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
  • Publication number: 20260264669
    Abstract: A parking assistance method according to the present disclosure is a method of performing autonomous travel of a vehicle based on a travel route generated using teaching travel by a driver. The parking assistance method includes: acquiring a position of the vehicle and an azimuth in a travel direction of the vehicle; outputting, based on the position and the azimuth in the travel direction, when the vehicle is located and oriented with a prescribed azimuth in a prescribed position, a notification to a user to prompt an operation to start parking assistance; and receiving the operation by the user to start the parking assistance. The prescribed position is located within a range of a prescribed distance from a start position of the travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi TOKUHIRO, Masashi HOSHINO, Satoshi FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20260267460
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: displaying, on a display of a terminal device, a bird's-eye view image on which a plurality of imaging point icons indicating a plurality of imaging points is overlaid; and displaying, on the display, a first image captured at a first imaging point indicated by a first imaging point icon when selection of the first imaging point icon that is one imaging point icon among the plurality of imaging point icons is detected, in which the displaying the first image includes displaying information indicating a second image different from a plurality of images captured at the plurality of imaging points on the first image when the second image is associated with a position within a predetermined range with respect to the first imaging point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Minami NAKA
  • Publication number: 20260267465
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: displaying a bird’s-eye view on a display of a terminal device; displaying, in the bird’s-eye view, a plurality of image capture point icons that indicate image capture points, each of the image capture point icons being associated with stored text information; receiving, via a search window displayed on the display, input of a keyword from a user; searching the stored text information associated with the image capture point icons for text information including the keyword; identifying, based on the searching, at least one first icon from among the image capture point icons, each identified first icon being associated with text information including the keyword; and displaying the at least one first icon in an emphasized manner by changing a display mode of the at least one first icon relative to a display mode of an icon associated with text information not including the keyword.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Minami NAKA
  • Publication number: 20260268514
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: acquiring an estimative current position of a photographing person who is performing a photographing action of photographing a certain space by a photographing device on the basis of sensor information; determining whether the photographing person has arrived at a checkpoint on the basis of the estimative current position; presenting the photographing person an input request of a current position each time the photographing person is determined to have arrived at the checkpoint; acquiring an inputted current position that is the current position inputted by the photographing person in response to the input request; and acquiring a photographing spot of an image captured after the arrival at the checkpoint by self-localization using the inputted current position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto FUJINO
  • Publication number: 20260270869
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for controlling operation of a communication device comprises circuitry configured to: control transmitting a scheduling request (SR) over a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein the SR is pending until a valid uplink grant is received; control receiving information on a first time duration via a radio resource control (RRC) signaling different from a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration; control receiving information on a second time duration via a medium access control (MAC) control element; and control starting an active time to monitor the PDCCH after the transmission of the SR and a monitoring sleeping time, wherein the monitoring sleeping time has a total time duration of the first time duration and the second time duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rikin SHAH, Ming-Hung TAO, Ankit BHAMRI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20260264370
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a prepreg including a thermosetting composition containing an inorganic filler, which contains at least one selected from the group consisting of silica, quartz glass, and magnesium oxide as a material, at 65 parts by mass or more with respect to 100 parts by mass of a thermosetting compound, which includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a polyphenylene ether compound having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond in a molecule, a hydrocarbon-based compound having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond in a molecule, and a thermosetting compound having a fluorine atom in a molecule, or a semi-cured product of the thermosetting composition; and a fibrous base material containing a liquid crystal polymer fiber, in which the abundance ratio of the respective groups, as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, is in a predetermined relation on the surface of the fibrous base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke NII
  • Publication number: 20260266613
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates a photographing path from a photographing start spot to a photographing end spot having a plurality of floors, from a plurality of bird's-eye views covering the floors and a plurality of images captured at a plurality of photographing spots including the photographing start spot and the photographing end spot, and links, on the basis of elevation information indicative of an elevation of each of the photographing spots, a photographing spot in a first photographing section having a constant elevation to a first bird's-eye-view among the bird's-eye views, and a photographing spot in a second photographing section having a constant elevation after an elevation change to a second bird's-eye view among the bird's-eye views and different from the first bird's-eye view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuko NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20260267432
