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: 11971546
    Abstract: An image encoder performs a first partitioning including using a first partition mode, without writing first splitting information indicative of the first partition mode into a bitstream, to split a first block into a plurality of second blocks in response to that the first block is located adjacent to an edge of a picture and that the dimensions of the first block satisfy a first condition; and performs a second partitioning on the second block by writing second splitting information indicative of a second partition mode into the bitstream, wherein the second partition mode allows at least one of a quad tree splitting and a binary splitting, and using the second partition mode to split the second block into a plurality of coding units (CUs), wherein the second partition mode prohibits the quad tree splitting of the second block in certain conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kanoh, Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11971647
    Abstract: To provide an opening and closing structure for an insertion port in an electronic apparatus and an electronic apparatus that allow a user to easily recognize high quality. An opening and closing structure for an insertion port in an electronic apparatus includes: an opening and closing lid that opens and closes an insertion port; a shaft member that functions as a rotation axis of the opening and closing lid; a support member that rotatably supports the shaft member; and a biasing member that biases the opening and closing lid in an opening direction, in which the shaft member is press-fitted into the opening and closing lid with a first press-fitting margin, and is press-fitted into the support member with a second press-fitting margin different from the first press-fitting margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yutaro Itadani
  • Patent number: 11973932
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: determines whether an image format of a video is a format including a chroma component; when it is determined that the image format is a format including a chroma component, signals a flag indicating whether application of JCCR is allowed or not in a header of a stream, and (i) encodes the video with application of the JCCR allowed, or (ii) encodes the video with application of the JCCR not allowed; and when it is determined that the image format is a format including no chroma component, signals no flag indicating whether application of the JCCR is allowed or not in the header of the stream, and encodes the video with application of the JCCR not allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Yusuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11973188
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The non-aqueous electrolyte contains a lithium salt and a carboxylic acid, and the lithium salt includes lithium difluorophosphate. The content of the carboxylic acid in the non-aqueous electrolyte is 5 ppm or more and 900 ppm or less with respect to the mass of the non-aqueous electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuko Nozaki, Tasuku Ishiguro, Tomohisa Okazaki
  • Patent number: 11972910
    Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes an electrode foil and a lead member connected to the electrode foil. The electrode foil has a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposite to the first principal surface. The electrode foil and the lead member are connected by a caulking part in an overlapping part in which the first principal surface of the electrode foil and the lead member overlap each other. The caulking part has a through-hole penetrating the electrode foil and the lead member. The electrode foil in the caulking part includes a first folded part that is folded back at a peripheral edge portion of the through-hole to be disposed on the second principal surface. The lead member in the caulking part includes (i) a penetrating part that penetrates the electrode foil and (ii) a second folded part that is folded back at an end portion of the penetrating part to be disposed on the second principal surface. The penetrating part includes an inner wall of the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Otsuka, Masahiro Aburaya, Tatsuji Aoyama, Tomoyuki Tashiro
  • Patent number: 11970172
    Abstract: An information processing method to be executed by a computer includes: obtaining a driving skill of a person who rides an autonomous vehicle, which represents at least one of whether the person can drive a manually-drivable autonomous vehicle or a level at which the person can drive; obtaining specifications of autonomous vehicles about autonomous driving; obtaining a route for transporting the person; determining deviation risks, each of which includes at least one of a possibility of deviation of an autonomous driving system including a corresponding one of the autonomous vehicles from an operational design domain or a degree of the deviation, based on the specifications and the route; selecting an autonomous vehicle assigned to transportation of the person from the autonomous vehicles according to each of the deviation risks and the driving skill; and sending a notification of the selected autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota Ohnishi, Hiroaki Urabe
  • Patent number: 11973706
    Abstract: A transmitting method includes: configuring a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating time resources and frequency resources to a plurality of transmission data; and transmitting the frame, wherein the frame includes a first period in which a preamble which includes information on a frame configuration of the frame is transmitted, and a second period in which the plurality of transmission data are transmitted by at least one of time division and frequency division, and among the plurality of OFDM symbols, OFDM symbols included in the second period include pilot symbols arranged along a time axis with a predetermined spacing therebetween, and a predetermined number of data symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Yoshio Urabe, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11972917
