Abstract: A transmission includes a controller being provided with a change-speed stage anticipator. The controller adopts a time, which one of the transmission's gear-mechanism selectors requires in shifting a current change-speed stage to another change-speed stage, as a pre-shift time for selecting the latter change-speed stage. The change-speed stage anticipator operates the one of the gear-mechanism selectors while adopting a temporary change-speed stage as a subsequent change-speed stage when the temporary change-speed stage, which is estimated from a state of vehicle after the pre-shift time, the state of vehicle being relevant to each element of an anticipated change-speed stage group that is made up of one or more of the change-speed stages that can be selected by the one of the gear-mechanism selectors being set on one of the transmission's input shafts that is disconnected from a power source, coincides with an anticipated change-speed stage that corresponds to the pre-shift time.

Abstract: A semiconductor device provided which includes: an external power supply detection circuit which detects that an external power supply is turned on and outputs a first detection signal; an internal power supply voltage generation circuit which generates an internal power supply voltage based on the external power supply; a reference voltage generation circuit which generates a first reference voltage in response to the first detection signal; a reference voltage detection circuit which detects that the first reference voltage reaches a given level and outputs a second detection signal; a bias voltage generation circuit which, in response to the second detection signal, generates a bias voltage based on a second reference voltage dependent on the first reference voltage; and a power supply voltage detection circuit which, in response to the second detection signal, compares the bias voltage with a third reference voltage and outputs a start signal.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory includes: a voltage supply circuit which supplies a first voltage to a word line when an internal circuit is in a standby state, and supplies a second voltage higher than the first voltage to the word line when the internal circuit is in an active state; and a control circuit changes a drive capacity of the voltage supply circuit when changing from the standby state to the active state and the second voltage is supplied to the word line.

Abstract: A microscope system includes a stand unit provided with a up/down drive unit for an objective lens, and a base unit provided with a up/down drive unit for a X-Y stage. When the stand unit and the base unit are fixed to each other, a displacement range of the objective lens drive unit along the up/down direction and a displacement range of the stage drive unit along the up/down direction are different from each other.

Abstract: An analyzing apparatus includes a result-data storing unit that determines whether result data that is calculated as a result of analysis is restorable by linear interpolation. If the result data is determined to be unrestorable by the linear interpolation, the result-data storing unit stores the result data in a predetermined storage unit. Moreover, the analyzing apparatus includes a data restoring unit that reads the result data from the storage unit. The data restoring unit performs the linear interpolation using the result data acquired, thereby restoring the result data.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a pad, an internal power supply line, a pad switch including a MOS transistor to provide an electrically connectable coupling between the internal power supply line and the pad by use of a source-drain channel thereof, and a control circuit configured to control an electrical connection with respect to at least one of a gate node and a back-gate node of the MOS transistor, wherein the control circuit is configured such that at least one of the gate node and the back-gate node is electrically connectable to the pad.

Abstract: Provided is a substage for a microscope. The substage is provided with a plurality of fixing members for selectively fixing a plurality of stages, on which a sample is placed, each of which is equipped with a fixing member.

Abstract: When carrying out magnetization, annealing, and initialization of a recording film by applying a laser beam to the recording film while rotating an optical recording medium 10 by a motor 11, light of a strong visible-light lamp 15 is projected as parallel light to a reflecting mirror 14 via a lens 16 so as to apply light reflected by the reflecting mirror 14 to an area wider than a spot of the laser beam on the medium 10 for heating. At that time, a control unit 18 controls an intensity of the strong visible-light lamp 15 to raise a temperature of the medium 10 to a temperature of 80° C. or higher and a softening point of a substrate or lower, for example.

Abstract: A first acceleration gear ratio is acquired for accelerating a host vehicle in a first acceleration zone following a first zone ahead of the host vehicle, and a second acceleration gear ratio is acquired for accelerating the host vehicle in a second acceleration zone following a second zone ahead of the first zone. A control is executed to set the gear ratio of the host vehicle to the first acceleration gear ratio in a first deceleration zone in order to decelerate the host vehicle before entering the first zone. A control is executed to set the gear ratio of the host vehicle to the second acceleration gear ratio when the host vehicle must decelerate with respect to the second zone while traveling in the first acceleration gear ratio.

Abstract: Information pertaining to a first zone set ahead of a host vehicle and a second zone farther ahead than the first zone is acquired. Based on the information, if a distance between an end point of the first zone and a start point of the second zone is shorter than a distance within which the host vehicle can be slowed at a predetermined deceleration to a second target vehicle speed for traveling the second zone at the start point of the second zone, a second acceleration gear ratio is acquired for accelerating the host vehicle in a second acceleration zone following the second zone. The gear ratio of the host vehicle is set to the second acceleration gear ratio in a first deceleration zone for slowing the host vehicle before reaching the first zone.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a DRAM memory core circuit including a word line, a power supply circuit configured to operate in a selected one of a first state and a second state to generate a predetermined power supply voltage for provision to the DRAM memory core circuit, the power supply circuit consuming a larger electric current in the first state than in the second state, and a control circuit configured to control the power supply circuit such that the power supply circuit is shifted from the first state to the second state, and is then brought back to the first state during a period from activation of the word line to deactivation of the word line.

