Abstract: An in-vehicle device is an in-vehicle device including a control unit configured to obtain an update program transmitted from an external server outside a vehicle and to perform processing for updating a program of an in-vehicle ECU mounted in the vehicle, wherein the control unit obtains an update program to be applied to the in-vehicle device from the external server, selects, as a substitute ECU, one in-vehicle ECU whose program is not an update target among a plurality of in-vehicle ECUs mounted in the vehicle, and performs activation processing for applying the obtained update program to the in-vehicle device in response to an activation instruction from the selected substitute ECU.

Abstract: A connector is provided with a housing including terminal accommodation chambers arranged in two rows, two shorting members to be mounted into a plurality of the terminal accommodation chambers arranged in one row and a plurality of the terminal accommodation chambers arranged in the other row and constituting a differential pair, a plurality of terminal fittings to be individually fixed to a main line constituting a differential pair and a branch line constituting a differential pair and connected to the shorting members by being inserted into the terminal accommodation chambers, and a plurality of locking lances formed in the housing and configured to retain the terminal fittings inserted into the terminal accommodation chambers. The locking lances are disposed only in regions different from a region between the plurality of terminal accommodation chambers arranged in the one row and the plurality of terminal accommodation chambers arranged in the other row.

Abstract: A power feed control device includes a voltage conversion unit performs a conversion operation of increasing or decreasing an input voltage based on power from a power storage unit. An element unit is configured to allow a current to flow to a power path side via itself, and to be able to block a current from flowing to the power storage unit side via itself. A second conductive path is electrically connected to a conductive path disposed between a switch unit and the voltage conversion unit or between the switch unit and the power path. The switch unit blocks a current from flowing from the power path to a third conductive path when the switch unit is in an OFF state, and allows energization via the switch unit between the third conductive path and the power path when the switch unit is in an ON state.

Abstract: A wiring member includes a sheet, a holding member fixed to the sheet, and a first wire-like transmission member held by the holding member. The holding member includes a holding part in which a groove and a protrusion narrowing a width dimension of an opening part of the groove are formed. The first wire-like transmission member is housed in the groove.

Abstract: A wiring member includes a sheet-shaped member and multiple linear transmission members that are fixed on the sheet-shaped member. The multiple linear transmission members are fixed on the sheet-shaped member such that a portion of the multiple linear transmission members intersects with respect to another said linear transmission member. An intersection location of the multiple linear transmission members is located away from a folding position.

Abstract: In a relay device, a control unit detects simultaneous transmission of a plurality of data through a first communication bus. When the number of times of detection of the simultaneous transmission within a predetermined time by the control unit is less than the predetermined number of times, a CAN communication unit starts transmission of data through the first communication bus. When the number of times of detection of the simultaneous transmission within the predetermined time by the control unit is equal to or greater than the predetermined number of times, an Ethernet communication unit transmits data through a first communication line.

Abstract: A thermally conductive material contains a base resin and a filler, the filler contains a thermally conductive filler and a hollow filler composed of particles including a gas layer, a content of the filler is 20.0% by volume or more and 90.0% by volume or less based on a total material amount, and a content of the hollow filler is 25.0% by volume or more and 70.0% by volume or less based on a total amount of the filler. A wiring harness is provided with an insulated wire composed of an insulation coating and a conductor, an exterior material, the insulated wire being inserted in the exterior material, and a heat dissipation material to be arranged between the insulated wire and the exterior material, and the heat dissipation material is made of the thermally conductive material.

Abstract: An on-vehicle device is provided with a fuse. A plurality of terminals each have a long-plate shape and are aligned with each other. A fusible portion is connected to two of the plurality of terminals. A housing covers a part of the plurality of terminals and the fusible portion and has heat resistance equal to or higher than 300 degrees. Current flows through the fusible portion. The fusible portion is blown out in the case where the temperature of the fusible portion exceeds a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A communication device provided outside a control target to be controlled by a control subject, includes: a communication unit configured to perform, through a network, at least one of transmission and reception of communication information to be used for control of the control target, with a communication target device provided in the control target; an acquisition unit configured to acquire measurement information based on a measurement result related to the control subject; and a communication control unit configured to perform a transmission control being a control related to transmission of the communication information by the communication unit, based on the measurement information acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: In a control device for a vehicle, a first terminal is disposed downstream of a microcomputer in a current path through which a current flows through the microcomputer. The anode of a connection diode is connected to a connection node between the microcomputer and the first terminal. One end of a connection switch is connected to the cathode of the connection diode. A second terminal is connected to the other end of the connection switch. A switching circuit turns ON the connection switch from OFF when a voltage at the first terminal with respect to the potential of the second terminal increases to a threshold voltage or higher.

Abstract: A pressure detection system for electric wire that can continuously monitor application of pressure to an electric wire. A pressure detection system for an electric wire includes: a sensor unit including a tape-shaped substrate made of an elastic dielectric material, and conductive coating layers provided on both surfaces of the substrate; a detection unit configured to measure characteristic impedance between the two coating layers constituting the sensor unit; and a recording unit configured to record a history of a change in the characteristic impedance measured by the detection unit, wherein the sensor unit is disposed on an outer periphery of an electric wire in such a manner that one of the coating layers extends along a surface of the electric wire.

