Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Hirotoshi Watanabe

Shiro Mori

Tatsuya Mukai

Kouji Kakiuchi

Koji Tanabe

Satoru Fujii

Masahide Tsukamoto

Shinichi Nakamura

Yousuke Chikahisa

Naoki Fukuo

Tsutomu Aisaka

Naoki Tatehata

Toru Ishida

Osamu Makino

Yutaka Nishimura

Kiyosi Gotou

Kiyoshi Goto

Noboru Aikawa

Yoji Minami

Satoru Ueno

Tomoyoshi Hayashi

Hiroshi Ooya

Kazuhiro Kondou

Yutaka Takada

Youji Minami

Mikinari Shimada

Masahiro Ito

Kenichi Matsumoto

Koji Matsuo

Takeshi Iseki

Hideharu Ohmae

Hiroshi Aono

Shigeki Sato

Hidetoshi Hiraoka

Yasutaka Yamamoto

Minoru Karaki

Kiyohito Miwa

Masayuki Ohmori

Kohji Matsuo

Makoto Morimoto

Go Minami

Masato Hagino

Takahiro Yamanouchi

Mitsuo Ioka

Hideki Kawahara

Tatsuya Abe

Masaharu Fukushima

Futoshi Ohtsuka

Sinichi Nakamura

Tatuya Mukai

A touch sensor of this disclosure includes: a printed circuit board having a connection terminal; a substrate portion having a mounting portion on which the printed circuit board is mounted; a conductive layer disposed on the mounting portion of the substrate portion; and an adhesive agent connecting the connection terminal and the conductive layer to each other. A plurality of linear projections arranged in a first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction are disposed on a surface of the substrate portion at the mounting portion, and the conductive layer is disposed on a groove portion positioned between the linear projections disposed adjacently to each other out of the plurality of linear projections.

Touch sensor

A charging cable for an electric vehicle includes a power plug adapted to be detachably connected to a power socket of a commercial power source; a temperature detecting unit for detecting a temperature of the power plug; a cable connector adapted to be detachably connected to an electric vehicle for supplying a charging current to a battery of the electric vehicle; and a switching unit for opening and closing a current path between the power plug and the cable connector. The charging cable further includes a leakage detecting unit for detecting an electric leakage based on a current flowing through the current path; and a power cutoff unit for opening the switching unit when the detected temperature of the temperature detection means exceeds a threshold value or when the leakage detection means detects the electric leakage.

Charging cable, charging cable unit, and charging system for electric vehicle

An electric vehicle charging cord set includes a housing containing an interrupting device therein and a first cord provided at one end with a plug connectable to an outlet installed on a wall surface of a building and at the other end connected to one of the terminal units of the interrupting device. An electric vehicle charging cord set further includes a second cord provided at one end with a connector connectable to an inlet of an electric vehicle and at the other end connected to the other of the terminal units of the interrupting device. The housing includes a storage unit for extendibly storing the second cord, a stand for placing the housing on a ground surface and a transportation handle. The storage unit includes a drum rotatably attached to the housing. The second cord is wound on the outer circumferential surface of the drum.

Electric vehicle charging cord set

A feed control device includes a contact device, an output detector, a contact weld sensor, and an alarm device. The output detector is configured to detect the presence of power feeding into the side of an electrically-powered car from an external power supply. The contact weld sensor is configured to sense that the contact device is welded based on a detection result of the output detector if detecting the presence of power feeding from the external power supply to a feed line for the contact device when a state signal representing charge permission is not entered. The alarm device is configured, if the contact weld sensor senses that the contact device is welded, to indicate the occurrence of weld to the outside.

Feed control device

In a touch panel, one of conductive layers on a bottom of an upper substrate and on a top of a lower substrate is formed of belt-shaped conductive layers. The other is a single conductive layer facing the belt-shaped conductive layers. The single conductive layer is provided with a pair of electrodes in positions corresponding to both ends in a direction where the belt-shaped conductive layers extend. When the upper substrate is pressed while a voltage is applied between the pair of electrodes, the top and lower conductive layers contact with each other. Then, a voltage value corresponding to the pressed position in the direction where the belt-shaped conductive layers extend is generated from any of the belt-shaped conductive layers. From the voltage value and the position of the belt-shaped conductive layer from which the voltage value is generated, a pressed position on the upper substrate can be detected.

Touch panel and method of detecting press operation position thereon

An electricity feeding control device is provided with an air hole () which is formed by penetrating a part of a peripheral wall of a body () constituting a part of a housing case (). The housing case () is provided in its inside with an inner pressure adjusting sheet (), formed with a breathable and waterproof member, and arranged so as to cover the air hole () from the inside of the housing case (). The air hole () comprises a long recess () formed in an outer surface of the body (), a communicating hole () consecutively formed in one end of a longi-tudinal direction of the recess () and communicated with an inner surface of the body (), and a shielding plate () attached in the outer surface of the body () so as to cover a region other than the other end of the longitudinal direction of the recess (), in a region of an opening section () of the recess (). That is, a channel of the air hole (), led from the inside to the outside of the housing case (), is formed into a nonlinear shape.

