Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Omron Corporation

Hitachi-omron Terminal Solutions, Corporation

Osaka University

Naoyuki Wakabayashi

Arata Obayashi

Takafumi Nishikawa

Fuminori Tanaka

Jun Sugimoto

Manabu Murayama

Shingo Hamada

Takashi Sakagawa

Takumi Haga

Norito Tsujimoto

Kazuhiro Takahashi

Ken Nakamura

Yuji Umemoto

Teruaki Sogawa

Hideki Tanabe

Koji Ohira

Yasunari Miyake

Daisuke Yamagiwa

Masayuki Hirata

Akihiro Tadamasa

Daisuke Aizawa

Yoshihisa Nishigori

Takao Michisaka

Akinobu Nakabo

Kenichi Masada

Yuzuru Hashimoto

Nobuchika Menda

Yasushi Kawamoto

Toru Kuru

Kanae Kusakabe

Yuka Omura

Hideki Yoda

The disclosure provides a device holding member and a device holding member set. The device holding member is engaged with a bottom member formed with a hole or a frame supporting the bottom member and holds a device arranged on the bottom member. The device holding member includes a belt and a locking member. The belt includes an end part provided with an engaging member engageable with an edge part of the bottom member or the frame and holds the device. The locking member is provided between the engaging member and the device and locks a part of the belt to the hole.

Device holding member and device holding member set

A mattressincludes a movable partand a mattress bodyincluding a first mattress partdisposed above the movable part, and a second mattress partprovided separately from the first mattress partand disposed to surround the first mattress part in a plan view. The first mattress partis configured to rotate upward about the predetermined rotation axis by the movable part

Mattress

A tilting device includes: an upper movable plate arranged on a side on which an object T to be tilted is arranged; an intermediate movable plate connected to the upper movable plate in a rotatable manner via an upper rotation shaft; a first actuator; a first lower movable plate connected to the intermediate movable plate in a rotatable manner via a first lower rotation shaft; a second actuator; and a first connecting member that is connected to the upper movable plate in a rotatable manner via a first connecting rotation shaft at an end portion on a side of a first direction, and that is connected to the first lower movable plate in a rotatable manner via a second connecting rotation shaft at an end portion on a side of a second direction opposite to the first direction.

Tilting device

The lifting/lowering device () includes: a first plate member (); a second plate member () to which the first plate member () is rotatably connected; a first expansion and contraction bag () which is disposed between the first plate member () and the second plate member () and is capable of expanding and contracting by gas supply and exhaust; a third plate member () to which the second plate member () is rotatably connected; a second expansion and contraction bag which is disposed between the second plate member () and the third plate member () and is capable of expanding and contracting by gas supply and exhaust. The first plate member (), the first expansion and contraction bag (), the second plate member (), the second expansion and contraction bag () and the third plate member () are disposed so as to overlap in a plan view.

Lifting/lowering device

A power supply apparatus includes a power supply unit that supplies power from a power source to a power receiving apparatus, a power acquisition unit that acquires a power value of power from the power source upon detecting another power receiving apparatus, and a controller that determines whether to supply the power from the power source to the another power receiving apparatus based on the power value.

Power supply apparatus

A power source apparatus for supplying power to a load includes a switch and a controller. The controller detects voltage applied to the switch. The controller further switches a state of the switch from OFF to ON when the detected voltage is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold value.

Power source apparatus supplying power to load

A power supply device includes a power supply portion, a power supply coil portion having a first end connected to the power supply portion and a second end connected to ground, and a counter wound coil portion that faces the power supply coil portion, the winding direction of which is opposite to that of the power supply coil portion, and the counter wound coil portion has an opened first end and a second end connected to ground.

Power supply device

The invention provides a power supplying device, which includes a first coil; and a second coil, which is wound to be substantially line symmetrical to the first coil with respect to a center line, wherein the center line is an axis passing through a winding center of the first coil. A ground point of the first coil and the second coil is disposed further inside than an outermost winding of the first coil.

Power supplying device

A power supply device that is capable of suppressing complexity of the circuit structure and increasing in the substrate area for the impedance adjustment configuration is provided. The power supply device includes a power supply antenna, supplying a power to a power receiving device, a reactance adjustment part, adjusting a reactance of the power supply antenna; a power source, supplying a voltage to the power supply antenna; and a controller, controlling the reactance adjustment part and the voltage of the power source.

Power supply device and power supply method

A wireless power feeder includes a plurality of coils and a controller that determines a first coil from the plurality of coils based on power transmitted from each of the plurality of coils to an external apparatus. The first coil receives power from a power source.

Wireless power feeder

A communication device includes an antenna, at least one magnetic field sensor, a communication component, and a controller. The antenna generates a magnetic field and communicates with an external device that generates a magnetic field during communication. The at least one magnetic field sensor includes a pair of sensor elements. The at least one magnetic field sensor detects magnetic field strength by receiving the magnetic field of the antenna and the magnetic field of the external device. The communication component communicates with the external device via the antenna. The controller processes output signal indicative of the magnetic field strength detected by the at least one magnetic field sensor. A component of the magnetic field of the antenna in the output signal is suppressed.

Communication device and feeder device

A contactless power feeding apparatus includes a power source portion, a power feeding coil, and a power feeding apparatus side control portion, and the power feeding apparatus side control portion is configured to perform feeding voltage control in order to control the feeding voltage value of the power source portion on the basis of a coupling coefficient such that power transmission efficiency to a power receiving apparatus including a power receiving coil is in the vicinity of a maximum.

Contactless power feeding apparatus and contactless power feeding system

This power transfer unit includes a power supply portion and a control portion, and the control portion acquires proper voltage ranges of a plurality of receivers and sets a supply voltage value in a common range among the proper voltage ranges.

Power transfer unit, method for power transfer, and receiver

A non-contact communication coil for a non-contact power feeding device comprises a power transmission coil, a power receiving coil, and a resonance coil, and the non-contact communication coil includes a first receiver and a second receiver connected in series with the first receiver. The non-contact communication coil generates induction voltages in mutually opposing directions in the first receiver and the second receiver when current passes through at least one of the power transmission coil and the power receiving coil.

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Osaka, Japan

Naoyuki Wakabayashi