Panasonic Patents

Panasonic Corporation manufactures and sells electronic and electric products. Its products include audiovisual equipment (such as flat-panel televisions, Blu-ray recorders, digital cameras, PCs projectors and in-flight entertainment systems), home appliances (such as cooking, beauty, cooling and heating equipment), systems and communications products (such as mobile phones and surveillance and security cameras). Panasonic also offers lighting, automotive systems (such as car navigation systems) and industrial devices (such as electronic components, electronic materials, semiconductors and optical devices).

Panasonic Patents by Type
  • Patent number: 11968470
    Abstract: A display system includes a conversion apparatus converting video luminance including a luminance value in a first luminance range and a display apparatus connected thereto and displaying the video. The conversion apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a first luminance converter, a second luminance converter, a quantization converter, and an output unit outputting a third luminance signal to the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Terada, Masayuki Kozuka, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11968404
    Abstract: A data generation method is for generating video data that covers a second luminance dynamic range wider than a first luminance dynamic range and has reproduction compatibility with a first device that does not support reproduction of video having the second luminance dynamic range and supports reproduction of video having the first luminance dynamic range, and includes: generating a video signal to be included in the video data using a second OETF; storing, into VUI in the video data, first transfer function information for identifying a first OETF to be referred to by the first device when the first device decodes the video data; and storing, into SEI in the video data, second transfer function information for identifying a second OETF to be referred to by a second device supporting reproduction of video having the second luminance dynamic range when the second device decodes the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Virginie Drugeon, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11968457
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device that has variable sensitivity and that acquires images with a sampling cycle; and a control circuit that controls the imaging device. The control circuit changes a sensitivity of the imaging device with a first cycle shorter than the sampling cycle. Based on control of the control circuit, the imaging device acquires a plurality of images of a subject with the sampling cycle. The subject includes a first component that changes with a second cycle different from the first cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuya Nozawa
  • Patent number: 11968508
    Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer includes a diaphragm, a tubular first sliding component which surrounds an outer peripheral portion of the diaphragm, a ring-shaped second sliding component which is attached to an outer rim of the diaphragm and slides against an inner peripheral surface of the first sliding component, and a first low-friction membrane interposed between the inner peripheral surface of the first sliding component and an outer peripheral surface of the second sliding component. The first low-friction membrane includes: a swollen body which includes a first polymer chain and a plurality of second polymer chains which branch from the first polymer chain as side chains; and a grease which permeates the second polymer chains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 11967904
    Abstract: A polyphase power-supply device includes first to N-th DC-DC converters connected in parallel to each other between an input terminal and an output terminal and a switching controller configured to perform interleave control on the first to N-th DC-DC converters by supplying first to N-th pulse width modulation (PWM) signals to the first to N-th DC-DC converters, respectively, where N is any integer equal to or greater than two. A switching frequency of the first PWM signal is changed at a change time point at which a cycle of the first PWM signal starts. A length of a cycle of the k-th PWM signal firstly appearing after the change time point is shorter than lengths of subsequent cycles of the k-th PWM signal appearing the first cycle of the k-th PWM signal. This polyphase power-supply device has high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Tanaka, Takeshi Nakayashiki
  • Patent number: 11968378
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: derives a correction parameter using only a neighboring reconstructed image that neighbors a processing unit which has a determined size and is located at an upper left of a current block to be processed in an image, among neighboring reconstructed images that neighbor the current block, and performs correction processing of the current block based on the correction parameter derived, when the current block has a size larger than the determined size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11968522
