Abstract: A rain sensor of a vehicle and a control method thereof are provided to solve a problem that a measurement result of rainfall varies according to a glass specification of a windshield even under the same rainfall condition by tuning sensitivity of the rain sensor in accordance with the glass specification of the windshield. For this, a method of determining the glass specification of the rain sensor includes determining the glass specification of the windshield from a light-receiving signal obtained by receiving light reflected by the windshield of the vehicle, and eliminating a deviation between light-receiving signals by glass specification, which is caused by a difference in the glass specification, by applying parameter tuning according to a glass specification to the light-receiving signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic control apparatus for a vehicle, and the electronic control apparatus of the present disclosure includes: an electronic control element which includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and electronic components installed on a surface of the PCB; a cover and a base which accommodate the electronic control element; and a connector which is coupled to the electronic control element, wherein a front end portion having a protrusion is formed at an edge of the cover so that the PCB is inserted and mounted between the protrusion of the cover and an edge of the base, a projection portion is formed at a rear end portion of the edge of the base where the cover and the base come into contact with each other, and the cover and the projection portion of the base come into contact with each other so as to form a predetermined space between the front end portion and the rear end portion so that a sealing member is inserted into the predetermined space.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling, by an engine control unit, fault code, may include an engine control unit configured to have pieces of fault code classified according to the components of an engine or sensors for sending data to the engine and defined in the engine control unit as a plurality of groups and a tester configured to send activation/deactivation commands to one or more groups for the pieces of fault code defined in the engine control unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device comprising a substrate including an active region and an edge region and containing a semiconductor doped with impurities having a first conductivity type; an insulating film disposed on the edge region of the substrate; a field plate pattern disposed on the insulating film; and at least one first doped region having a second conductivity type buried in the edge region of the substrate and extending in a direction having a vector component parallel to an upper surface of the substrate.

Abstract: The isolated gate driver according to the present invention comprises a low voltage part including a PWM transmission unit for receiving a PWM signal from a microcontroller unit and outputting a low voltage PWM signal, and a low voltage logic block for receiving a control signal from the microcontroller unit and outputting a low voltage control signal; an insulation part for boosting the low voltage PWM signal and the low voltage control signal into a high voltage PWM signal and a high voltage control signal, respectively; and a high voltage part including a high voltage logic block for outputting a slew rate control signal in accordance with the high voltage control signal, and a slew rate controller for controlling a slew rate of a gate voltage of a power device external to the isolation gate driver such that the gate voltage of the power device has the slew rate depending on the slew rate control signal at a rising edge or a falling edge, wherein the high voltage part is insulated from the low voltage part

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for controlling a damper clutch to prevent engine stall, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for controlling a damper clutch to prevent engine stall which can decide and correct when there is any error in control of a damper clutch in order to prevent engine stall. The method and the apparatus for controlling the damper clutch can decide and correct that a control unit of a damper clutch controller shows a wrong duty command value or a wrong current command value, thereby preventing engine stall, restraining decrease of acceleration power and blocking generation of noise or vibration.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating injection current for a fuel cell stack includes a switch configured to retain any one state of an on state and an off state; an inductor configured to output accumulated energy according to a state of the switch; and a converter configured to provide an output of the inductor to a load or convert the output into a predetermined voltage and provide the predetermined voltage to a load.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for monitoring the pressure of a tire. The system measures frequencies of multiple tires mounted on the vehicle, sets a first average frequency for a normal pressure state and a second average frequency for determination of a low pressure state, wherein the first average frequency is calculated by accumulating the measured frequencies for each speed interval in a stop mode and the second average frequency is calculated by accumulating the measured frequencies for each speed interval in a driving mode, calculates low-pressure probabilities for each speed interval of the tire by using the second frequency, a predetermined low-pressure reference frequency, and a predetermined frequency determination interval for determining low-pressure, and determines whether each tire is at low pressure state by aggregating the low-pressure probabilities for each speed interval of the tire.

Abstract: Provided is an operating method of a monitoring device configured to monitor a microcontroller unit including a plurality of cores. The operating method includes: transmitting a question message to a first core among the plurality of cores; receiving an answer message from a second core among the plurality of cores; determining whether an operation of the microcontroller unit is abnormal, by using the answer message; receiving answer messages from cores, except for the second core, among the plurality of cores when the operation of the microcontroller unit is abnormal; and detecting an error of each of the plurality of cores by using the received answer messages.

Abstract: A method for learning a touch point of a transmission is disclosed. The method may include: moving a sleeve of a synchronizing device in a shift stage gear direction and calculating a predicted rotation speed based on an initial rotation speed and a rotation speed change rate of a transmission clutch; positioning a first point when a difference between an actual rotation speed and the predicted rotation speed occurs and positioning a second point when a difference value between the actual rotation speed and the predicted rotation speed reaches a set speed; calculating a determination time by subtracting a second time to move the sleeve from the first point to the second point from a first time to move the sleeve from the first point to a pre-stored touch point; and performing a correction and control on the touch point based on the determination time.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating injection current for a fuel cell stack includes a first converter configured to convert direct current of a voltage corresponding to a high voltage battery, into direct current of a predetermined voltage; a second converter configured to convert the converted direct current into alternating current; a filter configured to filter a signal of a predetermined frequency band from the converted alternating current; and a control unit configured to perform a feedback control to allow the filtered alternating current to be injected without being distorted when injecting the filtered alternating current into the fuel cell stack.

