Abstract: Steroidal compounds or their salts having general formula: A—B—C—NO2 are described, wherein: A=R—, wherein R is a steroidal drug radical; B=—TB—X2—TBI—, wherein TB is (CO), TBI is O, S, NH, and X2 is a bivalent bridging group; and C is a bivalent radical.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a programmable logic device (PLD), and a related control program, capable of improving a product yield by avoiding a defect point according to defect point detected after PLD fabrication. The PLD includes a plurality of logical blocks including programmable logic circuits; storage in which both circuit information specifying path connecting the plurality of logical blocks using information specifying resources included in the path and defect point information specifying fault resource are stored in advance; replacement control section which refers to defect point information, decides whether fault resource is included in the path specified by circuit information, and when fault path is included, obtains replacement path, and rewrites circuit information with data identifying resources included in replacement path; and wiring resource section which reads out circuit information stored in storage, and forms a predetermined logic circuit based on readout circuit information.

Abstract: A control system which is capable of compensating for and suppressing the influence of a periodic disturbance on a controlled object more quickly, even when the controlled object is subjected to the periodic disturbance the amplitude of which periodically changes, thereby enhancing the stability and the accuracy of control. The control system includes an ECU. The ECU calculates disturbance compensation values for compensating for a periodic disturbance by searching maps and tables, in timing of generation of each pulse of a CRK signal. The ECU calculates control inputs at a predetermined control period, with predetermined control algorithms, according to the disturbance compensation values read in at the control period, respectively.

Abstract: A clock frequency divider is provided which has first through Pth (where P is an integer) sub-counters, each capable of counting M+1 clock pulses and provided in parallel, and first through Pth clock signals are provided to the sub-counters, which has same period as a reference clock signal and are sequentially shifted by 1/P of the period of the reference clock signal. Of the first through Pth sub-counters, when the Nth sub-counter (where N is an arbitrary number from 1 to P) finishes counting a prescribed number M of reference clock pulses, all the other sub-counters are initialized, or, at least the (N+1)th sub-counter is initialized.

Abstract: A power unit for a vehicle, such as an automobile, includes an internal combustion engine 1 as a prime mover for the vehicle, a generator 3, and a Stirling engine 4 for driving the generator 3. The Stirling engine 4 uses the exhaust gas discharged by the internal combustion engine 1 as a high-temperature heat source. Power generated by the generator 3 is supplied to an electric motor 2 for driving auxiliary machines 7, 8 and 9, and to a battery 5 for supplying power to the electric motor 2. The engine speed of the Stirling engine 4 is controlled through the control of the load on the generator 3 by a field regulator 15. An optimum engine speed of the Stirling engine 4 is determined such that the brake horsepower of the Stirling engine 4 increases to a maximum or substantially maximum brake horsepower.

Abstract: A charging control unit decides the number of battery cells on the basis of an output voltage of a battery pack, and an output voltage of a charging circuit is determined in accordance with the decided number of battery cells. Even though supply of an external power supply is detected, when a battery connection is not detected, the power supply circuit of the charging control unit is set in a stop state. In addition, when disconnection of the battery is detected, a canceling voltage for canceling a cutoff state caused by overdischarging of the battery is output. In a power supply device for a portable terminal, a capacitor electrically charged by an output voltage of main DC/DC converter is connected as an auxiliary power supply of a backup DC/DC converter to make exchange of the auxiliary battery unnecessary.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device is provided for minutely changing a refresh interval according to a detected temperature and thereby lowering its power consumption. A temperature detector detects a temperature of a chip and outputs the corresponding temperature signal. A reference temperature signal output unit outputs the corresponding reference temperature signal with each of different reference temperatures to be compared with the chip temperature according to a selection signal. A temperature comparison unit compares the chip temperature with the reference temperature through the temperature signal and the reference temperature signal. A selection signal output unit outputs the selection signal according to the compared result of the temperature comparison unit. A refresh interval control unit changes the refresh interval according to the compared result of the temperature comparison unit.

Abstract: A diode detecting circuit which cancels temperature dependence of a detecting diode so as to obtain highly sensitive detection. The diode detecting circuit has a first diode detecting unit in which a first diode detects an input signal biased by a bias voltage, a second diode detecting unit in which a second diode receives the bias voltage, and an output unit which compares an output from the first diode detecting unit with an output from the second diode detecting unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a small and thin electronic apparatus such as a tablet PC, which has a screen and an information processing function including an image display processing function for the screen. In the apparatus, a front cover is fixed to a LCD unit by screw-on fastening members, and a rear cover is fixed to the LCD unit by inserting screws through the screw-on fastening members into screw holes provided at positions where the screw holes overlap the LCD unit.

Abstract: A sampling switch is the one for sampling an input voltage and providing an output voltage, comprising a MOS transistor for being supplied by the input voltage to the source terminal thereof and providing the output voltage from the drain terminal thereof; and a gate voltage control unit for supplying a voltage to the gate terminal of the MOS transistor with a delayed time from the input voltage. This enables a change in the on-resistance of a MOS transistor used for a sampling switch to be suppressed to a minimum, thereby reducing a distortion of signals induced by a change in the on-resistance.

