Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Yanmar Co., Ltd.

Opm Laboratory Co., Ltd

Matsuura Machinery Corporation

Satoshi Abe

Isao Fuwa

Masataka Takenami

Norio Yoshida

Yoshikazu Higashi

Yoshiyuki Uchinono

Hirohiko Togeyama

Isamu Matsumoto

Shushi Uenaga

Mikio Mori

Takashi Shimizu

Kenichi Tanaka

Shinya Watanabe

Seizo Machida

Masanori Morimoto

Kazuho Morimoto

Tomoyuki Ikeda

Shuushi Uenaga

Yosuke Tahara

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Masaki Kondo

Junji Araki

Kenichi Kubota

Seiichi Tomita

Akifumi Nakamura

Toshio Maeda

Yusuke Mizuno

Norio Takinami

Isamu Matumoto

Masayoshi Matsuoka

Takefumi Oota

Kenichi Tsuchiya

Hirokazu Shinkai

Toshiharu Iwanaga

The voice control device includes a sound source signal input unit, a frequency determination unit, a band controller, a sound image controller, and a voice output unit. The sound source signal input unit inputs a sound source signal of content from a sound source. The frequency determination unit determines a cutoff frequency. The band controller acquires a high frequency signal in a frequency band equal to or higher than the cutoff frequency and a low frequency signal in a frequency band equal to or lower than the cutoff frequency, from the sound source signal of the content. The sound image controller generates a plurality of sound image control signals for controlling sound images of the plurality of speakers, by controlling at least one of a phase and a sound pressure level of the high frequency signal. The voice output unit outputs the low frequency signal to a first speaker, and outputs the plurality of sound image control signals to a second speaker composed of a plurality of speakers.

Voice control device and voice control system

To manufacture a sprue-bush which is capable of suitably cooling a melt raw resin in a raw resin-flow path as a whole, there is provided a method for manufacturing a sprue-bush, wherein a shaped part is located on a base part to manufacture the sprue-bush, the base part comprising a raw resin-flow path and a cooling medium-flow path, wherein, in the shaped part, a downstream raw resin-flow path portion is located and a downstream cooling medium-flow path portion is also located, the downstream raw resin-flow path portion corresponding to a downstream side region of a raw resin-flow path of the sprue-bush, the downstream cooling medium-flow path portion being positioned around the downstream raw resin-flow path portion and corresponding to a downstream side region of a cooling medium-flow path of the sprue-bush, and wherein the downstream cooling medium-flow path portion is located to surround the downstream raw resin-flow path portion.

Sprue-bush and method for manufacturing sprue-bush

There is provided a more efficient method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object. The method of the present invention comprises a successive formation of a plurality of solidified layers through a light beam irradiation, wherein the solidified layers are provided by a hybrid of combined systems of an after irradiation system and a simultaneous irradiation system, the after irradiation system being such that the light beam irradiation is performed after a formation of a powder layer, the simultaneous irradiation system being such that the light beam irradiation is performed while a raw material is supplied.

Method for manufacturing three-dimensional shaped object

There is provided a mold including a movable side mold, a fixed side mold and a sprue bush, the sprue bush including a flow path for a cooling fluid of the fixed side mold, wherein inlet and outlet ports of the flow path for the cooling fluid are in a direct connection with a cooling tube, respectively, the cooling tube being located along a space portion provided in the fixed side mold, and wherein the space portion is in a form of an opening provided in at least one of opposed surfaces of the fixed side mold.

Mold and method for manufacturing mold

In order to provide a sprue-bush which is capable of suitably cooling a melt raw resin in a raw resin-flow path as a whole, there is provided a sprue-bush, comprising a raw resin-flow path and a cooling medium-flow path located around the raw resin-flow path, wherein a width dimension of the raw-resin flow path gradually becomes larger toward a downstream side-end surface of the sprue-bush, and wherein the downstream side-end surface of the sprue-bush is a heat transfer surface.

Sprue-bush

There is provided a manufacturing method of a three-dimensional shaped object, the method being capable of reducing a warp deformation of the three-dimensional shaped object. The manufacturing method according to an embodiment of the present invention produces a three-dimensional shaped object by alternate repetition of a powder-layer forming and a solidified-layer forming on a base plate, wherein the forming of at least one prior solidified layer is performed under a higher temperature condition than that for the forming of a subsequent solidified layer, the at least one prior solidified layer being formed prior to the subsequent solidified layer.

There is provided a manufacturing method of a three-dimensional shaped object, the method being capable of reducing a warp deformation of the three-dimensional shaped object. The manufacturing method according to an embodiment of the present invention produces a three-dimensional shaped object by alternate repetition of a powder-layer forming and a solidified-layer forming by light beam irradiation, wherein as a platform for the three-dimensional shaped object, a plate laminate body comprising a dummy solidified layer and a base plate for the shaped object is used, and the dummy solidified layer is formed on one of principal surfaces of the base plate, whereas the three-dimensional shaped object is manufactured on the other of the principal surfaces of the base plate.

