Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Shunichi Nagamoto

Jinsei Miyazaki

Hiroyoshi Nomura

Takeshi Muramatu

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Masao Ito

Masahiro Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Ogino

Kenji Iwano

Hirohisa Imai

Fumikazu Shiba

Kimiaki Yamaguchi

Ryuji Suzuki

Takashi Niwa

Haruo Matsushima

Kiyoshi Kanazawa

Yoshiaki Watanabe

Tatsuo Saka

Kazutoshi Nagai

Naruaki Akai

Yasuo Yoshimura

Tetsu Kobayashi

Itaru Enguchi

Masaru Kikukawa

Shirou Honma

Terue Matsumura

Masanori Nishikawa

Motomichi Kato

Minoru Hotta

Masayoshi Miki

Kiyoshi Sekiya

A medical information system includes a patient server that retains vital information received from a patient terminal. The patient server transmits the vital information to a medical care provider server through a network. The vital information retained in the medical care provider server can then be browsed from a doctor terminal.

Medical information system

A communication system for providing information of a medical doctor's questions to patients includes a medical doctor terminal apparatus, a patient terminal apparatus, and a database server apparatus for storing question sets for the medical doctor's questions to patients, where the medical doctor terminal apparatus, patient terminal apparatus and database server apparatus are connected through a communication network. The patient terminal apparatus generates question programs for making inquiries about the medical doctor's questions to patients in accordance with the question sets received from the database server apparatus, displays the questions for the medical doctor's questions to patients by execution of the generated question programs, enters answer data to the displayed questions, transmits the entered answer data to the database server apparatus, and stores the transmitted answer data in the database server apparatus. The medical doctor terminal apparatus receives the stored answer data by accessing the database server apparatus, and displays the received answer data thereon.

Communication system for information of medical doctor's questions to patients, terminal apparatus for medical doctor and terminal apparatus for patient

A biodata interfacing device includes a service console, an attachment storage compartment defined in the service console for accommodating a variety of sensors used for collecting biodata, a lid mounted on the service console for opening and closing a top opening of the attachment storage compartment, and a display unit formed on an upper surface of the lid.

Biodata interfacing system

A residential facility control system transmits data as a radio signal between host and subsidiary apparatus. Transmitting and receiving devices of the host and subsidiary apparatus are reduced in power consumption. A transmitting circuit of the transmitting device of the transmitting and receiving apparatus is supplied with power from a transmitting circuit power source control in synchronization with a first timing signal from a first timer for a period of time which is necessary for transmission. A receiving circuit of the receiving device of the transmitting and receiving device is supplied with power from a receiving circuit power source control for a shorter period of time in synchronization with a second timing signal from a second timer which is synchronized with the first timing signal. When the receiving circuit receives a signal for the shorter power supply period of time, the receiving power source control maintains power supply to the receiving circuit for a period of time which is necessary to receive the signal. Synchronization between the first and second timing signals is achieved by initializing the second timer by way of timer synchronization device each time when the receiving device receives an effective signal or by regularly transmitting a forced synchronization signal to the receiving device from a forced synchronization signal generator provided in the transmitting device and by receiving the synchronization signal at the receiving device to initialize the second timer by way of the timer synchronization device.

Residential facility control system

A safety control apparatus positively discriminates between an object and a person through the detection of subtle physical movement corresponding to the heart activity and the breathing unique to the life activity of the human body from a output signal of a vibration sensor disposed on a seat so as to accurately decide whether or not a person is present. The maintenance of the safe operation of the moving vehicle can be realized. The starting of the moving vehicle is inhibited if the reserved seat is determined to be unoccupied in accordance with the decision result. In the case where the person is present, the moving of the vehicle is not started before the engagement of the seat belt has been detected.

Presence detecting and safety control apparatus

This serial data receiving apparatus is intended to realize the receiving process of serial data having an inferior SN ratio with a simple arrangement and at low cost. A one-bit length of the serial data is divided into several blocks. The sampling data is input at the multiple points of each block by using a shift register built in a microcomputer. The data is temporarily held so that the data at the same number block of each block is accumulated for several bits. The accumulation of the data results in cancelling the noise components and leaving the original signal components. This overlapping type receiving system makes it possible to clarify the receiving phase of a preamble signal for bit synchronization and to establish the bit synchronization. Next, the sampling data signals are entered at the multiple points based on the resulting receiving timing and the logic value of the bit is determined according to the ratio of the number of values of '1' to '0' contained in the data. Further, by using the reversal symmetry of the first half and the second half of the bi-phase codes, it is possible to realize the methods for establishing bit synchronization and determining a logic bit more effectively and accurately.

Serial data receiving apparatus

A sensor control circuit for detecting water vapor, various gases, etc. The sensor control circuit includes a sensor element whose impedance varies according to the concentration of water vapor, gas or the like and further includes a heating element for heating said sensor element, the heating element being integrally disposed with the sensor element. The aforementioned integrated structure precludes entry of the electric signal applied to the heating element into the impedance detection signal of the sensor element, thus ensuring an accurate detection of the impedance of the sensor element.

Sensor control circuit

A microcomputer-controlled microwave oven including key switch inputs and voice synthesizer for conveying information to a user. The synthesizer is used in connection with a data input program to aid the user in inputting data via the key switches to avert errors in inputting data that may result in over-heating of food or a fire inside the oven's heating chamber.

Heating apparatus provided with a voice synthesizing circuit

A turntable drive mechanism for a microwave oven having an oven-defining structure having a bottom wall and a hingedly supported door for selectively closing and opening an access opening leading into the interior of the oven-defining structure. The turntable drive mechanism has a turntable assembly removably positioned on the bottom wall for rotation about its own center through a plurality of rollers situated between the turntable assembly and the bottom wall, and a plurality of magnets. Cooperating with these magnets carried by the turntable assembly are magnets carried by a rotary carriage driven by a drive unit in one direction and situated below the bottom wall and externally of the oven-defining structure. Rotation of the turntable assembly is induced by rotation of the rotary carriage by the effect of magnetic forces of attraction developed through the bottom wall between the magnets on the turntable assembly and the magnets on the rotary carriage.

Turntable drive mechanism in electronic oven

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Nara, Japan

Shunichi Nagamoto