Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080259990 | TEMPERATURE SENSOR CIRCUIT AND CALIBRATION METHOD THEREOF - A temperature sensor circuit comprises a first monitor voltage generation circuit that generates a first monitor voltage with a characteristic that changes with respect to temperature; a second monitor voltage generation circuit that generates a second monitor voltage with a characteristic that changes by a variation amount different from the first monitor voltage with respect to the temperature; and a differential amplifier circuit, to which the first and second monitor voltages are inputted and that outputs the result of comparing the two voltages. Further, the differential amplifier circuit of the temperature sensor circuit is capable of switching to a first connection state, which outputs the comparison result, and to a second connection state, which outputs an offset monitor voltage that is rendered by adding the offset voltage of the differential amplifier circuit to the first or second monitor voltage or subtracting the offset voltage therefrom. | 10-23-2008 |
20090039950 | INTERNAL POWER-SUPPLY CIRCUIT - An internal power-supply circuit generates an internal voltage based on a reference voltage, and has an external-power-supply terminal to which an external power-supply voltage having a first potential is applied during a normal operation and an external power-supply voltage having a second potential that is higher than the first potential is applied during a burn-in acceleration test, a reference-voltage generating unit for generating the reference voltage from the external power-supply voltage, and an internal-voltage generating unit for generating the internal voltage based on the reference voltage. The reference-voltage generating unit generates, during the normal operation, a normal reference voltage that is independent of the potential of the external power-supply voltage and generates, during the burn-in acceleration test, a first burn-in reference voltage that is dependent on the potential of the external power-supply voltage and a second burn-in reference voltage that has the same potential as the normal reference voltage. | 02-12-2009 |
20090086555 | VOLTAGE SUPPLY CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY - Each of first and second differential amplifiers has a function of increasing a bias current in response to the activation of a drivability control signal. A first driving circuit connects an output node to a high power supply line in response to the activation of an output signal of the first differential amplifier, and connects the output node to a low power supply line in response to the activation of an output signal of the second differential amplifier. Only during the activation period of the drivability control signal, a second driving circuit connects the output node to the high power supply line in response to the activation of the output signal of the first differential amplifier, and connects the output node to the low power supply line in response to the activation of the output signal of the second differential amplifier. | 04-02-2009 |
20090230770 | Internal Power Supply Circuit Having a Cascode Current Mirror Circuit - A current mirror circuit which is connected to first and second power supplies and generates a desired current, has a plurality of first transistors which are connected in parallel to the first power supply side and the gates of which are connected to a common node, a plurality of second transistors which are cascode-connected to the plurality of first transistors and the gates of which are supplied with a cascode bias potential and a cascode bias generation circuit which generates the cascode bias potential, wherein the cascode bias generation circuit maintains the cascode bias potential during normal operation at a first potential between the potentials of the first and second power supplies, and maintains the cascode bias potential during power-on at a second potential closer to the potential of the second power supply than the first potential. | 09-17-2009 |
20090259452 | SIMULATION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A simulation system includes electromagnetic field analyzing units that execute electromagnetic field analysis with respect to electromagnetic field analysis areas obtained by division of an area to be analyzed into the electromagnetic field analysis areas; one or more circuit analyzing units that execute circuit analysis with respect to a circuit unit in the area to be analyzed; and an aggregating unit that aggregates, from the electromagnetic field analyzing units, data for the circuit analysis by the one or more circuit analyzing units and transmits the data to the circuit analyzing units. The simulation system links plural processing units that mutually exchange data. | 10-15-2009 |
20100088566 | ANALYZING APPARATUS AND DATA STORAGE METHOD - An analyzing apparatus includes a result-data storing unit that determines whether result data that is calculated as a result of analysis is restorable by linear interpolation. If the result data is determined to be unrestorable by the linear interpolation, the result-data storing unit stores the result data in a predetermined storage unit. Moreover, the analyzing apparatus includes a data restoring unit that reads the result data from the storage unit. The data restoring unit performs the linear interpolation using the result data acquired, thereby restoring the result data. | 04-08-2010 |
20110050686 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - A three-dimensional data display apparatus is provided with a screen display processing section that generates a display screen with a structure arranged in a virtual space of a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system based on structure information stored in a data storage section and displays the display screen on a monitor, a grid setting-updating section that sets a grid in the virtual space, an operation information acquiring section that acquires operation information from a mouse, an input point position calculation section that calculates coordinates of an input point in the virtual space, calculates a moving destination of the input point based on the operation information, selects coordinates nearest to the moving destination of the input point from any one of the coordinates of each grid lattice based on the grid in the virtual space, the coordinates of a boundary of the structure and the coordinates of the point of intersection between the boundary of the structure and the grid and updates the coordinates of the input point and an input point display processing section that displays the input point at the updated coordinates. | 03-03-2011 |
