Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a first ECU electrically connected to a wheel speed sensor and a second ECU electrically connected to the wheel speed sensor.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control system capable of ensuring stability even if an ego vehicle spins slowly. The invention computes a relative slip angle between a leading vehicle and the ego vehicle on the basis of distance between the ego vehicle and the leading vehicle and distance between a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in a traveling direction and the leading vehicle, sets a spin judgment threshold value according to the relative slip angle, and controls yaw moment to reduce the relative slip angle when the relative slip angle exceeds the spin judgment threshold value.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control system capable of securing stability even in the event of a collision with a travel-path defining line such as a guardrail. The invention recognizes the travel-path defining line of a travel path from information about an area in a traveling direction of an ego vehicle, recognizes a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in the traveling direction, and imparts a yaw moment control amount so that a formed angle between the traveling-direction virtual line and the travel-path defining line decreases after the ego vehicle collides with the travel-path defining line.

Abstract: To provide a vehicle control system capable of promptly achieving a travel motion along a travel path. A yaw moment control amount is imparted according to a traveling-direction virtual line extending from an ego vehicle in a traveling direction and a formed angle between the traveling-direction virtual line and a travel-path defining line.

Abstract: Using conventional synthesis methods, when an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof is synthesized from a hydroxycarboxylic acid or a derivative thereof by a dehydration reaction using a catalyst, the yield has been low. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a catalyst capable of synthesizing unsaturated carboxylic acids or derivatives thereof by a dehydration reaction that produces a high yield. The synthetic catalyst comprises an apatite compound containing an alkali metal in a crystal structure thereof, and the invention further includes methods for synthesizing an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof. The methods comprise contacting the aforementioned synthetic catalyst with the hydroxycarboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof, so as to synthesize the unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof by a dehydration reaction.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control system capable of ensuring stability even if an ego vehicle runs off a travel path. According to the invention, when yaw moment control is carried out to reduce a formed angle between a travel-path defining line of the travel path, which is recognized from information about an area located in a traveling direction of the ego vehicle, and a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in the traveling direction, if it is judged that the ego vehicle has departed from the travel-path defining line, the yaw moment control is suspended.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control system capable of ensuring stability even if a vehicle spins slowly. The invention recognizes a travel-path defining line of a travel path from information about an area located in the traveling direction of an ego vehicle, recognizes a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in the traveling direction, and controls vehicle motion to reduce a formed angle between the traveling-direction virtual line and the travel-path defining line at least when the formed angle increases.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control system capable of securing stability even in the event of a collision with a travel-path defining line such as a guardrail. The invention recognizes the travel-path defining line of a travel path from information about an area in a traveling direction of an ego vehicle, recognizes a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in the traveling direction, and imparts a yaw moment control amount so that a formed angle between the traveling-direction virtual line and the travel-path defining line decreases after the ego vehicle collides with the travel-path defining line.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control system capable of ensuring stability even if an ego vehicle spins slowly. The invention computes a relative slip angle between a leading vehicle and the ego vehicle on the basis of distance between the ego vehicle and the leading vehicle and distance between a traveling-direction virtual line extending from the ego vehicle in a traveling direction and the leading vehicle, sets a spin judgment threshold value according to the relative slip angle, and controls yaw moment to reduce the relative slip angle when the relative slip angle exceeds the spin judgment threshold value.

Abstract: To provide a vehicle control system capable of promptly achieving a travel motion along a travel path. A yaw moment control amount is imparted according to a traveling-direction virtual line extending from an ego vehicle in a traveling direction and a formed angle between the traveling-direction virtual line and a travel-path defining line.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a catalyst, which solves a problem in that when an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof has been conventionally synthesized from a hydroxycarboxylic acid or a derivative thereof by a dehydration reaction using a catalyst, the yield has been low, and which is capable of synthesizing the unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof at a high yield, and also to provide a synthetic method capable of synthesizing an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof at a high yield.

