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: 20250055910
    Abstract: A monitoring device provided in an in-vehicle system included in a vehicle includes: a monitoring unit that detects a security anomaly in the in-vehicle system; an emergency system control device (emergency system control unit 58) that switches from a first operating mode to a second operating mode different from the first operating mode when the monitoring unit detects the security anomaly; and a normal system control device (normal system control unit) that switches from the second operating mode to the first operating mode in response to, after switching to the second operating mode, completion of an update of software for resolving the security anomaly in the in-vehicle system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo HIRANO, Yoshiharu IMAMOTO, Jun ANZAI
  • Publication number: 20250050869
    Abstract: A parking support method is provided for performing automatic traveling of a vehicle based on a parking operation performed in the past. The parking support method stores a traveling route in the parking operation performed in the past, displays information in a first display mode before the vehicle reaches a position where the vehicle is configured to merge into the traveling route, and displays the information in a second display mode after the vehicle reaches the position where the vehicle is configured to merge into the traveling route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi TOKUHIRO, Shota AKAURA
  • Publication number: 20250055033
    Abstract: Disclosed is a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including: a negative electrode that includes a negative electrode active material; a separator; a positive electrode that is provided to oppose the negative electrode with the separator interposed therebetween; and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode active material includes 3 mass % or more of a silicon-containing material. The silicon-containing material includes carbon composite particles. Each of the carbon composite particles includes a carbon phase and a silicon phase dispersed in the carbon phase. The non-aqueous electrolyte contains a 5- or 6-membered sulfur-containing cyclic ester compound that has a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond and a structure represented by —O—S(?O)n-O—, where n is 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanlong Zhong, Satoshi Nishitani
  • Publication number: 20250050867
    Abstract: A parking assistance method is provided, which performs autonomous travel of a vehicle based on a teaching travel by a driver. The parking assistance method: stores a traveling route traveled by the vehicle according to a driving operation of the driver; displays first image information representing a start position of the traveling route in a first display mode; and displays second image information representing a parking position of the traveling route in a second display mode different from the first display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi TOKUHIRO, Masashi HOSHINO, Satoshi FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250054982
    Abstract: A positive electrode for a secondary battery including a positive electrode current collector, and a positive electrode active material layer supported on the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode active material layer contains active material particles, a binder, and a thermal decomposable additive, and the thermal decomposable additive includes an acetamidobenzoic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Maho Harada, Takahito Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20250054968
    Abstract: A positive electrode for a secondary battery including a positive electrode current collector, and a positive electrode active material layer supported on the positive electrode current collector, in which the positive electrode active material layer contains active material particles, a binder, and an organic phosphorus compound that is solid at room temperature. The organic phosphorus compound is, for example, selected from the group consisting of a phosphonic acid and a phosphonic acid ester each including an alkyl group having 1 to 17 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuro Shirakami, Yukihiro Oki, Chisaki Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20250055041
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes: a wound electrode group including a positive electrode, a negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; a core member disposed in a hollow part of the electrode group; and a non-aqueous electrolyte having lithium ion conductivity. Lithium metal is deposited on the negative electrode when the battery is charged, and the lithium metal dissolves when the battery is discharged. The negative electrode current collector is an austenitic stainless steel foil or an oxygen-free copper foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yohei Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20250055128
    Abstract: Disclosed is a separator for a secondary battery, including: a porous substrate having a first surface a second surface located opposite to the first surface; and a polysaccharide attached to the porous substrate, wherein the polysaccharide has a sulfo group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chisaki Hasegawa, Yukihiro Oki, Atsuro Shirakami, Kazuko Asano
  • Publication number: 20250052875
    Abstract: An anomaly detection device includes a processor and a non-transitory memory that stores a program. The processor executes the program to operate an anomaly detection device as an obtainer that obtains a first object detection result generated by a first object detection device that is included in a first apparatus which is a vehicle and detects an object in the vicinity of the first apparatus and a second object detection result generated by a second object detection device that is included in a second apparatus in the vicinity of the first apparatus and detects an object in the vicinity of the second apparatus; a determiner that determines whether at least one of the first apparatus or the second apparatus is being attacked, by comparing the first object detection result and the second object detection result; and an outputter that outputs a result of determination by the determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori MITSUGI, Ryo HIRANO, Tomoyuki HAGA, Yuishi TORISAKI, Kaoru YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20250053947
