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Patent number: 9320579
Abstract: Dental molded product for milling having excellent aesthetic quality, compatibility for machine and moldability from the moldable composition is provided. The dental molded product for milling is obtained by curing the moldable composition which includes a polymerizable monomer, a polymerization initiator, a first spherical inorganic filler and a second spherical inorganic filler. An average particle size of the first spherical inorganic filler is in the range of 0.2 to 10 ?m. A content of the first spherical inorganic filler is in the range of 50 to 85 mass %. An average particle size of the second spherical inorganic filler is in the range of 0.005 to 0.1 ?m. A content of the second spherical inorganic filler is in the range of 1 to 18 mass %.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 22, 2011
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
Inventor:
Masaya Tsujimoto
Patent number: 9326431
Abstract: In a server cooling device having a cold zone and a hot zone, a flow of cold air is determined depending on an air conditioner disposed in the hot zone and a size of a casing. A server cooling system is provided in which a chamber is substantially divided into two parts with a cold aisle formed in one part and a hot aisle formed in the other part, and a server rack is disposed on a boundary between the cold aisle and the hot aisle. The server cooling system includes: an air conditioner provided on the hot aisle side; a circulation path disposed so as to extend from the air conditioner to the cold aisle; and a shield provided on the boundary excluding the server rack. The shield is provided with a gallery capable of venting from the cold aisle to the hot aisle.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 11, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Takahiro Matsushita, Satoshi Uzawa, Hiroshi Tsujimura
Patent number: 9320333
Abstract: Provided is an automatic head care device that can reliably care a person's rear head. The automatic head care device includes a rear-head care unit, the rear-head care unit including contact units, each unit having a rotation gear rotating a plurality of contacts around a central axis of the rotation gear, a third arm rotatably holding the contact units, a cylindrical rack held between the contact units to be movable in an axial direction of the cylindrical rack, the cylindrical rack moving in the axial direction to rotate the rotation gears in opposite directions, and a motor for oscillating the contacts of the contact units by moving the cylindrical rack.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 25, 2012
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Osamu Mizuno, Soichiro Fujioka, Tohru Nakamura, Toshinori Hirose
Patent number: 9326392
Abstract: There is provided a display device comprising: a plate-type display section with a display surface; a front-surface plate placed on a front surface of the display surface; and a supporting portion for supporting the display section and the front-surface plate. The supporting portion includes a first surface adapted to support the front-surface plate, and a second surface which is formed in such a way as to rise up substantially vertically from the first surface such that the second surface faces a side surface of the display portion and, further, includes at least a rising base end portion thereof.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 20, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Yoshihiro Kawada, Kenichi Shindo, Ryo Yonezawa, Yoshinari Matsuyama, Hirofumi Sasaki
Patent number: 9320636
Abstract: A support device includes: a force measurement sensor structure which includes a shaft having first and second end sections, an intermediate element movably provided between the first and second end sections, first and second elastic members respectively provided between the first end section and the intermediate element and between the second end section and the intermediate element, a linear potentiometer detecting the one dimensional direction position of the intermediate element, and a gripping unit transmitting a force to the intermediate element in an interlocking manner with movement of upper or lower limb; a drive unit changing a load applied to the intermediate element; a control unit controlling the drive unit; and a wearable unit including a front frame provided on a front side of a user, a rear frame connected to the front frame, provided on a rear side of the user, and supporting the drive unit, and an arm suspending a wire which connects the force measurement sensor structure and the drive unit,
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 25, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Corporation
Inventors:
Go Shirogauchi, Hiromichi Fujimoto, Yoshiaki Ueda, Makoto Konishi
Patent number: 9322809
Abstract: An acoustic wave sensor includes a piezoelectric substrate, a transmitting electrode configured to excite a main acoustic wave propagating through a propagation region of an upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a receiving electrode configured to receive the propagated main acoustic wave, a first insulating film provided on the propagation region of the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a second insulating film provided on the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate to cover the first insulating film, and a reaction section provided on the upper surface of the second insulating film above the propagation region. The reaction section is configured to react with an object. A velocity of a transverse wave propagating through the first insulating film is higher than a velocity of a transverse wave propagating through the second insulating film. The acoustic wave sensor described above has high detection sensitivity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 15, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Tomoya Komatsu, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Shigeru Tsuzuki, Tomohiro Iwasaki, Tetsuo Kawasaki, Kazunori Nishimura
