Hitachi, Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Nkk Corporation

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

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Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Nifco Inc.

Nippon Paint Compnay, Ltd.

Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Fujii

Shuichi Ota

Mamoru Fujieda

Toshiaki Okuyama

Yoshiyuki Tanabe

Keijiro Sakai

Masahiko Miyashita

Kinya Nakatsu

Tsunehiro Endo

Takashi Sawada

Satoshi Ibori

Junichi Yamaguchi

Giichi Matsuo

Susumu Okawa

Yoshiaki Moriyama

Yuzo Kadomukai

Yoshio Okamoto

Toshio Ishii

Yoshihiro Sukegawa

Seiji Ishida

Shigenori Togashi

Ayumu Miyajima

Hiromasa Kubo

Masahiro Hiraga

Sumio Hosaka

Sunao Kushiro

Takuya Shiraishi

Shinichi Sato

Makoto Yamakado

Tohru Ishikawa

Kazuyoshi Suzuki

Atsushi Shimizu

Akira Ishibashi

Toshio Ogawa

Hiroyuki Tomita

Yoshitaka Iwaji

Motoyuki Abe

Shunichi Aoyama

Keitaro Yamashita

Shinichi Hasegawa

Shinichi Satoh

Manabu Kato

Atsushi Sekine

Nobuyoshi Mutoh

Akihiro Tamba

Kiyoshi Sakamoto

Akihiro Uetake

Yusuke Kihara

Kazuaki Yoshida

Toru Ishikawa

Ryoichi Komuro

Yoichirou Senshu

Hideki Sakamoto

Shigeki Tanaka

Kenji Tsuchita

Norinaga Suzuki

Atsushi Fujisawa

Hiroshi Goto

Takao Nakamura

Noboru Tokuyasu

Toshiharu Nogi

Takashi Iwaki

Yutaka Saito

Yasushi Sasaki

Tsutomu Yamada

Atsushi Takahashi

Shinji Nakagawa

Noriyuki Maekawa

Seishi Yasuhara

Kazuji Yamada

Hiroyuki Nohira

Masaki Kitahara

Haruo Miura

Masaki Takase

Motohiro Shinzawa

Nozomu Kamioka

Minoru Oosuga

Seishi Takamura

Tatsuya Maruyama

Takeharu Takasawa

Tomoya Hidaka

Shinji Katsuki

Takehiro Sato

Naohiko Takahashi

Tomihiro Nakagawa

Takuji Torii

Masato Yamaguchi

Eiji Ohshima

Shigetoshi Okamatsu

Koichiro Nagata

Yuhachi Takakura

Yoshio Kusui

Hiroshi Asabuki

Atsuhiko Nakamura

Norihisa Yanagihara

Akiteru Ueda

Tomohiro Kudo

Koji Okushima

Mitsuru Harada

Kenji Nandoh

Provided is a spatter scattering prevention apparatus that eliminates the necessity to, for example, remove scattered spatters and thus makes it possible to facilitate maintenance work, and also provided is a flash butt welder including the spatter scattering prevention apparatus. The spatter scattering prevention apparatusaccording to the present invention is characterized by being configured to form a water screen in midair in the vicinity of a welding spot, at which welding is performed, wherein the water screen is for preventing spatters, generated during the welding, from scattering. The spatter scattering prevention apparatus is also characterized by being configured to form the water screen on one side in a lateral direction of the welding spot and form the water screen on the other side, laterally opposite to the one side, of the welding spot.

Spatter scattering prevention apparatus and flash butt welder including the same

The computational complexity when a block configuration in an encoding target region is determined is reduced while the degradation of coding efficiency is suppressed. A video encoding apparatus includes a block selecting unit which selects each of blocks obtained by recursively dividing an encoding target block as a target block in a predetermined sequence, a block size acquiring unit which acquires the smallest block size in an adjacent block for the selected target block, an evaluation value calculating unit which calculates an evaluation value of the target block if a block size of the target block matches any one of the acquired block size, the block size one level higher than the acquired block size, and the block size one level lower than the acquired block size, and a block configuration determining unit which determines a combination of the blocks constituting the region within the encoding target block based on the evaluation value.

Block size determination method, video encoding apparatus, and program

Setting a reference pixel signal from a decoded pixel signal in intra-prediction in which a prediction signal is generated in the same frame, acquiring prediction mode identification information that identifies an intra-prediction mode, generating a prediction signal based on the reference pixel signal and the prediction mode identification information, making a determination regarding correction of the prediction signal using a reference pixel having a shorter distance from a pixel that is a prediction target in the intra-prediction mode identified by the prediction mode identification information, and correcting the generated prediction signal according to a result of the determination are included in order to provide an image encoding method and an image decoding method capable of improving subjective image quality and coding efficiency using a closer decoded pixel in an intra-prediction process.

Intra-prediction encoding method, intra-prediction decoding method, intra-prediction encoding apparatus, intra-prediction decoding apparatus, program therefor and recording medium having program recorded thereon

A vehicle charging apparatus includes: an electric generatorthat is driven by an internal combustion engineand outputs an adjustable alternating-current voltage; a rectifierthat converts the outputted alternating-current voltage to a direct-current voltage; an electric storage devicethat is charged with the converted direct-current voltage; and a voltage sensorthat measures an output voltage of the rectifier. The vehicle charging apparatus is provided with a control devicethat controls the electric generatorfor a charging voltage to be a target charging voltage calculated from the output voltage in order to suppress a charging current to be lower than a charging current upper limit value when the electric storage deviceis charged. It thus becomes possible to achieve efficiency higher than that of a charging apparatus in the related art while preventing deterioration or damage of the electric storage device.

