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
  • Radiation receiving sensor and air conditioner, electronic cooker, and transport device including the same
    Patent number: 11041645
    Abstract: A radiation receiving sensor includes an infrared receiver including a plurality of infrared receiving devices that receive infrared radiation, a lens that allows infrared radiation to enter the infrared receiver, a rotator that rotates the infrared receiver and the lens about a part of the lens, and a cover member that faces the infrared receiver through the lens and that has translucency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Kusukame, Nawatt Silawan, Shinichi Shikii, Aki Yoneda, Kazuki Funase, Takahiro Fukunishi, Toshimitsu Koda, Norimasa Ishikawa, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Takanori Sugiyama
  • Insulating sheet, and backrest seat and cold weather garment employing the same
    Patent number: 11040643
    Abstract: A heat insulating sheet includes, a first sheet, a first heat insulator disposed on a main surface of the first sheet and including a first xerogel, a second heat insulator disposed on the main surface of the first sheet apart from the first heat insulator and including a second xerogel, and a second sheet disposed on the main surface of the first sheet to cover the first and second heat insulators. A first region of the heat insulating sheet provided between the first and second heat insulators viewing in a direction perpendicular to the main surface has an extensible rate larger than an extensible rate of each of the first and second heat insulators. The heat insulating property of this heat insulating sheet hardly degrades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihiro Kawamura, Kazuhiko Kubo, Yuuichi Abe, Takeshi Fujii
  • Information processing device and recording medium
    Patent number: 11043125
    Abstract: An information processing device in a first vehicle: detects a head-on approach of a second vehicle relative to the first vehicle; determines whether a meeting point is in a first section; calculates a first distance between the first section and the meeting point; when the meeting point is not in the first section, transmits the first distance to the second vehicle, and receives, from the second vehicle, a second distance between the meeting point and a second section; generates travel control information for the first vehicle according to the result of comparison between the first distance and the second distance; and outputs the travel control information to a travel controller of the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Eiichi Naito, Takenobu Aoshima, Shunsuke Kuhara
  • Electricity storage system and management device
    Patent number: 11043821
    Abstract: In a power storage system, a management device calculates a state of power (SOP) of a whole of a plurality of power storage blocks connected in parallel based on an SOP of each of the plurality of power storage blocks. At least one of the plurality of power storage blocks is disconnected from the power storage system, and when at least one switch is turned on to return at least one disconnected power storage block to the power storage system having the parallel-connected power storage blocks, the management device calculates an SOP of a whole of the power storage blocks after a return of the at least one power storage block based on a deviation in current between each of the power storage blocks including the at least one returned power storage block to determine an upper limit level of power or current flowing into a power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Nishikawa, Kazufumi Nishikawa, Tohru Watanabe
  • Skin analyzer, skin analysis method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
    Patent number: 11042726
    Abstract: A skin analyzer includes a facial part recognition unit that recognizes a facial part from a face image of a user captured by a camera; a UI unit that causes a display to display a UI in which a facial part mark indicating the facial part is disposed on a face image, and that accepts an operation with respect to the facial part mark; an analysis region setting unit that sets a skin analysis region for the face image based on a position of the operated facial part mark; and a skin analysis performing unit that performs a skin analysis on the set skin analysis region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsumoto, Hiroki Taoka, Ichiro Takei, Akio Nishimura
  • Optical system and light source device
    Patent number: 11041602
    Abstract: An optical system includes a plurality of lenses and a lens holding member. Each of the plurality of lenses has a cut-off face to have a shape of a partial circle formed by cutting off part of a periphery of a first circle. Cut-off faces of adjacent lenses face each other. The adjacent lenses have an interval between centers of the lenses is smaller than a diameter of the first circle. The lens holding member has an outer surface including a plurality of lens arrangement holes in which the plurality of lenses are respectively disposed. Adjacent lens arrangement holes are linked together to form a linked hole. The linked hole has a shape that represents part of a shape formed by disposing a plurality of second circles, the second circles being partially overlapped, each of the second circles having a diameter larger than a diameter of the first circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Minami
  • Information processing apparatus and method for conversion of video picture into text
    Patent number: 11042744
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtainer that obtains video picture data designated by a terminal apparatus from a storage apparatus storing video picture data of a video picture shot by a wearable camera attached to or owned by a police officer or by an on-vehicle camera mounted on a police vehicle, a converter that extracts voice data included in the obtained video picture data and converts the extracted voice data into text data, and a transmitter that transmits the text data to the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic I-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Hagio, Keiichi Miyazaki, Takae Oguchi
