Patents by Inventor Shinpei Chihara

Shinpei Chihara 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).

  • Publication number: 20170116633
    Abstract: A payment apparatus (2000) includes a discount amount acquisition unit (2040), a determination unit (2060), and a payment unit (2080). The discount amount acquisition unit (2040) acquires a discount amount. The determination unit (2060) determines whether a discount is applied to a purchase price of a product on the basis of a use history of a target card. The payment unit (2080) applies a discount to the purchase price of a product on the basis of the discount amount in a case where the determination unit (2060) determines that a discount is applied, and performs payment by card using the target card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shinpei CHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20160221463
    Abstract: This charger is provided with: a power supply unit that charges a secondary battery; an acquisition unit that acquires individual identification information for identifying the secondary battery; a comparison unit that compares the individual identification information acquired when starting the charging of the secondary battery with individual identification information acquired at the termination time of a past charging cycle. The power supply unit terminates the charging of the secondary battery on the basis of the results of comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki KONDO, Shinpei CHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20150046200
    Abstract: The charger reservation system has: a reservation processing unit that receives a use reservation registration for a charger and manages reservation information containing a use starting date/time and a temporary use ending date/time; and a charge required time calculation unit that calculates a time required for charging when a user starts using the charger based on the use reservation registration, wherein the reservation processing unit calculates a new use ending date/time based on the time required for charging and updates the temporary use ending date/time to the new use ending date/time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Shinpei Chihara
  • Publication number: 20130346166
    Abstract: A charger 20 includes a charging unit 22 that charges a secondary battery of an EV 50, and a charger condition acquisition unit 23 that detects completion of a charging operation performed on the secondary battery and detects an operation relating to departure of the EV 50 from a charging space following the charging operation. A server apparatus 40 includes a charger condition monitoring unit 45 that monitors a condition of the charger 20 upon reception of a notification from the charger 20 indicating that completion of the charging operation and the operation relating to departure of the EV 50 from the charging space have been detected, and a parking fee calculation unit 43 that calculates a parking time of the EV 50 on the basis of a timing at which completion of the charging operation is detected and a timing at which the operation relating to departure of the electric vehicle from the charging space is detected, and calculates a parking fee to be charged to a user on the basis of the parking time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventor: Shinpei Chihara
  • Patent number: 8055239
    Abstract: A communication control device (500) is capable of communicating with both a portable telephone terminal (100) and a location management device (400) that specifies the location of the portable telephone terminal (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinpei Chihara, Kenichi Ishii
  • Publication number: 20090203351
    Abstract: A communication control device (500) is capable of communicating with both a portable telephone terminal (100) and a location management device (400) that specifies the location of the portable telephone terminal (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Shinpei Chihara, Kenichi Ishii
  • Publication number: 20080309464
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ID originating device installation position managing system that enables registration of installation position information to be supported also in a system having no network between an ID originating device and a managing system. For this, when a worker installs an ID originating device 100 or confirms an operation of the ID originating device 100, he/her employs a worker terminal 200 capable of receiving ID information being transmitted from the ID originating device 100, and yet of performing a registering operation, thereby making it possible to register installation position information in its site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinpei Chihara