Abstract: An all-solid-state battery (ASSB) cell has an anode comprising lithium metal, a solid electrolyte, and a cathode composite layer comprising cathode active material particles. Each cathode active material particle has a core of a first lithium transition metal oxide and a surface layer of a second lithium transition metal oxide, the second lithium transition metal oxide being different from the first lithium transition metal oxide. The second lithium transition metal oxide has a composition of LiNixMnyCozO2, wherein 0.40?x?0.82, 0.0?y?0.50, and 0.0?z?0.60 and x+y+z=1.

Abstract: A processor derives a plurality of unit density values which are each an average value of sensed densities for each of a plurality of unit areas sectioned for each unit length in a test toner image. The processor derives a weighted average of the plurality of unit density values to derive a test image density used for adjusting a control parameter in a printing portion. The unit length is a greatest common factor of two target lengths corresponding to perimeters of two types of target rotating members out of the plurality of rotating members. When a number of the plurality of unit areas is represented by n, n is a value obtained by subtracting 1 from an added value of a first constant and a second constant. The first constant and the second constant are values obtained by respectively dividing the two target lengths by the unit length.

Abstract: Provided is a highly reliable electronic control unit capable of improving responsiveness of an output current of a switching power supply to load current variation and suppressing power supply voltage variation accompanying the load current variation at low cost and with high power efficiency. Provided are: a calculation unit that performs signal processing; a first power supply circuit that supplies a first power supply voltage to the calculation unit; and a second power supply circuit that supplies a second power supply voltage to the first power supply circuit. The calculation unit has a function of outputting a control signal when a change in a consumed current of the calculation unit exceeds a predetermined threshold, and changes any one or both of a control scheme of the first power supply circuit and the second power supply voltage according to the control signal.

Abstract: An example thin substrate built-in hard disk drive includes a magnetic disk in a disk shape having a through-hole at the center, a spindle motor inserted into the through-hole of the magnetic disk and co-rotatably supporting the magnetic disk, and a base plate made of an aluminum alloy and supporting the spindle motor. The base plate has a metallographic structure in which a perimeter of a second phase particle having a longest diameter of 10 ?m or more is 3 mm/mm2 or more, and the number of second phase particles having a longest diameter of 500 ?m or more is 0 particles/mm2.

Abstract: A toner concentration sensing apparatus includes a first acquisition processing portion, a second acquisition processing portion, and a third acquisition processing portion. The first acquisition processing portion acquires a first sensing value corresponding to light reflected by a first region of an image-carrying member where a toner image is not formed. The second acquisition processing portion acquires a second sensing value corresponding to light reflected by a second region of the image-carrying member where a toner image has been formed. The third acquisition processing portion acquires a component ratio of a component in the second sensing value, that corresponds to light reflected by toner adhered onto a surface of the image-carrying member, using a specific calculation formula determined based on a first relational expression based on the first sensing value and a second relational expression not based on the first sensing value, and the second sensing value.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle control device capable of detecting overheating of a CPU or a heat dissipation failure of the cooling mechanism, while suppressing increases in the size, the number of components, and the cost. A vehicle control device according to the present embodiment includes a memory, a CPU, a temperature sensor that is provided internal of the CPU, and a cooling mechanism that cools the CPU. The memory stores therein a standard pattern SP1, a wait time tw, a standard temperature Ts, and a normal temperature difference. The CPU then stores the load of the CPU in the memory, and monitors the load.

Abstract: Provided is a spectrofluorophotometer acquiring both a spectrum and a sample image in measurement of fluorescence of a liquid sample. A spectrofluorophotometer includes a light source, an excitation-side spectroscope that performs spectral dispersion of light of the light source and generates excitation light, a fluorescence-side spectroscope that performs spectral dispersion of fluorescence emitted from a sample irradiated with excitation light into monochromatic light, a sample container installation portion for holding a sample container which receives a liquid sample and is formed of a transparent material, a detector that detects fluorescence emitted from the liquid sample, and an image capturing device that captures a sample image of a sample emitting fluorescence.

Abstract: An electronic control device is mounted on a vehicle equipped with a plurality of hardware capable of operation, and comprises an information collection unit which collects external information of the vehicle, a storage unit which stores a plurality of processing specifications which prescribe processing to be executed by each of the plurality of hardware and the external information to be used by the plurality of hardware for performing operation, and an applied condition, which is a condition related to the external information and a status of the plurality of hardware for applying each of the plurality of processing specifications, and a processing control unit which determines one processing specification among the plurality of processing specifications from a correspondence to the condition based on the collected external information and the status of the plurality of hardware, and controls the plurality of hardware based on the determined processing specification.

