Patents Assigned to PANASONIC
  • Patent number: 10048380
    Abstract: A distance-measuring imaging device includes: a drive control unit; a light source unit; an image processing unit including light receiving units and charge reading units arranged one-to-one; and an image processing unit. The charge reading units are arranged partly at the left side of corresponding ones of the light receiving units and partly at the right side of corresponding ones of the same. In each of a period in which the exposure is performed when the exposure control signal is received after a first delay time since when the light emission control signal is received and a period in which the exposure is performed when the exposure control signal is received after a second delay time longer than the first delay time, since when the light emission control signal is received, the left-side charge reading units read charge leftward, and the right-side charge reading units read charge rightward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Yarino, Toshiya Fujii, Mitsuhiko Otani, Haruka Takano
  • Patent number: 10046544
    Abstract: The multiple pane includes: a first glass panel; a second glass panel disposed facing the first glass panel with a predetermined interval in-between; and a hermetically-bonding member hermetically bonding peripheries of the first glass panel and the second glass panel to form a hermetically-enclosed space between the first glass panel and the second glass panel. The multiple pane further includes an adsorbing member which is fixed on a surface of the first glass panel so as to be inside the hermetically-enclosed space, has a height equal to or less than a length of the predetermined interval, and is for adsorbing a gas inside the hermetically-enclosed space. The hermetically-enclosed space is made to be in a reduced-pressure state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Eiichi Uriu, Kenji Hasegawa, Tasuku Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 10049635
    Abstract: A display device includes source drivers, at least one gate driver, a first substrate, a second substrate, gate lines, source lines, lead-out lines and connection parts, wherein the gate signals are emitted from the gate driver to the gate lines via the lead-out lines and the connection parts, the source drivers include a first source driver and a second source driver, the second source driver being spaced apart from the first source driver in a first direction, and the gate driver is located between the first source driver and second source driver in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kawamura, Tetsurou Izawa
  • Patent number: 10049697
    Abstract: An information recording method of the present disclosure is an information recording method for recording information on a write-once information recording medium, including one or more recording layers, each of the recording layers being spiral-shaped on which a land track and a groove track are alternately repeated as recording tracks, each of the recording tracks being divided into blocks, each of the blocks being a minimum unit in which recording is performed. The information recording method includes: recording the information on the information recording medium in a unit of each of the blocks; and controlling recording on the information recording medium. In the control step, switching is performed whether to perform recording in a block to be recorded in which the information is to be recorded next among the blocks based on recording conditions of the recording tracks adjacent on both sides of the block to be recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Takahashi, Akihito Yoshimi, Kenji Takauchi, Yasumori Hino, Motoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 10051159
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus comprises a lens optical system including a lens and having first through nth optical regions (n is an integer equal to or greater than 2), an image sensor including pixel groups each including first through nth pixels, an optical element array disposed between the lens optical system and the image sensor and including optical components each guiding light that has passed through the first through nth optical regions to the respective first through nth pixels in each of the pixel groups, and an optical absorption member on which light reflected by the imaging surface of the image sensor is incident. The optical absorptance of the optical absorption member is substantially uniform across the entire wavelength bands of light that passes through the first through nth optical regions and is substantially uniform across the entire optical absorption member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Matsuzaki, Michihiro Yamagata, Norihiro Imamura, Kenji Narumi
  • Patent number: 10047213
    Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition includes a thermosetting resin containing a benzoxazine compound, and a curing accelerator containing a triazine thiol compound. The thermosetting resin contains 0.4 or less equivalents of an epoxy resin relative to one equivalent of the benzoxazine compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Fujiwara, Yuki Kitai, Hirosuke Saito
  • Patent number: 10048426
