Abstract: A hydrogen supply system is configured to supply hydrogen to a fuel-cell vehicle by using a curdle for hydrogen transport, and includes: a filling unit provided at a hydrogen filling facility and configured to fill the curdle with hydrogen; a management unit configured to calculate a transport timing at which the hydrogen-filled curdle is transported to a business facility that operates the fuel-cell vehicle; a transport unit configured to transport the hydrogen-filled curdle to the business facility in accordance with the transport timing; and a disposition unit configured to dispose the hydrogen-filled curdle transported to the business facility at a place to which the fuel-cell vehicle is capable of accessing to have a refill of the hydrogen in the business facility.

Abstract: An electrolyte solution capable of constituting a secondary battery in which a volume change due to charge and discharge is small and cycle characteristics are excellent is provided. The present example embodiment relates to an electrolyte solution for a lithium ion secondary battery comprising a fluorinated ether and a cyclic dicarboxylic acid ester.

Abstract: A mechanism for shutting off drive so that drive of pressing release is not rotated even when a pressing roller is rotated as a driving source is provided, and a torque when drive of a shutting-off portion is connected is set at a torque value to which a one-way idling torque is added. Therefore, during jam clearance, connection of pressing release drive by pressing roller rotation can be carried out.

Abstract: A connector includes a terminal having a base plate portion and a pair of elastic curl portions, a connector housing having a terminal accommodating chamber, a flexible locking piece provided on a first wall of facing walls of the terminal accommodating chamber, a recessed groove provided on a second wall of the facing walls, extends from a rear side of the connector housing toward a front side of the connector housing along a terminal insertion direction of the terminal, and has a groove width smaller than a width of the base plate portion, and a contact surface formed at a front end portion of the recessed groove. When the terminal is reversely inserted, tip end contact portions of the elastic curl portions are brought into contact with the contact surface to prevent the terminal from being inserted further.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a first rotatable member with a heater, a second rotatable member contacting the first rotatable member and forming a fixing nip, a pressing unit pressing the first rotatable member to the second rotatable member in a pressing direction, a pair of side boards disposed with a space in the widthwise direction, and first, second and third stays supporting the pair of side boards. The first stay is provided upstream of a center of the fixing nip in the pressing direction and upstream of the center in a feeding direction of a recording material. The second stay is provided upstream of the center in the pressing direction and downstream of the center in the feeding direction. The third stay is provided downstream of the center in the pressing direction and at least one of upstream and downstream of the center in the feeding direction.

Abstract: A vehicle information communication system includes a vehicle device and a center device. The center device includes a storage unit, a center computer, and a center-device communication unit. The storage unit stores memory structure information for each of the ECUs. The memory structure information indicates whether a corresponding memory has a memory structure that supports Read While Write (RWW) operation defined as having a plurality of physically independent memory regions. The center computer is programmed to generate specification data including the memory structure information for each of the at least one target ECUs. The vehicle device includes a vehicle computer. The vehicle computer is programmed to perform the program data rewrites of the at least one target ECU according to the memory structure information included in the specification data.

Abstract: Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery having high energy density and excellent cycle characteristics. The present invention relates to a negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery comprising: (i) a negative electrode mixture layer comprising a negative electrode active material and a negative electrode binder and (ii) a negative electrode current collector, wherein the negative electrode active material comprises an alloy comprising silicon (Si alloy), the Si alloy is crystalline and has a median diameter (D50 particle size) of 1.2 ?m or less, and an amount of the negative electrode binder based on the weight of the negative electrode mixture layer is 12% by weight or more and 50% by weight or less.

Abstract: A fusing apparatus having a heating rotary member, a pressing rotary member, a flange, a fusing frame, a pressing member, and a plate. The heating rotary member heats a recording medium and includes a heater and a film that rotates. The pressing rotary member rotates to press an outer circumferential surface of the film and performs fusing of a toner image on the recording medium. The flange supports the heater. The fusing frame supports the pressing rotary member and has a positioning hole. The pressing member presses the flange. The plate includes a pressure receiving portion and an insertion portion. The pressure receiving portion is pressed by the pressing member and the insertion portion is inserted into a positioning hole and positioned in a first state. The insertion portion is removed from the positioning hole in a second state where the pressing member further contracts from the first state.

Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery having high energy density and being excellent in cycle characteristics is provided. The present invention relates to a lithium ion secondary battery comprising: a negative electrode active material comprising a material comprising silicon as a constituent element; and an electrolyte solution comprising: a non-aqueous solvent comprising a fluorinated ether compound, an open-chain sulfone compound, and a cyclic carbonate compound, and a supporting salt comprising LiPF6, lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide, and lithium bis(oxalato)borate (LiBOB); wherein the content of LiBOB in the electrolyte solution is 0.2 mass % or more.

Abstract: A lever-type connector includes a housing, a lever and a cover. The housing is to be fitted with a mating housing. The lever is pivotably mounted to the housing and fits the housing with the mating housing by pivoting. The cover is mounted to the housing to cover an outer periphery of an electric cable drawn out from the housing. The housing is provide with a deflectable lock arm. The lock arm has as a base end, a root part integrally mounted to the housing at a side where the housing faces the cover and holds the lever at a pivoting completion position of the lever. The cover is provided with a protective wall arranged opposite to the root part of the lock arm.