    Abstract: An input device includes: an operation panel that includes an input area for receiving touch input from an operating body and a non-input area not for receiving the touch input; a touch sensor that detects a position touched by the operating body, the position being located in the input area on the operation panel; a vibrator; and a control circuit that causes the vibrator to vibrate at least the non-input area on the operation panel by controlling the vibrator when the position touched by the operating body has moved from the input area to the non-input area with the operating body touching the operation panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru YAMANE
  • Publication number: 20260267449
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes: a first electrode that extends along a first direction; and a second electrode that extends along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and overlaps the first electrode in a top view. The first electrode includes a first cell having a quadrangular shape, and the second electrode includes a second cell having a quadrangular shape. The length of the first cell along the first direction is greater than the length of the first cell along the second direction, and the length of the second cell along the second direction is greater than the length of the second cell along the first direction. The second cell includes a first side containing a first intersection point and a second intersection point, the first and second intersection points overlapping the first cell in a top view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Yamaguchi, Hiromitsu Niwa, Mitsuru Satou
  • Publication number: 20260267767
    Abstract: A virtual in-vehicle system construction method includes: generating one or more candidates for a combination of one evaluation server among one or more evaluation servers and at least one device server among one or more device servers; measuring a first communication delay between the one evaluation server and the at least one device server of each of the one or more candidates for the combination; determining whether the one or more candidates for the combination include a candidate that satisfies a predetermined criterion for the first communication delay; and constructing a virtual in-vehicle system with the candidate that satisfies the predetermined criterion among the one or more candidates for the combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro MIIKE, Naoki IKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20260270603
    Abstract: An earphone includes a communication interface capable of performing data communication with an own user terminal communicably connected to at least one another user terminal via a network, a first microphone configured to collect a speech voice of at least one another user located near the user during a conference, a buffer configured to accumulate collected audio data of the speech voice of the other user, which is collected by the first microphone, and a signal processing unit configured to execute, by using audio-processed data of the other user speech voice transmitted from the other user terminal to the own user terminal via the network during the conference and the collected audio data accumulated in the buffer, cancellation processing for canceling a component of the speech voice of the other user included in the audio-processed data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20260264703
    Abstract: A parking assistance method according to the present disclosure performs automated travel of a vehicle based on a parking operation performed in past. The parking assistance method includes acquiring a teacher path based on a travel path in the parking operation performed in the past, acquiring vehicle operation information regarding a first operation of at least one vehicle accessory of a blinker or a side mirror in the vehicle during the parking operation performed in the past, storing teacher data including the teacher path and the vehicle operation information, and performing a second operation of the vehicle accessory performed in the past, based on the teacher data in automated parking in which the vehicle is moved along the teacher path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi FUKUMOTO, Shota AKAURA
  • Publication number: 20260267459
    Abstract: An information processing method includes displaying, a first image that is obtained by capturing a prescribed space on a first date and time, displaying, on the display, a second image that is obtained by capturing the prescribed space on a second date and time that is different from the first date and time, and upon detection of a selection of a selection image capture point that is different from an image capture point on the first date and time or the second date and time while the first image and the second image are being displayed, switching display of the first image to display of a third image that is obtained at the selection image capture point, and also switching the display of the second image to the display of a fourth image that is captured at a corresponding image capture point that corresponds to the selection image capture point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuko NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20260268537
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: displaying a bird’s-eye view including a specified spot on a display of an information terminal, and displaying in the bird’s-eye view a plurality of photographing spot icons each indicating a photographing spot and being linked with an image captured at the photographing spot, wherein the displaying includes reducing the display quantity of photographing spot icons in a first predetermined region including no specified spot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuko NISHIMURA, Makoto FUJINO, Seikou ABE
  • Publication number: 20260264367
