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: 20250021643
    Abstract: Provided is a fraud detection rule updating method enabling the updating of rules that serve as the basis for detecting malicious frames as necessary in an on-board network system. In an on-board network system equipped with multiple electronic control units (ECUs) that communicate via buses and fraud detecting ECUs that determine, based on fraud detection rules, whether messages transmitted on the buses conform to the rules, a fraud detection rule updating method is used in which delivery data including updated fraud detection rules is received from a server external to the on-board network system, and if a certain update condition is satisfied, the fraud detection rules in a fraud detecting ECU are updated to the updated fraud detection rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro UJIIE, Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Tomoyuki HAGA, Yuji UNAGAMI, Takeshi KISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20250022921
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device, including a substrate with a first nitride semiconductor layer on its surface, a block layer, an electron transit layer and an electron supply layer sequentially formed thereon. Formed along an inner surface thereof a first opening penetrating through the block layer to the first nitride semiconductor layer, a source electrode provided in a second opening in a location away from the first opening and connected to the block layer. The second opening penetrating through the electron supply and electron transit layers to the block layer. On an opposite surface of the substrate a drain electrode is provided. Seen in plan view, the first opening and the source electrode extend in a same, longitudinal direction, and the first opening includes: two straight portions extending in the longitudinal direction with the source electrode being interposed therebetween, and a first connection portion connecting ends of the two straight portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Shibata, Satoshi Tamura, Nanako Hirashita
  • Publication number: 20250020802
    Abstract: A radar apparatus includes: a plurality of transmission antennas which transmit a plurality of transmission signals at every transmission period using a multiplexing transmission; and a transmission circuit which applies frequency offsets and phase rotations to the transmission signals for each transmission period during which the transmission signals are transmitted. A combination of the phase rotations varies for each transmission period and is repeatedly applied for a first number of transmission periods, and is different for each of the transmission antennas in each transmission period. The first number is larger than a number of the transmission antennas, and the frequency offsets are same for the transmission signals in each transmission period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki KISHIGAMI, Kenta IWASA, Hidekuni YOMO
  • Publication number: 20250022468
    Abstract: A voice registration device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a voice signal of an utterance voice of a speaker and speaker information capable of identifying the speaker, a registration unit that registers the acquired voice signal and speaker information in an associated manner in a database, a progress degree determination unit that repeatedly determines a registration progress degree of the voice signal registered in the database with respect to a registration target amount of the voice signal registered in the database, and a notification unit that notifies the determined registration progress degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro OKADA, Teppei FUKUDA, Masanari MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250020465
    Abstract: A gyro sensor includes a gyro element and a control unit. Control unit includes a drive controller and a signal processor. Drive controller generates a drive signal to input to gyro element the drive signal generated. Drive controller feedback-controls drive signal based on a drive sense signal output from gyro element. Signal processor includes an analog processor, an A/D converter, a digital calculator and a checker. Analog processor selectively outputs either a detection component or a quadrature component to A/D converter. Detection component and quadrature component are included in detection signal. Checker checks a state relating to control unit based on a first output signal or a second output signal. First output signal is output from A/D converter in response to that quadrature component is input to A/D converter. Second output signal is output from digital calculator in response to that first output signal is input to digital calculator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi MORI
  • Publication number: 20250024157
    Abstract: An imaging device of the present disclosure includes: a communication unit that connects via a communication network to a provision server that provides a trained model used for image capturing; a connection unit that connects to a storage and outputs data to the storage; and a controller. The storage stores the trained model. The controller transmits photographing-related information obtained in association with image capturing to the provision server via the communication unit at a predetermined timing; and the controller stores, in the storage, a new trained model transmitted from the provision server in response to the photographing-related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junpei MATSUDA, Shinichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250022478
    Abstract: An encoding device comprising: a quantization circuit that generates a quantization parameter that includes information about a vector quantization codebook; and a control circuit that sets the number of available bits according to conditions for encoding based on the difference between the number of bits available for encoding of the target sub-vector and the number of bits for the quantization parameter of the target sub-vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Srikanth NAGISETTY, Chong Soon LIM, Hiroyuki EHARA, Akira HARADA
