Abstract: A processing control device controls a tool for processing a first workpiece. The processing control device includes a driving unit to drive the tool, an output unit, and a control unit to control the driving unit and the output unit. Processing information obtained by performing preliminary processing on a second workpiece before performing first processing on the first workpiece is transmitted by the control unit to the output unit and accordingly the processing information is outputted from the output unit. The control unit generates a control command for performing second processing that is performed on the first workpiece after the first processing. The control unit controls the driving unit according to the control command.

Abstract: In a semiconductor-mounting heat dissipation base plate including: an insulating substrate to which a metal circuit layer for mounting a semiconductor chip thereon is fixed; a heat dissipation base formed from the same metal material as the metal circuit layer at a side opposite to the metal circuit layer across the insulating substrate and fixed to the insulating substrate similar to the metal circuit layer; and a strengthening member provided in the heat dissipation base so as to be separated from the insulating substrate, the sizes of crystal grains of a metal structure at a part of the heat dissipation base or the metal circuit layer are reduced by a crystal size reducing material adhered to a mold, thereby preventing an adverse effect of a columnar crystal structure.

Abstract: A lower base station according to the present invention includes: a CSI acquisition unit that acquires channel information indicating a channel state between the lower base station and one or more mobile terminals; a lower scheduler unit that transmits the channel information to a higher base station, and determines the number of signal streams and a modulation and coding scheme for a destination terminal that is a mobile terminal selected from among the one or more mobile terminals, based on the destination terminal and a data transmission rate for the destination terminal, sent for notification by the higher base station; and an MU-MIMO signal processing unit that performs Multi User-Multiple Input Multiple Output precoding for the mobile terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a communication system, etc. with low latency and high reliability, under New Radio (NR). A communication system includes a communication terminal device, and a plurality of nodes configured to be connected to the communication terminal device for radio communication and to provide a split bearer for the communication terminal device. The communication terminal device is configured to perform uplink transmission to an uplink transmission node among the plurality of nodes. The uplink transmission node is determined by an uplink transmission node determination process in which a node that provides the uplink transmission from the communication terminal device with lower latency among the plurality of nodes is determined as the uplink transmission node.

Abstract: A gate electrode (3), a source electrode (4), and a drain electrode (5) is provided on a surface of the semiconductor substrate (1,2). An insulating film (6) covers the surface of the semiconductor substrate (1,2) in a region between the gate electrode (3) and the drain electrode (5). A source field plate (7) is provided on the insulating film (6) and not connected with the drain electrode (5). A diode (8) has a cathode connected with the source field plate (7) and an anode having a constant potential.

Abstract: A touch panel device includes a touch panel that changes a state of a region on an operation surface, a pressure sensor unit to output a pressure detection signal corresponding to a pressing force, and a controller. In a case that a first touch operation is performed, the controller judges that first operation information corresponding to the first touch operation is valid. In a case that a second touch operation is performed, when a press value of the pressing force indicated by the pressure detection signal is greater than a predetermined threshold pressing force, the controller judges that second operation information corresponding to the second touch operation is valid. In a case that a second touch operation is performed, when the press value is less than or equal to the threshold pressing force, the controller judges that the second operation information is invalid.

Abstract: Obtained is a power conversion device including a small-sized and low-cost fuse portion which allows overcurrent to be assuredly interrupted when being applied and allows a semiconductor element to be protected from a short-circuit fault or the like. The power conversion device includes: a circuit board; a semiconductor element mounted on the circuit board; a snubber capacitor; a snubber circuit wire which connects the snubber capacitor in parallel to the semiconductor element; and a fuse portion formed at a part of the snubber circuit wire.

Abstract: Provided is an autonomous driving assistance system for vehicles that has redundancy without posing any problem in diversity. The autonomous driving assistance system includes: a sensor configured to acquire surroundings information; a downstream device including an actuator configured to control a vehicle; and a driving assistance device configured to calculate a control amount for the downstream device on the basis of the surroundings information. The downstream device further includes a diagnosis unit configured to: perform comparison between at least two control amounts that include the control amount calculated in the driving assistance device and a control amount calculated in the downstream device on the basis of the surroundings information; and determine, if the control amounts are equal to each other, that the control amounts are normal, and determine, if the control amounts are different from each other, that the control amounts are abnormal.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor module, a substrate, and a filler. The semiconductor module includes a semiconductor chip, a control integrated circuit (IC) configured to control driving of the semiconductor chip, and a package sealing the semiconductor chip and the control IC with an insulation material. On the substrate, the semiconductor module is mounted. The filler is provided between a lower surface of the package of the semiconductor module and the substrate. The substrate includes a through hole being provided at a position below the package and closer to the control IC than to the semiconductor chip in the package.

Abstract: A coaxial-waveguide-to-hollow-waveguide transition circuit (1) includes a hollow waveguide (10), a coaxial waveguide (20) having an end coupled to a wide wall (16) of the hollow waveguide (10), and a strip conductor (30) located inside the internal path (10h) of the hollow waveguide (10). The coaxial waveguide (20) includes a conducting core wire (22) extending into the internal path (10h) of the hollow waveguide (10). The strip conductor (30) is located so as to make a short-circuit connection between the conducting core wire (22) of the coaxial waveguide (20) and a termination surface (12) of the hollow waveguide (10).

