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: 11904406
    Abstract: Laser processing head (20) of the present disclosure includes housing (30), transparent protector (40), and temperature sensor (70). Housing (30) includes an optical path of processing laser light (LB). Transparent protector (40) is detachably fixed to housing (30), passes processing laser light (LB), and suppresses dust of work material (W) entering into housing (30). Here, the dust is generated from the work material (W) irradiated with processing laser light (LB). Temperature sensor (70) detects the temperature of transparent protector (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Kato, Takayuki Yamashita, Doukei Nagayasu, Kenji Hoshino, Hideaki Yamaguchi, Ryo Ishikawa, Shinya Domoto, Kiyotaka Eizumi
  • Patent number: 11910625
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a pixel electrode, a counter electrode that faces the pixel electrode, a first photoelectric conversion layer that is located between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode and that generates first signal charge, a second photoelectric conversion layer that is located between the first photoelectric conversion layer and the pixel electrode and that generates second signal charge, a first barrier layer that is located between the first photoelectric conversion layer and the second photoelectric conversion layer and that forms a first heterojunction barrier against the first signal charge in the first photoelectric conversion layer, and a charge accumulator that is electrically connected to the pixel electrode and that accumulates the first signal charge and the second signal charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Nozawa, Takeyoshi Tokuhara, Nozomu Matsukawa, Sanshiro Shishido
  • Patent number: 11906363
    Abstract: An infrared sensor includes: a base substrate; a bolometer infrared receiver; a first beam; and a second beam. Each of the first and second beams has a connection portion connected to the base substrate and/or a member on the base substrate and a separated portion away from the base substrate, and is physically joined to the infrared receiver at the separated portion. The infrared receiver is supported by the first and second beams to be away from the base substrate. The infrared receiver includes a resistance change portion including a resistance change material the electrical resistance of which changes with temperature. The resistance change portion includes an amorphous semiconductor, and the first and second beams include a crystalline semiconductor made of the same base material as the resistance change material, and is electrically connected to the resistance change portion at the separated portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouhei Takahashi, Naoki Tambo, Kunihiko Nakamura, Masaki Fujikane, Yasuyuki Naito
  • Patent number: 11909992
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: calculating coefficient values from pieces of attribute information of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data; quantizing the coefficient values individually to generate quantized values; and generating a bitstream including the quantized values. Each of the coefficient values belongs to any one of layers. In the quantizing, each of the coefficient values is quantized using a quantization parameter for a layer to which the coefficient value belongs among the layers, and the bitstream includes first information and pieces of second information, the first information indicating a reference quantization parameter, the pieces of second information being for calculating quantization parameters for the layers from the reference quantization parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Noritaka Iguchi, Chung Dean Han, Chi Wang, Pongsak Lasang
  • Patent number: 11908633
    Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element, a first current collector, and a case. The capacitor element includes a wound body in which a first electrode foil and a second electrode foil are wound. The first electrode foil and the second electrode foil face each other. The first current collector is connected to the first electrode foil. The case houses the capacitor element and the first current collector. The first electrode foil includes a first facing portion that faces the second electrode foil and a first non-facing portion that does not face the second electrode foil. The first non-facing portion is located at a first end portion in a winding axis of the wound body. The first current collector is disposed in a vicinity of the first end portion of the wound body to be connected to the first non-facing portion of the first electrode foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shumpei Matsushita, Tomoyuki Tashiro, Kenta Chashiro
  • Patent number: 11909952
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method encodes a plurality of three-dimensional points, and includes: selecting one of two or more prediction modes for calculating a predicted value of an attribute information item of the first three-dimensional point, in accordance with attribute information items of one or more second three-dimensional points in the vicinity of a first three-dimensional point; calculating the predicted value by the selected prediction mode; calculating, as a prediction residual, a difference between a value of the attribute information item of the first three-dimensional point and the calculated predicted value; and generating a bit stream that includes the one prediction mode and the prediction residual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 11904973
    Abstract: A rotary shaft includes a projection protruding from a rotor along an axial direction of the rotary shaft. The projection has an outer peripheral surface provided with teeth engaged with a gear. The rotor has a first portion which is located around the rotary shaft and which is fixed to the rotary shaft. The rotor has a second portion which is located at an end of the rotor, the end facing the projection. The second portion has an inner diameter larger than an inner diameter of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Nishimori, Fuhito Umegaki, Takehiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11904711