    Abstract: A prepreg includes a fibrous base member and a resin composition or a semi-cured product of the resin composition, wherein the resin composition includes a modified polyphenylene ether having, at a terminal, a group represented by the following formula (1), a radical-polymerizable compound having, only at molecular terminals, two or more bonds or groups of at least one selected from the group consisting of a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond and a maleimide group, a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer in which repeating units having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond not belonging to an aromatic ring are contained in an amount of 0 to 2 mol % with respect to all repeating units; and an organic peroxide: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirosuke SAITO, Hiroaki FUJIWARA, Kosuke TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20260270544
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a first recognizer, a second recognizer, and a controller. The image sensor captures a subject image to generate image data. The first recognizer recognizes a first region of a first subject in an image based on the image data, the image being indicated by the image data generated by the image sensor. The second recognizer recognizes a second region of a second subject in the image based on the image data, the second subject being included in the first subject or different from the first subject. The controller determines a subject region of a recognition result in the image data based on the first region of the first subject recognized by the first recognizer and the second region of the second subject recognized by the second recognizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junpei MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20260268705
    Abstract: A biometric information acquisition device includes a camera configured to capture an image of a fingertip of a subject in a non-contact state under each of a first focus control and a second focus control, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first captured image captured under the first focus control, a measurement unit configured to measure a size of the fingertip with respect to an entire area of the first captured image, a determination unit configured to determine a focus step size of the camera under the second focus control based on the size of the fingertip to capture an image, and a control unit configured to acquire any one second captured image among second captured images captured under the second focus control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taichi YAMADA, Hideyuki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20260269258
    Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode active material capable of suppressing decrease in the adhesion force between a positive electrode collector and a positive electrode mixture layer and decrease in a battery capacity. The positive electrode active material having pores is characterized in that: in a pore diameter distribution obtained by analyzing a nitrogen adsorption isotherm by the BJH method, a pore diameter is 30 nm or more and a pore volume has a peak of 0.003 cm3/g or more; and in a pore diameter distribution obtained by analyzing a nitrogen desorption isotherm by the BJH method, the pore volume of a peak in a region having a pore diameter of 5 nm or less is twice or more of the pore volume of a peak in a region having a pore diameter of more than 5 nm in a desorption side pore diameter distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Kintsu, Toshinobu Kanai
  • Publication number: 20260268490
    Abstract: A urination analysis device that analyzes urination performs: acquiring image data captured by a camera which is located at a toilet to photograph a bowl of the toilet; calculating a urination pixel number being a number of pixels of an image showing urination from the image data when the urination by a user is detected by image recognition of the image data; calculating, based on a change in the urination pixel number, at least one of a flow momentum indicating flow momentum of the urination, a urine quantity indicating a quantity of urine, or a urine specific gravity indicating a specific gravity of the urine; and outputting the at least one of the flow momentum value, the urine quantity, or the urine specific gravity. The urine quantity is calculated based on an integral value of increase amounts per unit time with respect to the urination pixel number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: Panasonic Housing Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi KANAI, Yuka YAMADA, Hideyuki MAEHARA
  • Publication number: 20260269389
    Abstract: A sealing body comprises: a ring-shaped current collection plate that is connected to an electrode body by means of a positive electrode lead; a disc-shaped cap that is stacked on the current collection plate and is bonded, at a radially central portion thereof, to the current collection plate; and a gasket that encloses a peripheral portion of the stack of the current collection plate and the cap vertically and laterally. An exterior can, in an upper-end part thereof, sandwiches and fixes in place a peripheral portion of the gasket so as to cover the peripheral portion vertically and laterally. The gasket includes an inwardly protruding portion that is inserted from the outside between the current collection plate and the cap. The gap between the current collection plate and the end of the cap is filled by the protruding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Iwakura, Ryota Okimoto
  • Publication number: 20260267490
    Abstract: An information processing method in a computer, the information processing method including displaying a bird's eye view on a display; displaying, on the bird's eye view, a plurality of photographing point icons indicating photographing points; detecting that a specific icon among the plurality of photographing point icons has been selected; displaying a first image associated with the specific icon on the display; detecting that a predetermined object included in the first image has been selected; and in response to selection of the predetermined object, displaying, on the display, a second image including the predetermined object photographed from a photographing point different from a photographing point of the first image, the second image being captured at a time different from a photographing time of the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto FUJINO
