Patents Assigned to Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent number: 11728681Abstract: A cart power supply device includes a power supply resonance circuit, a notification element, a current detection circuit, and a control circuit. The power supply resonance circuit includes a power supply coil that can be electromagnetically coupled to a power reception coil mounted on a shopping cart or the like. The current detection circuit detects a current flowing through the power supply resonance circuit. The control circuit supplies an alternating current to the power supply resonance circuit at a first level and operates the notification element in a first mode when the detected current is less than a first threshold. The control circuit supplies the alternating current at a second level when the detected current is greater than the first threshold and operates the notification element in a second mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takuya Ogishima
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Patent number: 11724898Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing device includes a cassette main body, a device main body, a handle, and a pressing member. The cassette main body contains a sheet. The device main body stores the cassette main body retractably in a first direction. The handle is displaceably supported by the cassette main body. The pressing member is supported by the cassette main body. The pressing member presses the device main body in a second direction opposite to the first direction in conjunction with displacement of the handle with respect to the cassette main body.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mikio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11724500Abstract: According to an embodiment, a liquid ejection head includes a plurality of drive flow paths, a plurality of dummy flow paths, and a plurality of side walls. The drive flow paths connect to liquid ejection nozzles. The dummy flow paths connect to dummy nozzles. The dummy flow paths are adjacent the drive flow paths. The side walls are between the drive flow paths and the dummy flow paths and configured to change volumes of both the drive flow paths and the dummy flow paths in response to drive signals. An acoustic resonance period of liquid in the dummy flow paths is shorter than an acoustic resonance period of the liquid in the drive flow paths.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Ryutaro Kusunoki
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Patent number: 11724900Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a first roller, a second roller, and a controller. The first roller is configured to rotate in a forward direction for sheet conveyance along a sheet conveying direction. The second roller is disposed downstream with respect to the first roller in the sheet conveying direction and configured to rotate in a forward direction along the sheet conveying direction and in a reverse direction. The controller is configured to control the second roller to rotate in the reverse direction at a timing when a leading end of a sheet that is nipped and conveyed by the first roller reaches a nip of the second roller.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Michael W Lawrence, Gary L Noe, Mikio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20230251595Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing belt formed of a tubular film, a heater configured to heat the fixing belt and including an insulating layer, a roller positioned such that the fixing belt extends between the roller the heater, and a heat conductor in contact with the heater. The heater is positioned such that the insulating layer of the heater extends between the fixing belt and the heat conductor to prevent the heat conductor from contacting the tubular film.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryota SAEKI
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Publication number: 20230251841Abstract: A device includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to download a plurality of installation files for different application programs provided on a website at a predetermined download timing, store the plurality of installation files in the memory, recommend, to a user, a function added by installing an application program based on the plurality of installation files stored in the first storage unit at a predetermined recommendation timing that is a different timing from the download timing, and install a respective application program using a respective installation file selected from among the plurality of installation files stored in the first storage unit in response to an instruction from the user based on the recommendation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shigeo UCHIDA
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Patent number: 11721182Abstract: A mobile registration terminal operable by a customer in a store includes a memory, a display, a scanner through which a commodity sold at the store or a medium storing clerk information about a clerk of the store is scanned, and a processor. The processor is configured to, when a commodity is scanned through the scanner, determine whether the commodity is an age-restricted commodity, upon determining that the commodity is not an age-restricted commodity, register the commodity, and upon determining that the commodity is an age-restricted commodity, control the display to display a screen through which an age of the customer is verified by a clerk of the store, and upon receipt of an input of clerk information about a clerk through the scanner, store the clerk information in the memory for checkout of the commodity without further verification of the age of the customer.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobutomo Nodera
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Patent number: 11722616Abstract: A control device includes a processor and a first storage portion. The processor executes a control process based on data stored in a main memory. The first storage portion stores a first memory image related to the main memory after a process of starting-up an operating system by the processor is completed. The control device loads the first memory image into the main memory if the operating system is started up.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Inagaki
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Patent number: 11718102Abstract: A thermal printer includes: a platen having a rotatable columnar shape and configured to convey a print medium having various widths by bringing the print medium into contact with an outer peripheral portion of the platen, a central portion of the platen in a direction of a rotary shaft of the platen being taken as a reference; and a print head facing the platen, pressed by the outer peripheral portion, and configured to print by applying heat to the print medium sandwiched between the print head and the outer peripheral portion. In the outer peripheral portion of the platen, a first groove is formed in a direction intersecting the direction of the rotary shaft in each of second outer peripheral portions on both outer sides in the direction of the rotary shaft with respect to a first outer peripheral portion in contact with the print medium having a smallest width that can be conveyed.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tsuyoshi Sanada
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Patent number: 11718090Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes first and second groups of nozzles and first and second groups of actuators corresponding to the first and second groups of nozzles, respectively, and a head drive circuit. The head drive circuit is configured to receive a sequence of input data portions including first and second data portions, and select a setting mode between a first setting mode, in which the first group of actuators is driven based on the first input data portion and the second group of actuators is driven based on the second input data portion, and a second setting mode, in which the second group of actuators is driven based on the first input data portion and the first group of actuators is driven based on an input data portion that is after the first data portion in the sequence.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kei Ozaki, Shunichi Ono
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Patent number: 11718101Abstract: An information process device according to an embodiment includes a thermal head that prints on paper at positions along a width direction based on a reference position. The sensor is at a sensor position in the width direction and detects marks on paper being conveyed by a conveyance unit. The controller controls the conveyance unit to convey a confirmation sheet and then detects a position of a mark on the confirmation sheet with the sensor. The detected position corresponds to the sensor position. The controller next controls the conveyance unit and the thermal head to print a line on a sheet corresponding to the sensor position. The controller is configured to receive a corrected sensor position based on a measured distance of the printed line to an edge of the sheet and update the print reference position accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Okiharu Matsuda