    Abstract: Provided are a charging device and a vehicle capable of reducing the amount of noise flowing into a quick-charging facility. The pair of charging lines connecting the quick-charging facility (20) to an onboard battery (30) are referred to as quick-charging lines, and each of these quick-charging lines is provided with a relay (16-1, 16-2). Each relay (16-1, 16-2) is used to switch the current flowing in the respective quick-charging line on and off, the current being switched on during quick-charge and being switched off during normal charging. Each quick-charging line has a Y-capacitor (17) connected thereto closer to a QC port (15) than the respective relay (16-1, 16-2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuhei Chizuwa
  • Patent number: 11909241
    Abstract: An electronic device to which a drive power is supplied from a battery is provided. The electronic device includes a control circuit that acquires battery information including information related to a status of the battery, a storage that stores the acquired battery information, and an interface circuit that communicates with a management server via a network. The control circuit transmits the battery information stored in the storage to the management server via the interface circuit. The control circuit receives control information related to control of the battery from the management server via the interface circuit. The control circuit controls the battery according to the received control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junya Kamijima
  • Patent number: 11904294
    Abstract: A concentration device that concentrates a solution containing a biological substance includes: a first chamber into which the solution is to be introduced; a second chamber to be filled with a drawing agent; and a film that separates a space of the first chamber and a space of the second chamber. The film has a first region and a second region. The first region is semipermeable in that the first region is permeable to a solvent of the solution but impermeable to the biological substance and the drawing agent. The second region is impermeable to the solution, the biological substance, and the drawing agent. When the solution is introduced into the first chamber, the film is positioned to incline with respect to a surface of the solution. The second region is positioned below the first region with respect to the surface of the solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chiaki Shido, Hiroshi Ushio
  • Patent number: 11906752
    Abstract: In various embodiments, laser delivery systems feature one or more optical elements for receiving a radiation beam and altering the spatial power distribution thereof, a lens manipulation system for changing a position of at least one optical element within the path of the radiation beam, and a controller for controlling the lens manipulation system to achieve a target altered spatial power distribution on a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: Wang-Long Zhou, Parviz Tayebati, Bien Chann, Francisco Villarreal-Saucedo
  • Patent number: 11909748
    Abstract: In an anti-fraud control system, a first error monitoring device includes a first frame transmitting and receiving unit that receives a frame flowing on the on-board network; and a first error detector that causes transmission of an error notification frame for notifying of an occurrence of an error in the frame when detecting the occurrence of the error in the frame received by the first frame transmitting and receiving unit. Each of second error monitoring devices includes: a second frame transmitting and receiving unit that receives the error notification frame; and a second error detector that regards, as a frame to be invalidated, the frame subjected to the error and included in the received error notification frame, and shifts the second error monitoring device to an invalidation mode for invalidating reception of subsequent frames, if no error is detected in an own branch with respect to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kishikawa, Ryo Hirano, Yoshihiro Ujiie
  • Patent number: 11906966
    Abstract: A robot detects, through a sensor, the location and movement direction of a user and an object near the user, sets a nearby ground area in front at the feet of the user according to the detected location and movement direction of the user, controls an illumination device in the robot to irradiate the nearby ground area with light while driving at least one pair of legs or wheels of the robot to cause the robot to accompany the user, specifies the type and the location of the detected object, and if the object is a dangerous object and is located ahead of the user, controls the illumination device to irradiate a danger area including at least a portion of the dangerous object with light in addition to irradiating the nearby ground area with light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yahata
  • Patent number: 11910425
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) which comprises a transmitter, which transmits a signal to a base station over a channel, wherein the signal is transmitted based on an initial channel quality information indicating a first channel quality of the channel. A receiver of the UE receives a transmission quality information indicating a second channel quality of the channel used for transmitting the signal. A processing circuitry of the UE estimates a transmission quality based on the initial channel quality information and the transmission quality information, wherein the transmission quality indicates whether the transmission of the signal over the channel was successful or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Hongchao Li, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Quan Kuang, Rikin Shah
