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Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

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Kenichi Watanabe

Takashi Suzuki

Kazuhiro Yoshida

Shingo Suzuki

Kenya Ito

Noriyoshi Shimizu

Nobumasa Ootake

Kazuo Oguri

Yoshitaka Morimoto

Masami Tanaka

Mikio Yamahiro

Tetsuya Izumi

Hironori Miyaishi

Akito Suzuki

Koji Ohguma

Toshiya Sawai

Hisao Oikawa

Kakuzou Kaneko

Takayoshi Urushibata

Kouichi Kotsuji

Taiichi Onoyama

Masumi Fujikawa

Rico Resch

Mirko Leesch

Yukiyoshi Inuta

Yutaka Yanagawa

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Joerg Mueller

Toyoji Sawada

Junichi Mitani

Takayuki Okuda

Michiari Kawano

Masazumi Ogawa

Kazuaki Aota

Kazuo Sukegawa

Masayoshi Muramatsu

Moeha Shibuya

Keisuke Iwado

Masuhito Ohgushi

Kumiko Ishii

Tomoyuki Mizuochi

Hideharu Waketa

Kazuyuki Morishige

Jyun-ichi Inagaki

Toshiaki Tsukihashi

Takanobu Mouri

Ryuichi Arai

Ryuzo Noguchi

Hideaki Kakiuchi

Motoharu Murakoshi

Tomohiro Shuta

Kiichi Kanda

Takumi Hasegawa

Tsutomu Tobita

Hiroshi Namba

Yoshiharu Suzuki

Shoji Sugaya

Seishi Shimamura

Akihiro Toyofuku

Satoshi Harui

Kenta Kubota

Kazuhiro Miyachi

Masao Arimatsu

Takeshi Morita

Yuuya Mori

Jun Shinozaki

Yoshiaki Hatano

Toru Takeuchi

Masanori Kubota

Nobuyuki Iwazaki

To provide a control board for efficiently generating electric energy in a power generating device from heat generated from an electronic device. A control board includes a board including a first heat dissipating pad; an electronic device including a second heat dissipating pad to dissipate heat; a power generating device including a Peltier device which converts heat energy generated from the electronic device into electric energy, wherein the power generating device is sandwiched between the first heat dissipating pad and the second heat dissipating pad; and a power supply circuit configured to reuse the electric energy.

Control board, electronic equipment, and image forming apparatus

A controller includes a plurality of communication interfaces, a first arbiter, and a second arbiter. The first arbiter arbitrates access to a memory. The second arbiter is disposed between the plurality of communication interfaces and the first arbiter. In response to reception of a plurality of outstanding read requests to the memory from one of the plurality of communication interfaces, the second arbiter limits the number of outstanding read requests to transmit to the first arbiter.

Controller, image forming apparatus, and access arbitration method

Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes: first and second wiring patterns extending in a first direction, first and second transistors arranged adjacent to each other, and third to sixth wiring patterns extending in a second direction. The third wiring pattern is connected between the first wiring pattern and one of source/drain regions of the first transistor, the fourth wiring pattern is connected between the second wiring pattern and other of source/drain regions of the first transistor, the fifth wiring pattern is connected to one of source/drain regions of the second transistor, the fifth wiring pattern overlapping with the first wiring pattern, the sixth wiring pattern is connected to other of source/drain regions of the second transistor, the sixth wiring pattern overlapping with the second wiring pattern. The third and fourth wiring patterns are greater in width in the first direction than the fifth and sixth wiring patterns.

Output buffer circuit with metal option

Apparatuses with a signal line in a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes one or more power supply voltage lines in a first conductive layer, a plurality of transistors and a signal line in a second conductive layer. Each transistor of the plurality of transistors includes an active region disposed in a substrate and a gate electrode above the active region. The signal line in the second conductive layer is below the first conductive layer and above the active regions of the plurality of transistors. The signal line is coupled to the gate electrodes of the plurality of transistors. The signal line has electrical resistance higher than electrical resistance of the power supply voltage line.

Signal buffer circuit

Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes an output signal line, and first and second tristate buffer circuits each having an output node connected to the output signal line in common. The output signal line includes a first section having first and second connection points, a second section having third and fourth connection points, a third section connected between the first and third connection points, and a fourth section connected between second and fourth connection points. At least a part of the first section of the output signal line is located on the first tristate buffer circuit, and at least a part of the second section of the output signal line is located on the second tristate buffer circuit.

