spaced apart from the second conductive grid structure by the one or more spacers and air, wherein the one or more spacers support the first conductive grid structure, and wherein the first conductive grid structure defines a unitary body. A method of manufacturing such antenna includes 3D printing one or more spacers of an electrically isolating material to extend from the first element to the second element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: Nokia Solutions and Networks OYInventors: Alfonso Fernandez, Gloria Touchard, Luis Inclan Sanchez, Eva Rajo Iglesias
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Publication number: 20190382903Abstract: A process for preparing ammonia via an electrolysis cell may involve feeding nitrogen as a first reactant into the electrolysis cell and using water or water vapor as a second reactant for electrolysis. In at least one step downstream of the electrolysis, there is a separation of other components from the ammonia, such as an at-least-partial separation of nitrogen, water, argon and/or hydrogen. Recovery of the reactants is connected upstream of the ammonia electrolysis. The nitrogen used as the first reactant may be procured beforehand in an air fractionation plant. The process may further involve removing from the electrolysis cell oxygen formed as a by-product in the electrolysis at an anode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicants: thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG, thyssenkrupp AGInventors: Joachim JOHANNING, Daniela DOSTAL
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Publication number: 20190386161Abstract: According to one embodiment, a solar cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a plurality of insulants. The photoelectric conversion layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The plurality of insulants is disposed on a face of the first electrode. The face faces the second electrode. Any adjacent two of the plurality of insulants are disposed with a void interposed between the adjacent two.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Soichiro SHIBASAKI, Mutsuki YAMAZAKI, Kazushige YAMAMOTO, Yuya HONISHI
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Publication number: 20190382765Abstract: The present invention provides a novel nucleoside derivative or a salt thereof, a polynucleotide synthesis reagent, a method for producing a polynucleotide, a polynucleotide, and a method for producing a binding nucleic acid molecule. The nucleoside derivative or a salt thereof of the present invention is represented by the following chemical formula (1). In the chemical formula (1), Su is an atomic group having a sugar skeleton at a nucleoside residue or an atomic group having a sugar phosphate skeleton at a nucleotide residue, and may or may not have a protecting group, L1 and L2 are each independently a straight-chain or branched, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, X1 is an imino group (—NR1—), an ether group (—O—), or a thioether group (—S—), and R1 is a hydrogen atom or a straight-chain or branched, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2017Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicants: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd., National University Corporation Gunma UniversityInventors: Hirotaka MINAGAWA, Katsunori HORII, Jou AKITOMI, Naoto KANEKO, Iwao WAGA, Masayasu KUWAHARA
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Publication number: 20190384214Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided that is capable of facilitating visual recognition, from a front surface side and a lateral side of an apparatus body, of a sheet discharged on a discharge portion. In an image forming apparatus described herein, on a discharge portion is provided that protrudes upward beyond an upper surface of the discharge portion and lifts a corner portion of a sheet. The lifting piece has a loading surface that is inclined upward toward a downstream side in a discharge direction and the front surface side and on which the sheet is loaded, and a rear surface that is disposed on an opposite side to the loading surface, and the rear surface is formed in a dark color.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2017Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki TANAKA, Motoyuki FUKUDA, Takashi NAMII
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Publication number: 20190387119Abstract: An image reading device has a document placement stage, a light source unit, and a sensor unit. The light source unit has a first light source part having a first light source at one end in the main scanning direction and a first light guide, a second light source part having a second light source at the other end in the main scanning direction and a second light guide, a first board where the first light source is mounted, and a second board where the second light source is mounted. The first and second boards each have a board base, a mounting part where the first or second light source is mounted, and a reflection face formed next to the first or second light source. The reflection faces of the first and second board faces face, to overlap the facing faces of the second and first light guides.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Kenichiro KAWASAKI
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Publication number: 20190386776Abstract: A method is proposed for encoding DTUs (30) in a transmitter (111; 211) for further transmission to a receiver (212; 112). Communications from the transmitter to the receiver alternate between first time sub-frames (22; 24) comprising data symbols of a first type (D2; U2) having a first data payload capacity (NDSC,MIN), and second time sub-frames (21; 23) comprising data symbols of a second type (D1; U1) having a second data payload capacity (NDSC,MAX) greater than the first data payload capacity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Yannick Lefevre, Werner Coomans, Jochen Maes
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Publication number: 20190387188Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to detect, in the case where abnormality has occurred in at least a part of the pixels, the abnormality for each of the pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2017Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Naoki Kawazu, Atsushi Suzuki, Junichiro Azami, Yuichi Motohashi