Vehicle charging apparatus

In QFN packages for vehicles which are required to have high reliability, the side surface of leads is mostly covered with lead-to-lead resin protrusions, which prevent smooth formation of solder fillets during reflow mounting. When the lead-to-lead protrusions are mechanically removed using a punching die, there is a high possibility of causing cracks of the main body of the package or terminal deformation. When a spacing is provided between the punching die and the main body of the package in order to avoid such damages, a resin residue is produced to hinder complete removal of this lead-to-lead resin protrusion. The present invention provides a method for manufacturing semiconductor device of a QFN type package using multiple leadframes having a dam bar for tying external end portions of a plurality of leads. This method includes a step of removing a sealing resin filled between the circumference of a mold cavity and the dam bar by using laser and then carrying out surface treatment, for example, solder plating.

Method for manufacturing semiconductor device

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes providing a lead frame including a frame portion, including a through hole penetrating the lead frame, a device forming portion surrounded by the frame portion in plan view, including a die pad, and a semiconductor chip mounted on the die pad; after the providing step, sealing the semiconductor chip with sealing resin by supplying the sealing resin to the device forming portion via a first region of the frame portion in which the through hole is formed in plan view, thereby forming a sealing body sealing the device forming portion and the first region of the frame portion; and after the sealing step, removing a first part of the sealing body located at the first region of the frame portion from the lead frame by inserting a pin into the through hole.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device

To stably remove a resin body formed in a supply route of a resin in a sealing step. A leadframe has, in a sub-runner portion thereof, a sub-through-hole. The sub-through-hole has, along a first direction along which the sub-runner portion extends, a first portion located on the side of a main-runner portion and a second portion located on the side of a gate portion relative to the first portion. In a plan view, an opening width of the sub-through-hole in the first direction is greater than that of the sub-through-hole in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. In a plan view, an opening width of the sub-through-hole in the second direction gradually decreases from the first portion to an end portion of the second portion on the side of the gate portion.

An interrupt control unit provides controls on an interrupt from an accelerator to a CPU based on a packet transmitted to or received from a controlled object. The interrupt control unit includes: a storage part for storing therein an interrupt control timing table in which a condition of switching a mode of the interrupt control is described; and an interrupt control mode switching part for switching the mode of the interrupt control to the CPU between a permission mode and a mask mode, based on the interrupt control timing table in the storage part.

Interrupt control apparatus, interrupt control system, interrupt control method, and interrupt control program

A rewritable recording material can be provided which contains at least one kind of phenolic compounds represented by formula (I) and which is capable of stably repeating coloring and discoloring for a long period of time as well as exerting superior storage properties such as heat resistance and moisture and heat resistance of the colored image and light resistance of the background. Also provided are a composition for forming a rewritable color-forming layer which is capable of forming a color-forming layer of the recording material, and a composition of a color-developing agent for a rewritable recording material. 

Rewritable recording material

Provided is a recording material with a superior heat resistance and having a low content of a dihydroxydiphenylsulfone derivative, and a color-developing composition for producing the recording material. With the use of this color-developing composition, a recording material with a superior heat resistance at the background part can be provided and the content of a dihydroxydiphenylsulfone derivative, such as 4,4'-dihydroxydiphenylsulfone, in the color-developing composition can be reduced to 2% by mass or less, or further to 1% by mass or less.

Color-developing composition and recording material containing the same

Provided is a color-developing composition for recording materials having a superior heat resistance. The color-developing composition is a reaction composition containing a mixture of compounds represented by formula (III) obtained by reacting a dihydroxydiphenylsulfone derivative represented by formula (I) with a dihalide represented by formula (II) X&#x2014;Y&#x2014;X (II), wherein, in a composition where the content of a compound with n=1 in said reaction composition is from 5 to 80% by mass of the total solid content of the composition, at least 10% by mass of the compound with n=1 is a crystalline material. 

Color-developing compositions and recording material containing same

An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel injection control technique which maximizes engine power according to fuel evaporation characteristics. The fuel injection timing in the intake stroke is delayed according as a physical quantity affecting the fuel evaporation time changes such that the fuel evaporation time decreases. Further, the fuel injection timing when a physical quantity affecting the fuel evaporation time is such that the fuel evaporation time decreases is set closer to the end of the intake stroke than the fuel injection timing when the physical quantity is such that the fuel evaporation time increases. The fuel injection timing is controlled so as to maximize engine power according to fuel evaporation times.

Control method of direct injection engine, controller for implementing the control method, and control circuit device used for the controller

Provided is a request processing method of processing a request requesting task processing in a computer system including the steps of: transmitting, by a proxy server, a first requests which is one of duplicate and original requests to application servers; transmitting, by the application servers, a result of processing of the first requests to the proxy server; notifying, by the application servers, a session management server of session information including identifiers of the application servers and identifiers of the first requests; determining, by the proxy server, a result of the processing used for responding to a client computer upon receiving the result of the processing of the first requests; and notifying, by the proxy server, the session management server of the identifiers of the application servers which have transmitted the determined processing result and an identifier of the request transmitted from the client computer.

Method and apparatus for processing a request using proxy servers

An imaging apparatus include a lens, a first blade slidable between a covering position where the first blade covers the front side of the lens and a retract position where the first blade retracts from the front side of the lens, and a second blade pivotally supported by the first blade, the second blade moving along with the first blade between the covering position and the retract position in response to the slide motion of the first blade, the second blade rotating relative to the first blade in such a way that the second blade more largely overlaps with the first blade in the retract position than in the covering position.

Imaging apparatus and open/close device

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Hiroshi Fujii