    Abstract: A disconnect device includes: a conductor connectable to an external conductive path; a housing that has an internal space and accommodates at least a part of the conductor; and a cooling body that is disposed in the internal space and cools an arc generated in the internal space. The cooling body includes a porous body configured with at least one of a metal oxide and an inorganic oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Nakamura, Shun Ito, Shinya Kimoto, Katsuya Uruma
  • Patent number: 11973303
    Abstract: A laser apparatus includes at least one electro-optic (EO) medium through which a polarized laser beam passes for N times, forming a plurality of first-pass to Nth-pass beams, by reflecting the polarized laser beam from at least one reflection mirror, and a power supplier configured to alternately provide a 1/N of a half-wave (?/2) or quarter-wave (?/4) voltage and remove the voltage to the EO medium, ? being a wavelength of the polarized laser beam. The at least one EO medium is tilted at angle ? and/or angle ? with respect to one of the plurality of first-pass to Nth-pass beams. The at least one EO medium comprises a M number of EO mediums, and the power supplier is configured to alternately provide a 1/M*N of a half-wave (?/2) or quarter-wave (?/4) voltage and remove the voltage to each of the M number of EO mediums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Chang, Fangqin Li, Riccardo Leto
  • Patent number: 11969823
    Abstract: A laser processing apparatus sets a processing section passing through a target position on a processing surface, sets a measurement section centered on the target position in the processing section, sets a plurality of data acquisition positions that are trajectories perpendicular to a processing direction in the measurement section. The laser processing apparatus acquires pieces of measurement data indicating shapes of keyholes at the respective data acquisition positions during processing of the processing section, and projects the pieces of measurement data in the processing direction to be superimposed on each other to create projection data. The laser processing apparatus obtains the second instruction value in a direction perpendicular to the processing direction at the target position on the basis of the projection data. Therefore, it is possible to provide a laser processing apparatus and a laser processing method capable of accurately measuring a depth of a keyhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Yokoyama, Yohei Takechi
  • Patent number: 11973603
    Abstract: Provided is a base station that performs feedback with regard to data transmission. The base station includes a downlink feedback information (DFI) generation unit and a transmitter. On the basis of a resource allocation configuration that was configured by a terminal, the DFI generation unit determines a transmission method for feedback information that includes a response signal regarding uplink data. The transmitter transmits the feedback information on the basis of the transmission method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tomoya Nunome, Takashi Iwai, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11972359
    Abstract: A user management method according to the present disclosure includes: storing (S101) appliance use information including: appliance identification information for identifying an appliance; user information for identifying a user of the appliance; and an operating state of the appliance when the appliance was used; analyzing (S102) the appliance use information stored in the storing (S101) to identify, from among a plurality of functions of the appliance, one or more first functions each having a use frequency less than or equal to a threshold value; and providing (S103) the user with a notice which prompts use of the one or more first functions identified in the analyzing (S102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kotaro Sakata, Tomoaki Maruyama, Kenji Kondo, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Masayoshi Tojima
  • Patent number: 11973604
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) which comprises a transmitter that transmits at least one data packet based on a transmitting window having a transmitting window size. A receiver of the UE receives reception feedback regarding the at least one transmitted data packet. Processing circuitry of the UE determines, based on at least the received reception feedback, whether to change the transmitting window size for the transmitting window to be used at least for transmitting further data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ming-Hung Tao, Rikin Shah, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ankit Bhamri
  • Patent number: 11970117
    Abstract: A display system includes: an outputter that is provided behind a windshield of a conveyance in a front-back direction of the conveyance and includes an output surface from which image light is outputted toward the windshield; a reflector that is provided between the windshield and the output surface and includes a reflecting surface at which the image light outputted from the output surface is reflected; and optics that includes a polarizing plate and is provided on the windshield or between the windshield and the reflector, the polarizing plate absorbing or reflecting the image light outputted from the output surface and not reflected at the reflecting surface, and allowing outside light that is light outside of the conveyance to pass through the polarizing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Nagatomi, Norihiro Imamura
  • Patent number: 11973882
