Abstract: An engine control device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an engine is in a complete explosion state, a calculation unit configured to calculate an integrated intake air amount that is an integrated value of an intake air amount of the engine after an affirmative determination is made by the determination unit, a setting unit configured to set a target equivalent ratio of the engine in accordance with the integrated intake air amount, and a control unit configured to control an intake air amount and a fuel injection amount of the engine such that an equivalent ratio of an air-fuel mixture becomes the target equivalent ratio.

Abstract: An engine having a throttle valve, a filter for collecting an exhaust particulate matter from the engine, and a control device are provided, and the control device includes an acquisition unit for acquiring a temperature of the engine, a regeneration control unit for increasing an opening degree of the throttle valve as the temperature increases, and executing a regeneration control of the filter by a fuel cut. A vehicle comprising: a retard amount control unit that increases a retard amount of an ignition timing at a time of returning from the fuel cut as the temperature increases.

Abstract: A vehicle may include a camera configured to capture surroundings around the vehicle; a receiver; a display device; and a controller configured to display an image that the camera is currently capturing on the display device with reception of a signal transmitted from a vehicle washer by the receiver as a trigger.

Abstract: An operation management system including a controller configured to execute: a position obtaining process to obtain positional information from each registered mobility; a correlating process to correlate each registered mobility and specification information stored in a storage device with each other; a travel-history storing process to store, in the storage device, a traveled route which is a travel history of each registered mobility, so as to be correlated with map information; and a road-surface-condition obtaining process to calculate a road surface condition including a position and a shape of a rut corresponding to the traveled route based on information on a detection value of a sensor of each of registered mobility, the type of a road surface included in the map information, the specification information, and the traveled route and to store, in the storage device, the road surface condition so as to be correlated with the map information.

Abstract: A method of producing an all-solid-state battery includes forming an insulating layer-attached stack unit including an insulating layer and a stack unit that includes a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer and a negative electrode layer; performing a dielectric breakdown test on the insulating layer included in the insulating layer-attached stack unit, and determining that the insulating layer-attached stack unit is a non-defective product if no dielectric breakdown is present; forming an electrode member having both ends by disposing the two insulating layer-attached stack units at the both ends, the insulating layer-attached stack unit being determined to be a non-defective product; accommodating the electrode member in a case; and assembling a restraint member to the outside of the case to produce an all-solid-state battery.

Abstract: A water electrolysis cell includes an anode-side porous channel, a membrane electrode assembly, a cathode-side porous channel, and a separator disposed on at least any one of a side of the anode-side porous channel opposite to the membrane electrode assembly side and a side of the cathode-side porous channel opposite to the membrane electrode assembly side. The anode-side porous channel, the membrane electrode assembly, and the cathode-side porous channel are provided in this order. The membrane electrode assembly includes an anode catalyst layer, an electrolyte membrane, and a cathode catalyst layer in order from the anode-side porous channel side. An area in a plane direction of the anode-side porous channel is greater than an area in the plane direction of the cathode-side porous channel in a plan view.

Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: one or more processors configured to acquire vehicle configuration information including information on an electronic control unit (ECU) mounted on a vehicle and transmit the vehicle configuration information to a server; and acquire software distributed from the server; and a communication module configured to transmit the software acquired by the first acquisition unit to the vehicle.

Abstract: A tank arranged such that an axis is horizontal, and filling portions are arranged at both ends in the axial direction, and both filling portions are configured to inject gas toward an upper portion of an inside of the tank.

Abstract: A management method performed by a management apparatus includes determining a delivery vehicle based on vehicle classification data and delivery environment information.

Abstract: A multi-mode heat transfer system includes an emitter device with an inner core surrounded by an outer core having an outer surface and an emission surface disposed on the outer surface. The emission surface includes a thermal metamaterial configured to direct heat from the inner core in at least two desired directions to an object other than the emitter device. The object can include a thermal receiver devices, for example two receiver devices and the emission surface can direct heat to two different receiver devices spaced apart from the emitter device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a separator for a zinc secondary battery that can inhibit short circuiting in a zinc secondary battery. The separator for a zinc secondary battery of the disclosure has a porous substrate layer and a titanium oxide-containing porous layer laminated onto the porous substrate layer, wherein the titanium oxide-containing porous layer comprises a titanium oxide represented by TixOy, where 0<x, 0<y, and y<2x. The titanium oxide may be TiO, Ti2O, Ti2O3, Ti3O, Ti3O5, Ti4O5, Ti4O7, Ti5O9, Ti6O, Ti6O11, Ti7O13, Ti8O15 or Ti9O17.