    Abstract: A payment terminal capable of performing payment using a code includes a first display unit; a second display unit; an imaging unit arranged near the first display unit and configured to capture an image of the code displayed on a medium; and a control unit configured to control the first display unit, the second display unit, and the imaging unit. The control unit acquires a captured image captured by the imaging unit, and causes a first preview image based on the captured image to be displayed on the first display unit while simultaneously causing a second preview image based on the captured image to be displayed on the second display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuto NAITO, Yasuhiro SHIBATA, Yuki INABE, Hiroki MORIIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20250055040
    Abstract: In the present invention, an electrode terminal of a battery includes: a first connection part that encloses one side in an axial direction of an annular groove portion provided in a circumferential wall of the battery; a second connection part that encloses another side in the axial direction of the groove portion; and a bridge portion that connects the first connection part and the second connection part. When the swelling of the battery causes the groove portion to expand in the axial direction, the bridge portion ruptures and thereby blocks a current flowing between the first connection part and the second connection part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Sakamoto, Shinya Geshi
  • Publication number: 20250050870
    Abstract: A parking support method is provided for performing automatic traveling of a vehicle based on a parking operation performed in the past. The parking support method stores a traveling route from the parking operation performed in the past, and displays a guidance image. The guidance image represents a change in an orientation of the vehicle on the traveling route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi TOKUHIRO, Shota AKAURA
  • Patent number: 12225695
    Abstract: An electrical device according to the present disclosure includes a heat generator, a heat dissipator, a thermal conductive sheet, and a thermal conductive fluid. The heat generator has a first surface. The heat dissipator has a second surface that faces the first surface. The thermal conductive sheet and the thermal conductive fluid are both interposed between the first surface and the second surface. The first surface and the second surface face each other in their respective counter regions. Each of the counter regions includes a first region and a second region when viewed in a direction in which the first and second surfaces face each other. The first region holds the thermal conductive fluid but does not receive the thermal conductive sheet. The second region is adjacent to the first region and receives the thermal conductive sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youji Shirato, Naoki Saitou, Norihiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 12225220
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry determines one or more tiles included in a picture and one or more subpictures included in the picture, according to a constraint condition that each tile of the one or more tiles includes at least one subpicture of the one or more subpictures entirely and the each tile does not include another subpicture of the one or more subpictures partially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Yusuke Kato
  • Patent number: 12224452
    Abstract: In a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a separator includes a substrate, a first filler layer disposed on one side of the substrate and containing phosphate salt particles, and a second filler layer disposed on the other side of the substrate and containing inorganic particles. The separator is disposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode in such a manner that the side of the substrate which bears the first filler layer is directed to the positive electrode side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Morikawa, Masanori Sugimori, Yasunori Baba, Katsunori Yanagida, Nobuhiro Hirano
  • Patent number: 12222421
    Abstract: An object recognition apparatus includes a light source, an image sensor, a control circuit, and a signal processing circuit. The control circuit causes the light source to emit first light toward a scene and subsequently emit second light toward the scene, the first light having a first spatial distribution, the second light having a second spatial distribution. The control circuit causes the image sensor to detect first reflected light and second reflected light in the same exposure period, the first reflected light being caused by reflection of the first light from the scene, the second reflected light being caused by reflection of the second light from the scene. The signal processing circuit recognizes an object included in a scene based on photodetection data output from the image sensor, and based on an object recognition model pre-trained by a machine learning algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumiko Kato, Satoshi Sato, Yoshihide Sawada
  • Patent number: 12225310
    Abstract: An image pickup module including an imaging device which includes: a first photoelectric converter that converts incident light into first signal charges; a first node into which the first signal charges are input; a second photoelectric converter that converts incident light into second signal charges; and a second node into which the second signal charges are input. The image pickup module further including a signal processing circuit that processes an output signal from the imaging device, where an area of the second photoelectric converter is greater than an area of the first photoelectric converter in a plan view, and capacitance of the first node is greater than capacitance of the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tokuhiko Tamaki
  • Patent number: 12220984