  • Imaging system, calibration method, and calibrator
    Patent number: 11043008
    Abstract: A calibrator for cameras includes a controlling circuit, a photographing circuit, a calculating circuit, and an instructing circuit. The controlling circuit is configured to control a movable body in a shooting area of the cameras. A marker is provided on the movable body for calibration of the cameras. The photographing circuit is configured to control the cameras to photograph the marker at a first position at a first timing to generate first images. The photographing circuit is configured to control the cameras to photograph the marker at a second position at a second timing to generate second images. The calculating circuit is configured to calculate parameters of the cameras based on the first images and the second images. The instructing circuit is configured to transmit the parameters to the cameras to calibrate the cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Koyama, Toshiyasu Sugio, Yoichi Sugino, Toru Matsunobu, Satoshi Yoshikawa
  • Docking cradle for a handheld computing device having multiple mounting orientations
    Patent number: 11042189
    Abstract: A docking cradle for a handheld computing device, such as a handheld controller, remote control, tablet computer, smartphone or other electronic device. The docking cradle is configured to be mountable to a horizontal mounting surface (e.g., a table or other horizontal surface), or a vertical mounting surface (e.g., a seatback or wall), while in either mounting orientation, the docking cradle holds the computing device in substantially the same orientation for convenient use and access by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Andrew Barnes
  • Positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery
    Patent number: 11043659
    Abstract: A positive electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode mixture layer which contains a positive electrode active material and is disposed on the positive electrode current collector. The void ratio of the positive electrode mixture layer is 30% or less, and the void ratio of secondary particles of the positive electrode active material is within a range of 30% or more and 70% or less of the void ratio of the positive electrode mixture layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidekazu Hiratsuka
  • Encoder, encoding method, decoder, and decoding method
    Patent number: 11044481
    Abstract: An encoder which encodes a current block of a picture includes a processor and memory. Using the memory, the processor: determines whether intra prediction is to be used for the current block; and when it is determined that intra prediction is to be used for the current block, generates first transform coefficients by performing first transform of residual signals of the current block using a first transform basis; quantizes the first transform coefficients when an intra prediction mode for the current block is a determined mode and the first transform basis is different from a determined transform basis; and generates second transform coefficients by performing second transform of the first transform coefficients using a second transform basis, and quantizes the second transform coefficients, when the intra prediction mode for the current block is not the determined mode or when the first transform basis matches the determined transform basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masato Ohkawa, Hideo Saitou, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh
  • Graphite plate and production method thereof
    Patent number: 11040883
    Abstract: Provided is a graphite plate, consisting essentially of: graphite; and pores, wherein said graphite plate has a porosity from 1% to 30%. Further provided is a method for producing a graphite plate, including: applying welding pressure to at least one glass-like carbon material in a state in which said at least one glass-like carbon material is maintained in an inert atmosphere under heating conditions, to produce a graphite plate having a porosity from 1% to 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kitaura, Naomi Nishiki, Atsushi Tanaka, Kimiaki Nakaya
  • Wireless communication system, wireless relay device and wireless communication method
    Patent number: 11044769
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless relay device that determines whether or not the wireless relay device has to withdraw from a first wireless multi-hop network to which the wireless relay device itself belong, transmits, in a wireless multi-hop, a request for a connection that uses wireless communication in compliance with a first communication scheme between the wireless relay device and at least one wireless base station, to a wireless base station on the first wireless multi-hop network, according to a result of the determination that the wireless relay device withdraws from the first wireless multi-hop network, and allocates the wireless communication in compliance with the first communication scheme between the wireless relay device and the at least one wireless base station according to a control signal that is transmitted from the wireless base station on the first wireless multi-hop network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kato, Yasuhiro Aoyama
  • Control apparatus for electric power tool including battery and dc brushless motor
    Patent number: 11043913
    Abstract: A controller apparatus for an electric power tool is provided where the electric power tool includes a battery and a DC brushless motor. The controller apparatus includes a current detector that detects an instantaneous current flowing in the DC brushless motor; a current calculator that calculates one of an average value and an effective value of the instantaneous current detected by the current detector; a current controller configured to utilize a result from the current calculator as a detected value; and a speed controller configured to generate a target value of the current controller. The controller apparatus further includes a limiter that limits the target value of the current controller, where the limiter is provided at an output stage of the speed controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumiiki Yoneda
