Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a technique regarding a remote control apparatus for remotely driving or assisting a vehicle by communicating with the vehicle. The remote control apparatus comprises a display device and one or more processors. The one or more processors is configured to execute acquiring an image captured by a vehicle camera and traveling state information of the vehicle, displaying the image on the display device, predicting a position where the vehicle emergently stops when communication with the vehicle is lost based on the traveling state information, and displaying an object indicating the predicted position on the display device to be superimposed on the image. The displaying the object on the display device includes calculating a reliability of the communication with the vehicle, and changing an appearance of the object such that noticeability of the object is lower as the reliability is higher.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus executes an acceleration suppression control to suppress an acceleration of an own vehicle when an operating condition including a condition that an accelerator pedal operation amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value is satisfied. The vehicle control apparatus sets the predetermined threshold value to a smaller value when an object entry condition that an object has a possibility to enter an area in front of the own vehicle, is satisfied than when the object entry condition is not satisfied.

Abstract: A process for preparing a catalyst material, includes: (a) providing a support material having surface hydroxyl (OH) groups, the support material is ceria (CeO2), zirconia (ZrO2) or a combination, and the support material contains between 0.3 and 2.0 mmol OH groups/g of the support material; (b) reacting the support material with at least one of: (b1) a compound containing at least one alkoxy or phenoxy group bound though its oxygen atom to a metal element from Group 5 (V, Nb, Ta) or Group 6 (Cr, Mo, W); (b2) a compound containing at least one hydrocarbon group bound though a carbon atom to a metal element from Group 5 or 6; (b3) a compound containing at least one hydrocarbon group bound though a carbon atom to a metal element which is copper (Cu); and (c) calcining the product obtained in step (b).

Abstract: The vehicle control device is a vehicle control device that executes autopilot control of a vehicle for securing a lateral distance between an object 8 existing within a predetermined distance from the driving lane and in front of the vehicle outside the driving lane of the vehicle that is the autonomous vehicle. The vehicle control device includes a type determination unit that determines a type of an object based on a detected result of a front sensor mounted on the vehicle, and a driving control unit that changes a target lateral speed in the autopilot control according to the type of the object.

Abstract: A power storage device comprises: an electrode stack comprising a plurality of bipolar electrodes and a pair of outermost current collectors; an inner voltage detection terminal; a housing; and a pair of outer voltage detection terminals. Each of the plurality of bipolar electrodes has a current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode active material layer. The inner voltage detection terminal is electrically connected to the current collector. Each of the pair of outer voltage detection terminals is thicker than the inner voltage detection terminal. The housing is located between the pair of outer voltage detection terminals in the stacking direction. A dimension of the housing in the stacking direction is equal to or less than a distance between the pair of outer voltage detection terminals in the stacking direction.

Abstract: A sorting system, a sorting method, and a program that can reduce the time required for sorting items using a shelf are achieved. A sorting system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a shelf in which a plurality of boxes are contained in a plurality of tiers, transfer means for putting each box in or taking it out of the shelf, and a sorting robot attached to the shelf configured to put an item in or take it out of each box. The transfer means pulls the box contained in an upper tier halfway out and the sorting robot puts in or takes the item out of each of the box contained in the upper tier and the box contained in the lower tier.

Abstract: A storage controller performs a storage write operation, and stores being unable to write due to memory cell deterioration in cases in which bit flips uncorrectable by an ECC have been detected a predetermined number of times or more for each predetermined volume written and also writing of a TBW or greater has been confirmed.

Abstract: A parking lot includes: a plurality of parking spaces arranged in series in a first direction; a camera configured to take a picture of the plurality of parking spaces; and a recognition target provided in each of the plurality of parking spaces. A usage status of each parking space is determined based on a result of recognition of the recognition target by the camera. Each parking space includes a first parking space line and a second parking space line. The first parking space line is located closer to the camera than the second parking space line is in the first direction. The recognition target is arranged to be decentered from a center line between the first parking space line and the second parking space line toward a region on a side of the second parking space line.

Abstract: The sulfide solid-state battery of the present disclosure has a battery laminate having one or more unit batteries; and an inorganic coating layer covering at least a portion of the periphery of the battery laminate. The unit battery is formed by laminating a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode layer in this order. At least one of the positive electrode layer, the solid electrolyte layer, and the negative electrode layer contains a sulfide solid electrolyte. The inorganic coating layer is made of an inorganic glass having a glass transition point of 260° C. or higher and 360° C. or lower.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery mounting structure of a frame vehicle in which a battery pack is supported by a pair of left and right side frames extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, which are provided in the frame vehicle. The battery pack includes a plurality of divided battery packs divided in the vehicle front-rear direction. Each of the plurality of divided battery packs is connected to a pair of left and right side frames via a support member.

