Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Renesas Technology Corp.

Takiron Co., Ltd.

Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.

Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.

Kenji Watanabe

Hiroshi Tominaga

Kenichi Shimomura

Shintaro Noguchi

Tomoya Fujinami

Masashi Murakami

Izuo Hirota

Keiko Isoda

Hideto Oka

Akinori Fukuda

Masayuki Hirota

Yutaka Abe

Yoshikazu Kondo

Mitsuo Akiyoshi

Kazumi Hirai

Yoshiaki Ishio

Masaya Hirose

Kuniaki Sakakibara

Chikao Nakano

Satoru Kodama

Sadatoshi Tabuchi

Daisuke Funakoshi

Kazuhiro Oritani

Masaharu Ohashi

Takeshi Kawata

Yoichi Kato

Shigeki Ueda

Tomotaka Nobue

Yuji Hayakawa

Hirotaka Tanaka

Takeshi Yamamoto

Hiroshi Saiki

Kouji Kanzaki

Fumihisa Kitawaki

Takahiro Miyauchi

Makoto Ikuma

Motohiko Naka

Akihiro Hayashi

Ryosuke Ohmae

Satomi Uchiyama

Takahiro Muroshima

Masaaki Sano

Isao Kasai

Shouzi Tanaka

Kinya Daio

Kouzou Tagashira

Mihoko Watanabe

Kazuo Fujishita

Emiko Ishizaki

Nobuo Kagoroku

Masaru Kato

Masahiko Takiguchi

Yoshinori Kohno

Ryouhei Miyagawa

Kazunari Nishii

Yumiko Hara

Yasumichi Kobayashi

Kohichi Takaku

Hiroaki Okumoto

Youichi Kato

Hideharu Ogahara

Akemi Fukumoto

Masanori Sano

Manabu Tsunoda

Takahiro Hasegaki

Kenji Ishibashi

Naoki Nakamura

Tetsuo Ikeyama

Tsuyoshi Ohmori

Isao Mizuta

Kazunari Koga

Kenji Okuzono

Nobunao Tsuchida

Motonobu Shigeto

Chika Mae

Osamu Kouzui

Takahiro Yokohama

Shinichi Matsumura

Takesi Takizaki

Tetsuya Koda

Kenichi Haga

Takuji Miyata

Teruhiko Hiraishi

Tomozaku Ito

Masanori Ueyama

Michio Yasuda

Shinjiroh Kihara

Keisuke Noba

Yoshimune Yashiro

Takuya Hashimoto

Toshinobu Nakao

Taizo Ogata

Takeo Kitamura

Okuzono Kenji

Tsuchida Nobunao

Masaki Koga

Kiyotaka Mori

Hiroyuki Saitou

Tatsuo Kikkawa

Masaichi Fukushima

A sheet-shaped check valve which opens and closes the injection passage is placed in the check valve chamber, an injection discharge passage portion connected to the compression chamber of the injection passage and the check valve chamber open from an outer surface of the fixed scroll, a lid body is attached to openings of the injection discharge passage and the check valve chamber such that the check valve is sandwiched between the openings and the lid body, and the injection discharge passage and the check valve chamber are hermetically closed, thereby forming the injection passage. According to this, it is possible to provide a reliable, efficient and inexpensive compressor with an injection mechanism.

Compressor with injection mechanism

A compressor includes: a fixed scroll; at least one discharge port; a reed valve; a valve stop; and a ventilation hole. The at least one discharge port is disposed in the fixed scroll. The reed valve is disposed in the fixed scroll so as to block the at least one discharge port. The valve stop is disposed in the fixed scroll, and restricts the lift amount of the reed valve. The ventilation hole is disposed in the valve stop. In the present aspect, the flow of refrigerant gas is smoothed to suppress the compression loss, and the force applied to the reed valve can be suppressed. As a result, the efficiency and reliability can be improved.

