Kddi Corporation

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Kiddi Corporation

Hideaki Kawabata

Keisuke Takemori

Ayumu Kubota

Seiichiro Mizoguchi

Hirofumi Aoki

Yoshikatsu Inagaki

Kenya Kawabata

Hiroshi Okada

Hiroshi Sakai

Yosuke Watanabe

Yoshinori Nakamura

Masahiro Meguro

Yasuaki Kobayashi

Ryo Tsubata

A vapor chamber including a container having a cavity portion formed inside, and including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, a working fluid sealed in the cavity portion, and a vapor flow path through which the working fluid in a gas phase flows, the vapor flow path being provided in the cavity portion, wherein a container inner surface area increasing unit including a protruding part is formed on an inner surface of the first surface, and a first wick structure is provided on a surface of the protruding part.

Vapor chamber

A cooling device that can reduce heat resistance by improving a heat exchange action of a condensation tube, and can exhibit excellent cooling characteristics, and a cooling system using the cooling device are provided. The cooling device includes a container to which at least one heating element is thermally connected, a primary refrigerant sealed inside the container, a condensation tube through which a secondary refrigerant flows and which penetrates through a gaseous phase portion inside the container, and a porous member provided at an outer surface of the condensation tube.

Cooling device and cooling system using cooling device

A heat sink includes: a container having a cavity inside and a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a working fluid encapsulated in the cavity; and a steam flow path in the cavity where the working fluid in a gas phase flows, the first surface having a flat part and a protruding part projecting from the flat part in an external direction, causing the container to have a flat portion and a protruding portion projecting from the flat portion in the external direction, an inner space of the protruding portion of the container being in communication with an inner space of the flat portion, causing the cavity to be formed, and a first heat radiating fin being provided on an exterior of the flat part of the first surface and a second heat radiating fin being provided on an exterior of the second surface.

Heat sink

An in-vehicle computer generates a message authentication code about its own log using its own signature key and thereby transmits a log annotated with its message authentication code to a vehicle information collection device. The vehicle information collection device generates the signature key of the in-vehicle computer, verifies the message authentication code, which is included in the log annotated with its message authentication code received from the in-vehicle computer, using generated signature key, and thereby stores the log relating to the successfully verified message authentication code on storage media.

Vehicle information collection system, vehicle-mounted computer, vehicle information collection device, vehicle information collection method, and computer program

Provided are a key generation device and an in-vehicle computer which is installed in a vehicle. The key generation device includes a vehicle interface, a key generation unit that generates first and second keys, a cryptographic processing unit that encrypts the first key with an initial key to generate first encrypted data and encrypts the second key with the first key to generate second encrypted data, an expected value calculation unit that calculates an expected value of stored data using the second key, and a verification unit that verifies a received measured value on the basis of the expected value, and the key generation device transmits the first and second encrypted data to the vehicle. The in-vehicle computer includes an interface unit, a cryptographic processing unit that decrypts the received first encrypted data, and decrypts the received second encrypted data, and a measured value calculation unit.

Management system, key generation device, in-vehicle computer, management method, and computer program

A management device installed in a vehicle includes a master key storing part configured to share the master key that is used to generate an initial key held by an ECU together with an identifier of the ECU; a communication part configured to communicate with the ECU; a key generation part configured to generate the initial key of the ECU by use of the master key stored on the master key storing part and the identifier of the ECU received from the ECU via the communication part; and an initial key storing part configured to store the initial key of the ECU that is generated by the key generation part in connection with the identifier of the ECU.

Management device, management system, key generation device, key generation system, key management system, vehicle, management method, key generation method, and computer program

A communication network system, in which a transmission node for transmitting a message is connected to a reception node for receiving the message, is configured to periodically transmit a count-value notification message to notify a count value, which is used to generate and check a message authentication code for the message, to the transmission node and the reception node.