20110082681 | COUPLED ANALYSIS SIMULATION APPARATUS AND COUPLED ANALYSIS SIMULATION METHOD - A coupled analysis simulation apparatus includes a coupled analysis processing unit configured to perform coupled analysis by performing electromagnetic field analysis and circuit analysis in coordination with each other, the electromagnetic field analysis being performed on a space including conductive layers to which an electronic circuit module is connected, the circuit analysis being performed on the electronic circuit module; a first generating unit configured to generate a virtual conductive part in a section or a region including connection parts connecting the electronic circuit module with the conductive layers; and a second generating unit configured to generate virtual connection parts that virtually connect the virtual conductive part with the conductive layers at positions where the connection parts are connected to the conductive layers. | 04-07-2011 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100007946 | SUBSTAGE, STAGE AND MICROSCOPE EQUIPPED THEREWITH - Provided is a substage for a microscope. The substage is provided with a plurality of fixing members for selectively fixing a plurality of stages, on which a sample is placed, each of which is equipped with a fixing member. | 01-14-2010 |
20100272321 | MEASURING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a measuring apparatus, method and program with which a distance between two points that are not within one photographing range can be easily measured. In an image in which a start point is set, a specified position address calculation circuit | 10-28-2010 |
20100302628 | MICROSCOPE - The present invention relates to a microscope of which visibility, controllability and operability can be improved. In the microscope, an optical path and optical path of an image forming system are set so as to be perpendicular to each other when viewed from the top. In other words, in this microscope, there exists an ocular optical system that guides light, which propagates the optical path to optical path of the image forming system, to a user. The optical path is formed in a direction perpendicular to a direction of the light from a sample emitted from the ocular optical system to the user. The present invention can be applied to an inverted microscope. | 12-02-2010 |
20120182608 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - A microscope system which can improve the ease of use and the observation environment when a sample is observed using a microscope formed of a stand and a main body which is removable from the stand. A microscope is formed of a main body and a stand, and the main body is removable from the stand. The main body includes an objective lens, an image optical system, a CCD, a compact monitor and a battery, so that the main body, when removed from the stand, can function independently as a microscope. If the main body is mechanically connected to the stand, the main body and the stand are electrically connected via connectors, and an observation image captured by the CCD is supplied from the main body to the stand via the connectors, and is displayed on a monitor. | 07-19-2012 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090036266 | Driving assist method for a vehicle including an automatic transmission, driving assist control program, and driving assist apparatus for a vehicle including an automatic transmission - A driving assist method and driving assist apparatus enable appropriate deceleration in a downshift. If a downshift operation increases the torque output of the engine, and if it is determined that vehicle speed would otherwise be accelerated before the completion of the downshift, an electronic transmission control unit calculates a deceleration for offsetting the acceleration. On the basis of the calculated deceleration, the electronic transmission control unit controls a braking device via an electronic brake control unit to apply a braking force to the vehicle to thereby suppress the acceleration of the vehicle which would otherwise be produced by the increase in engine torque produced by the downshift. | 02-05-2009 |
20090192683 | Vehicle control device, vehicle control method and computer program - An anti-collision control is provided under circumstances where it is determined that there is a risk of collision between a host vehicle and a preceding vehicle. The anti-collision control utilizes host vehicle information, preceding vehicle information, and surrounding road conditions to determine whether or not a collision with the preceding vehicle can be avoided through a steering operation. If avoidance is determined to be possible, then a shift-hold control is applied to the AT, whereas if avoidance is determined to be impossible, then a down-shift control is applied to the AT. | 07-30-2009 |
20090319138 | DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE, DRIVING SUPPORT METHOD AND DRIVING SUPPORT PROGRAM - A first acceleration gear ratio is acquired for accelerating a host vehicle in a first acceleration zone following a first zone ahead of the host vehicle, and a second acceleration gear ratio is acquired for accelerating the host vehicle in a second acceleration zone following a second zone ahead of the first zone. A control is executed to set the gear ratio of the host vehicle to the first acceleration gear ratio in a first deceleration zone in order to decelerate the host vehicle before entering the first zone. A control is executed to set the gear ratio of the host vehicle to the second acceleration gear ratio when the host vehicle must decelerate with respect to the second zone while traveling in the first acceleration gear ratio. | 12-24-2009 |