Abstract: An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus includes acquiring route information that indicates a route or a stop position for a delivery vehicle, the route information being generated based on driver information regarding a driver of the delivery vehicle and delivery information regarding a package to be delivered by the delivery vehicle.

Abstract: A management method includes determining, by a management apparatus, a stopping location for a vehicle used for delivery, based on vehicle classification data on the vehicle, delivery environment information, and stopping environment information during the delivery.

Abstract: When the element temperature of the air-fuel ratio sensor becomes equal to or higher than the activation temperature, the electronic control unit starts the detection of the air-fuel ratio based on the sensor output of the air-fuel ratio sensor and the air-fuel ratio feedback control based on the detection result. The electronic control unit calculates the air-fuel ratio detection value by setting the gain of the air-fuel ratio detection value with respect to the sensor output when the sensor output is a value indicating the air-fuel ratio richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to a value smaller than that after the elapse of the synchronization period from the start of the air-fuel ratio until the element temperature becomes equal to or higher than the predetermined desorption convergence temperature.

Abstract: A management apparatus includes a controller configured to manage one or more vehicles to be rented to users in a car sharing service. The controller is configured to, in a case in which a vehicle returned by a user does not meet a return condition, notify the user that the return condition is not met when the user inputs an operation for return.

Abstract: An information processing device for controlling a mobile object, the information processing device comprising: a communication unit that performs communication with the mobile object; a function control unit that controls a function necessary for causing the mobile object to autonomously travel; and a switching control unit that switches whether to control at least a part of the necessary functions by the information processing device or by the mobile object based on a communication state between the information processing device and the mobile object.

Abstract: A method for adjusting an information system of a mobile machine, the information system being configured to calculate 3D information relative to a scene in which the mobile machine is moving, the method including: acquiring at least a first image of the scene at a first time and a second image of the scene at a second time; detecting one or more scene features in the first image and the second image; matching the one or more scene features across the first image and the second image based upon detection of the one or more scene features; estimating an egomotion of the mobile machine based upon the matching of the one or more scene features across the first image and the second image; and adjusting the information system by taking into account the estimation of the egomotion of the mobile machine.

Abstract: A server (battery replacement management server) includes: a communication unit (acquisition unit) that acquires number-of-users information (situation information) in a battery replacement apparatus; and a processor (control unit) that adjusts, based on the situation information, an incentive given to a user of the battery replacement apparatus.

Abstract: A parking lot includes a plurality of parking spaces monitored by a single camera. A parking lot management method includes a parking space allocation process that allocates an available parking space among the plurality of parking spaces to an entry vehicle entering the parking lot. The plurality of parking spaces include a priority parking space depending on a size of the entry vehicle. Even when the entry vehicle is parked in the priority parking space, a predetermined percentage or more of a parking space adjacent to the priority parking space is not hidden by the entry vehicle when viewed from the single camera. The parking space allocation process includes: acquiring information on the size of the entry vehicle; recognizing the priority parking space among the plurality of parking spaces based on the size of the entry vehicle; and preferentially allocating the priority parking space to the entry vehicle.

Abstract: The controller of the information processing apparatus obtains a first evaluation amount that is an evaluation amount of the first vehicle in a case that the body color of the first vehicle is assumed to be the color of the first paint coating film. The controller obtains a second evaluation amount that is an evaluation amount of the first vehicle in case that the body color of the first vehicle is assumed to be the color of the second paint coating film. The controller determines whether the second paint coating film should be removed from the first vehicle based on the first evaluation amount and the second evaluation amount. The controller outputs the above determination result.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an object sensor configured to detect an object around the vehicle; a warning device configured to alert a driver when an object is detected by the object sensor at a position at which a distance from the vehicle is less than or equal to a threshold; a receiver; and a controller configured to reduce the threshold when the receiver receives a signal transmitted from a vehicle washer.