Communication network system and count-value sharing method using count-value notification node with transmission node and reception node

A reuse system includes: a key generation device; an in-vehicle computer that is detached from a first vehicle and is installed in a second vehicle; and a data security device that is installed in the second vehicle. The key generation device includes a vehicle interface, and a key generation unit that generates a first key that is the same as a key stored in the in-vehicle computer from a time when being installed in the first vehicle by using an in-vehicle computer identifier, and a master key that is common to the first and second vehicles, and transmits the first key to the second vehicle. The data security device includes a first interface unit, and a first cryptographic processing unit that encrypts first data, which is applied to the in-vehicle computer, with the first key to generate encrypted first data, and transmits the encrypted first data to the in-vehicle computer.

Reuse system, key generation device, data security device, in-vehicle computer, reuse method, and computer program

A software distribution processing device stores a common key for each ECU and a verification key for an electronic signature of software updating data, verifies an electronic signature of the updating data received from management server equipment by use of the verification key, attaches an electronic signature using the common key for each ECU to the updating data succeeded in verification of the electronic signature, and then transmits to each ECU the updating data attached with the electronic signature using the common key for each ECU.

Software distribution processing device, software distribution processing method, and vehicle

An onboard computer system includes a first onboard computer configured to store a first public key certificate of a data delivering apparatus, a second onboard computer, and a secure element configured to store a second public key certificate relative to a second secret key used to generate the first public key certificate. The secure element verifies the first public key certificate by use of the second public key certificate. The first onboard computer includes an encryption processor configured to verify a first electronic signature attached to data delivered from the data delivering apparatus by use of the first public key certificate which is successfully verified by the secure element. The data attached with the first electronic signature, which is successfully verified by the encryption processor, is applied to the first onboard computer or the second onboard computer.

Onboard computer system, vehicle, management method, and computer program

In a secure hardware extension (SHE)-B, an initial key is set to a KEY_N key usable in a verification process and a generation process for a message authentication code. In an SHE-A, a master key is set to a KEY_N key usable in the verification process and the generation process for the message authentication code, the master key being used together with an identifier of an authenticated electronic control unit (ECU) for generating the message authentication code to be used as the initial key. A central processing unit (CPU) causes the message authentication code for the identifier of the authenticated ECU to be generated using the master key through the SHE-A and executes a process of authenticating validity of the authenticated ECU by using the generated message authentication code.

In-vehicle computer system, vehicle, key generation device, management method, key generation method, and computer program

In a communication network system connected between a transmission node and a reception node, both the transmission node and the reception node store the same secret information with their secret information storage units. The transmission node includes a counter configured to increase its transmission count value by 1 for transmitting each message, wherein a MAC generator generates MAC based on secret information, transmission data, and its transmission count value, thus transmitting a message including transmission data and MAC. The reception node includes a counter configured to increase a reception count value by 1 for receiving each message, wherein a MAC checking part generates MAC based on secret information, reception data, and its reception count value, obtained from the received message, thus checking whether the generated MAC matches the MAC obtained from the received message.

Communication network system, transmission node, reception node, and message checking method

A management device installed in an automobile includes an initially-delivered key storage unit for storing a plurality of initially-delivered keys corresponding to candidates of initially-delivered keys held by an ECU, a communication part for communicating with the ECU, a verification part for verifying encrypted data from the ECU with the initially-delivered key of the initially-delivered key storage unit, and a wireless communication part for receiving a new initially-delivered key held by a new ECU newly installed in the automobile from management server equipment through a wireless communication network. The initially-delivered key storage unit stores the new initially-delivered key received with the wireless communication part.

Management device, vehicle, management method, and computer program

An automobile is equipped with a management device including a communication part for communicating with an ECU mounted on an automobile, an encryption processor for generating an encrypted key by encrypting a key, a key generation part for generating the key, and a key storage unit for storing the key generated by the key generation part. The communication part transmits the encrypted key to the ECU, while the encryption processor encrypts the key generated by the key generation part.

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Hideaki Kawabata