Sony Corporation

Jatco Corporation

Jatco Transtechnology Ltd.

Jacto Ltd

Yasushi Fujita

Osamu Sato

Tatsuya Imamura

Kazuhiro Takatori

Kazuhito Sano

Kazuo Tomioka

Katsumi Endo

Shigeo Matsumoto

Hiroshi Meguro

Hideaki Kumagai

Akira Kadonaga

Fujio Noguchi

Toshihide Fukasawa

Ryoji Sato

A memory device has a variable storage capacity depending on the object of use by a user, thereby improving convenience in use of the device. The memory device has a casing which may be loaded into host equipment. The casing has a plural number of loading sections in each of which a memory chip can be mounted. The casing carrying the memory chips has a terminal unit at the end insertable in the host equipment. Data readout from or writing into the memory chip is controlled by a semiconductor unit forming a control circuit disposed in the casing. The memory device may be of a recording capacity as desired by a user by changing the number of the memory chips mounted in the loading sections or by mounting memory chips of variable recording capacities in the loading sections.

Adapter device, memory device and integrated circuit chip

An input device having a fingerprint detection function is provided with operating portions for carrying out operations of a host device. The input device includes a device body connected to the host device, a fingerprint detecting portion provided in an upper surface of the device body and serving to detect the fingerprint of the user, and an opening portion for exposing the fingerprint detecting portion to the exterior.

Input device with fingerprint recognition

A feature expansion module is provided which includes a generally rectangular body ( ) installable in a host device ( ), a first connection terminal ( ) provided at one side of the body ( ) for electrical connection with the host device ( ), a feature expansion unit ( ) provided inside the body ( ) and having one or more functions, one or more recesses ( ) formed contiguously to an insertion slot ( ) formed at the other side of the body ( ) and through which an integrated circuit chip ( ) incorporating integrated circuit elements is inserted, to receive the integrated circuit chip ( ), a second connection terminal ( ) provided in the recess ( ) for electrical connection with a group of terminals provided at the integrated circuit chip ( ), and a controller ( ) built in the body ( ) to control the integrated circuit chip ( ) set in the recess ( ).

Feature expansion module

A lock-up control device for a lock-up torque converter of an automatic transmission is provided which starts measuring an elapsed time when the throttle opening exceeds a first predetermined value due to depression of an accelerator pedal during lock-up clutch slip control. When the throttle opening exceeds a second predetermined value due to sudden depression of the accelerator pedal prior to the elapse of a determination time, a transmission controller terminates the lock-up clutch slip control. After a rapid increase, the slip amount starts decreasing upon termination of the lock-up clutch slip control. Therefore, the temperature of a facing stops rising when the lock-up clutch slip control is terminated, and this improves the durability of the facing. The lock-up clutch slip control is re-started when the throttle opening is reduced to a predetermined value, and this maintains the excellent fuel economy performance.

Lock-up control device for torque converter of automatic transmission

An automatic transmission has a gear transmission mechanism with engaging devices. Up-shifting is achieved with oil pressure, which is controlled with an open control component, a gradient of which is determined based on input torque, and a feedback control component, which is based on a target gear ratio. To prevent shock during an up-shift caused by releasing the accelerator, the feedback control component is set to zero when the amount of change in the throttle opening is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value. As a result of inhibiting increase in feedback to make up for a tendency for oil pressure depending on an open control component to decrease as a result of the throttle opening reducing and input torque falling, increase of the oil pressure command value becomes smooth. Peaks of the output torque are therefore suppressed.

Shift control system for automatic transmission

A hydraulic control system controls a hydraulic pressure as a standby pressure in a period from an engagement start point at which an engagement instruction for engaging a friction element is started to an abutment start point at which an abutment between an input element and an output element is started. The hydraulic pressure supplied to at least one friction element is so increased as to switch the friction element from a disengagement state to an engagement state, thus transmitting a revolution of the input element of the friction element to the output element of the friction element. The hydraulic control system includes: a speed sensor for sensing a speed of the friction element; and a standby pressure increase section for increasing the standby pressure in accordance with the speed of the friction element sensed with the speed sensor.

