Patents by Inventor Akira KAI

Akira KAI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10757266
    Abstract: A terminal device configured to communicate with room parent devices installed in respective rooms is equipped with an input unit enabling input of a dweller name as a call manipulation for calling a room parent device; a storage unit stored with a call table in which a room number, a dweller name, and room parent device identification information assigned to each of the room parent devices are correlated; and a control unit determining a call target room parent device based on an input content of the call manipulation and the call table and performing call control for calling the determined room parent device. In adding a new dweller name for an existing room number to the call table stored in the storage unit, the control unit automatically registers, as room parent device identification information of the new dweller name, the room parent device identification information assigned to the room number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Akira Kai, Kenji Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 10652378
    Abstract: The intercommunication system according to the invention is an intercommunication system used in an apartment complex comprising plural residential buildings. Each of the plural residential buildings is equipped with room parent devices installed in respective rooms; a collective entrance device which enables a call manipulation for calling one of the room parent devices; and a building control unit which connects, by an intercom line, the collective entrance device and the room parent devices of the respective rooms of the residential building. The collective entrance device has a storage unit which is stored with terminal information of the collective entrance device. The building control units of the plural respective residential buildings are connected to each other by a network in which a communication is performed according to a general-purpose protocol and can communicate, over the network, with an external apparatus that is connected to an external network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Akira Kai, Yuta Shimomura
  • Patent number: 10554823
    Abstract: In an intercom system to be used in an apartment complex configured by residential buildings and a centralized building that can communicate with the residential buildings, the residential buildings includes: residential room master devices disposed in residential rooms collective entrance devices—which can communicate with the residential room master devices; and a building controller. The building controller has: a building controller ID that, when one of the residential room master devices is called from the centralized building via the building controller, is used in recognition in which the centralized building recognizes the building controller; and a collective entrance device ID that, when the one residential room master device is called from the centralized building via the building controller, is used in recognition in which the one residential room master device recognizes the building controller as a virtual collective entrance device that is different from the collective entrance devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Kai, Hayato Takeya
  • Patent number: 10469669
    Abstract: An intercommunication system in an apartment complex comprises residential buildings, each including room parent devices installed in respective rooms; a collective entrance device having a call unit enabling a call manipulation for calling a visit destination room parent device; a storage unit stored with a call table having room numbers correlated with pieces of room parent device IDs for identification of the room parent devices, respectively; a processing unit performing processing of converting a signal input to the call unit into the room parent device ID of a call target room parent device based on the call table; and a transmission unit transmitting the room parent device ID to the room parent devices in the building of the terminal device; and a building control unit connecting the collective entrance device to the room parent devices of the rooms of the building of the building control unit, by an intercom line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Syu Kumagai, Akira Kai
  • Publication number: 20190289133
    Abstract: In an intercom system which is to be used in an apartment complex configured by a plurality of residential buildings and a centralized building (5) that can communicate with the residential buildings, each of the residential buildings includes: residential room master devices (30) which are disposed in residential rooms, respectively; a plurality of collective entrance devices (10A to 10D) which can communicate with the residential room master devices (30); and a building controller which communicably connects the residential room master devices (30) of the residential rooms in the own building, with the collective entrance devices (10A to 10D).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira KAI, Hayato TAKEYA
  • Patent number: 10334115
    Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a centralized collective entrance machine for a visitor to call a dweller of any building, a dwelling unit master device provided to each dwelling unit for a dweller to respond to a call, and a centralized controller which controls communication between the centralized collective entrance machine and each dwelling unit master device. Each dwelling unit master device has an ID storage section storing its own ID. When the ID of the dwelling unit master device is inputted for calling the dweller, a centralized collective entrance machine control section of the centralized collective entrance machine first transmits an ID confirmation request signal to all the dwelling unit master devices and waits for a reply from the corresponding dwelling unit master device, and next, transmits a call signal to the dwelling unit master device that has returned a reply signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuta Shimomura, Akira Kai
  • Patent number: 10298771