  • Publication number: 20250023196
    Abstract: A disclosed electrochemical device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an olefin-based separator, and a lithium ion-conductive electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector, and a negative electrode material layer supported on the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode material layer includes a negative electrode active material into which lithium ions are reversibly doped. A surface layer portion of the negative electrode material layer has a film region, and when the film region is measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, a peak in an O1s spectrum is observed in a binding energy range of 530 to 534 eV. The peak intensity in the O1s spectrum increases from the surface layer of the film region to the inner side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shohei MASUDA, Kenichi NAGAMITSU, Nobuhiro SHIMAMURA, Nobutaka TAKEDA, Hideo SAKATA
  • Patent number: 12198409
    Abstract: Provided is a learning device that acquires computational imaging information of a computational imaging camera that captures an image with blurring; acquires a normal image captured by a normal camera that captures an image without blurring or an image with blurring smaller than that of the computational imaging camera, and a correct answer label assigned to the normal image; generates an image with blurring based on the computational imaging information and the normal image; and performs machine learning using the image with blurring and the correct answer label to create an image identification model for identifying an image captured by the computational imaging camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Satoshi Sato, Yasunori Ishii
  • Patent number: 12194852
    Abstract: A display device includes: an outer cover with light transmission properties; a design sheet with light transmission properties provided on the outer cover; a cushion layer with light transmission properties provided on a back surface side of the outer cover; and a light source provided on a back surface side of the cushion layer. When viewed in a cross section, the cushion layer includes: a plurality of first concave portions that are in a convex shape in a first orientation and a concave shape on a side opposite to the convex shape; and a plurality of second concave portions that are connected to the first concave portions and are in a convex shape in a second orientation and a concave shape on a side opposite to the convex shape. The first concave portions and the second concave portions are alternately provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Kontani, Takeshi Masutani
  • Patent number: 12200435
    Abstract: A sound reproduction device includes a cabinet and a loudspeaker disposed inside the cabinet, the cabinet includes a baffle including a plurality of through holes provided in a ring-shaped area, and the loudspeaker is disposed in an orientation in which sound is emitted toward the plurality of through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Isao Kakuhari, Nobuhiko Washio, Takeshi Sakai
  • Patent number: 12199926
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a resource allocation procedure for allocating time-frequency radio resources by a scheduler in a mobile communication system. A plurality of numerology schemes are defined, each partitioning a plurality of radio resources of the mobile communication system into resource scheduling units in a different manner. A reference resource set is defined per numerology scheme, each being associated to a set of radio resources usable for being allocated according to the respective numerology scheme. The reference resource set of at least one numerology scheme overlaps with the reference resource set of at least another numerology scheme in the frequency and/or time domain. The resource allocation procedure is performed for allocating radio resources to one or more user terminals according to the numerology schemes. The resource allocation procedure is performed for each numerology scheme based on a scheduling time interval defined for the respective numerology scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Quan Kuang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Sujuan Feng, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 12196034
    Abstract: Provided is a glass panel unit that reduces the chances of an electric wire extended being disconnected. A glass panel unit includes a first panel, a second panel, a seal, a connecting void, and an electric wire. The first panel includes a first glass pane. The second panel includes a second glass pane and is arranged to face the second glass pane. The seal has a frame shape and hermetically bonds respective peripheral edge portions of the first panel and the second panel to create an internal space between the first panel and the second panel. The connecting void is provided for a portion, other than a portion facing the internal space, of at least one of the first panel or the second panel. The electric wire is extended from the internal space to the connecting void by passing through the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tasuku Ishibashi, Eiichi Uriu, Kazuya Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Abe, Kenji Hasegawa, Masataka Nonaka, Takeshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12198672
    Abstract: A voice speech device includes: a display; a selector that causes the display to display one or more candidates for a name to be provided to a target appliance (appliance), and accepts selection of one name among the one or more candidates; a receiver for receiving first state information that is sent from the target appliance and indicates a state of the target appliance; a speech sentence creator that creates a speech sentence for notifying the state of the target appliance, based on the first state information received by the receiver, the speech sentence containing the one name accepted by the selector; and a voice outputter that outputs the speech sentence by voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Ikeda, Kazuhiro Kuroyama, Satoru Matsunaga, Yoshiki Ohashi
