Patents Assigned to BE Intellectual Property
  • Patent number: 11971647
    Abstract: To provide an opening and closing structure for an insertion port in an electronic apparatus and an electronic apparatus that allow a user to easily recognize high quality. An opening and closing structure for an insertion port in an electronic apparatus includes: an opening and closing lid that opens and closes an insertion port; a shaft member that functions as a rotation axis of the opening and closing lid; a support member that rotatably supports the shaft member; and a biasing member that biases the opening and closing lid in an opening direction, in which the shaft member is press-fitted into the opening and closing lid with a first press-fitting margin, and is press-fitted into the support member with a second press-fitting margin different from the first press-fitting margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yutaro Itadani
  • Patent number: 11972917
    Abstract: A disconnect device includes: a conductor connectable to an external conductive path; a housing that has an internal space and accommodates at least a part of the conductor; and a cooling body that is disposed in the internal space and cools an arc generated in the internal space. The cooling body includes a porous body configured with at least one of a metal oxide and an inorganic oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Nakamura, Shun Ito, Shinya Kimoto, Katsuya Uruma
  • Patent number: 11969309
    Abstract: A system for repositioning teeth a patient from an initial tooth arrangement to a final tooth arrangement includes a plurality of incremental position adjustment appliances, each having an arrangement of cavities shaped to receive and reposition teeth of the patient. The cavities in at least one appliance in the system have a different geometry than that of at least one other appliance in the system. At least some of the appliances in the system are successively worn by the patient to exert force on at least one tooth and move the teeth of the patient from a first arrangement to a successive arrangement different from the first arrangement. The system includes a first multilayer shell with a bending stiffness factor less than about 0.1 GPa*mm3 and an elastic modulus no greater than about 1.5 GPa; and a second shell with a bending stiffness factor greater than 0.1 GPa*mm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties Company
    Inventors: Ta-Hua Yu, Jennifer L. Cook, Karl J. L. Geisler, Paul A. Sevcik, Bruce R. Broyles, Jennifer K. Tully
  • Patent number: 11971978
    Abstract: A vehicle network system employing a controller area network protocol includes a bus, a first electronic control unit, and a second electronic control unit. The first electronic control unit transmits, via the bus, at least one data frame including an identifier relating to data used for a calculation for obtaining a message authentication code indicating authenticity of transmission content. The second electronic control unit receives the at least one data frame transmitted vis the bus and verifies the message authentication code in accordance with the identifier included in the at least one data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Masato Tanabe, Takeshi Kishikawa, Tomoyuki Haga, Hideki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 11969318
    Abstract: A releasable medical drape, and systems and methods having the same, includes at least a liquid-impermeable, vapor-permeable layer, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a soft-gel layer having a plurality of apertures. The soft-gel layer is configured to be disposed adjacent to a tissue site. A portion of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer extends through the plurality of apertures in the soft-gel layer to contact the tissue site. The soft-gel layer forms a good seal with the tissue site and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer extending through the plurality of apertures forms a firm—but releasable—coupling with the tissue site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties Company
    Inventors: Christopher Brian Locke, Timothy Mark Robinson, Li Yao
  • Patent number: 11972554
    Abstract: A detection device includes an acquirer that acquires a video of each of a plurality of bearings of a structure including the plurality of bearings, an extractor that extracts a dynamic feature corresponding to a plurality of degrees of freedom of each of the plurality of bearings based on the video, and an identifier that identifies, among the plurality of bearings, a bearing whose dynamic feature fails to match a dynamic feature of one or more other bearings of the plurality of bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taro Imagawa, Akihiro Noda, Yuki Maruyama, Hiroya Kusaka
  • Patent number: 11970043
    Abstract: An air conditioning device (10) is an air conditioning device (10) for a reclining seat (10) comprising a seat part (1b) and a backrest part (1a), the air conditioning device (10) comprising a ventilator and a controller (11). The ventilator is provided to at least one of the seat part (1b) and the backrest part (1a), and includes a first air flow path (A1, A2) formed inside the seat part (1b) or the backrest part (1a). The controller (11) determines a reclining state of the backrest part (1a) with respect to the seat part (1b), and controls air in the first air flow path (A1, A2) in accordance with the determined reclining state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota Miyanaka, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Yuki Odoriba