Abstract: A management apparatus to be mounted on a vehicle that includes: a first communication unit; a second communication unit; a third communication unit; and a control unit configured to cause the first communication unit to transmit the update data received by the second communication unit or the third communication unit to the target ECU. The control unit performs switching from a first path through which the update data received by one of the second communication unit and the third communication unit is transmitted from the first communication unit to a second path through which the update data received by the other of the second communication unit and the third communication unit is transmitted from the first communication unit.

Abstract: A power supply control apparatus controls the supplying of power through a wire. A fuse and a semiconductor switch are disposed on a current path of a wire current that flows through the wire. The fuse and the semiconductor switch are attached to a circuit board. A plurality of terminals of the fuse are connected by solder to the circuit board. A fusing portion is connected between two terminals out of the plurality of terminals. The two terminals are disposed on the current path of the wire current. The fusing portion blows according to the temperature of the fusing portion. A microcomputer issues an instruction to switch off the semiconductor switch according to the wire temperature of the wire.

Abstract: An electric wire inspection system and method that can sensitively detect damage on an electric wire, and an electric wire capable of being inspected using the same. The electric wire inspection system includes: an inspection unit which performs electric wire inspection wherein a characteristic impedance between two conductive members of the electric wire is obtained as a response signal by time domain or frequency domain reflectometry; a storage unit which stores the response signal obtained at a first time point; and an analysis unit which retrieves the response signal obtained at the first time point from the storage unit, compares it with the response signal obtained at a second time point later than the first time point, and, if a difference exists between the two response signals, correlates a region in which the difference exists in the response signals with a position along an axial direction of the electric wire.

Abstract: A wiring member includes a twisted wire in which a first wire-like transmission member and a second wire-like transmission member are stranded and a base member to which the twisted wire is fused and fixed. Each of the first wire-like transmission member and the second wire-like transmission member is fused to the base member in each of the side-by-side parts in which the first wire-like transmission member and the second wire-like transmission member are arranged side by side on the base member in the twisted wire to form a side-by-side fusion part. A length of a first half cycle section including the side-by-side fusion part is larger than a length of a second half cycle section located adjacent to the first half cycle section.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, it is possible to accommodate changes in communication devices without replacing a circuit substrate. A communication connector apparatus includes: a circuit substrate having a substrate-side connector mounted thereon; and a relay connector including a connection port to which a device-side connector of a communication conductive path is to be connected, and being attachable to and removable from the substrate-side connector. In the case of changing the number and the transmission speed of communication devices, the relay connector may be replaced with a relay connector corresponding to the number and the transmission speed of the connection ports, and there is no need to replace the circuit substrate. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to accommodate changes in the communication devices without replacing the circuit substrate.

Abstract: In a power supply system a power transmission unit capable of transmitting power supplied from a power supply; a transmission-side communication unit capable of communication; and a transmission-side control unit configured to control power transmission of the power transmission unit based on information communicated by the transmission-side communication unit, and a slidable object includes: a power receiving unit configured to contactlessly receive power from the power transmission coil; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to transmit power from the power transmission coil to the power receiving unit; a receiving-side communication unit configured to transmit, to the transmission-side communication unit, information indicating a determination made by the determination unit as to whether or not to transmit power; and a power storage unit configured to supply power to the determination unit and does not supply power to the load L.

Abstract: Provided is a power conversion circuit capable of suppressing noise with fewer components, and a method for producing a power converter. A power conversion circuit (50) includes: a transformer (64) having first and second terminals (100, 102) on a primary side, and third and fourth terminals (104, 106) on a secondary side; a first circuit (60) connected to the first and second terminals; a second circuit (62) connected to the third and fourth terminals; and first and second inductors (66, 68) respectively connected in series to two terminals (100, 106) constituting a combination, the combination being either one of a combination of the first terminal (100) and the third terminal (104) and a combination of the first terminal (100) and the fourth terminal (106), a minimum impedance between the two terminals constituting the combination being higher than that of the other combination.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted semiconductor switch device includes a semiconductor switch that is controlled by an ON signal and an OFF signal output from an vehicle-mounted drive circuit and that is switched between an ON state and an OFF state between a first conductive path and a second conductive path. The vehicle-mounted semiconductor switch device further includes a voltage detection unit. The semiconductor switch includes a first lead portion electrically connected to the first electrode, and a conductor portion electrically connected to the first electrode. One of the conductor portion and the first lead portion is bonded to the first conductive path, and the other is bonded to a first voltage detection path. A voltage detection unit detects a voltage applied to the first voltage detection path.

Abstract: A drain and a source of an N-channel type FET included in a power feeding control apparatus are provided on an electric current path along which an electric current flows from a DC power supply to a load, the drain being a part of the FET into which the electric current is input and the source being a part of the FET from which the electric current is output. A driving circuit switches the FET off when a first determination circuit determines that a control voltage between a gate and the source of the FET is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, and a second determination circuit determines that a drain-source voltage between the drain and the source of the FET is greater than or equal to a second threshold value.