Patents Assigned to Panasonic Corporation
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Patent number: 10946740Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a plurality of seats. Each seat receives a respective human occupant of the motor vehicle. A movable driver control interface enables a human occupant to drive the motor vehicle. A positioning mechanism is coupled to the driver control interface and enables a human occupant to move the driver control interface to a position in front of any one of the seats such that any one of the human occupants may use the driver control interface to drive the motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Benjamin David Sweet, Padmanaban Kanagaraj
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Patent number: 10944099Abstract: A fluoride ion conductor contains potassium, at least one alkaline earth metal selected from the group consisting of calcium, barium, and strontium, and fluorine. The fluoride ion conductor includes a phase of a compound containing potassium, at least one alkaline earth metal, and fluorine.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoyuki Komori
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Publication number: 20210066530Abstract: A manufacturing method of a solar cell module according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a laminating process. The laminating process includes bringing a stack of overlapped elements of a solar cell module into a chamber, setting the stack on a hot plate, and heating the stack while pressing the stack with a pressing member. In the laminating process, the temperature of the pressing member is controlled by maintaining at least an entire contact portion of the pressing member, which is to be in contact with the stack, in contact with the upper chamber or the hot plate, or out of contact with the upper chamber and the hot plate. The temperature control is performed in a stand-by state before the stack is brought into the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Naoya Sotani, Shinya Tsumura, Yukihiro Yoshimine
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Patent number: 10938735Abstract: A convolutional interleaver included in a time interleaver, which performs convolutional interleaving includes: a first switch that switches a connection destination of an input of the convolutional interleaver to one end of one of a plurality of branches; a FIFO memories provided in some of the plurality of branches except one branch, wherein a number of FIFO memories is different among the plurality of branches; and a second switch that switches a connection destination of an output of the convolutional interleaver to another end of one of the plurality of branches. The first and second switches switch the connection destination when the plurality of cells as many as the codewords per frame have passed, by switching a corresponding branch of the connection destination sequentially and repeatedly among the plurality of branches.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Peter Klenner
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Patent number: 10938335Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, and medium storing instructions for execution by a processor for estimating motor winding temperature. In an example, a device for estimating motor winding temperature includes a motor shaft and a motor winding. The device may include a current sense resistor to detect the current passing through a common wiring. The device may include a digital to analog converter to convert an input voltage to an analog signal for comparison to the voltage and to generate a differential voltage using the signals received from the current sense resistor and an initial voltage supplied to the motor winding. The device may include a processor to use the differential voltage and a current input value to calculate a resistance of the motor winding from comparison to a temperature conversion curve.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventor: Gordon Ray Miller
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Patent number: 10933866Abstract: According to a control method for an electric vehicle of the present invention, when an electric vehicle (100) moves at a first velocity and approaches an object (200) on the basis of instructed information, the electric vehicle (100) is temporarily stopped at a position at which the distance between the electric vehicle (100) and the object (200) is a first stopping distance, after which the velocity is switched to a second velocity that is slower than the first velocity, the electric vehicle (100) is caused to approach the object (200), and the electric vehicle (100) is stopped at position at which the distance between the electric vehicle (100) and the object (200) is a second stopping distance that is shorter than the first stopping distance.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Ando, Noriaki Imaoka, Hiroyuki Uematsu
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Patent number: 10933888Abstract: A method for controlling an apparatus for a first vehicle includes: receiving a detection result of at least one of a camera or a radar provided on a first vehicle that detects within a sensing area around the first vehicle; receiving positional information from a wireless device mounted in a second vehicle outside the sensing area, the positional information including a current position, a traveling direction and a traveling speed of the second vehicle; determining whether or not to switch from an automatic steering mode to a manual steering mode on the basis of the detection result and the positional information; and supplying a signal for prompting a driver of the first vehicle to manually switch from the automatic steering mode to the manual steering mode before the second vehicle enters the sensing area.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Teppei Shibata
