Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purifying catalyst composition and an exhaust gas purifying catalyst, each of which has improved exhaust gas purification performance, and the present invention provides an exhaust gas purifying catalyst composition containing a Ce-based oxide particle, a Ce—Zr-based composite oxide particle, and a noble metal element, wherein the Ce-based oxide particle contains at least one type of additional element selected from Al, Mg, La, Pr, Y, and Nd, and wherein an amount of the at least one type of additional element in terms of oxide in the Ce-based oxide particle is 0.1% by mass or more and 20% by mass or less based on a mass of the Ce-based oxide particle.

Abstract: An electronic control device 140 is mounted on an on-vehicle control system 10 that performs travel control of an automobile, and is communicatively connected to a plurality of control devices including a first control device (electronic control device 120) and a second control device (electronic control device 130). The electronic control device 140 includes an attack determination unit 145 that determines presence or absence of a security attack in each control device, and a redundant system execution determination unit 146 that determines whether to cause the second control device to execute a redundant function similar to or a part of the function performed by the first control device based on the result of determination by the attack determination unit 145.

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 heat exchanger including an aluminum substrate, and a water-repellent coating provided on a surface of the aluminum substrate, wherein the aluminum substrate has an anodized film on the surface, and the water-repellent coating is a film formed of a fluoropolyether group-containing compound.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a photoelectric conversion element with an excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency, an imaging element, an optical sensor, and a compound. The photoelectric conversion element of the present invention includes, in the following order, a conductive film, a photoelectric conversion film, and a transparent conductive film, in which the photoelectric conversion film contains a compound represented by Formula (1).

Abstract: A setting device including a processor is provided. The processor is configured to, when occurrence of a secondary disaster is predicted after occurrence of a disaster, set a region in which the secondary disaster is predicted to a charging-prohibited zone in which use of a charging facility for charging a battery installed in a vehicle is prohibited.

Abstract: The safety management apparatus comprises a protective shield with automatic opening and closing, a sensor configured to obtain physical information related to an occupant boarded an autonomous traveling cart, and a controller configured to control the opening and closing of the protective shield. The protective shield is configured to be normally open and, when closed, shield an occupant space of the cart from the outside. The controller includes at least one memory including at least one program, and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory. The at least one processor executes a first process and a second process upon execution of the at least one program. The first process is to determine whether the occupant is an infant based on the physical information. The second process, which is executed when the occupant is determined to be an infant, is to close the protective shield.

Abstract: A boundary is at an engine drive restricted zone where operation of the internal combustion engine is restricted. An adjusting device adjusts of at least one of the temperature inside the cabin using electric power, the humidity inside the cabin using electric power, or the air pollution degree inside the cabin. In response to a prediction that (1) a host vehicle will enter the inside of the engine drive restricted zone and that (2a) the time period for the host vehicle to reach the boundary is within a preset time period or that (2b) the distance between the host vehicle and the boundary is within a preset distance, the value of at least one of the temperature inside the cabin, the humidity inside the cabin, and the air pollution degree inside the cabin is reduced before the host vehicle enters the inside of the engine drive restricted zone.

Abstract: A vehicle control device including processor being configured to, when driving sections are present inside a restricted region, extract as a restricted driving section from among driving sections present inside the restricted region a driving section through which it is projected the vehicle will be driven in a restricted time period in which operation of internal combustion engines is restricted, and prepare a driving plan able to drive through the restricted driving section in the EV mode.

Abstract: A light-emitting device of an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a support member having one surface; a light-emitting element provided on the one surface of the support member; a wavelength conversion section disposed in parallel with the light-emitting element on the one surface of the support member; and a light reflective member that is disposed to be opposed to the light-emitting element with the wavelength conversion section interposed therebetween, and forms a light reflective surface inclined relative to the one surface of the support member.