Abstract: A signal transmission device includes a communication unit that is connected to an electronic device by a signal wiring and performs communication with the electronic device via the signal wiring, a signal processing unit that performs signal processing related to the communication, a power supply unit that supplies direct current to the electronic device via the signal wiring, and a filter circuit connected between the signal wiring and the power supply unit. The filter circuit includes a plurality of filters having frequency characteristics different from each other, and the signal processing unit acquires communication quality information indicating quality of the communication in at least two or more frequency bands, and determines a state of the filter circuit based on the communication quality information.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes a first processing control unit and a second processing control unit, wherein: the first processing control unit and the second processing control unit alternately start arithmetic processing with information of an external environment as an input; and second arithmetic processing of the second processing control unit is started after first arithmetic processing by the first processing control unit is started and before the first arithmetic processing is ended.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes a processing control unit and an information acquisition unit.

Abstract: An autonomous drive ECU 1 includes: at least two microcomputers 10 and 30 capable of receiving sensing data from a plurality of sensors 61; failure detection units 11 and 31 that detect a failure of the plurality of sensors 61 or the microcomputers 10 and 30; a mode selection unit 33 that selects a normal operation mode and a fallback operation mode; and a sensor selection unit that selects the sensor 61 based on a failure part detected by the failure detection unit 31 or a surrounding situation of an own vehicle calculated from the sensing data. Any of the at least two microcomputers 10 and 30 generates a drive signal for operating an actuator using the sensing data received from the sensor 61 selected by the sensor selection unit in the case of the fallback operation mode.

Abstract: An electronic control unit is mounted on a vehicle, and includes a reception unit that receives a data signal transmitted via a transmission path mounted on the vehicle; an environmental information acquisition unit that acquires environmental information of the vehicle; and a determination unit that determines the state of the transmission path, in which the reception unit includes an equalizer that compensates for the data signal, the equalizer calculates a compensation parameter for compensating for the data signal, and the determination unit determines the state of the transmission path based on the compensation parameter and the environmental information.

Abstract: A communication device includes: a transmitting circuit that repeatedly outputs a first prescribed signal to a transmission path at a prescribed cycle; a receiving circuit that receives a second prescribed signal repeatedly output at the prescribed cycle from another communication device via the transmission path; a waveform equivalence processing unit that performs waveform equivalence processing on the signal received by the receiving circuit; a holding unit that holds parameters of the waveform equivalence processing; a storage unit that stores information on a signal propagation speed in the transmission path, duration of a prescribed cycle, and a transmission rate; and an abnormality position determining unit that calculates a distance to a position of an abnormality in the transmission path using information on the parameter caused by the abnormality of the transmission path among the parameters and the information stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes a receiving unit that receives a data signal from an external device via a transmission line, a determination criterion selection unit that determines a determination criterion based on transition information of a waveform in the data signal, and a condition determination unit that determines a condition of a communication system including the external device, the receiving unit, and the transmission line based on a transmission waveform characteristic in the data signal and the determination criterion.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes a housing including a first region in which heat dissipation fins are formed on one side and an electronic component generating the largest amount of heat is in thermal contact with the other side, and a second region in which an electronic component is in thermal contact with the one side and the other side.

Abstract: A signal transmission device includes a communication unit that is connected to an electronic device by a signal wiring and performs communication with the electronic device via the signal wiring, a signal processing unit that performs signal processing related to the communication, a power supply unit that supplies direct current to the electronic device via the signal wiring, and a filter circuit connected between the signal wiring and the power supply unit. The filter circuit includes a plurality of filters having frequency characteristics different from each other, and the signal processing unit acquires communication quality information indicating quality of the communication in at least two or more frequency bands, and determines a state of the filter circuit based on the communication quality information.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes: a first board on which a bus bridge and an external communication connector are mounted; a second board on which an accelerator SoC is mounted, the second board being electrically connected to the first board; and a B-to-B connector capable of performing signal transmission between the bus bridge and the accelerator SoC.

Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle control system capable of reducing an increase in cost accompanying advancement of a fallback operation. Therefore, the in-vehicle control system includes: a plurality of control circuits 3 and 4 respectively including control units that perform data communication with each other; an external environment recognition sensor a5; and a plurality of wirings 11, 12, 13, and 14 connecting the external environment recognition sensor a5 and the plurality of control circuits 3 and 4. The plurality of control circuits 3 and 4 include: a first power supply unit that supplies power to the external environment recognition sensor a5 via a corresponding wiring among the plurality of wirings 11, 12, 13, and 14; and a first detection unit that detects an abnormality related to the power supplied to the external environment recognition sensor a5.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes an enclosure including a first enclosure having an assembly opening and a second enclosure covering the entire assembly opening, the enclosure having a communication opening communicating with the assembly opening; a circuit board accommodated in the enclosure; an integrated circuit element mounted on the circuit board; and a heat dissipating shield member thermally coupled to the integrated circuit element and grounded, wherein the heat dissipating shield member includes an inner portion accommodated inside the enclosure and thermally coupled to the integrated circuit element and an outer portion extending to an outside of the enclosure via the communication opening.