Abstract: A power supply system is a power supply system that performs charging and discharging between the power supply system and an external system. The power supply system includes a plurality of battery units and a controller. The plurality of battery units include a plurality of battery packs and a plurality of converters provided corresponding to the plurality of battery assemblies, respectively. The controller controls the plurality of battery units. The plurality of battery units are connected together in parallel. The controller controls a converter of the plurality of converters that corresponds to a battery pack of the plurality of battery packs for which a predetermined period has elapsed since the battery pack is charged to a fully charged state, so as to charge the battery pack to the fully charged state.

Abstract: An entity server includes a communication apparatus and a processor. The communication apparatus is configured to receive a temporary use request that requests temporary use of a vehicle by a user, the vehicle being associated with an NFT. When the communication apparatus receives the temporary use request, the processor performs locking processing for locking the NFT.

Abstract: An information processing device is provided, which includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire a satellite image of the ground photographed by an artificial satellite; and provide, to a user, point information indicating points at which a number of persons present on the ground is equal to or greater than a first predetermined number, the points being identified based on the acquired satellite image.

Abstract: A management method includes determining, by a management apparatus, an acceptable range of a delivery time based on a delivery condition of goods ordered from a store, and determining, by the management apparatus based on the acceptable range of the delivery time and vehicle classification data on a vehicle that delivers goods, goods to be loaded into the vehicle.

Abstract: The information processing apparatus acquires the first body color desired by a user as a body color of a vehicle ordered by the user. Furthermore, based on at least the appraised value of the vehicle having a first body color after a predetermined period has elapsed, the information processing apparatus determines whether or not to propose to the user to topcoat the vehicle having the second body color with an easily peelable paint of the first body color.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a receiving section receiving, from a user, setting processing for setting a time period in which control of a vehicle by using an information processing device is suppressed; a detecting section detecting a predetermined user operation for control of the vehicle; and a control permitting section that, in a case in which the predetermined user operation is detected in a time period that is different than the time period in which control of the vehicle is suppressed, permits control of the vehicle in accordance with the information processing device vibrating or moving, and, in a case in which the predetermined user operation is detected within the time period in which control of the vehicle is suppressed, does not permit control of the vehicle regardless of whether or not the information processing device is vibrating or moving.

Abstract: An entity server includes a communication apparatus and a processor. The communication apparatus is configured to receive a delivery request that requests delivery of a vehicle to a user, the vehicle being associated with an NFT. When the communication apparatus receives the delivery request, the processor performs locking processing for locking the NFT.

Abstract: A battery unit which achieves both thermal performance and repairability, and which efficiently ensures insulation between a battery cell and a cooler. The battery unit according to the present disclosure comprises a battery cell, a heat dissipation sheet, a cured resin heat dissipation member, and a cooler in this order so as to be in contact with each other, the battery cell and the heat dissipation sheet being in contact with each other in an interface separable manner, the cured resin heat dissipation member being bonded to the heat dissipation sheet and the cooler.

Abstract: An information processing device is provided, which includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire a vehicle size of a vehicle and an overhead view image of a parking lot captured in a satellite image taken of ground-level by an artificial satellite; and propose, to an occupant of the vehicle, a parking lot in which the vehicle is able to park, the parking lot being designated based on the acquired vehicle size and the acquired overhead view image.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a management server includes a controller configured to execute operations, the operations including acquiring sensor information from a sensor installed in a vehicle, and upon detecting, from the sensor information, an abnormality in the vehicle, notifying the management server of the content of the abnormality.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a behavior of electricity consumption of an electric vehicle and an entity, adjusting a carbon credit associated with the entity based on an amount of the electricity consumption that is carbon-based and the behavior of the electricity consumption preserving a charge of the electric vehicle, and applying the adjusted carbon credit in a transaction related to the entity.

