Hiroki Noguchi from Burlington, MA

Lighting System
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US Patent:

6720743, Apr 13, 2004
Filed:

Sep 26, 2002
Appl. No.:

10/254871
Inventors:

Tadashi Yano - Kyoto, JP
Katsushige Amano - Kyoto, JP
Yoshinori Tanabe - Hirakata, JP
Hiroki Noguchi - Burlington MA
Manabu Inoue - Misato, JP
Wataru Iwai - Nagareyama, JP
Assignee:

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - Kadoma
Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. - Kadoma
International Classification:

A61G 10100
US Classification:

315291, 600 21, 11 27
Abstract:

In a lighting system capable of varying luminance of the light emitting surface periodically used for adjusting rhythm of breathing of an observer when he wishes to fall asleep, a light source is controlled in a manner so that variation of the luminance âLâ per a unit time in the vicinity at a time t when the luminance âLâ takes the largest value in one period becomes larger than the variation of the luminance âLâ per the unit time in the vicinity at a time t when the luminance âLâ takes the smallest value.

Respiration Leading System
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US Patent:

6981943, Jan 3, 2006
Filed:

Nov 6, 2002
Appl. No.:

10/288423
Inventors:

Hiroki Noguchi - Burlington MA, US
Manabu Inoue - Misato, JP
Wataru Iwai - Nagareyama, JP
Hiromitsu Kobayashi - Ishikawa, JP
Katsushige Amano - Kyoto, JP
Tadashi Yano - Kyoto, JP
Yoshinori Tanabe - Hirakata, JP
Assignee:

Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. - Kadoma
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - Kadoma
International Classification:

A61M 21/00
US Classification:

600 26
Abstract:

Disclosed is a respiration leading system which can leads a living body to respire so that relaxation is effectively induced without any physiological load even if a respiration exercise feedback is not employed. This system comprises a control unit and a sense-stimulating unit. The control unit makes the sense-stimulating unit change the output energy for stimulating a sense of the living body so that the living body is induced to inhale and exhale as a physiological reaction. The energy change is done within the range of a respiration period x(sec) and a parameter y defined as 2 sec

Hiroki Noguchi