Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.

Other

Panasonic Corporation

Hideaki Abe

Tsutomu Ichinomiya

Shosuke Akisada

Hideki Tamura

Masayuki Hayashi

Hiroshi Sakamoto

Mikihiro Yamashita

Sumio Wada

Satoshi Nakayama

Kozo Kawai

Toyokatsu Okamoto

Tomohiro Kami

Toshio Kusunoki

Fumio Kitagawa

Youichi Ise

Mitsuru Tanaka

Ryo Motohashi

Yasuo Ibuki

Satoru Inakagata

Motoharu Muto

Kosuke Harada

Hiroyuki Yagyu

Toshihiro Akiyama

Itaru Saida

Hiromitsu Inoue

Izumi Mihara

Teruhito Takeda

Hiroyasu Kitamura

Shinji Nishimura

Kei Mitsuyasu

Yasushi Arikawa

Yasuo Suzuki

Akira Yabuta

Hiromichi Goto

Kiyoshi Ogasawara

Mahito Nunomura

Takio Maekawa

Halit S Gokturk

Hideo Iwata

Tomohiro Izumi

Hiroshi Kohara

Katsuyuki Doi

Toshio Yoshinuma

Takafumi Fujino

Wataru Tanaka

Shinichi Abe

Masahiko Adachi

Toyohiko Tsujimoto

Mamoru Ozaki

Toshihiro Sakamoto

Tetsuo Kawamoto

Masahiro Matsuura

Yasuhiro Sato

Takeshi Imai

Satohiko Hosomi

Takafumi Ooba

Yoshiki Isogai

Hiromitu Inoue

Halit Suha Gokturk

[Problem to be Solved] The present invention provides a method for producing fried noodles having a reduced sodium content and excellent noodle making properties, texture, and flavor. [Solution] Fresh noodles having excellent noodle making properties, texture, and flavor can be produced not by adding salt but by adding 1 to 3% by weight of potassium lactate relative to a main raw material powder such as wheat flour. Further, fried noodles having a reduced sodium content and excellent texture and flavor can be produced by steaming the fresh noodles and fry drying.

Method for producing fried noodles

The present invention provides a method for producing non-fried noodles having a reduced sodium content and excellent noodle making properties, texture, and flavor. Fresh noodles having excellent noodle making properties, texture, and flavor can be produced by adding 1 to 3% by weight of potassium lactate relative to a main raw material powder such as wheat flour even without adding salt. Further, non-fried noodles having a reduced sodium content and excellent texture and flavor can be produced by steaming the fresh noodles and then drying the noodles by hot air. Moreover, after drying, the non-fried noodles dried by hot air to have a moisture of 7 to 14% by weight is further subjected to a heating process with high-temperature hot air, a gas mixture of high-temperature hot air and water vapor, or superheated steam at 120 to 200&#xb0; C. until the moisture of the non-fried noodles is reduced to 3 to 6% by weight, which can consequently reduce a harsh taste derived from potassium lactate.

Method for producing non-fried noodles

A hinge device includes: a first and a second hinge components having a common reference axis; and a power generating device. The first and the second hinge components are engaged with each other, so as to be rotatable about the reference axis relative to each other, and so that one of the first and the second hinge components supports the other. The power generating device includes a housing and an input shaft, and generates electric power by rotation of the input shaft. The housing of the power generating device is fixed to the first hinge component, so that the input shaft of the power generating device is positioned on the reference axis. The input shaft of the power generating device is restrained to the second hinge component with respect to the direction of rotation about the reference axis, so that the input shaft of the power generating device rotates by as much as rotation of the second hinge component when the second hinge component rotates about the reference axis.

Hinge device provided with power generating device and capable of extracting energy from user's living activities to generate electric power

A power generation system includes: at least one power generating device generating electric power by rotation of an input shaft; and a power storage circuit including at least one capacitor and storing energy of the electric power generated by the power generating device. The power storage circuit has a capacitance equal to or near an energy-maximizing capacitance, the energy-maximizing capacitance indicating a capacitance maximizing an upper limit energy in characteristics of energy to capacitance, the characteristics being calculated as the upper limit energy to be stored in the power storage circuit, with respect to the capacitance of the power storage circuit. The characteristics of energy to capacitance are calculated based on: the capacitance of the power storage circuit, an electromotive force of the power generating device, an internal resistance of the power generating device, and a duration of one power generating action of the power generating device.

Power generation system including power generating device and capacitor, and capable of storing energy of generated electric power with reducing waste energy

A contactless power feeding system comprises a power feeding device and a movable device. The movable device is installed on a power feeding case of the power feeding device, and a liquid crystal TV (E) is installed on the movable device. The liquid crystal TV (E) can be arranged at a desired position on a wall (W) in a room (R) by moving the movable device along the power feeding case. The liquid crystal TV (E) can be arranged at a desired height by moving the liquid crystal TV (E) in the axial direction of a guide pipe provided on a power receiving case. The liquid crystal TV (E) can be directed in a desired direction by rotating the liquid crystal TV (E) around the guide pipe. The contactless power feeding system feeds power to the liquid crystal TV (E) via the power feeding device and the movable device.

Contactless power feeding system, movable device and method for controlling power feeding of contactless power feeding system

A contactless adapter () installed in a notebook computer () has a plug part (), a telescopic arm (), a power circuit part (), and a power-receiving part (). The power-receiving part () is provided with a secondary coil () and has a rotatably linked fixed base plate () and a rotating base plate (). Power can be supplied without contact to the notebook computer () from a power-supply device () via the contactless adapter () by expanding the fixed base plate () and the rotating base plate () to cause the secondary coil () to face the primary coil () of the power-supply device () provided inside the tabletop () of a desk ().