Abstract: Each cell forming a battery stack has a discharge valve configured to discharge gas in the inside to the outside when an internal pressure increases. A case houses the battery stack. A plate member is provided between each discharge valve and an upper case. The plate member is arranged to overlap with each discharge valve when the battery stack and the plate member are planarly viewed from above.

Abstract: A magnet arrangement method capable of easily assembling magnets is provided. A magnet arrangement method according to one aspect of the present invention is a magnet arrangement method for arranging a plurality of magnetized magnets in a Halbach array, the method comprising: a process of forming a first magnet group by combining magnets in such a way that a direction of a magnetic force that acts on the magnets is oriented in a first direction; a process of forming a second magnet group by combining magnets in such a way that the direction of a magnetic force that acts on the magnets is oriented in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction; and a process of assembling a plurality of the first magnet groups and a plurality of the second magnet groups.

Abstract: When the battery is charged and discharged based on DR request, the first mode display is displayed on the display unit of the mobile terminal. The first mode display includes an end button, and when the end button is operated, the communication unit notifies the server that charging and discharging of the battery is stopped. When the user operates the end button, the mobile terminal notifies the server, so that the server can detect that the user intentionally leaves DR request.

Abstract: A magnet fixing method includes heating a rotor core. The magnet fixing method also includes inserting one or more of magnets, to which fixing sheets are bonded, into the uppermost one or more of slots with the rotor core being rotatably supported by a rotating jig such that openings of the slots face sideways. The magnet fixing method also includes fixing each magnet to the corresponding slot by heating a foam layer to foam the foam layer. The inserting one or more of magnets includes inserting the magnets into all the slots by repeating insertion of one or more of the magnets into the corresponding one or more of the slots with the associated one or more of the fixing sheets facing upward, and rotation of the rotor core.

Abstract: A water-cooled motor includes: an annular stator having a central axis; and an annular housing surrounding the stator around the central axis and provided with a cooling channel within the housing, the housing includes: an annular non-magnetic metal pipe; and a casting member cast to envelop the metal pipe around the central axis, and the metal pipe is located inward of the cooling channel and located outward of an outer surface of the stator, in a radial direction of the stator.

Abstract: A noncontact power supply device provided with one or more coil units and a cover housing the coil units inside of it. The cover is formed by joining a first sheet arranged at one surface sides of front and back surfaces of the coil units and a second sheet arranged at the other surface sides, the first sheet is a sheet covering the one surface sides of the coil units, the second sheet is a sheet having another surface part covering the other surface sides of the coil units and side surface parts covering side surfaces, the side surface parts of the second sheet are made to abut against side surfaces of the coil units by bending boundaries with the other surface part, and outer edge parts of the side surface parts of the second sheet and outer edge parts of the first sheet are joined.

Abstract: A battery mounting structure of a frame vehicle, which supports a battery pack by a pair of right and left side frames extending in the vehicle front-rear direction and provided in the frame vehicle, includes: a plurality of lateral members extending in the vehicle width direction and bridging the pair of right and left side frames; a longitudinal member supported by the plurality of lateral members so as to extend in the vehicle front-rear direction at an intermediate position of the side frames; and a support member that supports the battery pack such that a plurality of longitudinal members are provided at intervals in the vehicle front-rear direction and a gap in the vertical direction is generated between the plurality of longitudinal members. The battery pack is connected to the side frame via a rubber bush.

Abstract: A system for managing transfer or distribution of energy amongst a plurality of devices. The system includes one or more connectors configured to provide one or more connections to at least one of the plurality of devices, a switching device connected to the one or more connectors and configured to open or close the one or more connections, a memory configured to store energy storage or usage data associated with the at least one of the plurality of devices, and a controller coupled to the switching device and the memory. The controller may receive first data indicative of a request to receive energy, receive second data indicative of a request to unload energy, determine, based on the energy storage or usage data, the first data, and the second data, an energy distribution schedule, and control the switching device to provide or collect energy according to the energy distribution schedule.

Abstract: To encourage users to improve their carbon footprint, a transport may be provided with an enhanced operating manner in response to external events that lower the carbon footprint of one or more occupants of the transport. Events, such as lowering the energy consumption of a person's home dwelling, may be communicated to the transport and trigger an enhanced mode in the transport, such as an enhanced driving mode (e.g. sport mode) or an enhanced charging mode.