20090319139 | DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE, DRIVING SUPPORT METHOD AND DRIVING SUPPORT PROGRAM - Information pertaining to a first zone set ahead of a host vehicle and a second zone farther ahead than the first zone is acquired. Based on the information, if a distance between an end point of the first zone and a start point of the second zone is shorter than a distance within which the host vehicle can be slowed at a predetermined deceleration to a second target vehicle speed for traveling the second zone at the start point of the second zone, a second acceleration gear ratio is acquired for accelerating the host vehicle in a second acceleration zone following the second zone. The gear ratio of the host vehicle is set to the second acceleration gear ratio in a first deceleration zone for slowing the host vehicle before reaching the first zone. | 12-24-2009 |
20100242671 | TRANSMISSION AND METHOD OF SHIFT CONTROL FOR TRANSMISSION - A transmission includes a controller that has a rapid-deceleration judge and a rapid-deceleration processor. The rapid-deceleration judge judges whether a vehicle is decelerating rapidly or not. The rapid-deceleration processor includes a torque-fluctuation inhibitor, and an after-rapid-deceleration change-speed stage anticipator. The torque-fluctuation inhibitor shuts off power transmission from a power source, or holds power transmission by way of a current change-speed stage or lower, when the vehicle is decelerating rapidly. The after-rapid-deceleration change-speed stage anticipator anticipates a subsequent change-speed stage being adapted for restarting or reaccelerating the vehicle that has come out of rapid deceleration. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250078 | TRANSMISSION AND METHOD OF SHIFT CONTROL FOR TRANSMISSION - A transmission includes a controller being provided with a change-speed stage anticipator. The controller adopts a time, which one of the transmission's gear-mechanism selectors requires in shifting a current change-speed stage to another change-speed stage, as a pre-shift time for selecting the latter change-speed stage. The change-speed stage anticipator operates the one of the gear-mechanism selectors while adopting a temporary change-speed stage as a subsequent change-speed stage when the temporary change-speed stage, which is estimated from a state of vehicle after the pre-shift time, the state of vehicle being relevant to each element of an anticipated change-speed stage group that is made up of one or more of the change-speed stages that can be selected by the one of the gear-mechanism selectors being set on one of the transmission's input shafts that is disconnected from a power source, coincides with an anticipated change-speed stage that corresponds to the pre-shift time. | 09-30-2010 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090187322 | Motion Control Device for Vehicle - A motion control device for a vehicle includes a vehicle speed obtaining means for obtaining a speed of the vehicle, a curve shape obtaining means for obtaining a shape of a curve existing ahead of the vehicle on a road on which the vehicle is traveling, a position obtaining means for obtaining a relative position of the vehicle to the curve, a determining means for determining an appropriate vehicle speed for the vehicle to travel through the curve based on the shape of the curve obtained by the curve shape obtaining means, and a speed reduction controlling means for performing a speed reduction control on the vehicle based on the appropriate vehicle speed determined by the determining means. | 07-23-2009 |
20090198426 | MOTION CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A motion control device for a vehicle includes a vehicle speed obtaining device, a curvature obtaining device for obtaining a bending grade of a curve existing ahead of the vehicle, a position obtaining device for obtaining a relative position between the vehicle and the curve, a determination device for determining an appropriate vehicle speed for the vehicle passing through the curve based on the bending grade, a speed reduction control device for executing a speed reduction control for reducing the vehicle speed based on the vehicle speed and the relative position so that the vehicle passes through the curve at the appropriate vehicle speed, and a gradient obtaining device for obtain a gradient of the road on the curve existing in a traveling direction of the vehicle, wherein the determination device determines the appropriate vehicle speed based on the gradient of the road in addition to the bending grade. | 08-06-2009 |
20100250080 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED MANUAL TRANSMISSION - A control apparatus for an automated manual transmission having a plurality of power transmitting units respectively including clutches for connecting and disconnecting a power transmission path between a power source and the automated manual transmission and transmission mechanisms connected to the corresponding clutches so as to transmit a power of the power source, includes a clutch temperature calculating means for calculating a temperature of each of the clutches, and a vehicle moving start controlling means for controlling a moving start of the vehicle so that when the temperature of one of the clutches, calculated by means of the clutch temperature calculating means, is equal to or higher than a predetermined usage restriction threshold value, the other one of the clutches is used so as to transmit the power of the power source to the other one of the power transmission units, having the other one of the clutches. | 09-30-2010 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100142306 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - A semiconductor memory includes: a voltage supply circuit which supplies a first voltage to a word line when an internal circuit is in a standby state, and supplies a second voltage higher than the first voltage to the word line when the internal circuit is in an active state; and a control circuit changes a drive capacity of the voltage supply circuit when changing from the standby state to the active state and the second voltage is supplied to the word line. | 06-10-2010 |
