Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Naofumi Nakatani

Kazunori Kurimoto

Yasuo Yoshimura

Satoshi Tsujimura

Tetsuya Kouda

Hiroyuki Ogino

Toshihisa Ikeda

Koji Yoshino

Takeshi Nagai

Masahiko Ito

Yuko Fujii

Narutoshi Kanazawa

Masaru Yamaoka

Masao Ikezaki

Kazuhiro Kuroyama

Reiko Ueno

Hiromasa Nakatsu

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Kazuhiko Hashimoto

Shigeru Morimoto

Michihiro Matsumoto

Toshiaki Ohnishi

Hirohisa Imai

Hideki Omori

Kenichi Kamon

Tadashi Miki

Osamu Eguchi

Terumasa Yamamoto

Kiyoshi Kanazawa

Eiichi Sadayuki

Mahbub Rashid

Hidekazu Yamashita

Haruo Terai

Seiichi Kubo

Hiromi Toyota

Kenji Kida

Hirofumi Inui

Keiko Noda

Kazuko Awaya

Makoto Imai

Wataru Uchiyama

A power control system, a power control method, a power control device and a power control program supplies power to an electric device and charge an electric vehicle. A control device and method includes a receiver that receives charge information pertaining to the charging of the rechargeable battery prior to an arrival of the electric vehicle at a location where power is supplied to the electric vehicle, and a control determination unit that determines an operation start time of starting the operation of the electric device on the basis of the charge information received by the receiver. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores a control program that controls the charging of a rechargeable battery of an electric vehicle and controls operation of the electric device.

Power control system, power control method, power control device and power control program

A mobile device is provided with a communication unit which performs communication via wireless communication, a display unit, and a display control unit which controls the display unit to display a setting input screen for allowing the user to input setting of a household electrical device. The communication unit transmits a request signal for checking whether there is a person in the vicinity of the household electrical device before the setting input screen is displayed by the display control unit. The display control unit controls the display unit to display a setting input disable screen indicating that setting of the household electrical device is not received without causing the display unit to display the setting input screen when there is a person in the vicinity of the household electrical device.

Remote controlling method, communication device, and computer-readable storage medium recorded with computer program for performing remote control

An electric device includes operation unit, working unit, and a number-of-times detecting unit that counts the number of times of instructions being against energy savings. In addition, the device includes time measuring unit that measures time from when the number-of-times detecting unit starts the counting, and a controller that generates a signal to induce a modification of a first energy-saving pattern. When the time is within a first predetermined period, the controller generates a signal that requires the modification of the first energy-saving pattern into a more lenient second energy-saving pattern, with the time being from when time measuring unit starts the measurement to when the number of the times counted by the number-of-times detecting unit reaches a predetermined value.

Electric device and electric device control method

A washer-dryer is provided with a time shift function for performing timer presetting processing on the basis of a time shift computation result which indicates an operation start time suitable for operation. The washer-dryer includes: an input operation unit for allowing a user to perform operations for operating the washer-dryer; a display unit for displaying information relating to the operation of the washer-dryer; and an operation control unit for controlling the operation of the washer-dryer on the basis of the time shift computation result. When a start button on the input operation unit is operated by the user, the operation control unit automatically performs the timer presetting processing on the basis of the time shift computation result and also displays a timer preset time at the display unit.

Household electrical appliance and method for controlling household electrical appliance

A cooking device includes: first and second heating cooking units; a mode setting unit configured to set heating modes of the first and second heating cooking units; a receiving unit; a priority managing unit configured to store priorities which are given to the first heating cooking unit and the second heating cooking unit, respectively; and a power adjusting unit configured to adjust using power of a heating cooking unit to which a lower one of the priorities of the first heating cooking unit and the second heating cooking unit stored in the priority managing unit is given when the receiving unit receives a power adjustment request signal transmitted from a power controlling device. The priorities are different values for each heating mode.

Cooking device having priority managing unit for first and second heating units

A first communication unit transmits, to an electrical home appliance, request information that requests electrical home appliance specifying information for specifying the electrical home appliance after an approach instructing screen is displayed on a display unit, and receives response information including at least the electrical home appliance specifying information from the electrical home appliance after the first communication unit and the electrical home appliance have approached each other within a communicable range, and a display control unit switches a display screen to a menu screen that is unique to the electrical home appliance on the basis of the response information received by the first communication unit.

