Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Eiichi Sadayuki

Kazuki Yoshioka

Masaru Yamaoka

Shinya Saito

Tatsumi Sumi

Shigeru Morimoto

Hideki Iwaki

Michihiro Matsumoto

Yasuo Yoshimura

Kazunori Kurimoto

Naofumi Nakatani

Kazuhiro Kuroyama

Hirofumi Wada

Mahbub Rashid

Jun Horikawa

Kou Inoue

Rie Itoh

Mima Furukawa

Kenjiro Kumazawa

Tomoaki Furuse

A cutoff device includes a conductor wire, a pyrotechnic circuit breaker, a plurality of drive circuits connected to the pyrotechnic circuit breaker in parallel and configured to activate the pyrotechnic circuit breaker, and a control circuit. The control circuit sets an output current value and a period for which the output current is output to each of the drive circuits, and causes the drive circuits to supply the power for activating the pyrotechnic circuit breaker when the pyrotechnic circuit breaker needs to be activated.

Interruption device

A power source generation circuit includes a regulator circuit which receives an external power source voltage VDDA from an external power source, and generates a predetermined internal power source voltage on a given terminal VDD; and a charging circuit which connects the external power source and the given terminal when the external power source voltage VDDA supplied from the external power source is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold voltage.

Power source generation circuit and integrated circuit

A radio frequency identification (RFID) device includes: a contact interface for wired communication with a host; a contactless interface for contactless communication with a reader/writer; a command processing unit that obtains a command from the reader/writer in the contactless communication and process the command, the command instructing a data access; and a memory that holds data. The command processing unit determines a communication mode, and (i) executes the data access instructed in the command between the reader/writer and the memory, when the communication mode is determined as a first communication mode, and (ii) executes the data access instructed in the command between the reader/writer and the host, when the communication mode is determined as a second communication mode.

RFID device, host, RFID-embedded apparatus, and method of controlling RFID device

In a single-wire data communication characterized in that a data communication unit time is different in accordance with the polarity of a signal, a communication control time is dependent on a communication data pattern, and hence, the control of the whole system is difficult. A counter for counting a clock continues the counting until a count value thereby obtained reaches a predetermined upper limit value, retains the predetermined upper limit value as the count value until a next pulse is detected in a reception signal after the count value reaches the predetermined upper limit value, and initializes the count value when the next pulse is detected. A data value judger judges a data value depending on whether or not the pulse is detected during a period before the time when the count value reaches the predetermined upper limit value.

Communication apparatus

The present invention is applicable to various sensor outputs including pulse signals and reduces cost for detecting malfunction. The malfunction detection system detects a malfunction in a sensor, and the malfunction detection system includes a sensor including a first terminal, and which outputs a sensor output current that varies a voltage level of the first terminal, a current output unit which varies the voltage level of the first terminal by outputting a constant current for judging to the sensor via the first terminal, and a judging unit which judges that the sensor is malfunctioning when the current for judging causes the voltage level of the first terminal to be equal to or higher than a threshold in a period different from a first period where the sensor output current causes the voltage level of the first terminal to be equal to or higher than the threshold.

Malfunction detection system and integrated circuit

A semiconductor device includes a comparator which includes two input terminals and compares the voltage values between the power supply voltage which is inputted to one side input terminal and the reference voltage which is inputted to the other side input terminal. A resistor element connects two signal lines that are connected to the input terminals of the comparator One end of a capacitance element is connected to a power supply terminal for applying a power supply and the other end is connected to one input terminal of the comparator.

Semiconductor device with voltage variation detector

A frequency sensor includes at least one a resistor element and a capacitor. A frequency is detected according to a charging/discharging time to/from the capacitor, thereby realizing a frequency sensor with reduced power consumption and reduced circuit scale. Further, plural resistors and plural capacitors can be provided, along with switches connected to the respective resistors and capacitors. Additionally, a time constant can be adjusted after production, whereby variations in production can be reduced. Furthermore, a self-diagnosis circuit can be included for determining whether the frequency sensor itself operates normally or not. Thus, a highly-reliable frequency sensor can be realized.

Frequency sensor and semiconductor device

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Osaka, Japan

Eiichi Sadayuki