Sony Corporation

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Adv Antest Corporation

Other

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Agc Inc.

Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation

Tama-Tlo Corporation

Atsushi Seki

Masatake Hayashi

Shin Masuda

Takahiro Togawa

Hiroki Yamashita

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Shingo Ohkawa

Hideki Nakata

Toshio Suzuki

Kotaro Shima

Shigeki Miyazaki

Kazunori Shiota

Kiyoshi Okano

Hiroaki Iwaoka

Hiroshi Sata

Keiji Honda

Reo Usui

Hideo Hara

Yoshimitsu Kato

Tomomi Abe

Mitsuhiro Iga

Satoshi Okanan

Hirohito Komatsu

Yoshihiro Kanno

Yoichi Morita

Saori Ariji

Kousuke Chonan

Junichi Yukawa

Hiroyuki Hosoi

A charging system according to the present disclosure includes an AC-DC converter, a DC-DC converter, and a control circuit. The AC-DC converter is connected between an input node and an intermediate node. The AC-DC converter is connectable to a power source via the input node. The DC-DC converter is connected between the intermediate node and an output node. The DC-DC converter is connectable to a battery via the output node. The control circuit is configured to control a voltage of the intermediate node so as to reduce a sum of a loss in the AC-DC converter and a loss in the DC-DC converter, in accordance with a first parameter, a second parameter, and a third parameter. The first parameter is related to input power of the AC-DC converter. The second parameter is related to output power of the DC-DC converter. The third parameter is related to an ambient temperature.

Charging system

A noise reduction device according to one embodiment includes a noise reduction circuit and a failure diagnosis circuit. The noise reduction circuit generates an offset signal with reverse polarity of a noise component generated in a load. The failure diagnosis circuit detects a level of the offset signal. The failure diagnosis circuit determines whether or not a detected level of the offset signal deviates from an appropriate range. The failure diagnosis circuit diagnoses, on the basis of a determination result, whether or not a failure has occurred in the noise reduction circuit.

Noise reduction device, power conversion device, vehicle, and noise reduction method

An object detection device according to the present disclosure, installed in a vehicle, includes a plurality of ranging sensors and each including a transmitter configured to transmit ultrasonic waves and a receiver configured to receive reflected waves of the ultrasonic waves transmitted by the transmitter and reflected by an object around the vehicle, and processing circuitry configured to detect the object around the vehicle based on the reflected waves received by the receiver during a wave receiving period until a predetermined period of time elapses from transmission of the ultrasonic waves by the transmitter. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire an imaged image imaged by an in-vehicle camera that images surroundings of the vehicle. The processing circuitry is configured to determine whether a specific object is contained based on the imaged image. The processing circuitry is configured to set the wave receiving period from a first wave receiving period to a second wave receiving period longer than the first wave receiving period when the specific object is determined to be contained in the imaged image.

Object detection device, vehicle, method of setting wave receiving period in object detection device, and method of setting detection sensitivity in object detection device

In a switching power supply device, a control circuit controls a first thyristor, a second thyristor, and a switching element according to an input voltage. The control circuit maintains the first thyristor in an on state while maintaining the second thyristor and the switching element in an off state in a first period in which the absolute amplitude value is equal to or less than a first threshold value within the latter half of a first half-cycle of the input voltage at startup, and maintains the second thyristor in an on state while maintaining the first thyristor and the switching element in an off state in a second period in which the absolute amplitude value is equal to or less than a second threshold value within the latter half of a second half-cycle of the input voltage at startup. The second half-cycle is the half-cycle following the first half-cycle.

Switching power supply device

An object detection system includes distance measurement sensors and a hardware processor functioning as a wave transmission control circuit and a determination circuit. The distance measurement sensors provided at different positions in a vehicle. The wave transmission control circuit sets one of the distance measurement sensors as a top of a wave transmission order. A detection range of the one of the distance measurement sensors covers a region where an object is located. The object has been detected through preliminary detection when power supply to the vehicle is started. The wave transmission control circuit then repeats a cyclic wave transmission control on the distance measurement sensors to emit ultrasonic waves sequentially in the wave transmission order. The determination circuit determines an object as a detection target object when any one of the distance measurement sensors has detected the object a predetermined number of times.

Object detection system, object detection method and object detection device

According to one embodiment, a paper sheet processing apparatus includes a conveyance device with a conveyor belt, and an inspection device configured to inspect a paper sheet conveyed by the conveyor belt. The inspection device includes an image detection device configured to capture an image of the paper sheet and the conveyor belt and obtain an image of the paper sheet and the conveyor belt, an image processing device configured to detect a degradation level of the conveyor belt based on an belt image of the conveyor belt, and a controller configured to transmit information encouraging replacement of the conveyor belt to a monitor.

