Abstract: A control device for a vehicle drive device having a speed change mechanism that attains a predetermined shift speed by engaging multiple engagement elements. The control device predicts an amount of heat generation and determines whether any jumping shift from the current shift speed to the shift speed that is the multiple shift speeds higher or lower than the current shift speed can be permitted or not between the current shift speed and the target shift speed, and if the jumping shift can be permitted, the control unit performs the jumping shift and controls the speed change mechanism so as to shift the shift speed from the current shift speed to the target shift speed.

Abstract: A head-up display device including a screen; a projector that projects a visual image to the screen using a projection lens; an image generator that generates a virtual image of the visual image to be visually recognized by a user from the visual image projected to the screen; and a processor that is programmed to: decide a position at which the virtual image is generated; and move the projection lens and the screen in a front-rear direction along an optical path, wherein the processor moves the projection lens and the screen along the optical path based on the position decided.

Abstract: A power transmission apparatus including a transmission, a case that accommodates the transmission, a counter drive gear to which power from the transmission is transmitted, a counter driven gear that meshes with the counter drive gear, and a drive pinion gear that is disposed and spaced apart in an axial direction from the counter driven gear and that rotates together with the counter driven gear, the power transmission apparatus.

Abstract: A clutch that includes a friction plate; a separator plate; a clutch hub; and a piston that presses the friction plate and the separator plate, wherein the clutch hub includes a hub on which an inner peripheral portion of the friction plate or the separator plate is fitted, a tubular shaft that movably supports the piston, and an engagement oil chamber defining wall that together with the piston defines an engagement oil chamber to which an engagement oil pressure is supplied, the hub is spline-fitted on a gear of a planetary gear so as to rotate with the gear, and the tubular shaft is rotatably supported by a central shaft and is fitted by a spigot joint in the gear.

Abstract: A rotor 14 includes a shaft having a coolant flow passage and a coolant supply port, a rotor core 24 fixed on the shaft and formed of laminated steel plates, and a magnet set 32 provided in the rotor core 24 to extend along an axial direction thereof. The rotor core 24 has a first flow passage 34 provided near the magnet to extend therealong and a second flow passage 36 that connects the coolant supply port 28 of the shaft 22 and the first flow passage 34, thereby constituting a coolant flow path. The second flow passage 36 is formed by overlapping second slits 37 formed in the respective steel plates at an axially intermediate region A of the rotor core 24, the formed position of the second slit 37 being different for each steel plate combined. The first flow passage 34 and the second flow passage 36 join at the axially intermediate region A of the rotor core 24.

Abstract: A vehicle hydraulic control device for a rotating electrical machine and associated gear mechanism. Oil passages are configured with relief valves such that a first relief valve discharges oil in a first oil passage when an oil pressure in the first oil passage located downstream of a throttle portion becomes higher than a predetermined first set oil pressure, and a second relief valve allows a part of the second oil passage which is located upstream of the second relief valve to communicate with a part of the second oil passage which is located downstream of the second relief valve when an oil pressure in the second oil passage located upstream of the second relief valve becomes higher than a predetermined second set oil pressure set higher than the first set oil pressure.

Abstract: A control device that controls an inverter interposed between a DC power source and an AC rotary electric machine to perform power conversion between DC power and AC power, wherein the inverter includes a plurality of sets of an upper switching element and a lower switching element connected in series with each other between positive and negative electrodes on the DC side and controlled so as to be turned on and off in a complementary manner; and the control device executes short-circuiting processing, in which all the upper switching elements or all the lower switching elements are controlled so as to be turned on, while the AC rotary electric machine is stationary.

Abstract: A terminal base that is disposed on an electrical connection path between a coil of an electric motor accommodated inside a case and an inverter disposed outside the case and connects a coil-side terminal serving as a terminal on a coil side to an inverter-side wiring member serving as a wiring member on an inverter side, the terminal base including: a connector that electrically connects the inverter-side wiring member and the coil-side terminal; a fastener that fixes the coil-side terminal to a first terminal serving as one terminal of the connector; and a terminal base main body that holds the connector.

Abstract: In a sleeve, two input ports are formed as ports that receive a discharge pressure of an electromagnetic pump, and a drain port connected to a drain oil passage is formed on the same circumference as that on which the input port is formed, so as to have a smaller opening area than the input port and an output port connected to an oil passage. The axial length of the second land is set so that the input port can be closed by the second land when a signal pressure is equal to or higher than a set pressure, and that the input port and the drain port can be closed by the second land when the signal pressure is lower than the set pressure.

Abstract: A vehicle drive device that includes a wheel drive rotary electric machine and a transmission device on a power transmission path connecting an input member drivingly coupled to an internal combustion engine and an output member drivingly coupled to wheels; a pump electric motor that serves as a driving force source of a hydraulic pump; a case that accommodates the wheel drive rotary electric machine, the transmission device, and the pump electric motor; and a motor controller including a first inverter that controls the wheel drive rotary electric machine, a second inverter that controls the pump electric motor, a cooler that cools the first inverter and the second inverter, and a smoothing capacitor that smooths direct-current power to be supplied to the first inverter and the second inverter.

