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.

Abstract: An electronic control device including a circuit substrate having a signal wiring and a ground wiring; at least one connector having a signal conductor and a ground conductor respectively connected to the signal wiring and the ground wiring of the circuit substrate on one end side and extending on the other end side; a housing including an accommodating portion that accommodates the circuit substrate and the at least one connector, in which a radio wave path through which a leakage electromagnetic wave propagates from one end on the circuit substrate side toward the other end on the side opposite to the circuit substrate side of the at least one connector is formed in an internal space at the periphery of the at least one connector; and a leakage electromagnetic wave attenuating structure provided between the housing and the at least one connector; where the leakage electromagnetic wave attenuating structure includes a plurality of conductors that are arrayed along a direction in which the leakage electromagn

Abstract: An electronic control device is connected via a cable to each of a plurality of sensors which outputs a sensor output for each data acquisition cycle determined in advance in accordance with a clock signal. The electronic control device includes a power supply unit configured to supply power to the sensor via the cable, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a feature amount directly or indirectly indicating a magnitude of radiation noise from at least one sensor among the plurality of sensors, a phase difference decision unit configured to decide a phase difference of a data acquisition cycle for each of the plurality of sensors based on the feature amount, and a control unit configured to transmit the phase difference to each of the plurality of sensors.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to enhance the reliability of an autonomous driving system. The autonomous driving system includes: a higher-level control device 1 that outputs a control target value of an actuator group based on an action plan of a vehicle; and a lower-level control device 2 that controls the actuator group of the vehicle based on a command from the higher-level control device 1. The lower-level control device 2 holds the control target value of the vehicle provided by the higher-level control device 1 over a specific period. When the higher-level control device 1 does not satisfy a desired function, the lower-level control device 2 is configured to be controlled based on the held control target value. The action plan is followed by determining and correcting a difference between an actual action value and the control target value of the vehicle.

Abstract: An electronic control device comprising: a housing having conductivity; a circuit board that is arranged in the housing and has a first electronic component mounted on a mounting surface; an external connection portion that is electrically connected to the circuit board and is connectable to a device outside the housing; and a duplexing member that has conductivity and is arranged between an inner surface of the housing and the mounting surface of the circuit board, in which the duplexing member forms a cutout portion to avoid contact between the duplexing member and the first electronic component, and further forms a partition portion that partitions the external connection portion between the housing and the circuit board.

Abstract: An electronic control device including a sensor fusion processing unit that integrates a plurality of pieces of sensor information having been input from a plurality of sensors. The electronic control device further including a behavior prediction processing unit that obtains a future value in which a future behavior of a target object is predicted based on joint information integrated by the sensor fusion processing unit. The electronic control device further including a comparison unit that compares a future value predicted by the behavior prediction processing unit with output information of each sensor of the sensor fusion processing unit at a predicted time.

Abstract: A signal transmission circuit includes: a circuit board stored in a housing; a connector which is mounted on the circuit board and includes a first signal terminal and a first ground terminal; and an integrated circuit which is mounted on the circuit board and includes a second signal terminal and a second ground terminal. The first signal terminal and the second signal terminal are connected to each other by a signal wiring arranged on the circuit board. The first around terminal and the second ground terminal are connected to each other by a ground wiring arranged in a predetermined range including a portion immediately above or immediately below the signal wiring in the circuit board. At least a part of the ground wiring immediately above or immediately below the signal wiring has a high impedance structure formed to be wider than the signal wiring and narrower than a combined width of the first signal terminal and the first ground terminal.

Abstract: A fluorescence photometer includes a photometer unit and an optical fiber unit. The photometer unit includes a light source, an excitation-side spectroscope for separating light emitted from the light source to generate excitation light, and a fluorescence-side spectroscope for separating fluorescent light emitted from a sample irradiated with the excitation light to generate monochromatic light. The optical fiber unit guides the excitation light to the sample placed outside the photometer unit and guides the fluorescent light emitted from the sample to the photometer unit and includes an image fiber for capturing an image of the sample, an excitation-side fiber arranged around the image fiber and for guiding the excitation light to the sample, and a fluorescence-side fiber arranged around the image fiber and to guide the fluorescent light emitted from the sample to the photometer unit. The excitation-side fiber and the fluorescence-side fiber are arranged to surround the image fiber.

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 electronic control device includes: an electronic component; a base thermally coupled to the electronic component; a first fan and a second fan provided on one surface of the base; a plurality of first heat-dissipating fins provided on the one surface of the base and provided in a first region including a region between the first fan and the second fan; and a plurality of second heat-dissipating fins provided on the one surface of the base and provided in a second region farther from the first and second fans than the first region. The plurality of first heat-dissipating fins have a structure for guiding a refrigerant sent by one of the first fan and the second fan toward a remaining one of the first fan and the second fan in the first region. The plurality of second heat-dissipating fins formed in the second region have a structure for guiding a refrigerant flowing in from the first fan or the second fan to a side away from each of the first fan and the second fan.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes: a housing accommodating a board on which an electronic component is mounted; and a guard pattern formed on an outer peripheral portion of the board. The guard pattern and a ground pattern of a circuit in the circuit board are connected to each other in a vicinity of an intermediate point of fixed positions where an upper portion of the housing and a lower portion of the housing are fixed to each other.