  • Positive electrode active material containing lithium composite oxyfluoride and organosilicon compound, and battery including positive electrode containing the positive electrode active material
    Patent number: 11043661
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material contains a lithium composite oxyfluoride and an organosilicon compound binding to the lithium composite oxyfluoride. The organosilicon compound has insulation property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ishikawa, Ryuichi Natsui, Kensuke Nakura
  • Base station, terminal, and communication method
    Patent number: 11044711
    Abstract: In a base station, a transmission unit transmits a downlink control signal and downlink data assigned by the downlink control signal in a time unit including a downlink time resource for the downlink control signal, a downlink time resource for the downlink data, and an uplink time resource for a response signal for the downlink data. A reception unit receives the response signal in the time unit. A transmission bandwidth of the response signal is equal to or lower than a transmission bandwidth of the downlink data corresponding to the response signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Ayako Horiuchi, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Tomohumi Takata
  • Imaging device
    Patent number: 11043527
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: a first pixel and a second pixel that are arranged along a first direction and each include a photoelectric converter, a charge accumulator, a first transistor one of a source and a drain of which is connected to the charge accumulator, and a second transistor a gate of which is connected to the charge accumulator; a first line and a second line that each extend along the first direction; a first voltage supply circuit configured to generate a voltage between a first voltage turning on the first transistor of the first pixel and a second voltage turning off the first transistor of the first pixel; and a second voltage supply circuit configured to generate a voltage between a fourth voltage turning on the first transistor of the second pixel and a fifth voltage turning off the first transistor of the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidenari Kanehara, Yusuke Okada, Sanshiro Shishido, Kazuko Nishimura
  • Integrated circuit for transmission apparatus
    Patent number: 11043971
    Abstract: Disclosed are an encoder, a transmission device, and an encoding method with which the transmission amount is reduced and a deterioration in transmission efficiency is suppressed while improving reception quality when QC-LDPC or a like block encoding is used. A puncture pattern setting unit (620) searches for a puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of a sub block matrix that forms a check matrix (H) of a QC-LDPC code, and a puncture unit (data reduction unit) (630) switches the puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of the sub block matrix that forms the check matrix of the QC-LDPC code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Shutai Okamura
  • Imaging device
    Patent number: 11044433
    Abstract: An imaging device including an imaging cell including a photoelectric converter including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a first transistor one of a source and a drain of which is coupled to the first electrode; and voltage supply circuitry coupled to the other of the source and the drain of the first transistor, the voltage supply circuitry being configured to supply a first voltage in a first period and a second voltage different from the first voltage in a second period different from the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanshiro Shishido, Takeyoshi Tokuhara, Masaaki Yanagida
  • Charging device and on board power supply device
    Patent number: 11043831
    Abstract: A charging device includes an AC/DC converter, a first DC/DC converter, a second DC/DC converter, and an inductance element. The AC/DC converter is connected to an external power source and configured to convert AC power into DC power. The first DC/DC converter is configured to convert a voltage the DC power outputted from the AC/DC converter and supply the resultant DC power to a first battery. The second DC/DC converter is connected in parallel to the first battery on the output side of the first DC/DC converter, and configured to convert a voltage of the DC power outputted from the first DC/DC converter and supply the resultant DC power to a second battery. The inductance element is provided between the first DC/DC converter and the second DC/DC converter, and connected in series to the first DC/DC converter and the second DC/DC converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kominami, Nobuaki Satoh
  • Secure wireless vehicle parameter streaming
    Patent number: 11044177
    Abstract: An in-flight entertainment and communications (IFEC) system configured to stream vehicle operational parameters from avionics systems connected thereto. An avionics interface defines a node of an avionics bus, and the avionics systems are connectible to the avionics interface over the avionics bus to transmit aircraft operational parameters thereto as a raw stream of chronologically sequenced data elements. A data processor is connected to the avionics interface and a network interface, and is receptive to the aircraft operational parameters from the avionics interface. The data processor applies a variable filter that selectively passes a filtered data stream of aircraft operational parameters derived from the raw stream to a data storage device. The variable filter is defined by one or more filter parameters dynamically adjustable in response to changing conditions derived from the aircraft operational parameters. The filtered data stream is transmitted to the remote monitoring station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philip Watson, Steven Bates, Samuel Jester, Grant Edward Burrows
  • Encoder, decoder, encoding method, decoding method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 11044476
