Abstract: A battery monitoring apparatus includes a battery ECU, satellite devices each of which measures the voltage at a battery cell in response to a command signal from the battery ECU, and a wireless module which achieves a wireless communication between the battery ECU and each of the satellite devices after a wireless connection between the battery ECU and each of the satellite devices is completed. When receiving a start signal outputted before a start switch for a drive power source of the vehicle is turned on, the wireless module is activated to start the wireless connection between the battery ECU and each of the satellite devices. This establishes and completes the wireless connections faster than when the wireless module is activated simultaneously with turning on of the start switch for the drive power source. This achieves quick monitoring of the state of the battery cells.

Abstract: In a vehicle control system, a sampling period change unit changes a sampling period such that the sampling period is made shorter, when a driving state of the vehicle becomes to have a higher possibility of accident as a result of driving control of the vehicle than when the driving state of the vehicle becomes to have a lower possibility of accident. A data storage control unit stores in an eMMC control instruction data stored in a temporary storage buffer in a non-volatile memory by sampling at the sampling period set by the sampling period change unit.

Abstract: A speed reducer-equipped motor includes a motor, first gear, eccentric shaft, and stopper protrusions. The speed reducer-equipped motor also includes a transmission gear, an output member, a rotation stopper, and an interference avoider. The transmission gear revolves around an axis of the first gear following rotation of the first gear along with the eccentric shaft. The output member rotates following the revolution of the transmission gear. The rotation stopper works to stop the transmission gear from rotating the center thereof in response to sliding motion of the stopper protrusions on the rotation stopper. The interference avoider is arranged between the rotation stopper and the transmission gear and works to avoid physical or mechanical interference of corners of the rotation stopper which are located close to the stopper protrusions with base end portions of the stopper protrusions.

Abstract: A speed reducer-equipped motor includes a motor, a helical gear, an eccentric shaft, a stationary gear with a second stopper, a transmission gear, an output gear unit, and a lock gear with a first stopper. The first stopper mechanically contacts with the second stopper, thereby stopping the lock gear from revolving and rotating to stop the rotation of the output gear unit. A physical load which is generated by the contact of the first stopper with the second stopper and acts on that contact and a physical load which is generated by the contact of the first stopper and the second stopper and acts on meshed portions of teeth of the first stopper and the second stopper are oriented in opposite directions.

Abstract: A fin according to the present disclosure is a corrugated fin formed of a metal plate by bending into a corrugated shape, and the corrugated fin includes peak portions extending in a first direction, valley portions extending in the first direction, and inclined portions connecting the peak portions and the valley portions adjacent to each other. The peak portions and the valley portions are alternately arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a thickness of the metal plate at each apex of the peak portions and the valley portions is larger than a thickness of the inclined portions of the metal plate.

Abstract: An autonomous driving assistance device includes a manual driving control section, an autonomous driving control section, and a travelling condition determining section. If it is detected that there is a malfunction in a first sensor during control of the autonomous driving of the vehicle, the autonomous driving control section executes emergency autonomous driving until a predetermined condition is satisfied while changing, based on the determined travelling condition, a driving manner of an emergency autonomous driving as compared with a driving manner of the autonomous driving executed before no malfunctions are detected in the first sensor; and after the emergency autonomous driving is terminated, the autonomous driving assistance device being configured to selectively execute one of: causing the autonomous driving control section to stop the vehicle; and causing the manual driving control section to control the manual driving.

Abstract: A road zone assessment device has a processor configured to select a first road zone from among multiple first road zones representing a first road associated with a vehicle navigation route, and connected with a second road zone representing a second road different from the first road, on a location-estimating map used for a vehicle, to determine whether or not the navigation route extends from the selected first road zone to the second road zone, to identify other first road zone associated with the navigation route from the selected first road zone forward on the destination location side of the navigation route, and to release association between the other first road zone and the navigation route when the selected first road zone is connected with the second road zone and the navigation route extends from the selected first road zone to the second road zone.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a heat exchange core portion; and a tank portion connected to the heat exchange core portion. The heat exchange core portion has a connection plate that surrounds a part of the tank portion from an outer peripheral side. The connection plate has slit-shaped openings arranged along an edge of the connection plate in a first direction. A part of the connection plate between each of the openings and the edge is deformable into a concave shape toward the tank portion. A part of the openings has a widened portion at both ends in the first direction. A width dimension of the widened portion in a second direction from the opening to the edge is larger than that of the other portion of the opening.

Abstract: A vehicle remote assistance system includes a plurality of vehicles and a remote assistance apparatus. Each of the plurality of vehicles includes a calling unit that transmits a call to the remote assistance apparatus. The remote assistance apparatus includes an assigning unit that schedules the calls that are transmitted from the plurality of vehicles and assigning the calls to any of a plurality of operators. The calling unit transmits a cancelation of the call to the remote assistance apparatus when a reason for the call is resolved after the call is made. The assigning unit cancels scheduling of the call that corresponds to the cancelation that is transmitted from the vehicle.

Abstract: A throttle valve device includes a shaft in a cylindrical passage, a slit passing through the shaft from one lateral side to another lateral side of the shaft, a pair of bearings on both sides of the cylindrical passage and rotatably supporting one end part and another end part of the shaft, and a circular-plate valve inserted into the slit of the shaft and rotatable to open and close the cylindrical passage. A length of the slit on the one lateral side of the shaft is, in an axial direction of the shaft, longer than a length of the slit on the other lateral side of the shaft. A round end hole is formed at an end of the slit in the one end part of the shaft on the one lateral side of the shaft.