Communication system, communication apparatus, communication method, communication program and electric device

A radio frequency identification (RFID) device includes: a contact interface for wired communication with a host; a contactless interface for contactless communication with a reader/writer; a command processing unit that obtains a command from the reader/writer in the contactless communication and process the command, the command instructing a data access; and a memory that holds data. The command processing unit determines a communication mode, and (i) executes the data access instructed in the command between the reader/writer and the memory, when the communication mode is determined as a first communication mode, and (ii) executes the data access instructed in the command between the reader/writer and the host, when the communication mode is determined as a second communication mode.

RFID device, host, RFID-embedded apparatus, and method of controlling RFID device

An equipment control device has: a reception unit for receiving desired time information indicating a desired operation start time or a desired operation termination time, operation period information and electrical power information; a time-shift period setting unit for setting a time-shift period indicating a period which has a time range including the desired time information and during which the operation start time or the operation termination time of a household appliance is shiftable; an electrical power charge information acquisition unit for acquiring electrical power charge information; an operation time computing unit for computing the operation start time or the operation termination time, on the basis of which the electricity charge that is billed when the household appliance is operated within the time-shift period falls to or below a predetermined charge; and a transmission unit for transmitting the operation start time or the operation termination time to the household appliance.

Electrical equipment control device, electrical equipment control method and electrical equipment

A power control device includes a priority setting section capable of setting a use priority of a home appliance connected wirelessly or via cable or an adapter connected to the home appliance. The home appliance or the adaptor connected to the home appliance operates within the usable power of a result of the inquiry to the power control device. When there is no excess in usable power over the required power in the inquiry, the power control device reduces the power of a device having a lower priority than the device which has transmitted the inquiry in order to use the device with the higher priority.

Power control system and method and program for controlling power control system

A monitoring system for preventing crime in a home, includes a plurality of terminals for monitoring whether predetermined monitoring points are in a stationary or nonstationary state. Further, the monitoring system includes a central processing device for controlling the setting/canceling of alarm operations of the terminals. The central processing device has a communication unit that receives stationary/nonstationary information from the terminals and transmits predetermined information including commands to the terminals. Each terminal has a communication unit that transmits stationary/nonstationary information to the central processing device and receives the predetermined information from the central processing device. Thus bidirectional communication can be achieved between the central processing device and the terminals. The terminals may include a terminal with an emergency call unit which, in an emergency, calls or notifies another, and a terminal having a notification unit which indicates that a nonstationary state has been accepted by a predetermined point of contact.

Monitoring system

An object detecting device can prevent a seizure of an object between an opening and an opening-closing unit for opening and closing the opening. The object detecting device includes a pressure-sensitive sensor disposed at one of the opening and the opening-closing unit, and judging means for judging the contact of the object with the pressure-sensitive sensor on the basis of an output signal of the pressure-sensitive sensor. The pressure-sensitive sensor includes pressure-sensitive means for generating an output signal depending on deformation, and support means for supporting the pressure-sensitive means at the one of the opening and the opening-closing unit, the support means including a vibration damping portion for damping vibration propagated to the pressure-sensitive means.

Pressure-sensitive sensor, object detecting device, and opening-closing device

In a pressure-sensitive sensor for detecting seizure of an object in the window frame or the like, support means ( ) is more flexible than a piezoelectric sensor ( ), and the support means ( ) is easily deformed together with the piezoelectric sensor ( ) without impeding the deformation of the piezoelectric sensor ( ), and an output signal is issued from the piezoelectric sensor ( ) depending on this deformation. Accordingly, when detecting the contact of an object with a pressure-sensitive sensor ( ) by a judging device, the pressure-sensitive sensor ( ) for generating an output signal of a sufficient magnitude for detection can be presented.

A themometer for measuring a body temperature by using infrared rays and on the basis of a measuring method in which a measurement error fluctuates depending upon the length of the measuring time including computation time. The measuring time is calculated on the basis of a required measurement error, so that a temperature can be measured in a suitable time corresponding to a required allowable error. A probe is formed of a porous structure so as to improve the heat insulating effect thereof, and an auxiliary adapter is provided to permit the thermometer to be fitted better in the earhole in spite of an individual difference in size thereof with the function of reporting a relative ovulation date based on a desired delivery date also incorporated in the themometer.

Ear type thermometer

A homebus system for permitting use of a twisted pair line homebus to both homebus equipment and integrated service digital network (ISDN) interface equipment. The homebus system includes a homebus controller for controlling access to the twisted pair line homebus so as to selectively connect and disconnect a digital service unit for communication between a digital network and the ISDN interface equipment connected to said twisted pair line homebus via an information plug socket.

Homebus system for permitting homebus equipment and ISDN basic interface

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