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
  • Patent number: 11932263
    Abstract: A travel sickness estimation system includes an estimation unit and an output unit. The estimation unit is configured to perform estimation processing of estimating, based on person information indicating conditions of a person who is on board a moving vehicle, whether or not the person is in circumstances that would cause travel sickness for him or her. The output unit is configured to output a result of the estimation processing performed by the estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Moriura, Yoshitaka Nakamura, Yasufumi Kawai, Hiroyuki Handa, Yohei Morishita, Toru Okino, Hiroyuki Hagino, Toru Sakuragawa, Satoshi Morishita
  • Patent number: 11932836
    Abstract: An electric reaction measuring apparatus measures a potential of each of measurement electrodes, which are respectively disposed in chambers in a culture vessel, with respect to at least one reference electrode. The electric reaction measuring apparatus includes at least one control circuit. A measurement object is disposed in each of the chambers. The at least one control circuit calculates at least one principal component for each of the measurement electrodes by performing principal component analysis of the potential of each of the measurement electrodes; estimates, for each of the measurement electrodes, a potential corresponding to the principal component from the principal component of the measurement electrode, and synthesizes the estimated potential; subtracts the synthesized potential of the measurement electrode from a potential measured at the measurement electrode; and outputs a potential after subtraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumiko Kato, Kiyotaka Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11932779
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing; a functional coated film applied on a surface of the housing, the functional coated film being transparent and having a function; and a fluorescent coated film including transparent fluorescent paint and applied on a part of the functional coated film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsunobu Yui, Motonari Ogura, Kaname Tomita
  • Patent number: 11932953
    Abstract: A compression apparatus includes an electrolyte membrane, an anode on a principal surface of the electrolyte membrane, a cathode on another principal surface of the electrolyte membrane, an anode separator on the anode, a cathode separator on the cathode, and a voltage applicator. Upon the voltage applicator applying a voltage between the anode and the cathode, protons are extracted from an anode fluid fed to the anode to migrate to the cathode through the electrolyte membrane and compressed hydrogen is produced. The cathode separator has a first O-ring groove formed in a cathode-side principal surface of the cathode separator to surround a region of the cathode-side principal surface which faces the cathode. The compression apparatus includes a first O-ring held by the first O-ring groove and a face seal disposed on an outer periphery of a region of an anode-side principal surface of the anode separator which faces the anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kakuwa, Hiromi Kita, Osamu Sakai
  • Patent number: 11935697
    Abstract: A capacitor includes: a capacitor element; a pair of external electrodes provided at opposite ends of the capacitor element; and a pair of metal caps and or a metal foil, the pair of metal caps each covering a corresponding one of the pair of external electrodes, the metal foil covering at least part of the capacitor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Nishimura, Yukihiro Shimasaki, Hiroki Takeoka, Takafumi Okudo, Ritsuo Masaoka, Hiromasa Ozaki
  • Patent number: 11933897
    Abstract: A distance measurement device includes: a mirror disposed so as to be tilted relative to a rotation center axis; a drive unit configured to rotate the mirror about the rotation center axis; a photodetector configured to detect reflected light, of laser light, reflected in a distance measurement region; and a condensing lens disposed on the rotation center axis and configured to condense the reflected light reflected by the mirror, on the photodetector. The mirror has a shape elongated in one direction and is disposed such that a short axis thereof is tilted relative to the rotation center axis in a direction parallel to a plane including the rotation center axis. A width in a short-axis direction of the mirror is smaller than a width of a lens portion of the condensing lens as viewed in a direction parallel to the rotation center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Ide, Masaomi Inoue, Hirotaka Ueno, Kouichi Kumamaru, Masahiro Shiihara, Kouichi Bairin, Takashi Haruguchi, Kiyoshi Hibino
  • Patent number: 11933875
    Abstract: The target detection accuracy of a radar apparatus is improved. The radar apparatus includes transmission circuitry, which, in operation, transmits a transmission signal using a plurality of transmit antennas, and reception circuitry, which, in operation, receives using a plurality of receive antennas a reflected wave signal that is the transmission signal reflected by an object, in which the plurality of transmit antennas include at least one first transmit antenna and a plurality of second transmit antennas, and, in a first direction, an absolute value of a difference between, on one hand, a spacing between the at least one first transmit antenna and a phase center of those of the plurality of second transmit antennas which are used for beam synthesis, and, on another hand, a spacing between adjacent receive antennas of the plurality of receive antennas is a defined value based on a wavelength of the plurality of transmission signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Kenta Iwasa
  • Patent number: 11934053