    Abstract: A first electrical device includes: a second radio signal receiver that receives target device information; a second processor that determines whether or not the first electrical device is included in the target device information and the first electrical device is connected to a network or whether or not a second electrical device capable of communicating with the first electrical device is included in the target device information and the second electrical device capable of communicating with the first electrical device is connected to the network; and a transmitter that, when a result of the determination by the second processor indicates that the first electrical device or the second electrical device is included in the target device information, transmits information indicating that the first electrical device or the second electrical device is the search-target device, as a response using a communication method based on the result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Ehara, Toyoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11968452
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging sensor that captures an object image formed through an interchangeable lens to generate image data; a driver that performs image blur correction by moving the imaging sensor in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis; and a controller that causes the driver to move the imaging sensor. The controller causes the driver to move the imaging sensor automatically, thereby detecting a movable amount of the imaging sensor that does not cause a vignetting in the captured image at a time when moving the imaging sensor for image blur correction, and causes the driver to move the imaging sensor within a range of the detected movable amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kojima, Masayuki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11963558
    Abstract: A circuit mounted article to be fixed to a fabric is provided and includes a circuit board having flexibility, an electronic component mounted on a fabric facing face side, which faces the fabric, of the circuit board, and further a reinforcing portion to be used for fixing of the circuit mounted article to the fabric on the fabric facing face side of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Abe, Tomohiro Fukao, Tomoaki Sawada, Susumu Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11965735
    Abstract: A thickness measurement method includes: heating a surface of the measurement object in a dot shape by a heating device; generating a thermal image corresponding to a temperature of the surface of the measurement object by capturing an image of the heated surface of the measurement object at a predetermined time interval by an imaging device; acquiring temperature data indicating temporal changes in temperature at multiple positions on the surface of the measurement object based on the thermal image generated by the imaging device; fitting a solution function indicating a solution of a heat conduction equation corresponding to a point heat source and including a parameter related to the thickness of the measurement object to the temperature data; and calculating the thickness of the measurement object based on a value of the parameter in the fitted solution function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yousuke Irie, Hirotsugu Inoue, Koutaro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11963772
    Abstract: A system includes: a light source that emits pulsed light that illuminates a user's head portion; a photodetector that detects at least part of pulsed light returning from the head portion and that outputs one or more signals corresponding to an intensity of the at least part; electrical circuitry; and a memory that stores an emotion model indicating a relationship between the one or more signals and emotions. Based on a change in the one or more signals, the electrical circuitry selects an emotion by referring to the model. The one or more signals include a first signal corresponding to an intensity of first part of the reflection pulsed light and a second signal corresponding to an intensity of second part of the reflection pulsed light. The first part incudes part before a falling period is started; and the second part includes at least part in the falling period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Suzuki, Takamasa Ando
  • Patent number: 11968442
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imager configured to capture a subject image to generate image data; a controller that records an image file based on the image data on the recording medium; and an operation interface that inputs a user operation for selecting a file system from first and second file systems different from each other, the file system managing the image file in the recording medium, wherein in accordance with the user operation input in the operation interface, the controller switches a folder for storing the image file between a first folder corresponding to the first file system and a second folder corresponding to the second file system in the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyosuke Osuka, Kazuya Abe, Yuichi Suzuki, Kunio Dohno
  • Patent number: 11964294
    Abstract: A mist-generating device includes: a droplet generating unit that generates, in a third liquid, a functional droplet including a first liquid that is spherical and a second liquid that covers an entirety of the first liquid and has a volatility lower than a volatility of the first liquid; and a mist-generating unit that generates a multilayer mist obtained by atomizing the third liquid containing the functional droplet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Ueda, Tatsuya Kiriyama, Hiroaki Tachibana, Shogo Shibuya
  • Patent number: 11965778