Abstract: A simulation system includes electromagnetic field analyzing units that execute electromagnetic field analysis with respect to electromagnetic field analysis areas obtained by division of an area to be analyzed into the electromagnetic field analysis areas; one or more circuit analyzing units that execute circuit analysis with respect to a circuit unit in the area to be analyzed; and an aggregating unit that aggregates, from the electromagnetic field analyzing units, data for the circuit analysis by the one or more circuit analyzing units and transmits the data to the circuit analyzing units. The simulation system links plural processing units that mutually exchange data.

Abstract: A target vehicle speed at a predetermined position ahead of a host vehicle is obtained, and a plurality of deceleration patterns with different deceleration schemes is obtained for decelerating the host vehicle to the target vehicle speed. Based on a driving operation for controlling speed of the host vehicle, a deceleration pattern is selected from the plurality of deceleration patterns. Using the selected deceleration pattern as a reference, the vehicle speed of the host vehicle is reduced to the target vehicle speed before the host vehicle reaches the predetermined position.

Abstract: Factor information is acquired that indicates at least one factor that imposes a psychological effect on a driver of a host vehicle when the host vehicle is traveling on a road with a descending slope ahead of the host vehicle. An overall psychological effect that is imposed on the driver when the host vehicle is traveling on the road with the descending slope is acquired based on the factor information. The vehicle speed is controlled in a vehicle speed control section in accordance with the overall psychological effect.

Abstract: A current mirror circuit which is connected to first and second power supplies and generates a desired current, has a plurality of first transistors which are connected in parallel to the first power supply side and the gates of which are connected to a common node, a plurality of second transistors which are cascode-connected to the plurality of first transistors and the gates of which are supplied with a cascode bias potential and a cascode bias generation circuit which generates the cascode bias potential, wherein the cascode bias generation circuit maintains the cascode bias potential during normal operation at a first potential between the potentials of the first and second power supplies, and maintains the cascode bias potential during power-on at a second potential closer to the potential of the second power supply than the first potential.

Abstract: A motion control device for a vehicle includes a vehicle speed obtaining device, a curvature obtaining device for obtaining a bending grade of a curve existing ahead of the vehicle, a position obtaining device for obtaining a relative position between the vehicle and the curve, a determination device for determining an appropriate vehicle speed for the vehicle passing through the curve based on the bending grade, a speed reduction control device for executing a speed reduction control for reducing the vehicle speed based on the vehicle speed and the relative position so that the vehicle passes through the curve at the appropriate vehicle speed, and a gradient obtaining device for obtain a gradient of the road on the curve existing in a traveling direction of the vehicle, wherein the determination device determines the appropriate vehicle speed based on the gradient of the road in addition to the bending grade.

Abstract: An anti-collision control is provided under circumstances where it is determined that there is a risk of collision between a host vehicle and a preceding vehicle. The anti-collision control utilizes host vehicle information, preceding vehicle information, and surrounding road conditions to determine whether or not a collision with the preceding vehicle can be avoided through a steering operation. If avoidance is determined to be possible, then a shift-hold control is applied to the AT, whereas if avoidance is determined to be impossible, then a down-shift control is applied to the AT.

Abstract: A motion control device for a vehicle includes a vehicle speed obtaining means for obtaining a speed of the vehicle, a curve shape obtaining means for obtaining a shape of a curve existing ahead of the vehicle on a road on which the vehicle is traveling, a position obtaining means for obtaining a relative position of the vehicle to the curve, a determining means for determining an appropriate vehicle speed for the vehicle to travel through the curve based on the shape of the curve obtained by the curve shape obtaining means, and a speed reduction controlling means for performing a speed reduction control on the vehicle based on the appropriate vehicle speed determined by the determining means.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a voltage generating circuit configured to generate a predetermined voltage, an NMOS transistor configured to receive at a gate node thereof the predetermined voltage generated by the voltage generating circuit, to receive at a drain node thereof an external power supply voltage, and to generate at a source node thereof a stepped-down voltage by reducing the external power supply voltage in response to the predetermined voltage, and a PMOS transistor, provided between the drain node of the NMOS transistor and the external power supply voltage, configured to receive at a gate node thereof a power-down signal indicative of a power-down mode. The predetermined voltage applied to the gate node of the NMOS transistor is set to LOW in response to a HIGH state of the power-down signal applied to the gate node of the PMOS transistor.

Abstract: A deceleration start point where a driver performs a deceleration operation of a vehicle before entering a curve when the vehicle is to travel on a curve is identified from a vehicle operation history in the past, and an acceleration start point where the driver performs an acceleration operation of the vehicle when exiting a curve is identified from the vehicle operation history in the past. While these items are comprehended as driving tendencies of the driver, deceleration control and acceleration limit control to a target limiting vehicle speed are performed when the vehicle reaches the deceleration start point. Thereafter, when the vehicle reaches the acceleration start point, acceleration permission control to release the acceleration limit is performed.