Abstract: A heating apparatus for a vehicle includes an air heating unit configured to heat air conditioning air to be sent into a vehicle cabin, a contact heating unit configured to heat a member that is in contact with a body of an occupant in the vehicle cabin, and an electronic control unit. A heat source of the air heating unit and a heat source of the contact heating unit each are supplied with an electric power from one or more batteries. The electronic control unit is configured to decrease an electric power that is supplied to the heat source of the air heating unit when the heat source of the contact heating unit is on as compared to an electric power that is supplied to the heat source of the air heating unit when the heat source of the contact heating unit is off.

Abstract: A server according to the present disclosure determines a vehicle dispatch schedule of a vehicle for delivery of a rental article to a user and/or for collection of a rental article rented out to a user from the user. The server includes a communication interface for acquiring, from a terminal apparatus used by the user, first information regarding the rental article, and at least one of second information regarding a rental date/time and a rental location and third information regarding a return date/time and a return location; and a controller for determining, according to the second information, a vehicle dispatch schedule for delivering the rental article indicated by the first information to the user by the vehicle, and/or for determining, according to the third information, a vehicle dispatch schedule for collecting the rental article rented out to the user from the user by the vehicle.

Abstract: The control device of an exhaust sensor includes a processor. The processor is configured to control supply of power to the heater. The processor is configured to start the supply of power to the heater at a predetermined timing before a starter for cranking the internal combustion engine is turned on and increase power supplied to the heater when the starter is turned on.

Abstract: A battery measurement device for measuring a state of a rechargeable battery, includes a signal control unit provided on a first electrical path connecting a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the rechargeable battery and configured to cause the rechargeable battery to output a predefined AC signal or to input a predefined AC signal to the rechargeable battery, a voltage measurement unit provided on a second electrical path connecting the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the rechargeable battery and configured to receive, via the second electrical path, voltage variations of the rechargeable battery in response to the AC signal, a calculation unit configured to calculate information on a complex impedance based on the voltage variations, and a determination unit configured to determine an abnormality and a precursory sign of an abnormality in the second electrical path based on the information on the complex impedance.

Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes a stator core and a stator coil. The stator core is formed of a band-shaped steel sheet that is helically bent and laminated. The stator core has slots each opening at an inner periphery of the stator core and spaced from one another in a circumferential direction. The stator coil is formed of electrical conductor segments that are inserted in the slots of the stator core and connected with one another. The band-shaped steel sheet has slits each of which is formed, at a position corresponding to one of the slots, to be open to the corresponding slot. Each of the electrical conductor segments is substantially U-shaped and has a pair of leg portions respectively inserted in corresponding two of the slots of the stator core; the corresponding two slots are circumferentially apart from each other by two or more slot-pitches.

Abstract: A control device includes a switching control unit, an information acquisition unit, and a difference acquisition unit. The switching control unit performs switching control that increases braking torque of the braking device while decreasing braking torque of the rotating electrical machine, when a vehicle is decelerated. The information acquisition unit acquires information on a state of the vehicle. The difference acquisition unit acquires a braking torque difference indicating a difference between braking torque required for keeping a stopped state of the vehicle and braking torque of the braking device, when the vehicle is stopped. After the information acquisition unit detects the stopped state of the vehicle, the switching control unit corrects output torque of the rotating electrical machine based on the braking torque difference.

Abstract: A control system of a mobile body is provided with a data acquiring unit and a failure occurrence probability calculation unit. The data acquiring unit acquires data of a plurality of failure factors which may cause a failure on a mounted product mounted on a mobile body. The failure occurrence probability calculation unit calculates, based on data of the plurality of failure factors, a failure occurrence probability of components corresponding to the data of the plurality of failure factors.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to the present disclosure provides a rotary electric machine including: a rotor; and a concentrated winding stator arranged coaxially to the rotor, in which the number of teeth of the concentrated winding stator is set to be a value where an integer which is multiple of 3 between adjacent prime numbers in a prime number sequence is multiplied by 2 and the number of poles of the rotor is set to be a value where any prime number between the adjacent prime numbers is multiplied by 2.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a field system and an armature. The field system includes a magnet section having a plurality of magnetic poles whose polarities alternate in a circumferential direction. The armature includes a multi-phase armature coil. Either of the field system and the armature is configured as a rotor. The magnet section is configured to have an easy axis of magnetization oriented such that the closer the position to a d-axis in the circumferential direction, the more the direction of the easy axis of magnetization becomes parallel to the d-axis.

Abstract: A capacitor module includes a capacitor element, a plurality of connection terminals for electrically connecting the capacitor element to a semiconductor module and a power supply that are another equipment, and an exterior coating that includes a resin film having electrical insulating property and wraps the capacitor element except the plurality of connection terminals.

Abstract: A current sensor includes an electrical-conduction member, a magnetoelectric converter and a shield. The shield includes a first shield and a second shield arranged such that surfaces are opposed to and spaced away from each other. A part of the electrical-conduction member and the magnetoelectric converter are located between the surface of the first shield and the surface of the second shield. The part of the electrical-conduction member located between the first shield and the second shield extends in an extension direction along the surface of the second shield. The second shield has two sides aligned in a lateral direction perpendicular to the extension direction, and has a plurality of extending parts extending toward the first shield at the sides and being aligned with and separated from each other in the extension direction. The magnetoelectric converter is located between the plurality of extending parts.