    Abstract: An optical filter including filter regions arrayed two-dimensionally, in which the filter regions include a first region and a second region; a wavelength distribution of an optical transmittance of the first region has a first local maximum in a first wavelength band and a second local maximum in a second wavelength band that differs from the first wavelength band, and a wavelength distribution of an optical transmittance of the second region has a third local maximum in a third wavelength band that differs from each of the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band and a fourth local maximum in a fourth wavelength band that differs from the third wavelength band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiya Fujii, Takamasa Ando
  • Patent number: 11965648
    Abstract: A false window unit includes: a window frame which is disposed in a wall and includes an opening; an image display device which is disposed facing the opening of the window frame, and displays a landscape image toward the indoor space through the opening of the window frame; a light source which is disposed between the window frame and the image display device, and emits light simulating sunlight toward the indoor space through the opening of the window frame; and a sash frame which blocks part of the light from the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryou Shimotaya, Takashi Higashida
  • Patent number: 11965987
    Abstract: A driver circuit includes: a first node connected to a first signal line; a first switch transistor provided between a first power supply and a first capacitor; a second switch transistor provided between a second power supply and a second capacitor; a third switch transistor provided between the first capacitor and the first node; and a fourth switch transistor provided between the second capacitor and the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motonori Ishii, Shigetaka Kasuga
  • Patent number: 11964339
    Abstract: A laser welding device includes: an irradiator configured to overlap laser light and measurement light coaxially with each other and apply the laser light and the measurement light to a weld part, a wavelength of the measurement light being different from a wavelength of the laser light; a measuring instrument configured to repeatedly measure a weld penetration depth of the weld part based on the measurement light that is emitted from the irradiator and reflected on the weld part so as to generate measured values; and a determiner configured to determine the weld penetration depth of the weld part based on (i) one or more measured values; or (ii) an average value of the one or more measured values, the one or more measured values being included within a predetermined range with reference to a greatest side measured value of the plurality of measured values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Sakai, Michio Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11966458
    Abstract: An authentication method is used by an automated driving system that includes a vehicle and an external device, the external device communicating with the vehicle to cause the vehicle to implement automated driving. The vehicle holds a first certificate that certifies validity of the vehicle. The external device holds a second certificate that certifies validity of the external device. The authentication method includes: validating a third certificate that certifies validity of a combination of the vehicle and the external device, in accordance with a result of device authentication performed between the vehicle and the external device by reference to the first certificate and the second certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Hideki Matsushima, Makoto Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11964370
    Abstract: A control device is provided with a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit makes communication with a tool that is used for the work of fastening a fastener (for example, a screw) and with an image pickup unit for capturing an image of the work site where the work is being performed. The processing unit executes a determination process of determining whether or not the work is being performed normally on the basis of the fastening torque applied to the fastener by the tool and the image captured by the image pickup unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11967703
    Abstract: Positive electrode layer 20 is used for an all-solid-state battery. Positive electrode layer 20 includes positive electrode active material 2 and solid electrolyte 1. A filling rate of positive electrode layer 20 is 85% or more. A porosity of positive electrode active material 2 is 5% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kojima, Akihiro Horikawa
  • Patent number: 11966151
    Abstract: A phosphor wheel includes a substrate including a first principal surface and a second principal surface located opposite to each other, a phosphor layer on the first principal surface, and a heat dissipating member disposed so as to oppose one of the first principal surface and the second principal surface. The heat dissipating member includes a projecting portion that projects from a center portion of the heat dissipating member, and the projecting portion includes a contact surface that contacts the one of the first principle surface and the second principle surface. The heat dissipating member further includes fins formed in a peripheral region of the heat dissipating member excluding the center portion. The projecting portion secures a certain distance between the substrate and the heat dissipating member and conducts heat in the substrate to the peripheral region of the heat dissipating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Iizawa, Yosuke Honda
