Abstract: According to one embodiment, a thermoelectric material are provided. The thermoelectric material includes a sintered body formed of p-type and n-type thermoelectric materials for the thermoelectric conversion element. The thermoelectric materials have a MgAgAs type crystal structure as a main phase. An area ratio of internal defects of the thermoelectric materials for one thermoelectric conversion element is 10% or less in terms of a total area ratio of defective portions in a scanning surface according to ultrasonic flaw detection in a thickness direction of the thermoelectric material. No defect having a length of 800 ?m or more is present at any vertex of chips of the thermoelectric materials.

Abstract: The stability of a step of processing a wiring formed using copper, aluminum, gold, silver, molybdenum, or the like is increased. Moreover, the concentration of impurities in a semiconductor film is reduced. Moreover, the electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device are improved. In a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, an oxide film in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, and a pair of conductive films being in contact with the oxide film and including copper, aluminum, gold, silver, molybdenum, or the like, the oxide film has a plurality of crystal parts and has c-axis alignment in the crystal parts, and the c-axes are aligned in a direction parallel to a normal vector of a top surface of the oxide semiconductor film or the oxide film.

Abstract: An on-vehicle system comprises a Clock Extension Peripheral Interface (CXPI) bus and a device coupled to the CXPI bus as a slave node. The device comprises a transceiver configured to: generate a first signal by delaying an inverted signal of a transmission data signal: generate a second signal based on the transmission data signal, where the second signal has a low slew rate: selectively output the first signal or the second signal as a third signal, in response to a selector signal: and generate a clock signal in response to the third signal, where the clock signal is at a high level when the third signal is at a low level, and where the clock signal is at the low level when the third signal is at the high level.

Abstract: An on-vehicle system comprises a Clock Extension Peripheral Interface (CXPI) bus and a device coupled to the CXPI bus as a slave node. The device comprises a transceiver configured to: generate a first signal by delaying an inverted signal of a transmission data signal; generate a second signal based on the transmission data signal, where the second signal has a low slew rate; selectively output the first signal or the second signal as a third signal, in response to a selector signal; and generate a clock signal in response to the third signal, where the clock signal is at a high level when the third signal is at a low level, and where the clock signal is at the low level when the third signal is at the high level.

Abstract: An on-vehicle system comprises a Clock Extension Peripheral Interface (CXPI) bus and a device coupled to the CXPI bus as a slave node. The device comprises a transceiver configured to: generate a first signal by delaying an inverted signal of a transmission data signal; generate a second signal based on the transmission data signal, where the second signal has a low slew rate; selectively output the first signal or the second signal as a third signal, in response to a selector signal; and generate a clock signal in response to the third signal, where the clock signal is at a high level when the third signal is at a low level, and where the clock signal is at the low level when the third signal is at the high level.

Abstract: An engine automatic-stop/restart system includes a starting apparatus drive start setting unit that sets in an output comparison register a starting apparatus drive starting time instant obtained by adding a calculated starting apparatus drive start waiting time to a present time instant read from a free-running counter and that starts drive of a starting apparatus when the set starting apparatus drive starting time instant and the value of the free-running counter coincide with each other.

Abstract: An on-vehicle system comprises a Clock Extension Peripheral Interface (CXPI) bus and a device coupled to the CXPI bus. The device comprises a transceiver configured to: detect a baud rate clock signal and a phase difference between the baud rate clock signal and an input data signal that was generated asynchronously from the baud rate clock signal; obtain a timing from an edge of the baud rate clock signal based the phase difference; capture a value of the input data signal at the timing; and transmit the captured value as an output data signal over the CXPI bus.

Abstract: The discharge circuit malfunction diagnosis device configured to diagnose a malfunction of a discharge circuit, which is to be applied to a power supply system including: an assembled battery including a plurality of cells; a discharge circuit which is configured to discharge the each of the plurality of cells when driven; and a voltage adjustment section configured to determine, based on voltages of the respective plurality of cells of the assembled battery, a target cell voltage and a cell to be discharged, and configured to drive a discharge circuit for the cell to be discharged in accordance with the target cell voltage, includes a malfunction diagnosis section configured to compare a discharge circuit pre-driving voltage and a discharge circuit post-driving voltage of the cell to be discharged, to thereby diagnose a malfunction of a discharge circuit corresponding to the cell to be discharged.

Abstract: An on-vehicle system comprises a Clock Extension Peripheral Interface (CXPI) bus and a device coupled to the CXPI bus. The device comprises a transceiver configured to: detect a baud rate clock signal and a phase difference between the baud rate clock signal and an input data signal that was generated asynchronously from the baud rate clock signal; obtain a timing from an edge of the baud rate clock signal based the phase difference; capture a value of the input data signal at the timing; and transmit the captured value as an output data signal over the CXPI bus.