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a liquid crystal panel configured to adjust light transmittance; a light emitting element configured to apply detection light; a first light receiving element configured to receive first detection light transmitted through the liquid crystal panel in the detection light, and to output a first output value related to a light amount of the first detection light; a second light receiving element configured to receive second detection light not transmitted through the liquid crystal panel in the detection light, and to output a second output value related to a light amount of the second detection light; a transmittance calculator configured to calculate a liquid crystal transmittance of the liquid crystal panel based on the first output value and the second output value; and an imaging element configured to image imaging light transmitted through the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Morita, Masaya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11934232
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an upper case and a lower case. An end face of the upper case includes a first upper step surface and a second upper step surface located at high and inner positions with respect to the first upper step surface. An end face of the lower case includes a first lower step surface, a second lower step surface located at high and inner positions with respect to the first lower step surface, and a third lower step surface located at high and inner positions with respect to the second lower step surface. The first upper step surface is located at a low position with respect to the second lower step surface and faces the first lower step surface. The second upper step surface is located at a low position with respect to the third lower step surface and faces the second lower step surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryusuke Teramoto
  • Patent number: 11934012
    Abstract: An optical adjustment apparatus includes a measurement-light irradiation part that has a plurality of second optical fibers and emits, with timings different from each other, a plurality of lights having a single wavelength via the second optical fibers, an optical fiber block that holds exit-side end portions of the first and second optical fibers, a light detection part that receives and detects a plurality of reflected lights via the second optical fibers, a tilt calculation part that compares, with each other, variations with time of intensities of the respective reflected lights and calculates a tilt of the optical fiber block relative to the optical substrate, and a distance calculation part that calculates an inter-end surface distance between the optical substrate and the optical fiber block, based on a variation with time of an intensity of at least one reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomotaka Furuta, Junichi Kamatani, Tatsuro Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11933954
    Abstract: A zoom lens system includes: a first lens group having positive power; a second lens group having negative power; a third lens group having positive power; a fourth lens group having positive power; a fifth lens group having negative power; and a following lens group following the fifth lens group. The first to fifth lens groups and the following lens group are arranged in this order such that the first lens group is located closest to an object and that the following lens group is located closest to an image. While the zoom lens system is zooming, intervals between the respective lens groups change. While the zoom lens system is focusing from an infinity focus point through a shortest shooting range, a plurality of negative lens groups included in the fifth lens group and the following lens group move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Genki Nakazawa, Takao Yamanaka, Yoshiaki Kurioka
  • Patent number: 11935275
    Abstract: An image processing method includes: extracting, based on pixel values of a plurality of pixels of an image obtained, a plurality of first current pixels having pixel values included in a first color range including a specific color range that defines a specific color, from the plurality of pixels; excluding, in second region different from a first region including a center region of the image, (i) a low saturation pixel from the plurality of first current pixels when the number of low saturation pixels is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, and (ii) a high saturation pixel, which has a pixel value included in a high saturation range, from the plurality of first current pixels when the number of high saturation pixels is greater than or equal to a second threshold value; and outputting a plurality of second current pixels obtained as a result of the excluding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Isao Ueda
  • Patent number: 11933990
    Abstract: In various embodiments, optical repositioners and/or angled dispersive elements are utilized to manipulate portions of an input laser beam emitted by a group of laser emitters in order to form a multi-wavelength output beam having a high beam quality factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: Parviz Tayebati, Wang-Long Zhou, Bien Chann, Robin Huang, Michael Cruz
  • Patent number: 11937104
    Abstract: A radio wave environment analyzer includes a memory that holds location information on a radio transmitter disposed in a target area where a moving body is present and location information on a reference point at which a radio wave from the radio transmitter is received, and a processor that obtains (i) a first reception intensity of the radio wave at the reference point when the moving body is present at an initial location and (ii) a plurality of second reception intensities of the radio wave at the reference point respectively corresponding to cases where the moving body is present at a plurality of movement locations. The processor selects one or more locations out of the plurality of movement locations to execute a simulation of a radio wave environment in the target area, based on the first reception intensity and the plurality of second reception intensities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Asada, Teppei Emura, Yasunori Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 11934621