Abstract: A vehicle control device configured to control switching of drive mode of a vehicle including an internal combustion engine and a motor includes a processor configured to switch, in a case where a road surface of a perimeter of a geofencing zone is a road surface on which there is a high probability that the vehicle slips, in a movement route from an outside of the geofencing zone to an inside of the geofencing zone, the drive mode of the vehicle to drive by the motor in a state in which there is a low probability that the vehicle slips, outside the geofencing zone.

Abstract: A vehicle able to recover CO2 includes a CO2 recovery container holding an adsorbent adsorbing CO2 in gas. The vehicle is configured so that the adsorbent is taken out from the vehicle.

Abstract: A setting device including a processor is provided. The processor is configured to, when occurrence of a secondary disaster is predicted after occurrence of a disaster, set a region in which the secondary disaster is predicted to a charging-prohibited zone in which use of a charging facility for charging a battery installed in a vehicle is prohibited.

Abstract: A model aggregation device includes a communication device able to communicate with a plurality of vehicles in which neural network models are learned, a storage device storing a part of the neural network models sent from the plurality of vehicles, and a control device. The neural network model outputs at least one output parameter from a plurality of input parameters. The control device is configured to, if receiving a new neural network model from one vehicle among the plurality of vehicles through the communication device, compare ranges of the plurality of input parameters which were used for learning the new neural network model and ranges of the plurality of input parameters which were used for learning a current neural network model stored in the storage device to thereby determine whether to replace the current neural network model with the new neural network model.

Abstract: A vehicle control device configured to control switching of drive mode of a vehicle including an internal combustion engine and a motor includes a processor configured to switch, in a case where a road surface of a perimeter of a geofencing zone is a road surface on which there is a high probability that the vehicle slips, in a movement route from an outside of the geofencing zone to an inside of the geofencing zone, the drive mode of the vehicle to drive by the motor in a state in which there is a low probability that the vehicle slips, outside the geofencing zone.

Abstract: The offer device includes a processor configured to offer candidate vehicles for reservation to a user through a user terminal, and determine a possibility of an area in which operation of an internal combustion engine is banned or restricted being included in a planned running route of the user. The processor is configured to determine an offer mode of the candidate vehicles for reservation based on the possibility.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a phosphor layer including a plurality of phosphor particles; a refrigerant that cools the phosphor layer; a circulation path that contains the phosphor layer and the refrigerant, and in which the refrigerant circulates; and a waveguide separated from the circulation path, and through which excitation light that excites the phosphor layer and a fluorescence excited by the excitation light and outputted from the phosphor layer propagate.

Abstract: A ridesharing management system which enables a plurality of users using a ridesharing service to share a vehicle as passengers, wherein the vehicle is comprised of a hybrid vehicle, and a boundary is established between the inside of an engine restricted zone in which operation of an internal combustion engine is restricted and the outside of the engine restricted zone. It is predicted whether the SOC amount of the battery will become less than a setting value during travel in the engine restricted zone if traveling through a stop in the engine restricted zone and a stop outside the engine restricted zone due to a pick-up request or drop-off request from a user. A route order that does not result in the SOC amount of the battery becoming less than the setting value during travel in the engine restricted zone is suggested.

Abstract: A control device includes a processor and a memory that stores a program controlling an operation of the processor to cause the processor to acquire a steering torque, a vehicle speed, a steering angle, and a rotational speed of a motor, generate a base assist torque based on the steering torque and the vehicle speed, generate a self-aligning torque compensation torque based on the steering torque, the vehicle speed, the rotational speed of the motor, and the base assist torque, generate an active return torque based on the vehicle speed and the steering angle, generate a motor loss torque compensation torque based on the rotational speed of the motor, and generate a torque command value to be used to control driving of the motor.

Abstract: An object is to provide a light-emitting element capable of further suppressing the spread of a light-emitting region and further improving directivity. A light-emitting element is provided which includes at least a phosphor layer and an emission angle selection layer which emits light incident at a predetermined angle, in which the phosphor layer includes a phosphor and a light scatterer, and the phosphor layer and the light emission angle selection layer are arranged in this order.