Abstract: A communication apparatus, a communication method, a program, and a communication system are disclosed. A master has a sending block for sending data to a slave at two bytes per word and a confirmation block for confirming the data to be sent to the slave that includes notification information for recognizing presence or absence of a word having invalid data. The slave has a receiving block for receiving the data sent from the master on a word basis and a recognition block for, if the received word is recognized to have invalid data according to the notification information, avoiding the execution of the processing based on that invalid data. For example, on the basis of a result of the confirmation of the notification information, the invalid data included in the word recognized to have invalid data is masked.

Abstract: There is provided a communication device that performs communication through a bus, including: a transmitting and receiving unit configured to transmit and receive a signal to and from at least one other communication device; and an error detection unit configured to, when the transmitting and receiving unit transmits and receives the signal, detect whether an error has occurred in the signal using a specific error detection method according to transmission and reception of the signal. The signal is transmitted and received between a first communication device, which is the communication device having a communication initiative through the bus, and a second communication device, which is the communication device configured to perform communication under control of the first communication device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data transmission apparatus and a data transmission method, a reception. device and a reception. method, a program, and a data transmission system capable of surely switching transmission systems. A transmission unit capable of transmitting data by switching the plurality of transmission systems transmits a switching command for instructing to switch the transmission system. Then, as a measure against an error generated when the switching command is generated, an error correction code for correcting the error generated in the switching command is transmitted or it is confirmed whether the switching command has been successfully received or reception of the switching command has failed on the basis of the result of error detection relative to the transmitted switching command. The present technology is applied to, for example, a bus IF.

Abstract: A method for charging a lithium ion secondary battery including at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode provided with a negative electrode active material layer that includes carbon as a negative electrode active material, an electrolytic solution, and a sheathing material that encloses the positive electrode, the negative electrode and the electrolytic solution; the negative electrode active material layer including carboxymethyl cellulose and the electrolytic solution including an additive that can be decomposed at a predetermined voltage includes: preliminary charging including constant-current charging in which charging is performed at a fixed current value and, following the constant-current charging, constant-voltage charging in which charging is performed at a fixed voltage; degassing in which gas is removed from within the sheathing material after the preliminary charging; and main charging that follows the degassing in which the lithium ion secondary battery is charged.

Abstract: A transmitter includes: a transmission control circuit that determines whether or not to perform an emphasis on a data signal, based on a transition pattern of the data signal; and a transmission driver that selectively performs the emphasis based on a result of the determination by the transmission control circuit, to generate at least one transmission signal.

Abstract: There is provided a communication device that performs communication through a bus, including: a transmitting and receiving unit configured to transmit and receive a signal to and from at least one other communication device; and an error detection unit configured to, when the transmitting and receiving unit transmits and receives the signal, detect whether an error has occurred in the signal using a specific error detection method according to transmission and reception of the signal. The signal is transmitted and received between a first communication device, which is the communication device having a communication initiative through the bus, and a second communication device, which is the communication device configured to perform communication under control of the first communication device.

Abstract: Communication systems and communication control methods are disclosed. In one example, a slave device belonging to a group of devices to which arbitration is applicable sequentially transmits a start bit and a first address including a first bit having a value different from a corresponding first bit of predetermined pattern data. A master device sequentially transmits the start bit and the predetermined pattern data. The master device arbitrates the master device and the first slave device based on the value of the first bit.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material comprising silicon oxide satisfying the following Equation 1 and Equation 2 when solid state NMR (29Si-DDMAS) of silicon is measured for the silicon oxide after performing charging at least once is excellent in the performance as a negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery; 0.42?S1/(S1+S2+S3)?0.55??(Equation 1) 0.21?S3/(S1+S2+S3)?0.26,??(Equation 2) in which S1 is a sum of peak areas of a group of signals assigned to Si having a Si—Si bond and having peaks at 0 to ?15 ppm, ?55 ppm, ?84 ppm and ?88 ppm, S2 is a sum of peak areas of a group of signals assigned to Si having a Si(OH)4-n(OSi)n (n=3, 4) structure and having peaks at ?100 ppm and ?120 ppm, and S3 is a sum of peak areas of a group of signals assigned to Si having a Si(OLi)4-n(OSi)n (n=0, 1, 2, 3) structure and having peaks at ?66 ppm, ?74 ppm, ?85 ppm and ?96 ppm.

Abstract: A transmission device of the disclosure includes: a clock signal transmitting circuit that outputs a clock signal onto a clock signal line; a data signal transmitting circuit that outputs a data signal onto a data signal line; and a blanking controller that controls the clock signal transmitting circuit to output a predetermined blanking signal, in place of the clock signal, from the clock signal transmitting circuit to the clock signal line in synchronization with a blanking period of the data signal.