Serializer

A power supply device installed in an electronic apparatus includes a first power supply outputting power upon a plug being connected to a system power supply, a second power supply outputting power upon receiving of a power supply control signal, a third power supply outputting power from a battery, a controller operating using the power from the second power supply and configured to control the electronic apparatus, a flip-flop configured to operate using the power from the third power supply and configured to store, upon activating the electronic apparatus, first logic data or upon shutting down the electronic apparatus, second logic data, and a power supply control switch operating using the power from the first power supply, to output the power supply control signal to the second power supply, in response to activating the electronic apparatus or in response to storing the first logic data in the flip-flop.

Power supply device configured to automatically restore power after recovery from a power failure, image forming apparatus, and control method

An oil pump driving control device of a vehicle having a main oil pump () that is driven by a motor/generator () and produces a pump discharge oil to a first clutch (), a second clutch () and a belt-type continuously variable transmission () provided on a driving force transmission line. A hybrid control module () is provided in this FF hybrid vehicle. The hybrid control module () is configured to perform a control so that during vehicle stop, the lower an ATF oil temperature is, the more the pump driving energy to drive the main oil pump () is decreased. With this control, consumption energy during the vehicle stop can be reduced.

Vehicle oil pump driving control device

A controller is provided so as to control, when an electric vehicle (EV) mode is selected, a belt clamping pressure on the basis of discharged oil from a main oil pump which is driven by a motor generator. The controller is provided for a hybrid vehicle and is configured to perform control such that when the vehicle is stopped in the EV mode and a creep cut condition which does not require creep torque from the motor generator is met, a first motor idling rotation speed is set as a motor rotation speed. When the vehicle is stopped in the EV mode and a standby learning control completes learning of a zero-point oil pressure command value, the controller reduces a rotation speed of the motor generator to a second motor idling rotation speed which is lower than the first motor idling rotation speed.

Control device for hybrid vehicle

An input shaft () connectable to an engine (), an output gear (), a transmission case () and a Ravigneaux planetary gear unit () are provided. Four rotational elements of the Ravigneaux planetary gear unit () are a single pinion side sun gear (Ss), a carrier (C), a ring gear (R) and a double pinion side sun gear (Sd) which are arranged orderly on a common speed diagram. The single pinion side sun gear (Ss) is constantly connected to a motor/generator (), and the ring gear (R) is constantly connected to the output gear (). And, with usage of a low & reverse clutch (L&R/C), a high clutch (H/C) and a low brake (L/B), a first speed (1st), a second speed (2nd), a third speed (3rd) and a stepless change speed (eCVT) are established.

Automatic transmission

An information processing apparatus providing a specific function includes a non-volatile function program memory that stores a function program for providing the specific function, a main memory, and an arithmetic device that reads and stores the function program from the function program memory into the main memory at startup of the information processing apparatus and performs an arithmetic operation based on the function program to execute the function program. The arithmetic device operates at a start frequency set for startup as a clock frequency for accessing the function program memory when reading and storing the function program from the function program memory into the main memory at the startup, and operates at a frequency lower than the start frequency as the clock frequency for accessing the function program memory after reading and storing the function program into the main memory.

Reconfigurable embedded device, method of reconfiguring an embedded device and non-transitory recording medium therefor

An automatic transmission for a vehicle includes: the input shaft being constantly connected to the second element, arranged to be connected to the second sun gear by an engagement of the first clutch, and arranged to be engaged with the third sun gear by an engagement of the second clutch, the output member being constantly connected to the second ring gear, the first element being arranged to be fixed to the stationary portion by an engagement of the first brake, the third element being constantly connected to the second pinion carrier, and arranged to fixed to the stationary portion by an engagement of the second brake, and the third sun gear being arrange to be fixed to the stationary portion by an engagement of the third brake.

Automatic transmission for vehicles

A communication apparatus includes: a controller that controls processing to perform facsimile; a first controlling unit that controls a voltage between lines that perform facsimile in accordance with control by the controller; a detector that detects a voltage change between the lines; and second controlling unit that discharges electric charge accumulated in between the lines so as to enable the detector to detect a voltage change between the lines when the first controlling unit is turned off. The controller determining whether connection to the lines is made based on the voltage change detected by detector.

Communication apparatus and method for determining connection

The first planetary gear set is configured to integrally rotate by a first clutch. The first element is coupled with the fifth element. The second element is configured to be locked through a first brake to a stationary section and configured to be coupled through a second clutch with the ninth element. The third element is coupled with the input shaft. The fourth element is configured to be coupled through a third clutch with the ninth element. The sixth element is locked to the stationary section. The seventh element is configured to be locked through a second brake to the stationary section. The eighth element is coupled with an output shaft. The ninth element is coupled with the twelfth element. The tenth element is configured to be coupled through a fourth clutch with the output shaft. The eleventh element is coupled with the input shaft.

Automatic transmission for vehicle

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