  • Patent number: 11974330
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the prioritization of devices taking part in a multi-user random access wireless communication. Based on some known conditions, devices that comply with the conditions are given preferential treatment during the random access period. The preferential treatment may refer to the eligible devices being allowed to access more resource units during the random access, or it may also mean faster access to the medium during the random access. By taking advantage of the methods described in the present disclosure, it is possible to assign higher priority to selected frame types and/or device categories in a multi-user random access wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rojan Chitrakar, Yoshio Urabe, Lei Huang, Michael Hong Cheng Sim
  • Patent number: 11973604
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) which comprises a transmitter that transmits at least one data packet based on a transmitting window having a transmitting window size. A receiver of the UE receives reception feedback regarding the at least one transmitted data packet. Processing circuitry of the UE determines, based on at least the received reception feedback, whether to change the transmitting window size for the transmitting window to be used at least for transmitting further data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ming-Hung Tao, Rikin Shah, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ankit Bhamri
  • Patent number: 11972706
    Abstract: An image display system includes semiconductor light sources that output optical signals including modulated signal portions at timings different from each other, optical fiber cables that respectively transmit the optical signals, a light synthesizer that synthesizes the optical signals to output a synthesized optical signal, a light amount detector that detects an output light amount of the synthesized optical signal, a modulated signal detector that detects the modulated signal portions from the detected output light amount, an image modulator that modulates the synthesized optical signal according to an input image signal to output a modulated image light, and a light source controller that outputs drive control signals for respectively outputting the optical signals respectively including the modulated signal portions according to the image signal, and detects a failure of the optical fiber cables based on whether a modulated signal portion among the plurality of modulated signal portions is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takaaki Gyoten
  • Patent number: 11973188
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The non-aqueous electrolyte contains a lithium salt and a carboxylic acid, and the lithium salt includes lithium difluorophosphate. The content of the carboxylic acid in the non-aqueous electrolyte is 5 ppm or more and 900 ppm or less with respect to the mass of the non-aqueous electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuko Nozaki, Tasuku Ishiguro, Tomohisa Okazaki
  • Patent number: 11973654
    Abstract: In examples, a first Anycast advertisement is received from a first server identifying the first server as a primary address for a service. In addition, a second Anycast advertisement is received from the first server identifying the first server as a secondary address for the service. Further, a third Anycast advertisement is received from a second server identifying the second server as the secondary address for the service. A first community advertisement is also from the first server identifying the first server as a member of a first community. Thereafter, a first request is received from a client including the primary address, and the request is routed to the first server. When a second request from the client is received including the secondary address, based at least on the community advertisement, the first server is ignored, and the second request is routed to the second server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Dean Ballew, John R. B. Woodworth
  • Patent number: 11973706
    Abstract: A transmitting method includes: configuring a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating time resources and frequency resources to a plurality of transmission data; and transmitting the frame, wherein the frame includes a first period in which a preamble which includes information on a frame configuration of the frame is transmitted, and a second period in which the plurality of transmission data are transmitted by at least one of time division and frequency division, and among the plurality of OFDM symbols, OFDM symbols included in the second period include pilot symbols arranged along a time axis with a predetermined spacing therebetween, and a predetermined number of data symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Yoshio Urabe, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11973897
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing call center-based automated interface with network switches for Internet service diagnostics and provisioning. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a request by a call center user to access an Internet service customer account, a computing system may access information regarding the Internet service customer account that is stored in a database, may identify a network switch that is configured to provide Internet service to customer premises equipment (“CPE”) disposed at a customer premises associated with the customer, based at least in part on the accessed information, and may autonomously access, from other databases, information associated with the Internet service customer account and with a network profile. The computing system may integrate the accessed information, may generate and present a user interface (“UI”) displaying the accessed information, and may autonomously initiate one or more diagnosis and repair procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Jaime D. Lemley, Rob Preston
