Abstract: The present invention provides a malfunction detecting device with which, even if an error exceeding a scope of guarantee occurs in the position or speed of a peripheral object output by a sensor which monitors the periphery of a vehicle, the output from the sensor in which the error exceeding the scope of guarantee has occurred in the position or speed of the peripheral object is detected as abnormal. This malfunction detecting device is characterized in that the malfunction detecting device detects an object using two sensors A, B, and if a difference equal to or greater than a prescribed value arises between state quantities of the detected object, the malfunction detecting device uses standard information relating to the state quantity of the object to determine in which of the two sensors A and B the measurement failure has occurred.

Abstract: To obtain, in an on-board control device, a shield effect against noise radiated from an electronic component. The present invention includes: an electronic component 103; a metal housing 101 which covers at least a part of the electronic component 103; a metal portion 105 which is provided so that the electronic component 103 is disposed between the metal portion 105 and the metal housing 101; and a shield structure which shields radiation noise from the electronic component 103 by electrostatic capacitive coupling formed between the metal portion 105 and the metal housing 101.

Abstract: A power semiconductor apparatus includes a power semiconductor element having low and high potential side electrodes and a sense electrode, high and low potential side conductors electrically connected with the high potential side electrodes, respectively, a sense wiring electrically connected with the sense electrode, and a first metal portion facing the low potential side conductor or the low potential side conductor across the sense wiring. When viewed from an array direction of the sense wiring and the first metal portion, the sense wiring has a facing portion facing the high or low potential side conductor, the first metal portion forms a recess in a part overlapping the facing portion, and a depth of the recess is formed such that a distance between a bottom of the recess and the sense wiring is larger than a distance between the sense wiring and the high or low potential side conductor.

Abstract: A thermal flowmeter includes a plurality of measuring units for stabilizing air flowing in a sub-passage, and improves noise performance or a pulsation characteristic of a flow rate sensor. The thermal flowmeter includes a flange fixed to an attachment part of a main passage, a sub-passage takes in a part of measured gas flowing in the main passage, a flow rate measuring unit measures a flow rate of the measured gas in the sub-passage, a circuit component controls the flow rate measuring unit, and the flow rate measuring unit and an electronic component are mounted on a circuit substrate. The sub-passage is formed in a substrate of the circuit substrate, the sub-passage on a surface side of the circuit substrate and a second space on a rear surface side are separated by the circuit substrate, and a pressure measuring unit and the circuit component are arranged in the second space.

Abstract: In some examples, one or more processors of a vehicle may store, in a computer-readable medium, sign information relating a sign type of a traffic sign to a distance to a road edge for a plurality of sign types. The one or more processors may receive at least one image from at least one sensor, and may recognize a sign type of a traffic sign in the at least one image. Further, the one or more processors may determine a likely location of a road edge in relation to the vehicle based at least partially on the recognized sign type and the stored sign information. In some examples, the one or more processors may send one or more control signals to at least one component of the vehicle based on the determined likely location of the road edge relative to the vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a gateway device capable of reducing power consumption in a sleep state and relaying an activation signal between networks without delay. When receiving an activation signal, the gateway device according to the present invention transfers the activation signal to another network via a relay switch, and outputs a signal indicating the reception of the activation signal from a transceiver, thereby turning on a microcomputer.

Abstract: A device which measures a physical quantity of a gas flowing through a main passage is described. The device includes a flange for fixing to the main passage; a housing that protrudes toward an inside of the main passage from the flange; and a printed circuit board fixed to the housing on which a measuring element that measures the physical quantity is mounted. Wiring of the printed circuit board has a plurality of irregularities formed along one direction of a surface, and the wiring is arranged such that a formation direction of the irregularities is oriented along a protruding direction of the housing toward an inside of the main passage. The irregularities may be polishing marks formed using a cylindrical polishing wheel or rolling marks of the wiring of the printed circuit board.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sensor recognition integration device capable of preventing a rapid change in coordinates of an integrated object and preventing, for example, an erroneous determination in an autonomous driving plan determination device, even when the combination of sensors that perform detection changes. In the present invention, since an object position is estimated in a state where information of a position detected by a sensor that recognizes an object in an external field is corrected or changed, the rapid change of coordinates of an integrated object is prevented even when the combination of sensors that perform detection changes.

Abstract: Detection accuracy of a collector sense in detecting a voltage is improved. A power module 300 has a first conductor 410 and a second conductor 411 to which a plurality of active elements 317 and 315 configuring upper and lower arm circuits are connected. In addition, the power module 300 has an AC side terminal 320B protruding from one side 301a, a positive electrode side terminal 315B and a negative electrode side terminal 319B which protrude from the other side 301b, an intermediate electrode portion 414 that connects the first conductor 410 and the second conductor 411 to each other, and a collector sense wiring 452a in which a collector electrode of an active element 157 and the first conductor 410 are connected to each other via a sense connection portion 415.

Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of more appropriately correcting an output value of a flow rate sensor that measures a flow rate of air flowing through an intake flow path of an internal combustion engine, and further reducing an error between a corrected air flow rate and an actual air flow rate as compared to a conventional device.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a power conversion device capable of reducing an influence of electromagnetic noise propagating from a circuit body toward a drive circuit board. A power conversion device 100 of the present invention includes a circuit body 6 that converts a direct current into an alternating current, a drive circuit board 5 that drives the circuit body 6, a base member 4 provided between the circuit body 6 and the drive circuit board 5, and a case 1 that houses the circuit body 6 and the base member 4. The base member 4 includes a first flow channel forming portion 4A that forms a flow channel space 1C1 between the circuit body 6 and the base member 4, and a first extending portion 4B2 extending from the flow channel forming portion 4A and connected to an inner surface of the case 1.

Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device capable of effectively reducing a work load of a parameter setting operator in response to an increase in parameters constituting complicated filter control. Therefore, in the signal processing device filters an output signal from a sensor mounted on a vehicle, setting is made with respect to a plurality of filters having different filter types or filter coefficients for setting a filter characteristic of a cutoff frequency or a pass band, an individual code is set for each of the plurality of filters, and the signal processing device includes a CPU that selects the individual code based on an engine operating state so that a corresponding filter is selected, and processes an output signal from the sensor using the filter that has been selected.

Abstract: According to the conventional knowledge, a thermal humidity measurement device has problems in which the direction of air flow is limited to one direction is too hard to handle in securing the humidity responsiveness because there are limitations on the mounting direction of the thermal humidity measurement device and the state of air flow. An introduction guide protrudes from an air introduction surface to the outside of a measurement chamber, is parallel to a humidity introduction port surface, and has a portion not in contact with an inlet surface of a humidity introduction tube as seen from any direction to guide the flow of air to the humidity introduction tube from any direction of 360°.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gas sensor device capable of detecting a temporal change with high accuracy and maintaining measurement accuracy over a long period under a temperature environment susceptible to a complicated and wide range of change. The gas sensor device includes: heat insulating films 8a and 8b formed on a substrate 2; a first heater 3 provided on the heat insulating films 8a and 8b and configured to measure physical quantity of gas; and a reference resistor 4 formed in a resistive layer same as the first heater and formed on the heat insulating films 8a and 8b. The gas sensor device further includes a second heater 5 that simultaneously heats the first heater 3 and the reference resistor 4.

Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, which can control an injection amount of water injected into each cylinder of the internal combustion engine to a minimum injection amount that allows knock to be suppressed for each cylinder. Therefore, in a control device 1 that controls water supply valves 35 (water supply devices) that supply water into each of combustion chambers of a plurality of cylinders R (cylinders R1 to R3 in the embodiment) of an internal combustion engine 100, the control device 1 includes a water supply amount calculation unit 2 that calculates a supply amount of water supplied to each of the combustion chambers of the plurality of cylinders R1 to R3 for each cylinder, and a water supply control unit 3 that controls the water supply valves 35 based on the supply amount of water calculated by the water supply amount calculation unit 2 for each cylinder.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic control device capable of always achieving a desired injector injection amount by preventing a change in injector opening time regardless of a change (a decrease) of a power supply voltage for opening a valve of an injector. A precharge current amount at the time of precharge control is changed in a stepwise manner based on a voltage of the injector valve open power supply device 10 at the time of the precharge control.

Abstract: To improve reliability in balancing while suppressing power consumption during balancing. A battery management device 1 includes cell cons 41 and 42 that perform balancing for adjusting voltages of a plurality of battery cells 2 that are secondary batteries, and a control unit 3 that controls the cell cons 41 and 42. The cell con 41 includes the main timer 412 that measures the elapsed time for stopping the cell con 41, and the stop management unit 413 that stops the cell con 41 when the main timer 412 is abnormal. In the battery management device 1, the battery cell 2 that supplies power to the main timer 412 and the stop management unit 413, and the lead storage battery 7 that supplies power to the control unit 3 are power supplies different from each other.

Abstract: Board supporting body 21A supporting circuit board 18S is provided with first terminal engaging hole 29, and circuit board 18S located so as to be adjacent to board supporting body 21A is provided with second terminal engaging hole 25. First elastic engaging portion 32 elastically engaged with first terminal engaging hole 29, and second elastic engaging portion 33 elastically engaged with second terminal engaging hole 25, are formed at press-fitting type connector terminal 27. Circuit board and board supporting body are fixedly connected together with first and second elastic engaging portions 32, 33 being elastically engaged with first and second terminal engaging holes 29, 25 respectively in a state in which press-fitting type connector terminal 27 is inserted into first and second terminal engaging holes 29, 25. With this, electrical connection of press-fitting type connector terminal and fixing (including direct or indirect fixing) of circuit board can be easily realized.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rotary electric machine with improved reliability by suppressing a partial increase in surface pressure generated in a stator using a housing with improved roundness. The rotary electric machine of the present invention has a rotor, a stator, and a tubular housing for fixing the stator from an outer peripheral side. The housing has a flange extending in an outer peripheral direction at an axial end portion of an outer peripheral surface, and the flange has a recess extending in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: An electric drive device includes: an electronic control section including a first electronic control section and a second electronic control section which constitute a redundant system, the first electronic control section and the second electronic control section being provided with a first control section side connecter and a second control section side connecter which have an identical configuration, and the first non-control section side connecter being engaged with the first control section side connecter, and the second non-control section side connecter being engaged with the second control section side connecter to correspond to the lengths of the first harness and the second harness.