    Abstract: An input device includes a fixed electrode, a movable electrode, and a movable member. The movable member is configured to elastically deform by receiving pressing force to relatively displace the movable electrode toward the fixed electrode. The movable member has an outer peripheral part. The outer peripheral part includes a suppression structure configured to suppress the movable member from being elastically deformed by the pressing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhira Takizawa, Yuki Hirata
  • Patent number: 11936966
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a heat generating source; a heat radiating plate that cools the heat generating source; a thermoelectric element that includes a heat absorbing surface in contact with the heat radiating plate and a heat radiating surface different from the heat absorbing surface, and receives supply of electric power to discharge the heat absorbed by the heat absorbing surface from the heat radiating surface; a first heat sink that is in contact with the heat radiating surface of the thermoelectric element and is spaced apart from the heat radiating plate; and a second heat sink that is in contact with the heat radiating plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11935674
    Abstract: An object is to provide a laminated varistor excellent in clamping voltage ratio. Laminated varistor includes at least a pair of internal electrodes provided in varistor layer containing ZnO as a main component. Internal electrode contains Ag as a main component and is made of a metal containing at least one type selected from Pt and Au. The total weight of Pt and Au with respect to the weight of the metal constituting internal electrode is set between 2% and 30% (inclusive). With such a configuration, diffusion of Ag into varistor layer can be prevented, and a laminated varistor excellent in clamping voltage ratio can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikinori Amisawa, Masuto Omiya, Kouji Hirate, Yukihito Yamashita, Touichi Makita
  • Patent number: 11936034
    Abstract: A negative electrode active substance particle according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises a mother particle that has: a silicate phase that includes Na, Si, and at least one element selected from M, M1, M2, M3 and M4 (M is an alkali earth metal, and M1, M2, M3 and M4 are elements other than alkali metals, alkali earth metals or Si); and silicon particles dispersed in the silicate phase. The contents of the elements in the silicate phase are: 9-52 mol % of Na; 3-50 mol % of M, M1, M2, M3 and M4; and at least 25 mol % of Si.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Uchiyama, Norihisa Yamamoto, Tatsuya Akira
  • Patent number: 11937237
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user device, a base station, a method for data transmission/reception by a user device, and a method for data reception/transmission by a base station. The user device comprises circuitry which, in operation, receives a parameter defining a rule for assigning to ports respective resources for carrying reference signals, generates, based on a mapping known to the user device and the base station, a set of layer-to-port mapping combinations, and receives, from the base station, control information indicating one of the set of layer-to-port mapping combinations which is to be applied for data transmission and/or reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 11936062
    Abstract: A battery pack includes battery cell having exhaust valve that opens when internal pressure exceeds set pressure, and case that houses battery cell. Case includes multiple case units molded with plastic, multiple case units being coupled with mating surfaces to dispose battery cell inside case, and heat-resistant material disposed inside mating surfaces of respective multiple case units, heat-resistant material blocking gap between mating surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawakami, Masaya Nakano
  • Patent number: 11937259
    Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of enhancing signal reception performance. In the base station (100), a control unit (101) generates data signals in unit of fixed length. A transmission unit (107) performs repetitive transmission of a transmission signal including at least one of the data signals in unit of fixed length in a resource that can be set to a plurality of data lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Tomoya Nunome, Ankit Bhamri
  • Patent number: 11936846
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding a first flag indicating whether a node having a parent node different from a parent node of a current node is to be referred to in encoding of the current node included in an n-ary tree structure of three-dimensional points included in three-dimensional data; selecting a coding table from N coding tables according to occupancy states of neighboring nodes of the current node, and performing arithmetic encoding on information of the current node using the coding table selected, when the first flag indicates that the node is to be referred to; and selecting a coding table from M coding tables according to the occupancy states of the neighboring nodes of the current node, and performing arithmetic encoding on information of the current node using the coding table selected, when the first flag indicates that the node is not to be referred to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Chi Wang, Pongsak Lasang, Chung Dean Han, Noritaka Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11935712