Abstract: A vehicle inspection system acquires a first camera image captured by a first camera and a second camera image captured by a second camera, calculates a first optical axis coordinate value from the first camera image and a second optical axis coordinate value from the second camera image, determines whether there is an abnormality in each of the first optical axis coordinate value and the second optical axis coordinate value, and identifies an abnormality factor portion causing an abnormality in one or both of the first optical axis coordinate value and the second optical axis coordinate value from among the first camera, the second camera, and the vehicle body of the vehicle, based on a combination of the presence or absence of the abnormality in the first optical axis coordinate value and the presence or absence of the abnormality in the second optical axis coordinate value.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles configured to perform automated driving includes a controller configured to execute operations, the operations including receiving, from each of the plurality of vehicles, a notification of a content of an abnormality, in-vehicle images, and the number of persons in the vehicle, prioritizing the plurality of vehicles based on determination results by determining, for each of the plurality of vehicles, a load of an automated driving process and the number of persons in the vehicle, and displaying with emphasis the content of the abnormality of a vehicle of a highest priority and the in-vehicle images of the vehicle of the highest priority.

Abstract: A method for disassembling a lithium ion secondary battery of the present disclosure includes a discharging step, a primary crushing step, a drying step, and a secondary crushing step. In the discharging step, the lithium ion secondary battery is discharged such that the voltage of the lithium ion secondary battery is not lower than 0.8 V, and preferably the voltage is lower than or equal to 3.0 V. In the primary crushing step, the case is crushed to expose the electrode body. In the drying step, the electrode body is dried until the high-boiling-point solvent contained in the electrolytic solution evaporates. Then, in the secondary crushing step, the electrode body after drying is crushed and the separator is peeled off from the electrode.

Abstract: A power supply system is a power supply system that performs charging and discharging between the power supply system and an external system. The power supply system includes a plurality of battery units and a controller. The plurality of battery units include a plurality of battery packs and a plurality of converters provided corresponding to the plurality of battery packs. The plurality of battery units are connected together in parallel. The controller controls the plurality of converters to charge each of the plurality of battery packs to a fully charged state. For each of the plurality of battery packs, the controller is configured to perform equalization control to equalize voltages of cells included in the battery pack when the battery pack is charged to the fully charged state.

Abstract: Microcapsule and microsphere controlled release forms of antioxidants such as cerium oxide to improve durability, and extend the lifetime of fuel cells are disclosed. Membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) and polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) employing the controlled release forms and methods of mitigating or suppressing cerium migration in fuel cells are also disclosed.

Abstract: A power storage cell includes: an electrode assembly; and a cell case that accommodates the electrode assembly. The cell case has a case main body provided with an opening that opens upward, a lid connected to the case main body, and an elastic member disposed between the case main body and the electrode assembly. The elastic member has a center-facing portion facing a central portion of the electrode assembly, and the center-facing portion has a shape curved to protrude in a direction away from the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A vehicle system of a vehicle may include a controller programmed to receive sensor data from one or more vehicle sensors as the vehicle drives along a road, determine whether the vehicle is approaching a road anomaly based on the sensor data, and upon determination that the vehicle is approaching the road anomaly, begin recording audio and continue recording audio until after the vehicle interacts with the road anomaly.

Abstract: An operation management apparatus includes an interface configured to acquire first information identifying an abnormal state of an autonomous vehicle from an autonomous driving kit of the autonomous vehicle and acquire second information on the autonomous vehicle from an in-vehicle communication device of the autonomous vehicle, and a controller configured to change an operation pattern of the autonomous vehicle to an abnormality response pattern determined based on the first information and the second information and output the abnormality response pattern to the autonomous driving kit.

Abstract: A vehicle detection system configured to judge whether a target vehicle, which has been detected to approach the subject vehicle from behind in a driving lane being used by the subject vehicle and being covered by the detection area is an alert object, to output a result of judgement to a warning which warns a driver of the subject vehicle that a target vehicle (60) is present in the driving lane behind the subject vehicle based on the judging the target vehicle to be an alert object, and to determine, on the basis of a change of a lateral overlap of the target vehicle in the detection area, an overlap change rate which is defined as a ratio of the change of the overlap to a specified time.

Abstract: A notification device notifies a driver of a vehicle to be parked in one of a plurality of parking spaces in a parking area including a control device that transmits control information for parking travel control of the vehicle heading for the assigned parking space to the vehicle via a communication network that the parking travel control is not executable, via an output device mounted on the vehicle, in the case where it is determined that the vehicle has arrived within the predetermined distance of the parking area, the travel controller is incapable of executing the parking travel control, and the driver is in the vehicle.

