Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company, Limited

Akira Takahashi

Kazuhiro Takeda

Hiroshi Iwata

Akihide Shibata

Kenji Komiya

Tetsu Negishi

Masaki Suzuki

Masayoshi Gyoten

Kazuhiko Itoh

Geraldine C Harriman

Yoshifumi Yaoi

Takeshi Shiomi

Kazumi Kondo

Kazushige Sugita

Shin Miyamura

Takeshi Kuroda

Muneaki Kurimura

Amy M Elder

Satoshi Shimizu

Kevin J Hodgetts

Jason S Newcom

Haruka Takahashi

Tae Fukushima

Kazuhiko Itou

Indranath Ghosh

Etsuji Morimoto

Abhishek Dogra

Krishna Reddy Valluru

Tatsumi Setomoto

Yuichi Nakamura

Masanobu Murakami

Satoshi Furukawa

Yohji Sakurai

Satoshi Morishita

Tomohiro Kamitsu

Toshiaki Isogai

Fumiyoshi Yoshioka

Amy Elder

A lighting system includes: a lighting apparatus including a first human detection sensor unit that detects a person in a first detection area, and a light source that turns ON when the first human detection sensor unit detects the person; and a support apparatus including (i) a second human detection sensor unit that detects a person in a second detection area, and (ii) an emission unit that emits, when the second human detection sensor unit detects the person, infrared rays to cause the first human detection sensor unit to react as if the person is present in the first detection area.

Lighting system and support apparatus

An LED lamp according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a first LED array that is annularly arranged on a mounting board and includes first LED elements connected in series; a second LED array that is arranged within an inner circumference of the first LED array on the mounting board, includes second LED elements connected in series, and emits light having an emission color different from an emission color of the first LED array; a FET switch arranged in series on a path through which current flows to the second LED array; and a constant power output circuit, wherein the number of the first LED elements is greater than the number of the second LED elements, and a total forward voltage of the first LED array is greater than a total forward voltage of the second LED array.

Lighting source and lighting apparatus

Methods of treating disorders using compounds that modulate striatal-enriched tyrosine phosphatase (STEP), such as those of formula (III), and composition thereof are described herein. Exemplary disorders include schizophrenia and cognitive deficit. 

Therapeutic compounds and related methods of use

A drive circuit () according to the present invention is a drive circuit which causes an LED module () to emit light, using a dimming signal which is an alternating current signal which has been phase-controlled in response to a dimming level, the drive circuit () including a control signal generating unit () which integrates a voltage of a rectified dimming signal to generate a control signal for controlling the luminance of the LED module (), the voltage being greater than or equal to a first voltage and less than or equal to a second voltage less than a maximum voltage of the dimming signal.

Drive circuit, illumination source, and lighting device

A driving circuit includes a rectifying and smoothing circuit that rectifies an AC dimming signal, and a voltage conversion circuit including: a switching element having a source connected to a low-potential output terminal of the rectifying and smoothing circuit; a diode having an anode connected to a high-potential output terminal of the rectifying and smoothing circuit; an inductor disposed between the diode and a drain of the switching element; an oscillation controller; a capacitor that is charged by receiving magnetic energy from the inductor when the switching element is OFF, and discharges to a load when the switching element is ON; and a power control circuit that applies a voltage corresponding to a voltage at a high-potential terminal of the capacitor to the oscillation controller as a supply voltage for driving the oscillation controller.

Driving circuit, illumination light source, and illumination device

A lighting apparatus in which a light emitter (an illumination light source) can be easily reduced in size is provided. The lighting apparatus includes: a light emitter; and an inverter circuit that converts power supplied from a commercial power supply, into AC power, and outputs the AC power to the light emitter, and the light emitter includes: a capacitor; a rectifier circuit that rectifies the AC power obtained through the capacitor; and an LED that emits light using power rectified by the rectifier circuit.

Lighting apparatus, illumination light source, and power supply unit

An LED module receives current supplied from a variable current source. The LED module includes a first LED that is connected to a variable current source, a bipolar transistor that is series-connected to the first LED and has a resistance that varies depending on magnitude of the current Isupplied from the variable current source, and a second LED that is parallel-connected to a series circuit that is composed of the first LED and the bipolar transistor and differs in luminescent color from the first LED.