Patent number: 9321076
Abstract: A screen printing apparatus includes a substrate positioning part that upwardly and downwardly moves a substrate with the substrate clamped by a clamp member to thereby bring the substrate into contact with a mask stretched in a frame body and fixed in a predetermined height position from an underside of the mask and position the substrate in a predetermined height position, a mask suction part that is provided in the clamp member and sucks the mask in contact with the substrate, and a screen printing part that prints paste on the substrate through a pattern hole formed in the mask by sliding a squeegee on the mask to which the paste is supplied. The mask is pressed up by a predetermined amount through the substrate with the mask sucked by the mask suction part when the substrate is upwardly moved by the substrate positioning part.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 22, 2015
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Masayuki Mantani, Michinori Tomomatsu
Patent number: 9322116
Abstract: An apparatus for producing metal oxide nanofibers includes a jetting unit, a mixing unit, a heating unit, and a cooling unit. The jetting unit jets particles made of a metal. The mixing unit prepares a mixture by mixing the metal particles and a gas containing an oxidizing component that includes oxygen in molecules of the component. The heating unit heats the mixture to raise the temperature of the mixture up to a temperature at which the metal evaporates. The cooling unit cools the product thus-produced in the heating unit.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 25, 2011
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Masaya Nakatani, Makoto Takahashi
Patent number: 9322541
Abstract: A cooling structure can efficiently reduce heat, thereby suppressing temperature elevation in heat-producing electronic apparatuses, without using a heat sink or water-cooling jacket, and which can achieve their downsizing or weight reduction. The cooling structure includes: a heat conduction layer which is formed by coating a first paste on a surface of a heat-producing object; and a heat radiation layer which is formed by coating a second paste on a surface of the heat conduction layer. The heat conduction layer includes a first resin and a first filler, and a heat conductivity ? of the heat conduction layer is 1.0 W/(m·K) or more. The heat radiation layer includes a second resin and a second filler, and an infrared emissivity ? of the heat radiation layer is 0.7 or more.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 12, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Hirohisa Hino, Arata Kishi, Honami Nawa
Patent number: 9322564
Abstract: A refrigeration managing apparatus that can reduce the time taken to determine refrigerant piping groups which connect refrigerant supply devices and cooling devices is provided. When determining cooling devices connected to refrigerant supply devices using refrigerant pipes, the refrigeration managing apparatus detects changes in the temperatures of evaporators of the cooling devices when the refrigerant supply devices are operated/stopped in accordance with change patterns which are stored in advance, which are determined on the basis of the number of refrigerant supply devices, and in which the states of the refrigerant supply devices are changed with time by being switched between an in-operation state and a stopped state.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 29, 2012
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Inventor:
Osamu Kanbara
Patent number: 9322583
Abstract: The oil separator 11 separates oil in the refrigerant discharged from the compressor 4 and returns the oil back to the compressor 4. And includes a tank 21 into which refrigerant discharged from the compressor 4 flows, a float 24 whose inside is hollow formed by welding a plurality of members and made vertically movable according to the changes in the oil surface 20 inside the tank 21, and a needle valve 29 that returns oil inside the tank 21 to the compressor 4 according to the vertical movement of the float 24. The float 24 is provided such that the end point 24E of the welded portion comes above the oil surface 20.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 25, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
Inventor:
Rikio Tadano
Patent number: 9322716
Abstract: A component measuring apparatus includes a plurality of light sources having different Wavelengths. The component measuring apparatus also includes an irradiation unit that applies lights emitted from the plural light sources to a measurement object, and a light receiving unit that receives at least one of light having transmitted through the measurement object and light having been scattered from the measurement object. The component measuring apparatus further includes a measuring unit that measures intensity of the light received by the light receiving unit per wavelength.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 18, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Inventors:
Koichi Kusukame, Tatsuo Itoh, Kazuki Funase
Patent number: 9324331