Abstract: Plural windings are wound around plural teeth in sequence such that crossover wires formed in the plural windings are all arranged on another axial direction side of an annular section of a stator core. When this is performed, the plural windings are wound around the plural teeth in sequence such that terminal portions of the plural windings are placed in a fifth slot, a sixth slot, an eighth slot, and a ninth slot.

Abstract: A wiper device including: a power supplying circuit including plural switching elements, the power supplying circuit supplying, to a wiper motor, voltage that has been converted in accordance with switching control of the plural switching elements; a temperature detecting section detecting a temperature relating to a temperature of at least one of the switching elements among the plural switching elements; a current detecting section detecting current flowing to any of the switching elements among the plural switching elements; and a control section that, in a case in which the current detected by the current detecting section exceeds a limit current at the temperature detected by the temperature detecting section, carries out switching control of the switching elements such that the voltage supplied to the wiper motor decreases.

Abstract: In a battery monitoring system including a plurality of battery modules each including one or more cells, the battery modules are connected in series to each other. The battery monitoring system monitors the state of each cell based on the voltage value of the cell and the current value of the battery modules. A current detection unit detects the current value. Each voltage detection unit is associated with the corresponding one of the battery modules and detects the voltage value. Each slave unit is associated with the corresponding one of the battery modules, and wirelessly transmits information including synchronous current and voltage values detected by the current detection unit and the voltage detection unit. A master unit receives the information transmitted from the slave units. A central monitoring unit receives the information received by the master unit.

Abstract: Provided is a joining structure capable of simplifying the manufacturing process and having high corrosion resistance. A joining structure has a welded part for connecting joined members made of a metal that forms a passive film. An outermost surface portion of the welded part has a pitting potential. The welded part may include a welded part main body formed inside and a surface-modified layer formed in contact with the welded part main body, and the surface-modified layer may include the outermost surface portion having a pitting potential.

Abstract: An accelerator pedal system includes a pedal lever, a lock mechanism, an actuator, and an ECU. The pedal lever operates in accordance with a step-on operation. The lock mechanism is capable of restricting the operation of the pedal lever. The lock mechanism can switch a locked state in which the operation of the pedal lever is restricted by the lock mechanism and an unlocked state in which the operation of the pedal lever is free from restriction by the lock mechanism. The ECU includes a locking operation determination unit, an actuator control unit, and an information acquisition unit. The locking operation determination unit determines switching of a locking operation by the lock mechanism. The actuator control unit controls a driving operation of an actuator. The locking operation determination unit locks the pedal lever when the vehicle is traveling on a specific position in an automatic driving mode.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a neutral busbar and a temperature sensor. The neutral busbar has a main body and a bent part that retains the temperature sensor therein. The main body has first and second parts each of which has one or more connection terminals formed therein. The bent part is formed between a circumferential end portion of the first part and a circumferential end portion of the second part. In the first part, there is formed, between the circumferential end portion of the first part and a closest connection terminal formed in the first part to the bent part, a first extending portion that extends axially or radially. Similarly, in the second part, there is formed, between the circumferential end portion of the second part and a closest connection terminal formed in the second part to the bent part, a second extending portion that extends axially or radially.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a controller configured to execute: receiving a remote signal containing a target temperature in a cabin and an expected traveling start time of a vehicle; performing preheating of the cabin in a second air-conditioning mode in which the preheating is performed by using an electric heat pump when a temperature in the cabin is predicted to be increasable to the target temperature in the second air-conditioning mode before the expected traveling start time, the preheating being based on a remote operation; and performing the preheating of the cabin in a first air-conditioning mode in which the preheating is performed by using exhaust heat generated when an internal combustion engine operates when the temperature in the cabin is predicted not to be increasable to the target temperature in the second air-conditioning mode before the expected traveling start time.

Abstract: A current sensor for a detection target current using a shunt resistor includes: a resistance value correction circuit having a correction resistor; a signal application unit that applies an alternating current signal to a series circuit of the shunt resistor and the correction resistor; a voltage detection unit that detects terminal voltages of the shunt resistor and the correction resistor; and a correction unit that calculates a resistance value of the shunt resistor and corrects the resistance value for detection; and a power supply circuit having a first power supply generation unit that generates a first power supply of the signal application unit from an input power supply of an outside; and a second power supply generation unit that generates a second power supply of the voltage detection unit.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for determining a location of a portable device relative to an object. The system and method may include operating in two modes: 1) a first mode in which an antenna output, such as a received signal strength indicator, satisfies a mode transition criterion that is dynamic, and 2) a second mode in which, with the mode transition criterion being satisfied, the location of the portable device is determined.

Abstract: A transmission control device, which drives multiple antennas having different transmission ranges, includes: a genuine transmission control unit that transmits, from a genuine transmission antenna with use of a carrier wave, a genuine code for activating a portable device; and an inversion transmission control unit that transmits, from an inversion transmission antenna with use of a carrier wave, an inversion code including at least partial inverted genuine code concurrently with a transmission of the genuine code from the genuine transmission antenna. The inversion transmission antenna has a transmission range which does not overlap with a transmission range of the genuine transmission antenna.