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Granted Patent B2
US 12,442,177 · App. 17/993,995 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Booth

Inventors: Shu Watanabe (Kanagawa, JP); Akihide Kawamura (Kanagawa, JP); Kunichi Yamashita (Kanagawa, JP); Akira Takahashi (Tokyo, JP); Yoshihiro Shibanai (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
E04B1/34326E04B1/388E04H1/1205E04H1/125E04B2103/04E04B2103/06
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Patent No.
US 12,442,177
App. No.
17/993,995
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A booth includes an internal space configured to be used by a user, a door which is controlled to unlock in an electric-powered manner when an information is detected based on a user operation, and a monitor screen which is used in order to project an image output from a device brought by the user.

Claims (11)

1. A booth comprising:

an internal space configured to be used by a user;

a door which is controlled to unlock in an electric-powered manner when an information is detected based on a user operation;

a monitor screen which is used in order to project an image output from a device brought by the user;

a connecting part for connecting the device and the monitor screen;

an information telecommunications device configured to wirelessly connect the device and an Internet;

a power source device that provides power to the monitor screen;

a vent hole which is provided with a ventilation fan that promotes ventilation of air inside the booth, wherein the vent hole and the door are disposed on different sides of the booth; and

an extinguishing medium supply device that is disposed entirely on an outer wall surface of the booth, connected to an extinguishing medium discharge nozzle located at a ceiling of the booth via a pipe, and adapted to supply a fire extinguishing medium accommodated therein into the internal space of the booth in response to a fire detection by a sensor attached on an inner surface of the ceiling, wherein the pipe extends in contact with and along the outer wall surface of the booth, over an outer surface of the ceiling and connects to the extinguishing medium discharge nozzle attached to an inner surface of the ceiling of the booth,

wherein the booth is constituted by a plurality of divided side walls, and the information telecommunications device and the power source device are disposed in hollow housing portions formed within one of the divided side walls on which the monitor screen is attached,

when the user is in the internal space of the booth, the information telecommunications device enables the user to perform an exchange of information with the outside of the booth by the Internet, and the connecting part enables the image output from the device to be projected on the monitor screen.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-130366 · Jul 10, 2018 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17195659 · Mar 9, 2021
Continuation 16256964 · Jan 24, 2019
Related Publication 20230089328A1 · Mar 23, 2023
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