Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Astemo Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Group Corporation

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Jfe Steel Corporation

Hitachi-kokusai Electric Inc.

Renesas Technology Corp.

Hitachi-high-technologies Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Hitachi Cable, Inc.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Hiroshi Nakano

Masahiro Matsumoto

Keiji Hanzawa

Masamichi Yamada

Izumi Watanabe

Akira Kotabe

Keiichi Nakada

Haruo Akahoshi

Ryosuke Doi

Toshiki Moriwaki

Ryo Sato

Shinobu Tashiro

Yoshimasa Funakawa

Tetsuya Abe

Makoto Nakamura

Nobuyasu Kanekawa

Junya Takahashi

Takeyuki Itabashi

Noriyuki Sakuma

Hiroaki Hoshika

Akira Uenodan

Yasunari Ikeda

Takahiko Kato

Junichi Horie

Katsumi Mabuchi

Akira Nagai

Yutaka Tanaka

Shinya Ito

Kenichi Murata

Masahito Mori

Satoshi Takagi

Motoo Aoyama

Toshiaki Ishii

Yoshio Homma

Shinji Seto

Takuya Aoyagi

Masahiro Joei

Shintarou Hirata

Takao Ishikawa

Masao Sasaki

Toshihiko Hayashi

Yoshio Fujiwara

Norio Ishitsuka

Junichi Sakano

Yoshitaka Kojima

Masaaki Miyamoto

Satoshi Asano

Yoshimitsu Yanagawa

Yasuo Onose

Tomoaki Fujibayashi

Takao Fukuda

Atsushi Arata

Yasuo Isono

Kazuya Takahashi

Taro Kizu

Masato Iwakura

Tomoya Shoji

Go Sakayori

Yoichiro Iino

Yasuhiro Kanamaru

Iwao Yagi

Eiichi Ide

Satoru Amou

Motomune Kodama

Hiroshi Yoshida

Satoru Shinohara

Akio Yasukawa

Takashi Naitou

Takashi Mihara

Kazuo Hasegawa

Yoshiyuki Mimura

Hiroyuki Yoshimori

Toshiki Monden

Shuzo Hiraide

Hirofumi Yuchi

Masao Chaki

Shinji Yamada

Tomohiko Tanaka

Tetsuo Fujiwara

Takeo Hosokawa

Hiroshi Onuki

Masahiko Kinukawa

Masaru Sekihara

Hiroshi Kanemoto

Hideyuki Arikawa

Masatoshi Sugimasa

Shigenobu Komatsu

Takao Tayama

Kiyoji Takagi

Masamichi Morimoto

Ryosuke Suzuki

Toshiaki Nakajima

Toyoaki Takeuchi

Masayuki Hio

Kenji Tsunoda

Mutsuo Hirose

Ryo Ando

Atsushi Kasai

Morio Tsunoda

Toshiyuki Tsunoda

An imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode and a second electrode; a third electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer; and a semiconductor layer. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed in parallel. The third electrode is disposed to be opposed to the first electrode and the second electrode. The photoelectric conversion layer is provided between the first electrode and second electrode and the third electrode. The semiconductor layer is provided between the first electrode and second electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer. The semiconductor layer has a first layer and a second layer stacked therein in order from the photoelectric conversion layer side. The second layer has an energy level at a lowest edge of a conduction band that is shallower than an energy level of the first layer at a lowest edge of a conduction band.

Imaging element and imaging device

A vehicle control device using a semiconductor fuse, and enabling an increase in size of the semiconductor fuse to be suppressed and the occurrence of an abnormal current to be detected early to enable shut off of the abnormal current. The vehicle control device includes a shut-off unit that supplies and shuts off a supply of power to a plurality of load devices; a current detector that detects a current flowing to the plurality of load devices; and a temperature detector that detects the temperature of the shut-off unit. Furthermore, the vehicle control device includes a drive controller that, when the temperature of the shut-off unit detected by the temperature detector exceeds a predetermined value, controls and restricts operation of the load devices for which the priority is low, based on priorities set for each of the plurality of load devices.

Vehicle control device

An electronic control system includes first through third measurement units that measure current, temperature and current or temperature, respectively. An electronic control device controls an operation of a power semiconductor element by using measurement results of the first through third measurement units. At least a part of the power semiconductor element incorporates the first and second measurement units, and the electronic control device estimates temperature from a measured value of the current. Whether the first measurement unit, the second measurement unit, and the third measurement unit are normal or abnormal on a basis of a measured value of the first measurement unit is determined, and an abnormality is determined of at least one of the power semiconductor element and a wire harness through which an output current of the power semiconductor element flows according to a measurement result of the measurement unit determined to be normal.

Electronic control system and electronic control device

An object of the present invention is to estimate a center-of-gravity position and inertia moment of a trailer and supply the center-of-gravity position and inertia moment for control of an articulated vehicle so as to enable further stabilization of a posture of the articulated vehicle during traveling. A vehicle control device of the present invention is a vehicle control device mounted on a tractor which pulls a trailer, and is provided with: a steering angle control unit that controls a steering angle of wheels of the tractor independently of steering by a driver; and a trailer characteristic estimation unit that estimates a characteristic of the trailer based on a behavior of the tractor during wheel steering by the steering angle control unit.

