Abstract: To achieve, in a load drive device including an H-bridge circuit, miniaturization of a capacitor or/and the constituent elements of the H-bridge circuit (e.g., reduction in volume) with circuit elements, for example, switching elements included in the H-bridge circuit, being inhibited from breaking down or destroying even in a case where a load is overloaded. The invention is disclosed in which, as a solution to the achievement, first and second modes are provided as a switching mode for the switching elements 11, 12, 13, and 14 and switching is appropriately performed between the first and second modes.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a magnet coil drive control device that can efficiently suppress conduction noise while reducing the capacitance of a capacitor. A capacitor and an impedance element are arranged in series on the connecting line connecting the positive electrode line and the negative electrode line of a DC power supply, the connecting line between the capacitor and the impedance element is connected to one end of a magnet coil via a freewheeling diode, and the portion between the freewheeling diode and the one end of the magnet coil is connected to the positive electrode line or the negative electrode line by a switching element. Conduction noise caused by the driving current of the magnet coil can be suppressed by the impedance element, and the capacitance of the capacitor can be further reduced. Accordingly, the magnet coil drive control device can be made smaller in size.

Abstract: An axial fan includes an impeller, a motor, and a housing. The impeller is configured to rotate about a rotation axis extending in a vertical direction; a motor configured to rotationally drive the impeller. The housing is disposed radially outside the impeller and the motor. An inner wall surface of the housing includes a groove recessed radially outward and extending in the vertical direction. At least a first end of the groove in the vertical direction extends to one end of the housing in the vertical direction.

Abstract: An axial fan according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes an impeller, a motor, and a housing. The impeller is configured to rotate about a rotation axis extending in a vertical direction. The motor is configured to rotationally drive the impeller. The housing is disposed radially outside the impeller and the motor. In a region overlapping in the vertical direction with the impeller, an inner wall surface of the housing includes at least one first wall having a narrow gap with a radially outer edge of the impeller and at least one second wall having a wide gap with the radially outer edge of the impeller.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of obtaining an electronic control device for a vehicular automatic transmission that suppresses sudden acceleration, sudden deceleration, and gear shift shock that occur when the transmission moves into a fail-safe mode due to the electronic control device stopping during a main CPU abnormality. An electronic control device 100 for a vehicular automatic transmission has: a main CPU 3 that performs gear shift control for the vehicular automatic transmission; and a sub-CPU 4 that detects abnormalities in the main CPU 3. When the sub-CPU 4 detects an abnormality in the main CPU 3 while the vehicle is traveling, the sub-CPU 4 stops the gear shift control executed by the main CPU 3.

Abstract: The present invention achieves, using simple circuits, timing synchronization among ECUs of an electronic control device which is configured from a driver ECU, a sensor ECU, and an integrated ECU which are connected over a network. This electronic control device is provided with a driver ECU for driving various loads for vehicular control, a sensor ECU for sampling various sensor signals, and an integrated ECU which is connected to the driver ECU and sensor ECU over a network and calculates command values to the various loads in accordance with various sensor data, the electronic control device being characterized in that the driver ECU has timer D for generating internal timing, the sensor ECU has timer S for generating internal timing, and the integrated ECU has timer M serving as a reference for timer D and timer S.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electronic control device including an integratable protection circuit that is capable of protecting an internal circuit, a sensor, etc., against both of surge voltage application and battery connection abnormality. The electronic control device includes an input terminal connectable to an external sensor and switch, and a power supply wiring and a GND wiring that are utilized to supply power to the internal circuit, wherein protection elements each including a PN junction are connected between the input terminal and the power supply wiring or the GND wiring, and protection resistor are further connected in series between the protection elements and the power supply wiring or the GND wiring.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic control unit capable of identifying an abnormality in a power supply voltage without narrowing the operating voltage range, and having minimal effects on cost and the circuit mounting surface area. The ECU includes a microcomputer containing an input terminal VCCin and an input terminal Vrin, a power supply IC that supplies a power supply voltage VCC to the input terminal VCCin, and as a reference-voltage-generator circuit a voltage-divider resistor and a voltage-divider resistor configuring a voltage-dividing circuit that outputs a sub-divided voltage Vc is sub-divided from the power supply voltage VCC, a capacitor coupled at one end to the input terminal Vrin and coupled on at the other end to ground, and a voltage isolation element coupled between the voltage-dividing circuit and the input terminal Vrin.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a magnet coil drive control device that can efficiently suppress conduction noise while reducing the capacitance of a capacitor. A capacitor and an impedance element are arranged in series on the connecting line connecting the positive electrode line and the negative electrode line of a DC power supply, the connecting line between the capacitor and the impedance element is connected to one end of a magnet coil via a freewheeling diode, and the portion between the freewheeling diode and the one end of the magnet coil is connected to the positive electrode line or the negative electrode line by a switching element. Conduction noise caused by the driving current of the magnet coil can be suppressed by the impedance element, and the capacitance of the capacitor can be further reduced. Accordingly, the magnet coil drive control device can be made smaller in size.

Abstract: A current control semiconductor device that can detect a current with high precision within an IC of one chip by dynamically correcting a variation in a gain a and an offset b, and a control device using the semiconductor device are provided. A transistor 4, a current-voltage converter circuit 22, and an AD converter 23 are disposed on an identical semiconductor chip. Reference current generator circuits 6 and 6? superimpose a current pulse Ic on a current of a load 2, and vary a voltage digital value output by the AD converter. A gain/offset correction unit 8 subjects a variation in a voltage digital value caused by the reference current generator circuits 6, 6? to signal processing, and dynamically acquires gains a, a? and offsets b, b? in a linear relational expression of the voltage digital value output by the AD converter 23 and a current digital value of the load.

