Abstract: A control device of a vehicle including a motor and a multi-speed type automatic transmission including a plurality of engagement devices, the control device engaging the engagement device to be engaged and releasing the engagement device to be released when the shift is determined, and controlling an engagement pressure of an engagement device to be released during an upshift in a driven state and a downshift in a driving state and controlling an engagement pressure of an engagement device to be engaged during an upshift in the driving state and a downshift in the driven state so as to control a rotation speed of a rotating element of the automatic transmission, the control device increasing an instruction pressure of the engagement device to a target surge pressure for a target surge time when switching is performed during the upshift and the downshift in the driven state, to the driving state.

Abstract: When a power-on downshift via an intermediate shift stage accompanied by input switching control is required and a predetermined shift stage is a shift stage lower than the intermediate shift stage, an electronic control unit performs torque phase control in a torque phase control time shorter than the torque phase control time that is set when the predetermined shift stage is a shift stage higher than the intermediate shift stage. Accordingly, it is possible to complete disengagement of a disengagement-side element early and to suppress a rapid increase of an input shaft rotation speed due to a clutch torque remaining.

Abstract: When an input torque becomes greater by a predetermined value or more due to an operation of increasing an amount of accelerator depression amount or the like during a gear shift, a controller for an automatic transmission updates a target gear shift characteristic value to a target gear shift characteristic value which is set when the gear shift is started with the input torque based on the input torque at the updating time, and performs gear shift control from a degree of progress in gear shift at the updating time based on the updated target gear shift characteristic value. Since the target gear shift characteristic value can be changed with respect to an increase in the input torque during the gear shift by this control, it is possible to prevent a decrease in durability of frictional engagement elements.

Abstract: In a controller for an automatic transmission, when a jump gear shift via a plurality of intermediate shift stages is executed, a first and a second target intermediate shift stages are extracted, and a target input shaft rotation speed change rate is calculated from a difference in synchronous rotation speed between a shift stage before a current gear shift and the second target intermediate shift stage as a target shift stage of a gear shift which is executed after the current gear shift. Accordingly, it is possible to avoid a situation in which a shifting time in the gear shift control of the step before the second target intermediate shift stage becomes very short and thus packing of a clutch pack is not executed in a timely manner.

Abstract: When a jump downshift via an intermediate shift stage is requested and a rotation speed of an input shaft approaches a synchronous rotation speed of the intermediate shift stage, a target torque phase time when the gear shift via the intermediate shift stage is performed with input switching is set to be shorter than that when the gear shift via the intermediate shift stage is performed without using input switching and torque phase control is performed. Accordingly, it is possible to promptly perform engagement of an engagement-side frictional engagement element at the time of passing through the intermediate shift stage and to rapidly perform the gear shift after passing through the intermediate shift stage.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes a first photodiode arranged in a semiconductor substrate, a second photodiode arranged in the semiconductor substrate, a charge voltage conversion part connected to a cathode of the first photodiode and an anode of the second photodiode and configured to convert a charge amount in accordance with electrons generated in the first photodiode and holes generated in the second photodiode into a voltage, and a signal generation part configured to generate a signal in accordance with the voltage of the charge voltage conversion part.

Abstract: In an image pickup device, in a period for which a signal value of the comparison result signal is changed in a certain AD converter among a plurality of AD converters, the signal value of the comparison result signal changes a plurality of times in another AD converter.

Abstract: A method of testing a receptor of a wind turbine includes a step of moving an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) close to the receptor of a wind turbine blade mounted to a hub of the wind turbine, and performing an electric continuity test on the receptor.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The device generates a signal based on both a first carrier generated in a first photodiode and a second carrier generated in a second photodiode. The first photodiode includes a first region of a second conductivity type and a second region of a first conductivity type arranged between a surface of a substrate and the first region. The second photodiode includes a third region of the first conductivity type and a fourth region of the second conductivity type arranged between the surface and the third region. A fifth region of the first conductivity type is provided at a position farther apart from the surface than the first region. A peak of an impurity concentration of the third region is positioned in a range where the first region exists between the second region and the fifth region.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus, comprising first and second photoelectric conversion portions, a charge holding portion, and first and second transferring portions for transferring charges generated in the first and second photoelectric conversion portions, respectively, to the charge holding portion, wherein a first ratio is a ratio of an amount of electrons transferred by the first transferring portion to an amount of the electrons generated in the first photoelectric conversion portion, a second ratio is a ratio of an amount of holes transferred by the second transferring portion to an amount of the holes generated in the second photoelectric conversion portion, and a ratio of the first ratio to the second ratio is lower than a ratio of mobility of electrons to mobility of holes.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes a first photodiode arranged in a semiconductor substrate, a second photodiode arranged in the semiconductor substrate, a charge voltage conversion part connected to a cathode of the first photodiode and an anode of the second photodiode and configured to convert a charge amount in accordance with electrons generated in the first photodiode and holes generated in the second photodiode into a voltage, and a signal generation part configured to generate a signal in accordance with the voltage of the charge voltage conversion part.