Abstract: A control board where the ground potential includes a first conductor extending from the ground terminal of the power source generator to a first branch, a second conductor branching at the first branch, extending to the temperature detector, and electrically connected to only the temperature detector on a downstream side of the first branch, and a third conductor branching in a direction not directed to the second conductor at the first branch and extending to the drive.

Abstract: A hybrid excitation rotating electrical machine configured with a rotor having a shaft extended on at least one side in an axial direction, and first and second cores that are separated in the axial direction with a gap between the cores. First magnetic poles that are excited by a permanent magnet and second magnetic poles that are not excited by the permanent magnet are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction in each of the first and second cores. The first magnetic poles of the first core have a different polarity from that of the first magnetic poles of the second core, and the first magnetic poles of one of the first and second cores are placed so as to face the second magnetic poles of the other of the first and second cores in the axial direction with the gap between the magnetic poles.

Abstract: An automatic transmission where the control portion controls the adjustment solenoid valve so that the circulation hydraulic pressure equals to a second circulation hydraulic pressure higher than the first circulation hydraulic pressure when the rotational speed difference between the output rotational speed of the fluid transmission device and the rotational speed of the driving source is more than the predetermined rotational speed.

Abstract: A control device that includes an electronic control unit that is programmed such that, when the internal combustion engine is started by the rotary electric machine while output torque from the rotary electric machine is transferred to the wheels in a state in which rotation of the internal combustion engine has been stopped, the electronic control unit: executes second slipping control in which the second engagement device is controlled into a slipping engagement state, executes first slipping control in which the first engagement device which has been in a disengaged state is controlled into a slipping engagement state during execution of the second slipping control, and controls an engagement pressure of the first engagement device so as to lower a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine in the first slipping control.

Abstract: An inverter control device that controls a rotary electric machine drive device that includes an inverter with a plurality of switching elements, where the active short circuit control is executed in a high rotational speed region, and the shut-down control is executed in a low rotational speed region, which is on a low rotational speed side with respect to the high rotational speed region, in accordance with at least a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine.

Abstract: Drive assist systems, methods, and programs acquire a stored guide location where guidance associated with a guide event as a guide target will be provided, acquire event information indicating whether the guide event was detected from a vehicle that can selectively provide or not provide guidance associated with the guide event and which is set to provide guidance, and which detected the guide event at the guide location. The systems, methods, and programs determine whether to stop providing guidance for the guide event at the guide location based on the event information, correct stored information to stop providing guidance for the guide event at the guide location when it is determined to stop providing guidance, and acquire and transmit to the vehicle information indicating the guide location for which provision of guidance associated with the guide event has not been stopped and the guide event from the storage medium.

Abstract: A vehicle drive includes a speed change mechanism connected to a rotary electric machine; an output member connected to the speed change mechanism and wheels; an engagement device changes a state of engagement between an input member connected to an engine and the speed change mechanism; a hydraulic pump driven by the engine or the rotary electric machine; a first pressure control device that controls pressure supplied from the pump and supplies the pressure to the speed change mechanism; a second, separate hydraulic pressure control device that controls the pressure supplied from the pump and supplies the pressure to the engagement device; and a case that houses the rotary electric machine, speed change mechanism, engagement device, and pump. At least the engagement device is housed in a space formed by the case, and the second hydraulic pressure control device is provided at a part of the case forming the space.

Abstract: An intermediate member of a damper device includes a plate portion that has spring abutment portions that abut against inner springs. Spring abutment portions of a coupling member of a dynamic damper extend from a fixed portion via a bent portion to be disposed in opening portions of the plate portion, and abut against end portions of third springs disposed in the opening portions such that the third springs are arranged side by side with the inner springs in the circumferential direction. The plate portion and the spring abutment portions at least partially overlap each other in the thickness direction. The axes of the inner springs and the third springs are included within the range of overlap between the plate portion and the spring abutment portions in the thickness direction.

Abstract: Drive assist systems, methods, and programs display, on a display, an image in which a destination location icon that indicates a destination location is superimposed on a scene in front of a mobile body. The systems, methods, and programs acquire a length of a frontage of the destination location along a road on which the mobile body is present and specify a display position of the destination location icon on the basis of an estimated position of the mobile body such that the display position of the destination location icon is a position within the frontage. The systems, methods, and programs display on the display, an image in which the destination location icon is superimposed on the display position of the destination location icon in the scene in front of the mobile body.

Abstract: An on-vehicle information providing device for providing information to a driver based on information sent from an information providing center is disclosed. When a vehicle leaves an off-street facility having multiple exits to enter a road, the on-vehicle information providing device performs a first process of sending the information providing center vehicle-side information including information obtained based on starting time and exiting time of the vehicle and information identifying one of the exits selected for the vehicle to leave the facility; and performs a second process of receiving from the information providing center exit status information including exit time lengths calculated for the respective exits by the information providing center based on the vehicle-side information received from multiple vehicles and providing information to the driver based on the received exit status information.