Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Makinaga

Hiroshi Inoue

Junji Imai

Mitsuru Kobayashi

Yasufumi Masaki

Youichiro Nakahara

Naoto Ikegawa

Supply of power is ensured on use without requiring troublesome works such as battery replacement work and charging work. Specifically, hearing aids, which collect sound, amplify the collected sound, and output the amplified sound, boosts electromotive force generated by the Peltier module derived from temperature difference between a human-body contact portion and an ambient-air contact portion, and causes sound collecting units, a controller IC, a speaker to operate by the boosted voltage.

Hearing aid

In a pressure sensor including a pressure detecting element in an intermediate portion or at a deep side of a through hole formed in a protrusion, a body portion (a base portion and the protrusion) is made of ceramic or an insulative resin material and molded into a predetermined shape, and the pressure sensor is constituted as a molded interconnect device in which a conductive pattern is formed on a surface thereof. Accordingly, a smaller pressure sensor can be obtained.

Pressure sensor

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Tsu, Japan

Hitoshi Makinaga