Abstract: Provided are a coding device, a communication processing device, and a coding method, whereby processing operation load (computational load) is significantly reduced for a configuration which computes either frame energy or sub-frame energy of an input signal, using auto-correlation operations, without causing a decline in the precision of either the frame energy or the sub-frame energy. In a coding device (101), a sub-frame energy computation unit (201) computes the sub-frame energy by substituting the sum of input signal auto-correlation operations in a first range with the sum of auto-correlation operations in a second range which differs at least partially from the first range.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 14, 2011
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Inventors:
Tomofumi Yamanashi, Toshiyuki Morii
Patent number: 9322882
Abstract: An analog measurement data detection system according to the present invention includes: a reference voltage generation circuit configured to generate and output a reference voltage; an analog/digital converter configured to compare an analog signal with the reference voltage outputted from the reference voltage generation circuit, and based on a differential voltage between the analog signal and the reference voltage, generate and output a digital signal corresponding to the analog signal. The reference voltage generation circuit is configured to cause the reference voltage to have such a temperature characteristic as to compensate for temperature characteristics of at least the analog/digital converter and the reference voltage generation circuit.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 27, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Inventor:
Fumihito Inukai
Patent number: 9322905
Abstract: A radar transmitting unit Tx transmits a radio-frequency radar transmission signal from a transmission antenna which is inclined in the direction of a depression angle ?. A radar receiving unit Rx estimates the height and speed of a vehicle which travels on a road surface using a reflected wave signal from the vehicle. A template generating unit generates a variation in a phase component of the reflected wave signal corresponding to N heights and speeds of the vehicle as N templates. N vehicle height/speed template correlation calculation units #1 to #Nrep calculate correlation on the basis of any one of the N templates and a correlation value between the reflected wave signal and a transmission code of the radar transmission signal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 12, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Corporation
Inventors:
Takaaki Kishigami, Takafumi Tokuhiro, Tadashi Morita
Patent number: 9323062
Abstract: A split unit capable of providing a stereoscopic image having less laterality is provided. The split unit includes: a beam splitter which transmits first imaging light as a part of light incident on an incident surface of the beam splitter, and reflects second imaging light as another part of the light incident on the incident surface; and a reflecting member which reflects the second imaging light reflected by the beam splitter. At least one of a reflectance of the reflecting member and a beam splitting characteristic of the beam splitter is set based on the following formulae: T=d/(1+d) R=1?T where T (0?T?1) is a transmittance of the beam splitter, R (0?R?1) is a reflectance of the beam splitter, and d (0?d?1) is a reflectance of the reflecting member.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 16, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Yuji Nagaishi, Hiroaki Shimazaki, Kenjiro Tsuda, Takashi Masuno, Osamu Kajino
Patent number: 9323093
Abstract: A display device for displaying information to a user in correspondence with a display signal. The display device includes an LCD receiving the display signal and displaying information in accordance with the display signal. The display device additionally includes a capacitive touch panel having an electrically conductive surface. The capacitive touch panel provides a signal corresponding to the location of an object touching or placed in close proximity to the surface of the capacitive touch panel for providing user input. A chassis supports the LCD and capacitive touch panel in the device. A capacitor capacitively connects the electrically conductive surface of the capacitive touch panel to the chassis.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 27, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Avionics Corporation
Inventors:
Loi Quang Ninh, Vic Wu, Wenkai Hsu, Curtis Le
Patent number: 9323129
Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to increase a frame speed at the time of performing continuous shooting in a shutter drive device by controlling a charge member by using a position sensor and a temperature sensor. The shutter drive device of the present disclosure includes: a shutter mechanism; a charging member that drives the shutter mechanism by using a plurality of gears, a rack member, and a motor; the temperature sensor mounted on the charging member; a position sensor that is mounted on the charging member, and detects the rack member moved to a predetermined position; and a control part that controls stop timing of the motor based on a position of the rack member detected by the position sensor and a temperature detected by the temperature sensor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 2, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Yasuhiro Nakagai, Hiroki Aono, Yoshihiro Nakajima
Patent number: 9323343