  • Patent number: 11967701
    Abstract: A positive electrode material consists of composite particles. Each of the composite particles includes a base material particle, a film, and a carbon nanotube. The film covers at least a part of a surface of the base material particle. The base material particle includes a positive electrode active material. The film includes a boron oxide. The carbon nanotube includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is buried in the film. The second portion is exposed on a surface of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Hanazaki, Takashi Ko, Natsumi Goto, Sho Tsuruta, Kohei Kintsu
  • Patent number: 11965785
    Abstract: Provided is a pressure-sensitive element having more sufficient expandability, a relatively wide measurement range of pressure force, and a relatively simple structure, and an electronic device using the pressure-sensitive element. The pressure-sensitive element includes a plurality of first electrodes being elongated in first direction, arranged in a first plane, and including a conductive elastic body, a plurality of second electrodes being elongated in second direction intersecting the first direction, arranged in a second plane facing the first plane, and including a conductor wire, and a plurality of dielectrics covering a surface of the plurality of second electrodes. The plurality of second electrodes have bent parts K arranged periodically, and capacitance at intersections of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes changes in accordance with pressure force applied between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Moriura, Yui Sawada, Shinobu Masuda, Hironobu Ukitsu, Takashi Matsumoto, Mitsutaka Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11967304
    Abstract: A sound pick-up device includes an adaptive filter configured to generate, from a reference signal, an estimated noise signal indicating a component of a noise signal contained in an input signal, a noise elimination signal generator configured to generate a noise elimination signal by subtracting the estimated noise signal from the input signal, a filter coefficient update unit configured to update a filter coefficient of the adaptive filter using the noise elimination signal, and a sample position identification unit configured to identify at least one signal sample position among a plurality of signal sample positions from a signal sample position where the noise elimination signal has a maximum absolute value to a signal sample position where the noise elimination signal has an absolute value that is largest at a predetermined order, in which the filter coefficient update unit updates the filter coefficient at the at least one signal sample position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Shinichi Yuzuriha
  • Patent number: 11965332
    Abstract: A ceiling panel to be fixed to a ceiling base, the ceiling base having a long shape extending in a first direction and being provided in parallel spaced in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The ceiling panel includes a panel body in a shape of a rectangular flat plate, a magnet provided on a back face side of both end portions of the panel body in the second direction and being attracted to an attracted portion of the ceiling base, a hooked portion provided for a first end portion of the panel body in the first direction, and a hooking portion provided for a second end portion of the panel body in the first direction, the hooking portion hooking on a hooked portion of an adjacent ceiling panel to be provided in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koya Tanaka, Yoshihiro Okada, Tatsuji Ono
  • Patent number: 11967690
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of bus bars serving to form a plurality of parallel battery structures that each have parallel connection of two or more of a plurality of prismatic batteries. The plurality of bus bars electrically connect the plurality of prismatic batteries to connect the plurality of parallel battery structures in series. The plurality of parallel battery structures connected in series form a battery connection structure that includes a turn causing a reversal of direction of series connection of the plurality of parallel battery structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Motokawa, Keisuke Shimizu, Chifumi Murayama
  • Patent number: 11967682
    Abstract: Battery block is battery block that includes: a plurality of battery blocks in which a plurality of battery cells is arranged by holder at fixed positions and the battery cells are connected by lead plate; and circuit board that fixes battery blocks. Battery blocks have terminal parts to be connected to circuit board at the same position. Circuit board has connection parts to be connected to terminal parts of battery blocks. By coupling terminal parts of battery blocks to connection parts of circuit board, battery blocks are connected in series or in parallel, and battery blocks are coupled via circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidemi Kurihara
  • Patent number: 11967733
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator which has high heat resistance and is resistant to the detachment of a heat resistant layer. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an example embodiment includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator includes a polyolefin substrate and a heat resistant layer disposed on a side of the substrate. The heat resistant layer includes an aramid resin, and the aramid resin has a ratio (B/A) of 0.94 to 1.14 wherein A is the absorbance at a wavelength of 1318 cm?1 and B is the absorbance at a wavelength of 1650 cm?1 in an infrared absorption spectrum obtained by infrared spectroscopic measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Kasamatsu, Hideki Morishima