Vehicle control device and characteristic estimation method

Provided is an imaging element that includes a photoelectric conversion section. The photoelectric conversion section includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer including an organic material, and a second electrode that are stacked, an inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer is formed between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, and when a composition of an inorganic oxide semiconductor material included in the inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer is represented by MaNbSncO (where M denotes an aluminum (Al) atom, and N denotes a gallium atom (Ga) or a zinc (Zn) atom, or a gallium (Ga) atom and a zinc (Zn) atom), a+b+c=1.00, 0.01≤a≤0.04, and b<c are satisfied.

Imaging element, stacked imaging element and solid-state imaging device, and inorganic oxide semiconductor material

An object of the present invention is to realize a control device having operation continuity at the time of failure with less redundancy and reduce cost. Provided is a vehicle control system including a transmission unit that transmits energy to a driving wheel, a first control unit that controls the transmission unit, a first source that inputs energy to the transmission unit, a second source that inputs energy to the transmission unit, a second control unit that controls the first source, and a third control unit that controls the second source, wherein when the first control unit fails, the second control unit or the third control unit controls the transmission unit.

A moving device includes: two leg portions each including an end-portion wheel and an intermediate wheel; a placement portion supported by the two leg portions; and a control unit configured to control the two leg portions. The moving device is configured such that, under a state of four-wheel ground contact in which the end-portion wheel and the intermediate wheel are in contact with the ground, when the end-portion wheel is moved from the boarding area to the step of the escalator and/or when the end-portion wheel is moved from the step to the landing area of the escalator, a wheel speed of the end-portion wheel is controlled by the control unit.

Moving device

An imaging element of the present disclosure includes a photoelectric conversion section including a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layerA, and a second electrodethat are stacked, in which a protection layerB including an inorganic oxide, and an inorganic oxide semiconductor material layerC are formed from side of the photoelectric conversion layer directly below the photoelectric conversion layerA.

Imaging element, stacked imaging element, and solid-state imaging device

A vehicle controller includes a plurality of detectors, a control unit, a data collecting unit, a serial communication line, and a transmission order setting unit. Data that changes at a speed that is lower than a given speed value is transmitted in a period in which a communication volume is lower than a given communication volume value. The transmission order is an order in which the pieces of detection data are serially transmitted from the data collecting unit to the control unit.

Organizing sensors data and transmission order

A steering control apparatus, a steering control method, and a steering control system according to the present invention output an instruction for generating a periodic yaw moment opposite in phase from an rolling motion occurring on a hitch vehicle including a vehicle and a trailer to a rear-wheel steering apparatus configured to control a steering angle of a rear wheel of the vehicle.

Steering control apparatus, steering control method, and steering control system

In a conventional electronic device, it is difficult to passively diagnose disconnection of an external capacitor added to an output terminal of a regulator circuit. An electronic device in this embodiment includes a regulator circuitthat outputs a constant voltage while external power supplied from the outside is input thereto, an external capacitorconnected to an output terminal of the regulator circuitas an external component, an oscillation detectorthat detects an oscillating state of the output voltage of the regulator circuit, and a failure determination unitthat outputs a failure signal when the oscillation detectordetects the oscillating state of the regulator circuit.

Electronic device

An imaging element of the present disclosure includes a photoelectric conversion section including a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layerA including an organic material, and a second electrodethat are stacked; an inorganic semiconductor material layerB is formed between the first electrodeand the photoelectric conversion layerA; and a value ΔEN (=EN−EN) is less than 1.695, and preferably 1.624 or less, which results from subtracting an average value ENof electronegativities of cationic species included in the inorganic semiconductor material layer from an average value ENof electronegativities of anionic species included in the inorganic semiconductor material layerB.

Imaging element, stacked imaging element and solid-state imaging device, and method of manufacturing imaging element

An air flow rate meter includes a signal detector and a pulse generator. The signal detector is configured to detect that an output signal from the air flow rate detection element has passed a predetermined threshold. The pulse generator generates a pulse signal by using an output signal from the signal detector as a trigger. An output signal from the air flow rate detection element is corrected based on an output of the pulse generator.

Air flow rate meter

In a steering control device, method, and system, a command is calculated for generating a periodical yaw moment having a phase opposite to oscillating motion based on information on oscillating motion which occurs in a vehicle combination composed of a vehicle and a trailer, and based on the calculated command, a first steering angle command for controlling a steering angle of the front wheels of the vehicle is output to a front wheel steering control unit and a second steering angle command for controlling a steering angle of the rear wheels of the vehicle is output to a rear wheel steering control unit, so that the oscillating motion can be suppressed.

Steering control device, steering control method, and steering control system

A vehicle control system includes a first electric motor that causes a vehicle to travel, a second electric motor that generates power by using an output of a power source and starts the power source, a power storage device that stores the power generated by the second electric motor and supplies the power to the first electric motor, a monitoring device that monitors a failure state of the vehicle, and a switch that switches the vehicle to travel from the first electric motor to the second electric motor. In a case of a predetermined driving state in which the monitoring device detects a failure of the first electric motor and a driving force is obtained from the second electric motor, the monitoring device controls the switch to switch the driving force for causing the vehicle to travel from the first electric motor to the second electric motor.

Vehicle control system

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Hiroshi Nakano