Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd.

Tsuyoshi Nishio

Osamu Ohashi

Noriaki Asaoka

Masayoshi Koizumi

Hiroshi Naitou

Yuta Okazaki

Shinji Fujikawa

Naoki Usui

Nobuharu Katsuki

Toshiki Tatsuta

Kanji Muto

Satoshi Shibutani

Hiroyuki Tachibana

Mikio Murozono

Kuniyoshi Omura

Masaki Nishimura

Satoshi Tanigawa

Hirotada Otake

Takeshi Matsumura

Masaki Tada

Naoki Kosugi

Morio Fujitani

Toru Ando

Hidenori Kitamura

Yuhei Yamamoto

Kazuhiko Kaneuchi

Motohiro Aoki

Satoshi Nakaya

Akihiro Morimoto

Takuma Masuda

Takeshi Kiritoshi

Makoto Hinata

Koichi Mizuno

Akira Hanafusa

Motoyuki Okayama

Masahiro Anezaki

Takeshi Hibino

Hideaki Oyama

Takanao Yano

Takayuki Moriwaki

Shigeo Kondoh

Baku Sakaguchi

A moving body is configured to perform autonomous operation. The moving body includes: a first body including at least one wheel and configured to travel by the at least one wheel; a second body attachable to and detachable from the first body; and a display circuit arranged to face an outer side of the first body. The display circuit is configured to display at least a first schematic pattern of a first eye and a second schematic pattern of a second eye.

Moving body

A vehicle includes a vehicle body having a cabin, a first seat and a second seat arranged in the cabin, a planar transparent member placed on a side surface of the cabin, and that separates an interior of the cabin and a vehicle exterior from each other, and a display device placed on the side surface of the cabin and arranged along the planar transparent member, the display device having a plurality of pixels. At least a part of the display device is placed on the side surface and between the first seat and the second seat.

Vehicle and method for controlling electronic business transaction system

A vehicle includes: a vehicle body including a vehicle cabin; at least one wheel disposed along one direction in the vehicle body; a seat disposed inside the vehicle cabin; a first planar member that is fixed to the vehicle body, separates the vehicle cabin from an outside of the vehicle, is disposed further toward the outside of the vehicle than the seat in the one direction, and has a first transmittance for visible light; a second planar member that is allowed to be disposed between the first planar member and the seat, and has a second transmittance for visible light that is smaller than the first transmittance; and an input device. The second planar member is disposed between the first planar member and the seat in a case where a predetermined input is performed on the input device.

Vehicle

Capacitive sensor includes sensor electrode, sensor circuit that is electrically connected to sensor electrode measures capacitance of sensor electrode, first impedance element, noise detection circuit that is electrically connected to sensor electrode through first impedance element and measures noise, and control circuit that switches between on and off of each of sensor circuit and noise detection circuit. Control circuit causes sensor circuit to measure the capacitance of sensor electrode by turning on sensor circuit and by turning off noise detection circuit and control circuit causes noise detection circuit to measure the noise by turning off sensor circuit and by turning on noise detection circuit.

Capacitive sensor and grip sensor

An input device includes a manipulation surface, a light emitting circuit disposed along the manipulation surface, and a detection circuit configured to detect an action of a finger on the manipulation surface. The light emitting circuit has first and second segment groups. The second segment group is disposed along the first segment group. The first segment group emits light at a first intensity if the detection circuit is restricted to receive a prescribed input. The first segment group emits light at a second intensity if the detection circuit is allowed to receive the prescribed input. A part of the second segment group emits light if the detection circuit detects an action of the finger alongside the first segment group while the first segment group is emitting light at the second intensity.

Input device for touch operation

To minimize excessively high output or increases in magnetic-flux leakage by controlling power feeding on the power-feeding side if an unforeseen situation occurs. This power-feeding device () feeds power to an external power-receiving device () in a contactless manner. A power-feeding coil () uses electromagnetic power to feed electrical power to a power-receiving coil () in the power-receiving device (). While power is being fed from said power-feeding coil (), a power-feeding-side control unit () determines the amount of displacement of the power-feeding coil () and, on the basis of the determined displacement amount, controls the amount of electrical power being fed.

Power-feeding device

Electric vehicle

A steering wheel grip detection device includes a positive electrode terminal electrically connected to a positive electrode of a power source and a negative electrode terminal electrically connected to a negative electrode of the power source. The steering wheel grip detection device further includes a thermostat, a heater, and an inductance element that are electrically connected with one another in this order in series wiring from the positive electrode terminal to the negative electrode terminal, as well as a capacitor through which a wiring path from the thermostat to the heater is electrically connected with the negative electrode terminal. The steering wheel grip detection device has an electrostatic sensor circuit that is electrically connected with a wiring path from the inductance element to the heater and that detects a grip on a steering wheel by a capacitance value of the heater.

Steering wheel grip detection device

Rim of steering wheel has a rim body and mounting component mounted to the rim body so as to be exposed from a portion of the rim body. Occupant information detection sensor for a steering wheel disposed in rim includes: sensor wire disposed in the rim body; and conductive member located on at least a surface side of mounting component and electrically connected or capacitively coupled with a portion of sensor wire.

Occupant information detection sensor for steering wheel

A steering wheel grip detection device includes a series circuit including an inductance element, a thermostat incorporated into a steering wheel, and a heater incorporated into the steering wheel; an electrostatic sensor circuit that detects a grip of the steering wheel by means of an electric or electromagnetic field; and a voltage detecting circuit that detects an open/closed state of the thermostat.

An electricity supply apparatus supplies electricity in a contactless manner to an electricity reception section provided in a vehicle, the apparatus including: an electricity supply coil configured to supply electricity to an electricity reception coil of the electricity reception section, the electricity supply coil having a ring shape, an in-edge, an out-edge, and a mid-point, the inn-edge being adjacent to a hollow portion of the ring shape in a radial direction of the electricity supply coil, the out-edge being outer than the inn-edge in the radial direction, and the mid-point being between the inn-edge and the out-edge in the radial direction; and a casing which houses the electricity supply coil, the casing having a first surface configured to face the electricity reception section and a second surface on which the electricity supply coil is located.

Electricity supply apparatus and electricity reception apparatus

A steering wheel heater device including: a steering wheel heater configured of an electrical resistor which produces heat by electrical energy; an inductor; at least one switch; and a sensor circuit, wherein the inductor is connected in series to a first terminal of the steering wheel heater, the at least one switch turns on and off the supply of power to the steering wheel heater, the sensor circuit is electrically connected to the first terminal and determines whether a detected subject is in contact with a steering wheel based on a magnitude of capacitance of the steering wheel heater, and the at least one switch is at least one of a switch connected in series to the first terminal of the steering wheel heater via the inductor and a switch connected in series to a second terminal of the steering wheel heater.

Steering wheel heater device

A steering wheel heater device including: a heating wire; a power line connected in series to the heating wire, for supplying the heating wire with power; a ground line connected in series to the heating wire; a lead-out wire connected to a point along a wiring pattern formed of the heating wire; and a contact detection circuit electrically connected to the wiring pattern formed of the heating wire through the lead-out wire, wherein a portion of the wiring pattern is connected in series between the ground line and the contact detection circuit.

Steering wheel heater and steering wheel

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Tsuyoshi Nishio