    Abstract: A control method includes: receiving first information pertaining to a first contract from a first terminal used by a first user who is one of two parties who have agreed to the first contract; when consent of a party aside from the two parties is required to validate the first contract, identifying a second user as the party aside from the two parties with reference to a ledger storing information pertaining to a past contract, and transmitting the first information to a second terminal operated by the second user; obtaining second information in which a confirmation result indicating whether the second user consents to the first contract and a digital signature of the second user are added to the first information; and confirming the second information, and when the confirmation result indicates consent, setting the first contract as a valid contract and storing the second information in the ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Junji Michiyama, Junichiro Soeda, Naohisa Nishida, Yuuki Hirose, Tetsuji Fuchikami, Motoji Ohmori
  • Patent number: 11974061
    Abstract: A display processing device is installed in a vehicle. The display processing device includes a hardware processor coupled to a memory. The processor acquires an image obtained by capturing a periphery of the vehicle and generates a bird's-eye view image of the periphery of the vehicle. The processor estimates a movement amount of the vehicle and generates past images whose capturing times are past time points. The past images are generated on the basis of the movement amount of the vehicle and a past bird's-eye view image. The processor generates a display image to be displayed on a display device in the vehicle by combining the past images and the bird's-eye view image. When occurrence of a skid phenomenon of the wheel is detected, the processor generates the display image by performing, on the past images, processing indicating that the skid phenomenon has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD., PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Okabe, Takanori Setsu, Toshihiko Hashinaga
  • Patent number: 11974070
    Abstract: A conversion method for converting luminance of a video, including a luminance value in a first luminance range, to be displayed on a display apparatus includes: acquiring a first luminance signal indicating a code value obtained by quantization of the luminance value of the video; and converting the code value indicated by the acquired first luminance signal into a second luminance value determined based on a luminance range of the display apparatus, the second luminance value being compatible with a second luminance range with a maximum value smaller than a maximum value of the first luminance range and larger than 100 nit. This provides the conversion method capable of achieving further improvement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadamasa Toma, Kengo Terada, Masayuki Kozuka, Takahiro Nishi
  • Patent number: 11974303
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a transmission device for transmitting data to a reception device in a communication system. The transmission device comprises circuitry which, in operation, allocates the data to a plurality of transmission time intervals, TTIs, respectively comprising a lower number of symbols than a slot and the plurality of TTIs including an initial TTI and one or more subsequent TTIs subsequent to the initial TTI, wherein the data allocated to each of the plurality of TTIs is the same, further allocates a demodulation reference signal, DMRS, to the initial TTI, and obtains a DMRS allocation for each of the subsequent TTIs indicating whether or not no DMRS is allocated to the respective TTI to be transmitted in addition to the data. The transmission device further comprises a transceiver which, in operation, transmits, within the slot, the data and DMRS in accordance with the DMRS allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Hongchao Li
  • Patent number: 11972741
    Abstract: Provided is a video reception method performed by a video reception apparatus including a display. The video reception method includes: receiving a reception signal multiplexed from a video signal and an audio signal; obtaining the video signal and first transfer characteristics information by demultiplexing the reception signal, the first transfer characteristics information being information for specifying, per random access unit, a transfer function corresponding to a luminance dynamic range of the video signal; obtaining video data by decoding the video signal obtained; and displaying the video data while controlling a luminance dynamic range of the display per random access unit according to the first transfer characteristics information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Noritaka Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11974330
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the prioritization of devices taking part in a multi-user random access wireless communication. Based on some known conditions, devices that comply with the conditions are given preferential treatment during the random access period. The preferential treatment may refer to the eligible devices being allowed to access more resource units during the random access, or it may also mean faster access to the medium during the random access. By taking advantage of the methods described in the present disclosure, it is possible to assign higher priority to selected frame types and/or device categories in a multi-user random access wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rojan Chitrakar, Yoshio Urabe, Lei Huang, Michael Hong Cheng Sim
  • Patent number: 11974171
