Sony Corporation

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Nec Electronics Corporation

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.

Subaru Corporation

Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Bandai Co., Ltd.

Takao Kondo

Isamu Nagasawa

Tomiya Isshiki

Kimihiro Saito

Masanobu Yamamoto

Yasuhiko Kijima

Yuh Miyauchi

Tsutomu Ishimoto

Yuichi Aki

Seiji Kobayashi

Hiroshi Okada

Atsushi Takahashi

Masataka Shinoda

Toshiyuki Kashiwagi

Yoshio Ohashi

Masaru Uryu

Minoru Takeda

Kunihiko Hayashi

Norio Takeda

Motohiro Furuki

Osamu Aoki

Shin Masuhara

Isamu Nakao

Toshihiro Horigome

Ariyoshi Nakaoki

Sakuya Tamada

Takashi Iwamura

Mitsuo Miura

Hirotaka Miyamoto

Tetsuo Tomita

Keita Onishi

Kaoru Tsuyuki

Mitsuo Abe

Yoshiyuki Aoki

Youji Terauchi

Shinya Motomura

Toshiaki Kozaki

Sunmin Kim

Yuuji Kuge

Tadashi Tsuneyoshi

Junichi Orai

Muneaki Tadokoro

A semiconductor device includes a control circuit configured to suppress a current variation by turning on or off a constant current source when transitioning to a standby mode. The control circuit has a function of predicting a current variation value from register information and information of current profile. The control circuit has a function of optimizing single control amount of the current source and the number of times of control of the current source based on the predicted current variation value.

Semiconductor device with current control for standby mode

The semiconductor device includes a frequency output circuit that outputs a clock signal having a specified frequency, a circuit block that realizes a predetermined function, and a standby controller that controls a standby mode of the circuit block in accordance with the clock signal. Here, the standby controller includes a control circuit that outputs state information corresponding to the control of the standby mode, a frequency control signal that designates the frequency of the clock signal output from the frequency output circuit in accordance with the state information, and a frequency selection circuit that outputs count information that designates the duration of the state transition of the circuit block.

Semiconductor device

An occupant protection device for a vehicle includes a seat, a three-point seatbelt device, and a belt airbag device. An occupant to board the vehicle is to sit on the seat. The three-point seatbelt device includes a seatbelt extendable across a front of an upper body of the occupant sitting on the seat. The belt airbag device includes a belt airbag that is provided at a shoulder belt section, which is extendable from a shoulder to a waist of the occupant, of the seatbelt, and that is configured to be deployed when a collision occurs. The belt airbag includes a belt-direction deployment section extendable and deployable along the shoulder belt section, and an intersecting-direction deployment section extendable and deployable in a direction intersecting the shoulder belt section. The sections are configured to form a single bag by being coupled to each other below a head of the occupant sitting on the seat.

Occupant protection apparatus for vehicle

An occupant protection device for a vehicle includes: a three-point seatbelt device having a seatbelt extendable across a front of an upper body of an occupant sitting on a seat; and a belt airbag device including a belt airbag that is provided at a shoulder belt section, which is extendable from a shoulder to a waist of the occupant, of the seatbelt the belt airbag being configured to be deployed when a collision occurs. The belt airbag includes a belt-direction deployment section extendable and deployable along the shoulder belt section, and an intersecting-direction deployment section extendable and deployable in a direction intersecting the shoulder belt section. The belt-direction deployment section and the intersecting-direction deployment section are configured to form a single bag by being coupled to each other below a head of the occupant sitting on the seat.

A vehicle occupant protection apparatus includes a seat for an occupant of a vehicle and an airbag device. The airbag device includes a front airbag configured to deploy in front of an upper body of the occupant in the seat. The front airbag is capable of deploying so as to receive the upper body that has been displaced forward from a seating position on the seat. The front airbag includes a pair of shoulder-receiving projections capable of receiving both shoulders of the upper body that has been displaced forward from the seating position by projecting rearward at both sides of the front airbag in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle in a deployed state.

Vehicle occupant protection apparatus

Provided is a cyclist protection apparatus for a vehicle that includes a front section that protrudes forward from a boarding section. The cyclist protection apparatus includes a cyclist airbag device that includes airbags, and is configured to be disposed in a front-end area of the front section. The cyclist airbag device is configured to deploy the airbags adjacently in a front-rear direction on an upper surface of the front section.

