Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a first semiconductor layer, an insulation layer and a second semiconductor layer, which are stacked in this order; a LDMOS transistor disposed on the first semiconductor layer; and a region having a dielectric constant, which is lower than that of the first or second semiconductor layer. The region contacts the insulation layer, and the region is disposed between a source and a drain of the LDMOS transistor. The device has high withstand voltage in a direction perpendicular to the substrate.
Abstract:
An access point for establishing wireless connection with one or more wireless communication stations which can perform intermittent reception operation, based on a packet transmission system which allocates wireless bands by CSMA/CA, has: unit for describing, in a same packet or in respective packets, buffering information on a downlink packet addressed to a subordinate wireless communication station currently in an intermittent reception state, and transmission prohibition period information indicating a period where transmission from the subordinate wireless communication station is prohibited; unit for transmitting the instruction described packet, in which the description has been made, to the subordinate wireless communication station; unit for making a state of the access point transit to a Doze state immediately after the instruction described packet is transmitted, or when a predetermined number of downlink packets are transmitted; and unit for making a state of the access point transit to an Awake state when the transmission prohibition period elapses from the time of transmission of the packet in which the prohibition period information is described.
Abstract:
When a wireless communication station, which is about to communicate while intermittently receiving a multicast service, transmits, to an access point, a request packet describing information on the multicast service and an intermittent reception request, the access point describes, in a packet, intermittent reception timing information corresponding to the multicast service information described in this request packet, and replies with this packet to the wireless communication station. The wireless communication station reads the intermittent reception timing information from the received packet, and performs transition to the Awake state or the Doze state according to this intermittent reception timing. The access point, on the other hand, transmits the multicast packet to the wireless communication station according to the intermittent reception timing.
Abstract:
A radio terminal includes: a controller configured to control switching between a wake-up state in which a radio interface is turned on and a sleep-state in which the radio interface if turned off; a battery configured to accumulate electric power to be supplied to the radio interface; a remaining battery amount acquiring unit configured to acquiring a remaining battery amount being a remaining amount of electric power accumulated in the battery. The controller performs switching from the sleep state to the wake-up state, according to a communication order where own radio terminal performs radio communication. The own-terminal communication order is scheduled based on the remaining battery amount.
Abstract:
An image capture device includes a viewfinder for viewing a subject. The viewfinder either forms an integral part of the device or is an external member that is attachable to, and removable from, the device. The device includes: an optical system; a generating section for capturing an image of the subject through the optical system and generating image data; a detecting section for detecting the degree of focusing of the subject's image represented by the image data; a display section on which the subject's image is presentable based on the image data; and a controller for accepting a decision to use either the display section or the viewfinder for viewing the subject to shoot. If the controller accepts the decision to use the viewfinder, the display section displays no subject's image, and displays information about the degree of focusing of the subject's image for at least a certain period of time. The information has been obtained based on a result of detection done by the detecting section.
Abstract:
A wireless communication apparatus capable of constructing an ad-hoc wireless network is disclosed to include a transmitting/receiving unit configured to transmit and receive a common broadcast signal; and a transmission interval control unit configured to change transmission interval of the common broadcast signal to be transmitted depending on the number of communication nodes existing in communication range of the wireless communication apparatus or on the wireless resource utilization status.
Abstract:
A semiconductor apparatus is disclosed. The semiconductor apparatus includes an SOI substrate including an active layer, a buried insulation film and a support substrate; a low potential reference circuit part located in the active layer and operable at a first reference potential; a high potential reference circuit part located in the active layer and operable at a second reference potential; a level-shifting element forming part located in the active layer and for providing a level-shift between the first and second reference potentials; and an insulation member insulating first and second portions of the support substrate from each other, wherein locations of the first and second portions respectively correspond to the low and high potential reference circuit parts.
Abstract:
In a liquid substance supply device, a three port two valve directional control valve is provided in a transfer line, and a substance container and the transfer line are connected together by a four port three valve directional control valve in such a way that the four port three valve directional control valve and the substance container can be removed from the transfer line as a unit. Furthermore, in a vaporizer, an orifice member is provided to surround the end portion of an internal conduit in which flows a mixture substance consisting of a gas and a liquid substance mixed therewith, and gas for atomization is spouted into a vaporization chamber through a gap defined between the internal conduit and the orifice member. Yet further, the temperature of a vaporization surface in the vaporization chamber can be controlled independently in correspondence with the nature of the liquid substance.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to realize a distributed autonomous transmission scheduling by using a terminal without the need to observe packets in relation to communication of other wireless terminals in a cell, such as VoIP, in which a plurality of wireless terminals that periodically transmit packets exist, thereby allowing intermittent reception during the packet observation and enabling to control power consumption of the wireless terminal as well as to reduce the load to thereby improve the communication quality. To attain the object, a VoIP terminal 100 recognizes and retains a scheduling table received by a wireless terminal that is connected to a wireless base station and that is not communicating with other wireless terminals, additionally writes terminal information of the terminal in the scheduling table at the start of communication of the terminal, and broadcasts the scheduling table. The scheduling table is updated when an update time of another scheduling table received by a terminal in communication which is newer than an update time of the scheduling table and different from the order of transmission, and an exclusive or preferential bandwidth available period is set for communication in accordance with the scheduling table.
Abstract:
A passage block coupling apparatus is provided with a bolt insertion hole 13 and a pin insertion hole 14 formed in an upper-stage passage block 3, a screw hole 15 and a non-screw hole 16 that are formed in a lower-stage passage block 4, a bolt 11 that is inserted into the bolt insertion hole 13, and threaded with the screw hole 15, and a positioning pin 12 that is inserted to the pin insertion hole 14, with its lower end portion being fitted to the non-screw hole 16. A cut-out section 17 is formed near the lower end portion of the positioning pin 12, and a protruding portion 18 to be fitted to the cut-out section 17 is formed on the opening portion of the non-screw hole 16. A tightening force exerted by the bolt 11 and a force exerted by the lower end portion of the positioning pin 12 to press the protruding portion 18 of the non-screw hole 16 upward are balanced with each other so that an evenly fastened state is achieved so that the passage blocks 3 and 4 are coupled with each other.