    Abstract: A vehicle communication system includes a network adaptor that communicates with a communication network, a communication interface that communicates with multiple vehicles via multiple satellites, each vehicle comprising an antenna system for coupling to the satellites. The vehicle communication system is configured receive route data of the vehicles, and, for each vehicle, determine a future position of the vehicle based on the route data; identify a satellite available for communications with the vehicle at the future position; predict whether an antenna blockage event will occur between the identified satellite and the antenna system of the vehicle at the future position; designate the identified satellite as having the antenna blockage event; and transmit instructions to the vehicle to not use the identified satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pawel Pastuszak, Janet Lee King
  • Patent number: 11972554
    Abstract: A detection device includes an acquirer that acquires a video of each of a plurality of bearings of a structure including the plurality of bearings, an extractor that extracts a dynamic feature corresponding to a plurality of degrees of freedom of each of the plurality of bearings based on the video, and an identifier that identifies, among the plurality of bearings, a bearing whose dynamic feature fails to match a dynamic feature of one or more other bearings of the plurality of bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taro Imagawa, Akihiro Noda, Yuki Maruyama, Hiroya Kusaka
  • Patent number: 11971978
    Abstract: A vehicle network system employing a controller area network protocol includes a bus, a first electronic control unit, and a second electronic control unit. The first electronic control unit transmits, via the bus, at least one data frame including an identifier relating to data used for a calculation for obtaining a message authentication code indicating authenticity of transmission content. The second electronic control unit receives the at least one data frame transmitted vis the bus and verifies the message authentication code in accordance with the identifier included in the at least one data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Masato Tanabe, Takeshi Kishikawa, Tomoyuki Haga, Hideki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 11972706
    Abstract: An image display system includes semiconductor light sources that output optical signals including modulated signal portions at timings different from each other, optical fiber cables that respectively transmit the optical signals, a light synthesizer that synthesizes the optical signals to output a synthesized optical signal, a light amount detector that detects an output light amount of the synthesized optical signal, a modulated signal detector that detects the modulated signal portions from the detected output light amount, an image modulator that modulates the synthesized optical signal according to an input image signal to output a modulated image light, and a light source controller that outputs drive control signals for respectively outputting the optical signals respectively including the modulated signal portions according to the image signal, and detects a failure of the optical fiber cables based on whether a modulated signal portion among the plurality of modulated signal portions is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takaaki Gyoten
  • Patent number: 11973592
    Abstract: An FEC coder in a transmission device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure performs BCH coding and LDPC coding based on whether a code length of the LDPC coding is a 16 k mode or a 64 k mode. A mapper performs mapping in an I-Q coordinate to perform conversion into an FEC block, and outputs pieces of mapping data (cells). The mapper defines different non-uniform mapping patterns with respect to different code lengths even an identical coding rate is used by the FEC coder. This configuration improves a shaping gain for different error correction code lengths in a transmission technology in which modulation of the non-uniform mapping pattern is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventor: Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11972602
    Abstract: Provided is a method for performing accurate object recognition in a stable manner in consideration of changes in a shooting environment. In such a method, a camera captures an image of a shooting location where an object is to be placed and an object included in an image of the shooting location is recognized utilizing a machine learning model for object recognition. The method further involves: determining necessity of an update operation on the machine learning model for object recognition at a predetermined time; when the update operation is necessary, causing the camera to capture an image of the shooting location where no object is placed to thereby re-acquire a background image for training; and causing the machine learning model to be trained using a composite image of a backgroundless object image and the re-acquired background image for training as training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Shinzaki, Yuichi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20240132409
    Abstract: Provided is a composite member including: an inorganic matrix part made from an inorganic substance that includes at least one of a metal oxide or a metal oxide hydroxide as a main component, contains substantially no single metal and alloy, and is a diamagnetic substance or a paramagnetic substance; and a ferromagnetic material part that is present inside the inorganic matrix part, directly bonds with the inorganic substance making up the inorganic matrix part, and is made from a ferromagnetic substance. In the inorganic matrix part, particles of the inorganic substance are continuously present, and the inorganic matrix part has a larger volume ratio than that of the ferromagnetic material part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Natsuki SATO, Naoki KURIZOE, Ryosuke SAWA, Tatsuro YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240136498