Abstract: The information processing device extracts one or a plurality of autonomously drivable sections in the traveling route of the vehicle to the destination. Further, the information processing device specifies the first section having the longest autonomous driving continuable time on the traveling route. Then, the information processing device outputs the autonomous driving continuable time in the first section.

Abstract: An information notification system displays a notification to a user of a vehicle on a display device. A first type notification is a notification of road traffic information on a road or traffic around the vehicle. A second type notification is a notification of information not belonging to the road traffic information or a notification that no road traffic information is available. The information notification system prohibits overlaying the first type notification and the second type notification when displayed on the display device. When the display device has only a single display area for displaying the notification, the information notification system selects and displays one of the first type notification and the second type notification in the single display area.

Abstract: A wheelchair fixing device includes a support member that is provided on a base member and supports the drive mechanism, a slide shaft, a pair of lock arms that is provided on both sides of the base member, the lock arms being configured to turn toward a downward side and to pin down a fixing bar of the wheelchair due to the slide shaft moving in the backward direction, and being configured to turn toward the upward side and to release pinning down of the fixing bar due to the slide shaft moving in the advancing direction, a pair of switch arm mechanisms configured to turn due to being pressed by the fixing bar of the wheelchair, and lock switches configured to drive the drive mechanism by being pressed by the switch arm mechanisms, such that the slide shaft is moved in the backward direction.

Abstract: A controller acquires first information related to a request for a predetermined operation performed before a first vehicle moves, which is required for the first vehicle from outside the first vehicle parked in a parking lot; and transmits, in response to acquiring the first information, second information for causing a user of a second vehicle waiting for parking to recognize a position where the first vehicle is parked.

Abstract: A vehicle control device has a processor configured to estimate a direction of a source of a warning sound generated by another vehicle relative to the host vehicle based on an acoustic signal acquired by an acoustical sensor, and decide to drive the host vehicle in a direction perpendicular to a current traveling direction of the host vehicle and away from the source of the warning sound, when the direction of the source of the warning sound relative to the host vehicle is estimated.

Abstract: A method for improving 3D object detection via object-level augmentations is described. The method includes recognizing, using an image recognition model of a differentiable data generation pipeline, an object in an image of a scene. The method also includes generating, using a 3D reconstruction model, a 3D reconstruction of the scene from the image including the recognized object. The method further includes manipulating, using an object level augmentation model, a random property of the object by a random magnitude at an object level to determine a set of properties and a set of magnitudes of an object manipulation that maximizes a loss function of the image recognition model. The method also includes training a downstream task network based on a set of training data generated based on the set of properties and the set of magnitudes of the object manipulation, such that the loss function is minimized.

Abstract: A driving support apparatus comprises a sensor configured to detect an object, and a controller configured to execute a collision control when the object satisfies a first collision condition. The controller determines whether or not the object satisfies a second collision condition which is more difficult to be satisfied than the first collision condition when both an angle condition and a steering condition are satisfied in a case where the object is a three-dimensional object which is in a roadside or a median strip of a road. The angle condition is a condition that an entry angle formed by a traveling direction of the vehicle and the three-dimensional object is equal to or smaller than a threshold angle. The steering condition is a condition for determining that a driver performs an avoidance steering operation. The controller executes the collision control when the three-dimensional object satisfies the second collision condition.

Abstract: A cooling system disclosed herein includes a first system flow passage, a second system flow passage, and a reserve tank. The reserve tank includes a first chamber, a second chamber, a third chamber and fourth chamber and an intermediate chamber. A first inflow port is opened into the first chamber, a first outflow port is opened into the second chamber, a second inflow port is opened into the third chamber, and a second outflow port is opened into the fourth chamber. The first chamber and the second chamber communicate, the third chamber and the fourth chamber communicate, and the first chamber communicates with the third chamber through the intermediate chamber. The first system flow passage is connected to the first inflow port and the first outflow port, and the second system flow passage is connected to the second inflow port and the second outflow port.