Abstract: A current control device capable of performing widely applicable failure detection without a motor rotation speed sensor is provided. A current control semiconductor element includes, on a same semiconductor chip, a transistor that drives load, a current detection circuit that detects current of the load, a compensator that calculates an on-duty of the transistor from a current command value and a current value output from the current detection circuit, and a PWM timer that generates a pulse turning on the transistor on the basis of the on-duty. A microcontroller sends the current command value to the current control semiconductor element, receives the current value output from the current detection circuit and the on-duty output from the compensator from the current control semiconductor element, and detects failure of the current control semiconductor element on the basis of the received current value and on-duty.

Abstract: In an axial fan, a housing includes a side wall arranged to surround an outer circumference of an impeller, and a substantially square or substantially rectangular flange arranged to project radially outward from an outer circumferential surface of the side wall. The side wall preferably includes three slit groups each including a plurality of slits arranged in a circumferential direction and arranged to extend through the side wall from an inner circumferential surface to the outer circumferential surface thereof. Two of the slit groups are defined in portions of the side wall which correspond to two adjacent corner portions in an upper half portion of the flange, while the remaining slit group is defined in a portion of the side wall which corresponds to a lower half portion of the flange. The upper and lower half portions are divided at a line parallel or substantially parallel to two opposing sides of the flange and passing through a central axis.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic control unit capable of identifying an abnormality in a power supply voltage without narrowing the operating voltage range, and having minimal effects on cost and the circuit mounting surface area. The ECU includes a microcomputer containing an input terminal VCCin and an input terminal Vrin, a power supply IC that supplies a power supply voltage VCC to the input terminal VCCin, and as a reference-voltage-generator circuit a voltage-divider resistor and a voltage-divider resistor configuring a voltage-dividing circuit that outputs a sub-divided voltage Vc is sub-divided from the power supply voltage VCC, a capacitor coupled at one end to the input terminal Vrin and coupled on at the other end to ground, and a voltage isolation element coupled between the voltage-dividing circuit and the input terminal Vrin.

Abstract: Proposed is a C/U that is designed to accomplish the above object. The CU includes a multilayer circuit substrate, a resin cover, and a metal base. Electronic parts are mounted on both surfaces of the multilayer circuit substrate which is covered with the resin cover and the metal base. The multilayer circuit substrate 8 includes a signal pattern, a GND pattern, an important signal pattern, and a multilayer circuit substrate insulating layer. The GND pattern is electrically connected to the metal base through a screw. The GND pattern is disposed on the side of the resin cover in order to shield the important signal pattern against electromagnetic waves penetrating the resin cover to enter a housing and electromagnetic waves incident from the metal base side. The important signal pattern is disposed so that it is covered with the GND pattern and the metal case.

Abstract: A current control semiconductor device that can detect a current with high precision within an IC of one chip by dynamically correcting a variation in a gain a and an offset b, and a control device using the semiconductor device are provided. A transistor 4, a current-voltage converter circuit 22, and an AD converter 23 are disposed on an identical semiconductor chip. Reference current generator circuits 6 and 6? superimpose a current pulse Ic on a current of a load 2, and vary a voltage digital value output by the AD converter. A gain/offset correction unit 8 subjects a variation in a voltage digital value caused by the reference current generator circuits 6, 6? to signal processing, and dynamically acquires gains a, a? and offsets b, b? in a linear relational expression of the voltage digital value output by the AD converter 23 and a current digital value of the load.

Abstract: A current control device capable of performing widely applicable failure detection without a motor rotation speed sensor is provided. A current control semiconductor element includes, on a same semiconductor chip, a transistor that drives load, a current detection circuit that detects current of the load, a compensator that calculates an on-duty of the transistor from a current command value and a current value output from the current detection circuit, and a PWM timer that generates a pulse turning on the transistor on the basis of the on-duty. A microcontroller sends the current command value to the current control semiconductor element, receives the current value output from the current detection circuit and the on-duty output from the compensator from the current control semiconductor element, and detects failure of the current control semiconductor element on the basis of the received current value and on-duty.

Abstract: A current regulator has a current regulating semiconductor device and a microcontroller which outputs a PWM pulse for driving a load to the current regulating semiconductor device and receives outputs of a high-side current detection circuit and a low-side current detection circuit from the current regulating semiconductor device. An output mixer of the current regulating semiconductor device switches, in synchronization with the PWM pulse, between the output of the high-side current detection circuit and the output of the low-side current detection circuit on one signal line to output the output to the microcontroller.

Abstract: In an axial fan, a housing includes a side wall arranged to surround an outer circumference of an impeller, and a substantially square or substantially rectangular flange arranged to project radially outward from an outer circumferential surface of the side wall. The side wall preferably includes three slit groups each including a plurality of slits arranged in a circumferential direction and arranged to extend through the side wall from an inner circumferential surface to the outer circumferential surface thereof. Two of the slit groups are defined in portions of the side wall which correspond to two adjacent corner portions in an upper half portion of the flange, while the remaining slit group is defined in a portion of the side wall which corresponds to a lower half portion of the flange. The upper and lower half portions are divided at a line parallel or substantially parallel to two opposing sides of the flange and passing through a central axis.

Abstract: There are disclosed a multilayer silver halide color photographic material comprising two kinds of cyan couplers and a multilayer silver halide color photographic material comprising two kinds of cyan couplers, a magenta coupler, and a yellow coupler in respective photosensitive layer. The disclosure as described provides a multilayer silver halide color photographic material that is good in color-forming property, that will be less stained, and that is improved in image-lasting quality and in fastness under severe conditions.