Abstract: An on-vehicle electronic device has a generating unit configured to generate a first clock for data communication with another on-vehicle electronic device through a CXPI communication network; and an adjusting unit configured to adjust a duty width of the first clock.

Abstract: In order to provide an engine automatic stop and restart apparatus capable of realizing excellent startability, and preventing an excessive load from being imposed on a starter (30) and a power transmission system, a starter drive inhibition determination section (12) inhibits, in a case where an engine restart condition is satisfied, when a backward rotation of an engine (20) is detected based on a crank angle of a crankshaft of the engine (20) detected by a crank angle sensor (1) for detecting the crank angle, a drive of the starter (30) configured to crank the crankshaft so as to restart the engine (20), and releases, when a stop of the engine (20) is detected, the drive inhibition of the starter (30).

Abstract: An on-vehicle electronic device has a generating unit configured to generate a first clock for data communication with another on-vehicle electronic device through a CXPI communication network; and an adjusting unit configured to adjust a duty width of the first clock.

Abstract: An on-vehicle electronic device has a generating unit configured to generate a first clock for data communication with another on-vehicle electronic device through a CXPI communication network; and an adjusting unit configured to adjust a duty width of the first clock.

Abstract: An on-vehicle electronic device has a generating unit configured to generate a first clock for data communication with another on-vehicle electronic device through a CXPI communication network; and an adjusting unit configured to adjust a duty width of the first clock.

Abstract: The discharge circuit malfunction diagnosis device configured to diagnose a malfunction of a discharge circuit, which is to be applied to a power supply system including: an assembled battery including a plurality of cells; a discharge circuit which is configured to discharge the each of the plurality of cells when driven; and a voltage adjustment section configured to determine, based on voltages of the respective plurality of cells of the assembled battery, a target cell voltage and a cell to be discharged, and configured to drive a discharge circuit for the cell to be discharged in accordance with the target cell voltage, includes a malfunction diagnosis section configured to compare a discharge circuit pre-driving voltage and a discharge circuit post-driving voltage of the cell to be discharged, to thereby diagnose a malfunction of a discharge circuit corresponding to the cell to be discharged.

Abstract: An engine automatic-stop/restart system includes a starting apparatus drive start setting unit that sets in an output comparison register a starting apparatus drive starting time instant obtained by adding a calculated starting apparatus drive start waiting time to a present time instant read from a free-running counter and that starts drive of a starting apparatus when the set starting apparatus drive starting time instant and the value of the free-running counter coincide with each other.

Abstract: In order to provide an engine automatic stop and restart apparatus capable of realizing excellent startability, and preventing an excessive load from being imposed on a starter (30) and a power transmission system, a starter drive inhibition determination section (12) inhibits, in a case where an engine restart condition is satisfied, when a backward rotation of an engine (20) is detected based on a crank angle of a crankshaft of the engine (20) detected by a crank angle sensor (1) for detecting the crank angle, a drive of the starter (30) configured to crank the crankshaft so as to restart the engine (20), and releases, when a stop of the engine (20) is detected, the drive inhibition of the starter (30).

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor memory device which reduces current consumption in a standby state owing to a suitable refresh-thinning-out function, and a refresh control method thereof. When the refresh-thinning-out function is added while a refresh operation and an external access operation are being executed independently of each other, a refresh address counter outputs a refresh address Add(C) and inputs predetermined high-order bits thereof to a refresh-thinning-out control as a high-order refresh address Add(C) (m), where judgment as to whether the refresh operation is performed, is made. A refresh permission signal RFEN corresponding to the result of judgment is inputted to a word driver to activate and control the word driver. The process of judgment by the refresh-thinning-out control circuit can be embedded in an access time of a row system.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor memory device which reduces current consumption in a standby state owing to a suitable refresh-thinning-out function, and a refresh control method thereof. When the refresh-thinning-out function is added while a refresh operation and an external access operation are being executed independently of each other, a refresh address counter outputs a refresh address Add(C) and inputs predetermined high-order bits thereof to a refresh-thinning-out control as a high-order refresh address Add(C) (m), where judgment as to whether the refresh operation is performed, is made. A refresh permission signal RFEN corresponding to the result of judgment is inputted to a word driver to activate and control the word driver. The process of judgment by the refresh-thinning-out control circuit can be embedded in an access time of a row system.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor memory device which reduces current consumption in a standby state owing to a suitable refresh-thinning-out function, and a refresh control method thereof. When the refresh-thinning-out function is added while a refresh operation and an external access operation are being executed independently of each other, a refresh address counter outputs a refresh address Add(C) and inputs predetermined high-order bits thereof to a refresh-thinning-out control as a high-order refresh address Add(C) (m), where judgment as to whether the refresh operation is performed, is made. A refresh permission signal RFEN corresponding to the result of judgment is inputted to a word driver to activate and control the word driver. The process of judgment by the refresh-thinning-out control circuit can be embedded in an access time of a row system.