Abstract: A reader includes a transceiver and a control module. The transceiver is configured to, during a current connection event, monitor notification messages transmitted from a portable access device to a phone-as-a-key (PaaK) system of a vehicle, where the notification messages are transmitted to establish a communication link between the portable access device and the PaaK system. The control module is configured to: perform an in-phase and quadrature phase capture of the notification messages based on fields in one or more of the notification messages, where the fields include a mobile de-whitened section including two or more series of consecutive bits, where the consecutive bits in each of the one or more series are all zeros or all ones; based on the in-phase and quadrature phase capture, determine an angle-of-arrival of the notification messages, and indicate the angle-of-arrival to the PaaK system for permitted access determined by the PaaK system.

Abstract: A valve device includes a flow path formation member provided with at least one flow path hole through which a fluid passes, and a drive part that outputs a rotational force. The valve device includes a shaft, and a rotor having a sliding surface that slides while facing an opening surface of the flow path formation member where the flow path hole is opened, and the rotor is configured to increase or decrease an opening degree of the flow path hole with rotation of the shaft. The valve device includes an energization member that energizes the rotor toward the flow path formation member. The valve device includes a coupling structure configured to tiltably couple the shaft to the rotor such that a contact state between the sliding surface and the opening surface is held regardless of a posture or a position of the shaft.

Abstract: A peripheral image generation device acquires a plurality of camera images obtained from a plurality of cameras each of which captures a periphery of the vehicle. The peripheral image generation device stores a traveling direction camera image that is a part or all of images included in the plurality of camera images and captured at least in a traveling direction of the vehicle. The peripheral image generation device generates an underfloor transparent image that is a composite image transmitting a bottom of the vehicle based on the plurality of camera images and the traveling direction camera image.

Abstract: A vehicle compound-eye camera includes: a plurality of cameras arranged to be spaced apart from each other in a predetermined direction and disposed such that respective maximum image-pickup ranges of the plurality of cameras are partially shifted from each other in the predetermined direction; and a processor configured to set an overlapping image-pickup range in which each of the plurality of cameras picks up an image of a same target object from a different viewpoint. The processor is configured to set an image-pickup range of one of the cameras disposed on one end in the predetermined direction to have a relatively wide angle. The processor is configured to set an image-pickup range of another of the cameras disposed on the other end in the predetermined direction to have a relatively narrow angle.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ignition apparatus for an internal combustion engine. The ignition apparatus includes a spark plug, an ignition coil and a controller. The spark plug has an auxiliary combustion chamber in which a discharge gap is arranged. The ignition coil is configured to apply a voltage to the spark plug. The controller is configured to perform a multiple-discharge mode in which discharge is generated at least twice, with a discharge pause period intervening therebetween, across the discharge gap within a period from a compression stroke to an expansion stroke of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device including a first pressure reducing valve, a first evaporator that exchanges heat between the refrigerant decompressed in the first pressure reducing valve and air, a second pressure reducing valve that is disposed in parallel with the first pressure reducing valve; a second evaporator in which the refrigerant decompressed in the second pressure reducing valve to absorbs heat from a battery; a third pressure reducing valve that reduces the pressure of the refrigerant evaporated in the second evaporator; and a controller configured to control opening degrees of the second pressure reducing valve and the third pressure reducing valve. The controller performs a limit control for controlling the opening degree of the second pressure reducing valve to an opening degree of smaller one of a battery cooling opening degree and an air cooling opening degree.

Abstract: A valve timing adjustment device includes: a driving rotating body that rotates with a crankshaft; a driven rotating body that rotates with a camshaft; a reduction mechanism configured to change a relative rotation phase of the driving rotating body and the driven rotating body by a driving force of an actuator; and a filter unit capable of capturing a foreign matter contained in lubricating fluid supplied into the reduction mechanism. The reduction mechanism includes: an internal gear portion having internal teeth formed inward in a radial direction, and an external gear portion having external teeth formed outward in the radial direction to mesh with the internal teeth. The driven rotating body has a supply hole penetrating in an axial direction. The filter unit has holes penetrating in the axial direction, and the holes are arranged in a flow path of the lubricating fluid connected to the supply hole.

Abstract: A normal-time drive cam groove extends from a drive cam specific point, which is defined as a specific point of the drive cam, toward one side in a circumferential direction of the drive cam. A groove bottom at the normal-time drive cam groove is sloped relative to one end surface of the drive cam such that a depth of the groove bottom continuously decreases from the drive cam specific point toward the one side in the circumferential direction of the drive cam. An emergency-time drive cam groove extends from the drive cam specific point toward another side in the circumferential direction of the drive cam.

Abstract: A radar apparatus includes a transmission-reception antenna unit including a plurality of transmission antennas and a plurality of reception antennas along a predetermined array direction, which form a virtual array in which a plurality of virtual reception antennas are arranged along the array direction. Based on virtual reception signals received by the virtual reception antennas, the radar apparatus detects an object that reflects transmission signals, calculates a transmission phase difference between the transmission antennas of the transmission signals transmitted by the transmission antennas, and calculates a reception phase difference between the reception antennas of reception signals received by the reception antennas.

Abstract: A power module is applied to an electric power conversion device in which multiple upper-lower arm circuits are connected to an electric power line in parallel. The power module includes the multiple upper-lower arm circuits; a capacitor connected to each of the multiple upper-lower arm circuits in parallel; an upper wiring that connects an upper arm and a positive electrode terminal of the capacitor; a lower wiring that connects a lower arm and a negative electrode of the capacitor; an upper electric power wiring that is an electric power wiring connected to the electric power line and connects a high potential line of the electric power line and the upper wiring; and a lower electric power wiring that is an electric power wiring connected to the electric power line and connects a lower potential line of the electric power line and the lower wiring.