To provide an injection mold capable of filling a necessary resin material for obtaining a desired molded article in a cavity space of a fine mesh structure, there is provided an injection mold according to an embodiment of the present invention composed of a core mold and a cavity mold, in which a cavity space is formed when the core and cavity molds are in a contact with each other, the cavity space surrounding a plurality of contact areas between the core and cavity molds. In the injection mold according to an embodiment of the present invention, at least one of the core and cavity molds has a through-hole which has an opening in a parting plane of the core and cavity molds and extends from the opening to an outside of the injection mold, the parting plane corresponding to the contact areas between the core and cavity molds.

Injection mold

There is provided a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object by alternate repetition of a powder-layer forming and a solidified-layer forming by an irradiation with a light beam in order to provide a selective laser sintering method capable of reducing a warp of the three-dimensional shaped object, the warp being due to a stress around an upper surface of the three-dimensional shaped object. Especially, in the present invention, a part of a region for the formation of the solidified layer is not irradiated with the light beam to form a non-irradiated portion, thereby providing at least one slit-groove at an upper surface of the three-dimensional shaped object, the slit-groove being for reducing a stress of the three-dimensional shaped object.

Method for manufacturing three-dimensional shaped object and three-dimensional shaped object

A radiator chamber is provided in a top compartment of a package, whereas an engine is provided in a bottom compartment. Outside the package, a battery unit is attached to an external wall panel (e.g., lower panel) of the bottom compartment. The battery unit includes a dedicated unit ventilation fan and a unit ventilating section that introduces outside air into an enclosure of the battery unit. The enclosure has a lower portion thereof divided to accommodate a package ventilating section that ventilates the bottom compartment of the package. There is provided a detachable bottom compartment inspection window in the external wall panel below the battery unit.

Engine system

A package has its internal space divided into a top compartment and a bottom compartment. The bottom compartment contains the engine. The top compartment is further divided by a partition wall into a first top compartment (e.g., a radiator chamber) and a second top compartment (e.g., a device installation chamber). The partition wall has a spatial connection port. The second top compartment has an external wall panel (e.g., the rear, upper panel) located facing the spatial connection port, the external wall panel having a vent (e.g., a gallery) formed therethrough. There is provided a duct-shaped heatsink to deliver outside air introduced through the vent to the spatial connection port. Electric components, such as an inverter, are disposed directly on an external surface of the heatsink (on the top face).

A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object wherein the warping of the base plate is suitably addressed. The method of the present invention comprises: (i) forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of a powder layer on a base plate with a light beam, thereby allowing sintering of the powder of the predetermined portion or melting and subsequent solidification thereof; and (ii) forming another solidified layer by newly forming a powder layer on the resulting solidified layer, and then irradiating another predetermined portion of the new powder layer with the light beam, the steps (i) and (ii) being repeatedly performed; wherein, prior to or upon the manufacturing of the three-dimensional shaped object, the base plate is subjected to a heat treatment, thereby causing the base plate to be warped, and at least a lower surface of the warped base plate is subjected to a flattening process.

There is provided a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object. The method of the present invention comprises the repeated steps of: (i) forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of a powder layer with a light beam, thereby allowing a sintering of the powder in the predetermined portion or a melting and subsequent solidification thereof; and (ii) forming another solidified layer by newly forming a powder layer on the resulting solidified layer, followed by the irradiation of a predetermined portion of the powder layer with the light beam; wherein only the surface portion of the solidified layer, to which a force is applied when the three-dimensional shaped object is used, is subjected to a machining process.

Method for manufacturing three-dimensional shaped object and three-dimensional shaped object obtained by the same

There is provided a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object, comprising the steps of: (i) forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of a powder layer with a light beam, thereby allowing sintering of the powder of the predetermined portion or melting and subsequent solidification thereof; and (ii) forming another solidified layer by newly forming a powder layer on the resulting solidified layer, and then irradiating another predetermined portion of the new powder layer with the light beam, the steps (i) and (ii) being repeatedly performed, wherein the three-dimensional shaped object is manufactured such that it has three different solidified portions of high-density, intermediate-density and low-density solidified portions in at least a part of the object, and wherein the intermediate-density solidified portion is formed to be located in a part of a surface of the three-dimensional shaped object.

A selective laser sintering method reduces a warping deformation of a three-dimensional shaped object, the warping deformation being due to the scanning of a light beam. The manufacturing method is a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object by alternate repetition of a powder-layer forming and a solidified-layer forming, wherein a scanning of the light irradiation is divided into light beam-scannings 'A' and 'B', the light beam-scanning &#x201c;A&#x201d; being for the light irradiation of a peripheral portion corresponding to a periphery of the three-dimensional shaped object, and the light beam-scanning &#x201c;B&#x201d; being for the light irradiation of an internal portion corresponding to a region of the three-dimensional shaped object, the region being located inside the periphery. In particular, the peripheral portion is subjected to a discontinuous light beam-irradiation in the light beam-scanning &#x201c;A&#x201d; such that an irradiation path of the light beam is divided into a plurality of sub-irradiation paths.

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Satoshi Abe