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to example systems and methods for operating a see-through display for a vehicle. An example system includes a video camera positioned to capture video related to a vehicle structure that blocks a view of the driver. The system also includes a see-through display disposed inside the vehicle between the vehicle structure and the driver. The system also includes a processor configured to determine an eye position of the driver and process the captured video based on the eye position to determine a portion of the captured video to be displayed. The processor is to render the portion of the captured video to create a see-through effect relative to the vehicle structure. To determine the eye position, the processor receives user input for adjusting the portion of the captured video to create a match between the rendered portion and an unobstructed view of the external environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: Rajendramayavan Rajendran Sathyam, Jin Woo Jung
  • Patent number: 12225518
    Abstract: This base station is provided with: a control circuit that generates information relating to a terminal group among a plurality of terminals, said terminal group being a target of transmission by non-orthogonal multiple access; and a transmission circuit that transmits the information relating to the terminal group during a period in which control information addressed to the plurality of terminals is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Jun Minotani, Takashi Iwai, Tomofumi Takata, Yoshio Urabe
  • Patent number: 12225576
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a resource allocation procedure, performed between a user equipment and radio base station. The UE is configured with at least one numerology scheme, each associated with parameters partitioning time-frequency radio resources into resource scheduling units differently. The UE is configured with logical channels each of which is associated with at least one numerology scheme. A receiver of the UE receives from the radio base station an uplink scheduling assignment, which indicates uplink radio resources usable by the UE. A processor of the UE determines for which numerology scheme the received uplink scheduling assignment is intended based on the received uplink scheduling assignment. The processor performs a logical channel prioritization procedure by allocating the assigned uplink radio resources to the configured logical channels and by prioritizing those logical channels that are associated with the numerology scheme for which the uplink scheduling assignment is intended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Prateek Basu Mallick, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12225668
    Abstract: A production data creation device includes an input unit and a setting unit. The input unit receives an input of one application from among a plurality of applications displayed on a screen. The setting unit sets one or more operation parameters used by a component mounter to mount a component on a board, on the basis of the input application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Shigaki, Taichi Shimizu, Takaaki Yokoi, Takuya Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 12225337
    Abstract: A loudspeaker arrangement for a seat within a motor vehicle utilizes one or more localized sound output ports for low frequency sound reproduction. A housing, such as an enclosure, substantially surrounds a loudspeaker. One or more audio transmission line channels acoustically interconnect the interior of the enclosure to one or more sound output ports. The enclosure is situated below, behind, or in some fixed location around or within a vehicle seat. The sound outputs ports are situated at or near a headrest such that the output ports are located substantially less than a wavelength of sound at the highest operating frequency from either ear of the seat's occupant. The acoustic response and resonances of a 1) rear enclosure, 2) a front vented enclosure, 3) a loudspeaker, and 4) an audio transmission path from the enclosure to one or more output ports are used to provide localized low frequency sound reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America
    Inventor: Mark William Ziemba
  • Patent number: 12224445
    Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a cylindrical battery in which a short circuit between an outer can and a sealing body can be suppressed. In a cylindrical battery (10) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a gasket (28) includes an extension part (29) extending from between a sealing body (17) and a tip (33a) on a radially inward side of a shoulder (33) of an outer can (16). The extension part (29) is arranged so that the gasket (28) intersects any straight lines connecting an upper surface (47) of the shoulder (33) opposite to the electrode body side in the axial direction and an upper surface (41) of an inner portion (40) opposite to the electrode body side in the axial direction, the inner portion (40) being located radially inward of the shoulder (33) in the sealing body (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shin Haraguchi, Oose Okutani
  • Patent number: 12224853
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to enabling and disabling of codewords in multi-subframe grants. In particular, dynamic and subframe based enabling/disabling of codewords is enabled even if other control parameters including the resource allocation is performed for multiple subframes. For instance, signal from a scheduling entity to a scheduled entity comprises control information including the resource grant common for multiple subframes and a plurality of codewords for each subframe, and a codeword indication indicating enabling or disabling of one or more codewords for each of the multiple subframes. For each subframe it is determined whether a codeword from the plurality of codewords in said subframes is enabled or disabled according to the codeword indication and/or which codeword is enabled or disabled. The indication of enabling and disabling may alternatively be done by using modulation and coding scheme indicator values which are not associated with a particular modulation and coding scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 12225512
    Abstract: In a base station, a signal allocating unit allocates downlink control signals (DCI) to a control channel region (CORESET) constituted by a plurality of control channel elements (CCEs), and a transmitting unit transmits the downlink control signals. In this case, the number of resource element groups (REGs) that constitute the CCE is a power of 2, and a bundling size indicating the number of REGs included in the REGs that constitute the CCE and arranged in adjacent resource blocks is a power of 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12225586