  • Patent number: 11906324
    Abstract: A cleaning route determination system includes an analyzer that analyzes behavior of airflow and particles inside a facility, a map generator that generates a dust accumulation map indicating one or more dust accumulation areas inside the facility and one or more dust amounts corresponding to the one or more dust accumulation areas, and a route calculator that determines a first route from second routes. Each of the second routes is a route for a cleaner to pass through, within a certain period of time, at least one of the one or more dust accumulation areas. A total amount indicating a sum of dust amounts corresponding to dust accumulation areas included the first route is largest among total amounts corresponding to the second routes, each of the total amounts indicating a sum of dust amounts corresponding to dust accumulation areas included in each of the second routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 11906717
    Abstract: A zoom lens system includes at least six lens groups, each of which has power. An interval between each pair of lens groups that are adjacent to each other among the at least six lens groups changes while the zoom lens system is zooming. Each of three lens groups, which are respectively located closest, second closest, and third closest to an image plane, out of the at least six lens groups consists of one or more bonded lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kitada, Takehiro Nishioka, Yoshio Matsumura, Takakazu Bito, Kunio Dohno
  • Patent number: 11910288
    Abstract: A repeater generates repetition signals by repeating an uplink signal over a plurality of subframes. If the plurality of subframes do not include a transmission candidate subframe of a sounding reference signal used to measure uplink reception quality, a controller sets a first transmission format to all the plurality of subframes, and if the plurality of subframes include the transmission candidate subframe, the controller sets a second transmission format to all the plurality of subframes. A transmitter transmits the repetition signals using the set transmission format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 11907025
    Abstract: A latch mechanism includes a latch and a rotation shaft supporting part. The latch is rotatable around a rotation shaft between a housing position and a lock position, and fixes a first unit and a second unit in a closed state at the lock position. The rotation shaft supporting part rotatably supports the rotation shaft. The latch has a first ring-shaped part disposed coaxially with the rotation shaft. The rotation shaft supporting part has a second ring-shaped part disposed coaxially with the rotation shaft. Heights of the first ring-shaped part and the second ring-shaped part are set such that an area of abutment between the first ring-shaped part and the second ring-shaped part increases as the latch rotates from the lock position to the housing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Shindo, Futoshi Kuriyama, Tatsuo Kuromoto
  • Patent number: 11910406
    Abstract: Provided are an eNB, a UE and wireless communication methods. The eNB, in an embodiment, includes circuitry operative to fill a SPS activation/deactivation field in a DCI with a predetermined pattern of bits; and a transmitter operative to transmit the DCI to a first UE for the first UE to start periodically transmitting signals to a second UE or stop periodically transmitting signals to the second UE based on the SPS activation/deactivation field. The DCI is in a SPS format formed by adopting part or all bits of at least one field of DCI format 5 as the SPS activation/deactivation field, and information supposed to be transmitted in the at least one field is indicated with the assistance of or by RRC or MAC signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Sujuan Feng, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Prateek Basu Mallick, Masayuki Hoshino, Joachim Loehr
  • Patent number: 11906370
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for measuring stress distribution generated on a structural object including two support parts and a beam part provided between the support parts. The method includes: generating first data by sensing, through a first sensing unit, of a moving object or an identification display object attached to the structural object; calculating, based on the first data, a movement duration in which the moving object moves between the support parts; generating, as second data, thermal data by sensing of a surface of the beam part through a second sensing unit; calculating a temperature change amount based on a second data group corresponding to the movement duration; and calculating a stress change amount based on the temperature change amount to calculate stress distribution based on the stress change amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yousuke Irie, Ryoji Hirose
  • Patent number: 11910713
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a thermoelectric conversion material having a composition represented by a chemical formula of Li2?a+bMg1?bSi. In this thermoelectric conversion material, either requirement (i) in which 0?a?0.0001 and 0.0001?b?0.25-a or requirement (ii) in which 0.0001?a?0.25 and 0?b?0.25-a is satisfied. The thermoelectric conversion material has an Li8Al3Si5 type crystalline structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Tamaki, Yuriko Kaneko, Hiroki Sato, Tsutomu Kanno, HyunJeong Nam
  • Patent number: 11906656
    Abstract: A sensor includes: a correlation matrix calculator which calculates a correlation matrix from biological information extracted using reception signals obtained by receiving, in a predetermined period, signals transmitted to a predetermined space; a first number information calculator which calculates first number information; a MUSIC spectrum calculator which estimates a candidate of a position of at least one living body and outputs a likelihood spectrum; and a second number information calculator which estimates a position or second number information, which is a total number of living bodies with an increased degree of likelihood, from first position information possibly including a plurality of position candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi Iizuka, Takeshi Nakayama, Naoki Honma, Kazuki Numazaki, Nobuyuki Shiraki