Abstract: A method for increasing the yield of alcohols by a Guerbet reaction in a gas phase and reducing production cost is provided. A method for producing alcohols by a Guerbet reaction, wherein the reaction is performed in a gas phase and at a total pressure of less than 1 atm and preferably from 0.01 to 0.5 atm, using one or more raw material alcohols.

Abstract: A method for preparing a mixture (M) including at least one alcohol (Aj), wherein said method includes a gas-phase oligomerization reaction of at least one alcohol (Ai) with a solid acid-base catalyst doped with one or more metals, said reaction being carried out in the presence of hydrogen and at a temperature of no less than 50° C. and strictly less than 200° C.

Abstract: In vehicular control apparatus and method, a traveling environment of a forward position of an advance direction of a vehicle in which an actuator for a vehicular control purpose is mounted is detected, a reliability of a result of measurement of the traveling environment by the traveling environment measurement section is determined, and an operation of the actuator is determined with the determined reliability as a requiring condition.

Abstract: To implement a downsized pressure sensor apparatus, a pressure sensor apparatus of the present invention includes a housing including a first pressure introduction passage for introducing a first pressure and a second pressure introduction passage for introducing a second pressure, a first pressure detection element provided in the housing and configured to detect the pressure introduced from the first pressure introduction passage, and a second pressure detection element provided in the housing and configured to detect the pressure introduced from the second pressure introduction passage, wherein a circuit substrate is placed above the first and second pressure detection elements, and a first intermediate terminal configured to electrically connect the first pressure detection element with the circuit substrate and a second intermediate terminal configured to electrically connect the second pressure detection element with the circuit substrate are inserted into the housing.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a novel method for manufacturing various organic compounds from two or more kinds of alcohol, or one kind of alcohol having three or more carbon atoms. It is a method for synthesizing one kind of, or two or more kinds of organic compounds comprising allowing two or more kinds of alcohol or one kind of alcohol having three or more carbon atoms to contact a calcium phosphate catalyst such as hydroxyapatite, or hydrotalcite.

Abstract: In a braking control apparatus for an electric vehicle, a target braking torque command value calculation section calculates a target braking torque command value on a basis of at least one of a state of road wheels and a braking request by a vehicle driver, a frequency component decomposition section decomposes a target braking torque command value into a first frequency component lower than a resonance frequency of a drive train and a second frequency component equal to or higher than the first frequency component, and a braking force control section provides an electrical braking torque for road wheels on a basis of a motor torque command value corresponding to the first frequency component and provides a frictional braking torque for the road wheels on a basis of a frictional braking torque command value corresponding to the second frequency component.

Abstract: A method for increasing the yield of alcohols by a Guerbet reaction in a gas phase and reducing production cost is provided. A method for producing alcohols by a Guerbet reaction, wherein the reaction is performed in a gas phase and at a total pressure of less than 1 atm and preferably from 0.01 to 0.5 atm, using one or more raw material alcohols.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes an accelerator-state detecting section configured to detect an accelerator manipulating state of a driver; a traveling-path-condition detecting section configured to detect a condition of a traveling path of a host vehicle; a brake control section configured to cause the host vehicle to automatically generate a braking force; and a control unit configured to control the brake control section on the basis of an input from the accelerator-state detecting section. The control unit is configured to actuate the brake control section in a case where the accelerator-state detecting section detects a decrease of a manipulated variable of the accelerator or an off-state of the accelerator and also where the traveling-path-condition detecting section detects a target object for speed reduction on the traveling path.

Abstract: A drive assist system includes an assist starting part starting assist, a detection part detecting relative distances and speeds between a vehicles, a calculation part calculating collision risks when changing a lane by the basis of the relative distances and speeds, a first judgment part judging whether the lane can be changed by the relative distances, speeds and the collision risks, a decision part deciding a target space for lane change by the relative distances and speeds when the lane cannot be changed, a second judgment part judging whether a lane changeable space is in the target space, a setting part setting a target speed for the vehicle go to a lane change waiting position when no space and to setting a target speed the vehicle enters a lane changeable position when there is the space, and a control part controlling a speed of the vehicle reaches the target speed.