Abstract: There are provided a driving method for an image pickup device, a driving method for an imaging system, an image pickup device, and an imaging system, which changes an operation for mixing signals generated by a plurality of pixels in accordance with an amplification factor of a signal processing circuit in the image pickup device or an amplification unit externally provided to the image pickup device.

Abstract: Provided is a solid state imaging device including a plurality of pixels, a signal line on which a pixel signal is transmitted, a load transistor having a drain connected to the signal line, a readout circuit that reads out the pixel signal from the signal line, and a control unit that controls a current flowing in the load transistor in accordance with a potential of a control terminal. When a reference potential of the pixel fluctuates relatively to a reference potential of the readout circuit, a potential of the control terminal relative to a potential of a source of the load transistor is changed in a same phase with a fluctuation of the reference potential of the pixel.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating a wavelength conversion device that is capable of suppressing unintended and random polarization reversal due to heating thereby achieving higher wavelength conversion efficiency. The method includes: forming an insulating layer on one place of a crystal substrate naturally and uniformly polarized in a thickness direction; forming an insulating layer pattern with line-and-space by photolithography; then supplying conductive fluid to both planes of the crystal substrate to apply voltage to the crystal substrate, thereby a wavelength conversion device that is periodically polarization-reversed is fabricated. When temperature of the crystal substrate decreases after heating, an ionizer supplies ions to a surface of the crystal substrate, negative ions collect on +z plane, and positive ion collect on ?z plane, thereby unintended and random polarization reversal is suppressed.

Abstract: Provided is a solid-state image pickup element including: a plurality of pixels arranged in a pixel well region; a readout circuit arranged in a peripheral well region, having a first input terminal for receiving the pixel signals from the plurality of pixels and a second input terminal for receiving a reference signal; and a reference signal circuit arranged in the peripheral well region, having a first electrode to which a ground voltage is supplied, and being configured to output the reference signal to the second input terminal of the readout circuit, wherein a resistance value R1 of an electrical path from one of a plurality of pixel well contacts to the first electrode and a resistance value R2 of an electrical path from one of a plurality of peripheral well contacts closest to the first electrode to the first electrode satisfy a relationship of R1<R2.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes a first photoelectric conversion portion configured to generate electrons; a second photoelectric conversion portion configured to generate holes; a charge-to-voltage conversion portion including an n-type first semiconductor region configured to collect the generated electrons and a p-type second semiconductor region configured to collect the generated holes, the charge-to-voltage conversion portion being configured to convert a charge that is based on the electrons and the holes to a voltage; and a signal generation portion configured to generate a signal corresponding to the voltage, the signal generation portion including an amplification transistor.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element includes a first photoelectric conversion unit configured to generate an electron serving as a signal charge, a second photoelectric conversion unit configured to generate a hole serving as a signal charge, a first floating diffusion region to which the electron generated in the first photoelectric conversion unit is transferred, a second floating diffusion region to which the hole generated in the second photoelectric conversion unit is transferred, an amplifying transistor including a gate electrically connected to the first floating diffusion region and the second floating diffusion region, a first charge ejection unit configured to eject the electron generated in the first photoelectric conversion unit, and a second charge ejection unit configured to eject the hole generated in the second photoelectric conversion unit, wherein the first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit are arranged along a principal surface of a semiconductor sub

Abstract: The present invention executes a desired gear shift of an automatic transmission using gear shift modeling even when there are three control inputs to two target gear shift values. Setting torque share ratio as a constraint on the equation of motion for the automatic transmission is suitable for controlling the transfer of engaging unit torque, which is considered to be difficult in variable speed control, and allows solving of the equation of motion. Viewed from a different angle, because the torque share ratio, which represents the torque transfer, has been set as a constraint, any gear shift pattern can be handled with a single gear shift model.

Abstract: Torque shares that express an exchange of torque are set as a constraint condition of an equation of motion of an automatic transmission, so it is suitable to control an exchange of torque between engagement devices, which is difficult in shift control, and it is possible to solve the equation of motion. In other words, it is possible to handle any shift pattern with the use of a predetermined shift model. Furthermore, at the time of a shift in which two elements are released and two elements are engaged, a first shift and a second shift in each of which one element is released and one element is engaged are carried out, so three control operation amounts are used in each of the first shift and the second shift, with the result that it is possible to solve the equation of motion.

Abstract: A driving method for an image pickup apparatus that includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion portion includes performing photoelectric conversion in each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions during a period between first time and second time, generating a plurality of first signals, each being a signal deriving from electric charge generated through the photoelectric conversion in the photoelectric conversion portion, which is a plurality of signals to be generated for each of the plurality of pixels, and generating a plurality of second signals by performing moving average processing on the plurality of first signals.