Patents Assigned to Panasonic Corporation
  • Publication number: 20210388528
    Abstract: A group III nitride crystal, wherein the group III nitride crystal is doped with an N-type dopant and a germanium element, the concentration of the N-type dopant is 1×1019 cm?3 or more, and the concentration of the germanium element is nine times or more higher than the concentration of the N-type dopant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke MORI, Masashi YOSHIMURA, Masayuki IMANISHI, Akira KITAMOTO, Tomoaki SUMI, Junichi TAKINO, Yoshio OKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210391665
    Abstract: A first housing of a first connector has a first end wall which is located downward of a first accommodation portion in an up-down direction. When viewed from beneath along the up-down direction, the first end wall hides, in part, a first contact located in the first accommodation portion. A second housing has a second end wall which is located upward of a second accommodation portion in the up-down direction. When viewed from above along the up-down direction, the second end wall hides a second contact located in the second accommodation portion. The first end wall prevents a finger of an operator from coming into contact with the first contact, and the second end wall prevents the finger of the operator from coming into contact with the second contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicants: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko NAKAZAWA, Shoichi TOYA
  • Publication number: 20210388529
    Abstract: A group III nitride crystal, wherein the group III nitride crystal is doped with an N-type dopant and a hydrogen element, and the concentration of the N-type dopant is 1×1020 cm?3 or more, and the concentration of the hydrogen element is 1×1019 cm?3 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke MORI, Masashi YOSHIMURA, Masayuki IMANISHI, Akira KITAMOTO, Tomoaki SUMI, Junichi TAKINO, Yoshio OKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11201355
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell provided with: a positive electrode that has a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode active material contains a lithium composite oxide containing Ni, and the non-aqueous electrolyte contains a non-aqueous solvent containing a fluorinated chain carboxylic acid ester and an organochlorine compound. The organochlorine compound is represented by general formula CF3CH2CO—CClR1R2 (where in the formula, R1 and R2 are respectively independent, and are selected from a hydrogen, a halogen, a C1-2 alkyl group, or a C1-2 halogenated alkyl group).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Iida, Takanobu Chiga, Naoya Morisawa, Atsushi Fukui
  • Patent number: 11201649
    Abstract: In order to prospectively avoid communication failures or reduction in throughput of each user terminal, thereby improving users' satisfaction with communication service, a base station is configured to control wireless communication with a terminal device by using any of multiple transmission beams formed by the base station or those formed by another base station and includes a wireless communication device and a controller configured to acquire correction information used for correcting a measurement value for evaluating reception status of each transmission beam and cause the wireless communication device to transmit the correction information to the user terminal so as to thereby promote the user terminal to use, or inhibit the user terminal from using a specific transmission beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Shimizu, Maho Takita, Hiroaki Asano, Hideki Shingu
  • Patent number: 11194324
    Abstract: A monitor ECU 10 performs a support control based on a camera image photographed through a protection window by a camera 21. The ECU determines that a protection window state is an entire dirt state, when a first area index value calculated based on edge strength of pixels in a first area including a center of the camera image is smaller than a threshold dirt value. The ECU determines that the entire dirt state ends, when at least one of a first condition or a second condition is established. The first condition is established when the first area index value is equal to or greater than a first threshold end value. The second condition is established when a second area index value calculated based on the edge strength in a second area except the first area is equal to or greater than a second threshold end value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Kida, Tomoyuki Tsurube, Nobuyuki Hirose
  • Patent number: 11195959
    Abstract: A perovskite material including an organic-inorganic perovskite structure of formula (I), AnMX3 (I), n being the number of cation A and an integer >4, A being a monovalent cation selected from inorganic cations Ai and/or from organic cations Ao, M being a divalent metal cation or a combination thereof, X being a halide and/or pseudohalide anion or a combination thereof, wherein at least one cation A is selected from organic cations Ao, the inorganic cations Ai are independently selected from Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+, or Tl+ and the organic cations Ao are independently selected from ammonium (NH4+), methyl ammonium (MA) (CH3NH3+), ethyl ammonium (CH3CH2NH3)+, formamidinium (FA) (CH(NH2)2+), methylformamidinium (CH3C(NH2)2+), guanidium (C((NH)2)3+), tetramethylammonium ((CH3)4N+), dimethylammonium ((CH3)2NH2+) or trimethylammonium ((CH3)3NH+).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Saliba, Taisuke Matsui, Konrad Domanski, Jiyoun Seo, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Michael Graetzel
  • Patent number: 11186225