    Abstract: An encoder partitions into blocks using a set of block partition modes. The set of block partition modes includes a first partition mode for partitioning a first block, and a second block partition mode for partitioning a second block which is one of blocks obtained after the first block is partitioned. When the number of partitions of the first block partition mode is three, the second block is a center block among the blocks obtained after partitioning the first block, and the partition direction of the second block partition mode is same as the partition direction of the first block partition mode, the second block partition mode indicates that the number of partitions is only three. A parameter for identifying the second block partition mode includes a first flag indicating a horizontal or vertical partition direction, and does not include a second flag indicating the number of partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh, Chong Soon Lim, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Ru Ling Liao, Hai Wei Sun, Han Boon Teo, Jing Ya Li
  • Transmission device and transmission method
    Patent number: 11044131
    Abstract: A transmission device that improves data reception quality includes: a first pilot inserter that inserts a pilot signal into a first precoded signal; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×?? to the second precoded signal, where i is a symbol number and an integer that is greater than or equal to 0; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the second precoded signal applied with the phase change; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the second precoded signal applied with the phase change and inserted with the pilot signal. ?? satisfies ?/2 radians<??<? radians or ? radians<??<3?/2 radians. When the communications scheme is an OFDM scheme, the phase changer and the phase changer apply a phase change, and when the communications scheme is a single-carrier scheme, do not apply a phase change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi, Hiroyuki Motozuka
  • Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
    Patent number: 11044491
    Abstract: Provided is an encoder which includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry splits an image block into a plurality of partitions, obtains a prediction image for a partition, and encodes the image block using the prediction image. When the partition is not a non-rectangular partition, the circuitry obtains (i) a first prediction image for the partition using a first motion vector for the partition, (ii) a second motion vector for the partition using the first prediction image, and (iii) a second prediction image for the partition as the prediction image using the second motion vector. When the partition is a non-rectangular partition, the circuitry obtains the first prediction image as the prediction image using the first motion vector, without using the second motion vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Ryuichi Kanoh, Chong Soon Lim, Ru Ling Liao, Hai Wei Sun, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Han Boon Teo, Jing Ya Li
  • In-vehicle information processing for unauthorized data
    Publication number: 20210184886
    Abstract: A network hub is provided for an onboard network system. The onboard network system includes first and second networks for transmission of first-type and second-type frames following first and second communication protocols. The network hub includes a receiver that receives a first-type frame. A processor determines whether or not the first-type frame received by the receiver includes first information that is a base for a second-type frame to be transmitted to the second network, to obtain a determination result, and selects a port to send a frame based on the first-type frame based on the determination result. A transmitter sends the frame based on the first-type frame to a wired transmission path connected to the port selected by the processor based on the first-type frame received by the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Manabu MAEDA, Takamitsu SASAKI, Tomoyuki HAGA, Hideki MATSUSHIMA
  • ACOUSTIC OBJECT EXTRACTION DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC OBJECT EXTRACTION METHOD
    Publication number: 20210183356
    Abstract: In the acoustic object extraction device, beam forming processing units generate a first acoustic signal by beam forming in an arrival direction of a signal from an acoustic object with respect to a microphone array and generate a second acoustic signal by beam forming in an arrival direction of a signal from the acoustic object with respect to a microphone array, and a common component extraction unit extracts, on the basis of a similarity between the spectrum of the first acoustic signal and the spectrum of the second acoustic signal and from the first acoustic signal and the second acoustic signal, a signal containing a common component corresponding to the acoustic object. The common component extraction unit divides the spectrums of the first acoustic signal and the second acoustic signal into a plurality of frequency sections and calculates a similarity for each of the frequency sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Rohith MARS, Srikanth NAGISETTY, Chong Soon LIM, Hiroyuki EHARA, Akihisa KAWAMURA
  • IMAGE READING DEVICE AND STAPLE DETERMINATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20210179374
    Abstract: An image reading device includes: a document delivery unit for delivering a document loaded on a document loading platform to a document transport path; a flip-up detector for detecting flip-up of the document when the document is delivered; a metal detector for detecting metal attached to the document when the document is delivered; and a staple determination unit for determining whether or not a stapling process is applied to the document based on detection results of the flip-up detector and the metal detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi IKEDA, Terumi TSUDA, Genki TOKUNAGA, Hiroshi KUSUDA, Takefusa OGATA, Tadashi YAMAGUCHI, Hirotsugu FUSAYASU, Takeshi MATSUMOTO
  • CONTACT DEVICE AND ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY
    Publication number: 20210183602