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a housing having an air inlet and an air outlet, a fan disposed in the housing, and a bell mouth through which a fluid flowing from the air inlet to the air outlet passes in association with rotation of the fan. The bell mouth includes curved part having a curved sectional shape in a fluid flow direction and a vibration-damping element disposed on at least one of a front surface and a rear surface of the curved part. The vibration-damping element is disposed at a position corresponding to a node of vibration of the bell mouth.

Abstract: A transmission device includes a data generation unit to generate a data symbol, a linear processing unit to generate an additional symbol, a power conditioning unit to perform power conditioning on the additional symbol, a frequency-domain multiplexing unit to arrange the additional symbol after the power conditioning and the data symbol along a frequency axis, a conversion unit to convert a signal arranged along the frequency axis by the frequency-domain multiplexing unit into a time domain signal, and a transmission processing unit to transmit the time domain signal. The linear processing unit generates the additional symbol to cause a data portion in a predetermined position in a block, which is a transmission unit of the time domain signal, to be set as a predetermined data group.

Abstract: An array antenna device, including: a waveguide (1) having a plurality of radiation units (2) arranged on one tube wall thereof, in which the waveguide (1) has a plurality of grooves (3) arranged on an inner side of a tube wall facing the tube wall, movable short-circuit surfaces (4) each electrically short-circuited to an inner wall of one of the grooves (3), and movable short-circuit surface controlling mechanisms (5) for changing positions of the movable short-circuit surfaces (4).

Abstract: An inter-variable dependency analyzing unit analyzes a relation between an argument and a return value between instructions of a plurality of instructions included in a sequence control program, which is a control program written in a language for sequence control. A PLC instruction sorting/division unit at least either changes an instruction execution order of the plurality of instructions or divides the sequence control program in units of instructions, based on the relation between the argument and the return value between the instructions analyzed by the inter-variable dependency analyzing unit.

Abstract: A display apparatus (101) includes an input unit (220); a communication unit (250); a display unit (210); and a control unit (240) including a display content setting unit (244), a layout setting unit (245) for setting a screen layout, and a screen generation unit (246) for generating a display screen based on the display content, the screen layout, and information acquired via the communication unit (250) and concerning the PLC. The display content setting unit (244) displays a candidate list of a display item based on at least one of: network configuration information (231) of equipments (103) and a PLC (102) which is created in advance, an equipment information file (232), and device allocation information (233) of the equipments (103) and the PLC (102), to the display unit, and sets display content based on input information coming from the input unit (220).

Abstract: A power conversion device includes a plurality of cascaded converter cells. In each of the converter cells, each of a plurality of arms forming a bridge circuit is provided with a plurality of semiconductor switching elements in parallel. A drive controller of each of the converter cells is configured to, when none of a plurality of predetermined abnormality modes is detected, control the bridge circuit in accordance with an externally provided command. The drive controller is configured to, when at least one of the plurality of abnormality modes is detected, turn on all semiconductor switching elements provided in at least one of the plurality of arms forming the bridge circuit, to thereby establish a short circuit between first and second input/output nodes.

Abstract: A power conversion device which reduces switching losses and stabilizes the output power. A switching-mode changer generates a reference signal for switching a mode of operation of the full-bridge circuit to a first switching mode or a second switching mode. In the first switching mode, an upper arm and a lower arm are switched synchronously, and a lower arm and an upper arm are non-conducting. In the second switching mode, the lower arm and the upper arm are switched synchronously, and the upper arm and the lower arm are non-conducting. The switching-mode changer adjusts the phase of the reference signal so that the reactive power is reduced.

Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes: a main body provided with an opening port; and a rectangular decorative panel attached to the main body to cover the opening port. The decorative panel includes a rectangular suction grille provided to face the opening port of the main body. The suction grille has one side rotatably supported on one side of the decorative panel, and is detachably attached to the decorative panel. The one side of the suction grille and the one side of the decorative panel are secured to each other by a plurality of fall prevention strings. The decorative panel is provided with two panel claw portions to which the plurality of fall prevention strings are to be hooked. The suction grille is provided with two grille claw portions to each of which respective end portions of the plurality of fall prevention strings are to be hooked.

Abstract: An ECU (101) causes lock pin-release hydraulic pressure to be applied to an advance-side lock pin-release oil passage (5a) to disengage an advance-side lock pin (6) from an advance-side engagement groove (9), thereby making a rotor (1) rotatable in an advance direction, and forming a clearance communicating with a retard-side lock pin-release oil passage (5c), between the advance-side engagement groove (9) and the advance-side lock pin (6). Next, the ECU (101) causes hydraulic pressure to be applied to advancing hydraulic chambers (16) to rotate the rotor (1), and causes the lock pin-release hydraulic pressure to be applied through the clearance and through the retard-side lock pin-release oil passage (5c) to a retard-side engagement groove (10) to disengage a retard-side lock pin (7).

Abstract: To provide an ignition apparatus which can turn on and off the sub primary coil according to extension degree of the discharge path of the spark discharge. An ignition apparatus is provided with an ignition coil that is provided with a main primary coil, a sub primary coil which generates energization magnetic flux of a direction opposite to the energization magnetic flux of the main primary coil, and a secondary coil which is magnetically coupled with the main primary coil and the sub primary coil and supplies spark discharge energy to a spark plug; and after turning off energization to the main primary coil, based on a detection value of terminal voltage of the main primary coil, turns on and off the sub switch circuit to turn on and off energization to the sub primary coil and additionally supply spark discharge energy to the secondary coil.