Abstract: A charge transfer device whose output end is electrically connected to a charge detector circuit is driven by negative pulse voltage trains to reduce power consumption of the charge detector circuit.

Abstract: A packaged semiconductor device has an integrated chip and a non-integrated chip. The integrated chip has an integrated circuit and first bump pads formed with a narrow pitch. The non-integrated chip has second bump pads formed so as to face the first bump pads, lead pads formed with a wide pitch (so as to permit connection thereto of wires), and wiring conductors electrically connecting these pads together. The two chips are connected together by way of bumps and are then sealed in resin. With this structure, it is possible to realize a low-cost packaged semiconductor device that can easily be mounted on a mother board.

Abstract: A memory device has a data line (DATA-BUS) for connection to a memory cell, a reference line (Reference-BUS) for reference, a precharge circuit (101), a load circuit (102), and an amplifier circuit (103). The precharge circuit is connected to the data line and the reference line and configured to precharge the data line and the reference line. The load circuit is connected to the data line and the reference line and configured to apply a first constant current to the data line and apply a second constant current which is smaller than the first constant current to the reference line. The amplification circuit is connected to the data line and the reference line and configured to amplify a differential voltage between the data line and the reference line.

Abstract: A control apparatus is provided for ensuring a high-level control resolution and a high control accuracy even when a plant exhibits strong and varying non-linear characteristics with a varying sensitivity of a control amount to a control input. The control apparatus for controlling a cam phase through a cam phase varying mechanism comprises an ECU. The ECU calculates an SLD control input for controlling a cam phase to converge to a target cam phase in accordance with a predetermined control algorithm, and calculate a control input to the cam phase varying mechanism by modulating the SLD control input in accordance with a predetermined modulation algorithm. The ECU also sets an amplitude setting value in accordance with the cam phase, an engine rotational speed, an oil pressure, and an oil temperature.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system for supporting a tariff code selection. The system comprises a database for storing commodity codes for the commodities in association with tariff codes used in an importing country, said database being searched using the commodity code as a key. Tariff code selection tables are included in the database for storing tariff items hierarchically classified in accordance with the attributes thereof. The system is programmed to search a record of a commodity code similar to the commodity code of the search key when said search key resulted in no hits The tariff code selection table including the record of the similar commodity code is displayed on a display device.

Abstract: The present invention aims at preventing abrasion of relatively sliding members under a high pressure or/and high temperature condition. It also aims at preventing seizure of the sliding contact surfaces at high temperatures. The sliding member of the present invention serves as one of a pair of relatively sliding members essentially consisting of stainless steel as base material containing 5% to 10% by weight of cobalt, 1 to 5% by weight of molybdenum disulfide and 2% to 5% by weight of calcium fluoride.

Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a first signal-inversion switching circuit which receives a signal supplied from an exterior thereof as a first input signal, followed by outputting the first input signal after logic inversion thereof in response to a first state of a switching signal and outputting the first input signal without logic inversion in response to a second state of the switching signal, a signal processing circuit which performs signal processing based on the output of the first signal-inversion switching circuit, and a second signal-inversion switching circuit which receives the output of the first signal-inversion switching circuit passing through the signal processing circuit as a second input signal, followed by outputting the second input signal after logic inversion thereof in response to the second state of the switching signal and outputting the second input signal without logic inversion in response to the first state of the switching signal.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device, in which a burst operation is performed using a memory core, has a read/write trigger signal generating circuit and a read/write signal generating circuit. The read/write trigger signal generating circuit generates a read/write signal request from a predetermined timing signal during the burst operation. The read/write signal generating circuit receives an output signal from the read/write trigger signal generating circuit and outputs a read/write signal after a core operation just prior to receipt of the output signal is complete and the subsequent activation of a row side is complete.

Abstract: A copolymer expressed by the following structural formula was obtained by loading adamantyl methacrylate monomer and t-butyl acrylate monomer by 1:1, then conducting polymerization, adding AIBN as a polymerization initiator, and then conducting precipitation purification with methanol. Then to the copolymer, triphenylsulfonium hexafluoroantimonate was added to prepare a cyclohexanone solution. This solution was applied to a wafer, and exposed to a KrF excimer stepper and developed. The threshold energy Eth was 50 mJ/cm2. A 0.45 ?m-wide L & S was formed at 130 mJ/cm2. The radiation sensitive material has good transparency and etching resistance, high sensitivity, and little peeling.

Abstract: A shared bus system includes a bus, a first circuit which accesses the bus, a second circuit which shares the bus with the first circuit, and accesses the bus, a counter circuit which is provided in the second circuit, and performs a counting operation each time the second circuit accesses the bus, and an arbiter circuit which arbitrates requests for a right to use the bus between the first circuit and the second circuit, wherein the second circuit releases the right to use the bus in response to detection of a predetermined number of counting operations performed by the counter circuit after acquiring the right to use the bus from the arbiter circuit.