Compressor

A compressor including fixed scroll and revolving scroll configuring compression mechanism, compression chamber formed between fixed scroll and revolving scroll, intake chamber provided on an outer circumferential side of fixed scroll, discharge port provided in a central part of fixed scroll, muffler provided to cover discharge port at an upper part of fixed scroll, and heat-insulating member provided between fixed scroll and muffler space formed by muffler. After a refrigerant gas taken into intake chamber is compressed by revolving scroll revolving and compression chamber moving while changing a volume of compression chamber, the refrigerant gas is discharged from discharge port. The refrigerant gas discharged from discharge port is discharged into muffler space.

Easy switching to a display mode that corresponds to a viewing-and-listening style that is desired by a user is enabled. A display device () displays one or plural objects on a slidable background and performs switching between a first mode in which display of a target object among the one or plural objects is stopped in a case where the background is slid and a second mode in which the target object is displayed while being fixed to a display region regardless of whether or not the background is slid.

Display device, television receiver, program, and recording medium

Once it is determined in Step Sthat a corner has been detected, a control unit causes a body to perform a reciprocating motion and initiate corner cleaning in Step S. Then, once it is determined in Step Sthat a rubbish detection sensor detects no rubbish, the corner cleaning is terminated in Step S. Once it is determined in Step Sthat the rubbish detection sensor detects rubbish, the corner cleaning continues to be executed by the body being caused to perform the reciprocating motion in Step S. In other words, an autonomous travel-type cleaner is realized that can remove a large amount of the rubbish accumulating at the corner by causing the body to perform the reciprocating motion.

Autonomous travel-type cleaner

A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in rows and columns; a vertical signal line that is provided for each of the columns and transmits pixel signals; a column AD circuit that is provided for each of the columns and AD converts the pixel signals from the vertical signal line; a column-switching circuit that is interposed in the vertical signal line between the pixel array and the column AD circuit and switches connection between the vertical signal line and the column AD circuit; a controller that causes the column-switching circuit to switch the connection for every horizontal scan period; and a restoration circuit that restores ordering of the AD converted signals so as to correspond to ordering in which the vertical signal lines are arranged in the pixel array.

Solid-state imaging device and camera for suppressing vertical line noise

There is provided a placement position determining part that calculates a rising gradient of an output value of the infrared sensor every after passage of a first predetermined time and performs a placement position determining operation of determining that a placement position of a cooking vessel is improper when the rising gradient is smaller than a first threshold value, and the placement position determining part performs the placement position determining operation after a lapse of a second predetermined time from the start of heating, thereby accurately determining that the cooking vessel is improperly placed on a top plate and preventing overheating of the cooking vessel.

Induction heating cooker

The present invention provides an induction heating cooker, which is structured to cut off visible light being incident upon an infrared sensor, yet being capable of more accurately sensing any abnormality of the infrared sensor before heating is started. To this end, the induction heating cooker includes a sensor failure sensing-purpose light emitting portion that emits visible light for sensing any failure of an infrared sensor, a visible light cutting filter provided on a surface of a printed circuit board holding the infrared sensor so as to cover the field of view of the infrared sensor, and a control unit that limits the output of an inverter circuit supplying a high-frequency current to a heating coil when the output of the infrared sensor is equal to or less than a threshold value in a situation where the sensor failure sensing-purpose light emitting portion is lit up. The infrared sensor receives the visible light from the sensor failure sensing-purpose light emitting portion to irradiate inside the visible light cutting filter.

An induction heat cooking device is provided that finishes preheating in a short time and maintains the temperature obtained at the finish of the preheating. The induction heat cooking device includes a heating coil for heating a cooking container by induction, an inverter circuit for providing a high frequency current to the heating coil, an operation unit including an operation mode setting unit for setting an operation mode of the inverter circuit, an infrared sensor for detecting an infrared light that is emitted from a bottom surface of the cooking container, a control unit for controlling an output of the inverter circuit based on an output of the infrared sensor and a setting inputted to the operation unit, and a notification unit.

