Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus changes a display location of an on-screen-display (OSD) for setting a condition responsive to a ratio of lateral length vs. vertical length of a screen of a display device such as TV and an aspect ratio of a video. In this apparatus, an OSD controller generates an OSD signal. An OSD signal outputting section allows a video output signal to include this OSD signal. A selector selects an aspect ratio of a display area of the video output signal. When the selector selects a given aspect ratio, the controller places the OSD signal at a location in the video output signal responsive to the aspect ratio. The OSD is thus normally displayed without being cut off from the screen.

Abstract: This invention is aimed at providing a wafer-level package which is capable of relaxing the stress in a chip-size package and exalting the reliability of the operation of mounting on a printed board and a method for the production thereof. This invention is directed toward a wafer-level package of a semiconductor substrate possessed of either or both of an electrode part and a wiring layer connected to an electrode part, which is provided on the semiconductor substrate with an insulating layer formed mainly of a fluorene skeleton-containing resin and on the electrode part with one step or a plurality of steps of posts, and on the posts with bumps formed of electroconductive balls and a method for the production thereof.

Abstract: A seating detector comprises a plurality of cells provided at a seating surface to be defined by rows and columns for detecting partial loads, an unevenness calculating means for calculating the number of cells when a partial pressure detected at the each cell is larger than a partial pressure detected at one abutting cell positioned next to the cell at one side thereof and a partial pressure detected at the other abutting cell positioned next to the cell at the other side thereof, or when a partial pressure detected at the each cell is smaller than a partial pressure detected at one abutting cell positioned next to the cell at one side thereof and a partial pressure detected at the other abutting cell positioned next to the cell at the other side thereof, and a determining means for determining that the seat is occupied by a child restraint system based on a comparison between the number of the cells and a threshold.

Abstract: An occupant weight detecting device includes a load detecting means equipped to a seat body for detecting a load applied to the seat body, a calculating means for calculating an initial load value during the seat body under an initial condition based upon a detected load value by the load detecting means and for calculating a value of an occupant load applied to the seat body by subtracting the initial load value from the detected load value, and a filter housed in the calculating means and possessing a cutoff frequency so as to attenuate a fluctuation of the detected load value generated due to an element other than a deterioration inherent to the load detecting means.

Abstract: A seating detector comprises a plurality of load sensors provided at a seat for detecting partial loads applied to the seat, a total load calculating means for calculating a total load by summing up the partial loads detected by the load sensors, an occupant determining means for determining an occupant of the seat based on an comparison between the total load calculated by the total load calculating means and at least one of thresholds, a detecting means for detecting fastened/unfastened conditions of the seat belt, a judging means for judging whether or not the total load is in a predetermined range when it is detected by the detecting means that the unfastened condition of the seat belt is switched to the fastened condition, a determination maintaining means for maintaining a determination of the occupant of the seat as a child restraint system when it is judged that the total load is in the predetermined range.

Abstract: An occupant detecting device comprises plural cells provided at a seating part of a vehicle seat and defined by an array of rows in a width direction of the vehicle seat and columns in a cross direction of the vehicle seat for detecting partial pressures of the seating part, a total pressure value calculating means for obtaining a total pressure value by summing up the detected partial pressures, a determining means for determining a condition of the vehicle seat on which an adult passenger is sitting based on a comparison result between the obtained total pressure value and a determining value threshold, a temperature sensor for detecting temperature, and a correcting means for correcting at least one of either the total pressure value calculated based on the detected temperature or the determining value threshold.

Abstract: An occupant weight detecting device includes plural cells provided on a seat and detecting pressure which is defined by rows in a width direction of the seat and columns in a back-and-forth direction of the seat, a peak row detecting means for calculating the sum of pressure per cells of predetermined number of rows adjoining in the back-and-forth direction and detecting any one row of the predetermined number of rows corresponding to the maximum sum to be defined as a peak row, and a detecting means for detecting a concentrated load position on the seat based on the peak row.

Abstract: A wireless packet stores a plurality of coded words. Each coded word includes user data and an error correction code. Coded word number information indicating the number of coded words stored in the wireless packet, and coding parameter information indicating the coding method used when a coded word is generated are set in the header of the packet.

Abstract: A second processor 6 inserts data to be transmitted and pointer information into a data packet and transmits the data packet at step S20 and then determines whether an acknowledgement from the receiving party has been received at step S22. If no acknowledgement has been received, a determination is made as to whether the number of re-transmissions is equal to or less than a predetermined re-transmission number at step S32. If the re-transmission number is equal to or less than the preset value, then a data packet 16 with the same data is transmitted at step S20. However, if the re-transmission number has reached the preset value, then the number of data bits per data packet is reduced at step S36, and a data packet with reduced data is transmitted at step S20.

Abstract: An occupant weight detecting device includes a load detecting means equipped to a seat body for detecting a load applied to the seat body, a calculating means for calculating an initial load value during the seat body under an initial condition based upon a detected load value by the load detecting means and for calculating a value of an occupant load applied to the seat body by subtracting the initial load value from the detected load value, and a filter housed in the calculating means and possessing a cutoff frequency so as to attenuate a fluctuation of the detected load value generated due to an element other than a deterioration inherent to the load detecting means.

Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus changes a display location of an on-screen-display (OSD) for setting a condition responsive to a ratio of lateral length vs. vertical length of a screen of a display device such as TV and an aspect ratio of a video. In this apparatus, an OSD controller generates an OSD signal. An OSD signal outputting section allows a video output signal to include this OSD signal. A selector selects an aspect ratio of a display area of the video output signal. When the selector selects a given aspect ratio, the controller places the OSD signal at a location in the video output signal responsive to the aspect ratio. The OSD is thus normally displayed without being cut off from the screen.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device, using a bonding wire for linking a semiconductor terminal to a connecting terminal for an outside circuit, capable of preventing short circuits of the bonding wires and excellent in strength and fatigue resistance of the bonding joints to cope with the downsizing of the terminals and the bonding materials, in which device the bonding wires are reinforced, partially or wholly, with a reinforcing material after bonding work and joint bulbs bonded to the terminals using bonding material are plated, and a method to produce the same.