    Abstract: A light guide includes a front surface. A back surface is opposite the front surface and includes a depression. A light incident surface introduces light. The light reflects off the depression and is emitted through the front surface. The depression includes an inclined side surface that faces the light incident surface. The inclined side surface includes a reflective curved surface that includes at least 50% of a surface area of the inclined side surface. In a cross section view of the depression in a plane substantially orthogonal to the front surface, a first tangent that touches a curved line defining the reflective curved surface of the inclined side surface and a second tangent that touches the curved line in a different location than the first tangent form a first angle that is greater than or equal to 0° and less than or equal to 30°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Tanahashi, Hiroyuki Sekii
  • Patent number: 10050293
    Abstract: A method for operating a fuel cell system including a fuel feeder supplying fuel, a reformer producing a hydrogen-containing gas by a reforming reaction, a fuel cell which includes a cathode and an anode, a combustor which combusts an anode off-gas discharged from the anode to produce a combustion gas, a temperature detector detecting the temperature of the combustion gas, and a storage device storing a preset target temperature profile, the target temperature profile including the temporal change in target temperature of the combustion gas in the operation of the fuel cell system, includes controlling the flow rate of the fuel supplied from the fuel feeder to the reformer in the operation such that the temperature detected by the temperature detector becomes equal to a target temperature determined on the basis of the target temperature profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Maruyama, Kunihiro Ukai
  • Patent number: 10048485
    Abstract: An image output device according to the present disclosure includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires an image with a first resolution; a high-resolution image acquisition unit that acquires an image with a second resolution, being an image of higher resolution than the image with the first resolution; an enlargement input unit that accepts input of an enlargement ratio; a determination unit that determines whether or not an evaluation score determined based on the accepted enlargement ratio is higher than a certain value; and a transmission unit that transmits the image with the second resolution if the evaluation score is determined to be higher than the certain value, and does not transmit the image with the second resolution if the evaluation score is determined not to be higher than the certain value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taichi Sato, Hideto Motomura, Yoshihide Sawada
  • Patent number: 10051234
    Abstract: A conversion method for converting luminance of a video, including a luminance value in a first luminance range, to be displayed on a display apparatus includes: acquiring a first luminance signal indicating a code value obtained by quantization of the luminance value of the video; and converting the code value indicated by the acquired first luminance signal into a second luminance value determined based on a luminance range of the display apparatus, the second luminance value being compatible with a second luminance range with a maximum value smaller than a maximum value of the first luminance range and larger than 100 nit. This provides the conversion method capable of achieving further improvement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadamasa Toma, Kengo Terada, Masayuki Kozuka, Takahiro Nishi
  • Patent number: 10051219
    Abstract: An imaging device having unit pixel cells including a first unit pixel cell, the first unit pixel cell including a first electrode, a second electrode, a first photoelectric conversion layer for generating a first signal charge, and a first signal detection circuit connected to the first electrode for detecting the first signal charge. The imaging device further includes a voltage supply circuit which supplies a first voltage to the second electrode in a first period when the first unit pixel cell accumulates the first signal charge, a voltage of the second electrode on the basis of a voltage of the first electrode being positive in the first period, and the voltage supply circuit supplies a second voltage to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode in a second period, the second period including a third period when a voltage of the second electrode is negative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuo Miyake
  • Patent number: 10048572
    Abstract: A camera cover includes a cover outer surface which is a convex curved surface of which a lowermost part in a vertical direction is downwardly projected in the vertical direction; a first region which is provided at a predetermined radius around a substantially lowermost point of the convex curved surface; and a second region which is provided on the cover outer surface other than at the first region. The second region includes a first hydrophilic region having hydrophilic properties, and the first region has lower hydrophilic properties than those of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Yasuda, Toyokazu Yoshino
  • Patent number: 10050274
    Abstract: A power storage device of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. At least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode includes an organic compound as an active material having a portion contributing to an oxidation-reduction reaction. The organic compound is crystalline in both a charged state and a discharged state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Hojo, Yu Ohtsuka, Taisuke Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10051744