    Abstract: A control system is designed to control an interrupter. The interrupter is started by a startup current to interrupt a main electric circuit. The startup current flows through an auxiliary electric circuit and has a current valve equal to or greater than a predetermined value. The control system includes a driving unit and a driven unit. The driving unit includes an intermediate electrical path to be connected to the main electric circuit. The driven unit is to be connected to the auxiliary electric circuit. When an abnormal current having a current value equal to or greater than a prescribed value flows through the intermediate electrical path, the driving unit uses, as a drive source for driving the driven unit, the abnormal current flowing through the intermediate electrical path. The driven unit supplies the auxiliary electric circuit with the startup current by being driven by the driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kanematsu, Shinya Kimoto, Yoshihisa Fukuda, Kazuhisa Kinoshita, Shun Ito, Kazuhiro Kodama
  • Patent number: 11935971
    Abstract: A solar cell according to the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an electron transport layer disposed between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer. At least one electrode selected from the group consisting of the first electrode and the second electrode has a light-transmitting property. The photoelectric conversion layer contains a perovskite compound composed of a monovalent cation, a divalent cation, and a halogen anion. The electron transport layer contains a metal oxynitride having electron conductivity. The metal oxynitride has an electrical conductivity of greater than or equal to 1×10?7 S/cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Yokoyama, Ryosuke Kikuchi, Yu Nishitani
  • Patent number: 11936893
    Abstract: An encoder that includes memory and circuitry coupled to the memory. The circuitry encodes a slice into one or more data access regions in a variable length encoding process. The circuitry encodes one or more offsets into a slice header, based on a flag written into a sequence header and a total number of the one or more data access regions. The one or more offsets each specify a head position of a corresponding one of the one or more data access regions in a bitstream. When the flag indicates that the one or more offsets are to be encoded and the total number is at least two, the one or more offsets are encoded. The flag switches between encoding and not encoding the one or more offsets regardless of whether the total number is at least two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Yusuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11936297
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter outputs a DC output voltage between first and second output terminals, and includes: a conversion circuit that outputs an intermediate voltage obtained by performing power conversion on an input voltage, between first and second intermediate terminals; a first coil provided between the first intermediate terminal and the first output terminal; and a diode provided in series with a second coil. A DC voltage is applied to the second coil and the diode, with a polarity in a direction in which a reverse bias is applied to the diode. The first coil and the second coil are magnetically coupled such that a current is made flow through the second coil in a forward direction of the diode by mutual induction as a current flowing through the first coil in a direction from the first intermediate terminal to the first output terminal increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hosoi
  • Patent number: 11936886
    Abstract: An encoder includes memory and circuitry coupled to the memory. The circuitry, for each of temporal sub-layers for temporal scalability different from spatial scalability, stores first parameters into buffering period supplemental enhancement information (SEI) and encodes the first parameters. The first parameters present initial delays in timing to extract data from a coded picture buffer (CPB). The circuitry stores a second parameter into the buffering period SEI and encodes the second parameter. The second parameter indicates a total number of the temporal sub-layers. A value of the second parameter is equal to a value of a third parameter that is encoded into a sequence parameter set and indicates a total number of the temporal sub-layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Virginie Drugeon, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Yusuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11937024
    Abstract: A projection system includes a projection device that projects drawings individually onto a plurality of work spots in a work site. The projection device includes a driver that changes an orientation of the projection device. When drawings are individually projected onto a first work spot and a second work spot in a stated sequence, and the second work spot is outside a projection angle that is projectable by the projection device, the driver changes the orientation of the projection device to include the second work spot within the projection angle after work at the first work spot is finished. The first work spot and the second work spot are included in the plurality of work spots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Hayashi, Tetsuya Nishi, Keisuke Hara
  • Patent number: 11937360
