Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus, apparatus authentication management system and apparatus authentication method
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Application No.: US14407561Application Date: 2013-06-04
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Publication No.: US09799929B2Publication Date: 2017-10-24
- Inventor: Tsutomu Kawase , Yoshiaki Nishizaki , Yukiko Yamazaki , Takahisa Yamaguchi
- Applicant: Tsutomu Kawase , Yoshiaki Nishizaki , Yukiko Yamazaki , Takahisa Yamaguchi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cooper & Dunham LLP
- Priority: JP2012-133507 20120613
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/065904 WO 20130604
- International Announcement: WO2013/187340 WO 20131219
- Main IPC: H01M10/42
- IPC: H01M10/42 ; B25F5/00 ; H01M2/10 ; H01M10/48 ; G07C9/00

Abstract:
An apparatus includes an apparatus body and a battery pack removable from the apparatus body. Each of the apparatus body and the battery pack includes a memory unit configured to store a use permission flag written after authentications for a pair of the apparatus body and the battery pack through near field communication with a portable terminal, and a control unit configured to permit energization when the use permission flag of the memory unit is ON.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150162646A1 APPARATUS, APPARATUS AUTHENTICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND APPARATUS AUTHENTICATION METHOD Public/Granted day:2015-06-11
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