    Abstract: A contact device of the present disclosure includes a fixed terminal, a movable member, a regulating member, and a heat transmission structure. The fixed terminal includes a fixed contact. The movable member includes a movable contact and is configured to move between a closed position where the movable contact is in contact with the fixed contact and an open position where the movable contact is apart from the fixed contact. The regulating member is configured to be in contact with the movable contact when the movable member is in the open position. The heat transmission structure is configured to transmit, to the fixed terminal, heat from the movable contact when the movable member is in the open position, through a thermal path including at least the regulating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junya KIMURA, Kohei TANI
  • IN-VEHICLE NETWORK SYSTEM, FRAUD-DETECTION ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT, AND FRAUD-DETECTION METHOD
    Publication number: 20210185056
    Abstract: In a fraud-detection method for use in an in-vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) that exchange messages on a plurality of networks, a plurality of fraud-detection ECUs each connected to a different one of the networks, and a gateway device, a fraud-detection ECU determines whether a message transmitted on a network connected to the fraud-detection ECU is malicious by using rule information stored in a memory. The gateway device receives updated rule information transmitted to a first network among the networks, selects a second network different from the first network, and transfers the updated rule information only to the second network. A fraud-detection ECU connected to the second network acquires the updated rule information and updates the rule information stored therein by using the updated rule information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji UNAGAMI, Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Tomoyuki HAGA, Manabu MAEDA, Yoshihiro UJIIE, Takeshi KISHIKAWA
  • LIGHTING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210182011
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes: a light source that emits light; an electronic panel that processes and passes therethrough the light emitted by the light source; and a controller that controls the electronic panel to display predetermined image data on the electronic panel. The controller receives predetermined image data, which is stored in an external storage device separate from the lighting apparatus, from the external storage device, and causes the electronic panel to display the received predetermined image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji OSHIMA, Taiichiro OZAKI
  • SEMICONDUCTOR-CHIP-ENCAPSULATING RESIN COMPOSITION AND SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE
    Publication number: 20210183719
    Abstract: A semiconductor-chip-encapsulating resin composition according to the present disclosure contains: an epoxy resin; a curing agent; and a low-valent titanium oxide, of which a titanium atom has an oxidation number less than +IV. A semiconductor package according to the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor chip; and an encapsulation resin which covers the semiconductor chip and which is a cured product of the semiconductor-chip-encapsulating resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoko NISHIDONO, Takahiro AKASHI
  • INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD
    Publication number: 20210184949
    Abstract: An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is not performed on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Motoji OHMORI, Natsume MATSUZAKI, Yuichi FUTA, Toshihisa NAKANO, Manabu MAEDA, Yuji UNAGAMI, Hiroshi AMANO, Kotaro HAKODA
  • MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210184616
    Abstract: A motor control device that detects a motor current through ?? AD conversion includes a stop signal generator and a stop signal controller. When a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of three phase voltage command values to be applied to a motor is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold, a stop signal that causes the ?? AD conversion to stop is output with a delay by the time corresponding to a delay in current detection while a leakage current caused by on and off of a power conversion element is occurring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicants: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Masuda, Taro Kishibe
  • Display with parallax barriers
    Patent number: 11036062
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, and medium storing instructions for execution by a processor for displaying multiple images. In an example, a device may include a display to present two images interleaved, where the display includes a vertical axis parallel to a line passing through a center-bottom of the display and a center-top of the display. The device includes a first parallax barrier placed between the display and an intended viewable area, where the first parallax barrier includes a first number of parallax barrier lines, where the first number of parallax barrier lines are opaque and parallel to the vertical axis. The device includes a second parallax barrier placed between the first parallax barrier and the intended viewable area, where the second parallax barrier includes a second number of parallax barrier lines, where the second number of parallax barrier lines are opaque and parallel to the vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventor: Nicholas Brian Hansen
  • Remote automatic travel system, wireless communication method, and moving body device
    Patent number: 11036220
    Abstract: Provided is a remote-type autonomous traveling system in which a mobile body apparatus that has at least one camera and a remote operation terminal are communicatively connected. The mobile body apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires environmental information, a determination unit that determines whether or not a critical state is attained, based on the environmental information, and a communication unit that transmits data of an image that is captured by at least the camera to the remote operation terminal through a first wireless base station that is capable of providing a macro-cell, by performing communication in compliance with a first communication scheme, according to a result of the determination by the determination unit that the mobile body apparatus is in the critical state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Katou, Yasuhiro Aoyama