Abstract: A drive system for a rotating electric machine system includes: a first inverter and a second inverter connected to first and second ends of multi-phase windings respectively; a selection unit performing selection between a first setting representing that the first inverter is set to a switch drive inverter and the second inverter is set to a neutral-point drive inverter and a second setting representing that the second inverter is set to the switch drive inverter and the first inverter is set to the neutral-point drive inverter; and a drive control unit performing a switch drive task of performing on-off driving of the upper and lower arm switches of the switch drive inverter to thereby input/output power to/from the rotating electrical machine; and a neutral-point drive task of maintaining at least one of the upper and lower arm switches of the neural-point drive inverter in an on state.

Abstract: A vehicular communication device is configured to perform communication in accordance with an Ethernet standard, and includes a medium access controller (MAC), a clock monitor, and a return processor. The MAC is configured to execute medium access control. The clock monitor is configured to monitor a clock signal for operating the MAC. The return processer is configured to restart a clock output source that outputs the clock signal, in response to the clock monitor detecting that the clock signal is stopped.

Abstract: In a driving assistance control apparatus for a vehicle, an acquirer acquires a detected traveling state of the vehicle and a detected traveling state of another vehicle. A controller determines whether to perform braking assistance using a deterministic indicator for collision including at least one of a time, a distance, and a required deceleration to collision with the other vehicle and a deterministic indicator for crossing including at least one of a time, a distance, and a required deceleration to reaching a path of travel of the other vehicle. The deterministic indicator for collision and the deterministic indicator for crossing are acquired using the acquired traveling state of the vehicle and the acquired traveling state of the other vehicle. Further, in response to determining to perform the braking assistance, the controller causes a driving assistance unit to perform the braking assistance.

Abstract: A battery system comprises a plurality of battery modules, each of the battery modules includes an assembled battery configured to include a plurality of battery cells connected in series, a monitoring unit configured to monitor the assembled battery, and an external member configured to be electrically connected to the monitoring unit, and the monitoring unit of each of the battery modules has a generation unit configured to generate, based on an electric signal input from the external member, an identification information item on the corresponding one of the battery modules, the identification information items of the respective battery modules being different from one another.

Abstract: A rotor includes: a rotor core having a plurality of magnet-receiving holes formed in a folded shape that is convex radially inward; and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded respectively in the magnet-receiving holes of the rotor core. The rotor core includes a plurality of core sheets that are laminated in an axial direction. Each of the core sheets has a plurality of through-holes for magnets. The magnet-receiving holes of the rotor core are constituted of those of the through-holes of the axially-laminated core sheets which overlap each other in the axial direction. Interior surfaces of the magnet-receiving holes have irregular portions each of which is formed by a difference in position between peripheral edges of the axially-overlapping through-holes, and non-irregular portions where none of the irregular portions are formed. The permanent magnets have engaging portions located respectively in recesses of the irregular portions.

Abstract: A power supply system includes: a power transmission circuit provided on the ground side; a high frequency generation circuit that supplies high-frequency electric power to the power transmission circuit; a measurement unit that measures a physical quantity corresponding to the degree of coupling between the power transmission circuit and a power reception circuit provided in a vehicle; and a control unit. When the degree of coupling is determined, based on the measured physical quantity, to be lower than a predetermined degree, the control unit sets the impedance of the power transmission circuit to a first impedance and thereby sets the power transmission circuit to a non-resonant state. In contrast, when the degree of coupling is determined to be not lower than the predetermined degree, the control unit sets the impedance of the power transmission circuit to a second impedance and thereby sets the power transmission circuit to a resonant state.

Abstract: A control apparatus, which controls a drive motor that drives a rotor installed in an electrical aircraft, instructs the drive motor to selectively operate in at least two motor-control modes. The at least two motor-control modes include a flying motor-control mode for causing the electrical aircraft to fly, and a cleaning motor-control mode for cleaning the rotor. The control apparatus controls, in the cleaning motor-control mode, the drive motor such that a rotational frequency of the drive motor is lower than a predetermined human-audible frequency range.

Abstract: An anti-vibration device is secured to a vibration source and a vibration transmission portion to inhibit transmission of vibration, and includes a first elastically deformed portion, a second elastically deformed portion and a third elastically deformed portion. The first elastically deformed portion is a plate having a thickness in a first thickness direction and vibrates in the first thickness direction to configure a path for the vibration to be transmitted from the vibration source to the vibration transmission portion. The second elastically deformed portion is a plate having a thickness in a second thickness direction intersecting the first thickness direction and vibrates in the second thickness direction to configure the path. The third elastically deformed portion is a plate having a thickness in a third thickness direction intersecting the first thickness direction and the second thickness direction and vibrates in the third thickness direction to configure the path.

Abstract: A surrounding image display apparatus that comprises an imaging device that captures an image of a surrounding of a vehicle, a display device that displays a surrounding image captured by the imaging device, and an electronic control unit that controls the display device, the electronic control unit being configured to start displaying the surrounding image when it is determined that a driver intends to make a lane departure, and end the displaying of the surrounding image when it is determined that the driver has performed a steering operation without visually confirming a situation of a blind spot on the side of the lane departure.

Abstract: In an optical distance measuring apparatus, a light source irradiates a target object with a light pulse having a first pulse width. A light receiver outputs a pulse signal that represents reflection light from the target object being incident on the light receiver, and has a second pulse width that is larger than or equal to the first pulse width. A histogram generator records, every predetermined period, a frequency representing the number of outputted pulse signals to thereby generate a histogram. A peak detector detects, from the histogram, an edge point of a peak figure included in the histogram. A distance calculator subtracts, from a time indicative of the edge point of the peak figure, a time length of the second pulse width to thereby calculate a target time, and calculates a distance to the target object as a function of the calculated target time.