Abstract: An in-vehicle device is installed in a vehicle, and includes: a communication unit configured to receive reception target data from a roadside device that is a device located outside the vehicle; and a learning unit configured to learn a reception condition for the reception target data by evaluating an extent to which the reception target data received by the communication unit has been used by a function control device installed in the vehicle. The learning unit specifies the reception condition, during a learning period in which the communication unit repeatedly receives the reception target data. The communication unit receives the reception target data according to whether or not the reception condition is satisfied, after the reception condition has been specified by the learning unit.

Abstract: Provided is a detection device that detects an abnormality in a network in which a plurality of messages including a periodic message are transmitted and received. The detection device includes: a calculation unit configured to calculate a detection index that increases and decreases according to a relationship between an observation result of the plurality of messages and reference information related to the observation result; a detection unit configured to perform a detection process of detecting an abnormality in the network, based on the detection index calculated by the calculation unit; and a reset unit configured to monitor the detection index, and reset the detection index to be used in the detection process, upon detecting an extremum of the detection index.

Abstract: In a power supply control device, an upstream switch and a downstream switch are respectively disposed upstream and downstream of a load in a current path for a current flowing through the load. One end of a first resistor is connected to a connection node between the upstream switch and the load. One end of a series circuit including a connection switch and a second resistor is connected to a connection node between the load and the downstream switch. A constant voltage is applied to the other end of the series circuit. A microcomputer detects any failure of the upstream switch, the downstream switch, and the load based on one of the values of voltages at the two connection nodes.

Abstract: An antenna device includes: a conductive ground conductor plate; a plate-shaped radiating element disposed without being in contact with the ground conductor plate; a feeding line including a conductor and a shield member that surrounds the conductor, the shield member being connected to the ground conductor plate; and a conductive feeding element that includes a facing plate portion that faces the radiating element with an air layer provided therebetween, and is connected to the conductor.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted apparatus is mounted in a vehicle and is connected to a plurality of actuators. The vehicle-mounted apparatus includes: a control unit for generating control signals for controlling the actuators; an output processing unit for outputting the control signals, which have been generated by the control unit, via signal pins to which the plurality of actuators are connected, and at least one internal pin that connects the control unit and the output processing unit and transmits the control signals, wherein the internal pins are fewer in number than the signal pins.

Abstract: A ground fault detection apparatus is used for an on-board system. The on-board system includes a power source unit, a power storage unit, a conductive path, and a disconnection unit. The conductive path includes a first conductive path, a second conductive path, and a third conductive path. The disconnection unit includes a first disconnection unit and a second disconnection unit. A second load is connected to one path out of the second conductive path and the third conductive path, and a third load is connected to the other path. The ground fault detection apparatus includes a detection unit (a current detection unit and a control circuit) configured to detect a ground fault on at least one of the second conductive path and the third conductive path.

Abstract: Provided are an in-vehicle information processing apparatus, a program execution restriction method and a computer program that can be expected to provide users with an opportunity to fully use the trial version of an application program. An in-vehicle information processing apparatus according to one embodiment is an in-vehicle information processing apparatus to be mounted in a vehicle and for executing a program, the apparatus including a processing unit, whereby the processing unit determines whether the travel distance of the vehicle from when usage of the program is started exceeds a threshold value, and, if it is determined that the travel distance exceeds the threshold value, restricts subsequent execution of the program. The processing unit of the in-vehicle information processing apparatus may acquire the program and information relating to the threshold value from a device provided externally to the vehicle.

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: Disclosed herein is a copper alloy wire being a wire rod formed of a copper alloy and having a tensile strength of 400 MPa or more, an elongation at break of 5% or more, a conductivity of 60% IACS or more, and a wire diameter of 0.5 mm or less, wherein the copper alloy has a composition containing 0.05% by mass or more and 1.6% by mass or less of iron, 0.01% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less of phosphorus, and 0.05% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less of tin with the balance being copper and unavoidable impurities, the copper alloy has a structure containing crystals, and a crystal grain size difference determined as a difference between a maximum crystal grain size and a minimum crystal grain size in a cross-section is 1.0 ?m or less.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.