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Patent number: 11718492Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a transmitter, a receiver, a comparison circuit, and a control unit. The transmitter transmits an ultrasonic wave to a conveyance path through which a sheet is conveyed. The receiver faces the transmitter with the conveyance path in between, and receives the ultrasonic wave transmitted by the transmitter. The comparison circuit compares a level signal indicating a reception level of the ultrasonic wave received by the receiver with a threshold signal for determining whether or not the sheet is double-fed in the conveyance path, and outputs a comparison result signal according to the comparison result. The control unit determines whether or not there is a possibility of a defect in the double feed detection function of detecting double feed based on the comparison result signal and the level signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Atsuhiko Eguchi
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Patent number: 11722065Abstract: A power converter includes a transformer including first and second windings, a switching circuit switching voltages applied to the first winding, a power supply circuit rectifying and smoothing a current in the second winding and generating a DC voltage, an adjustment circuit adjusting the DC voltage according to an operation mode including first and second modes in which the DC voltage is adjusted to first and second voltages, the second voltage less than the first voltage, and a protection circuit including first and second Zener diodes and a switch and stopping output of the adjusted voltage. A cathode of the first diode is connected to the supply circuit, and an anode of the first diode is connected to a cathode of the second diode and the switch, and the switch is connected in parallel to the second diode and is turned on in the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshiaki Hosokawa
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Patent number: 11722617Abstract: An image forming apparatus communicates with another device and includes a processor that controls the communication. A control unit controls the apparatus to operate in one of at least a first power saving state, a second power saving state, and a normal state. In the first power saving state, the apparatus is controlled so that an image forming unit, an image reading unit, and the control unit are not activated, and a communication device is activated. In the second power saving state, the apparatus is controlled so that at least one of the image forming unit and the image reading unit are not activated, and the communication device and the control unit are activated. In the normal state, the apparatus is controlled so that at least the image forming unit, the image reading unit, the communication device, and the control unit are activated.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takaaki Suzuki, Noboru Ogino, Makoto Harigae
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Patent number: 11722613Abstract: An image forming device and a sheet conveyance method are provided. An image forming device includes a feeder, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, and a conveyance controller. The feeder aligns a sheet and feeds the sheet to a transfer system that transfers an image to the sheet. The first conveyor is arranged at a first position on an upstream side of the feeder in a sheet conveyance direction and conveys the sheet to the feeder. The second conveyor is arranged at a second position on an upstream side of the first conveyor in the sheet conveyance direction and conveys the sheet to the first conveyor. The conveyance controller performs high-speed control for causing a conveyance speed of the second conveyor to exceed a conveyance speed of the first conveyor when a specific sheet different from a normal sheet is fed by the feeder.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ryuta Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11722608Abstract: A maintenance support device includes a memory that stores data of a maintenance manual that describes a first maintenance work to be performed to resolve a failure of an image processing apparatus, and a processor configured to acquire, and store in the memory, work result information corresponding to a second maintenance work that has been performed to resolve the failure of the image processing apparatus, and generate additional information based on the acquired work result information and store in the memory the additional information in association with the data of the maintenance manual.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Ogura, Hiroyo Tanaka, Masaki Narahashi, Sou Miyazaki, Satoshi Oyama
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Patent number: 11720874Abstract: A sales processing apparatus includes a processor and an input and output unit configured to perform an operation for a sales transaction processing. The processor is configured to acquire the time required for the input and output unit to perform the operation for the sales transaction processing of a sales transaction, then determine whether the time required for the input and output unit to perform the operation during the sales transaction exceeds a reference time for the input and output unit to perform the operation. A notification is output if the time required for the input and output unit to perform the operation during the sales transaction exceeds the reference time.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takahide Kubota
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Patent number: 11720371Abstract: A control apparatus includes a processor, a storage controller, and a boot loader memory. The processor executes a control process using data stored in a main memory. The storage controller includes a storage device, stores stored data in an encrypted state if an encryption function is enabled, and stores the stored data in the storage device in a non-encrypted state if the encryption function is disabled. The stored data includes a memory image related to a state of the main memory after completion of an activation process of an operating system. The boot loader memory is configured to store instructions that cause the processor to (a) activate the operating system using the memory image in response to a determination that the encryption function is disabled and (b) activate the operating system without using the memory image in response to a determination that the encryption function is enabled.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasuhiro Inagaki
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Patent number: 11715083Abstract: A self-service point-of-sale (POS) terminal for a customer to register a commodity to be purchased in a store, includes an input device, a reading device configured to read a symbol on a commodity, a network interface configured to receive, from an external device operated by a store clerk or the like, instruction information that instructs output of caution information, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire commodity information about a commodity based on the symbol read by the reading device and register the commodity using the commodity information. Upon receipt of an input of completion of registration via the input device, the processor determines whether to proceed to payment processing for the registered commodity based on whether the instruction information has been received from the external device.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidehiro Naito, Atsushi Miyashima, Toshihiro Kaneko, Taiki Tanihira, Shinsuke Yajima, Yuki Kawaguchi, Masaki Ito, Takahiro Saitou
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Patent number: 11715073Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a communication interface, a shop database, a maintenance worker database, and a controller. The controller determines a degree of influence of a failure on a shop on the basis of failure information received by the communication interface and shop information stored in the shop database. The controller compares the determined degree of influence with a degree of influence in other shop and determines the priority of a response to the failure in the shop. The controller selects an appropriate maintenance worker from maintenance workers stored in the maintenance worker database on the basis of the determined priority.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shunichiro Kamamoto
