Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Hyodo

Kentaro Yamauchi

Hironori Takeshita

Shumpei Fujii

Satoru Yamauchi

Kenichi Irie

Hiroshi Kohara

Kenichiro Tanaka

Hiroshi Kitano

Ryo Kawamura

Takanori Aketa

Minoru Tanaka

Yoshiyuki Takegawa

Teruyuki Kimata

Tatsuya Sasago

Haruka Miyagata

Masashi Kawada

A construction component forms at least a part of a structure that faces a target space. The construction component has a first function, a second function, and a third function. The first function is a function of emitting illumination light toward the target space. The second function is a function of allowing incident light to enter the construction component. The incident light is emitted from a light source disposed out of a projection area, viewed from the target space, of the construction component and is incident on the construction component via a light transmission member. The third function is a function of converting the incident light into the illumination light.

Construction component, light radiating system, and illumination system

An illumination apparatus that is to be disposed in a recess formed in a part of a building includes: a light-emitting module that includes a board and a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on the board; a light diffuser that has translucency and covers the light-emitting module; and a specular reflector that is disposed between the light-emitting module and the light diffuser. The light-emitting module emits light toward the light diffuser, and the specular reflector reflects light from the light diffuser.

Illumination apparatus for simulating blue sky

An illumination system includes: a first luminaire that emits first illumination light having a color simulating a sky; a second luminaire that is disposed in a same space as the first luminaire, the second luminaire projecting, on an object, second illumination light simulating sunlight to create a sunny portion on the object; and a controller that causes the first luminaire to emit the first illumination light according to an environment reproduction condition.

Illumination system and illumination control method

An illumination apparatus that is to be disposed in a recess formed in a part of a building includes: a light-emitting module that includes a board and a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on the board; a light diffuser that has translucency and covers the light-emitting module; and a light reflector that includes a wall having light-reflecting properties and surrounding the plurality of light-emitting elements. Among the plurality of light-emitting elements, every two adjacent light-emitting elements are disposed on the board at a first interval. Among the plurality of light-emitting elements, a light-emitting element closest to the wall is disposed on the board with a second interval to the wall, the second interval being larger than &#xbc; of the first interval and smaller than the first interval.

Illumination apparatus

An illumination apparatus includes: a case having an opening portion; a first light source disposed in the case and including a plurality of light-emitting elements; a light diffuser which is disposed in the opening portion, diffuses and transmits light emitted from the first light source, and from which the diffused light and the transmitted light exit; a light emission component disposed outside a light exit region of the light diffuser on a light exit surface side of the light diffuser; and a second light source that emits light to the light emission component to cause the light emission component to radiate light.

Artificial skylight utilizing light-guides for enhanced display

An illumination apparatus includes: a case having an opening portion; a light source disposed in the case and including a plurality of light-emitting elements; a light diffuser which is disposed in the opening portion, and diffuses and transmits light emitted from the plurality of light-emitting elements; and a controller that controls light emission from the light source. The controller: controls light emission from the plurality of light-emitting elements to project an image on the light diffuser, the image changing with time; and when changing the light emission from the plurality of light-emitting elements changing the image, controls the light emission from the light source to keep a change in at least one of (i) a light amount, (ii) a color temperature, and (iii) a spectral distribution of light emitted from the illumination apparatus within a predetermined range.

Illumination apparatus and illumination system

A light environment rendering system includes: one lighting apparatus disposed on a part of a structure to form an illumination space; another lighting apparatus disposed on the part of a structure, at a position different from a position at which the one lighting apparatus is located, to form the illumination space; and a system controller which controls an operation of each of the lighting apparatuses. The system controller determines an illumination mode based on sky information that indicates at least one of a brightness and a color tone of a sky which are determined at least based on an azimuth direction and a height of the sun, and causes each of the lighting apparatuses to perform lighting simulating a sky according to the illumination mode.

Light environment rendering system, lighting apparatus, light environment rendering method, and storage medium

A lighting apparatus includes: a case having an opening portion; a light emission panel in the case, the light emission panel having a light emission surface which emits light having a light distribution which dynamically changes; and a light distribution modification panel in the opening portion and having a distribution-modified light emission surface which modifies the light distribution of the light to emit light having a modified light distribution. The light emission panel emits, as the light having the light distribution, light having at least one of a luminance distribution and a chromaticity distribution of a first image to be presented on the light emission surface. The light distribution modification panel diffuses and transmits the light emitted from the light emission surface to emit light such that the at least one distribution of a second image to be presented on the distribution-modified light emission surface is changed to a blurred state.