Contactless power-supply system, contactless adapter, and power-supply device

A power supply device () is provided with a push-type power generator (). When a push-button () on the push-type power generator () is pushed, a variable voltage is generated by a piezoelectric element () that excites a primary coil (L). A high-frequency inverter () is activated by the variable voltage, exciting the primary coil (L), and an alternating field is generated from the primary coil (L). Secondary power can be supplied by means of the alternating field even if a secondary coil (L) of an electrical device (), disposed on a surface of a wall () opposite the surface on which the charging device () is disposed, is not in contact with the power supply device (). The secondary coil (L) of the electrical device () causes a light-emitting diode (LED) to illuminate using secondary power obtained by non-contact power supply.

Drive method for non-contact power supply device, non-contact power supply device, and non-contact power supply system

A contactless power supply system includes a first power transmission coil, a plug power reception coil, a plug power transmission coil, and a first power reception coil. The first power transmission coil and the plug power reception coil are configured to satisfy a relational equation of (L/L)=G/K=N/N, where Lrepresents a self-inductance of the first power transmission coil, Lrepresents a self-inductance of the plug power reception coil, Nrepresents a winding number of the first power transmission coil, Nrepresents a winding number of the plug power reception coil, Krepresents a coupling coefficient of the first power transmission coil and the plug power reception coil, and Grepresents a voltage conversion gain of the voltage applied to the plug power transmission coil relative to the voltage applied to the first power transmission coil.

Contactless power supply system and contactless extension plug

A contactless power supplying system includes a contactless power supplying device provided with a high-frequency inverter and a primary coil and an electric appliance provided with a secondary coil and a power receiving circuit that supplies induced electromotive force generated by the secondary coil to a load. The system further includes a structure having a variable shape and adapted to be independently secured, and at least one of a connecting wire for connecting the primary coil to the high-frequency inverter, a connecting wire for connecting the secondary coil to the power receiving circuit, and a connecting wire for connecting the power receiving circuit to the load. The at least one of the connecting wires is arranged along the structure. The secondary coil is spatially positioned with respect to the primary coil depending on the shape of the structure.

Contactless power supplying system, electric appliance, repeater, and adaptor

In the present invention, it is possible to activate an electrical device, such as a flat-screen television or a photo frame, while the electrical device is located in a housing space () of a movable assembly (). The degree of freedom in selecting the electrical device to be placed in the movable assembly () can be thus increased. Moreover, since a sliding door (movable assembly ()) is moveable by sliding, the position of the sliding door, and thus of the electrical device, can be altered as a user desires.

Non-contact power supply system

In a power supply device, a primary winding of a transformer is connected in series to a main switching element, and is connected in parallel to a series circuit of a resonance capacitor and a sub switching element. A secondary winding of the transformer is connected in series to a series circuit of a rectifying element and a resonance inductor. The capacitance of the resonance capacitor and the inductance of the resonance inductor are each set such that, when the sub switching element is in an on state, the waveform of the voltage that is generated between the first main terminal and the second main terminal of the main switching element takes a protruding curve shape, the voltage being generated due to a resonance phenomenon of at least the resonance capacitor and the resonance inductor.

Power supply device and lighting apparatus using the same

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.

Power supplying module for contactless power supplying device, method for using power supplying module of contactless power supplying device, and method for manufacturing power supplying module of contactless power supplying device

A contactless power supply system includes a device and a power supply apparatus that supplies power contactlessly to the device. The power supply apparatus includes a plurality of primary coils provided in a planar or linear manner, a plurality of power supply modules respectively corresponding to the plurality of primary coils, each of the power supply modules configured to receive an excitation request signal for requesting excitation of the primary coil and excite the primary coil based on the excitation request signal, and a system control section configured to integratedly control the plurality of power supply modules. The device includes a secondary coil and a transmitter circuit that sends the excitation request signal to the power supply apparatus. When the device is mounted on the power supply apparatus, the contactless power supply system excites primary coils corresponding to one or more power supply modules, generates secondary power in the secondary coil of the device by electromagnetic induction, and supplies the secondary power to a load of the device. When the excitation request signal from the device mounted on the power supply apparatus is received at the one or more power supply modules, the system control section sends an enable signal for exciting the primary coils to the one or more power supply modules that received the excitation request signal.

Contactless power supply system

A contactless power supplying system, which excites a primary coil of a power supplying device to generate an induced electromotive force at a secondary coil of an appliance arranged on the device and supply the induced electromotive force to a load of the appliance, includes a metal foreign object detection device. The metal foreign object detection device includes an antenna coil, an oscillation circuit, and a detection circuit. The oscillation circuit includes a component having a design value that generates oscillation in a range of oscillation conditions from immediately after the oscillation circuit starts to generate oscillation to just before a stable and continuous oscillation condition. The detection circuit detects a suspension of the oscillation or an attenuation in amplitude of the oscillation based on a change in an electric characteristic of the antenna coil caused by a metal foreign object on the power supplying device.

Contactless power supplying system and metal foreign object detection device of contactless power supplying system

A non-contact power supply system includes a power supply device for transmitting high frequency power and a load device which receives the high frequency power in a non-contact mode by electromagnetic induction to supply it to a load. The power supply device includes a power transmission unit having a primary power coil and an inverter circuit, an inquiry unit having at least one primary signal coil and an oscillation circuit, a signal detection unit and a control unit. The load device includes a power reception unit having a secondary power coil magnetically coupled to the primary power coil and a power conversion unit, a secondary signal coil magnetically coupled to the primary signal coil, and a response unit which is operated by electromotive force induced in the secondary signal coil. The control unit stops power transmission when no signal is detected and executes power transmission which a signal is detected.

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Hideaki Abe