Abstract: The remote system includes a vehicle equipped with a camera and a remote terminal having a display. The vehicle and the remote terminal are connected via a communication network. The vehicle generates synthesized video in which moving object video changing over time is synthesized with camera video captured by the camera, and transmits the synthesized video to the remote terminal. The remote terminal displays the synthesized video on the display, detects fixation of video displayed on the display based on a change in the moving object video included in the synthesized video, and outputs an abnormality signal in response to detection of the fixation.

Abstract: A solar charging system mounted on a vehicle, comprising: a solar panel; a drive battery used for driving the vehicle; an auxiliary battery for supplying electric power to an in-vehicle device operating during parking; and a control unit for controlling electric power of the solar panel, the drive battery, and the auxiliary battery, wherein the control unit controls, during parking, a charging process for supplying generated electric power of the solar panel to the drive battery and a discharging process for supplying electric power of the drive battery to an auxiliary system including the auxiliary battery and the in-vehicle device so as not to be executed at the same time.

Abstract: A server (management apparatus) includes: a communication unit (first acquisition unit) that acquires a request regarding adjustment of electric power supply-and-demand in a power grid; and a processor (controller) that performs, based on the request, control to notify, a user of an electrically powered vehicle, of a replacement cost required for battery replacement at a battery station (battery replacement apparatus). When charging with electric power of the power grid is requested and a battery (first battery) of the electrically powered vehicle has an SOC lower than the SOC of a battery (second battery) having a maximum SOC to be used for charging, among a plurality of batteries (second batteries), the processor performs control to notify the user of the replacement cost lower than a normal replacement cost.

Abstract: A vehicle, includes: a vehicle body, and a side door opening portion opened and closed by a side door, formed at a side of the vehicle body; a seatbelt device having a seatbelt, a tongue plate, and a buckle; and a seat at which the seatbelt device is installed, the buckle being fixed at one side in a transverse direction of the seat, the seat being attached to a floor of a cabin so as to be rotatable about a rotation axis extending in a vehicle vertical direction, and the seat being disposed at a position at which, in a state in which the seat is oriented toward a vehicle rear side, the one side in the transverse direction of the seat is disposed at the side in the transverse direction of the vehicle body, and the buckle and the side door opening portion do not overlap in a vehicle transverse direction.

Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode in which during manufacture thereof a negative electrode paste has an appropriate viscosity, and which is capable of preventing an increase in resistance of a battery when left at a high temperature for a long period of time. A negative electrode disclosed herein includes a negative electrode current collector, and a negative electrode active material layer supported by the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode active material layer contains a negative electrode active material, and a trace component. The trace component is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Si, Ca, and Cr. The content of the trace component is not less than 10 mass ppm and not more than 800 mass ppm with respect to the negative electrode active material.

Abstract: Systems and methods of electrically heating catalyst (EHC) driver notification are provided. With the goal of increasing driver cooperation in reducing emissions, EHC driver notification systems notify the driver when the EHC is in an inefficient operation state. This notification is provided to the driver so that the driver may consciously operate the vehicle in a fashion that reduces emissions while the EHC is in the inefficient operation state. EHC driver notifications systems may also restrict operation of the vehicle when the EHC is in an inefficient operation state. However, for safety reasons, these systems provide the driver a function to bypass the restriction as needed.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for adjusting the creep torque to maneuver a vehicle to a target location. In various embodiments, the creep torque adjustment mode is deactivated when the driver changes the direction of travel. The change in direction also causes the parameters of the creep torque control to be reinitiated to their initial values. In various embodiments, the creep torque mode is increased from a low creep towards a target creep. If the driver engages the brakes, the input torque is set to zero, and when the driver releases the brake, the minimum creep torque is set to the value that creep torque had risen to just before the brake was applied. This allows the driver to control the acceleration and speed, by just braking. In various embodiments, the creep control controls reverse creep to aid in hooking up a vehicle to a trailer.

Abstract: An obstacle in a periphery of the vehicle is detected using a peripheral monitoring sensor for monitoring the periphery of the vehicle. It is sequentially determined whether an avoidance of the obstacle is necessary, according to a route of the vehicle. A warning device is controlled to issue a warning when determining that the avoidance of the obstacle is necessary. In a case where determining that the avoidance of the obstacle is unnecessary after starting the warning, the warning device is controlled to continue issuing the warning when an obstacle distance is less than a predetermined threshold value set in advance.