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery has a positive electrode layer, a separator layer and a negative electrode layer. The all-solid-state battery satisfies relationships of “Formula (1): 0.99?Sa0/Sc0?1.01,” “Formula (2): 1.00?Sa1/Sa0?1.13,” and “Formula (3): 0.93?Sc1/Sc0?1.02.” Sc0 indicates an area of the positive electrode layer when the SOC is 0%. Sc1 indicates an area of the positive electrode layer when the SOC is 100%. Sa0 indicates an area of the negative electrode layer when the SOC is 0%. Sa1 indicates an area of the negative electrode layer when the SOC is 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio MITSUI, Kazuhiro MORIOKA, Koichi HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20240136511
    Abstract: An electrode material has a solid concentration of 72% or more. It includes a composite particle, a sulfide solid electrolyte, and a solvent. The composite particle includes an active material and a fluoride solid electrolyte. The fluoride solid electrolyte covers at least part of a surface of the active material. The sulfide solid electrolyte is adhered to the composite particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki YABE, Keita MIZUNO, Yusuke NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20240136517
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that is one aspect of the present disclosure is provided with a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, the positive electrode having a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode mixture layer that contains a positive electrode active material and that is formed on the surface of the positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode active material including a lithium-containing composite oxide represented by a prescribed general formula, the lithium-containing composite oxide having secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles, Ca being present on the surfaces and in the interiors of the secondary particles, and the proportion of Ca present on the surfaces of the secondary particles being 12-58% relative to the total amount of Ca present on the surfaces and in the interiors of the secondary particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ishikawa, Kaoru Nagata, Masanori Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20240136523
    Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a secondary battery includes composite particles. The composite particles include a lithium silicate phase and a silicon phase dispersed in the lithium silicate phase, wherein the silicon phase has lined portions in the lithium silicate phase, a maximum diameter D1 and a minimum diameter D2 of the lined portions satisfy 3?D1/D2. The composite particles include a metal Me dispersed in the lithium silicate phase, and the metal Me is at least one selected from the group consisting of Fe, Pb, Zn, Sn, Cu, Ni, Cr, Zr, and Ti.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keita Okazaki, Yohei Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20240132077
    Abstract: A determination system includes a determiner that determines whether sleepiness of a driver who drives a mobile body is normal, based on sleepiness data regarding the sleepiness of the driver and reference data regarding sleepiness used as reference for determining whether the sleepiness of the driver is normal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta INOUE, Yosuke MATSUSHITA, Keisuke NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20240136526
    Abstract: A negative electrode slurry for a lithium ion secondary battery, according to the present disclosure, is characterized by comprising a negative electrode active material, a thickener, a preservative component, and a solvent, the thickener comprising carboxymethyl-cellulose or a salt thereof, the solvent comprising water, and the preservative component comprising a compound having a tropone skeleton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Komi, Yukiho Okuno, Mitsuru Iwai, Shuji Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20240131836
    Abstract: A metal wire includes tungsten or a tungsten alloy. The metal wire has a diameter of at most 13 ?m, a tensile strength of at least 4.8 GPa, and a natural hanging length per 1000 mm of at least 800 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro KANAZAWA, Kazuhiro DAIJO, Kenshi TSUJI, Naoki KOHYAMA, Yui NAKAI
  • Publication number: 20240134983
    Abstract: A malware detection method for a home network system including one or more home appliances that are connected to a home network includes: obtaining a plurality of setting values including at least information indicating a device type and an operating state of a target device subject to malware detection; selecting one detection model out of a plurality of detection models according to the plurality of setting values obtained; obtaining power consumption or current consumption of the target device; and detecting whether the target device is infected with malware, based on stable power or stable current obtained in the obtaining of the power consumption or the current consumption using the one detection model selected in the selecting, when the power consumption indicates stable power that varies within a predetermined range or the current consumption indicates stable current that varies within a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ryo KATO, Manabu MAEDA, Tomoyuki HAGA, Naohisa NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240135406
    Abstract: A control method includes, by a computer: acquiring first information indicating a history of movement between hubs using a plurality of vehicles by a plurality of users; accepting second information indicating a request to move a vehicle from one hub to another hub; outputting a price of a reward to be paid to each of the users when a request indicated by the second information is achieved according to a matching rate calculated as a degree of coincidence between the first information of each user and the second information; and notifying of the second information and information indicating the reward of each user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Nobuaki TASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240133582