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of dwelling buildings includes a dwelling parent device, a management office parent device, and a building control unit communicatively connected to each dwelling parent device in the host building and the management office parent device in the host building via an intercom line. The building control units are interconnected via a network that is connected with a management center that includes a centralized management office parent device and a centralized control unit connected to the centralized management office parent device via the intercom line. The building control unit in each dwelling building can set a calling time zone in which it is possible to call the centralized management office parent device or the management office parent device of other building, in addition to the management office parent device in the host building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Akira Kai, Yuuta Shimomura
  • Publication number: 20190141194
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of dwelling buildings includes a dwelling parent device, a management office parent device, and a building control unit communicatively connected to each dwelling parent device in the host building and the management office parent device in the host building via an intercom line. The building control units are interconnected via a network that is connected with a management center that includes a centralized management office parent device and a centralized control unit connected to the centralized management office parent device via the intercom line. The building control unit in each dwelling building can set a calling time zone in which it is possible to call the centralized management office parent device or the management office parent device of other building, in addition to the management office parent device in the host building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Seiya YAMAKAWA, Akira KAI, Yuuta SHIMOMURA
  • Publication number: 20190132433
    Abstract: The intercommunication system according to the invention is an intercommunication system used in an apartment complex comprising plural residential buildings. Each of the plural residential buildings is equipped with room parent devices installed in respective rooms; a collective entrance device which enables a call manipulation for calling one of the room parent devices; and a building control unit which connects, by an intercom line, the collective entrance device and the room parent devices of the respective rooms of the residential building. The collective entrance device has a storage unit which is stored with terminal information of the collective entrance device. The building control units of the plural respective residential buildings are connected to each other by a network in which a communication is performed according to a general-purpose protocol and can communicate, over the network, with an external apparatus that is connected to an external network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Seiya YAMAKAWA, Akira KAI, Yuta SHIMOMURA
  • Publication number: 20190124205
    Abstract: A terminal device configured to communicate with room parent devices installed in respective rooms is equipped with an input unit enabling input of a dweller name as a call manipulation for calling a room parent device; a storage unit stored with a call table in which a room number, a dweller name, and room parent device identification information assigned to each of the room parent devices are correlated; and a control unit determining a call target room parent device based on an input content of the call manipulation and the call table and performing call control for calling the determined room parent device. In adding a new dweller name for an existing room number to the call table stored in the storage unit, the control unit automatically registers, as room parent device identification information of the new dweller name, the room parent device identification information assigned to the room number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Seiya YAMAKAWA, Akira KAI, Kenji YASUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190116269
    Abstract: An intercommunication system in an apartment complex comprises residential buildings, each including room parent devices installed in respective rooms; a collective entrance device having a call unit enabling a call manipulation for calling a visit destination room parent device; a storage unit stored with a call table having room numbers correlated with pieces of room parent device IDs for identification of the room parent devices, respectively; a processing unit performing processing of converting a signal input to the call unit into the room parent device ID of a call target room parent device based on the call table; and a transmission unit transmitting the room parent device ID to the room parent devices in the building of the terminal device; and a building control unit connecting the collective entrance device to the room parent devices of the rooms of the building of the building control unit, by an intercom line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: AIPHONE, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya YAMAKAWA, Syu KUMAGAI, Akira KAI
  • Publication number: 20180295243
    Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a centralized collective entrance machine for a visitor to call a dweller of any building, a dwelling unit master device provided to each dwelling unit for a dweller to respond to a call, and a centralized controller which controls communication between the centralized collective entrance machine and each dwelling unit master device. Each dwelling unit master device has an ID storage section storing its own ID. When the ID of the dwelling unit master device is inputted for calling the dweller, a centralized collective entrance machine control section of the centralized collective entrance machine first transmits an ID confirmation request signal to all the dwelling unit master devices and waits for a reply from the corresponding dwelling unit master device, and next, transmits a call signal to the dwelling unit master device that has returned a reply signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuta SHIMOMURA, Akira KAI