Abstract: A vehicle body includes a cross member that is provided on a floor panel and has a hole, and a nameplate that is joined to an inner face of the cross member. At least a part of the nameplate is exposed from the hole. A hardness of the nameplate is lower than a hardness of the steel plate used in the cross member, and a vehicle identification number is stamped in an area of the nameplate, the area being exposed from the hole.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a stator; and a rotor that face the stator and that rotates together with a rotation shaft, the rotor including: a rotor core including rotor salient poles and a slot formed between adjacent rotor salient poles, and a rotor coil wound around each of the rotor salient poles via an insulating member through the slot. Further, the rotor coil includes: a slot coil portion; and a coil end portion protruding from an end surface of the rotor core in an axial direction, the insulating member includes: a slot insulating portion; and an end insulating portion, and the slot insulating portion and the end insulating portion are integrated.

Abstract: A rack includes: a casing; M pairs of supports that are provided inside the casing so as to extend in a depth direction and arrayed at regular intervals in a predetermined direction; and a lock mechanism. The rack can house all returnable containers of one or more prespecified sizes along the respective pairs of supports. The M pairs of supports are arrayed in N rows in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction. The lock mechanism is configured such that moving first and second shafts that are provided for the respective rows and for the respective tiers, respectively, so as to be movable in the predetermined direction can switch between engagement and disengagement between branches of the first and second shafts and first and second holes, respectively, of the returnable containers.

Abstract: A driving force control system that controls a driving force in line with a driver's intension to propel a vehicle on a slippery road surface without wheel slip. A controller is configured to obtain individual relations of a slip ratio on a road surface to parameters including the driving force, a running resistance of the vehicle, and an accelerating force of the vehicle, and to control the driving force based on the obtained relations of the slip ratio to each of said parameters.

Abstract: Methods and devices for digitally combining multiple access or entry enabling items or keys and/or location data of multiple destinations. A device may wirelessly communicate with a plurality of access control devices. The access control devices may individually authenticate a digital key of a plurality of digital keys identifiable by key identification data stored in a memory of the device. The device may further include a processor. The processor may be configured to determine that the digital key is authenticated by one of the access control devices. The processor may be further configured to communicate with the one access control system to prompt the one access control system to allow access to a user of the device. The processor may be further configured to communicate the location data to a navigation system. The processor may be further configured to transmit access tokens and/or location data to other devices.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine a sprinkling mode based on information indicating the environment of a sprinkling place. The control unit is configured to send, through the communication unit, a notification indicating the sprinkling mode to at least one vehicle scheduled to travel in the sprinkling place.

Abstract: A wet particle storage tank includes a tank body capable of storing wet particles containing particles and solvent. The tank body has an upper storage section having a supply port through which the wet particles are supplied, a lower storage section located below the upper storage section and having a discharge port through which the wet particles are discharged, and a bridge forming section provided between the upper storage section and the lower storage section. The bridge forming section facilitates formation of a bridge by the wet particles to block falling of the wet particles from the upper storage section to the lower storage section.

Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication unit, and a control unit configured to send an instruction for causing flight vehicles to perform a flight operation, to the flight vehicles. The flight operation includes energizing, by a first flight vehicle, a penetration tool toward a target object in a space, holding a first part, penetrated through the target object, and a second part, not penetrated through the target object, of a cord-shaped member attached to the penetration tool, and flying to outside the space, waiting, by a second flight vehicle, outside the space and receiving any one of the first and second parts from the first flight vehicle, and towing, by the first and second flight vehicles, the target object with the cord-shaped member and transporting the target object to outside the space by flying while respectively holding any one and the other of the first and second parts.

Abstract: A service management device manages a service delivered in a predetermined area. The service management device has an operator interface including a display that displays information for an operator and receiving an input from the operator. The service management device communicates with an autonomous robot used for delivering the service in the predetermined area to acquire, from the autonomous robot, service robot information indicating at least a position and a status of the autonomous robot. The service management device displays a map of the predetermined area and the position of the autonomous robot on the display, based on the service robot information. When the autonomous robot displayed on the display is specified by the operator through the operator interface, the service management device displays a status window indicating the status of the autonomous robot specified by the operator on the display, based on the service robot information.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a portable device configured to store information on an electronic lock of a vehicle and an in-vehicle controller configured to communicate with the portable device, the in-vehicle controller being installed in the vehicle. The in-vehicle controller is configured to generate a permission command to permit the specific operation to be performed when the in-vehicle controller determines that the operation requested to be performed on the vehicle is a specific operation that needs permission from the authorized user, in-vehicle controller when the in-vehicle controller determines that the portable device is within a predetermined range around the vehicle, and when the in-vehicle controller determines that near field communication between the portable device and the communication terminal based on a first telecommunications standard is established.