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a left side view camera attached to the left lateral side of the body and having a field of view in a rearward direction. A right side view camera is attached to the right lateral side of the body and has a field of view in a rearward direction. There is a right back up camera and a left back up camera. An optics module receives resulting video signals and produces light fields such that the light fields are reflected off of windows of the motor vehicle and are then visible to a driver of the motor vehicle as virtual images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventor: Benjamin David Sweet
  • Patent number: 11190290
    Abstract: Provided is a sequence allocation method capable of reducing inter-cell interference of a reference signal when a ZC sequence is used as the reference signal in a mobile communication system. In the sequence allocation method, R×M sequences specified by a ZC sequence number r (r=1 to R) and a cyclic shift sequence number m (m=1 to M) are divided into a plurality of sequence groups X (X=1 to R) in accordance with the transmission band width of the reference signal, so that the ZC sequence is allocated to each cell in each sequence group unit. When it is assumed that R=9 and M=6, the number of sequences is 54. Each of the sequence groups is formed by two sequences. Accordingly, the number of sequence groups is 27. The 27 types of sequence groups are allocated to each cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Tomofumi Takata
  • Patent number: 11185228
    Abstract: A control method of an information terminal causes a display to display a display screen which includes a first display region and a second display region. The first display region displays an object medical image. The second display region displays M number of similar medical images and includes ND number of individual regions for displaying the M number of the similar medical images. When an instruction from one or more instruction buttons is detected, a display size of each corresponding region of interest that is included in the second number of the similar medical images is changed while maintaining a size of each of the individual regions in the second display region, and each of the similar medical images is magnified at a magnification ratio of a reference thumbnail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Kozuka, Kazutoyo Takata, Kenji Kondo, Hirohiko Kimura, Toyohiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 11186922
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a Group-III nitride semiconductor crystal includes a raw material reaction chamber, a raw material reactor which is provided in the raw material reaction chamber and configured to generate a Group-III element-containing gas, a board-holding member configured to hold a board in the raw material reaction chamber, a raw material nozzle configured to spray the Group-III element-containing gas toward the board, a nitrogen source nozzle configured to spray a nitrogen element-containing gas toward the board, in which, in a side view seen in a direction perpendicular to a vertical direction, a spray direction of the nitrogen source nozzle intersects with a spray direction of the raw material nozzle before the board, and a mixing part in which the Group-III element-containing gas and the nitrogen element-containing gas are mixed together is formed around the intersection as a center, a heater, and a rotation mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Hoteida, Shunichi Matsuno, Junichi Takino
  • Patent number: 11189860
    Abstract: The method of manufacturing a secondary battery includes a layering step of forming an electrode body in which positive electrode plates and negative electrode plates are alternately layered with separators interposed in between, the layering step includes, a step of preparing a negative electrode sheet having negative electrode active material layers formed on two surfaces of a negative electrode core body, a step of forming a layered sheet by adhering a first separator and a second separator on two surfaces of the negative electrode sheet with adhesion layers in between, the layered sheet including the first separator, the negative electrode sheet, and the second separator, a step of forming a layered body by cutting the layered sheet, the layered body having two surfaces of the negative electrode plates sandwiched between the first and second separators, and a step of forming the electrode body using the layered body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignees: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Aritomo, Yoshitaka Shinyashiki
  • Patent number: 11190354
    Abstract: A terminal exchanges a common key generated using a seed, the randomness of which was recognized in advance, with a verification server. The terminal generates verification data using a plurality of measured values from a noise source. The terminal encrypts the verification data with the common key and transmits the verification data to the verification server. The verification server verifies the randomness of verification data obtained by decrypting the encrypted verification data with the common key. When it is determined that the verification data has randomness, the verification server transmits a verification result indicating that the randomness of the verification data is recognized to the terminal. The terminal acquires a plurality of measured values and generates a new seed in accordance with the verification result from the server and preserves the new seed in a secure area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsurou Kitazawa, Masaaki Kobayashi, Kouji Mutou
  • Publication number: 20210367378
    Abstract: A first housing of a first connector is provided with a second guided portion, and a second housing of a second connector is provided with a second guiding portion. The second guided portion and the second guiding portion regulate upward movement of the first connector with respect to the second connector in the up-down direction between a preliminary mated state and a final mated state and in the final mated state. The second housing further has a movable member with a regulating portion. When the movable member is positioned at a locked position, the regulating portion regulates rearward movement of the first housing with respect to the second housing. A first housing of a first connector is provided with a second guided portion, and a second housing of a second connector is provided with a second guiding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicants: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko NAKAZAWA, Shoichi TOYA