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Publication number: 20190384207Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body, first and second agitators, and a transmitting mechanism. The case main body is configured to store a toner. The first and second agitators are configured to rotate and to agitate the toner in the case main body. A transmitting mechanism is configured to transmit rotation to the first and second agitators. The transmitting mechanism stops transmission of the rotation to the second agitator while the transmitting mechanism continues the transmission of the rotation to the first agitator, when driving torque of the second agitator is equal to or more than a first set value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Akira ISHII, Koshiro TOMIMORI
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Publication number: 20190386826Abstract: An IC card system includes an IC card management server and an IC card. The IC card management server requests a SIM management server to make an inquiry regarding a user based on card identification information and user information relating to a contract of SIM card, and, in a case that validity of the user is verified, transmits a generation request for generating a registration application registering biometric authentication information, including the card identification information and the secret key, to the SIM management server. The IC card includes a data storage storing the card identification information and the secret key and storing the biometric authentication information and, in a case that authentication based on the card identification information and the secret key through communication with the SIM card based on the registration application is succeed, stores the biometric authentication information based on the biometric information in the data storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Masakazu Kato, Mitsuaki Satsukawa
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Publication number: 20190383917Abstract: [Problem] The present disclosure proposes a technology that makes it possible to further reduce the influence of an error arising from a resolution of processing relating to measurement of the distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Shinozuka
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Patent number: 10510820Abstract: To make it possible to improve display quality more. Provided is a display device including: a pixel unit in which a plurality of pixel circuits (PIX_A, PIX_B, PIX_C) each of which includes a light emitting element and a driving circuit configured to drive the light emitting element are arranged in a matrix form. In a diffusion layer in which transistors included in the driving circuits of the pixel circuits (PIX_A, PIX_B, PIX_C) are formed, an electricity supply region (223) that is an active area for supplying an electric potential to a well is provided between mutually adjacent ones of the pixel circuits (PIX_A, PIX_B, PIX_C).Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Naobumi Toyomura, Takuma Fujii
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Patent number: 10508834Abstract: Falling particle solar receivers, systems, and methods are disclosed that include one non-linear falling particle curtain or two or more falling particle curtains within a solar receiver that receives incident solar radiation. The particles heated in the solar receiver may be used to heat a secondary fluid. In an embodiment, the particles may be recirculated to improve energy capture and thermal efficiency. In other embodiments, an air curtain may be used across the aperture of the receiver, and flow-control devices may be used to evenly spread particles across the width of the receiver inlet. Finally, feed particles may be preheated using heat from the solar receiver.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventor: Clifford K. Ho
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Patent number: 10510227Abstract: Apparatus and systems using merchandise activity sensors for increasing the awareness of interactivity with merchandise on retail store displays (shelves, peg hooks, merchandise pushers, and other Point of Purchase displays) in order to facilitate more effective customer service, reduce theft and to provide additional analysis data related to merchandise/shopper interaction.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Indyme Solutions, LLCInventors: Greg King, Derek Morikawa, Barry Baldwin, Bill Kepner, Steve Deal
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Patent number: 10507964Abstract: Cushioning supports a bottom corner section of an article being packed. The corner section has a bottom face, a first side face, and a second side face. The cushioning includes a first cushioning member and a second cushioning member that are separable from each other. The first cushioning member includes a bottom section that faces the bottom face of the corner section of the packed article and a first side section that faces the first side face of the corner section of the packed article. The second cushioning member includes a second side section that faces the second side face of the corner section of the packed article.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Masami Fujihara
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Patent number: 10508631Abstract: The apparatus and related method employ fluid pressure to first separate the water accumulation chamber from the filtration chamber of a filter assembly by closing fluid flow pathways that allow water to flow into the accumulation chamber. With the chambers separated, fluid pressure is applied to the accumulation chamber to open a drain valve and push water out of the accumulation chamber. The period for which pressure is applied to the accumulation chamber can be regulated by sensors detecting a low water level, or can be timed, or both. When the water removal is completed, the fluid pressure is removed and fluid communication between the filtration chamber and the water accumulation chamber is restored.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Clarcor Engine Mobile Solutions, LLCInventors: Felix Libfeld, Justin R. Pribanic, Ralle Rookey