Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hidetoshi Imai

Seiji Yamaguchi

Tadashi Matsuyo

Masaichi Fukushima

Masaki Takahashi

Nobuhiro Hayashi

Shuji Abe

Hiroyuki Kayama

Hidetaka Yabuuchi

Hiroshi Mori

Naoyuki Ohara

Toru Odachi

Masaki Shibuya

Toshiichiro Tanaka

Masaru Moro

Koichi Fujita

Masakuni Soejima

Hiroyuki Uratani

Masayo Haji

Yasuo Oshima

Hiroyuki Senoo

Kiminori Kato

Miki Yasuno

Atsushi Nakayama

A suction nozzle for use in a vacuum cleaner includes a floor nozzle and a mini nozzle having a suction head, a rotatable joint, and joint, to be detachably secured in the floor nozzle. Either of the suction head and the rotatable joint or the rotatable joint and the joint is vertically joined and the other rotatably joined. Moreover, the suction head is unrotatably secured onto the floor nozzle, and forms an air communication with the floor nozzle.

Vacuum cleaner and suction nozzle employed therein

A self-moving cleaner has a main body and comprises an intake opening for suctioning dust, an electric blower for generating airflow to suction dust, a dust receiver for collecting the dust suctioned by the electric blower, rollers driven by drive motors, a power source for supplying electric power to the electric blower and the drive motors, and sensors for optically detecting a distance to an obstacle. An enclosure surrounds the main body, the electric blower, the dust receiver, the power source, and the sensors, wherein the enclosure is transparent or semi-transparent, and the sensors transmit and receive light through the enclosure.

Self-moving cleaner

A control apparatus of an electrical appliance comprising a sensor for detecting a physical amount; and a fuzzy inferring device for determining the drive condition of a load by fuzzy inference based on a signal outputted from the sensor, and wherein the sensor has at least one normalized membership function to be used by fuzzy inference and achieves a plurality of membership functions which can be expressed by congruent curves by performing a predetermined subtraction or an addition on the signal outputted from the sensor.

Fuzzy control apparatus generating a plurality of membership functions

Automatic electric vacuum cleaner with temporary manual override

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Shiga, Japan

Hidetoshi Imai