Abstract: A method for learning a touch point of a clutch may include a step of outputting a first control signal for controlling a touch point learning mode to be entered if a preset condition is satisfied, a step of calculating a reference value by dividing a difference value between rotational speed of a drive shaft clutch and rotational speed of a non-drive shaft clutch by a difference value between rotational speed of an engine and the rotational speed of the drive shaft clutch, a step of outputting a second control signal for moving the non-drive shaft clutch toward the engine if the reference value is less than a preset threshold value and a step of determining a position of the non-drive shaft clutch at a time when the reference value reaches the preset threshold value to be the touch point.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling a transmission of a vehicle and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for controlling synchronization of a synchronizer included in a transmission. The method includes determining a speed change mode of a vehicle and a target time corresponding to the speed change mode; calculating a difference in speed between an input shaft and an output shaft with respect to a current time; calculating a speed increment or decrement of the output shaft from the current time to the target time; calculating a synchronization torque using the difference in speed and the speed increment or decrement; determining a target displacement of a synchronizer using the synchronization torque; and controlling the synchronizer according to the target displacement and recognizing a sleeve with a clutch gear.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tire pressure monitoring system and a method for performing auto-location thereof that simply identifies the position of a tire pressure monitoring module in a direct scheme tire pressure monitoring system to perform auto-location.

Abstract: Provided is a power semiconductor device comprising a gate electrode in a trench of a substrate; a body region having a first conductivity type on one side of the gate electrode; a source region having a second conductivity type adjacent to the gate electrode; a floating region having a first conductivity type on the other side of the gate electrode; an edge doped region having a first conductivity type spaced apart from the floating region and electrically connected to the source region; an edge junction isolation region having a second conductivity type between the floating region and the edge doped region; and a drift region having a second conductivity type below the floating, edge doped, and edge junction isolation regions, wherein the doping concentration of a second conductivity type in the edge junction isolation region is higher than the doping concentration of a second conductivity type in the drift region.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: an n? type layer disposed on a first surface of an n+ type silicon carbide substrate; a first trench formed in the n? type layer; a p type region disposed on both side surfaces of the first trench; an n+ type region disposed on both side surfaces of the first trench and disposed on the n? type layer and the p type region; a gate insulating layer disposed inside the first trench; a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer; an oxide layer disposed on the gate electrode; a source electrode disposed on the oxide layer and the n+ region; and a drain electrode disposed on the second surface of the n+ type silicon carbide substrate, wherein a first channel as an accumulation layer channel and a second channel as an inversion layer channel are disposed in both side surfaces of the first trench, and the first channel and the second channel are disposed to be adjacent in a horizontal direction for the first surface of the n+ type silicon carbide substrate.

Abstract: A method for learning a torque-stroke (T-S) curve of an electric motor controlled dry clutch system is disclosed. The method includes calculating a position change value A for allowing a position change point P3 corresponding to an arbitrary torque y3 on a previous T-S curve C1 to follow-up and be moved to an expectation T-S curve C3, by a control unit, calculating a probability Pr_X3 to allow the position change value A to consider various environmental factors of a clutch within a valid range, and multiplying the probability Pr_X3 to the position change value A to calculate a final position change value A, by the control unit, and calculating a new point P3 by applying the final position change value A to the position change point P3 of the previous T-S curve C1, and generating a final T-S curve connecting the new point P3 and a touch point to learn, by the control unit.

Abstract: Provided are a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device comprise, a substrate which comprises a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface, an epitaxial layer which is formed on the first surface of the substrate and has a first conductivity type, a base region which is formed in the epitaxial layer and has a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, a source region which is formed in the base region and has the first conductivity type, a channel region which is formed in the base region to bc separated from the source region and has the first conductivity type and a barrier region which is formed between the source region and the channel region and has the second conductivity type.

Abstract: A method for controlling a dual clutch transmission (DCT) may include: determining, by a state determination unit, whether a clutch of the DCT is stuck; disabling, by a control unit, the clutch when it is determined that the clutch is stuck; controlling, by the control unit, the driving unit to control the disabled clutch through a reference operation; determining, by the state determination unit, whether the disabled clutch is normally operated, when a vehicle is stopped; and enabling, by the control unit, the clutch when it is determined that the disabled clutch is normally operated.

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery management system, the battery management system including: a module control unit (MCU) which includes a communication module, a capacitor which is connected to the communication module, and a charging module which is connected to the capacitor to charge the capacitor; and a battery control unit (BCU) which transmits a square wave clock signal which enables a communication module of the MCU and controls the MCU, in which when the capacitor is charged with a voltage which is equal to or higher than a predetermined reference voltage, the MCU turns on the communication module.