Abstract: An information processing method is performed by an information processing apparatus, for executing predetermined processing in relation to an object displayed on a screen. The information processing method includes: obtaining position information indicating positions detected for two or more parts of an operating body; calculating a control amount on a basis of the positions of the two or more parts, the positions being indicated in the position information; and controlling including displaying, on the screen, a control symbol including a first symbol which represents the control amount calculated in the calculating and a second symbol which represents a threshold to be a criterion for determining whether or not the control amount satisfies a predetermined condition, and executing the predetermined processing in a case where the control amount is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 23, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Inventors:
Hiroyasu Imoto, Masaki Yamauchi
Patent number: 9323434
Abstract: An integrated user interface system being disposed at a chair and methods for manufacturing and using same. The user interface system comprises one or more interface elements that are disposed at an armrest or other suitable chair location and that are obscured from view or otherwise de-emphasized when a user is distal from the user interface system. At least one selected interface element becomes emphasized when a user hand becomes proximate to the user interface system. The selected interface element can become emphasized, for example, by becoming visible and/or by forming a raised projection. Upon becoming emphasized, the selected interface element is activated for use and can be manipulated to interact with available system resources. The chair advantageously can appear to be an ordinary chair when the user interface system is not in use and can present the user interface system when the user wishes to access the system resources.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 22, 2015
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Avionics Corporation
Inventor:
Steven Lee Sizelove
Patent number: 9323277
Abstract: A current output circuit includes a current mirror circuit that has first and second transistors in each of which a source is connected to a reference voltage, and that outputs a current which is proportional to a drain current of the first transistor, from a drain of the second transistor; a switch that turns ON/OFF the current output of the current mirror circuit; a third transistor in which a gate is connected to a gate of the second transistor; and a bias circuit that applies a first voltage to a drain of the third transistor. The bias circuit switches the first voltage to two different voltages in synchronization with opening/closing of the switch.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 5, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC CORPORATION
Inventors:
Hiroshi Komori, Noriaki Saito
Patent number: 9323289
Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided in which a touch panel and a liquid crystal display panel are placed under a front window. A touch-panel flexible wiring substrate is connected to the touch panel, and a main flexible wiring substrate is connected to the liquid crystal display panel. The main flexible wiring substrate includes a touch-panel control IC and a touch-panel electronic component group to control the touch panel. The touch-panel flexible wiring substrate includes only lines. In this configuration, there is only one flexible wiring substrate, or the main flexible wiring substrate, on which the electronic components are mounted. As a result, the production cost of the liquid crystal display device as a whole can be reduced.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 14, 2010
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignees:
Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., LTD
Inventor:
Eiji Oohira
Patent number: 9323294
Abstract: An electrostatic capacitive coupling type touch panel including an input region having four sides, a peripheral region around the input region, terminals formed in the peripheral region along a first side of the input region, wirings formed in the peripheral region along second, third and fourth sides of the input region, and the input region having X and Y electrodes crossing. The wirings are connected between corresponding X or Y electrodes and wiring terminals plurality of terminals. A dummy wiring, which is not connected to any of the X electrodes or Y electrodes, is provided outside the wiring formed in a farthest position from the input region, and the dummy wiring extends through the peripheral region along the second, third and fourth sides of the input region, and electrically connects to at least one dummy wiring terminal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 12, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignees:
Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., LTD
Inventors:
Hiroshi Esaka, Shouji Ikeda, Kouichi Anno
Patent number: 9323496
Abstract: An electronic device includes an image capturing unit configured to generate captured data, a display unit, a communication unit configured to transmit image data based on the generated captured data to an external device, and a controller. When transmitting first image data resulting in a first delay on transmitting the first image data to the external device, the controller causes an image which corresponds to the first image data and is based on the captured data to be displayed on the display unit. When transmitting second image data resulting in a second delay larger than the first delay on transmitting the second image data to the external device, the controller causes an image other than an image corresponding to the second image data to be displayed on the display unit.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 29, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellctual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventor:
