Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Kao Corporation

Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Fuji Seal International, Inc.

Daiken Iki Kabushiki Kaisha

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Renaissance Energy Research Corporation

Atsushi Yamamoto

Hiroshi Iwai

Tsuyoshi Nozaki

Tsutomu Sakata

Koichi Ogawa

Takuya Kadota

Chiyoshi Nozaki

Shinya Nakayama

Yoshimichi Ishikawa

Katsunori Kurose

Yoshihiro Mikuriya

Hideyuki Santo

Minoru Nakamura

Masahide Yamada

Taiki Nishimoto

Satoru Amari

Hiroshi Kanno

Masayuki Hagi

Kenichi Yamada

Masahide Inoue

Yukiko Nakajima

Suzuka Amemori

Mitsuyo Matsumoto

Kenichi Asanuma

Masahiro Yamaoka

Yoshio Koyanagi

Hideaki Yasunaga

Shingo Sakashita

Akihiro Nakamura

Shoichi Hara

Tomohiro Fukao

Tomoharu Miki

Daiki Yamashita

Motohiko Fujimura

Akira Minegishi

Hiroaki Katoh

Hiroaki Kato

Koichi Hayashi

Keiji Makabe

Junichi Kanou

Tsukasa Takahashi

Akira Izutani

Hiromu Matsumoto

Yoshinori Inagawa

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Kohei Masuda

Akira Kato

Hiroshi Yamashita

Akiyoshi Sabu

Kazuoki Fuwa

Yoshihiro Moriya

Minoru Masuda

Toyoshi Sawada

Daisuke Asahina

Yuko Fujita

Toshimitsu Matsuyoshi

Shuji Tagata

Takamasa Hase

Hisashi Adachi

Hiroshi Yamada

Yutaka Saito

Tsuyoshi Sugimoto

Toshifumi Nakatani

Kenji Nishiyama

Satoyuki Sekiguchi

Akio Hidaka

Takeshi Furukawa

Tatsuya Morita

Kohsuke Nagata

Koshi Himeda

Susumu Chiba

Masahiro Anno

Kazumi Suzuki

Daisuke Kodama

Hiroaki Kosugi

Ryota Inoue

Yukiko Iwasaki

Naoki Nakatake

Yoshitaka Sekiguchi

Junji Machida

Yoshitaka Yamauchi

Osamu Okada

Tsuneyasu Nagatomo

Taichi Nemoto

Takeshi Yamashita

Yoshihiro Fukuhata

Takashi Kamikawa

Hiroyuki Nakano

Rintaro Takahashi

Hayami Kudo

Nobuaki Hanai

Kazuharu Ienaga

Ko Nakamura

Kenichi Kido

Tatsuru Moritani

Hiroyuki Tani

Kunihiko Higashiura

Nobuyuki Ogura

A connection pipe of a heat exchange unit includes a second refrigerant pipe made of a second metal higher in potential than a first metal of a first refrigerant pipe. The second refrigerant pipe includes a first section that is bent to protrude upward. The first section includes a first curved section disposed on a first refrigerant pipe side relative to an apex of the first section and a second curved section disposed on a side opposite to the first refrigerant pipe side relative to the apex of the first section. A covering member or a coating film is provided in intimate contact with the second refrigerant pipe to cover a first refrigerant pipe side edge of the second refrigerant pipe and the first curved section.

Heat exchange unit and air conditioner

A heat exchanger includes: a fin group including plate-shaped fins; heat transfer tubes penetrating the plate-shaped fins; and a support plate at an end of the fin group. The heat transfer tubes penetrate the support plate. The heat exchanger is configured to cause a heat medium flowing through the heat transfer tubes to exchange heat with air. End portions of the heat transfer tubes form protrusions protruding from the support plate. The protrusions include: a first protrusion connected to one of the protrusions adjacent to the first protrusion; and a second protrusion connected to a flow path pipe different from one of the protrusions adjacent to the second protrusion. A distance from a tip end of the second protrusion to the support plate is shorter than a distance from a tip end of the first protrusion to the support plate.

