Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Akihiro Okazaki

Keisuke Hara

Toshihiro Senoo

Kazutoshi Takimoto

Daisuke Moriuchi

Tadanori Sugimura

Tsuyoshi Ogawa

An air purifier () includes a detection unit () and a control unit (). The detection unit () periodically detects environment information. The environment information indicates information relating to an environment around the air purifier (). The control unit () determines whether or not the environment information satisfies a specific condition a plurality of times during the specific time period (Ts) corresponding to an event within a prescribed period (Ta). In a case where the control unit () determines that the environment information satisfies the specific condition a plurality of times, the control unit switches a mode from a learning mode to an implementation mode. In the implementation mode, in a case where the environment information meets a trigger during the specific time period, the control unit () performs event operational control.

Air purifier and control method for air purifier utilizing a control unit to switch a mode from a learning mode to an implementation mode

Provided herein is an air cleaner () that includes: a communication interface () that receives information concerning operation contents from a server (); and a processor () that, upon partial or complete termination of communication with the server (), initializes the information concerning operation contents, or initializes a setting concerning acquisition of the information concerning operation contents.

Air cleaner and network system

Provided is a cooking device capable of being provided with a radio communication device so that the radio communication device establishes a satisfactory communication, instead of (i) further providing any special configuration in which the radio communication device is provided and (ii) making any change in structure of the cooking device. According to a cooking device (), a space for providing a radio communication adapter is secured in a frame () of a door () or in a circuit storing section (), made of a nonmetal, which is configured to store a driving circuit of a display operation section ().

Cooking device

A mobile vehicle provided with moving means and a moving control device automatically travels while detecting an advance distance and a turning angle by means of one optical displacement sensor. The mobile vehicle comprises a moving unit () for moving a body (), one optical displacement sensor () as a displacement sensor provided on the body (), and a moving control device for controlling the moving unit () based on a moving distance detected by the optical displacement sensor (). The moving control device determines the distance of rectilinear movement and a turning angle of the body () from an amount detected by the optical displacement sensor (). The optical displacement sensor () picks up patterns or the like on a traveling floor surface at specified time intervals and detects a moving distance by comparing images before and after the specified time.

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Sakai, Japan

Akihiro Okazaki