  • Publication number: 20260270791
    Abstract: This terminal includes: a control circuit that sets the transmission waveform for a second signal on the basis of a condition related to repeated transmission of a first signal; and a transmission circuit that transmits the second signal using the transmission waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Hidetoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20260265436
    Abstract: A resin composition contains a polyphenylene ether compound having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond at a terminal; a maleimide compound (A) having an indane structure in a molecule; and an inorganic filler, wherein a content of the maleimide compound (A) is 20 to 50 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of a total mass of the polyphenylene ether compound and the maleimide compound (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki UMEHARA, Hirosuke SAITO
  • Patent number: 12728837
    Abstract: A parking assistance apparatus includes: a processor; and a designated parking slot storage circuit that stores an area in a range based on a position away from a vehicle position by a preset distance as a designated parking slot corresponding to a parking instruction of an occupant, in which the processor detects a parking slot corresponding to the designated parking slot, and performs automatic parking of the vehicle based on information on the corresponding parking slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryutaro Seno
  • Patent number: 12732009
    Abstract: A microcomputer and a detection circuit in a low power consumption mode is restarted easily and stably. A power supply device includes a battery module (10) including battery cells (1), a battery connection circuit (2) configured to detect battery information of the battery module (10) and configured to be switched to a low power consumption mode, an activation circuit (3) configured to switch the battery connection circuit (2) from the low power consumption mode to an operation mode, and an activation switch (4) configured to output a switching signal to the activation circuit (3). The battery connection circuit (2) includes a detection circuit (21) configured to detect the battery information and a microcomputer (22) configured to process the battery information detected by the detection circuit (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Osamu Ohashi
  • Patent number: 12731710
    Abstract: Provided is a composite member including: an inorganic matrix part made from an inorganic substance that includes at least one of a metal oxide or a metal oxide hydroxide as a main component, contains substantially no single metal and alloy, and is a diamagnetic substance or a paramagnetic substance; and a ferromagnetic material part that is present inside the inorganic matrix part, directly bonds with the inorganic substance making up the inorganic matrix part, and is made from a ferromagnetic substance. In the inorganic matrix part, particles of the inorganic substance are continuously present, and the inorganic matrix part has a larger volume ratio than that of the ferromagnetic material part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Natsuki Sato, Naoki Kurizoe, Ryosuke Sawa, Tatsuro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 12729457
    Abstract: A group III nitride crystal manufacturing apparatus includes a raw material chamber generating a group III elemental oxide gas, and a growth chamber allowing the group III element oxide gas supplied from the raw material chamber to react with a nitrogen element-containing gas to generate a group III nitride crystal on a seed substrate, and the growth chamber incudes a decomposition promoting part promoting decomposition of the unreacted nitrogen element-containing gas between the seed substrate and an exhaust port for discharging the unreacted group III oxide gas and the nitrogen element-containing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Mori, Masashi Yoshimura, Masayuki Imanishi, Shigeyoshi Usami, Akira Kitamoto, Junichi Takino, Masayuki Hoteida, Shunichi Matsuno
  • Patent number: 12729127
    Abstract: A method for producing a fine-particle powder containing calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide includes: preparing a pulverized powder of shells or eggshells; introducing the pulverized powder of shells or eggshells into a controlled atmosphere, vaporizing the pulverized powder under thermal plasma and then solidifying the pulverized powder in a gas phase to produce fine particles containing calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide; and collecting a powder of the fine particles containing calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide produced with the thermal plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisao Nagai, Hiroki Maruyama, Takeshi Koiwasaki, Takafumi Okuma
  • Patent number: 12733031
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides communication apparatuses and communication methods for selection and sensing windows for new radio (NR) sidelink user equipments (UEs) with partial sensing. The communication apparatuses include a communication apparatus comprising: circuitry which, in operation, determines a first plurality of time resources for resource selection, a second plurality of time resources for resource sensing, and a first subset of time resources from the first plurality of time resources, the first subset of time resources being a selection window for partial sensing, and selects a portion of the first subset of time resources; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits a sidelink (SL) signal in the selected portion of the first subset of time resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yang Kang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Hong Cheng Michael Sim, Xuan Tuong Tran
  • Patent number: 12728485