Induction heat cooking device

An analyzing device mixes a sample liquid with a reagent by rotation of the analyzing device about a rotation center to generate a centrifugal force. A measurement cell is formed so as to extend in a direction along which the centrifugal force is applied, and a capillary area to which the sample liquid is sucked by a capillary force is formed on one of the side walls of the measurement cell, the side walls being arranged in a rotational direction. The capillary area extends from the outer periphery position to the inner periphery of the measurement cell, thereby reducing the size of the analyzing device. Further, the sample liquid in the measurement cell is sucked to the capillary area by slowing or stopping a rotation, and then the rotation is accelerated to return the sample liquid in the capillary area to the measurement cell.

Analyzing apparatus and method that use centrifugal force

An induction heat cooking device is provided that finishes preheating in a short time and maintains the temperature obtained at the finish of the preheating. When a preheating heating mode is selected as an operation mode, a control unit () arranged in the induction heat cooking device starts operation in a preheating mode in which a cooking container is heated with a first heating output. When an increment of an output value of an infrared sensor exceeds a first predetermined increment since the heating starts with the first heating output, the control unit causes a notification unit to notify a user that the preheating is finished, and the operation mode is changed to a waiting mode for performing heating with a second heating output that is lower than the first heating output. Further, when the user sets a heating power by means of a heating power setting unit in the preheating mode, the control unit prohibits changing to the heating power set by the user. When the user sets a heating power by means of a heating power setting unit in the waiting mode, the control unit permits changing to the heating power set by the user, and the operation mode is changed to a heating mode for performing heating with a third heating output corresponding to the heating power set by the user.

Induction heat cooking device capable of preheating object using an output value of an infrared sensor

An induction cooking device includes a heating coil performing induction heating of a cooking container placed on a top plate, an inverter circuit supplying high frequency current to the heating coil, an infrared sensor detecting an amount of infrared light radiated from the cooking container and outputting a detection signal based on the detected amount, a temperature sensor detecting a temperature of the cooking container by thermal conduction through the top plate, and a control unit controlling an output of the inverter circuit so that the outputs of the infrared and temperature sensors do not exceed the respective control temperature. The control unit judges whether or not the infrared sensor is normally detecting the temperature of the cooking container, and when it is judged that the infrared sensor is normally detecting the temperature of the cooking container, the control unit raises the control temperature of the temperature sensor.

Induction cooking device

A display device () includes: a display section () which displays a picture; a user specifying section () which specifies a user viewing the display device; an image quality specifying section () which, in a case where the user specifying section () has specified a plurality of users, (i) obtains, from a recording section which records a plurality of setting values that correspond to user information for discriminating the plurality of users and are used to adjust an image quality, the plurality of setting values that correspond to the respective plurality of users thus specified and (ii) specifies, in accordance with the plurality of setting values thus obtained, a plurality of image qualities of a respective plurality of pictures to be displayed in the display section (); and an image quality adjustment instructing section () which instructs an image quality adjusting section () to cause the display section () to display the plurality of pictures at the respective plurality of image qualities thus specified.

Display device, television receiver, display device control method, programme, and recording medium

The solid-state imaging device according to the present invention includes: pixel units arranged two-dimensionally in rows and columns; signal holding units each holding an analog signal outputted from one of the pixel units in a corresponding one of the columns; and column AD circuits each converting, into a digital signal, the analog signal held by a corresponding one of said signal holding units. The signal holding units and the column AD circuits are respectively provided for the columns of the pixel units. Each of the signal holding units includes: a switching element connected to a column signal line through which the analog signal outputted from the one of the pixel units is transmitted; and a capacitor element holding the analog signal and being connected to the column signal line through the switching element.

Solid-state imaging device having a shortened correlated double sampling (CDS) period, driving method of the same, and camera including the same

An induction heating cooker including a top plate where a pan is placed; a heating coil for induction heating the pan; an inverter circuit for supplying a high frequency current to the heating coil; an infrared sensor, which is arranged under the heating coil and detects an infrared light radiated from the pan; a light guiding part including an upper opening formed at an upper end facing the top plate and a lower opening formed at a lower end, and guiding the infrared light from the pan to the infrared sensor; and a control unit for controlling an output of the inverter circuit according to an output from the infrared sensor; wherein the light guiding part includes a nonmetallic material part in which the upper opening is formed upper than a lower surface of the heating coil.

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Nara, Japan

Kenji Watanabe