    Abstract: Provided are a user equipment (UE), a base station and respective transmission/reception methods for UE and base station. The UE comprises circuitry which, in operation, determines, based on a type of a transmission, a time interval between an outer boundary of a transient period for ramping of power to start or finish the transmission and a symbol on which a signal included in the transmission is to be transmitted; and a transceiver which, in operation, transmits the signal on the symbol; wherein the time interval and a time window for clear channel assessment (CCA) are non-overlapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Quan Kuang, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12225036
    Abstract: An anomaly detection server is provided. The anomaly detection server is a server for counteracting an anomalous frame transmitted on an on-board network of a single vehicle. The anomaly detection server acquires information about multiple frames received on one or multiple on-board networks of one or multiple vehicles, including the single vehicle. The anomaly detection server, acting as an assessment unit that, based on the information about the multiple frames and information about a frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle after the acquisition of the information about the multiple frames, assesses an anomaly level of the frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Haga, Hideki Matsushima, Manabu Maeda, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa, Junichi Tsurumi, Jun Anzai
  • Patent number: 12220231
    Abstract: An estimation device includes: M transmission antenna elements each transmitting a first transmission signal; N transmitter-receivers each including a reception antenna element and receiving, over a predetermined period, a first reception signal including a reflection signal that is the first transmission signal reflected by a first living body, using the reception antenna element; a memory storing training signals that are second reception signals obtained by causing the N transmitter-receivers to preliminarily receive second reception signals including reflection signals that are second transmission signals transmitted from the M transmission antenna elements to a second living body and reflected therefrom; a first vector calculator calculating a first vector for each training signal and each first reception signal by respective predetermined methods; and a circuit identifying the first living body or estimating an orientation of the first living body by a predetermined method, using correlation coefficient
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakayama, Shoichi Iizuka, Naoki Honma, Nobuyuki Shiraki, Teppei Hayashi, Kazuki Numazaki
  • Patent number: 12220790
    Abstract: An impact tool includes a motor, a control unit, an output shaft, a transmission mechanism, and an impact detection unit. The transmission mechanism includes an impact mechanism. The impact mechanism performs an impact operation according to magnitude of torque applied to the output shaft. The impact detection unit determines, based on at least one of an excitation current (current measured value) to be supplied to the motor or a torque current (current measured value) to be supplied to the motor, whether or not the impact operation is being performed. The control unit fulfills an impact response function by performing restriction processing in response to detection of the impact operation by the impact detection unit as a trigger. The restriction processing includes at least one of lowering the number of revolutions of the motor or stopping rotating the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Nakahara, Takashi Kusagawa, Takahiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 12223861
    Abstract: A gradient change detection system for a moving body for detecting a change in a gradient of a traveling path, the gradient change detection system includes a posture detection unit that detects a posture change amount in a rotation direction about a left-right direction with respect to a traveling direction of a moving body, and a gradient change detector that detects a change in a gradient of the traveling path based on the posture change amount or a variation amount in predetermined unit time of the posture change amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsui, Norikazu Katsuyama
  • Patent number: 12223237
    Abstract: An experiment of processing a device is performed to acquire type 1 information and type 2 information indicating processing conditions, and type 3 information and type 4 information indicating results of the processing, derive a first relation between the type 1 information, the type 2 information, and the type 3 information, and a second relation between the type 1 information, the type 2 information, and the type 4 information, and generate and output a model that estimates the type 4 information indicating a result of the processing by using the first relation and the second relation with the type 2 information and the type 3 information that are measured during the processing as inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroko Yoshida, Nobuo Hara, Koichi Wakitani, Akihisa Nakahashi
  • Patent number: 12224779
    Abstract: A transmission method is performed by a transmitter including antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Mikihiro Ouchi, Tomohiro Kimura, Yusuke Chinda, Kazuhiko Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12222252
    Abstract: A load sensor includes: an element part in which capacitance changes in accordance with a load; a copper wire drawn from the element part in order to detect change in the capacitance; and a fixation tool configured to fix the copper wire to the element part. The element part includes an electrically-conductive elastic body that is electrically conductive and that forms one pole for the capacitance, and the fixation tool presses and fixes the copper wire to a surface of the electrically-conductive elastic body so as to be movable with respect to the surface of the electrically-conductive elastic body in accordance with elastic deformation of the electrically-conductive elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Furuya, Yuta Moriura, Susumu Uragami
  • Patent number: 12225533
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides communication apparatus and communication method for control signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Rojan Chitrakar