Abstract: In a suspension bush in which an intermediate member is arranged between an inner shaft member and an outer tube member that are connected by a main body rubber elastic body, a central portion in the axial direction of the inner shaft member includes an inner bulging portion projecting toward the outer periphery, the outer tube member includes an outer curved portion concave toward the inner periphery, and the intermediate member includes an intermediate curved portion concave toward the inner periphery. The main body rubber elastic body is pre-compressed by diameter reduction of the outer tube member, an inclination angle of both axial end parts of the outer curved portion with respect to the axial direction is increased by diameter reduction of the outer tube member 14, and both axial end parts of the outer curved portion are pressed against axial end portions of the main body rubber elastic body.

Abstract: An open vehicle includes a vehicle upper portion, a traveling device, an external sensor, and an ECU. The vehicle upper portion has a riding surface that forms a bottom surface of the riding space and is configured for a plurality of users to ride on. The ECU is configured to control the traveling device to cause the open vehicle to automatically travel. The ECU is configured to execute: a specific person recognition process to use the external sensor to recognize a specific person existing in an outside space; and an automatic travel control process to control the traveling device such that, when the specific person exists within a predetermined distance range, the traveling device executes at least one of moving the open vehicle away from the specific person and increasing a vehicle speed as compared to when the specific person does not exist within the range.

Abstract: An autonomous running vehicle transmits a camera image around the vehicle photographed by a camera to a remote monitoring center. An obstacle is detected on the basis of information obtained from autonomous sensors including the camera. When an obstacle is detected, the autonomous running vehicle is automatically stopped. The remote monitoring center determines, when the autonomous running vehicle automatically stops, whether or not the run of the autonomous running vehicle is permitted to restart on the basis of the received camera video. When it is determined that the autonomous running vehicle can be restarted, a departure signal is transmitted to the autonomous running vehicle. When the departure signal is received from the remote monitoring center, the autonomous running vehicle restarts running.

Abstract: When a vehicle control interface receives information indicating “Forward” from a VP, the vehicle control interface sets a value 0 in a signal indicating a rotation direction of a wheel. When the vehicle control interface receives information indicating “Reverse” from the VP, the vehicle control interface sets a value 1 in the signal indicating the rotation direction of the wheel. When the vehicle control interface receives information indicating “Invalid value” from the VP, the vehicle control interface sets a value 3 in the signal indicating the rotation direction of the wheel. The vehicle control interface provides the signal indicating the rotation direction of the wheel to an ADK.

Abstract: A braking control device for controlling braking of a host vehicle. For a state in which a host vehicle is stopped in an intersection by automatic emergency braking and an oncoming vehicle is approaching in an oncoming lane, the host vehicle prohibits secondary braking is prohibited in, flashes a hazard lamp, and prohibits an idling stop. For a state in which it is determined in that the vehicle is stopped and it is determined in that it is safe for the vehicle to start moving, the host vehicle releases stop maintenance braking.

Abstract: A control device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a driving assist system, a requested acceleration and ending information indicating an end of a deceleration control; and a control unit configured to control a powertrain and a brake based on the requested acceleration, and perform a prescribed process of stabilizing a driving force and a braking force that are generated in an ending process of the deceleration control based on the requested acceleration when the acquisition unit acquires the ending information.

Abstract: A center comprising one or more processors configured to: communicate with an OTA master configured to control, based on update data, a software update for a plurality of electronic control units mounted on a vehicle; transmit, to the OTA master, first-type update data that is the update data for a first electronic control unit on which a first-type non-volatile memory having one storage area is mounted and second-type update data that is the update data for a second electronic control unit on which a second-type non-volatile memory having two storage areas is mounted, the first electronic control unit and the second electronic control unit being included in the electronic control units; and control transmittance of the first-type update data and the second-type update data to the OTA master based on a communication state between the center and the OTA master.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for developing/updating training datasets for traffic light detection/perception models. V2I-based information may indicate a particular traffic light state/state of transition. This information can be compared to a traffic light perception prediction. When the prediction is inconsistent with the V2I-based information, data regarding the condition(s)/traffic light(s)/etc. can be saved and uploaded to a training database to update/refine the training dataset(s) maintained therein. In this way, an existing traffic light perception model can be updated/improved and/or a better traffic light perception model can be developed.