    Abstract: A high frequency heating apparatus (1A) includes the following components: a first electrode (11) that is flat; a plurality of flat second electrodes (12) that are flat; a high-frequency power supply (20); a matching unit (30); a controller (40); and an electric field regulator (50). The second electrodes (12) are placed opposite to the first electrode (11). The high-frequency power supply (20) applies a high-frequency voltage to the first electrode (11). The matching unit (30) is placed between the first electrode (11) and the high-frequency power supply (20), and is impedance-matched with the high-frequency power supply (20). The controller (40) controls the high-frequency power supply (20). The electric field regulator (50) individually adjusts the electric field strengths in a plurality of regions located between first electrode (11) and the second electrodes (12). This aspect can reduce uneven heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Uno, Daisuke Hosokawa, Fumitaka Ogasawara, Mikio Fukui, Koji Yoshino, Yoshiharu Oomori
  • Publication number: 20240083283
    Abstract: In a battery abnormality prediction system, an acquisition unit acquires a current flowing through a battery and a temperature of the battery. A prediction unit predicts the occurrence of an abnormality in the battery, based on a relationship between the amount of the current flowing through the battery for a certain period of time and a rise in the temperature of the battery for the certain period of time. The prediction unit may compare the ratio of an integrated amount of current to the temperature rise for the certain period of time with a threshold determined based on data on the battery having caught fire and thereby predict a sign of fire to be caught by the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: YUSUKE ITAKURA, MUTSUHIKO TAKEDA, SHINYA NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240087301
    Abstract: An imaging control device includes a correct answer information acquiring part that acquires first correct answer information corresponding to a training image of a machine learning model from a first storage part, a correct answer image display control part that causes a display device to display a first correct answer image based on the first correct answer information, an imaging control part that causes an imaging device that acquires a blurred image to capture the first correct answer image displayed on the display device and acquires a second correct answer image, a correct answer information generating part that generates second correct answer information based on the second correct answer image, and a storage control part that stores a data set including a set of the training image and the second correct answer information in a second storage part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Satoshi SATO, Yasunori ISHII, Kunio NOBORI
  • Publication number: 20240084245
    Abstract: A modified cyanobacterium in which a total amount of a protein involved in binding between an outer membrane and a cell wall of cyanobacterium is suppressed to at least 30 percent and at most 70 percent of a total amount of the protein in a parent strain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seiji Kojima
  • Publication number: 20240086290
    Abstract: A monitoring device includes three or more monitors each monitoring, as a monitoring target, at least one of software and a communication log. The three or more monitors include a first monitor operating with a first execution privilege, a second monitor operating with a second execution privilege having a reliability level lower than the first execution privilege, and a third monitor operating with a third execution privilege having a reliability level that is the same as the second execution privilege or that is lower than the second execution privilege. The first monitor monitors software of the second monitor, and at least one of the first monitor or the second monitor monitors software of the third monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ryo HIRANO, Yoshihiro UJIIE, Takeshi KISHIKAWA, Tomoyuki HAGA, Jun ANZAI, Yoshiharu IMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240085772
    Abstract: A fluorescence emitting element includes: a wavelength conversion member that is plate-shaped and includes a fluorescent material, the wavelength conversion member including a first principal surface and a second principal surface that is on an opposite side from the first principal surface; and a metal film bonded to at least one surface out of the first principal surface and the second principal surface. In a plan view of the wavelength conversion member, the wavelength conversion member includes a region that does not overlap the metal film, and the metal film includes a bonding surface that is bonded to the at least one surface, and an exposed surface on an opposite side from the bonding surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyasu NAKASHIMA, Yosuke HONDA, Shinichi KITAOKA, Yoshiyuki TAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20240088372
    Abstract: Active material particles include composite particles each containing a lithium silicate phase, and a silicon phase dispersed in the lithium silicate phase, and a first coating covering at least part of surfaces of the composite particles. The first coating contains an oxide of a first element with low crystallinity, and a carbon material, the oxide and the carbon material being mixed together. The first element is an element other than non-metallic elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei Uchida, Yoshinori Satou
  • Publication number: 20240086541
