TOSHIBA CONSUMER ELECTRONICS HOLDINGS CORPORATION Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130188636 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication terminal receives a request packet of a composite telegraphic message form from a request terminal and transmits a response packet. The communication terminal includes a reception unit, a request processing unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit is configured to receive a request packet including a packet identifier for identifying a packet, a service type, and a plurality of property information pieces regarding requests. The request processing unit is configured to generate a response packet including only property information of a response corresponding to a request processed according to the service type among the plurality of property information pieces regarding the requests, and the packet identifier. The transmission unit is configured to transmit the response packet to the request terminal. | 07-25-2013 |
20130081433 | DAMPER, WASHING MACHINE AND WASHING/DRYING MACHINE - A damper which uses a magnetic viscous fluid, includes a cylinder, a bobbin which is housed in the cylinder and on which a coil generating a magnetic field is wound, a yoke which is housed in the cylinder and provided on an end of the bobbin, and a shaft which is inserted into the cylinder so as to extend through the bobbin and the yoke and so as to be axially reciprocable relative to the bobbin and the yoke. The magnetic viscous fluid fills a space defined between the bobbin and the yoke in the cylinder. The coil, the bobbin and the yoke are fixed together by a resin. | 04-04-2013 |
20130067536 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes an generating section that generates authentication operation data from an input type associated with the type of the appliance in appliance data and stores the authentication operation data in a storage device, an transmitting section that transmits the authentication operation data to a gateway apparatus, an acquiring section that receives, from the gateway apparatus, input operation data input from an input device of an appliance and stores the input operation data in the storage device, and an collating section that compares the authentication operation data and the input operation data, determines whether the authentication operation data and the input operation data coincide with each other, and outputs collation result data. If the coincidence is determined, the information processing apparatus causes the gateway apparatus to authenticate communication for controlling the appliance between the appliance and the gateway apparatus. | 03-14-2013 |
20130060360 | CONTROL SERVER AND CONTROL METHOD - In a control server, a storing section accumulates request data received from a terminal and used for remotely operating, via a control apparatus, a home electric appliance provided in a home. A generating section generates schedule data on the basis of at least one of the request data and the inquiry. The schedule data is data concerning a frequency of an inquiry about the request data by the control apparatus and data transmitted to the control apparatus. A transmitting section transmits the request data stored in the storing section to the control apparatus in response to the inquiry transmitted from the control apparatus at a frequency indicated by the schedule data. | 03-07-2013 |
20130042492 | WASHING MACHINE AND DRYING MACHINE - A washing machine includes an outer casing, a tub mounted in the outer casing, a rotating tub rotatably mounted in the tub and a vibration damping device located in the outer casing for damping vibration of the tub using a cylinder enclosing an operating fluid. The operating fluid includes a functional fluid. The washing machine further includes a control unit which is configured to control a viscosity of the functional fluid. The control unit is configured to change the viscosity of the functional fluid according to rotation of the rotating tub in a dehydration step to vary a damping force of the vibration damping device. | 02-21-2013 |
20120068659 | WASHING MACHINE - Disclosed is a washing machine comprising a permanent magnet motor that includes a rotor and that drives rotation for execution of a wash operation; a permanent magnet that is provided on the rotor side and that has a level of coercivity allowing variation in an amount of magnetism with ease, and a magnetism controller that produces an excitation current to vary the amount of magnetism of the permanent magnet; wherein the magnetism controller, when interrupting or stopping an ongoing operation, interrupts or stops the ongoing operation after magnetizing the permanent magnet. | 03-22-2012 |
20120062078 | PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR AND WASHING MACHINE PROVIDED THEREWITH - A permanent magnet motor includes a rotor including a rotor core formed with circumferentially arranged magnet insertion holes and permanent magnets inserted into the respective magnet insertion holes, the magnets establishing in the magnet insertion holes magnetic poles corresponding to magnetic pole teeth of a stator. The magnets include a plurality of types of permanent magnets having different coercive forces and are inserted into the insertion holes respectively so that each pole corresponds to one of the types of magnets. The rotor core has a part located between the magnets adjacent to each other and having different coercive forces. The rotor core has a magnetic flux path defined in the part so as to protrude to the stator side. The magnetic sensor is configured to be relatively moved along a trajectory corresponding to the magnets and the flux path with rotation of the rotor. | 03-15-2012 |
20110289981 | DRUM TYPE WASHING MACHINE - A suspension for a drum type washing machine includes a cylinder, a magnetic field generator fixed in the cylinder and generating a magnetic field in a variable manner, a pair of magnetic members located at both axial sides of the generator respectively, a shaft supported so as to be axially reciprocable relatively between the generator and the magnetic member and so as to extend through the generator and the magnetic member, a smart fluid including a magneto-rheological fluid filling a first space defined between the shaft and the magnetic field generator and a second space defined between the shaft and the magnetic members and located near the first space, and a sealing member which is fixed in the cylinder so as to be located below the generator and is in close contact with a periphery of the shaft thereby to prevent leak of the smart fluid. | 12-01-2011 |
20100218341 | ELECTRIC VACUUM CLEANER - The present invention provides an electric vacuum cleaner which can reliably absorb vibration accompanying driving of an electric blowing part. | 09-02-2010 |
20100139333 | MOTOR CONTROLLER AND DRUM WASHING MACHINE - A motor controller including a vector controller that controls a permanent magnet motor including a rotor being provided with a permanent magnet having a coercivity low enough to allow modification in amount of magnetization and that executes a vector control by detecting current flowing at the permanent magnet motor; a speed/position detector that detects a rotational speed and a rotational position of the permanent magnet motor; a magnetization controller that increases or decreases the magnetization of the permanent magnet depending on the rotational position of the permanent magnet motor through adjustment in status of the magnetization of the permanent magnet by way of armature counteraction; and a demagnetization detector that detects a decrease in the magnetization of the permanent magnet magnetized by the magnetization controller during operation of the permanent magnet motor. | 06-10-2010 |
20100050703 | WASHER DRYER - A washer dryer including a DC power supply generator that generates a DC power supply from an AC power supply; a heat pump that circulates refrigerant between a compressor, a condenser and an evaporator; an air circulatory path that circulates air between the condenser and the evaporator; a first inverter circuit that receives the DC power supply to drive a compressor motor; a rotary tub disposed rotatably within an exterior tub; a rotary tub motor that directly drives the rotary tub at least during dehydration; a second inverter circuit that receives the DC power supply having an output terminal connected to windings of the rotary tub motor; a voltage detector that detects DC voltage occurring between the second inverter circuit and a power supply bus; a brake controller that controls the DC voltage within a predetermined range by controlling a regenerative electric power when braking is applied. | 03-04-2010 |