Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Renesas Technology Corp.

Adv Antest Corporation

Sanden Holdings Corporation

Sony Corporation

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Sanden Corporation

Hiroyuki Nagai

Shinichiro Mizoguchi

Hirokazu Tsurumaki

Makoto Ishikawa

Tomonori Haraguchi

Takayuki Ishikawa

Tomio Furuya

Tsutomu Inose

Satoshi Ogihara

Toru Fukami

Tomoyuki Shimizu

Masahiro Kikuchi

Riyako Iwahashi

Yasukimi Toda

Hiroaki Sato

Takashi Suzuki

Hiroyuki Hama

Tatsuya Yamada

Toshikazu Suzuki

Shigeru Matsumura

Yu Hasegawa

Masayuki Aoike

Yuji Shirai

Yuichi Takai

Chushiro Kusano

Hirokazu Nakajima

Fumiaki Itoh

Yoshiaki Harasawa

Yasuji Ishizuka

Yasuo Osone

Hajime Futatsugi

Shinji Nakamura

Yasuhide Takeda

Masaki Koga

Chiko Yorita

Junichiro Kasuya

Takashi Sekizuka

Hirofumi Wada

Shizuki Nakajima

Yoshiyuki Ootake

Hiroyuki Ryoson

Hiroyuki Shiotsuka

Ryo Koshiishi

Yoshifumi Akaike

Noriyoshi Kozuka

Yukio Ishigaki

Teiji Yamamoto

Hidenori Ishiwata

Shinichirou Mizoguchi

Satoshi Doi

Eiichi Sekine

Yoji Ogino

Hajime Makino

Makoto Tabei

Tomohiko Saitou

Kou Tsukamoto

A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device that enable characteristics to be improved are provided. A semiconductor device includes a substrate that has a first surface and a second surface that is located opposite the first surface, a first element that is disposed on the first surface, and a first resin layer that is disposed on the first surface and that is disposed around the first element in a plan view. The substrate includes a wiring layer. The first element includes a semiconductor layer, an electrode portion that is located on a surface of the semiconductor layer facing the substrate, and an insulating layer that is located opposite the electrode portion with the semiconductor layer interposed therebetween. The electrode portion is connected to the wiring layer. A height of the first resin layer from the first surface is more than a height of the first element from the first surface.

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device

The present invention enables correct placement of an electronic mark on a frame of captured image data intended by a remote control apparatus performing monitoring. Monitoring image data with a time code is transmitted to an external device. A command (an electronic mark placement command, or the like) to which a time code value showing a command target frame in the monitoring image data is added is received from the remote control apparatus. Processing based on the command is performed on a frame corresponding to the time code value added to the command, among image data corresponding to the monitoring image data recorded on a recording medium.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, camera apparatus, remote control apparatus, and camera system

A cooling circuit for internal combustion engines includes an internal combustion engine, a pressure-feeding unit for feeding coolant, which cools the internal combustion engine under pressure, a valve unit having a plurality of heat exchangers connected in parallel thereto, an exhaust heat recovery system for recovering heat from exhaust air of the internal combustion engine by the coolant, a first circulation circuit including the pressure-feeding unit, the valve unit and the exhaust heat recovery system, and a second circulation circuit including the pressure-feeding unit and the exhaust heat recovery system.

Cooling circuit for internal combustion engines

A cooling system controller controls a cooling system at least having a coolant pump () configured to supply a coolant to an internal combustion engine, a heat radiator () configured to cool the coolant, and an exhaust heat recovery system () configured to perform in heat exchange between the exhaust gas and the coolant. In addition, the cooling system controller () has a unit configured to control the coolant flow rate, a unit () configured to obtain a coolant temperature or pressure of the internal coolant passage of the engine, and a unit configured to obtain an internal coolant temperature or pressure of the exhaust heat recovery system. Furthermore, the coolant flow rate is restricted at a cold start of the internal combustion engine, and the restriction of the coolant flow rate is released on the basis of the coolant temperature or pressure of the engine coolant passage and the internal coolant temperature or pressure of the exhaust heat recovery system.

Cooling system controller and method of controlling cooling system

Apparatus for utilizing heat wasted from an engine includes: a Rankine cycle (); a transmission mechanism that couples an output shaft of an expansion device () to a rotary shaft of an engine via an electromagnetic clutch () that can be engaged and disengaged; a passage () through which refrigerant exiting a heat exchanger () flows so as to bypass the expansion device (); and a bypass valve () interposed in the passage. To stop the expansion device (), the electromagnetic clutch () is switched from an engaged state to a disengaged state after switching the bypass valve () from a closed state to an open state. If the bypass valve () becomes stuck in the closed state, expansion device front-rear differential pressure limiting processing in which a front-rear differential pressure of the expansion device is limited while maintaining the electromagnetic clutch () in the engaged state is performed.

Apparatus for utilizing heat wasted from engine

An engine exhaust apparatus includes an exhaust passage for flowing exhaust gas emitted from an engine, a flow rectifier for rectifying the flow of the exhaust gas, and an exhaust heat recovery unit disposed in the exhaust passage downstream of the flow rectifier. The exhaust heat recovery unit is provided with an exhaust heat recovery portion and a cooling portion to cool the exhaust heat recovery portion. The engine exhaust apparatus further includes a first diameter reducing portion gradually reduced in diameter toward the exhaust heat recovery unit from the flow rectifier, and a second diameter reducing portion gradually reduced in diameter toward the downstream from the exhaust heat recovery unit.