  • Patent number: 11907518
    Abstract: A cooking-recipe display system (51) according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes, an information terminal (200) having a display screen and a controller (210), a data management part (110), and a determination part (120). The data management part (110) includes a recipe group master containing a plurality of cooking recipes, each of which contains both a plurality of procedures indicating a way of cooking a dish and a plurality of ingredients of the dish. The determination part (120) determines an allocation display format indicating an arrangement, on the display screen, of the plurality of procedures contained one cooking recipe selected from the plurality of cooking recipes. The controller (210) causes the cooking recipe to be displayed on the display screen in the allocation display format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yuki, Yuki Taoka, Taiki Terada, Emi Akutsu, Sumiko Tanaka, Hiroki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11908785
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first board that has a first end surface and a second end surface opposite to the first end surface; a second board that is attached to the second end surface of the first board; a plurality of first electrodes that are provided on the first end surface; a second electrode that is provided on the second end surface and electrically coupled to an electrode of the second board; an internal wiring that is provided inside the first board and electrically coupled to the second electrode; a plurality of third electrodes that are provided inside the first board and electrically couple the first electrodes to the internal wiring; and a strain sensor that is provided inside the first board and measures a strain generated in the first board, in which a linear expansion coefficient of each of the third electrodes is larger than a linear expansion coefficient of the first board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeru Tamari, Daisuke Sakurai, Kiyokazu Itoi
  • Patent number: 11905409
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a resin composition containing a polyphenylene ether compound having at least one of the groups represented by Formulas (1) and (2); and an allyl compound having a group represented by Formula (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Tsuda, Hirosuke Saito, Yiqun Wang, Hiroharu Inoue
  • Patent number: 11904451
    Abstract: An electric power tool includes a motor, an output shaft, a drive force transmission configured to reduce drive speed of the motor and transmit drive force of the motor to the output shaft; a trigger that can be pulled by a user; a rotation speed changing circuitry configured to change a rotation speed of the output shaft that corresponds to a maximum pulled amount of the trigger to a limited rotation speed that is lower than a maximum rotation speed of the output shaft in a non-limited rotation speed mode; and a rotation speed control circuitry configured to control a rotation speed of the motor in correspondence with a pulled amount of the trigger to obtain the rotation speed of the output shaft that is changed by the rotation speed changing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Sawano, Masaaki Okada, Hidekazu Yuasa
  • Patent number: 11904440
    Abstract: An electric power tool includes a body, a driver, a manipulation section, a load sensor, and a controller. To the body, a tool is attachable. The driver is configured to drive the tool to rotate, the tool being attached to the body. The manipulation section is configured to receive an operation for causing operation of the driver. The load sensor is configured to measure a load caused when the driver operates. The controller is configured to: set an upper limit value of a rotation speed of the driver in accordance with the load measured by the load sensor; and control driving of the driver to rotate based on the upper limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11910043
    Abstract: A system for data collection in a commercial travel setting is described. The system includes a plurality of sensor circuits that collect a plurality of sensor data values from in-flight entertainment (IFE) network. The system includes a sensor data processor that interprets the plurality of sensor data values. The system includes a passenger profile management controller configured that filters the plurality of sensor data values by processing a plurality of passenger profiles that are related to at least some of the plurality of sensor data values. The system generates a measurement index that is normalized with respect to the plurality of sensor data values or the plurality of passenger profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenneth William Sain, Andrew Timothy Masson, Mehdi Izadyar, Anand Desikan
  • Patent number: 11909389
    Abstract: An input device includes a detection surface configured to be operated by an operation body, a first fixed electrode, a movable electrode, first and second terminals configured to be connected to an outside of the input device, and a direct-connection line electrically connecting the movable electrode to the second terminal via no capacitor. The movable electrode has a lower surface facing an upper surface of the first fixed electrode to be capacitively coupled to the first fixed electrode. The movable contact is displaceable to approach the first fixed electrode in response to a pressing of the detection surface by the operation body. The first terminal is configured to output, to the outside of the input device, a first electric signal containing a change in a capacitance between the first fixed electrode and the movable electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Yamabayashi, Yuta Saito, Kenichi Matsumoto, Ryo Nakae