  • Patent number: 12224959
    Abstract: Provided are a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus and methods thereof. The transmitting apparatus includes: circuitry, which, in operation, generates a signal including a first type of reference signal used for demodulation and a second type of reference signal used for demodulation; and a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the signal, wherein the first type of reference signal used for demodulation is mapped to a first resource, and the second type of reference signal used for demodulation is mapped to a second resource, the first type of reference signal used for demodulation is used for a first physical control channel and the second type of reference signal used for demodulation is used for a second physical control channel; or the first type of reference signal used for demodulation is used for PSCCH and the second type of reference signal used for demodulation is used for PSSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12225589
    Abstract: The present invention provides a terminal that can carry out a random-access process appropriately. A terminal (100) is provided with: a wireless transmission unit (108) that transmits a data signal; and a control unit (101) that determines a second resource for use in transmitting the data signal on the basis of a first resource for use in transmitting a preamble signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Tomofumi Takata, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12225588
    Abstract: A wireless station that belongs to a communication cell includes a receiver which, in operation, receives a trigger frame transmitted from an access point that belongs to an interference cell and a controller which, in operation, determines, based on at least one parameter included in the trigger frame and reception power value of the trigger frame received at the wireless station, whether the wireless station is allowed to transmit to other wireless station that belongs to the communication cell, wherein the at least one parameter includes a value set based on transmit power value of the trigger frame transmitted from the access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tomoya Nunome, Takashi Iwai, Yoshio Urabe
  • Patent number: 12220722
    Abstract: A coating die includes a manifold, a supply port, a discharge port, a supply passage, and a discharge passage. The manifold, the discharge passage, and the discharge port are longer in a first direction, and an outline of the manifold viewed from a second direction includes a first outline part to which the discharge passage is connected and also includes a second outline part located opposite the first outline part. The second outline part includes a first taper part tilted to be closer to the first outline part toward an end of the manifold. When the dimension in the first direction from a connection part at which the supply passage is connected in the manifold to the end is set to 1, dimension ratio of the first taper part in the first direction is 0.4 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoaki Hojo
  • Patent number: 12225283
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; an output interface that outputs information to a user; and a controller that controls the output interface, based on recording data and the image data generated by the image sensor, the recording data recording information on a first moving image, wherein the controller causes the output interface to output shooting assist information during shooting of a second moving image with the image sensor, the shooting assist information assisting the user to match the second moving image with the first moving image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Yamasaki, Shinichi Yamamoto, Kyosuke Osuka, Yuichi Suzuki, Akira Seto
  • Patent number: 12220248
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes an obtainer that obtains detected information from a sensor that detects sleep of a user; a sleep determiner that determines whether the user is in a sleep state, based on the detected information; a manager that is connected to an appliance via a network, and obtains state information indicating an operation state of the appliance; an appliance determiner that determines whether the state information is different from predetermined normal information indicating a normal operation state of the appliance, when the sleep determiner determines that the user is in the sleep state; and a notification controller that outputs a notification signal, when the appliance determiner determines that the state information is different from the normal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12225666
    Abstract: A work system includes a mounting system which mounts a component on a board and an unmanned conveyance system having an unmanned conveyance vehicle. The unmanned conveyance system includes a first notifier which notifies the mounting system of an arrival notification indicating that the unmanned conveyance vehicle transfers the feeder carriage to a position where an operation of connecting the feeder carriage to the base starts, and a first processor which causes the unmanned conveyance vehicle to travel in a direction away from the base upon receiving, from the mounting system, a connection completion indicating that a connection of the feeder carriage is completed. The mounting system includes a second processor which causes the connection mechanism to connect the feeder carriage upon receiving the arrival notification, and a second notifier which notifies the unmanned conveyance system of the connection completion upon being informed of completion of the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Ohori, Takashi Uchino, Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12222437
    Abstract: A radar transmitter transmits a radar signal through a transmitting array antenna at a predetermined transmission period, and a radar receiver receives a reflected wave signal which is the radar signal reflected by a target through a receiving array antenna. A transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna each include multiple subarray elements, the subarray elements in the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna are linearly arranged in a first direction, each subarray element includes multiple antenna elements, the subarray element has a dimension larger than a predetermined antenna element spacing in the first direction, and an absolute value of a difference between a subarray element spacing of the transmitting array antenna and a subarray element spacing of the receiving array antenna is equal to the predetermined antenna element spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Naoya Yosoku