  • Display device
    Patent number: 11036323
    Abstract: A display device comprising: a plurality of source lines extending in a first direction; a plurality of gate lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a plurality of pixel electrodes arrayed in the first direction and the second direction; a plurality of common electrodes disposed corresponding to a plurality of touch regions arrayed in the first direction and the second direction, the plurality of common electrodes being disposed while opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes; a plurality of sensor electrode lines electrically connected to the plurality of common electrodes; a plurality of inspection signal lines electrically connected to the plurality of common electrodes through a plurality of inspection thin film transistors; and an inspection gate line connected to a gate electrode of each of the plurality of inspection thin film transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Fukami, Masahiro Ishii
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 11036107
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: transistors and pixel electrodes respectively provided in each pixels; common electrode facing the pixel electrodes; gate lines extending along the first direction and supplying gate signals to the transistors, respectively; gate lead lines extending in the second direction and each connected to a corresponding gate line at at least one of a plurality of intersections with the gate lines; data lines extending along the second direction and supplying data signals to the transistors respectively; and common lines extending along the second direction and connected to the common electrode. In a planar view, each of the common lines and each of the gate lead lines overlap partially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Kajita
  • Oral cavity washing device and nozzle for the same
    Patent number: 11033370
    Abstract: An oral cavity washing device includes a nozzle having a flow passage structure and a pump to feed washing liquid to the flow passage structure. The flow passage structure includes: a first component having a first flow passage; a second component being disposed downstream of the first component and having a second flow passage that is narrower than the first flow passage; a third component being disposed downstream of the second component and having a third flow passage that is broader than the second flow passage; a reducer being disposed downstream of the third component and being configured so as to reduce a width of the flow passage; and a fourth component being disposed downstream of the reducer and having a fourth flow passage that widens with an advancement in a path from the reducer to the outlet port so as to generate cavitation in the washing liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mahito Nunomura, Shinichi Taniguchi
  • Power conversion apparatus
    Patent number: 11037859
    Abstract: To improve cooling capability, power conversion apparatus 1 that converts a direct current voltage into an alternating current voltage includes: first substrate 100 on which power conversion circuit 2 is mounted; second substrate 200 on which driving circuit 3 that drives power conversion circuit 2 is mounted; and shield plate 300 that is disposed between first substrate 100 and second substrate 200, and first substrate 100 is a metal substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hayata Onaga, Tomonari Nebashi
  • Liquid crystal display device having rectangular-shaped pixel electrodes overlapping with comb-shaped counter electrodes in plan view
    Patent number: 11036098
    Abstract: The present invention realizes a bright image display by enhancing a numerical aperture of pixels. At least a portion of a pixel electrode is overlapped to a thin film transistor by way of a first insulation film, the pixel electrode is connected to an output electrode of the thin film transistor via a contact hole which is formed in the first insulation film, the counter electrode is arranged above the pixel electrode by way of a second insulation film in a state that the counter electrode is overlapped to the pixel electrode, the counter electrode is formed at a position avoiding the contact hole formed in the first insulation film as viewed in a plan view, and at least a portion of the counter electrode is overlapped to the thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ochiai, Tohru Sasaki, Hirotaka Imayama, Masateru Morimoto
  • Power supply device
    Patent number: 11038415
    Abstract: In a power supply device, a first switching power supply is disposed in a first power line connecting a receiver for receiving power from an external power supply and the power storage device and converts the power received from the external power supply to supply it to the power storage device. A second switching power supply is disposed in the second power line including a first end connected the first power line at a branch point, and a second end connected to the load device, and converts the power received from the power storage device to supply it to the load device. The first noise removal filter is disposed between the branch point and the power storage device in the first power line. The second noise removal filter is disposed between the branch point and the second switching power supply in the second power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kento Mochizuki, Shuhei Chizuwa
  • Display device
    Patent number: 11036086
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; a driver IC that outputs a driving signal to the display panel; a flexible substrate on which the driver IC is mounted; a first frame that supports the display panel from a side of a light source; and a second frame that supports the light source while being provided independently of the first frame. The first frame includes a metallic frame unit which is opposite to the driver IC from the side of the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignees: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd., Pasona Knowledge Partner Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Katagiri, Masaki Tsubokura