    Abstract: An integrity verification device, in which software is executed by one of one or more electronic control units connected to an in-vehicle network system, includes: a verification schedule determiner that determines a verification timing at which to verify the integrity of the software; an integrity verifier that, for the software, determines, at the verification timing determined for the software, whether first integrity information, that is information for verifying the integrity of the software and that corresponds to at least part of the software corresponding to a verification scope, matches second integrity information, that is information calculated from at least part of the software at the verification timing, and determines that the integrity of the software is ensured when the first integrity information and the second integrity information match; and a verification priority determiner that determines a verification priority that affects determining of the verification timing or the verification scop
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takeshi KISHIKAWA, Ryo HIRANO, Yoshihiro UJIIE
  • Publication number: 20240087570
    Abstract: A voice recognition device includes: a calculation unit that calculates a first feature amount that is a feature amount of input voice data acquired by a first acquisition unit; an estimation unit that estimates a driving situation of a mobile object on the basis of operation information acquired by a second acquisition unit; an extraction unit that extracts, from a feature amount database, a second feature amount corresponding to the driving situation; a recognition unit that recognizes an input command on the basis of similarity between the first feature amount and the second feature amount; and an output unit that outputs a recognition result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takahiro KAMAI, Kousuke ITAKURA, Misaki DOI, Katsunori DAIMO
  • Publication number: 20240086548
    Abstract: An anomaly detection system includes: a register value collector that collects register values of register numbers from a controller; a future state predictor that predicts a future state of the control system; a blacklist creator that creates a blacklist based on a prediction result; an anomaly determiner that determines whether the control system enters an anomalous state by checking the collected register values against the blacklist; and an outputter that outputs a determination result. The blacklist creator defines, as the blacklist: a predicted register number that is predicted, if a register value of the predicted register number is changed, to cause the control system to enter the anomalous state in the future; and a range of the register value within which the control system is predicted to enter the anomalous state, and dynamically creates the blacklist corresponding to a combination of the collected register values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rikiya HIRAISHI, Takuji HIRAMOTO, Tatsumi OBA
  • Publication number: 20240085773
    Abstract: A fluorescence emitting module includes: a fluorescent substrate consisting essentially of a sintered fluorescent substance that includes a fluorescent material; and a rotator that rotates the fluorescent substrate about an axis extending in a thickness direction of the fluorescent substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke HONDA, Shinichi KITAOKA, Noriyasu NAKASHIMA, Yoshiyuki TAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20240088352
    Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode active material for secondary batteries that is capable of inhibiting negative electrode swelling and the decline of the charge/discharge cycle characteristics of a battery. A negative electrode active material for secondary batteries according to the present disclosure is characterized by including a Si-based material, activated carbon, and a conductive material, and in that the Si-based material and the conductive material are carried in pores of the activated carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Inoue, Motohiro Sakata, Akihiro Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20240086226
    Abstract: A monitoring system is for monitoring a vehicle or a monitoring target that operates inside the vehicle, and the monitoring system includes: a reliability manager that manages reliability indicating a security protection state of the monitoring target, according to a vehicle event of the vehicle; and a function restrictor that places a restriction on at least a part of functions of the monitoring target, according to the reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yoshihiro UJIIE, Ryo HIRANO, Takeshi KISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240084133
    Abstract: One aspect of the present application relates to a polyphenylene ether resin composition including a modified polyphenylene ether compound (A) that is terminally modified with a substituent having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond, and a crosslinking-type curing agent (B) having two or more carbon-carbon unsaturated double bonds in each molecule, the modified polyphenylene ether compound (A) including a modified polyphenylene ether compound (A-1) having a specific structure, and a modified polyphenylene ether compound (A-2) having a specific structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki UMEHARA, Fumito SUZUKI, Jun YASUMOTO, Hiroharu INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240088390
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure comprises: an electrode body in which a belt-shaped positive electrode and a belt-shaped negative electrode are wound with a separator therebetween; an electrolyte; and an outer case which accommodates the electrode body and the electrolyte. The negative electrode has a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer which is formed on a surface of the negative electrode current collector and which contains a negative electrode active material and a solid electrolyte. The negative electrode mixture layer has a region in which the solid electrolyte content in the inner winding end part is higher than the solid electrolyte content in the outer winding end part, and the solid electrolyte content continuously decreases from the inner winding end part side to the outer winding end part side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumikazu Mizukoshi, Nobuhiro Sakitani