    Abstract: When a main body case is viewed from below, an antenna is within a rectangular/square area defined by first to fourth points. An opening edge of a first opening includes: a first edge linearly along a first direction; and a second edge linearly along a second direction perpendicular to first direction, first point is defined as an intersection of a first straight line and a second straight line, first straight line includes first edge, and second straight line includes second edge. Second point is defined as a point apart from first point in first direction by a distance that is half prescribed wavelength. Third point is defined as a point apart from second point in second direction by a distance that is half prescribed wavelength. Fourth point is defined as a point apart from first point in second direction by a distance that is half prescribed wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naotake YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240136675
    Abstract: A cylindrical battery having a bottomed tubular exterior can; an electrode body in the exterior can and around which a long positive electrode and a long negative electrode are wound with a separator therebetween; a plurality of negative-electrode lead parts extending from a long negative-electrode current collector of the negative electrode toward the bottom part of the exterior can; a first current-collector plate that is disposed on the bottom part side of the electrode body and that has at least two through-holes at the positions different from each other in the radial direction; and a second current-collector plate disposed between the first current-collector plate and the bottom part. The negative-electrode lead parts each pass through any one of the through-holes. Leading-end portions of the plurality of negative-electrode lead parts are sandwiched between the first current-collector plate and the second current-collector plate, and are electrically connected to the second current-collector plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Haraguchi, Oose Okutani, Ryota Okimoto
  • Publication number: 20240137642
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor configured to capture a subject image via an optical system to generate image data; an input interface configured to acquire a zoom amount indicating a degree of a zoom operation by a user for an optical system; a controller configured to scale a cropped image from the image data to change, from a first focal length, a second focal length, according to the zoom amount acquired by the input interface, the first focal length being formed by the optical system and the second focal length corresponding to an angle of view of the subject image in the image data; and a setting interface configured to set a setting range, based on a user operation input before the zoom operation, the setting range enabling the second focal length to change according to the zoom amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki YAMASAKI, Takakazu BITO
  • Patent number: 11968457
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device that has variable sensitivity and that acquires images with a sampling cycle; and a control circuit that controls the imaging device. The control circuit changes a sensitivity of the imaging device with a first cycle shorter than the sampling cycle. Based on control of the control circuit, the imaging device acquires a plurality of images of a subject with the sampling cycle. The subject includes a first component that changes with a second cycle different from the first cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuya Nozawa
  • Patent number: 11963558
    Abstract: A circuit mounted article to be fixed to a fabric is provided and includes a circuit board having flexibility, an electronic component mounted on a fabric facing face side, which faces the fabric, of the circuit board, and further a reinforcing portion to be used for fixing of the circuit mounted article to the fabric on the fabric facing face side of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Abe, Tomohiro Fukao, Tomoaki Sawada, Susumu Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11968470
    Abstract: A display system includes a conversion apparatus converting video luminance including a luminance value in a first luminance range and a display apparatus connected thereto and displaying the video. The conversion apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a first luminance converter, a second luminance converter, a quantization converter, and an output unit outputting a third luminance signal to the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Terada, Masayuki Kozuka, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11963772
    Abstract: A system includes: a light source that emits pulsed light that illuminates a user's head portion; a photodetector that detects at least part of pulsed light returning from the head portion and that outputs one or more signals corresponding to an intensity of the at least part; electrical circuitry; and a memory that stores an emotion model indicating a relationship between the one or more signals and emotions. Based on a change in the one or more signals, the electrical circuitry selects an emotion by referring to the model. The one or more signals include a first signal corresponding to an intensity of first part of the reflection pulsed light and a second signal corresponding to an intensity of second part of the reflection pulsed light. The first part incudes part before a falling period is started; and the second part includes at least part in the falling period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Suzuki, Takamasa Ando
  • Patent number: 11964294