  • Publication number: 20240055731
    Abstract: This non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is characterized by comprising: a wound electrode body in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound via a separator. Said battery is also characterized in that: when the separator is divided into five parts in the width direction and the five divided regions are defined as a region A positioned on one end of the separator in the width direction, a region B positioned on the other end of the separator in the width direction, a region C positioned in the center of the separator in the width direction, a region D positioned between the region A and the region C, and a region E positioned between the region B and the region C, then the void ratio of the region D and the region E is greater than the void ratio of the region A, the region B, and the region C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Morishima
  • Publication number: 20240055719
    Abstract: This sealed battery is provided with a bottomed tubular outer can for accommodating an electrode body, and a sealing body for sealing an opening part of the outer can. The outer can has a gas exhaust valve which ruptures when the pressure inside the battery reaches a predetermined value. The gas exhaust valve includes a plurality of linear grooves. The sealed battery is characterized in that; the cross-sectional shape of the grooves is a tapering shape in which the width of open ends on the side of the surface of the outer can is shorter than the width of the bottom; the grooves have at least one crossing part; and the crossing part has a flat section in the bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd., Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Oose Okutani, Kazutoshi Kohira
  • Publication number: 20240053977
    Abstract: A gateway device is connected to a plurality of electronic controllers on-board a vehicle. The gateway device acquires firmware update information, which includes at least a part of updated firmware to be applied to a first electronic controller, patch data, and information indicating where to apply the patch data. When the gateway device determines that the first electronic controller does not include a firmware cache for performing a pre-update firmware cache operation, the gateway device executes a proxy process. In this regard, the gateway device requests the first electronic controller to transmit boot ROM data to the gateway device, merges the patch data and existing firmware to create updated boot ROM data with updated firmware, and transmits the updated boot ROM data to the first electronic controller that updates the boot ROM data and resets the first electronic controller with the updated firmware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro UJIIE, Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Jun ANZAI, Toshihisa NAKANO, Tomoyuki HAGA, Manabu MAEDA, Takeshi KISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240055595
    Abstract: The positive electrode contains a lithium-transition metal composite oxide. With respect to the lithium-transition metal composite oxide, the content of Ni is from 80% by mole to 95% by mole relative to the total number of moles of metal elements excluding Li, and the content of Mo is less than 3% by mole relative to the total number of moles of metal elements excluding Li. The negative electrode comprises a negative electrode mixture layer that contains a negative electrode active material, and a coating film that is formed on the surface of the negative electrode mixture layer, while containing Mo. The content of Mo in the negative electrode is from 0.5 ppm to 120 ppm relative to the total mass of the lithium-transition metal composite oxide in the positive electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Aoki, Takeshi Ogasawara, Naoya Fujitani
  • Publication number: 20240055600
    Abstract: A battery includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an electrolytic solution, wherein the first electrode includes a current collector and an active material layer, the active material layer contains Bi as a main component of an active material, and the electrolytic solution contains at least one selected from the group consisting of vinylene carbonate and fluoroethylene carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahisa Fujimoto, Takashi Oto
  • Publication number: 20240055609
    Abstract: An aqueous primary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an aqueous solution electrolyte included in the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator, wherein the negative electrode and/or the electrolyte includes an additive, the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material, the negative electrode active material includes zinc, the additive includes a cyclic compound, and the cyclic compound has a first ring including a —N—CO— structure, and a second ring that shares at least two atoms with the first ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20240054834
    Abstract: This information processing device includes: a tracking unit that tracks a subject to be authenticated who is heading from a first region toward a second region into which entry is permitted in accordance with a result of authentication processing, even before the subject to be authenticated moves to the first region; an authentication unit that performs authentication processing on the subject to be authenticated, located in the first region; and a processing unit that, when the movement of the subject to be authenticated to the first region is detected by the tracking unit, associates the result of the authentication processing on the subject to be authenticated with the result of tracking the subject to be authenticated, and tracks the subject to be authenticated, and thereby manages entry of the subject to be authenticated into the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masao KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20240055649