  • Patent number: 11181738
    Abstract: A head up display mirror holder arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a picture generation unit producing a light field. A mirror reflects the light field such that the light field is visible to the driver as a virtual image. A mirror holder has two opposite ends and an activation feature. The two opposite ends are aligned along a rotational axis of the mirror. The mirror holder retains the mirror. Each of two bushings is coupled to a respective opposite end of the mirror holder. A calibration switch has minimum proximity to the activation feature of the mirror holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: Edo Omanovic, Patrick M. O'Connell
  • Patent number: 11179036
    Abstract: A control method of an information terminal includes sensing specification information indicating a region of interest in a medical image, receiving from a case retrieval system one or more similar medical images each having a prescribed degree of similarity with a feature quantity of the region of interest indicated by the specification information in accordance with the region of interest, and displaying the medical image that is managed by a medical information management system in a first display region that is displayed on the display and displaying thumbnail views of a plurality of similar medical images received from the case retrieval system in a second display region that differs from the first display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Kondo, Kazutoyo Takata, Kazuki Kozuka, Hirohiko Kimura, Toyohiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 11182567
    Abstract: A speech translation apparatus includes: an estimator which estimates a sound source direction, based on an acoustic signal obtained by a microphone array unit; a controller which identifies that an utterer is a user or a conversation partner, based on the sound source direction estimated after the start of translation is instructed by a button, using a positional relationship indicated by a layout information item stored in storage and selected in advance, and determines a translation direction indicating input and output languages in and into which content of the acoustic signal is recognized and translated, respectively; and a translator which obtains, according to the translation direction, original text indicating the content in the input language and translated text indicating the content in the output language. The controller displays the original and translated texts on first and second display areas corresponding to the positions of the user and conversation partner, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Furukawa, Tsuyoki Nishikawa, Atsushi Sakaguchi, Kohhei Hayashida
  • Publication number: 20210359380
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode body that includes a positive and a negative electrode plate, a battery case that has an opening in which the electrode body is accommodated, a sealing body that seals the opening, an internal terminal that is disposed on an inner side of the sealing body and connected to the positive or the negative electrode plate, and an external terminal that is disposed on an outer side of the sealing body and connected to the internal terminal. The external terminal includes a rivet that is formed in such a manner as to extend through the sealing body, and the internal terminal includes a first portion made of a first metal and a second portion made of a second metal. The external terminal is made of the second metal, and the rivet of the external terminal is joined to the second portion of the internal terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Murata, Hiroaki Imanishi
  • Patent number: 11178493
    Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer includes: a diaphragm; a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap; a frame that holds the diaphragm and the magnetic circuit; a voice coil having one end portion positioned within the magnetic gap and the other end portion coupled to the diaphragm; and a low friction material that is disposed in a sliding portion formed by the voice coil and the magnetic circuit, and includes polymer compounds swollen with liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, KYOTO UNIVERSITY, National University Corporation YOKOHAMA National University
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Hiraoka, Yoshinobu Tsujii, Keita Sakakibara, Ken Nakano
  • Patent number: 11168202
    Abstract: For a fiber compound resin composition, a melt-kneading process is performed together with a base resin 1, a dispersant, etc. without performing a pretreatment through wet dispersion for the purpose of defibration treatment and modification treatment of a fibrous filler 2. As a result, each fiber of the fibrous filler 2 is defibrated from end portions in a fiber length direction, while a dispersant component put in at the same time is more selectively adsorbed to defibrated portions 3 at the end portions defibrated and increased in surface area. As a result, hydrophobization of the defibrated portions 3 is promoted as compared to a non-defibrated portion 4, so that a difference in hydrophobicity is formed in the fiber length direction of the fibrous filler 2. Therefore, even when the fibrous filler 2 is added in large amount, a melt viscosity during molding may be lowered without reducing a strength of a molded article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshifumi Nagino, Masashi Hamabe, Masayoshi Imanishi