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Patent number: 10930810Abstract: A solar cell includes a photoelectric converter having a p-type surface and an n-type surface on a principal surface, a p-side conductor, a p-side Sn layer, an n-side conductor, an n-side Sn layer, a p-side seed layer between the p-type surface and p-side conductor, an n-side seed layer between the n-type surface and n-side conductor, a p-side metal layer covering the p-side seed layer and including metal different from metal of the p-side seed layer, and an n-side metal layer covering the n-side seed layer and including metal different from metal of the n-side seed layer. The diffusion coefficient of copper with respect to the p-side metal layer is less than the diffusion coefficient of copper with respect to a p-side Sn layer. The diffusion coefficient of copper with respect to the n-side metal layer is less than the diffusion coefficient of copper with respect to an n-side Sn layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Fujishima, Hirotaka Katayama
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Patent number: 10931313Abstract: A bit interleaving method involves applying a bit permutation process to a QC LDPC codeword made up of N cyclic blocks each including Q bits, and dividing the codeword, after the bit permutation process, into a plurality of constellation words each made up of M bits, the codeword being divided into N/M sections, each constellation word being associated with one of the N/M sections, and the bit permutation process being performed such that each of the constellation words includes one bit from each of M different cyclic blocks associated with a given section.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Mihail Petrov
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Patent number: 10927476Abstract: A production method for a group III nitride crystal, the production method includes: preparing a plurality of group III nitride pieces as a plurality of seed crystals on a substrate, and growing a group III nitride crystal by bringing a surface of each of the seed crystals into contact with a melt that comprises at least one group III element selected from gallium, aluminum, and indium, and an alkali metal in an atmosphere comprising nitrogen, and thereby reacting the group III element and the nitrogen in the melt, wherein the step of growing a group III nitride crystal includes: growing a plurality of first group III nitride crystals whose cross-sections each have a triangular shape or a trapezoidal shape, from the plurality of seed crystals; and growing second group III nitride crystals each in a gap among the plurality of first group III nitride crystals.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignees: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Mori, Masayuki Imanishi, Masashi Yoshimura, Kousuke Murakami, Yoshio Okayama
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Publication number: 20210050588Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery (10) in an example embodiment includes a positive electrode (11) having a lithium metal composite oxide, and a negative electrode (12) having graphite. The lithium metal composite oxide includes first composite oxide particles which are secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles having an average particle size of 50 nm to 5 ?m, and second composite oxide particles which are non-aggregated particles having an average particle size of 2 ?m to 20 ?m. The positive electrode (11) has lower initial charge/discharge efficiency than the initial charge/discharge efficiency of the negative electrode (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicants: Panasonic Corporation, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukihiro Oki, Shun Nomura, Atsushi Ogata
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Publication number: 20210044749Abstract: A control method of an image pickup device is provided. The image pickup device includes a camera, a display, and a touch panel that is overlapped with the display and detects at least a sliding touch operation. The display displays a video image captured by the camera in first, second and third modes. The control method includes: switching to the second mode by a first sliding touch operation in a first direction on the touch panel in the first mode; switching to the third mode by a second sliding touch operation in the first direction in the second mode; switching to the second mode by a third sliding touch operation in a second direction in the third mode; and switching to the first mode by a fourth sliding touch operation in the second direction in the second mode. The second direction is substantially opposite to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi ISHIHARA, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Katsuyuki ITO
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Patent number: 10912516Abstract: A living body information measurement device includes an illuminator that irradiates a living body with illumination light; an imaging unit that images the living body; and a computation unit that computes living body information on the basis of a difference between pixel data in an irradiation area being an area of the living body irradiated with the illumination light and pixel data in a non-irradiation area being an area of the living body not irradiated with the illumination light, included in pixel data associated with each position in an image generated by the imaging of the imaging unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Uchida, Koichi Kusukame, Shinichi Shikii, Masatsugu Niwayama