Masafumi Nosaka
Patent number: 9324259
Abstract: The invention provides an image display device that has an especially satisfactory display quality for animated images, and sufficiently suppresses the irregularities of display quality among pixels. The image display device includes a light emitting drive means that drives a light emitting means, based on an analog display signal inputted to the pixels, and a light emitting control switch for controlling a light-on or light-off of the light emitting means on one end of the light emitting drive means in each pixel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 24, 2015
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignees:
Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Hajime Akimoto, Yoshirou Mikami, Kiyoshige Kinugawa, Shigeyuki Nishitani, Takeo Shiba
Patent number: 9324260
Abstract: The invention provides an image display device that has an especially satisfactory display quality for animated images, and sufficiently suppresses the irregularities of display quality among pixels. The image display device includes a light emitting drive means that drives a light emitting means, based on an analog display signal inputted to the pixels, and a light emitting control switch for controlling a light-on or light-off of the light emitting means on one end of the light emitting drive means in each pixel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 24, 2015
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignees:
Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Hajime Akimoto, Yoshirou Mikami, Kiyoshige Kinugawa, Shigeyuki Nishitani, Takeo Shiba
Patent number: 9324326
Abstract: A voice agent device includes: a position detection unit which detects a position of a person in a conversation space to which the voice agent device is capable of providing information; a voice volume detection unit which detects a voice volume of the person from a sound signal in the conversation space obtained by a sound acquisition unit; a conversation area determination unit which determines a conversation area as a first area including the position when the voice volume has a first voice volume value and determines the conversation area as a second area including the position and being smaller than the first area when the voice volume has a second voice volume value smaller than the first voice volume value, the conversation area being a spatial range where an utterance of the person can be heard; and an information provision unit which provides provision information to the conversation area.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 25, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Yuri Nishikawa, Kazunori Yamada
Patent number: 9324861
Abstract: A semiconductor device has on a semiconductor layer: a gate insulating film formed, extending from a second emitter region toward a buffer region beyond a first body region, and covering part of a drift region; and a gate electrode. The second emitter region contacts a first emitter region, and extends laterally to a portion under the gate electrode so as to be longer than a diffusion depth of the second emitter region and not beyond a lateral length of the first body region under the gate electrode, in an area from an end portion of the first emitter region closer to the gate electrode to a region under the gate electrode.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 30, 2015
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Teruhisa Ikuta, Akira Fukumoto
Patent number: 9324357
Abstract: A recording medium production device includes a substrate positioning pin vertically movable that performs positioning to a center-hole of a substrate; a substrate holding portion that performs positioning of substrate using the substrate positioning pin to hold the substrate; a cleaner having a gas ejection portion that ejects gas toward the surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding portion, and a gas suction portion that suctions gas; and a substrate positioning pin fixing portion that can press the substrate positioning pin downward. The fixing portion is configured so as not to contact an inner circumferential side surface of the center-hole of substrate. The substrate positioning pin fixing portion descends inside the center-hole of substrate held by the substrate, and presses and fixes the substrate positioning pin. Then the cleaner performs ejection and suction of gas.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 1, 2011
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Yuuki Tokunaga, Takehiko Toyota, Tatsuyuki Harada
Patent number: 9324523
Abstract: A power generation device includes a push button, a slider, a first spring, and a power generation unit. A first spring has a first end engaging the push button, and a second end engaging the slider. The power generation unit includes a first yoke member, a second yoke member, and a coil. The second yoke member includes a first movable member and a second movable member. The first movable member includes a first permanent magnet and is held in the slider. The second movable member includes a second permanent magnet and is held in the slider. The first yoke member is disposed between the first movable member and the second movable member. The coil is disposed to the outer periphery of the first yoke member.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 7, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Masaharu Matsumoto, Suguru Oishi, Koichi Nagahara