Hydraulic control system for automatic transmission, and method of controlling hydraulic pressure

When a transmission selector lever is operated from P or N range to D range, an input clutch to be engaged at the fifth gear position is temporally engaged to reduce shift shock when the engaging element for the first gear position is engaged. An oil pressure command value for actuating the input clutch is increased with a constant inclination from a start point oil pressure value, and the start point oil pressure value is lowered when the engine speed is low or when an oil temperature is high. Even if a timing of completion of filling of working fluid to the input clutch is fluctuated, the difference between the actual oil pressure and the oil pressure command value is suppressed to a small level and the occurrence of shock due to surge at the time of the filling completion is prevented.

An initial command oil pressure of a lock-up control of coasting lock-up region is set by using a lock-up learning correction amount calculated by a learning control in a lockup control of the other of the plurality of lock-up regions such as slip lock-up region and complete lock-up region when one of the lock-up control of these other lock-up regions is performed before the lock-up control of the coasting lock-up region. Thus, a lock-up learning correction amount can be commonly used among three kinds of lock-up regions, and a lock-up as set is early realized in each lock-up region.

In solenoid control method and apparatus for an automatic transmission, a current signal varied in a stepwise manner is caused to pass through a filter having a predetermined transfer function, the current signal being inputted to a solenoid to drive a control valve by which a working oil pressure on at least one frictional element of the automatic transmission is controlled by reducing the working oil pressure to release the frictional element and the filter passed current signal is inputted to the solenoid to drive the control valve. The solenoid control method and apparatus described above are applicable to a change-over shift operation.

Solenoid control method and apparatus for automatic transmission

A control system for controlling operation of a pre-charge system of an automatic transmission. The control system comprises a first section which receives first and second gear change instructions which are issued in succession. The first and second gear change instructions are of a type of needing an engaged condition of a same friction element. The control system further comprises a second section which, when the second gear change instruction is issued during a pre-charge period of the friction element which is needed by the first gear change instruction, extends the pre-charge period of the friction element to a time when a pre-charge period needed by the second gear change instruction lapses.

Pre-charge control system of automatic transmission

A standby phase target time is determined with reference to a table according to a read engine load and vehicle speed. A standby phase real time is then measured, and a learning correction value is calculated and stored. In a next shifting operation, a value that is found by adding the learning correction value to a hydraulic pressure command value in the previous shifting operation is used as a new hydraulic pressure command value. This learning correction is performed in small regions where the vehicle speed increases with the throttle opening being substantially constant. This accurately compensates a change in characteristics of a hydraulic system without being affected by a rapid change in torque or the like.

Shift control system of automatic transmission

In an automatic transmission performing change-over of a first engaging element and a second engaging element between two gear positions, for example between the fourth gear and the fifth gear, an oil pressure command value A to one of these two engaging elements is retained as a current value &ldquo;a&rdquo; and an oil pressure command value B to the other of these two engaging elements is retained as a current value &ldquo;b&rdquo; and at the same time the calculation of a calculation value of a downshift form the fifth gear is started when a target gear position changes to the fourth gear or lower during upshift between the two gear positions. When downshift calculation values Ad, Bd reach the retained values &ldquo;a&rdquo;, &ldquo;b&rdquo;, the oil pressure command values A, B are switched to the downshift calculation values. Thereby, a timing for performing the change-over of respective engaging elements is properly achieved, and a downshift to the fourth gear can be promptly performed before the upshift is not finished, and shift shock and engine racing can be prevented.

A disc cartridge holding a flexible magnetic disc with a recording capacity exceeding 100 MB. The disc cartridge includes a main cartridge body portion holding a disc-shaped recording medium of an increased capacity, first and second positioning reference holes formed at left and right corners in the lower surface of the main cartridge body portion encircled by the front wall section in the direction of insertion of the main cartridge body portion into a disc drive device, left and right sidewall sections extending perpendicular to the front wall section and the outer rim of the disc-shaped recording medium housed in the main cartridge body portion. The disc cartridge includes a first capacity discriminating hole and a mistaken recording inhibiting unit provided at left and right corners encircled by the back side wall section of the main cartridge body portion, left and right sidewall sections extending perpendicular to the back side wall section and the outer rim of the disc-shaped recording medium housed in the main cartridge body portion and a second capacity discriminating hole towards the outer rim of the disc-shaped recording medium housed in the main cartridge body portion in proximity to the first positioning reference hole. The portions detected by the detection switches are arranged distributed on the lower surface of the main cartridge body portion in order to detect reliably the state of the disc cartridges such as the sorts of the magnetic discs.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yasushi Fujita