    Abstract: A bead appearance inspection device includes an input unit configured to enter input data related to a welding bead of a workpiece produced by welding, a first determination unit configured to perform a first inspection determination related to a shape of the welding bead based on a comparison between the input data and a master data, k second determination units, where k is an integer of 1 or more, that are equipped with k types of artificial intelligence and that are configured to perform a second inspection determination related to a welding defect of the welding bead based on processings of the k types of artificial intelligence targeting the input data, and a comprehensive determination unit configured to output a result of an appearance inspection of the welding bead to an output device based on determination results of the first determination unit and the k second determination units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Hanada, Katsuaki Okuma, Toshinari Mohri, Takamichi Komatsu
  • Patent number: 12730084
    Abstract: A sensitive membrane includes: a membrane body containing a sensitive material; and a plurality of conductive particles included in the membrane body. The membrane body is expandable when adsorbing an analyte. An M1/M2 ratio of a mass M1 of the sensitive material to a mass M2 of the plurality of conductive particles is equal to or less than 0.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOUSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuo Nakao, Atsushi Shunori
  • Patent number: 12729992
    Abstract: A flow passage adapter of the present disclosure is a flow passage adapter configured to be attached to an inflow port of a flow rate measuring unit to introduce a measurement target fluid into the flow rate measuring unit. The flow passage adapter includes a flow passage which is disposed in a body of the flow passage adapter and through which the measurement target fluid is to flow and a plurality of ribs disposed in the flow passage such that the measurement target fluid introduced into the flow passage collides with the plurality of ribs, and the flow passage adapter being configured to be attached to the flow rate measuring unit such that the flow passage adapter covers the inflow port of the flow rate measuring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroto Fukui, Hiroshi Nakai
  • Patent number: 12730367
    Abstract: A phosphor wheel unit includes a phosphor wheel that converts incident light into fluorescent light and emits the fluorescent light, a first heat exchanger having a plurality of fin members that is arranged and an airflow inlet surface through which an airflow generated by rotation of the phosphor wheel partially or entirely flows in, and a regulating member that regulates a direction of the airflow. The direction of the airflow regulated by the regulating member and a direction perpendicular to a rotation shaft of the phosphor wheel form an angle of between 0 degrees and 45 degrees on a surface perpendicular to an extending direction of a base material of the phosphor wheel. The airflow inlet surface is disposed intercepting the direction of the airflow regulated by the regulating member. The first heat exchanger cools a gas forming the airflow and the cooled gas returns to the phosphor wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC PROJECTOR & DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoko Tsuji, Masato Tanaka, Hiroyuki Masuda
  • Patent number: 12732238
    Abstract: A transmission device includes: a weighting synthesizer that generates a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal from a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, respectively; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×?? to the second precoded signal; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the second precoded signal applied with the phase change; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the second precoded signal applied with the phase change and inserted with the pilot signal. The weighting synthesizer performs, in the precoding process, a calculation that uses F = ( e j ? ? 11 e j ? ( ? 11 + ? 4 ) e j ? ? 21 e j ? ( ? 21 + ? + ? 4 ) ) on the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal modulated via a modulation scheme of QPSK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Hiroyuki Motozuka
  • Patent number: 12730901
    Abstract: An assessment apparatus is an apparatus that assesses an assessment target device that includes physical components for executing processing appropriate to logical components. The assessment apparatus includes an input unit that acquires device information about the assessment target device; a path determiner that determines, based on the device information, a logical path including an array of one or more logical components and a physical path corresponding to the logical path and including an array of one or more physical components, the logical and physical paths being paths of access to an asset (data or a function) of the assessment target device from the outside thereof; and a risk re-assessment unit that assesses a risk value of the asset in accordance with an attack feasibility level indicating attack feasibility for the determined physical and logical paths and an influence level indicating an influence to be exerted when the asset is invaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Wada, Yusuke Nemoto, Teruyoshi Hasegawa, Kotone Tomiie, Shoichiro Sekiya
  • Patent number: 12728757
    Abstract: A charging management method includes first obtaining, second obtaining, generating, and presenting. In the first obtaining, location information on the location of an electrified vehicle and battery information are obtained. In the second obtaining, desired-power-source information on a user's desired charging power source is obtained. In the generating, charging information on charging of the storage battery is generated on the basis of the battery information and the desired-power-source information. In the presenting, the charging information and location information on the location of a recommended charging facility are presented to the user, the recommend charging facility being a charging facility recommendable for the user on the basis of the location information on the location of the electrified vehicle, among charging facilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kotaro Sakata, Tetsuji Fuchikami
  • Patent number: 12731601