Patent number: 9325005
Abstract: A lithium nickel composite oxide, having small inner resistance, large battery capacity and high thermal stability, can be used as a positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The positive electrode active material is composed of the lithium nickel composite oxide of LibNi1-aMaO2 (wherein M represents at least one element selected from a transition metal element other than Ni, the second group element and the thirteenth group element; a satisfies 0.01?a?0.5; and b satisfies 0.9?b?1.1). This is obtained by filtering and drying the fired powder after water washing, wherein it is dried at 90° C. or lower, till moisture is reduced to 1% or less by mass in drying, and then at 120° C., and under gas atmosphere where content of compound components containing carbon is 0.01% or less by volume, or under vacuum atmosphere.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 28, 2010
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignees:
SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD., PANASONIC CORPORATION
Inventors:
Satoshi Matsumoto, Isao Abe, Yutaka Kawatate, Norihiro Yamamoto, Shinji Arimoto
Patent number: 9326385
Abstract: In resin coating used for manufacturing the LED package in which the LED elements is covered with a resin containing a phosphor, a translucent member 43 coated with a resin 8 on trial as light emitting characteristic measurement is mounted on a translucent member mounting unit 41 having a light source unit, and an excitation light emitted from the light source unit is irradiated onto the resin 8 coated on the translucent member 43, and a deviation between a measurement result obtained by measuring the light emitting characteristics of a light emitted by the resin 8 by a light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 and light emitting characteristics specified in advance is obtained, and an appropriate resin coating amount of the resin to be coated on the LED elements as real production is calculated on the basis of the deviation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 11, 2011
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Inventor:
Masaru Nonomura
Patent number: 9324913
Abstract: A nitride semiconductor structure includes: a plurality of crystal growth seed regions formed of a nitride semiconductor, of which the principal surface is an m-plane and which extends to a range that defines an angle of not less than 0 degrees and not more than 10 degrees with respect to an a-axis; and a laterally grown region formed of a nitride semiconductor which has extended in a c-axis direction from each of the plurality of crystal growth seed regions. An S width that is the spacing between adjacent ones of the plurality of crystal growth seed regions is at least 20 ?m.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 2, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Songbaek Choe, Shunji Yoshida, Toshiya Yokogawa
Patent number: 9325288
Abstract: In a wireless communication device, baseband variable gain amplifiers amplify a baseband signal. Mixers convert the amplified baseband signal into a high-frequency transmission signal. Hybrid variable gain amplifiers amplify an in-phase local signal and an orthogonal local signal which are input to the mixers. The level detection controller changes respective gains of the baseband variable gain amplifiers and the hybrid variable gain amplifiers, in response to power of the high-frequency transmission signal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 3, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Corporation
Inventor:
Takayuki Tsukizawa
Patent number: 9324757
Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: pixels arranged in a matrix, a semiconductor substrate; a first electrode formed above the semiconductor substrate for each of the pixels; a photoelectric conversion film formed on the first electrode, for photoelectric conversion of light into signal charge; a charge accumulation region formed in the semiconductor substrate for accumulating the signal charge generated through the photoelectric conversion in the photoelectric conversion film; a contact plug for electrically connecting the first electrode and the charge accumulation region in a corresponding pixel; a high-concentration impurity region formed on a surface of the charge accumulation region, in a region in contact with the contact plug; a surface impurity region formed on the surface of the charge accumulation region, in a region not in contact with the contact plug; and a low-concentration impurity region formed between the high-concentration impurity region and the surface impurity region.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 16, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Mitsuyoshi Mori, Yutaka Hirose, Yoshihisa Kato, Yusuke Sakata, Hiroshi Masuda, Ryohei Miyagawa
Patent number: 9324778
Abstract: A variable inductor includes a spiral inductor, a loop conductor, and a switch for opening or short-circuiting an end of the loop conductor. The loop conductor is formed in a direction perpendicular to the spiral inductor and is used for adjusting the inductance value of the spiral inductor by opening or short-circuiting the end of the loop conductor by the switch.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 26, 2012
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Corporation
Inventors:
Junji Sato, Koichi Mizuno, Suguru Fujita
Patent number: 9324837