Heat exchanger and air-conditioning apparatus

A heat transfer tube as a first refrigerant pipe has a first portion, a first expansion portion, a second portion, a second expansion portion, and a third portion arranged in order. A connecting tube as a second refrigerant pipe has a fourth portion facing the second portion and a fifth portion facing the third portion. The connecting tube is inserted into the heat transfer tube. The inner diameter of the second portion is larger than the inner diameter of the first portion, and the inner diameter of the third portion is larger than the inner diameter of the second portion. The outer diameter of the fifth portion is larger than the outer diameter of the fourth portion. The fifth portion and the third portion are brazed.

Pipe coupling structure and refrigeration cycle apparatus

A pouch includes a packaging bag including a front surface sheet, a back surface sheet, a bottom surface sheet, and a top surface sheet and a spout. The packaging bag includes a pair of side seal portions, a front bottom seal portion, a back bottom seal portion, a front top seal portion, and a back top seal portion. At least one of the pair of side seal portions includes a side enclosing portion in which a gas is enclosed, the side enclosing portion having an elongated shape in a height direction. At least one of the front top seal portion or the back top seal portion includes a top enclosing portion in which a gas is enclosed, the top enclosing portion having an elongated shape in a width direction.

Pouch

A semiconductor composite device is provided that includes a voltage regulator, a package board, and a load, and converts an input DC voltage into a different DC voltage to supply the converted DC voltage to the load. The VR includes a semiconductor active element. The package board includes a C layer in which a capacitor is formed, and an L layer in which an inductor is formed. A plurality of through holes penetrate the C layer and the L layer in a direction perpendicular to the mounting face in the package board. The capacitor is connected to the load through the through hole. The inductor is connected to the load through the through hole and to the VR through the through hole.

Semiconductor composite device and package board used therein

A power transmitting apparatus includes: a converter which converts an input power into an AC power with a predetermined frequency; and a first code modulator which code-modulates at least part of the AC power with a first modulation code to generate a first code-modulated power.

Power transmitting apparatus for code modulation and power receiving apparatus for code demodulation

A power converter apparatus is provided with: a plurality of leg circuits, each including two switch circuits connected in series between input terminals; a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding, the primary winding having a first terminal and a second terminal; and at least one capacitor. The at least one capacitor is connected between the first terminal or the second terminal of the primary winding of the transformer, and a node between the two switch circuits in at least one leg circuit among the plurality of leg circuits. The first terminal of the primary winding of the transformer is connected to at least two nodes between the switch circuits in at least two first leg circuits among the plurality of leg circuits, via at least two first circuit portions having at least one of capacitances and inductances different from each other, respectively.

Power converter apparatus including LLC resonant circuits and wide range of output voltage with higher efficiency

The power transmitter apparatus is provided with code modulators which modulate powers of phase components of three-phase alternating-current power to generate code-modulated waves, respectively, by code modulation using modulation codes based on code sequences different from each other, and transmits the code-modulated waves to the at least one power receiver apparatus via the transmission path. The power receiver apparatus is provided with code demodulators, each of which demodulates one code-modulated wave of the received code-modulated waves to generate code-demodulated power by code demodulation using a demodulation code based on a code sequence identical to the code sequence of the modulation code used for the code modulation of the one code-modulated wave, the code-demodulated power being generated as power of one of phase components of multiphase alternating-current power.

Power transmission system including multiphase alternating-current power supplies and loads, and capable of transmitting power between different types of power supplies and loads

A code modulator transmits power to at least one code demodulator via a transmission path. The code modulator is provided with: a code modulation circuit to which output power of a power supply is supplied, the code modulation circuit modulating the output power of the power supply to generate a code-modulated wave by code modulation using a modulation code based on a code sequence, and transmitting the code-modulated wave to the code demodulator via the transmission path; and a control circuit that controls the code modulation circuit. The control circuit sets a frequency of the modulation code to a multiple of an output power frequency of the power supply.