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Patent number: 10911051Abstract: An electromagnetic energy delivery system includes a set of radio frequency channels; each channel configured to receive a set of reference signals. Each channel further includes a compensation component and a phase-locked loop component. The compensation component can be configured to determine a phase difference between at least a subset of the reference signals; compare the phase difference with a predetermined reference phase difference; and determine a reference signal compensation offset value based on the comparison of the phase difference and the predetermined reference phase difference. The phase-locked loop component can be configured to generate a phase-shifted signal wherein the phase shift is based on at least the reference signal compensation offset value.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignees: Whirlpool Corporation, Panasonic CorporationInventors: Franco Brindani, Andrea Gallivanoni
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Patent number: 10912135Abstract: A server device includes a memory and processor. A vehicle identification number (VIN) is stored in the memory. The VIN is associated with connection information for a vehicle associated with the VIN. The processor executes A VIN matcher stored in the memory, and denies a request for connection information in response to a mismatch between a supplied VIN from a connecting device and the VIN stored in memory. The processor executes a network connector stored in the memory, and sends connection information to a connecting device in response to a match between the supplied VIN from the connecting device and the VIN stored in memory. The connection information is sent through the network connection using a first communication protocol and contains information for the connecting device to connect to the vehicle through direct pairing using a second communication protocol.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Jeffrey Michael Zellen, Matthew Bourdua, Janardhan Thodeti
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Patent number: 10906179Abstract: A mobile robot includes a mobile robot body, a drawing unit provided at the mobile robot body and including a marker configured to draw a travel locus of the mobile robot on a travel plane, and a detector provided at the mobile robot body and configured to detect the travel locus drawn by the drawing unit. The mobile robot travels along the travel locus detected by the detector.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Duyhinh Nguyen, Takeshi Ando, Hiroyuki Sasai
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Patent number: 10903452Abstract: An organic EL device including a first barrier film that contains primarily silicon nitride, a second barrier film that contains primarily silicon nitride, an organic EL element that is disposed between the first barrier film and the second barrier film, a first flexible substrate that is disposed opposite the organic EL element with the first barrier film interposed therebetween, a second flexible substrate that is disposed opposite the organic EL element with the second barrier film interposed therebetween, and a third barrier film that is disposed between the second barrier film and the organic EL element, and contains primarily silicon nitride.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Yuka Isaji
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Patent number: 10903523Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte includes a lithium salt, a trifluoropropionate ester of the formula (1), and a fluorinated carboxylate ester of the formula (2). The amount of (1) is not less than 10 mass % of the nonaqueous electrolyte. In the formulae, R1 is a C1-3 alkyl group, one or two of X1 to X4 are fluorine atoms, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a C1-3 alkyl group or a fluorinated C1-3 alkyl group, and R3 is a C1-3 alkyl group or a fluorinated C1-3 alkyl group.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takanobu Chiga, Naoya Morisawa, Kazuhiro Iida, Atsushi Fukui
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Publication number: 20210013496Abstract: In a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a negative electrode mix layer includes a first layer and a second layer disposed successively from a negative electrode collector. The first layer contains a first carbon-based active material having a 10% compressive strength of 3 MPa or less and a silicon-based active material containing Si. The second layer contains a second carbon-based active material having a 10% compressive strength of 5 MPa or more and has a lower content (mass ratio) of the silicon-based active material than the first layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicants: Panasonic Corporation, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouhei Tsuzuki, Yuki Morikawa, Hirokazu Wada, Yuta Matsuo, Kaori Ishikawa, Katsunori Yanagida
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Patent number: 10890652Abstract: A radar apparatus includes: a radar transmitter that transmits a plurality of radar signals while switching among a plurality of transmitting subarrays; and a radar receiver that receives reflected-wave signals produced by the plurality of radar signals being reflected by a target, the plurality of radar signals being transmitted from the respective transmitting subarrays. In the radar apparatus, each of the plurality of transmitting subarrays includes a plurality of transmitting antennas, and adjacent ones of the plurality of transmitting subarrays share at least one of the plurality of transmitting antennas with each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Takaaki Kishigami