Engine exhaust apparatus

An exhaust device of an engine, with an exhaust path to lead exhaust gas discharged from the engine to outside, the exhaust device comprising: an exhaust heat collector being configured to collect heat from the exhaust gas, and a cooling part being configured to cool down the exhaust heat collecting part from an outer peripheral side via a cooling fluid; and an exhaust gas flow controlling member in a cylindrical shape, comprising an inlet part and an outlet part where the inflow of the exhaust gas is discharged to an upstream side of the exhaust heat collecting part. An opening diameter of the outlet part is arranged to be smaller than an outer diameter of the exhaust heat collecting part. The exhaust gas flow controlling member is placed so that an open end of the outlet part opposes a central portion of an upstream end plane of the exhaust heat collecting part. The open end of the outlet part and the upstream end plane of the exhaust heat collecting part are a predetermined distance apart.

Exhaust device of engine

Apparatus for utilizing heat wasted from an engine includes first pressure detecting means () and first temperature detecting means () for detecting a pressure and a temperature in a refrigerant passage extending from a condenser () to a refrigerant pump (), second pressure detecting means () and second temperature detecting means () for detecting a pressure and a temperature in a refrigerant passage extending from a heat exchanger () to an expansion device (), and control means () responsive to these four detecting means when operating a Rankine cycle (). Means () is for diagnosing whether or not an electromagnetic clutch () is stuck responsive to either the first pressure detecting means () and the first temperature detecting means (), or the second pressure detecting means () and the second temperature detecting means ().

To effectively reduce a situation in which an over-rotation of an expander occurs or the expander becomes a load on an engine at the time of a stop of a Rankine cycle in an exhaust heat recovery device provided with the Rankine cycle that recovers exhaust heat of an engine. A pressure difference &#x394;P between a high-pressure side and a low-pressure side of the Rankine cycle is obtained when the Rankine cycle is stopped (S), a waiting time Ta is set (calculated) based on the obtained pressure difference &#x394;P (S). Then, a bypass valve is opened to allow a refrigerant to circulate while bypassing the expander (S), and then an electromagnetic clutch is disengaged when the waiting time Ta has elapsed to block transmission of power between the expander and the engine (S, S).

Exhaust heat recovery device

A device for utilizing waste heat from an engine, which is provided with a Rankine cycle device having an expander bypass passage and a bypass valve that opens and closes the expander bypass passage, and transmits the output torque Tr of the Rankine cycle device to the engine, estimates the output torque Tr of the Rankine cycle device accurately. An output calculation part includes a torque estimation portion that estimates the torque of an expander. The torque estimation portion has a first torque estimation equation corresponding to an opening position of a bypass valve, and a second torque estimation equation corresponding to a closed position of the bypass valve. The output calculation part calculates an output torque Tr of a Rankine cycle device, based on a torque estimated value by the first or second torque estimation equation.

Device for utilizing waste heat from engine

An engine-waste-heat utilization device includes a Rankine cycle which includes a heat exchanger through which cooling water coming out from an engine flows to recover waste-heat of the engine to refrigerant, an expander which generates power using the refrigerant coming out from the heat exchanger, a condenser which condenses the refrigerant coming out from the expander and a refrigerant pump which supplies the refrigerant coming out from the condenser to the heat exchanger, and a cooling water passage in which the cooling water having a higher temperature flows when the Rankine cycle is operated than when the Rankine cycle is not operated.

Engine waste-heat utilization device

A waste heat utilization apparatus is provided with a Rankine cycle and a power transmission mechanism that transmits power regenerated by an expander to an engine. The power transmission mechanism includes an expander clutch that interrupts or permits the transmission of the power from the expander to the engine. The expander includes a rotational speed sensor that detects a rotational speed of the expander. An increase in friction of the expander is detected on the basis of an increase in the rotational speed of the expander detected by the rotational speed sensor when the expander clutch is disconnected.

Waste heat utilization apparatus

A Rankine cycle includes an waste-heat recovery device that is configured to exchange heat between cooling water coming out from an engine and exhaust gas exhausted from the engine, a heat exchanger including an evaporator through which the cooling water coming out from the engine flows to recover waste-heat of the engine to refrigerant, and a superheater through which the cooling water coming out from the waste-heat recovery device flows to recover the waste-heat of the engine to the refrigerant, an expander that is configured to generate power using the refrigerant coming out from the heat exchanger, a condenser that is configured to condense the refrigerant coming out from the expander, and a refrigerant pump that is configured to supply the refrigerant coming out from the condenser to the heat exchanger by being driven by the expander. The cooling water coming out from the superheater is returned to the engine after being joined with the cooling water coming out from the evaporator.

Rankine cycle

An engine-waste-heat utilization device includes a Rankine cycle with a heat exchanger that is configured to recover engine-waste-heat to refrigerant, an expander that is configured to generate power using the refrigerant coming out from the heat exchanger, a condenser that is configured to condense the refrigerant coming out from the expander and a refrigerant pump that is configured to supply the refrigerant coming out from the condenser to the heat exchanger by being driven by the expander, a power transmission mechanism (crank pulley, pump pulley, belt) that is configured to transmit surplus power to the engine when the expander has spare power even if the refrigerant pump is driven, a clutch that is configured to connect and disconnecting power transmission by the power transmission mechanism, and a case provided near a high-temperature part of the engine such that a shaft of the expander and that of the refrigerant pump are coaxially arranged, the clutch, the refrigerant pump and the expander are integrally housed in this order and the expander has a higher temperature than the clutch.

In a user interface that can identify concurrent pointing at a plurality of given positions on a screen, after detecting that a plurality of pointed positions are concurrently present in a display range of one object on a screen, whether or not an operation of moving the other pointed positions is performed, while keeping at least one pointed position among the plurality of pointed positions, is determined. Then, if it is determined that this operation is performed, the processing that is to be executed is decided based on the number of kept pointed positions and the number of moved pointed positions, and the decided process is executed on the object.

Method for controlling a user interface, information processing apparatus, and computer readable medium

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiroyuki Nagai