  • Patent number: 11972910
    Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes an electrode foil and a lead member connected to the electrode foil. The electrode foil has a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposite to the first principal surface. The electrode foil and the lead member are connected by a caulking part in an overlapping part in which the first principal surface of the electrode foil and the lead member overlap each other. The caulking part has a through-hole penetrating the electrode foil and the lead member. The electrode foil in the caulking part includes a first folded part that is folded back at a peripheral edge portion of the through-hole to be disposed on the second principal surface. The lead member in the caulking part includes (i) a penetrating part that penetrates the electrode foil and (ii) a second folded part that is folded back at an end portion of the penetrating part to be disposed on the second principal surface. The penetrating part includes an inner wall of the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Otsuka, Masahiro Aburaya, Tatsuji Aoyama, Tomoyuki Tashiro
  • Patent number: 11974303
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a transmission device for transmitting data to a reception device in a communication system. The transmission device comprises circuitry which, in operation, allocates the data to a plurality of transmission time intervals, TTIs, respectively comprising a lower number of symbols than a slot and the plurality of TTIs including an initial TTI and one or more subsequent TTIs subsequent to the initial TTI, wherein the data allocated to each of the plurality of TTIs is the same, further allocates a demodulation reference signal, DMRS, to the initial TTI, and obtains a DMRS allocation for each of the subsequent TTIs indicating whether or not no DMRS is allocated to the respective TTI to be transmitted in addition to the data. The transmission device further comprises a transceiver which, in operation, transmits, within the slot, the data and DMRS in accordance with the DMRS allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Hongchao Li
  • Patent number: 11972896
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a compact inductor having the required (predetermined) inductance and current rating, further designed to avoid substantial heat generation by avoiding saturation, winding(s) possessing a low DC resistance and copper loss, and minimizing the required volume or profile in order to conserve circuit board real-estate. The compact inductor design of the present invention includes both enclosed core as well as enclosed winding type of inductor designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC.
    Inventors: Khai Doan The Ngo, Han Cui
  • Patent number: 11973603
    Abstract: Provided is a base station that performs feedback with regard to data transmission. The base station includes a downlink feedback information (DFI) generation unit and a transmitter. On the basis of a resource allocation configuration that was configured by a terminal, the DFI generation unit determines a transmission method for feedback information that includes a response signal regarding uplink data. The transmitter transmits the feedback information on the basis of the transmission method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tomoya Nunome, Takashi Iwai, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11973303
    Abstract: A laser apparatus includes at least one electro-optic (EO) medium through which a polarized laser beam passes for N times, forming a plurality of first-pass to Nth-pass beams, by reflecting the polarized laser beam from at least one reflection mirror, and a power supplier configured to alternately provide a 1/N of a half-wave (?/2) or quarter-wave (?/4) voltage and remove the voltage to the EO medium, ? being a wavelength of the polarized laser beam. The at least one EO medium is tilted at angle ? and/or angle ? with respect to one of the plurality of first-pass to Nth-pass beams. The at least one EO medium comprises a M number of EO mediums, and the power supplier is configured to alternately provide a 1/M*N of a half-wave (?/2) or quarter-wave (?/4) voltage and remove the voltage to each of the M number of EO mediums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Chang, Fangqin Li, Riccardo Leto
  • Patent number: 11973932
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: determines whether an image format of a video is a format including a chroma component; when it is determined that the image format is a format including a chroma component, signals a flag indicating whether application of JCCR is allowed or not in a header of a stream, and (i) encodes the video with application of the JCCR allowed, or (ii) encodes the video with application of the JCCR not allowed; and when it is determined that the image format is a format including no chroma component, signals no flag indicating whether application of the JCCR is allowed or not in the header of the stream, and encodes the video with application of the JCCR not allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Yusuke Kato