    Abstract: A battery including a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer disposed on the first electrode layer and serving as a counter electrode for the first electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes a first current collector, a first active material layer, and a first solid electrolyte layer. The first active material layer faces the second electrode layer with the first solid electrolyte layer therebetween. The first electrode layer has a polygon shape including a plurality of corner portions, at least one of the corner portions of the first electrode layer includes a first rounded portion. The first active material layer has a polygon shape including a plurality of corner portions, and the corner portion of the first active material layer, adjacent to the corner portion including the first rounded portion, includes a rounded portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuya IWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240051522
    Abstract: A parking assistance device that performs automatic travel of a vehicle based on teaching travel by a driver is provided. The parking assistance device: learns a travel route for parking the vehicle in a parking position during the teaching travel, based on the teaching travel; performs an automatic travel based on the travel route; controls the automatic travel to implement a temporary stop at first points where the vehicle has not temporarily stopped during teaching travel based on any of a first regulation, first environmental information, or first geographic information; and controls the automatic travel not to implement the temporary stop at second points where the vehicle has temporarily stopped during teaching travel based on any of a second regulation, second environmental information, or second geographic information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru YAMAGUCHI, Takafumi TOKUHIRO, Masashi HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20240055613
    Abstract: Provided is an electrode slurry carbon nanotube liquid dispersion which improves charge/discharge cycle characteristics. An electrode slurry carbon nanotube liquid dispersion which is one aspect of the present disclosure and contains 0.1-1.5 mass % of carbon nanotubes, a dispersion medium, and carboxymethyl cellulose, the viscosity of which at 100 s?1 in a 3% aqueous solution is 2-200 mPa·s, wherein: the carboxymethyl cellulose content constitutes 50-250 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of carbon nanotubes; the viscosity at 100 s?1 is 50-200 mPa·s in a state in which the carbon nanotubes are dispersed; and the particle distribution according to the laser diffraction method exhibits a D10 of 0.3-1.0 ?m, a D50 of 3-10 ?m and a D90 of 60 ?m or less in a state in which the carbon nanotubes are dispersed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Fukumoto, Nobuhiro Hirano, Masanori Sugimori, Yuji Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20240055585
    Abstract: Provided is an active material that can suppress a rise in the internal resistance of a battery. This active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries contains a core that can reversibly store and release Li, and a compound adhered to the surface of the core, and the compound contains trivalent Ti. The compound may be (NH4)2TiF5, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiko Murata, Hiroshi Kawada
  • Publication number: 20240055669
    Abstract: A battery with a laminate film outer package, configured by bonding film materials; and a flat electrode body contained in the laminate film outer package having a positive electrode with a positive electrode non-coated part, without a positive electrode mixture layer and an exposed positive electrode core body midway in the longitudinal direction; and a negative electrode has a negative electrode non-coated part without a negative electrode mixture layer and an exposed negative electrode core body midway in the longitudinal direction; and a positive electrode tab is bonded and electrically connected to the positive electrode non-coated part; and a negative electrode tab is bonded and electrically connected to the negative electrode non-coated part, both tabs generally pass through the center of the flat electrode body in the thickness direction, while being positioned on the same side of a virtual plane perpendicular to the thickness direction of the flat electrode body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshida, Kazuhiro Okuda, Shinya Furukawa, Hiyoshi Tamaki
  • Publication number: 20240055583
    Abstract: A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is provided with a negative electrode core and a negative electrode mixture layer provided on the surface of the negative electrode core. The negative electrode mixture layer has a first layer that includes: at least one of at least one kind of metal element selected from Si, Sn, Sb, Mg, and Ge, and a compound containing said metal element; at least one of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and single-walled carbon nanotubes; and a binding agent. The negative electrode mixture layer also has a second layer that includes graphite A with a particle fracture strength of 10-35 MPa. The porosity of the first layer is preferably 50-65%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Inoue, Yosuke Sato, Kensuke Nakura, Akihiro Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20240057287