Abstract: A record control apparatus controls record of a data item in one or more record sections. The record control apparatus includes: a data acquisition section that acquires the data item having multiple types; a data storage section that stores in the record section, the one or more data items matching a record condition prepared in advance among the acquired data item having multiple types; and a condition change section that defines the record condition as an old record condition, and sets so that the data storage section utilizes a new record condition in place of the old record condition when receiving the new record condition different from the old condition from an outside.

Abstract: A vehicle information communication system includes a center apparatus and a vehicle apparatus that includes a group of electronic control units (ECUs) and that sends vehicle configuration information including configuration information on the group of ECUs mounted in the vehicle to the center apparatus via wireless communications. The center apparatus performs a first determination of whether the vehicle configuration information received from the vehicle apparatus matches approved-configuration information registered in an approved-configuration database, and performs a second determination of whether software update data for at least one ECU of the group of ECUs mounted in the vehicle exists in an update database. When both the first and second determinations are true, the center apparatus sends the software update data for at least one ECU of the group of ECUs mounted in the vehicle to the vehicle apparatus via the wireless communications.

Abstract: A connector includes a terminal having a base plate portion and a pair of elastic curl portions, a connector housing having a terminal accommodating chamber, a flexible locking piece provided on a first wall of facing walls of the terminal accommodating chamber, a recessed groove provided on a second wall of the facing walls, extends from a rear side of the connector housing toward a front side of the connector housing along a terminal insertion direction of the terminal, and has a groove width smaller than a width of the base plate portion, and a contact surface formed at a front end portion of the recessed groove. When the terminal is reversely inserted, tip end contact portions of the elastic curl portions are brought into contact with the contact surface to prevent the terminal from being inserted further.

Abstract: A cutting insert has cutting edges having the same shape and provided at respective corners of a polygon in rotational symmetry about the center axis of the polygon, is clamped in an upright position to a holder, and has a negative side rake angle on a rake face of a side cutting edge. A side cutting edge is present at an intersection ridge between a polygonal face and an outer peripheral face. The outer peripheral face includes a rake face of the cutting edge and a flank of an end cutting edge of another cutting edge different from the side cutting edge. The flank has a positive slope angle in opposition to a negative side rake angle of the side cutting edge. A breaker groove extending in a front-rear direction is formed in the rake face and cuts into the flank, in such a manner as to divide the rake face.

Abstract: A vehicle information communication system includes a center apparatus and a vehicle apparatus that includes a group of electronic control units (ECUs) and that sends vehicle configuration information including configuration information on the group of ECUs mounted in the vehicle to the center apparatus via wireless communications. The center apparatus performs a first determination of whether the vehicle configuration information received from the vehicle apparatus matches approved-configuration information registered in an approved-configuration database, and performs a second determination of whether software update data for at least one ECU of the group of ECUs mounted in the vehicle exists in an update database. When both the first and second determinations are true, the center apparatus sends the software update data for at least one ECU of the group of ECUs mounted in the vehicle to the vehicle apparatus via the wireless communications.

Abstract: A connector lock structure includes a lock arm that extends along a fitting direction and is formed on a side wall of a connector housing, and maintains a fitted state by being elastically engaged with a counterpart connector housing; a pair of flexible and deformable plate-shaped support walls that protrude rearward of the side wall to sandwich a rear portion of the lock arm therebetween; a coupling portion that couples each of the plate-shaped support walls to the rear portion of the lock arm in a width direction of the connector housing; and an upward protruding portion that protrudes upward than the coupling portion and is formed on each of the plate-shaped support walls.

Abstract: A lever-type connector includes a housing and a lever. The lever is pivotally mounted on the housing, and is pivotally operable between a temporary locking position and a fitting completion position. The lever includes a pair of side plates and an operating portion. A lock portion is provided on the housing, and locks the lever positioned at the fitting completion position. The housing is configured to be fitted to a mating housing by rotating the lever from a fitting start position to the fitting completion position. The housing has a pair of walls that are provided at both sides of the lock portion. Arm protection walls are provided on upper edges of the pair of walls respectively with extending inward so as to cover both sides of the flexible arm portion of the lock portion.

Abstract: A center device manages data to be written into electronic control units mounted on a vehicle and includes an update data storage storing update data for a target device being a target of data update among the electronic control units, a vehicle information storage storing, together with type of the vehicle, vehicle related information, and a device related information storage storing update data related information. Based on information stored in the device related information storage and the vehicle information storage, the center device generates specification data including device type, attribute, the update data related information of the target device, and information indicating rewrite environment related to the data update of the target device, and generates a distribution package including the update data and the specification data.

Abstract: In a vehicle electronic control system, a vehicle master device is configured to acquire data storage bank information including information for specifying which bank is an active bank and information for specifying software versions of an active bank and an inactive bank from a rewrite target ECU that has a non-volatile memory with a plurality of data storage banks and to transmit the data storage bank information acquired by the data storage bank information acquisition unit to a center device. The center device is configured to select update data compliant to the inactive bank on the basis of the software versions and the active bank specified by the data storage bank information received from the vehicle master device and to transmit a distribution package including the update data selected by the update data selection unit to the vehicle master device.

Abstract: In a vehicle information communication system, a center device includes an individual vehicle configuration information storage unit in which configuration information transmitted from a plurality of vehicles is stored in such a form that transmission timings are specifiable, a campaign information storage unit in which campaign identification information and target vehicle identification information for identifying data update target vehicles are stored as campaign information related to data update for vehicle. The center device refers to the campaign storage unit and the individual vehicle configuration information storage unit, and when there is no transmission of the configuration information from the target vehicle for a predetermined period of time, transmits a message for urging data update to the in-vehicle device of the target vehicle.