Light apparatus for producing pseudo surroundings environment

A primary coil (L) is excited by selectively using: a first resonance frequency (AL) near a frequency determined by the primary coil (L) and a primary-side capacitor (C), said primary coil (L) being placed in a power-supply area (AR); and a second resonance frequency (BL) near a frequency determined by a secondary-side inductance component and a secondary-side capacitance component, said components existing when the primary coil (L) faces a secondary coil (L).

Non-contact power transmission device drive method and non-contact power transmission device

A lighting control device includes a sensor that detects a state of a user and a gesture made by the user and a controller that controls a lighting characteristic of a lighting device. In the lighting control device and/or the lighting control method, it is determined (by the controller) whether a gesture made by the user and acquired by the sensor matches a first predetermined gesture including a predetermined hand shape and a predetermined movement of both hands of the user made within a detecting region between a boundary 30% larger than a periphery of a projection region illuminated by the lighting device and a boundary 30% smaller than the periphery of the projection region. When it is determined that the gesture matches the first predetermined gesture, a size of the projection region is changed (by the controller).

Lighting control device, lighting system, and method of controlling lighting device

With a non-contact power supply system, a non-contact power supply device, and power supply target device of the present invention, power is supplied from a power supply coil of the non-contact power supply device to a power receiving coil of the power supply target device by non-contact power supply utilizing magnetic interaction. During the non-contact power supply, first, a power supply coil exhibiting a first interaction stronger than a predetermined reference interaction is selected as a candidate excitation coil, and a high-frequency voltage is supplied to the power supply coil of the candidate excitation coil. Second, a power supply coil exhibiting a second interaction weaker than the reference interaction and power supply coils adjacent to this power supply coil are selected as candidate excitation coils, and the high-frequency voltage is supplied to the power supply coils of these candidate excitation coils.

Non-contact power supply system, non-contact power supply device, and power supply target device

A metal detection device includes a metal detection coil arranged in a metal detection area, wherein the metal detection coil is excited, and an electromagnetic wave radiated from the metal detection coil detects whether metal exists in the metal detection area. An oscillation circuit generates a sinusoidal oscillating current having a single fundamental frequency and supplies the oscillating current to the metal detection coil to excite the coil. A harmonic level detection circuit detects a harmonic component of the fundamental frequency component of the oscillating current and generates a detection signal. A comparison circuit compares a signal level of the detection signal and a pre-set reference value. A processing circuit determines whether metal exists in the metal detection area based on a comparison result. When determining that metal exists in the metal detection area, the processing circuit drives a notification unit to issue a notification indicating detection of metal.

Metal detection device using harmonic level detection

A contactless power supplying device includes a plurality of unit controllers that control a plurality of groups of power supplying unit circuits, which respectively excite a plurality of groups of primary coils. A clock signal generation circuit provides the plurality of unit controllers with a common clock signal. The plurality of unit controllers generates synchronization signals to excite the plurality of groups of primary coils in accordance with a common clock signal and provides the synchronization signals respectively to a plurality of power supplying unit circuit. The synchronization signals are rectangular wave pulses having the same cycle, and the plurality of groups of primary coils are excited with the same frequency.

Method of exciting primary coils in contactless power supplying device and contactless power supplying device

A contactless power supplying device is provided. A primary coil and a basic power supplying unit circuit are arranged in a power supplying area. The primary coil supplies secondary power through electromagnetic induction to a secondary coil of a power receiving device in the power supplying area. The basic power supplying unit circuit excites the primary coil in the power supplying area. The basic power supplying unit circuit transmits an oscillation signal from the power supplying area to the power receiving device, receives a modulated wave signal from the power receiving device that detects a modulation wave that is in accordance with a magnetic flux change, and detects the modulated wave signal to demodulate the modulation wave. A system control unit determines whether or not a metal foreign object is present in the power supplying area corresponding to the basic power supplying unit circuit based on the modulation wave.

Contactless power supplying device

With a metal foreign object detecting method, a metal detection circuit arranged in a contactless power supply device transmits an oscillation signal to a modulation circuit of an electric appliance. The modulation circuit generates a square wave pulse signal from the oscillation signal. The cycle of the oscillation signal received by the modulation circuit changes in accordance with whether or not a metal piece is present. The modulation circuit modulates the square wave pulse signal to generate a modulated wave signal and transmits the modulated wave signal to the metal detection circuit of the power supply device. The metal detection circuit demodulates the modulated wave signal and determines whether or not a metal piece is present based on the cycle of the demodulated signal corresponding to the square wave pulse signal.

Method for detecting metal foreign object on contactless power supply device, contactless power supply device, contactless power reception device, and contactless power supply system

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Satoshi Hyodo