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a heat absorbing member having first and second surfaces, a plurality of heat radiating fins provided on the second surface and arranged side by side in a first direction, and a casing attached to the second surface so as to cover the heat radiating fins. The casing includes: inflow and outflow ports into which a coolant flows in and out, an upstream flow path communicating with the inflow port and facing top portions of the heat radiating fins, and a downstream flow path communicating with the outflow port, extending in the first direction, and facing end portions in the second direction of the heat radiating fins. The outflow port is provided at an end portion on one side in the first direction of the casing. A flow path cross-sectional area in the first direction of the downstream flow path increases with distance from the outflow port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki NAGAO
  • Publication number: 20240051392
    Abstract: A display control device includes an analyzer, a determination unit, and a display controller. The analyzer obtains and analyzes first display information and second display information to be displayed on at least one display. The determination unit determines the sameness of the first display information and the second display information according to the results of analysis by the analyzer. The display controller controls the at least one display. In addition, a second external device is different from a first external device. When the determination unit determines that the first display information and the second display information are identical, the display controller causes a predetermined display of the at least one display to display one display information item based on the first display information and the second display information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahiro UCHIKOSHI, Masahito OISHI, Kazuki ONISHI
  • Patent number: 11901582
    Abstract: A power supply device disposes an end plate at each end of a battery stack in a stacked direction of the battery stack, and couples a binding bar to the end plate, so as to fix battery cells. The binding bar includes a plate-shaped bar that extends in the stacked direction of the battery stack, and an engagement block that is fixed to the plate-shaped bar and protrudes as a face opposing an outer peripheral face of the end plate. The End plate includes a fitting part to which the engagement block is guided, and a stopper. The fitting part is disposed on the outer peripheral face of the end plate. The stopper is disposed closer to the battery stack with respect to the fitting part, and abuts the engagement block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinobu Terauchi, Tetsuji Omura
  • Patent number: 11901593
    Abstract: A charge/discharge method of an air battery is a charge/discharge method of an air battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte liquid containing a nonaqueous solvent and a lithium salt dissolved in the nonaqueous solvent, the nonaqueous electrolyte liquid being interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the charge/discharge method includes: discharging the air battery; and supplying a charging liquid different from the nonaqueous electrolyte liquid from the outside to the inside of the air battery so that a discharge product generated by the discharging is desorbed from the positive electrode while being in the form of a solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masako Yokoyama, Masahisa Fujimoto, Mitsuhiro Hibino
  • Patent number: 11897387
    Abstract: A vehicle monitoring device includes a positioning device, a distance calculator, a first imaging device, a volume calculator, and a work calculator. The positioning device measures a position of a vehicle including a loading platform. The distance calculator calculates a movement distance of the vehicle based on the position of the vehicle measured by the positioning device. The first imaging device captures an image of a load mounted on the loading platform. The volume calculator calculates a volume of the load based on the image captured by the first imaging device. The work calculator calculates a work of the vehicle based on the movement distance and the volume of the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Okada, Kensho Teranishi
  • Patent number: 11902067
    Abstract: A transmission method includes mapping processing, phase change processing, and transmission processing. In the mapping processing, a plurality of first modulation signals and a plurality of second modulation signals are generated using a first mapping scheme, and a plurality of third modulation signals and a plurality of fourth modulation signals are generated using a second mapping scheme. In the phase change processing, a phase change is performed on the plurality of second modulation signals and the plurality of fourth modulation signals using all N kinds of phases. In the transmission processing, the first modulation signals and the second modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from different antennas, and the third modulation signals and the fourth modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from the different antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11902505
    Abstract: A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Kazuhito Kimura, Hideyuki Ohgose, Hiroshi Arakawa, Koji Arimura
  • Patent number: 11901515
    Abstract: A sheet material conveyance device includes a plurality of first holding heads each having a curved first holding surface, a first drum holding the plurality of first holding heads, a plurality of second holding heads each having a planar second holding surface, a second drum holding the plurality of second holding heads, a tilt adjustment mechanism structured to adjust a tilt of each second holding surface, and a speed adjustment mechanism structured to adjust a relative movement speed of the first holding head and the second holding head. The first holding head and the second holding head move to a delivery position, and deliver the sheet material between the first holding surface and the second holding surface in a situation in which adjustment is performed by the tilt adjustment mechanism and the speed adjustment mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Fujita, Ryuta Abe, Masahide Maruyama