  • Publication number: 20240123458
    Abstract: A powder layer composite includes a base and a powder layer having a thickness of 100 ?m or less and disposed on the base. An average of a total value of a number of powder aggregates having a long diameter of 500 ?m or greater and a number of pinholes having a long diameter of 500 ?m or greater, in any of a plurality of different regions of 20 mm×20 mm on a surface of the powder layer, is 0.2 pieces/cm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiro OKOCHI, Akihiro HORIKAWA, Toshiyuki KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20240124622
    Abstract: A film material according to the present disclosure includes an amorphous polymer (A) including a reversible bond which is reversibly dissociated and recombined in response to a temperature change. The polymer (A) has a glass transition temperature of higher than or equal to 40° C. The polymer (A) has a storage elastic modulus of greater than or equal to 0.2 MPa at a temperature higher than the glass transition temperature by 100° C. and a storage elastic modulus of less than or equal to 100 MPa at a temperature higher than the glass transition temperature by 50° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu IKOMA, Yuna KAWASUMI, Koki IWATA, Hidemi IBI
  • Publication number: 20240126525
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires a menu having a schedule on actions including housework; outputs information to recommend performing each of action items for a scheduled time; acquires, in automatic execution of a device or an installation, first information indicative of whether the device or the installation is in completion of preparation for the automatic execution, or second information indicative of whether the automatic execution of the device or the installation is suspended; and outputs, on the basis of the acquired first information or second information, result information indicative of an achievement level of the menu.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takuya YAMAGUCHI, Kenta MURAKAMI, Yuki MINODA, Kihiro YUASA, Naomi TOMIYAMA, Takamichi MATSUSAKO, Megumi MIZOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240126877
    Abstract: A malware detection method for a home network system including one or more home appliances that are connected to a home network includes: obtaining a plurality of setting values including at least information indicating a device type and an operating state of a target device subject to malware detection; selecting one detection model out of a plurality of detection models according to the plurality of setting values obtained; obtaining power consumption or current consumption of the target device; and detecting whether the target device is infected with malware, using the one detection model selected in the selecting and based on the power consumption or the current consumption obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ryo KATO, Manabu MAEDA, Tomoyuki HAGA, Naohisa NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240124696
    Abstract: A composite resin molded article includes: a base resin; and fillers dispersed in the base resin, wherein the fillers include fibrous fillers and particulate fillers having aspect ratios lower than aspect ratios of the fibrous fillers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi HAMABE, Toshifumi NAGINO, Masayoshi IMANISHI, Shouma NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20240126094
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a housing and at least one mirror. The housing can be detachably mounted on a display and includes an entrance that allows light emitted from the display to enter the interior of the housing with the housing mounted on the display and an exit that allows the light having entered the interior of the housing through the entrance to exit to the exterior of the housing. The at least one mirror reflects the light having entered the interior of the housing through the entrance to the exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihiro IMAMURA, Kenji NAGATOMI, Michihiro YAMAGATA, Keiichi MATSUZAKI, Hirofumi HOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240128448
    Abstract: An electrode mixture for batteries according to one embodiment contains a binder and an active material which is capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ions. This electrode mixture additionally contains a layered silicate salt compound; and the content of the layered silicate salt compound is more than 0.1% by mass, and preferably less than 0.9% by mass relative to the mass of the active material. One example of the layered silicate salt compound is at least one kind of smectite. In addition, it is preferable that this electrode mixture additionally contains carbon nanotubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotetsu Suzuki, Motohiro Sakata
  • Publication number: 20240125945
    Abstract: A positioning terminal includes: a reception unit which receives a first signal from a satellite and a second signal from a signal generator installed in a structure; and a control unit which, on the basis of a comparison result between a distance between a first positioning result acquired from the first signal and a second positioning result acquired from the second signal and the positioning accuracy of the second positioning result, outputs either the first positioning result or the second positioning result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa YAMAZAKI, Naoto HORIIKE