Abstract: An electrical device includes a first housing which has therein a first circuit board on which a first electronic component is mounted, a second housing which has therein a second circuit board on which a second electronic component is mounted, and fans which send air passing between the first housing and the second housing. The first housing has a plurality of fins facing the second housing. The second housing has a plurality of fins facing the first housing. In at least one of cross sections of the first circuit board in a thickness direction, the electrical device has a structure having a region in which the fin of the first housing is longer than the fin of the second housing and a region in which the fin of the first housing is shorter than the fin of the second housing.

Abstract: A signal transmission circuit that is connected to a communication unit by a signal wiring and performs signal transmission to/from the communication unit via the signal wiring includes: a direct-current supply unit that outputs a direct current with a variable output voltage, superimposes the direct current on the signal, and supplies the direct current to the communication unit via the signal wiring; a signal reception unit that receives the signal from the communication unit; and a signal processing unit that performs signal processing based on the signal received by the signal reception unit, wherein the signal reception unit has an equalizer function that adjusts a waveform of the signal to compensate for attenuation due to the signal wiring, and the output voltage is controlled based on an equalizer setting value used for control of the equalizer function.

Abstract: A signal transmission circuit includes a common frequency filter configured to filter a signal centering on a common frequency that is an anti-resonance frequency; a first frequency filter configured to filter a signal centering on a first frequency that is an anti-resonance frequency; a second frequency filter configured to filter a signal centering on a second frequency that is an anti-resonance frequency; a first route connected to a first signal wiring line configured to transmit a digital signal; and a second route connected to a second signal wiring line configured to transmit a digital signal.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes a conductive casing; a circuit board which is provided in the casing, and on which an electronic component including an integrated circuit is mounted; and a conductive conductor component that is provided on the circuit board, is disposed at a position higher than the electronic component, and has an elongated shape, in which a distance between the conductor component and the casing is shorter than a distance between the conductor component and the circuit board.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic control device including a first electronic component having a first heat generation amount, a second electronic component having a second heat generation amount smaller than the first heat generation amount, a substrate on which the first and second electronic components are mounted, and a housing that accommodates the first electronic component, the second electronic component and the substrate, and includes a case for heat radiation having a heat radiation structure through which heat of the first and second electronic components is radiated. The heat radiation structure includes a heat radiation block that is heat-bonded to the first electronic component, and a plurality of plate-shaped heat radiation fins extending outward from an outer peripheral portion of the heat radiation block.

Abstract: A data transfer apparatus includes an acquisition side communication port that receives data including an identifier indicating a classification from an outside, a distribution side communication port that transmits the data to the outside, a storage unit that stores transfer information in which the identifier and a condition related to a time of the data are associated, and a transfer processing unit that decides whether or not to transmit received data which is the data to the distribution side communication port based on the identifier included in the received data and information of the time of the received data, and the transfer information when the received data is received by the acquisition side communication port. The information of the time of the received data is a time at which the received data is received by the acquisition side communication port or a time included in the received data.

Abstract: A prediction control device controls an actuator for automatic driving of a vehicle including: a command value generation unit generating an operation amount for the actuator and an operation amount candidate as a predicted value; an output prediction unit outputting a control amount candidate as a predicted value corresponding to the actuator output by using an operation model; an evaluation function calculation unit expressing constraint conditions for the automatic driving; a situation degree detection obtaining a measure of giving priority to ride comfort or giving priority to danger avoidance of an own vehicle while traveling; and a responsiveness adjusting unit obtaining a next operation amount candidate from the situation degree from the situation degree detection unit. The operation command value generation unit generates an operation amount for the actuator, and the responsiveness adjusting unit adjusts the output of the evaluation function according to the situation degree.

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: A signal transmission circuit that is connected to a communication unit by a signal wiring and performs signal transmission to/from the communication unit via the signal wiring includes: a direct-current supply unit that outputs a direct current with a variable output voltage, superimposes the direct current on the signal, and supplies the direct current to the communication unit via the signal wiring; a signal reception unit that receives the signal from the communication unit; and a signal processing unit that performs signal processing based on the signal received by the signal reception unit, wherein the signal reception unit has an equalizer function that adjusts a waveform of the signal to compensate for attenuation due to the signal wiring, and the output voltage is controlled based on an equalizer setting value used for control of the equalizer function.