Abstract: There is provided a communication device that performs communication through a bus, including: a transmitting and receiving unit configured to transmit and receive a signal to and from at least one other communication device; and an error detection unit configured to, when the transmitting and receiving unit transmits and receives the signal, detect whether an error has occurred in the signal using a specific error detection method according to transmission and reception of the signal. The signal is transmitted and received between a first communication device, which is the communication device having a communication initiative through the bus, and a second communication device, which is the communication device configured to perform communication under control of the first communication device.

Abstract: Provided with a negative electrode for a secondary battery comprising an anode active material that is a mixture of an amorphous carbon-coated graphite active material A having a density of 1.50 g/cm3 or less in press pelletizing at 2 kN/cm2 and a carbon-based active material B having a density of 1.65 g/cm3 or higher in press pelletizing at 2 kN/cm2 in a weight ratio of 90:10 to 99:1 as A:B, so that the cracking of amorphous carbon-coated graphite is suppressed and high-temperature life characteristics is improved.

Abstract: Communication systems and communication control methods are disclosed. In one example, a slave device belonging to a group of devices to which arbitration is applicable sequentially transmits a start bit and a first address including a first bit having a value different from a corresponding first bit of predetermined pattern data. A master device sequentially transmits the start bit and the predetermined pattern data. The master device arbitrates the master device and the first slave device based on the value of the first bit.

Abstract: A rare earth permanent magnet comprising a main phase containing: one or more elements R selected from a group consisting of Nd and Pr; one or more elements L selected from a group consisting of Co, Be, Li, Al and Si; one or more elements A selected from a group consisting of Tb, Sm, Gd, Ho and Er; Fe; and B, wherein crystals forming the main phase belong to P42/mnm, and some B atoms occupying a 4f site are substituted by atoms of the elements L.

Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery with a high electric characteristic and reliability that prevents the short circuit between a positive electrode and a negative electrode by an insulating member and that prevents or reduces the volume increase and deformation of a battery electrode assembly. A secondary battery includes a battery electrode assembly in which positive electrode 1 and negative electrode 6 are alternately laminated while separator 20 is interposed therebetween. Positive electrode 1 and negative electrode 6 include current collectors 3, 8 and active materials 2, 7, each surface of current collectors 3, 8 is provided with an application portion and a non-application portion of active materials 2, 8, and the active materials 2, 7 include a thin portion whose thickness is small.

Abstract: A method for evaluating an efficacy of a chemoradiotherapy against squamous cell carcinoma comprises the following steps (a) to (c): (a) detecting an expression level of at least one gene selected from a SIM2 gene and genes co-expressed with the SIM2 gene in a squamous cell carcinoma specimen isolated from a subject; (b) comparing the expression level detected in the step (a) with a reference expression level of the corresponding gene; and (c) determining that an efficacy of a chemoradiotherapy against squamous cell carcinoma in the subject is high if the expression level in the subject is higher than the reference expression level as a result of the comparison in the step (b).

Abstract: Communication systems and communication control methods are disclosed. In one example, a slave device belonging to a group of devices to which arbitration is applicable sequentially transmits a start bit and a first address including a first bit having a value different from a corresponding first bit of predetermined pattern data. A master device sequentially transmits the start bit and the predetermined pattern data. The master device arbitrates the master device and the first slave device based on the value of the first bit.

Abstract: Communication systems and communication control methods are disclosed. In one example, a slave device belonging to a group of devices to which arbitration is applicable sequentially transmits a start bit and a first address including a first bit having a value different from a corresponding first bit of predetermined pattern data. A master device sequentially transmits the start bit and the predetermined pattern data. The master device arbitrates the master device and the first slave device based on the value of the first bit.

Abstract: A receiver includes a first receiving circuit that receives a first data including a first symbol transmitted using three signals over a first data lane, the first data lane including three signal lines respectively corresponding to the three signals. The first receiving circuit includes a delay adjustment circuit configured to adjust a delay amount of at least one of the three signals.

Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery including: a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating a lithium ion; a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating a lithium ion; and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode active material includes a Mn-based spinel-type composite oxide and an additional active material, and the content of the Mn-based spinel-type composite oxide based on the whole of the positive electrode active material is 60% by mass or less, and the negative electrode active material includes a first graphite particle containing natural graphite and a second graphite particle containing artificial graphite, and the content of the second graphite particle based on the sum total of the first graphite particle and the second graphite particle is in the range of 1 to 30% by mass.

Abstract: A graphite-based negative electrode active material including a first graphite particle being spheroidized and a second graphite particle having a roundness lower than the roundness of the first graphite particle, wherein the content of the second graphite particle based on the sum of the first graphite particle and the second graphite particle is in the range of 1 to 30% by mass, the ratio of a median particle diameter (D50) to a particle diameter at 5 cumulative % (D5), D50/D5, in a cumulative distribution of the first graphite particle is smaller than the ratio of a median particle diameter (D50) to a particle diameter at 5 cumulative % (D5), D50/D5, in a cumulative distribution of the second graphite particle, and the tap density in saturation of the particle mixture of the first graphite particle and the second graphite particle is higher than both the tap density in saturation of the first graphite particle and the tap density in saturation of the second graphite particle.