  • Publication number: 20240124360
    Abstract: Provided is a composite member including an inorganic matrix part that is made from an inorganic substance including a metal oxide hydroxide; and an electrically conductive material part that is present in a dispersed state inside the inorganic matrix part and has electric conductivity. In the composite member, a porosity in a cross section of the inorganic matrix part is 20% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuro YOSHIOKA, Ryosuke SAWA, Naoki KURIZOE, Natsuki SATO
  • Publication number: 20240128585
    Abstract: An electronic device of the present disclosure includes: a housing including a recess; a battery disposed inside the recess; and one or a plurality of flame extinguishing plates that are disposed in an opening of the recess and each include a plurality of through-holes allowing an inside and an outside of the recess to communicate with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuyuto NAKAMURA, Tsunekazu IKATSU, Ryota MORIKAWA, Keiichiro YOHARA
  • Publication number: 20240127830
    Abstract: This encoding device comprises: a downmix circuit that switches mixing processing according to the characteristic of an input stereo signal to generate either a first stereo signal or a second stereo signal obtained by mixing processing of a left channel signal and a right channel signal; a first encoding circuit that encodes the first stereo signal; and a second encoding circuit that encodes two signals included in the second stereo signal. The second encoding circuit performs monaural encoding on the basis of the encoding mode of the first encoding circuit in a first section in which switching from the first stereo signal to the second stereo signal is performed and/or a second section in which switching from the second stereo signal to the first stereo signal is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yuichi KAMIYA, Takuya KAWASHIMA, Akira HARADA, Hiroyuki EHARA
  • Publication number: 20240128450
    Abstract: A battery includes: an electrode layer; a counter electrode layer, which is a counter electrode for the electrode layer; a solid electrolyte layer between the electrode layer and the counter electrode layer; and an electrode current collector electrically coupled to the electrode layer. The solid electrolyte layer includes a first region containing a first solid electrolyte material and a second region containing a second solid electrolyte material. The first region is positioned within a region where the electrode layer and the counter electrode layer face each other. Moreover, a second density, which is of the second solid electrolyte material in the second region, is higher than a first density, which is of the first solid electrolyte material in the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichi KOGA, Kazuhiro MORIOKA, Yasutaka TSUTSUI
  • Publication number: 20240128478
    Abstract: A lithium primary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode includes a positive electrode mixture including manganese dioxide, the negative electrode includes at least one of a metal lithium and a lithium alloy, the non-aqueous electrolyte includes an isocyanate compound as a first component, and at least one of a cyclic imide compound and a phthalic acid ester compound as a second component, the non-aqueous electrolyte has an isocyanate compound concentration of 5 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Nishitani
  • Publication number: 20240128591
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode disposed opposed to the positive electrode, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte having a lithium ion conductivity, and a spacer interposed between the negative electrode and the separator. A lithium metal deposits on the negative electrode during charging, and the lithium metal dissolves from the negative electrode during discharging. The spacer has a net structure formed with a plurality of lined projected portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Kondo, Ryohei Miyamae, Akira Kano
  • Publication number: 20240128440
    Abstract: This negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery is characterized by comprising a negative electrode mixture layer containing a carbon-based negative electrode active material, a Si-based negative electrode active material, and carbon nanotubes, wherein when 100 is the ratio at which the carbon nanotubes coat the surface of the Si-based negative electrode active material, the ratio at which the carbon nanotubes coat the surface of the carbon-based negative electrode active material is at least 20 but no higher than 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Hirano, Yusuke Fukumoto, Masanori Sugimori, Yuji Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20240128413
    Abstract: Provided is a wavelength converter including a phosphor ceramic containing a first phosphor that emits fluorescence due to a parity-forbidden transition, and a phosphor part containing a second phosphor that emits fluorescence due to a parity-allowed transition. A main surface of the phosphor ceramic has a concave and convex structure including a plurality of convex parts and a plurality of concave parts. The phosphor part is arranged inside the plurality of concave parts in the phosphor ceramic. Also provided is a light emitting device including the wavelength converter, and a solid-state light source that emits light with which the wavelength converter is irradiated and which has a light emission peak within a wavelength range of 400 nm or more and less than 500 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru NITTA, Ryosuke SHIGITANI, Emi MIYAZAKI, Toru HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240128786