    Abstract: An insertion head includes: a horizontal shaft member; one pair of gripping claws, extending on a surface orthogonal to the horizontal shaft member; one pair of gripping claw holding members movable on the horizontal shaft member which hold the one pair of gripping claws; a swing mechanism which rotates and drives the shaft member, and swings the one pair of gripping claw holding members around a center axis of the shaft member; and an interval changing mechanism which moves the one pair of gripping claw holding members on the shaft member and changes an interval between the one pair of gripping claws. The gripping claw extends to be bent on the surface, and each straight line portion of each tip end is offset to a perpendicular axis extending on the surface through a center axis of the shaft member in a posture of being oriented downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10049242
    Abstract: An information processing method causes a processor in a terminal to: display, on the display of the terminal, a first screen representing a pre-preparation process included in cooking processes, the first screen displaying information indicating an intermediate foodstuff made through the pre-preparation process; acquire first identification information indicating a food container storing the intermediate foodstuff from an electronic tag apparatus attached to the food container while the first screen is displayed on the display; store, in a memory, information indicating the intermediate foodstuff or pre-preparation process and the first identification information in correspondence with each other; display, on the display, a second screen representing a finish process included in the cooking processes, the intermediate foodstuff being prepared in the finish process; and when the second screen is displayed, transmit a command to the electronic tag apparatus according to the first identification information so
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuko Oono, Mitsuhiro Aso, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki, Yasuhiro Yuki
  • Patent number: 10049608
    Abstract: A video image processing device uses a plurality of video data captured by a plurality of cameras to generate a wide range video data of the entire celestial sphere having a 360-degree range around an area where the plurality of cameras is installed and to transmit the generated wide range video data of the entire celestial sphere to a video display device. The video display device detects a direction of the video display device as a direction of a sight line of the user, receives the transmitted wide range video data of the entire celestial sphere, segments a predetermined area of video data including a detection result of a sensor from the wide range video data of the entire celestial sphere, adjusts a luminosity of the extracted predetermined area of video data to fall in a certain range of luminosity, and displays the adjusted predetermined area of video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoji Ogino, Junya Kuwada, Hiroyasu Makino
  • Patent number: 10051745
    Abstract: An insertion head includes: a horizontal shaft member; one pair of gripping claws, each gripping claw extending on a surface which is orthogonal to the horizontal shaft member; one pair of gripping claw holding members which are provided to be movable on the horizontal shaft member, and hold the one pair of gripping claws; a swing mechanism which rotates and drives the horizontal shaft member, and swings the one pair of gripping claw holding members around a center axis of the horizontal shaft member; and an interval changing mechanism which moves the one pair of gripping claw holding members on the horizontal shaft member and changes an interval between the one pair of gripping claws. A leaded component is gripped with the one pair of gripping claws, and a lead of the leaded component is inserted into an insertion hole on a printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10050310
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolytic solution of the present invention includes: a solvent component including a glyme solvent and a phosphazene solvent; and an alkali metal salt composed of an alkali metal cation and an anion, the alkali metal salt being dissolved in the solvent component. The phosphazene solvent is a cyclic phosphazene compound represented by the formula (1). where X1 to X6 each independently represent a halogen atom or OR1, R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group or a substituted or unsubstituted saturated aliphatic group, the aromatic group and the saturated aliphatic group each optionally contain a halogen atom, a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a silicon atom, and the saturated aliphatic group is linear or cyclic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotetsu Suzuki, Nobuhiko Hojo, Takayuki Nakatsutsumi
  • Patent number: 10050262
    Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, capable of improving the energy density and the cycle characteristics of the battery without lowering the initial charge/discharge efficiency of the battery. This negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material including a silicon oxide represented by SiOx and carbon material. A proportion of a mass of the silicon oxide relative to a total mass of the silicon oxide and the carbon material: y satisfies 0.03?y?0.3. A difference between a theoretical capacity density of the negative electrode active material and a charge capacity density of the negative electrode active material when a cutoff voltage is 5 mV relative to lithium metal: ?C (mAhg?1) satisfies L=?C/100 and 6y?L?12y+0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Suehiro, Taisuke Yamamoto, Tatsuki Hiraoka, Katsumi Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: D825553
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuharu Nagai, Vitali Bulgarov