Power transmission system capable of preventing power transmission efficiency from degrading due to frequency mismatch and loss of synchronization

A method for manufacturing an intermediate material for a soft packaging container according to the present invention includes: a first overlaying step Pof laying a second raw film sheetover a first raw film sheet; a confining portion forming step Pof forming a filler confining portionfor confining a filler, the filler confining portionbeing constituted by a non-joined region between the first raw film sheetand the second raw sheet, by joining a portion of the first raw film sheetand a portion of the second sheetto each other; a folding step Pof folding the first raw film sheetand the second sheetwith the first raw film sheeton an outer side, such that the filler confining portionis present in a state where an inner portion thereof is continuous on two sides that are connected via at least one folding position; an accommodating portion forming step Pof forming an accommodating portionby joining a plurality of portions including at least one of the first raw film sheetand the second sheet; and a cutting step Pof forming an intermediate material Afor a soft packaging container by cutting at least the first raw film sheet. This configuration makes it possible to more readily and reliably manufacture a soft packaging container that has a filler confining portion in more regions.

Method for manufacturing intermediate material for soft packaging container, method for manufacturing soft packaging container, and method for manufacturing soft packaging container packaging body

A multilayer coil component including: a magnetic part that contains Fe, Zn, V, and Ni and optionally contains Mn and/or Cu; and a conductor part that contains copper. In the magnetic part, Fe is in an amount of 34.0 to 48.5 mol % expressed as FeOequivalent, Zn is in an amount of 6.0 to 45.0 mol % expressed as ZnO equivalent, Mn is in an amount of 0 to 7.5 mol % expressed as MnOequivalent, Cu is in an amount of 0 to 5.0 mol % expressed as CuO equivalent, and V is in an amount of 0.5 to 5.0 mol % expressed as VOequivalent, with respect to the total amount of Fe expressed as FeOequivalent, Zn expressed as ZnO equivalent, V expressed as VOequivalent, and Ni expressed as NiO equivalent, and optionally present Cu expressed as CuO equivalent and optionally present Mn expressed as MnOequivalent.

Multilayer coil component

A power transmission device includes power transmission coils arranged in a line, a power transmission circuit connected to the power transmission coils and supplying the AC power to the power transmission coils, and control circuitry that switches an electrical connection state between the power transmission circuit and each of the power transmission coils, detect a relative position between the power receiving coil and each of the power transmission coils, selects a number of power transmission coils adjacent to each other based on the detected relative position, the selected number of power transmission coils being fixed, and causes the power transmission circuit to supply the AC power to the selected number of power transmission coils. In an array direction of the power transmission coils, a width Dwt of each of the power transmission coils is shorter than a width Dwr of the power receiving coil and Dwt/Dwr&#x2264;0.875.

Power transmission device and wireless power transmission system

A power receiver apparatus receives a code-modulated wave from a power transmitter apparatus via a transmission path, the code-modulated wave including first power modulated by code modulation using a modulation code based on a code sequence. The power receiver apparatus is provided with a contactless connector and a code demodulator. The contactless connector is coupled to the transmission path without electrical contact with the transmission path, and receives the code-modulated wave from the power transmitter apparatus via the transmission path. The code demodulator demodulates the received code-modulated wave to generate second power by code demodulation using a demodulation code based on a code sequence identical to the code sequence of the modulation code used for the code modulation.

Power transmission system including power transmitter apparatus, power receiver apparatus, or power transmitter and receiver apparatus easily attachable and detachable to/from transmission path

A code modulator comprises: a first filter circuit connected between a pair of input ports, a second filter circuit connected between a pair of output ports, and a third filter circuit connected in parallel to each of switch circuits. A code demodulator comprises: a fourth filter circuit connected between a pair of input ports, a fifth filter circuit connected between a pair of output ports, and a sixth filter circuit connected in parallel to each of switch circuits.

Power transmission system preventing power transmission efficiency from degrading due to delay, and capable of reducing effects of high frequency noise

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Osaka, Japan

Atsushi Yamamoto