    Abstract: A mist-generating device includes: a droplet generating unit that generates, in a third liquid, a functional droplet including a first liquid that is spherical and a second liquid that covers an entirety of the first liquid and has a volatility lower than a volatility of the first liquid; and a mist-generating unit that generates a multilayer mist obtained by atomizing the third liquid containing the functional droplet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Ueda, Tatsuya Kiriyama, Hiroaki Tachibana, Shogo Shibuya
  • Patent number: 11964339
    Abstract: A laser welding device includes: an irradiator configured to overlap laser light and measurement light coaxially with each other and apply the laser light and the measurement light to a weld part, a wavelength of the measurement light being different from a wavelength of the laser light; a measuring instrument configured to repeatedly measure a weld penetration depth of the weld part based on the measurement light that is emitted from the irradiator and reflected on the weld part so as to generate measured values; and a determiner configured to determine the weld penetration depth of the weld part based on (i) one or more measured values; or (ii) an average value of the one or more measured values, the one or more measured values being included within a predetermined range with reference to a greatest side measured value of the plurality of measured values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Sakai, Michio Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11966458
    Abstract: An authentication method is used by an automated driving system that includes a vehicle and an external device, the external device communicating with the vehicle to cause the vehicle to implement automated driving. The vehicle holds a first certificate that certifies validity of the vehicle. The external device holds a second certificate that certifies validity of the external device. The authentication method includes: validating a third certificate that certifies validity of a combination of the vehicle and the external device, in accordance with a result of device authentication performed between the vehicle and the external device by reference to the first certificate and the second certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ujiie, Hideki Matsushima, Makoto Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11967904
    Abstract: A polyphase power-supply device includes first to N-th DC-DC converters connected in parallel to each other between an input terminal and an output terminal and a switching controller configured to perform interleave control on the first to N-th DC-DC converters by supplying first to N-th pulse width modulation (PWM) signals to the first to N-th DC-DC converters, respectively, where N is any integer equal to or greater than two. A switching frequency of the first PWM signal is changed at a change time point at which a cycle of the first PWM signal starts. A length of a cycle of the k-th PWM signal firstly appearing after the change time point is shorter than lengths of subsequent cycles of the k-th PWM signal appearing the first cycle of the k-th PWM signal. This polyphase power-supply device has high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Tanaka, Takeshi Nakayashiki
  • Patent number: 11965735
    Abstract: A thickness measurement method includes: heating a surface of the measurement object in a dot shape by a heating device; generating a thermal image corresponding to a temperature of the surface of the measurement object by capturing an image of the heated surface of the measurement object at a predetermined time interval by an imaging device; acquiring temperature data indicating temporal changes in temperature at multiple positions on the surface of the measurement object based on the thermal image generated by the imaging device; fitting a solution function indicating a solution of a heat conduction equation corresponding to a point heat source and including a parameter related to the thickness of the measurement object to the temperature data; and calculating the thickness of the measurement object based on a value of the parameter in the fitted solution function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yousuke Irie, Hirotsugu Inoue, Koutaro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11964370
    Abstract: A control device is provided with a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit makes communication with a tool that is used for the work of fastening a fastener (for example, a screw) and with an image pickup unit for capturing an image of the work site where the work is being performed. The processing unit executes a determination process of determining whether or not the work is being performed normally on the basis of the fastening torque applied to the fastener by the tool and the image captured by the image pickup unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11968404
    Abstract: A data generation method is for generating video data that covers a second luminance dynamic range wider than a first luminance dynamic range and has reproduction compatibility with a first device that does not support reproduction of video having the second luminance dynamic range and supports reproduction of video having the first luminance dynamic range, and includes: generating a video signal to be included in the video data using a second OETF; storing, into VUI in the video data, first transfer function information for identifying a first OETF to be referred to by the first device when the first device decodes the video data; and storing, into SEI in the video data, second transfer function information for identifying a second OETF to be referred to by a second device supporting reproduction of video having the second luminance dynamic range when the second device decodes the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Virginie Drugeon, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma