Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Sachio Nagamitsu

Hisashi Kodama

Yoshihiro Hattori

Kazuo Yokoyama

Shigeaki Matsubayashi

Mayumi Sakai

Atsushi Ono

Tatsuo Fujita

Kimiya Ikushima

Kenji Okamoto

Mitsuyoshi Nakamoto

Tsuneko Imagawa

Noriko Shimba

Yoichi Nagata

Osamu Ogawa

Shinji Tanaka

Takashi Murakami

Osamu Yamada

Masami Funakura

Yasuyuki Shintani

Yoshitaka Kawasaki

Shigeyuki Inoue

Etsuko Kanai

Kenkichi Hashido

Masaru Matsui

Makiko Noda

Tsuneko Okada

Tuneko Okada

Hisasi Kodama

Hirosi Yamamoto

Norihisa Matsumoto

Yoko Yamakata

Michihiko Minoh

An object of the invention is to accurately detect a state of an object to be heated in a cooking vessel and effectively avoid cooking failure. An induction heating section () inductively heats a cooking vessel (). A vibration detecting section () detects a vibration of the cooking vessel () via a top plate (). A vibration waveform extracting section () extracts a vibration waveform of a frequency component having a frequency equal to a predetermined multiplication product of an induction heating frequency, from a waveform of the vibration detected by the vibration detecting section (). A determining section () determines a state of an object to be heated, based on the vibration waveform extracted by the vibration waveform extracting section ().

Induction heating cooker, induction heating cooking method, induction heating cooking program, resonance sound detection device, resonance sound detection method, and resonance sound detection program

An actuator is provided with a conductive polymer film portion, an electrode, and an electrolyte portion, and by detecting a waveform of a current that flows upon application of a voltage between the conductive polymer film portion and the electrode, a displacement amount of the actuator is detected so that based on the displacement amount thus detected, a voltage is applied to the conductive polymer film portion so that the displacement amount of the actuator is adjusted.

Conductive polymer actuator device, conductive polymer actuator control device and control method

There is provided a polymer actuator including a first electrode layer as an active member layer made of a conductive polymer, a second electrode layer opposing to the first electrode layer, and an electrolyte placed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, so that the polymer actuator is driven by a voltage applied between both the electrode layers, wherein the electrolyte is constituted by a first electrolyte layer having a sliding function and a second electrolyte layer having an insulation maintaining function.

Polymer actuator

A first conductive polymer film, a plate-shaped first porous member, a second conductive polymer film, and a plate-shaped second porous member are stacked on one another, and the adjacent members are connected with each other on first end portions so as to form a zigzag pattern. The first and second porous members each have an ionic solution injected thereinto so as to function as an electrolyte retention layer, so that operations can be carried out with tensions being always maintained upon both of the expansion and the contraction, and rigidity and a driving force can be exerted in both of the contracting and expanding directions.

Flat stacked-type conductive polymer actuator

There are provided a lens holder being capable of holding a lens and having flange portions at opposite end portions thereof along an optical axis, a planary-driven actuator including driving arm portions having lens holder support points for holding the outer surface of the lens holder at a plurality of opposing positions and having free-end side contact portions, a lens-holder retaining plate having spring-characteristic portions, and fixing frames which form the outer surfaces of a lens holder driving device and fix the respective components.

Lens holder driving device and image pickup unit employing planary-driven polymer actuator

Conductive polymer films are respectively connected to fixed frames via a link member, and an electrolyte holding layer is placed so as to be made in contact with the conductive polymer films. The fixed frames are regulated by the link member.

Flat-plate lamination-type conductive polymer actuator and flat-plate lamination-type conductive polymer actuator device as well as operating method thereof

A device communication portion receives operational status data, and an operational status accumulation portion accumulates the operational status data. A link information management portion manages operational status link information containing trigger device information to specify the operational status of a single home appliance among plural home appliances and linked device information to specify another home appliance that activates in association with the operational status of the single home appliance. An operational status read portion extracts operational status data corresponding to the operational status in the trigger device information and extracts operational status data corresponding to the linked device information. An associated control information setting portion generates associated control information containing the operational status of the single home appliance and used as the condition to start the associated control of a single electronic device and another electronic device and the content of control on the another home appliance.

Electronic device control apparatus, method for controlling electronic device, electronic device control program, and computer-readable recording medium having recorded electronic device control program

An ingredient cooking-operation recognition system is provided which is capable of precisely specifying an ingredient that is cooked by a person and a cooking operation for the ingredient, and accurately estimating a cooking recipe for a dish that is prepared by the person. The system includes a sensing section which has an optical camera, a thermal camera, and a microphone that acquires an environment sound. Moreover, the system includes a feature-quantity template creation section which creates a feature-quantity template and a recognition processing section. The recognizing processing section calculates, on the basis of observation data acquired by the sensing section, an observation certainty factor and a cooking operation, creates a cooking flow based on the observation certainty factors, calculates a relevance factor of this cooking flow and recognizes the ingredient, the cooking operation and a cooking recipe.

Ingredient cooking-operation recognition system and computer-readable recording medium which is recorded with ingredient cooking-operation recognition program

The present invention provides a control device that controls home electrical appliances via a communication line by using function codes which are set without being specialized for specific home electrical appliances. In particular, the present invention provides a home electrical appliance control device that controls a home electrical appliance connected via a communication line, where the device includes: a memory section for storing a function table for mapping function identifiers, which identify function types allocated with the focus on the function itself to functions with which the home electrical appliance is equipped, with attributes of the functions, and a control section for controlling the home electrical appliance via the communication line based on the function table.

Home electrical appliance control device, control method, control program and home electrical appliance

An equilibrium state analyzing apparatus, equilibrium state analysis method, program thereof and recording medium are provided that place few constraints on the degree of freedom in the area of motion or posture of the examinee. An equilibrium state analyzing apparatus includes acceleration information detector, attached to the trunk of the human body, of detecting accelerations generated in at least one direction within the horizontal plane, motion information storing device of storing the detected accelerations, and equilibrium state analyzer of analyzing the equilibrium state of the human body using the stored acceleration information.

Equilibrium state analyzing apparatus, equilbrium state analysis method, program and recording medium

An operating condition determiner compares an operation starting time (t) of network-connected first consuming apparatuses received by a schedule information receiver and a consumption starting time (t) predicted by a predicting system based on a total consumption amount of the first consuming apparatuses and a second consuming apparatus, which is not network-connected, and determines the operation starting time (t) as an operation starting time of a fuel cell if the operation starting time (t) is earlier than the consumption starting time (t) while determining the consumption starting time (t) as such if the operation starting time (t) is later than the consumption starting time (t), so that the fuel cell can stably generate power. The fuel cell can stably supply power at a time when the consuming apparatuses start consuming power. The merit of introducing a cogeneration facility can be sufficiently exhibited even if both consuming apparatuses provided with a network connecting function and those provided with no such function exist.

Cogeneration system, operation controller for cogeneration facility, and operation program for cogeneration facility

An energy management system is provided which is capable of calculating, based on equipment information on electrical equipment which is used by a resident, a power consumption estimated when a replacement is made with energy-saving equipment, then comparing and displaying it and the power consumption of the electrical equipment owned by the resident, and thereby, allowing the resident to become aware of how the replacement helps save energy.

Energy management system, energy management method, and unit for providing information on energy-saving recommended equipment

A remote maintenance system has a center server that is located in a service center for performing maintenance of an electrical appliance and a home server that is located in a house and monitors a status of the electrical appliance in the house which are connected via a communication network. The home server includes an electrical appliance management unit that acquires a status value of the electrical appliance, a communication unit that receives from the center server a failure model which is information defining a method of deriving a decision whether the electrical appliance has failed or not from the status value, and a failure deciding unit that decides whether the electrical appliance has failed or not based on the acquired status value and the received failure model using qualitative reasoning. The center server includes a failure model updating unit that updates a failure model and sends the updated failure model to the home server via a communication unit.

Remote maintenance system

In a room exit determination, a determination of presence of a body in a room is made if a movement pattern vector consisting of a room ID of movement origin, a room ID of movement destination and a movement period of time is not received from the a non-specified room response sensor within a predetermined period of time. A determination of exit from the room of a body is made only when the movement period of time in the movement pattern vector agrees with a movement period of time of past exits from the room stored in the a movement time storage if this vector is received from the non-specified room response sensor.

Object state sensing apparatus, object state sensing method, home electronic appliance, network adapter and medium

A fluid analyzer including a physical property value setting section for setting a physical property value in accordance with grid information for boundary conditions and object positions, a number-of-dimension control section for controlling the number of dimensions of a space to be analyzed, a momentum correction section for automatically correcting the momentum of the speed vector of an inlet or outlet, and a boundary condition control section for automatically setting a boundary condition not diverged even in natural convection computation, which repeats repetitive computation until resulting in convergence after generating grids. Thereby, it is possible to accurately set a physical property value and an analysis dimension according to grid division, correct a momentum, and control natural convection computation.

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Kyoto, Japan

Sachio Nagamitsu