20100164565 | SEMICONDUCTOR START CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM - A semiconductor device provided which includes: an external power supply detection circuit which detects that an external power supply is turned on and outputs a first detection signal; an internal power supply voltage generation circuit which generates an internal power supply voltage based on the external power supply; a reference voltage generation circuit which generates a first reference voltage in response to the first detection signal; a reference voltage detection circuit which detects that the first reference voltage reaches a given level and outputs a second detection signal; a bias voltage generation circuit which, in response to the second detection signal, generates a bias voltage based on a second reference voltage dependent on the first reference voltage; and a power supply voltage detection circuit which, in response to the second detection signal, compares the bias voltage with a third reference voltage and outputs a start signal. | 07-01-2010 |
20120327509 | MICROSCOPE - The present invention relates to a microscope of which visibility, controllability and operability can be improved. | 12-27-2012 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120206544 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCER LAYER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCER ELEMENT, ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCER LAYER FORMED BY THE METHOD, ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCER ELEMENT, INKJET HEAD AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an electromechanical transducer layer on a surface of a substrate, including discharging a solution including a source material to form the electromechanical transducer layer from a nozzle of a nozzle plate to coat the solution on the surface of the substrate while applying voltage between the nozzle plate and the substrate to charge the nozzle plate at a first polarity and the substrate at a second polarity opposite to the first polarity such that a split droplet split from a main droplet which is coated on the surface of the substrate becomes charged at the second polarity and is attracted and collected by the nozzle plate; and applying a heat treatment to the substrate on which the solution is coated to crystallize the solution to form the electromechanical transducer layer. | 08-16-2012 |
20130169713 | METHOD OF MAKING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS HAVING LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - A method of making a liquid discharge head which includes a nozzle to discharge liquid, a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle, a pressure chamber substrate to form surfaces of the pressure chamber, and a piezoelectric actuator to apply pressure to liquid in the pressure chamber having a lower electrode, a ferroelectric film, and an upper electrode, includes a silicon wafer supplying process, a position adjustment process, a surface treatment process to reform a surface of the lower electrode, a liquid applying process to apply ferroelectric precursor on the lower electrode by an inkjet method, a heating process to heat the ferroelectric precursor film, and a cooling process. A series of processes from the position adjustment process to the cooling process is iterated to form a ferroelectric film having a predetermined thickness. The series of processes is performed with certain waiting times inserted between key processes. | 07-04-2013 |
20130194350 | THIN FILM FORMING APPARATUS, THIN FILM FORMING METHOD, ELECTRO-MECHANICAL TRANSDUCER ELEMENT, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A thin film forming apparatus which automatically forms, on an electrode layer formed on a substrate, a functional thin film which is crystallized from a precursor layer is disclosed, including a water-repellant film forming unit which forms, on a region other than a region on which is to be formed the functional thin film on the electrode layer, a water-repellant film which includes a self-assembled monolayer; an inkjet coating unit which coats, on the region on which is to be formed the functional thin film on the electrode layer, the precursor layer by an inkjet method; and a controller which controls, to within a predetermined time, a time from forming the water-repellant film with the water-repellant film forming unit to coating the precursor layer with the inkjet coating unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20140049582 | ELECTRO-MECHANICAL TRANSDUCER ELEMENT, LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING HEAD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND ELECTRO-MECHANICAL TRANSDUCER ELEMENT MANUFACTURING METHOD - An electro-mechanical transducer element is disclosed. The electro-mechanical transducer element includes a first electrode formed on a substrate; an electro-mechanical transducer film formed on at least a part of the first electrode; and a second electrode formed on at least a part of the electro-mechanical transducer film. In at least one cross section of the electro-mechanical transducer film, a film thickness distribution shape is convex to the second electrode side. | 02-20-2014 |
20140340854 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a substrate; and a plurality of thin-film elements formed on the substrate. Further, the thin-film element includes a thin-film section having a function selected from a group including piezoelectric effect, inverse piezoelectric effect, charge storage, semiconductivity, and conductivity, and the plurality of thin-film elements includes the thin-film sections having two or more different functions. | 11-20-2014 |
20140375728 | ACTUATOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE ACTUATOR, AND LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE ACTUATOR - An actuator includes a base member and an electro-mechanical transducer element including a first electrode, an electro-mechanical transducer film, and a second electrode. Further, the base member includes a thin wall part having a concave shape, the electro-mechanical transducer film is formed in a manner such that a film thickness of the electro-mechanical transducer film is gradually reduced from a center part of the electro-mechanical transducer film to both end parts of the electro-mechanical transducer film in at least one direction crossing a film thickness direction of the electro-mechanical transducer film. | 12-25-2014 |