Abstract: A fabrication process is provided for a 3D stacked non-volatile memory device which provides a source contact to a bottom of a memory hole in a stack without exposing a programmable material lining of an interior sidewall of the memory hole and without exposing a channel forming region also lining an interior of the memory hole to an energetic and potentially damaging etch environment. The stack includes alternating control gate layers and dielectric layers on a substrate, and the memory hole is etched through the stack before lining an interior sidewall thereof with the programmable material and then with the channel forming material. The process avoids a need to energetically etch down through the memory hole to open up a source contact hole near the bottom of the channel forming material by instead etching upwardly from beneath the memory hole.

Abstract: A fabrication process is provided for a 3D stacked non-volatile memory device which provides a source contact to a bottom of a memory hole in a stack without exposing a programmable material lining of an interior sidewall of the memory hole and without exposing a channel forming region also lining an interior of the memory hole to an energetic and potentially damaging etch environment. The stack includes alternating control gate layers and dielectric layers on a substrate, and the memory hole is etched through the stack before lining an interior sidewall thereof with the programmable material and then with the channel forming material. The process avoids a need to energetically etch down through the memory hole to open up a source contact hole near the bottom of the channel forming material by instead etching upwardly from beneath the memory hole.

Abstract: A multilevel structure includes a stack of an alternating plurality of electrically conductive layers and insulator layers located over a semiconductor substrate, and an array of memory stack structures located within memory openings through the stack. An epitaxial semiconductor pedestal is provided, which is in epitaxial alignment with a single crystalline substrate semiconductor material in the semiconductor substrate and has a top surface within a horizontal plane located above a plurality of electrically conductive layers within the stack. The contact via structures for the semiconductor devices on the epitaxial semiconductor pedestal can extend can be less than the thickness of the stack.

Abstract: A multilevel structure includes a stack of an alternating plurality of electrically conductive layers and insulator layers located over a semiconductor substrate, and an array of memory stack structures located within memory openings through the stack. An epitaxial semiconductor pedestal is provided, which is in epitaxial alignment with a single crystalline substrate semiconductor material in the semiconductor substrate and has a top surface within a horizontal plane located above a plurality of electrically conductive layers within the stack. The contact via structures for the semiconductor devices on the epitaxial semiconductor pedestal can extend can be less than the thickness of the stack.

Abstract: An engine start controller shortens the time required from when an operation switch is operated to when an engine is started. The engine start controller controls starting of the engine of a vehicle and power supply to an electric device system. A control unit selectively locks the steering shaft of the vehicle and performs authentication with a portable device, which is carried by a user of the vehicle, for permitting use of the vehicle. An operation switch is connected to the control unit and generates an operation signal when operated by the user. The control unit unlocks the steering shaft in parallel with supplying power to the electric device system when the operation signal is generated and use of the vehicle is permitted through the authentication.

Abstract: An electric steering lock apparatus that protects an actuator from overheating without enlarging the actuator. The electric steering lock apparatus includes a lock pin engaged with a steering shaft to lock the steering shaft. An actuator moves the lock pin between a lock position in which the lock pin is engaged with the steering shaft and an unlock position in which the lock pin is disengaged from the steering shaft. A control unit controls the actuator. The control unit generates a calculated value related to operation time of the actuator and suspends operation of the actuator when the calculated value is greater than a predetermined operation suspension threshold value.

Abstract: An engine start/stop control system for preventing an engine from stopping when a vehicle is traveling. The system includes an IG1 driver circuit arranged between a power supply control unit and an IG1 relay. The IG1 driver circuit is activated in accordance with an activation signal from the power supply control unit or an output signal of a latch circuit and includes an FET for activating a relay. The latch circuit keeps the FET ON and the relay activated unless the vehicle stops traveling and a start/stop switch is pushed.

Abstract: An engine start controller shortens the time required from when an operation switch is operated to when an engine is started. The engine start controller controls starting of the engine of a vehicle and power supply to an electric device system. A control unit selectively locks the steering shaft of the vehicle and performs authentication with a portable device, which is carried by a user of the vehicle, for permitting use of the vehicle. An operation switch is connected to the control unit and generates an operation signal when operated by the user. The control unit unlocks the steering shaft in parallel with supplying power to the electric device system when the operation signal is generated and use of the vehicle is permitted through the authentication.

Abstract: An electric steering lock apparatus that protects an actuator from overheating without enlarging the actuator. The electric steering lock apparatus includes a lock pin engaged with a steering shaft to lock the steering shaft. An actuator moves the lock pin between a lock position in which the lock pin is engaged with the steering shaft and an unlock position in which the lock pin is disengaged from the steering shaft. A control unit controls the actuator. The control unit generates a calculated value related to operation time of the actuator and suspends operation of the actuator when the calculated value is greater than a predetermined operation suspension threshold value.

Abstract: An engine start/stop control system for preventing an engine from stopping when a vehicle is traveling. The system includes an IG1 driver circuit arranged between a power supply control unit and an IG1 relay. The IG1 driver circuit is activated in accordance with an activation signal from the power supply control unit or an output signal of a latch circuit and includes an FET for activating a relay. The latch circuit keeps the FET ON and the relay activated unless the vehicle stops traveling and a start/stop switch is pushed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device which aims to improve safety and reliability in a remote engine starting and stopping device for construction machines. A starting signal for starting an engine is transmitted to a construction machine from a transmission which is separate from the construction machine. The starting signal is received by a receiver on the construction machine. When the starting signal is received by the receiver, an engine starting device is driven for starting of an engine on condition that an operating lever for a working machine being on a neutral position is detected by a neutral position detection. As a result, a danger of the working machine coming into motion in an unmanned state is avoided for improvement of safety. Further, if the engine having worked is detected by a working condition detection after an engine starting device is driven by the engine start, the engine is made to work until a predetermined period of time elapses after a point of time when the detection is effected.