Electricity feeding control device

A branch wire Lfrom the voltage detection circuitis inserted in the zero-phase-sequence current transformer ZCT in the direction from the load side to the external power supply side. For this configuration, the zero-phase-sequence current transformer ZCT is to detect unbalance of the sum of current flowing in the first and second conductive wires L, Land the current flowing in the branch wire L. Therefore, the present invention can accurately detect occurrence of electrical leakage.

Power feed control device

A concavo-convex light emitting section provided on an under surface of a base material is formed of a synthetic resin with inorganic oxide dispersed therein. A larger amount of light is reflected by inorganic oxide having a large refractive index and dispersed inside the synthetic resin, to cause a plurality of light emitting sections to emit bright light with a small number of light emitting elements. A light guiding sheet capable of making bright and uniform illumination and a movable contact body using the same are realized with a simple configuration.

Light guiding sheet and movable contact body using the same

A light-guide sheet includes a light transmissive film substrate, and luminescent protrusions formed at predetermined points on the substrate. At least one of the substrate and each of the luminescent protrusions is colored to a color tone that absorbs yellow light more than blue light. Alternatively, a reflective layer colored to a color tone that absorbs yellow light more than blue light is provided on at least one of the top and bottom faces of the substrate.

Light-guide sheet, movable contact unit and switch using the same

A movable contact unit includes a base sheet made of polyurethane resin, a domed movable contact made of thin metal sheet, and a pushing protrusion. The movable contact is held on a first face side of the base sheet. The pushing protrusion is formed on a second face of the base sheet at a place corresponding to a domed top of the movable contact.

Movable contact unit and switch using the same

A first resistor layer is formed on the lower surface of a base in film form, and at the same time, a second resistor layer in which particles of different particle diameters are dispersed is formed and layered on the lower surface of the first resistor layer, and thus, a pressure sensitive conductive sheet is formed. In this configuration, the second resistor layer in uneven form makes contact with the fixed contacts in accordance with a pressing force so that electrical connection is made via the second resistor layer and the first resistor layer, and therefore, a thin panel switch with little fluctuation in the resistance value resulting from repeated operation where a stable resistance value can be gained can be realized.

Pressure sensitive conductive sheet and panel switch using same

A first frame includes a bottom portion, an inclined portion, a joint portion and a lateral portion for supporting a shadow mask. Between the lateral portion and the joint portion, a space is provided except where the lateral portion and the joint portion are welded. The joint portion is inclined with respect to the lateral portion such that the space enlarges with an increase in the distance from an edge of the lateral portion on the side of supporting the shadow mask. With this configuration, foreign substances can be removed from between the lateral portion and the joint portion in the process of cleaning the first frame, making it possible to both suppress the deterioration of high-voltage withstand capabilities of a color cathode ray tube and prevent the poor welding of the first frame.

Color cathode ray tube and shadow mask support

A vibration damping member penetrates through two mounting apertures provided in a shadow mask with tension applied thereto, so as to be attached to the shadow mask in a freely movable state. The vibration damping member has two penetrating portions each passing loosely through one of the two mounting apertures and a bridge portion linking these portions. A protrusion protruding toward the shadow mask is provided in the bridge portion of the vibration damping member. This configuration regulates a tilted angle of the vibration damping member with respect to the face of the shadow mask, thus preventing a phenomenon in which a bending portion is caught by the edge of the mounting aperture so that the vibration damping member is pinned by the shadow mask. As a result, the freely movable state of the vibration damping member can be kept always, and therefore vibrations of the shadow mask can be dampened effectively and a color cathode ray tube with reduced color displacement can be provided.

Color cathode ray tube

A cathode ray tube includes a pair of plate members ( ) facing each other, a pair of supporters ( ) adhered to the respective plate members ( ) to support the plate members ( ), and a shadow mask ( ) adhered to the respective plate members ( ) while being applied with tensile force. The supporters ( ) have crank-shaped steps ( ) formed to protrude toward the shadow mask ( ). Thereby, an internal moment of a shadow mask structure can be decreased, and thus, displacement of the shadow mask ( ) in the axial direction is suppressed even when the shadow mask ( ) is expanded by heat generated by impact of electron beams, and q-value deviation is suppressed as well. Moreover, since the crank-shaped steps ( ) are helpful in blocking a transverse clearance with a ferrous material, the magnetic properties can be improved.

Cathode ray tube with supporters having crank-shaped steps

The automatic gang switch having a heat ray sensor is fixedly mounted on a mounting frame having a generally rectangular opening. The length of a housing of the switch is approximately two thirds of that of the generally rectangular opening of the mounting frame, while the width of the housing is approximately equal to that of the generally rectangular opening of the mounting frame. The switch includes a human body detecting section for detecting heat rays emitted from a human body and a circuit section. The circuit section includes a control circuit for generating a control signal to turn a load on for a predetermined operation holding time when the human body detecting section generates a detection signal, a load control circuit connected to a power source and the load in series for turning on or off power supply to the load depending on the control signal, an off-time power circuit connected in parallel with the load control circuit and having an input impedance with which the load is not driven when the load control circuit is off, the off-time power circuit supplying an electric power to the control circuit when the load control circuit is off, and an on-time power circuit for supplying the electric power to the control circuit when the load control circuit is on. The switch further includes a time setting section for setting an operation holding time and a mode setting section for changing over an operation mode of the control circuit.

Automatic gang switch having a heat ray sensor

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