Cyclist protection apparatus for vehicle and vehicle

An occupant protection apparatus for a vehicle includes a door sensor that detects a defamation of a side door in a side collision and an occupant position detection sensor that detects a lumbar position of the occupant. A pretensioner is activated when it is determined from detection by the door sensor and the occupant position detection sensor that an intruding-object collision rear-end position in the side door is located in front of the lumbar position, and the pretensioner is prohibited from activation when it is determined that the intruding-object collision rear-end position is not located in front of the lumbar position. When there is a possibility that a clearance between the lumbar of the occupant and the deformed side door is insufficient, the pretensioner is prohibited from activation to allow the occupant to move at the early stage of a collision.

IO buffers that operate with an IO power supply system and cut cells that isolate the IO buffers from each other are disposed on the periphery of an always-on power supply area and a power supply cut-off available area. A signal indicating the holding of an IO output(s) output from the always-on power supply area is wired so as to go round the IO buffers and the cut cells. The cut cell includes a level shifter that operates with an IO power supply system. The cut cell shifts the level of signal indicating the holding of IO output so that the signal level conforms to the power supply system of IO buffers, and outputs the resultant signal to the IO buffers.

Microcomputer

An optical disc apparatus can highly accurately record a hologram representing information on or reproduce such a hologram from an optical disc. When recording information on an optical disc, the optical disc apparatus controls the position of an objective lens OLaccording to the outcome of detection of a red reflected light beam Lrso as to make the focus Fr thereof follow a target track and it also makes the focus Fbof a blue light beam Lbagree with a target mark position by the objective lens OLand also the focus Fbagree with the target mark position by controlling the position of another objective lens OLaccording to the outcome of detection of the blue light beam Lbby way of the objective lenses OLand OLso as to make the focus Fbof the blue light beam Lband the focus Fbof the blue light beam Lbagree with the target mark position and the blue light beam Lband the blue light beam Lbinterfere with each other. Thus, as a result, the optical disc apparatus can record a recording mark RM at the target mark position.

Optical disc apparatus, focus position control method and recording medium

Provided is a semiconductor integrated device that selects one or more of a plurality of functional blocks and resets the selected functional block, and a control method of the semiconductor integrated device. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a functional block that is reset when a clock signal and a reset signal are supplied, a reset signal output unit that outputs the reset signal for resetting the functional block, a clock mask circuit that stops the clock signal to be supplied to the functional block, and a clock mask control circuit that controls the clock mask circuit.

Semiconductor integrated device and control method thereof

An integrated circuit device contains a flash memory, a flash control unit for controlling the rewriting and reading on the flash memory, and a processor unit. The processor unit includes a normal mode and a fail-safe mode as the operating states. In normal mode, when a defect is detected during the verify operation after writing data onto the flash memory then any further use of the flash memory is stopped. In fail-safe-mode, when a defect is detected during the verify operation after writing data onto the flash memory, the error is corrected and flash memory usage continues. The operating state is normal mode, and when the verify operation detects a defect after normal mode erase operation, the operation shifts to fail-safe mode.

Semiconductor integrated circuit device having fail-safe mode and memory control method

A solid immersion lens (SIL) is provided. The SIL includes a spherical part, a cone-shaped part, a tip part, and an edge part between the cone-shaped part and the tip part. The edge part includes a curved surface.

Solid immersion lens and focusing lens, optical pickup device, and data recording/reproducing apparatus using the same

An optical disk apparatus irradiates first and second lights, which are emitted from an identical light source, on a disk-like volumetric recording medium from both sides thereof with first and second object lenses corresponding to the first and second lights, respectively, such that the lights are focused in an identical focal point position and records a standing wave. The optical disk apparatus includes an aberration adding unit that adds complementary aberrations to the first and second lights made incident on the volumetric recording medium, respectively.

Optical disk apparatus and optical aberration correcting method

In a lens holding member for holding a solid immersion lens, when a difference-in-level portion and/or slant face is constructed at least on a part of the objective side surface, a tilt margin which can be applied to a near field optical recording and reproduction solid immersion lens can be maintained. In a focusing lens using such lens holding member, the optical pickup apparatus and the optical recording and reproducing apparatus, stable transportation between the lens and the optical recording medium can be improved.

Lens holding member, focusing lens using lens holding member, optical pickup apparatus and optical recording and reproducing apparatus

A memory control circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a writable/readable memory; a comparison unit comparing write data to write in the memory with read data that is read from a memory address where the write data is written; a comparison result storage unit storing a comparison result compared by the comparison unit in association with the memory address; and a control unit controlling retry processing of rewriting the write data to the memory address determined to be unverified based on the stored comparison result.

Memory control circuit, microcomputer, and data rewriting method

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Takao Kondo