Paper sheet processing apparatus and paper sheet processing method

The present invention relates to a method for forming a TiOthin film on a substrate by using an atmospheric pressure CVD method, in which a raw material gas contains titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) and a chloride of a metal M vaporizable in a temperature range of 100 to 400&#xb0; C. and the amount of the chloride of the metal M is from 0.01 to 0.18 as a concentration ratio to the titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) (chloride of metal M (mol %)/TTIP (mol %)).

Thin film formation method, thin film, and glass plate having thin film attached thereto

Provided is a molded product including a primary molded layer, a transfer layer that includes at least a decorating layer and a print layer for foil flow prevention including one of polyester, polyurethane, polyimide and cellulose, or a mixture obtained by combining two or more of polyester, polyurethane, polyimide and cellulose as a main component, and is transferred to a surface of the primary molded layer, the decorating layer and the print layer for foil flow prevention being arranged in increasing order of distance from a side of the primary molded layer, and a secondary molded layer formed on the side of the print layer for foil flow prevention of the transfer layer.

Molded product and in-mold transfer foil

Provided is an optical modulator that modulates input light with a high frequency and low half-wave voltage. An optical device comprises a substrate; a dielectric film that is formed on the substrate and includes a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide that run parallel to each other; an insulating film formed on the dielectric film; a coplanar line that is formed on the insulating film and includes a signal line arranged between the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide, a first ground line arranged in a first region, and a second ground line arranged in a second region; and auxiliary electrodes that are arranged in the first region and the second region, are formed in contact with the dielectric film or within the insulating film, and apply bias voltages to the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide.

Optical device and optical modulation apparatus

A light control member includes a plate-like member including a first flat surface and a second surface facing the first surface. The second surface has at least three prism line groups, each group including a plurality of substantially parallel linear prisms. Each one of the linear prisms of one prism line group intersects the linear prisms of other prism line groups at one intersection point, and each linear prism is formed into a convex shape having a substantially curved outer edge when viewed along its longitudinal direction.

Light control member with intersecting groups of parallel prisms, and light-emitting device using such member

Provided is a substrate structure and a manufacturing method thereof, the substrate structure including a base substrate of single crystal; and a rhombohedral ferroelectric thin film exhibiting a spontaneous ferroelectric polarization and of a perovskite structure, the ferroelectric thin film being formed on a surface of the base substrate. The substrate structure may further include an optical waveguide formed on the ferroelectric thin film; and an electric field applying section that applies, to the optical waveguide, an electric field parallel to a surface of the base substrate. The electric field applying section generates the electric field so that the electric field direction of the electric field applied to the optical waveguide is parallel to a direction of the spontaneous ferroelectric polarization of the ferroelectric thin film.

Substrate structure and manufacturing method

A planar light source device configured to illuminate a transmissive liquid crystal device having a display region configured of pixels arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix from the rear side, includes: planar light source units corresponding to hypothetical display region units into which the liquid crystal display device is divided; a light source provided to each planar light source unit has j&#xd7;j(j&#x2266;2, j&#x2266;2) light-emitting device units which are classified into first and second light-emitting device units; each light-emitting device unit being configured of i (i&#x2266;1) red, 2i green, and i blue light-emitting devices. At each planar light source unit, the light-emitting devices of each color are classified into first and second luminance values. The classification categories differ between first and second light-emitting device units. The first light-emitting device unit and the second light-emitting device unit are placed in at least twofold rotational symmetry.

Planar light source device and liquid crystal display device assembly

A flat-panel type display is provided, in which a marginal portion of a cathode panel provided with a plurality of electron emission regions and a marginal portion of an anode panel provided with luminescent layers and an anode are bonded to each other, spacers are disposed between the cathode panel and the anode panel, and a space sandwiched between the cathode panel and the anode panel is maintained under vacuum. The spacer includes a substrate of spacer and an antistatic coating disposed on the side surface of the spacer material, wherein the antistatic coating is formed from germanium nitride containing no transition metal, the thickness of the antistatic coating is within the range of 2 nm to 20 nm, and the volume resistivity of the substrate of spacer is within the range of 5&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;m to 2&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;m.

Flat-panel type display and spacer

An optical amplifier apparatus capable of dealing with different wavelength bands and capable of outputting an amplified light with reduced noise for any one of the wavelength bands. In a case of amplifying a light of C-band, terminals () of an optical switch () are connected to each other. An incident light is amplified by a first front-end optical fiber amplifier () and a first back-end optical fiber amplifier (). The amplified light passes via the terminals () and through a back-end WDM coupler () and goes out of the optical amplifier apparatus (). In a case of amplifying a light of L-band, terminals () of the optical switch () are connected to each other, while terminals () thereof are connected to each other. An incident light is amplified by the first front-end optical fiber amplifier () and first back-end optical fiber amplifier (), passing via the terminals (), thereafter being further amplified by a second front-end optical fiber amplifier () and a second back-end optical fiber amplifier (). The thus amplified light then passes via the terminals () and through the back-end WDM coupler () and goes out of the optical amplifier apparatus ().

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Kanagawa, Japan

Atsushi Seki