    Abstract: This articulation disorder detection device comprises: a section detection unit for detecting a section in which the value of a first line obtained by averaging, using a first window length, speech sound data obtained by having a subject to repeatedly utter a speech sound module is greater than the value obtained by multiplying, by a positive real number, the value of a second line obtained by averaging, using a second window length, the speech sound data; and a determination unit for determining an articulation disorder on the basis of the detection result of the section detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Akiho Sakurai, Takahiro Kamai, Katsunori Daimou, Tomoki Ogawa, Shogo Takahata, Seiki Nagao, Kazunori Kawami
  • Patent number: 12731855
    Abstract: In a battery pack, an exterior case accommodates therein a core pack including battery blocks coupled to one another. Each battery cell includes battery cells held at predetermined positions by a battery holder. Each battery block includes exhaust passage passing through the battery holder. The core pack has a valve-side end surface arranged at a first end thereof, and includes a partition wall between battery blocks coupled to one another. The partition wall has a through-hole opening at a position facing the exhaust passage. In the core pack, the exhaust passage formed in each battery block and the through-hole formed in partition wall are arranged on a straight line to constitute an exhaust duct for the exhaust gas. The exhaust gas discharged from the valve-side end surface arranged at the first end passes through the exhaust duct and then is discharged from an exhaust portion to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidemi Kurihara
  • Patent number: 12732699
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus of the present disclosure comprises: a processor; a memory storing instructions to be executed by the processor; a camera body including an imaging element and a display panel; and an interchangeable lens including a lens, a zoom ring that varies position of the lens, and a zoom encoder that detects information on zoom position of the zoom ring; the instructions including: determining whether the teleconverter is attached to the interchangeable lens; calculating the zoom position of the zoom ring; determining whether the zoom position is within a limited range in which optical performance deteriorates if the teleconverter is attached to the interchangeable lens; and changing information displayed on the display panel if the zoom position is within the limited range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naotaka Kishida
  • Patent number: 12732326
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for providing multiple structures and methods to enable minimising the use of sounding and related frame exchanges for wireless local area network (WLAN) sensing in order to reduce sounding overhead are provided. The techniques disclosed here feature a communication apparatus including a transceiver and circuitry. The transceiver, in operation, receives signals from a WLAN. The circuitry, in operation, demodulates and decodes the signals, the decoded signals comprising a first physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) and a second PPDU, wherein the circuitry, in operation, performs full channel measurement based on a first physical layer (PHY) header of the first PPDU and a second PHY header of the second PPDU, wherein the first PHY header and the second PHY header include long training fields (LTFs) for estimating channel quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rajat Pushkarna, Rojan Chitrakar, Hong Cheng Michael Sim, Yanyi Ding, Yoshio Urabe
  • Patent number: 12732376
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a monitored unit; a first monitor unit that monitors the monitored unit, and repeatedly verifies the monitored unit by comparing a hash value of the monitored unit with a first expected hash value; and a second monitor unit that is more secure than the first monitor unit, monitors the first monitor unit, and repeatedly verifies the first monitor unit by comparing a hash value of the first monitor unit including the first expected hash value with a second expected hash value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihito Takeuchi, Takumaru Nagai
  • Patent number: 12729863
    Abstract: A ventilation device includes a main body case made of metal, a fan, a wireless communications unit, and a controller. Controller is configured to control fan in accordance with a signal received by the wireless communications unit. Main body case includes a suction section and an exhaust section. Suction section has a box shape, and includes a suction port. Suction section has a lower surface, an upper surface, and a front surface connecting a front edge of lower surface and a front edge of upper surface. Exhaust section is positioned on upper surface of suction section and includes exhaust port. Suction section includes a first opening and a second opening. First opening is in upper surface, and overlapped with at least part of wireless communications unit in upward-downward directions. Second opening is in front surface, and overlapped with at least part of wireless communications unit in forward-backward directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naotake Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12731306
    Abstract: An information providing device includes: an extractor that extracts identification information for identifying each of multiple materials and property values of each material from at least one piece of document information; a deriver that derives a confidence level for the property values of each material on the basis of a similarity of the property values between the material and one or more other materials; and an image processor that generates a first image in which the property values of each of the materials are (i) illustrated in a display mode according to the confidence level derived for the property values of the material and (ii) illustrated in association with the identification information of the material, and outputs the first image to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fusataka Kuniyoshi, Jun Ozawa
  • Patent number: 12731619