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a battery pack, a charging circuit that charges the battery pack, a load device that operates with a power of the battery pack, a voltage sensor that detects a charge voltage and a discharge voltage of the battery pack, a current sensor that detects a charge current and a discharge current of the battery pack, and a control circuit. The control circuit calculates an internal resistance of the battery pack based on the charge voltage and the charge current, calculates an allowable power indicating a maximum power that is able to be acquired from the battery pack by the load device based on the discharge voltage, the discharge current, and the internal resistance, and sends a control signal to the load device to cause the load device to operate with a power less than or equal to the allowable power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu MASUDA, Yuri NISHIZUMI, Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240129191
    Abstract: A position information relay device interposed between a network device and an apparatus includes: a position information recognizer which recognizes position information of the apparatus; and a position information relay which receives a communication packet transmitted by the apparatus to the network device, includes the position information in the communication packet received, and transmits the communication packet including the position information to the network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Moe YOSHIDA, Toshimasa TAKAKI, Naoki OCHI
  • Publication number: 20240128780
    Abstract: A method of charging a secondary battery, the battery including a positive electrode in which a lithium ion is stored during discharging and released during charging, a negative electrode in which a lithium metal deposits during charging and dissolves during discharging, and a non-aqueous electrolyte having a lithium ion conductivity, wherein the method includes a step of charging the secondary battery according to a first charging profile. In the secondary battery, a surface of the negative electrode is covered with a protection layer. In the first charging profile, charging starts from a first charging step in which charging is performed at a constant current with a first electric current density I1, and following the first charging step, a second charging step is performed in which charging is performed at a constant current with a second electric current density I2 that is larger than the first electric current density I1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohei Miyamae, Akira Kano, Takahiro Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20240128809
    Abstract: A stator includes: a plurality of stator blocks; a plurality of coils; and a supporter supporting the plurality of stator blocks. Each of the plurality of stator blocks includes: a yoke portion located at its outermost perimeter; and a teeth portion protruding from an inner peripheral surface of the yoke portion. The yoke portion has a width dimension along the circumferential direction, and the width dimension of the yoke portion is greater than a width dimension of the teeth portion along the circumferential direction. The supporter is closed in the circumferential direction. The supporter holds the plurality of stator blocks such that the plurality of stator blocks are housed in an interior of the supporter. The supporter has an inner peripheral surface in contact with at least an outer peripheral surface of the yoke portion of each of the plurality of stator blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuya AKO, Hideki TAMURA, Mitsumasa MIZUNO, Kenji OKADA
  • Patent number: 11962533
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, a base station and respective methods. The user equipment (UE) receives a single uplink grant for a plurality of PUSCH transmissions. The single uplink grant comprises an antenna port field with an index value that is to be used for the plurality of PUSCH transmissions. The UE determines time-domain resources based on the received uplink grant. The determined time-domain resources prescribe a number of PUSCH transmissions and a length of each of the number of PUSCH transmissions. The UE transmits the number of PUSCH transmissions using the determined time-domain resources. Each of the number of PUSCH transmissions comprises at least one front-loaded demodulation reference signal, DMRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Suzuki, Hongchao Li, Ankit Bhamri
  • Patent number: 11959740
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data creation method for use in a vehicle including a sensor and a data receiver that transmits and receives three-dimensional data to and from an external device. The three-dimensional data creation method includes: creating second three-dimensional data based on information detected by the sensor and first three-dimensional data received by the data receiver; and transmitting, to the external device, third three-dimensional data that is part of the second three-dimensional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Toshiyasu Sugio, Toru Matsunobu, Satoshi Yoshikawa, Tatsuya Koyama