Abstract: A gate electrode is formed in a trench reaching a drain region so as to leave a concave portion on the top of the trench. A first insulating film is formed, which fills the concave portion and of which the thickness increases as the distance from an end of the trench increases on the substrate surface on both sides of the trench. First and second source regions are formed in a self-alignment manner by introduction of impurities through the first insulating film.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 26, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Shuji Mizokuchi, Ryousuke Ookawa, Naoki Sato
Direct current power line communication system and direct current power line communication apparatus
Patent number: 9325376
Abstract: Disclosed is a direct current power line communication apparatus, by which communication between electronic apparatuses with a direct current voltage line there between can be stabilized. The direct current power line communication apparatus, i.e., a direct current power line communication apparatus that transmits signals using the direct current voltage line (15a), is provided with: a PLC communication control unit (29), which controls the transmitting unit (27) connected to the direct current voltage line (15a); and a voltage detecting unit (30), which detects the voltage of the direct current voltage line (15a), and notifies the PLC communication control unit (29) of the detected voltage. The PLC communication control unit (29) transmits information, including the voltage information, to other direct current power line communication apparatus via the transmitting unit (27).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 27, 2012
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Shigekiyo Nosaka, Hisao Koga, Ryota Yukizane
Patent number: 9325386
Abstract: Coil units equipped with primary coils having the same specification are provided in a power feeding module. Coil-unit intermeshing recess sections are formed on a printed circuit board to match each of the coil units. Pads for joining together with electrodes formed on the coil units are formed on the bottom faces of each of the coil-unit intermeshing recess sections. A plurality of coil units can be mounted onto the printed circuit board easily, by fitting each of the coil units into each of the coil-unit intermeshing recess sections and joining them together, which will enable manufacturing efficiency to be improved.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 11, 2012
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Hideaki Abe, Hiroyuki Yagyu, Wataru Tanaka, Shinichi Abe
Patent number: 9325396
Abstract: A transmission method for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. Each signal has been modulated according to a different modulation scheme. The transmission method applies precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix, applies different power change to each signal, and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 11, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Inventors:
Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
Patent number: 9325257
Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to reduce variance of a voltage to be applied between the terminals of each of the power semiconductor elements, and to improve lifetime of the power semiconductor elements and reliability of the power semiconductor device. In order to achieve the purpose, in this power semiconductor device, which is provided with three or more power semiconductor elements that are aligned and mounted on a metal wire, and another metal wire different from the metal wire, one terminal of each of the power semiconductor elements being connected to the wire and another one terminal thereof being connected to the other wire, the resistance value of the metal wire in a region where the power semiconductor elements are mounted is higher in the downstream side than that in the upstream side in the electric current flowing direction.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 9, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventor:
Yoshio Okayama
Patent number: 9324906
Abstract: There are prepared element characteristic information 12 obtained by previously, individually measuring light emission characteristics of a plurality of LED elements and resin coating information 14 that correlates an appropriate amount of resin to be applied for acquiring an LED package exhibiting a specified light emission characteristic and the element characteristic information 12. A map preparation processing section 74 prepares, for each board, map data 18 correlating mounting position information 71a showing position of the LED element mounted on the board by a component mounting device M1 and the element characteristic information 12. There is updated the resin coating information 14 on the basis of an inspection result fed back to a resin coating device M4 as a result of a completed product coated with a resin being inspected by a light emission characteristic inspection device M7.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 9, 2011
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Inventor:
Masaru Nonomura
Patent number: 9325460
Abstract: The present invention relates to triggering, in a terminal of a communication system, channel quality feedback reporting for at least one of plural component carriers of the communication system available for downlink transmission. The at least one component carrier is selected based on the downlink traffic of the terminal. Reporting of the channel quality information is triggered by dedicated control information received by the terminal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 7, 2010