  • Patent number: 12200254
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: generating combined point cloud data by combining pieces of point cloud data; and generating a bitstream by encoding the combined point cloud data. The bitstream includes (i) first information indicating a maximum number of duplicated points that are included in each of the pieces of point cloud data and are three-dimensional points having same geometry information, and (ii) pieces of second information corresponding one-to-one with point indexes and each indicating which of the pieces of point cloud data three-dimensional points having a corresponding one of the point indexes belong to, the point indexes being indexes to which values a total number of which is equal to the maximum number are assigned, and being used for identifying duplicated points belonging to same point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Noritaka Iguchi, Chung Dean Han, Chi Wang, Pongsak Lasang
  • Patent number: 12198868
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor element includes an anode body, a dielectric layer disposed on a surface of the anode body, a solid electrolyte layer covering at least a part of the dielectric layer, and a cathode lead-out layer covering at least a part of the solid electrolyte layer. The cathode lead-out layer includes a carbon layer that is in contact with the solid electrolyte layer and covers the at least the part of the solid electrolyte layer. The carbon layer includes a carbonaceous material and a transition metal ion component. A content proportion of the transition metal ion component in the carbon layer is 17000 ppm or less on a mass basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Uenaka, Kei Hirota, Yuta Tomimatsu
  • Patent number: 12198467
    Abstract: An information generating apparatus includes: an information managing unit that associates and manages an image obtained by photographing skin of a person, marking information indicating one or more markings that one or more operators perform with respect to one or more characteristic parts of skin in the image, and amendment information indicating amendment that a specialist makes to the marking information; and a marking-UI processing unit that superimposes and displays the one or more markings, indicated by the marking information, and the amendment, indicated by the amendment information, on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Taoka, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Ichiro Takei
  • Patent number: 12198668
    Abstract: An acoustic apparatus includes a sound-emitting unit that acoustically outputs a sound signal, at least one sensor that periodically detects accelerations of the user in three directions including a front-rear direction, a left-right direction, and an upper-lower direction, a vibration sound peak detection unit detecting a peak of a vibration sound based on a movement of the user when detection values of the accelerations in the front-rear direction, the left-right direction, and the upper-lower direction satisfy a predetermined condition, and a signal processing unit that determines whether a time difference at which the peak of the vibration sound is detected is periodic. When it is determined that the time difference is periodic, the signal processing unit sets a gain of a cancellation signal to be suppressed from the sound signal acoustically output from the sound-emitting unit based on the peak of the vibration sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masami Yamamoto, Takayosi Okazaki
  • Patent number: 12199292
    Abstract: A battery includes an electrode group, and a rectangular exterior casing that houses the electrode group and includes a tubular side wall, a bottom connected to a lower end of the side wall in a Z direction, and an opening provided at an upper end. An inner surface of the bottom of the exterior casing has a slope inclined with respect to a plane orthogonal to the Z direction. The electrode group is in thermal contact with the slope. The bottom may have a protrusion protruding inward in the Z direction of the exterior casing, and the slope may be formed on the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiya Gotou, Toshiyasu Kitamura, Mitsutoshi Tajima
  • Patent number: 12198686
    Abstract: A sound crosstalk suppression device includes: a speaker analysis unit configured to analyze a speaker situation in a closed space based on voice signals respectively collected by a plurality of microphones arranged in the closed space; a filter update unit that includes a filter configured to generate a suppression signal of a crosstalk component included in a voice signal of a main speaker, that is configured to update a parameter of the filter, and that is configured to store the updated parameter in a memory; a reset unit configured to reset the parameter of the filter in a case where it is determined that an analysis result of the speaker situation is switched; and a crosstalk suppression unit configured to suppress a crosstalk component by using a suppression signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanari Miyamoto, Shinichi Yuzuriha
  • Patent number: 12195137
    Abstract: A power transmission unit is used for generating auxiliary driving force for an electric bicycle, and includes a motor, an input structure, a speed reducer, a case, a bearing, and a bearing support portion. The motor includes a motor shaft. The input structure includes an input shaft and configured to rotate along with the input shaft, the input shaft being caused to rotate by external force transmitted thereto. Thea speed reducer mechanism is configured to transmit a rotational power of the motor shaft while reducing a rotational speed. The case houses the motor, the input structure, and the speed reducer mechanism. The case includes a first divided part and a second divided part. The bearing is located inside the case. The bearing supporting portion, to which the bearing is attached, supports the speed reducer mechanism. The bearing supporting portion is attached to the first divided part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kawakami, Takanori Nakano
  • Patent number: 12198869
    Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element. The capacitor element includes an anode part, a cathode part, and an intermediate part. The anode part includes a first portion that is a part of an anode body having a porous region, and a first dielectric layer. The intermediate part includes a second portion of the anode body, a second dielectric layer, and a first insulating member containing a first resin component. The cathode part includes a third portion of the anode body, a third dielectric layer, a solid electrolyte layer covering at least a part of the third dielectric layer, and a cathode lead-out layer covering at least a part of the solid electrolyte layer. The first resin component contains a curing product of a first reactive compound. At least a part of the first insulating member is disposed in pores of the porous region in the intermediate part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Usa, Yosuke Serizawa, Honami Nishino
  • Patent number: 12200383
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix. Each pixel circuit includes: a photodiode; a first charge storage that stores a charge; a floating diffusion region that stores a charge; a second charge storage that stores a charge; a first transfer transistor that transfers a charge from the photodiode to the first charge storage; a second transfer transistor that transfers a charge from the first charge storage to the floating diffusion region; a first reset transistor that resets the floating diffusion region; and an accumulating transistor for accumulating a charge of the floating diffusion region in the second charge storage. The capacitance of the first charge storage is greater than the capacitance of the floating diffusion region, and the capacitance of the second charge storage is greater than the capacitance of the floating diffusion region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Tamaru, Shigetaka Kasuga, Shinzo Koyama
  • Patent number: 12199937
    Abstract: A communication assist device includes an information reception unit that receives a message transmitted from a passenger terminal owned by a passenger in a moving body, a moving body identification unit that identifies the moving body based on passenger information which is included in the message received by the information reception unit and by which the passenger is able to be identified, and an information transmission unit that transmits the passenger information and information related to the message in association with each other to a communication device provided to the moving body identified by the moving body identification unit. The information reception unit, the moving body identification unit, and the information transmission unit are provided outside the moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daiki Cho
  • Patent number: 12199267
    Abstract: In the present invention, this positive electrode is provided with: a collector; and a composite material layer that is formed on at least one surface of the collector. The composite material layer includes a particulate aggregate formed from inorganic substance particles which do not occlude or emit Li, a conductive material, and a binding material for binding the inorganic particles and the conductive material. According to an exemplary embodiment, the aggregate is present closer to the collector side at least with respect to the thickness-direction center of the composite material layer, and accounts for at least 1.3 vol % with respect to the volume of the composite material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Oura, Yuki Tokuda
  • Patent number: 12198867
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrolytic capacitor of the present disclosure includes first to third steps. In the first step, a capacitor element is prepared that includes an anode body on which a dielectric layer is formed. In the second step, the capacitor element is impregnated with a first treatment solution containing at least a conductive polymer and a first solvent. In the third step, the capacitor element is, after the second step, impregnated with a second treatment solution that contains a polyol compound having 3 or more hydroxyl groups per molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Tsubaki, Tatsuji Aoyama
  • Patent number: 12195957
    Abstract: A cleaning device including a disinfection water supply portion to supply cleaning water with a dissolved disinfection component, and a bubble generation portion to contain bubbles into the cleaning water on a downstream side of the disinfection water supply portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunari Maeda, Naoki Shibata, Sakiho Asa, Mai Saito
  • Patent number: 12195136
    Abstract: A power transmission unit for electric bicycles includes an input structure, an output structure, a torque detection unit, a detection target, and a detection unit. The input structure includes an input shaft. The input shaft is caused to rotate by external force transmitted thereto. The input structure rotates along with the input shaft. The output structure outputs rotational power by rotating along with the input structure. The torque detection unit is provided on an outer periphery of the input structure. The detection target rotates either along with, or while interlocking with, the input structure. The detection unit detects a rotational state of the detection target. At least part of the torque detection unit and at least part of the detection target overlap with each other when viewed perpendicularly to a rotational axis of the input structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kawakami, Takanori Nakano
  • Patent number: 12200948
    Abstract: A solar battery of the present disclosure includes a first electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer; an intermediate layer; and a second electrode that are arranged in this order. The photoelectric conversion layer contains a perovskite compound. The intermediate layer contains a heterocyclic compound, the heterocyclic compound contains one or more and three or less six-membered rings, and at least one of the six-membered rings has 1-position and 4-position each occupied by an element having a lone pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeyuki Sekimoto
  • Patent number: 12194866
    Abstract: A power cutoff device includes a relay unit including a switch having a connecting state and a cutoff state, a cutoff unit connected in series to the switch, a current detector to detect an object current flowing through the cutoff unit, and a controller to control the relay unit and the cutoff unit. The cutoff unit has a connecting state and an irreversible cutoff state. The controller obtains a changing rate of the object current with respect to time. The controller causes the switch to be in the connecting state and causes the cutoff unit to be in the connecting state if determining that the changing rate is not greater than a changing-rate threshold. The controller causes the relay unit to be in the cutoff state and cause the cutoff unit to be in the irreversible cutoff state if determining that the changing rate is greater than the changing-rate threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hirobe, Tatsuya Okamoto, Shun Kazama
  • Patent number: 12199312
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a battery, includes: preparing a case having an opening at one end portion of the case and a bottom portion at another end portion of the case; preparing an electrode group including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a current collecting lead electrically connected to the first electrode; housing the electrode group in the case; and joining the current collecting lead to an inner surface of the case. The joining of the current collecting lead includes: pressing a pressing device having a tubular shape against the current collecting lead to cause the current collecting lead to contact the inner surface of the case; and welding the current collecting lead to the case while an inside of a tube of the pressing device is sucked by a suction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazumichi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12198392
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding geometry information of each of three-dimensional points based on one of a first geometry information encoding method of encoding using octree division and a second geometry information encoding method of encoding without using octree division; and generating a bitstream including the geometry information encoded and a geometry information flag indicating whether the encoding was performed based on the first geometry information encoding method or the second geometry information encoding method. In the generating of the bitstream: when the encoding is performed based on the first geometry information encoding method, the bitstream including a parameter set used in octree division is generated; and when the encoding is performed based on the second geometry information encoding method, the bitstream not including the parameter set used for octree division is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Noritaka Iguchi, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 12199124
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate and pixels. Each of the pixels includes a first capacitive element including a first electrode provided above the semiconductor substrate, a second electrode provided above the semiconductor substrate, and a dielectric layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode. At least one selected from the group consisting of the first electrode and the second electrode has a first electrical contact point electrically connected to a first electrical element and a second electrical contact point electrically connected to a second electrical element different from the first electrical element. The first capacitive element includes at least one trench portion having a trench shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuko Tomekawa, Yoshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 12196959
    Abstract: A head-up display is configured to project an image on a transparent reflection member to cause an observer to visually recognize a virtual image, and includes a display device configured to display the image, and a projection optical system configured to project the image displayed by the display device as the virtual image for the observer. The projection optical system is configured to form an image as an intermediate image, and includes a first lens configured to condense light, and a first optical element configured to diffuse light. The first lens and the first optical element are disposed in this order along an optical path from the display device. The first lens is inclined with respect to a reference beam which is defined as a beam reaching a center of a viewpoint region of the observer and corresponding to a center of the virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuzuhara, Hiroaki Okayama
  • Patent number: 12200426
    Abstract: A setting system of a wireless headphone includes a wireless headphone having a speaker and configured to be worn on an ear, and a wireless terminal and is wirelessly connectable to the wireless headphone. The wireless headphone is configured to register data indicating a correspondence relationship between wireless terminal information on the wireless terminal wirelessly connected to the wireless headphone and sound data capable of specifying the wireless terminal. The wireless terminal sets the sound data audibly outputted by the wireless headphone when the wireless terminal is wirelessly connected to the wireless headphone, and transmits the identification information to the wireless headphone. The wireless headphone registers data indicating a correspondence relationship between the wireless terminal information and the identifiable sound data based on the identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12198538
    Abstract: A notifying method includes detecting an object existing in a periphery of the vehicle, and emitting a visible light to irradiate at least a part of the periphery of the vehicle in a direction of the object with an irradiation pattern. A color of the visible light irradiated is a complementary color of a color of a road surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 12200673
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, UE, and a scheduling node, as well as to the corresponding methods. In particular, a downlink control information, DCI, signaling carries a Transmission Configuration Indication, TCI, indicator specifying that two or more TCI states are configured; and an indication indicating time-domain resources for transmissions and associations of the time-domain resources with the two or more TCI states, wherein each of the time-domain resources is associated with one of the two or more TCI states; wherein the transceiver, in operation, receives or transmits, for each of the two or more TCI states, data on the time-domain resources associated with the respective TCI state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12200234
    Abstract: An encoder which encodes a video including a plurality of pictures includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry performs: encoding a first picture among the plurality of pictures; and performing (i) a first operation for encoding a parameter set for a second picture which follows the first picture in coding order among the plurality of pictures after encoding the first picture, and encoding the second picture after encoding the parameter set, or (ii) a second operation for encoding the second picture without encoding the parameter set after encoding the first picture. The circuitry performs the first operation when the second picture is a determined picture, in the performing of the first operation or the second operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh
  • Patent number: 12199010
    Abstract: To improve cooling capability, power conversion apparatus 1 that converts a direct current voltage into an alternating current voltage includes: first substrate 100 on which power conversion circuit 2 is mounted; second substrate 200 on which driving circuit 3 that drives power conversion circuit 2 is mounted; and shield plate 300 that is disposed between first substrate 100 and second substrate 200, and first substrate 100 is a metal substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hayata Onaga, Tomonari Nebashi
  • Patent number: 12200735
    Abstract: A base station is disclosed that enables an efficient use of resources even when a TTI length is shortened. In this base station, a PDCCH section (103) generates one piece of downlink control information (DCI) containing control information for a plurality of first transmission time intervals (TTIs) each having a TTI length shorter than a second TTI, and a transmission section (107) transmits the DCI. Control information on retransmission processing for a data signal is configured for each of the plurality of first TTIs while control information other than the control information on the retransmission processing is configured in common among the plurality of first TTIs in the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Lilei Wang, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Masayuki Hoshino, Yasuaki Yuda
  • Patent number: 12199754
    Abstract: The present invention improves the reliability of a transmission channel. A transmission terminal according to the present invention is equipped with: a control circuit that, on the basis of a time resource quantity used to determine the transmission size of a first channel in one time segment of either a first time segment in which the first channel and a second channel are disposed or a second time segment in which the first channel is disposed, determines the transmission size in the other time segment; and a transmission circuit that, on the basis of the determined transmission size, performs a transmission process for the first channel in the first time segment and the second time segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Naoya Shibaike, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 12200243
    Abstract: An encoder includes: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: derives a base motion vector to be used in predicting a current block to be encoded; derives a first motion vector different from the base motion vector; derives a motion vector difference based on a difference between the base motion vector and the first motion vector; determines whether the motion vector difference is greater than a threshold; modifies the first motion vector when the motion vector difference is determined to be greater than the threshold, and does not modify the first motion vector when the motion vector difference is determined not to be greater than the threshold; and encodes the current block using the first motion vector modified or the first motion vector not modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Jing Ya Li, Chong Soon Lim, Ru Ling Liao, Hai Wei Sun, Han Boon Teo, Kiyofumi Abe, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi
  • Patent number: 12196812
    Abstract: When a use range of an SOC (State Of Charge) of a secondary battery is expanded, the use range of the SOC is expanded by increasing an upper limit value or decreasing a lower limit value of the use range of the SOC. The increasing the upper limit value or decreasing the lower limit value of the use range of the SOC is determined to a side causing a smaller increase in a degradation rate of the secondary battery, based on at least one of a cycle degradation characteristic that defines a cycle degradation rate in accordance with the use range of the SOC and a current rate of the secondary battery and a storage degradation characteristic that defines a storage degradation rate in accordance with the SOC and a temperature of the secondary battery, and a typical use condition of the secondary battery based on a use history of the secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changhui Yang, Takashi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 12200270
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, generates a first coefficient value by applying a CCALF (cross component adaptive loop filtering) process to a first reconstructed image sample of a luma component, and generates a second coefficient value by applying an ALF (adaptive loop filtering) process to a second reconstructed image sample of a chroma component. The circuitry modifies the first coefficient value by performing an arithmetic right shift by 7 bits on the first coefficient value. The circuitry generates a third coefficient value by adding the modified first coefficient value to the second coefficient value, and encodes a third reconstructed image sample of the chroma component using the third coefficient value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Jing Ya Li, Chong Soon Lim, Han Boon Teo, Hai Wei Sun, Che-Wei Kuo, Chu Tong Wang, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Yusuke Kato
  • Patent number: 12198131
    Abstract: A control method is executed by a first server among a plurality of servers in a system including the plurality of servers and a generating device that generates record information about usage records for users belonging to one group when a service provided by a business operator is used on a group basis. The method includes: obtaining, from the generating device, first record information about a first usage record of a service by a first user belonging to the one group; determining whether the first record information obtained is permitted under a rule based on contract content, stored in the first server, of a contract entered into by the first user and the business operator; and forwarding first transaction data including a determination result to a plurality of second servers and storing a first block including the first transaction data in a distributed ledger managed by the first server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Junji Michiyama, Junichiro Soeda, Naohisa Nishida, Yuuki Hirose, Tetsuji Fuchikami, Motoji Ohmori
  • Patent number: 12194851
    Abstract: A display system which controls a display of display content, includes: a processor; and a memory having stored thereon instructions executable by the processor. The instructions include: performing image correction processing involving a change in a display position of the display content based on image correction data stored in advance; detecting an attitude change amount of a moving body; calculating a vibration correction amount of the display position of the display content based on the attitude change amount of the moving body; switching an order of processing between image correction processing involving a change in the display position of the display content and vibration correction processing of correcting the display position of the display content based on the vibration correction amount; and controlling the display position of the display content by performing the image correction processing and the vibration correction processing based on the order of the processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsui, Norikazu Katsuyama
  • Patent number: 12200431
    Abstract: A sound pickup device includes a diaphragm that vibrates according to an acoustic pressure of input sound, an acoustic member having a sound channel formed to guide sound to the diaphragm, and a Helmholtz resonator having an opening formed in a wall surface surrounding the sound channel, in which the diaphragm is disposed inside a microphone in which a sound hole is formed, the acoustic member includes: a first substrate that has a through hole formed at the same position as the sound hole, and is attached to the microphone; and a second substrate that has the sound channel formed at a position corresponding to the through hole, and is attached to the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuki Terashima, Toshiyuki Matsumura
  • Patent number: 12199237
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte material according to an aspect of the present disclosure is represented by the following Compositional Formula (1): Li6-3zYzX6 where 0<z<2 is satisfied; and X represents Cl or Br.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Asano, Akihiro Sakai, Satoru Ohuchi, Masashi Sakaida, Akinobu Miyazaki, Shinya Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12195911
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a heat insulating sheet of the present disclosure includes a composite generating step of impregnating a nonwoven fiber with a basic sol prepared to generate a composite of a hydrogel-nonwoven fiber, the basic sol being prepared by adding carbonate ester to a water glass composition; and a drying step of drying a liquid contained in the composite at a temperature lower than a critical temperature of the liquid and a pressure lower than a critical pressure of the liquid to remove the liquid from the composite. A heat insulating sheet according to the present disclosure includes an aerogel and a nonwoven fiber, and has a compression rate at 0.30 MPa to 5.0 MPa of 40% or less. In an electronic device of the present disclosure, the heat insulating sheet is disposed between an electronic component and a housing. In a battery unit of the present disclosure, the heat insulating sheet is disposed between batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuma Oikawa, Tooru Wada, Shigeki Sakaguchi, Takashi Kubo, Takashi Tsuruta, Shigeaki Sakatani, Daido Komyoji
  • Patent number: 12200737
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver, which, in operation, receives time unit information related to an amount of an uplink time resource per a time unit, and receives a number of repetitions over a plurality of the time units, wherein the time unit includes a downlink time resource for a downlink signal and the uplink time resource for a response signal. The amount of the uplink time resource is expressed as a fixed number of consecutive symbols that remains the same number over the plurality of the time units over which the response signal is repeatedly transmitted. The terminal includes a transmitter, which, in operation, repeatedly transmits the response signal over the plurality of the time units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Ayako Horiuchi, Takashi Iwai