Abstract: An automated driving vehicle includes: a communication device which receives a traveling plan from an operation management device provided outside an vehicle; and an automated driving controller which allows an vehicle the controller is associated with to travel autonomously along a traveling route on which a plurality of stations are set so as to fulfill the traveling plan, in which the automated driving controller has a standard plan which prescribes a standard operation schedule of the vehicle the controller is associated with, and the automated driving controller, in a case where the traveling plan has not arrived or is irregular, generates an interim plan on the basis of the standard plan, and allows the vehicle the controller is associated with to travel autonomously so as to fulfill the interim plan.

Abstract: A lateral position of a vehicle is estimated by collating a position of a lane division line in map data with a relative position of the lane division line with respect to the vehicle indicated by a recognition result by a peripheral monitoring sensor. The lateral position of the vehicle is precluded from being specified using the estimated lateral position of the vehicle in response to a lateral deviation between (i) a position of a landmark in the map data and (ii) a translated landmark position being equal to or greater than a first threshold value. The translated landmark position is a position on map deviated from the estimated lateral position of the vehicle assumed to be the lateral position of the vehicle on map by a relative position of the landmark with respect to the vehicle indicated by the recognition result by the peripheral monitoring sensor.

Abstract: A vehicle master device includes at least one processor that is configured to: download rewrite specification data, reprogramming data, and new configuration setting information from a center device upon determining that there is a campaign notification relating to a program update based on a notification from the center device; determine whether an application program is to be rewritten or configuration setting information is to be rewritten based on the rewrite specification data; instruct a rewrite target ECU to rewrite the application program upon determining that the application program is to be rewritten; and instruct the rewrite ECU to rewrite the configuration setting information upon determining that the configuration setting information is to be rewritten.

Abstract: A system for generating virtual lane markers of an intersection so that the virtual lane markers are visible to an operator of a vehicle at the intersection. The system includes a remote station having a transceiver, a remote memory module configured to store map data and baseline static paths of vehicles moving through the intersection, and a remote control module configured to broadcast via the transceiver a map message indicating the baseline static paths. A vehicle transceiver is configured to receive the map message. A vehicle control module is configured to generate virtual lane markers through the intersection based on the baseline static paths included with the received map message.

Abstract: In an object detection device for detecting an object, a single sensor unit includes a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit. The light receiving unit includes a two-dimensional array of light receiving elements and outputs a light reception signal in response to a light reception state of a set of the light receiving elements for each pixel. The sensor unit is configured to, based on the light reception signals, acquire first information indicating reception intensity of the reflected light at each pixel, second information indicating reception intensity of background light that is light other than the reflected light, at each pixel, and third information indicating a distance to the object at each pixel as a pixel value of the pixel. A detection unit is configured to use all of the first to third information included in the pixel values of the respective pixels to detect the object.

Abstract: A map information assessment device has a processor configured to match a plurality of first zones representing a first road in a first map, with second zones representing a second road in a second map, the matching being made by using locations on the second road that are closest to the starting points of the first zones as the starting points, and using zones having the same lengths as the first zones, as the second zones corresponding to the first zones, to calculate zone adjacent distances between the end points of the second zones and the starting points of other second zones adjacent to those second zones, and to determine that positional information for the first road in a first zone is different from positional information for the second road in a second zone corresponding to that first zone, when the zone adjacent distance is greater than a threshold.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a heat dissipation member, multiple switching elements, and multiple signal terminals. The switching elements include a first switching element formed on a silicon substrate and a second switching element formed on a silicon carbide substrate, and include at least one of the first switching element or the second switching element in a plural number Each of the switching elements includes a temperature sense pad. The first switching element and the second switching element are alternately arranged in a predetermined direction in which a refrigerant flows. In the switching elements of same type as the switching element disposed on a most downstream side in the predetermined direction, the signal terminal corresponding to the temperature sense pad is provided for the switching element disposed on the most downstream side, and is not provided for the switching elements disposed on more upstream side.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes an imager substrate, a housing, and a heat dissipator. The imager substrate has an image sensor mounted thereon. The housing is equipped with a rear wall extending in an in-plane direction perpendicular to a thickness of the imager substrate and has the imager substrate disposed therein. The heat dissipator is arranged between the imager substrate and the rear wall in contact therewith to transfer heat from the imager substrate to the rear wall. The rear wall has a substrate-facing surface facing the imager substrate through the heat dissipator and also has a retainer arranged on the substrate-facing surface to hold the heat dissipator thereon. This structure ensures enhanced stability in releasing thermal energy from the image sensor or the imager substrate.

Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a magnet unit. The rotating electrical machine also includes a cylindrical stator and a housing. The stator is equipped with a stator winding made up of a plurality of phase windings. The stator is arranged coaxially with the rotor and faces the rotor. The housing has the rotor and the stator disposed therein. The rotor includes a cylindrical magnet retainer to which the magnet unit is secured and an intermediate portion which connects between a rotating shaft of the rotor and the magnet retainer and extends in a radial direction of the rotating shaft. A first region located radially inside an inner peripheral surface of a magnetic circuit component made up of the stator and the rotor is greater in volume than a second region between the inner peripheral surface of the magnetic circuit component and the housing in the radial direction.