Nsk Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nec Corporation

Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Fujitsu General Limited

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation

Yusuke Kikuchi

Kazuto Kuroda

Masahiro Sekino

Ryo Okabe

Gen Kimura

Zhipeng Tu

Shinichiro Kosugi

Norihiro Kaneko

Jun Takahashi

Kenichiro Fujiyama

Shunsuke Akimoto

Takaaki Sekine

Kousuke Ishida

Tan Azuma

Shinji Oominato

Makoto Noguchi

Shinya Sato

Kenji Mori

Kouichi Harada

Hiroki Hagiwara

Satoshi Ozaki

Toshiaki Asada

Kota Asami

Hiroaki Murakami

Shin Kumagai

Yousuke Imamura

Riki Eto

Yoshio Kameda

Kenji Narita

Atsushi Horikoshi

Yoshihiro Aosaki

Shigeo Shinohara

Hidenori Suzuki

Takushi Fujioka

Keita Suzuki

Takeshi Senba

Hisayoshi Koiwai

Tomohiro Hasegawa

Wemer Wee

Yuji Souma

Ken Maeyama

Minoru Gyoda

Yosuke Saeki

Chanaporn Thanathitipong

Motohiro Itou

Yusuke Ota

Atsushi Inamura

Youichi Tanabe

Akihiro Ito

Michihiro Shibamoto

Nopporn Jirojjaturonn

Kozue Nakamura

Masahiro Okutani

Yasuhiro Iwasaki

Takayuki Onoda

Toshikazu Mabuchi

Ryo Nozawa

Bo Ma

Yutaka Tsukano

According to one embodiment, a storage battery apparatus comprising: a plurality of storage battery modules, each of which includes a battery module and a first wireless communication module transmitting and receiving a radio wave based on a BLE standard; and a battery management unit which includes a plurality of second wireless communication modules transmitting and receiving a radio wave based on the BLE standard, and an arithmetic processing apparatus controlling operation of the second wireless communication modules, wherein the arithmetic processing apparatus establishes communication between the battery management unit and the storage battery modules in unit of groups each including at least one of the storage battery modules.

Storage battery apparatus

The present disclosure provides an information input device in a miniaturized size allowing both rotation operation and tilt operation. In the information input device, viewed from the direction orthogonal to the rotation axis of a rotation operation member, the rotation operation member includes a second sloping surface extending from the end of a first sloping surface nearer a rotation detection unit and approaching the rotation axis of the rotation operation member as the second sloping surface extends from the rotation detection unit in the rotation axis direction.

Information input device allowing tilt operation of multi-directional input

The present technology relates to an imaging element and an electronic apparatus capable of expanding a saturation signal electric charge amount. A first P-type impurity region, a capacitance expanding portion that forms a PN junction surface with a second P-type impurity region and a first N-type impurity region, and the first N-type impurity region are sequentially provided in a depth direction from a surface side where a wiring layer of a semiconductor substrate is laminated. The second P-type impurity region is formed in a stripe on a plane of the capacitance expanding portion that perpendicularly intersects with the depth direction. The stripe is formed, on the plane of the capacitance expanding portion that perpendicularly intersects with the depth direction, in a direction perpendicular to a side where an electrode that reads accumulated electric charge is formed. The present technology can be applied to an imaging element.

Imaging element and electronic apparatus

A cultivation-target crop selection assisting apparatusincludes: an information collection unitconfigured to collect information regarding a specific cultivated land; a prediction value calculation unitconfigured to calculate a prediction value of actual performance of cultivation of one or a plurality of varieties of crops in the specific cultivated land by applying the information collected by the information collection unitto a prediction modelcreated by performing machine learning on a relationship between information regarding a sample cultivated land and actual performance information regarding a crop produced in the sample cultivated land; and a crop selection unitconfigured to select a crop that is suitable for being cultivated in the specific cultivated land based on the prediction value calculated for the one or plurality of varieties of crops.

Cultivation-target crop selection assisting apparatus, cultivation-target crop selection assisting method, and computer-readable recording medium

A plant monitoring apparatusincludes: a soil state estimation unitthat estimates a state of soil by, with use of frequency association information calculated based on vibration measured via the soil, referencing soil state estimation information in which the frequency association information and information indicating states of the soil are associated with soil states; and a plant state estimation unitthat estimates a state of a plant by, with use of growth association information that was calculated based on vibration of the plant and indicates growth of the plant, referencing plant state estimation information in which the growth association information and information indicating states of the plant above a plant soil surface are associated with plant states above the plant soil surface.

Plant monitoring apparatus, plant monitoring method, and computer-readable recording medium

A plant monitoring apparatusincludes: an extraction unitthat extracts a feature amount in a frequency response of vibration of a target plant with use of the vibration; a calculation unitthat calculates a change that indicates growth of the plant, based on the extracted feature amount and a reference feature amount that corresponds to a reference state of the plant; and an estimation unitthat estimates a state of the plant by, with use of the calculated change, referencing state information in which changes of the feature amount from the reference feature amount corresponding to growth of the plant are associated with states of the plant.

A vehicle control system for controlling driving of a vehicle reflecting an environment and a characteristic of a user, while suppressing increase in learning time, is provided. The vehicle control system includes classification means for classifying, by using one or more attributes selected from accumulation means for accumulating data including attributes relating to driving of a vehicle, driving properties included in the data, learning means for learning a model representing the driving property, for each of types that are a result of classification by the classification means, and control information determination means for determining, by using the model learned for the type associated with a value of the attribute at time of driving of a control target vehicle, control information for the driving.

Vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and program recording medium

A storage battery system includes a cell module including storage battery cells, a battery management unit configured to maintain a contactor having a normally open contact in a closed state, while being supplied with power, and a power supply control circuit that DC to DC converts the power of the cell module for supply to the battery management unit. The power supply control circuit includes an SOC estimator that determines from a voltage of the cell module whether or not the cell module is in an overdischarge state, and after determining that the cell module is not in the overdischarge state, outputs a status signal to the power supply control circuit. In response to no receipt of the status signal from the SOC estimator, the power supply control circuit interrupts the power supply to the battery management unit from the cell module.

Storage battery system with state of charge estimator capable of outputting status signal to power supply control circuit, method, and computer program product

A battery module includes: a battery cell unit including a plurality of battery cells connected together in series or series-parallel; a cell monitoring unit configured to monitor temperatures and voltages of the battery cells; and a plurality of overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units of n systems (n: an integer greater than or equal to 2). The overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units of the n systems are configured to independently detect an overtemperature or an overvoltage of the battery cells as an abnormal state, and to mutually notify one another of results of the detection. Each of the overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units is configured to, upon being notified that the abnormal state is detected from another overtemperature/overvoltage detecting unit of another system in the battery module, operate on the assumption that the overtemperature/overvoltage detecting unit detects the abnormal state.

Battery module and storage battery system

A device according to an embodiment includes at least one assembled battery; first switches that switch an electrical connection state of main circuits connected between the assembled battery and the load; second switches that switch an electrical connection state of second main circuits branched from the main circuits and are connected between the assembled battery and the load; a BMU that controls operations of the first switches based on an operation command supplied from the load; and a power supply circuit that supplies power to the BMU and second switches when a start command supplied from the outside is ON.

Battery device and vehicle

According to one embodiment, a wiring diagnostic apparatus of embodiments includes a counter, an acquirer, and an abnormality determiner. The counter counts the number of battery modules connected to a plurality of first communication lines to which a plurality of battery modules are connected to form a communication channel for each of the first communication lines. The acquirer acquires identification information for identifying a battery module connected to a corresponding second communication line among battery modules connected to a plurality of second communication lines each forming a communication channel with a first communication line via the second communication line. The abnormality determiner determines an abnormality in a wiring relationship of the first communication line or the second communication line on the basis of the number of battery modules counted by the counter and identification information acquired by the acquirer.

Wiring diagnostic apparatus, battery system, and power system

A storage battery device includes a battery unit, a first circuit breaker, a second circuit breaker, and a control unit. The first circuit breaker switches between connecting and disconnecting a first-electrode side of the battery unit and an external device. The second circuit breaker switches between connecting and disconnecting a second-electrode side of the battery unit and the external device. The control unit supplies power to the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker in sequence with the power supplied to the second circuit breaker offset relative to the power supplied to the first circuit breaker by a time period equal to or longer than a time difference required for a sum of currents flowing through the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker to reach an upper bound current that is set as an upper bound of a current.

Storage battery device, storage battery device control method, and computer program product

[Problem] An object of the present invention is to provide the terminal connector and the terminal connection method that are capable of properly keeping the contact area and the contact surface pressure of the electrical contact portion for a long term even if the respective terminals of the motor and the control unit are configured at a simple shape, and to provide the optimum terminal connector and terminal connection method to use for the electric power steering apparatus, the electric actuator and so on. [Means for solving the problem] A terminal connector which connects between a motor-side terminal of a motor and a unit-side terminal of a control unit for the motor, wherein the terminal connector has an electrical contact due to a formation of a junction site between the motor-side terminal and the unit-side terminal by abutting the motor-side terminal and the unit-side terminal and applying a plastic deformation with a machine work to an abutted portion.

Terminal connector and terminal connection method

An electronic dial apparatus includes a rotating operation member, a conductive member rotating with the rotating operation member, a conductive pattern having a plurality of conductive areas electrically insulated from one another, the conductive member being configured to slidably contact the conductive pattern as the rotating operation member rotates, and a mode setter that sets a plurality of modes in accordance with a set position of the rotating operation member. The mode setter sets one of the plurality of modes based on a combination of a plurality of signal levels that depend on a contact position between the conductive member and the conductive pattern. The mode setter sets at least one of the plurality of modes for two combinations of the plurality of signal levels different from all combinations of the plurality of signal levels corresponding to each set position of the rotating operation member.

Electronic dial apparatus and electronic apparatus

[Problem] An object of the present invention is to provide the motor which is possible to obtain the skew effect within the rotor gap surface by arranging the respective magnetic pole pitches at imbalance positions without causing the increasing of the magnet machining cost and the rotor assembly time, and the electric power steering apparatus equipped with the motor and a vehicle. [Means for Solving the Problem] The present invention is a motor that has a skew effect within a rotor gap surface of a mechanical angle one-cycle, wherein a rotor magnetic pole comprises plural magnetic salient pole portions by means of magnetic material, an N-pole and an S-pole magnets are alternately arranged on a rotor surface between the magnetic salient pole portions, and magnetic pole pitches of an electrical angle one-cycle, which comprise the magnetic salient pole portions and the N-pole and the S-pole magnets, are unevenly arranged.

Motor, and electric power steering apparatus and vehicle in which said motor is mounted

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yusuke Kikuchi