  • Patent number: 12224460
    Abstract: A coin-shaped cell containing a battery cell case having a bottom plate and side portion; a sealing plate; a gasket compressed and interposed between the side and a rim portion; power generation elements sealed by the case, the sealing plate, and the gasket; and a pressure-sensitive conductive film disposed on an outer surface of one of the case and the sealing plate. The pressure-sensitive conductive film includes a first elastomer layer that holds conductive particles, and a second elastomer layer which is disposed on at least one surface of the first elastomer layer and is in contact with at least a part of the conductive particles. An average particle diameter of the conductive particles is equal to or larger than a thickness of an elastomer part of the first elastomer layer, and the conductive particles are disposed in a single layer in a planar direction of the first elastomer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Takahashi, Tomohiro Kiko, Rina Nakamura, Shuichi Ohtsubo, Kazuyuki Ohdate
  • Patent number: 12221536
    Abstract: A component (A1) thereof includes an epoxy resin having at least one of a naphthalene skeleton or a biphenyl skeleton. A component (A2) thereof includes a phenolic resin having at least one of the naphthalene skeleton or the biphenyl skeleton. A component (B) thereof includes a high molecular weight substance having structures expressed by at least formulae (b2) and (b3) out of formulae (b1), (b2), and (b3) and having a weight average molecular weight equal to or greater than 200,000 and equal to or less than 850,000. A component (C1) thereof includes a first filler obtained by subjecting a first inorganic filler to surface treatment using a first silane coupling agent expressed by formula (c1). A component (C2) thereof includes a second filler obtained by subjecting a second inorganic filler to surface treatment using a second silane coupling agent expressed by formula (c2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng Ping Lin, Toshiyuki Makita, Naohito Fukuya
  • Patent number: 12224142
    Abstract: This breaker device includes: a casing; an igniter configured to generate gas; a pusher located inside the casing and positioned below the igniter; a conductor including a separating portion positioned below the pusher; and an elastic member disposed to be positioned between the casing and the pusher to press the outer side surface of the pusher. In the state where the pusher is stationary after the pusher moves the separating portion downward under the pressure of the gas generated by the igniter, the pusher is located at a level below the elastic member, and the inner surface of the elastic member overlaps the pusher as viewed from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Nakamura, Shun Ito, Shinya Kimoto
  • Patent number: 12223774
    Abstract: A judgement method includes: selecting two or more living body judgement processes among a plurality of living body judgement processes; determining an order of executing the two or more selected living body judgement processes; executing the two or more selected living body judgement processes in the determined order; executing, in each of the two or more selected living body judgement processes: a processing of showing a subject an action required; a processing of acquiring a facial image containing a face of the subject when acting in accordance with the shown action; and a processing of judging whether the subject is of living body based on a feature of a section of the face contained in the facial image; and judging that the subject is of living body when judgement results obtained from the two or more selected living body judgement processes satisfy a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: SWALLOW INCUBATE CO., LTD., PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshikazu Ohno
  • Patent number: 12224090
    Abstract: A multilayer varistor has a stack structure including a plurality of layers stacked in a third direction. The multilayer varistor includes a first internal electrode electrically connected to a first external electrode, a second internal electrode electrically connected to the second external electrode, and a third internal electrode electrically connected to the third external electrode. The first internal electrode is disposed between the second internal electrode and the third internal electrode in the third direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Takamura, Sayaka Watanabe, Takeshi Fujii, Ken Yanai, Yuto Akiyama
  • Patent number: 12223785
    Abstract: An electric lock control method includes: performing a first determination of whether a person is present in a predetermined region surrounding an electric lock, based on first information generated by an electronic device; when it is determined that a first person is present in the predetermined region in the performing of the first determination, performing a second determination of whether the first person is a person who is permitted to unlock the electric lock, based on second information related to movement of the first person; and controlling a state of the electric lock based on a result of the second determination, the state being a locked state or an unlocked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Masashi Hisai, Manabu Maeda, Ryo Kato, Naohisa Nishida, Kenji Harada, Tomoyuki Haga, Yuji Unagami
  • Patent number: 12225654
    Abstract: A microwave heating device includes: a heating chamber for accommodating a heating target object, a microwave generator for generating a microwave, and a coaxial connector. The coaxial connector includes a center conductor, an insulator, and an external conductor. The center conductor is connected to an output terminal of the microwave generator. An air gap is defined between the center conductor and the insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Fukui, Takashi Uno, Fumitaka Ogasawara, Motoyoshi Iwata, Shinji Takano, Daisuke Hosokawa, Masayoshi Hiramoto
  • Patent number: D1061470
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Miki Kobayashi