Light-emitting circuit with variable resistor element, and light-emitting module and illumination device including the same

An LED lamp according to one aspect of the present invention including: a first LED array including first LED elements connected in series; a second LED array that includes second LED elements connected in series and emits light having an emission color different from an emission color of the first LED array; a FET switch that is provided between the two LED arrays and switches between a first current path to the first LED array and a second current path to the second LED array; a constant power output circuit that outputs the same power value to a current path through which current flows before the switching and a current path through which current flows after the switching, wherein a total forward voltage of the first LED array is different from a total forward voltage of the second LED array.

A metal lineis formed in a linear area S of an insulative substrate, and moreover a metal lineis formed generally parallel to the metal linewith a specified distance thereto. The metal lineis connected to an n-type semiconductor coreof bar-like structure light-emitting elementsA toD, and the metal lineis connected to a p-type semiconductor layer. By dividing the insulative substrateinto a plurality of divisional substrates, a plurality of light-emitting devices in each of which a plurality of bar-like structure light-emitting elementsare placed on the divisional substrates are formed.

Light-emitting device manufacturing method, light-emitting device, lighting device, backlight, liquid-crystal panel, display device, display device manufacturing method, display device drive method and liquid-crystal display device

In a light emitting device, one hundred or more bar-like structured light emitting elements () each having a light emitting area of 2,500&#x3c0; &#x3bc;mor less are placed on a mounting surface of one insulating substrate (), so that the light emitting device fulfills little variation in luminance, long life, and high efficiency by dispersion of light emission with suppression of increase in temperatures in light emitting operations.

Light emitting device, method for manufacturing light emitting device, illuminating device, and backlight

A straight tube LED lamp according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a first LED array including first LED elements connected in series; a second LED array that includes second LED elements connected in series, and emits light having a different emission color from an emission color of the first LED array; a FET switch provided in a path through which current flows to the second LED array; and a constant power output circuit that outputs power without changing a total value of the power, wherein the number of the first LED elements connected in series is greater than the number of the second LED elements connected in series, a total forward voltage of the first LED array is greater than a total forward voltage of the second LED array, and the first LED elements are in alignment with the second LED elements.

An LED lamp is used being connected to an external switch for performing an ON-OFF operation. The LED lamp, when causing a light emitting module to emit light in a first lighting mode, controls a power supply circuit to cause the light emitting module to emit light at a first brightness for a predetermined time period from when a timer circuit is activated, and to cause the light emitting module to emit light at a second brightness lower than the first brightness, after passage of the predetermined time period. The LED lamp, when causing the light emitting module to emit light in a second lighting mode, controls the power supply circuit to cause the light emitting module to continue to emit light at the first brightness irrespective of a state of the timer circuit.

Lamp and illumination apparatus

An illumination light source includes: a light-emitting unit; a disturbance detecting unit which detects a specific disturbance; a timer circuit that times a first period and a second period, the first period starting from when the disturbance detecting unit detects the specific disturbance, a second period immediately following after the first period; and a driving circuit that turns ON the light-emitting unit at a start of the first period, causes the light-emitting unit to emit light during the first period, causes the light-emitting unit to emit light that is different from the light emitted during the second period, and turns OFF the light-emitting unit at an end of the second period.

Illumination light source

The present invention provides a novel heterocyclic compound. A heterocyclic compound represented by general formula (1) wherein, Rand R, each independently represent hydrogen; a phenyl lower alkyl group that may have a substituent(s) selected from the group consisting of a lower alkyl group and the like on a benzene ring and/or a lower alkyl group; or a cyclo C3-C8 alkyl lower alkyl group; or the like; Rrepresents a lower alkynyl group or the like; Rrepresents a phenyl group that may have a substituent(s) selected from the group consisting of a 1,3,4-oxadiazolyl group that may have e.g., halogen or a heterocyclic group selected from pyridyl group and the like; the heterocyclic group may have at least one substituent(s) selected from a lower alkoxy group and the like or a salt thereof. 

Heterocyclic compounds for the treatment of stress-related conditions

A light-emitting element includes a first conductivity type semiconductor base, a plurality of first conductivity type protrusion-shaped semiconductors formed on the semiconductor base, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer that covers the protrusion-shaped semiconductors.

Light emitting element and production method for same, production method for light-emitting device, illumination device, backlight, display device, and diode

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Osaka, Japan

Akira Takahashi