Renesas Electronics Corporation

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Daisuke Arai

Yoshito Nakazawa

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Hiromitsu Yamaguchi

Tsuyoshi Kachi

Hideshi Tsukamoto

Yoshinori Hoshino

Ikuo Hara

Tsuyoshi Tabata

Masahiro Uno

Norio Hosoya

A method for controlling a charging of a battery pack for a portable electronic device. The battery pack includes one or more cell blocks, each having a plurality of battery cells connected in parallel. The method includes the following steps. Determining, for each of the one or more cell blocks, a value of a first charging current flowing through a first battery cell that has the smallest capacity among the plurality of battery cells. Comparing, for each of the one or more cell blocks, the value of the first charging current with a first overcurrent value of the first battery cell to detect overcurrent in the first battery cell. Generating, in response to detecting the overcurrent in the first battery cell of any of the one or more cell blocks, a first overcurrent signal to reduce a total charging current of the battery pack.

Charging control method of a battery pack for portable electronic devices

A method is provided for controlling a discharge of a battery pack that supplies power to a portable electronic device. The battery pack has one or more cell blocks each having a plurality of battery cells connected in parallel. The method includes the following steps. Determining, for each of the one or more cell blocks, a value of a first supply current flowing through a first battery cell that has the smallest capacity among the plurality of battery cells. Comparing, for each of the one or more cell blocks, the value of the first supply current with a first overcurrent value of the first battery cell to detect overcurrent in the first battery cell. Generating, in response to detecting the overcurrent in the first battery cell of any of the one or more cell blocks, a first overcurrent signal to reduce the power supplied to the portable electronic device.

Discharge control method of a battery pack for portable electronic devices

Techniques capable of improving the yield of IGBTs capable of reducing steady loss, turn-off time, and turn-off loss are provided. Upon formation of openings in an interlayer insulting film formed on a main surface of a substrate, etching of a laminated insulating film of a PSG film and an SOG film and a silicon oxide film is once stopped at a silicon nitride film. Then, the silicon nitride film and the silicon oxide film are sequentially etched to form the openings. As a result, the openings are prevented from penetrating through an n-type source layer and a p-type emitter layer having a thickness of 20 to 100 nm and reaching the substrate.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and semiconductor device

In order to improve characteristics of an IGBT, particularly, to reduce steady loss, turn-off time and turn-off loss, a thickness of a surface semiconductor layer is set to about 20 nm to 100 nm in an IGBT including: a base layer; a buried insulating film provided with an opening part; the surface semiconductor layer connected to the base layer below the opening part; a p type channel forming layer formed in the surface semiconductor layer; an ntype source layer; a ptype emitter layer; a gate electrode formed over the surface semiconductor layer via a gate insulating film; an ntype buffer layer; and a p type collector layer.

Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same

A portable terminal including a noncontact IC card function unit and capable of being used by inserting a subscriber information card is provided, in which a noncontact IC card use permission list on which numbers of subscribers permitted to use a noncontact IC card function are registered is prepared in advance; the subscriber number recorded on the subscriber information card is compared with the noncontact IC card use permission list to judge whether or not the relevant subscriber number is in the list, and if the relevant subscriber number is not included in the list, only the function of noncontact IC card function unit is stopped. Accordingly an arbitrary third party is prevented from using the noncontact IC card function in a portable terminal incorporating a noncontact IC card function and capable of being used by inserting a subscriber information card such as an SIM card.

Portable terminal and function limiting method

Apparatus for carrying out correction of a received frequency at a time of receiving a digitally modulated signal includes a phase judging circuit for judging a phase of a received signal symbol in terms of a predetermined number of quantization, a phase difference detecting circuit for detecting a phase difference between phase judged samples judged by the phase judging circuit and an averaging circuit for averaging a detecting output of the phase difference detecting circuit, whereby it is possible to control an output frequency of a frequency synthesizer based on the averaging circuit output.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Daisuke Arai