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Inventors:
Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Joachim Lohr
Patent number: 9325475
Abstract: The present invention is a terminal capable of suppressing increase in transmit power required for transmitting a CSI report at a terminal while widely securing candidates for motion control.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 23, 2012
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Inventors:
Masayuki Hoshino, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Akihiko Nishio, Takashi Tamura
Patent number: 9325815
Abstract: A cordless telephone apparatus comprises a portable handset and a base station. The base station including a first wireless communication unit which, in operation, communicates data with a music player, a first control unit which, in operation, monitors a status of the music player and remotely controls the music player via the first wireless communication unit, a speaker which outputs audio data, an audio processing unit which, in operation, reproduces the audio data received by the first wireless communication unit from the music player and outputs the audio data to the speaker, a second wireless communication unit which wirelessly communicates data with the portable handset; and a second control unit which, in operation, controls the portable handset as an operation unit to remotely control the music player.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 19, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Hikaru Fukuda, Hideyuki Matsuo
Patent number: 9326364
Abstract: An illumination system includes an illumination device, a control unit for controlling a turn-on operation of the illumination device, and a terminal through which manipulation information of the illumination device is inputted by a user. The control unit includes an information extracting unit for extracting illumination information, within a period between a first moment prior to a falling-asleep time of the user and a second moment after a wakeup time of the user, from manipulation information and operation information of the illumination device stored in a memory unit, and an information transceiver unit for transmitting and receiving the illumination information to and the terminal. The terminal includes a terminal transceiver unit for transmitting and receiving the illumination information to and from the control unit, a display unit for displaying the illumination information received through the terminal transceiver unit and an input unit by which the manipulation information is inputted.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 15, 2015
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Hikaru Maeda, Takahiro Kurihara, Tomoaki Mannami, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Naohiro Toda, Kazuhiro Hatta
Patent number: 9325157
Abstract: A discharge electrode that generates ions when supplied with a voltage includes a first part, a second part, and a third part. The first part includes a basal end and a distal end. The second part includes a basal end, which is continuous with the distal end of the first part, and a distal end. The third part includes a basal end, which is continuous with the distal end of the second part, and a convex surface defining a distal surface of the discharge electrode. The first to third parts are formed integrally. The basal end of the first part is wider than the distal end thereof. The second part is rod-shaped and has a width that is constant from the distal end to the basal end of the second part. The width of the second part is the same as that of the basal end of the third part.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 19, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Industrial Devices SUNX Co., Ltd.
Inventor:
Keiji Kawada
Patent number: 9325197
Abstract: A coil module is disposed inside an electronic apparatus and receives prescribed power. The coil module includes a loop coil, a plate-like magnetic body that is disposed on the loop coil, and a conductive member that has prescribed conductivity and is disposed parallel with the plate-like magnetic body and on a surface, opposite to a surface on which the loop coil is disposed, of the magnetic body. The conductive member projects outward relative to at least a portion of a circumferential surface of the magnetic body.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 3, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
Inventors:
Takanori Hirobe, Yoshio Koyanagi, Hiroyuki Uejima
Patent number: D754835
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 22, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Akimasa Uehara, Satoshi Ousaka
Patent number: RE45989
Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer stack 13 formed on a substrate 11 and having a channel region, a first electrode 16A and a second electrode 16B formed spaced apart from each other on the semiconductor layer stack 13, a first gate electrode 18A formed between the first electrode 16A and the second electrode 16B, and a second gate electrode 18B formed between the first gate electrode 18A and the second electrode 16B. A first control layer 19A having a p-type conductivity is formed between the semiconductor layer stack 13 and the first gate electrode 18A.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 10, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignee:
PANASONIC CORPORATION
Inventors:
Tatsuo Morita, Manabu Yanagihara, Hidetoshi Ishida, Yasuhiro Uemoto, Hiroaki Ueno, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Daisuke Ueda