  • Patent number: 11925305
    Abstract: An autonomous travel-type cleaner includes a housing, a drive unit for moving the housing, an incoming call detector that detects whether or not there is an incoming call to a communication terminal, a person detector that detects whether or not a person is present within a first range, an incoming call notification unit (for example, a light source and a speaker) for notifying of presence of an incoming call, and a controller. The controller controls a notification operation of the incoming call notification unit based on a detection result of the person detector and a detection result of the incoming call detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Nishioka, Yuko Tsusaka
  • Patent number: 11927532
    Abstract: A component analysis device includes a data acquisition circuit that acquires spectral data of an analyte containing components, the spectral data being obtained by measuring a spectrum of the analyte with a sensor, a type acquisition circuit that acquires information indicating a type of the analyte, a storage that stores a reference spectral data set including multiple spectral data of substances each of which is estimated to be included in the analyte, the reference spectral data set corresponding to the type of the analyte, and an analysis circuit that performs a parallel factor analysis by using, as input data, the spectral data of the analyte and the reference spectral data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mariko Miyashita, Tatsushi Ohyama
  • Patent number: 11925304
    Abstract: An information processing method in a server device includes obtaining first information obtained by at least one of one or more sensors installed in a space, detecting the breakage of an article present in the space based on the first information, estimating a situation where the breakage of the article occurred based on the first information, and outputting second information for causing a self-propelled device to perform a predetermine operation in the space according to the estimated situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takanori Ogawa, Masashi Koide
  • Patent number: 11929895
    Abstract: A communication log aggregation device includes: a communicator that obtains flow information including one or more flow records and first statistical information for each flow from each of collection devices, the one or more flow records each including flow identification information included in a message received by at least one observer that is disposed in a control network system, the flow being classified based on the flow identification information, the collection devices each collecting the one or more flow records and the first statistical information for each flow from the message received by the observer; and a flow aggregator that generates aggregated flow information by performing at least one of the following: (i) selecting at least one of the one or more flow records, (ii) adding second statistical information, and (iii) deleting at least one of the one or more flow records, and outputs the aggregated flow information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kishikawa, Ryo Hirano, Yoshihiro Ujiie
  • Patent number: 11930206
    Abstract: An encoder which includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry generates a list which includes candidates for a first motion vector for a first partition. The list has a maximum list size and an order of the candidates, and at least one of the maximum list size or the order of the candidates is dependent on at least one of a partition size or a partition shape of the first partition. The circuitry selects the first motion vector from the candidates included in the list; encodes an index indicating the first motion vector among the candidates in the list into the bitstream based on the maximum list size; and generates the predicted image for the first partition using the first motion vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Chong Soon Lim, Hai Wei Sun, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Han Boon Teo, Ru Ling Liao, Jing Ya Li, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh
  • Patent number: 11929972
    Abstract: An information processing method executed by a computer to control notification by a plurality of terminals (first terminal and second terminal) associated with an appliance includes: obtaining information defining, for each state of a plurality of possible states of the appliance, whether the state is a predetermined state that requires the notification by all of the first terminal and the second terminal; obtaining a state of the appliance; determining whether the state of the appliance obtained is the predetermined state; performing control to cause all of the first terminal and the second terminal to make the notification, when it is determined that the state of the appliance is the predetermined state; and performing control to cause a specific terminal out of the first terminal and the second terminal to make the notification, when it is determined that the state of the appliance is not the predetermined state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Okubo, Mariko Nakaso, Hiroko Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11928726
    Abstract: An information processing method in a server device includes obtaining first information on an object to be sucked by a self-propelled vacuum cleaner, specifying a first article constituted by the object to be sucked based on the first information, specifying a second article relating to the first article based on second information on the first article and third information on an owner of the first article, and outputting fourth information on the specified second article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Takanori Ogawa