    Abstract: In an imaging device or an imaging system, it becomes possible to generate a moving image file in which audio and a moving image are synchronized with each other even if moving image capturing is started from the middle of music. Upon receiving an operation input for audio reproduction execution, the imaging device causes an audio decoder to execute an operation, and outputs audio data to a speaker. At this time, a reproduction position in audio coded data is calculated, and reproduction position data is sent to a multiplexer. Upon receiving an operation input for moving image capturing execution, a moving image encoder and the multiplexer are caused to execute operations. The multiplexer multiplexes the reproduction position data to moving image coded data and the audio coded data, to generate a moving image file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Zembutsu, Takashi Suzuki, Takayoshi Shimoda, Masahiro Yamada, Akira Seto, Kenji Arakawa
  • Patent number: 12732677
    Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a groove portion disposed between a flange portion of a lens unit and a housing protruding portion of a housing and including a bottom surface, first and second side surfaces. The bottom surface of the groove portion has a part of the first flange protruding surface of the flange protruding portion. The first side surface of the groove portion has a part of the flange end surface of the flange portion. The second side surface of the groove portion has a second portion of the inner side surface of the housing protruding portion. The flange protruding end surface of the flange protruding portion is welded to the first portion of the inner side surface of the housing protruding portion, or the second flange protruding surface of the flange protruding portion is welded to the first housing end surface. The vehicular camera includes a resin member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shingo Kameyama
  • Patent number: 12729820
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a housing, a light source, an optical member, and a shooting unit. The housing is mounted on an inner wall surface of a tunnel provided along a road. The light source is provided for the housing to emit lighting light. The optical member is provided for the housing to receive the lighting light incident thereon. The shooting unit is provided for the housing. The optical member causes a first bundle of rays to emerge toward the road and also causes a second bundle of rays to emerge toward the inner wall surface. The shooting unit shoots at least a part of an irradiation range where the inner wall surface is irradiated with the second bundle of rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Itaru Onishi, Naoki Tomoda
  • Publication number: 20260259634
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: displaying a bird’s-eye view on a display of an information terminal; and displaying, in the bird’s-eye view, a plurality of photographing spot icons respectively indicating a plurality of photographing spots being continuous in a series from a photographing start spot to a photographing finish spot. The displaying of the photographing spot icons includes, in a case where the bird’s-eye view shows first multiple photographing spots and second multiple photographing spots related to photographing executed earlier than a photographing date and time concerning each of the first multiple photographing spots, displaying third multiple photographing spot icons respectively indicating third multiple photographing spots each belonging to the first multiple photographing spots and falling within a predetermined range from each of the second multiple photographing spots in a route from the photographing start spot to the photographing finish spot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2026
    Publication date: September 3, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seikou ABE
  • Publication number: 20260259635
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: displaying, on a display of an information terminal, a captured image obtained by photographing a predetermined space and a bird’s-eye view corresponding to the predetermined space; receiving selection of two certain points in the bird’s-eye view or the captured image; and displaying, in the captured image, a distance between two points in the captured image corresponding to the two certain points selected in the bird’s-eye view, displaying, in the bird’s-eye view, a distance between two points in the bird’s-eye view corresponding to the two certain points selected in the captured image, or displaying, in the captured image, a distance between the two certain points selected in the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2026
    Publication date: September 3, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuko NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20260259637
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: displaying a bird’s-eye view on a display of an information terminal; displaying, in the bird’s-eye view, a photographing spot icon group indicating a plurality of photographing spots being continuous in a series from a photographing start spot to a photographing finish spot; receiving, in the bird’s-eye view, selection of a certain region by the user; and extracting, in a case where the certain region includes two or more photographing spot icon groups and respective photographing positions for the two or more photographing spot icon groups are similar to each other, two or more pieces of data for the two or more photographing spot icon groups similar to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2026
    Publication date: September 3, 2026
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seikou ABE
  • Patent number: RE51024
    Abstract: The light source device includes a first solid-state light source array emitting a first color light, a second solid-state light source array emitting a second color light, a third solid-state light source array emitting a third color light, and a light combiner for combining the first to third color lights respectively from the first to third solid-state light source arrays into a combined color light, and emitting a light flux of the combined color light in the same direction. The third solid-state light source array requiring the lowest target cooling temperature among the first to third solid-state light source arrays is disposed on a first side, and the first and second solid-state light source arrays are disposed on a second side, with an optical axis of the light flux emitted from the light combiner, as a boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC PROJECTOR & DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aya Kurita, Michihiro Okuda