  • System, method and device for folding subjects
    Patent number: 11037176
    Abstract: A server device is provided with: a receiver that receives subject data that are transmitted from one or more folding devices for folding subjects and that include related data on the subjects which are read from the subjects by the folding devices; a storage unit that stores aggregate data obtained by aggregating the subject data; an analyzer that performs an analysis on predetermined data contained in the aggregate data; and a provider that provides a result of the analysis by the analyzer to a predetermined information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignees: DAIWA House Industry Co., LTD, SBI Ventures Two Co., Ltd., Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Sakane, Hiroshi Kitagawa
  • Image processing device, image display system, and image processing method
    Patent number: 11034305
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an obtainer which obtains, from an imaging device provided in a vehicle so as to be oriented to capture an image of an area behind the vehicle, an image captured by the imaging device; a position detector which detects a face position of a driver; and an image processor which performs image processing to clip, according to the face position detected by the position detector, an image having a range corresponding to the face position, out of a combined image including the image, and superimpose a position image indicating a position in the vehicle, on the image at a position corresponding to the face position, and outputs an image resulting from the image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi Yoshida
  • Image display device, image display method, and program
    Patent number: 11037334
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display that displays at least one of a visible image of an object and a thermal image that represents temperature information of the object by a color and a control unit that controls the display. The control unit causes the display to display one of a first image and a second image. The first image includes the thermal image and the visible image. The second image does not include the visible image but includes a thermal image that is more enlarged as compared to the thermal image in the first image with a numerical value indicating a temperature being superimposed for each predetermined region on the thermal image in the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Etoh
  • Light source device and projector
    Patent number: 11035986
    Abstract: A light source device includes a semiconductor light-emitting element; an optical element including lens regions that change an intensity distribution of light emitted from the semiconductor light-emitting element; and a phosphor element that emits, as excitation light, the light with the intensity distribution changed by the optical element. Respective focal points of the lens regions are present in front of or behind a light-emitting surface of the phosphor element in different positions. At least one of the lens regions is astigmatic. An excitation beam from the at least one of the lens regions with the astigmatism forms a circle of least confusion near an associated one of the focal points, and a first focal line and a second focal line sandwiching the circle behind and in front of the circle, respectively. Beams from the lens regions overlap each other on the light-emitting surface of the phosphor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaharu Fukakusa
  • Motion video segmenting method, motion video segmenting device, and motion video processing system
    Patent number: 11037302
    Abstract: To provide a motion video segmenting method, a motion video segmenting device, and a motion video processing system that increase accuracy of motion video analysis performed by segmenting a motion video. A difficulty degree of each image configuring a pack is determined, and in a case where an image of a difficulty degree of Low continues for a predetermined value F_cnt or more, a motion video is segmented with an image one before a last of consecutive images to form a pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junko Ueda
  • Projector including phosphor
    Patent number: 11036120
    Abstract: A projector includes a light source unit, a spatial light modulator configured to control light from the light source unit for each pixel to form an optical image, and a projection optical system configured to project the optical image formed by the spatial light modulator onto a target. The light source unit includes a solid-state light source and a wavelength convertor. The solid-state light source is configured to emit first light, the first light including blue light with a peak wavelength in a range of 430 to 470 nm, inclusive, and green light with a peak wavelength in a range of 480 to 550 nm, inclusive. The wavelength convertor contains a red phosphor including Ce as a luminescent center that is configured to emit second light upon receiving the green light. The second light has a spectrum with a peak wavelength of 600 to 700 nm, inclusive. The red phosphor contains a nitride or an oxynitride as a host material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Mitsuru Nitta, Yasuhisa Inada
  • Active material including metal composite fluoride for fluoride ion secondary battery, and fluoride ion secondary battery using the same
    Patent number: 11038170
    Abstract: An active material for a fluoride ion secondary battery includes a metal composite fluoride. The metal composite fluoride contains at least one metal selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, scandium, yttrium, and a lanthanoid; a first transition metal; a second transition metal different from the first transition metal; and fluorine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuko Asano, Kensuke Nakura
  • Earphone
    Patent number: D922985
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yurina Kataoka