Abstract: An abnormality determination apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. A person is identified in a captured image acquired from a camera that captures a range including a driver seat of the vehicle. It is determined whether a person other than the driver of the vehicle is present in an operable range set as a range in which a steering wheel of the vehicle is enabled to be operated, based on a result from identifying a person. An abnormality process assuming that the driver of the vehicle is in an abnormal state is executed in response to determining that the person other than the driver is present in the operable range.

Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) circuit is provided and includes an antenna, a printed circuit board and a RF chip. The printed circuit board includes a stack of layers. The stack of layers includes a grounded layer. The grounded layer includes a slit, a dielectric area, a first grounded area and a second grounded area. The dielectric area includes dielectric material and is disposed between the first grounded area and the second grounded area. The antenna is edge mounted to the ground layer adjacent the dielectric area and offset from a centerline of the ground layer. The second grounded area is disposed between the dielectric area and the slit. The RF chip is mounted to the stack of layers and connected to the antenna via a transmission line and configured to transmit and receive RF signals via the antenna.

Abstract: A method for determining a class to which an input image belongs in an inference process, includes: storing a frequent feature for each class in a frequent feature database; inputting an image as the input image; extracting which class the input image belongs to; extracting a plurality of features that appear in the inference process; extracting one of the features that satisfies a predetermined condition as a representative feature; reading out the frequent feature corresponding to an extracted class from the frequent feature database; extracting one or a plurality of ground features based on the frequent feature and the representative feature; storing a concept data representing each feature in an annotation database; reading out the concept data corresponding to the one or the plurality of ground features from the annotation database; generating explanation information; and outputting the ground feature and the explanatory information together with the extracted class.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes a plurality of control circuit units, a signal line, and a sneak-in suppression circuit. The plurality of control circuit units are connected to separate grounds, respectively. The signal line connects a first control circuit unit and a second control circuit unit. When a system is defined as a combination of a component and a ground corresponding to a control circuit unit, the sneak-in suppression circuit suppresses a sneak-in of electric power from the ground of one system (i.e., a subject system) to the other system connected by the signal line for preventing a cascading failure.

Abstract: An inter-vehicle communication system includes: multiple vehicle communication devices for multiple vehicles; and a wireless base station. Each of the multiple vehicle communication devices includes a wide area communication portion that communicates with a different device, a wide area communication control portion that executes a wide area periodic transmission process of multicasting a vehicle information packet towards a different vehicle, a narrow area communication portion, and a narrow area communication control portion that executes a narrow area periodic transmission process of multicasting the vehicle information packet towards the different vehicle. The wide area communication control portion transmits a vehicle status report to the wireless base station. The wide area communication control portion pauses the wide area periodic transmission process.

Abstract: In a transmission circuit, a first pulse signal with a first frequency and a second pulse signal with a second frequency are output according to a rising edge and a falling edge of a first input signal, respectively. When a second input signal indicates an active level, the second pulse signal is output according to the falling edge of the first input signal and the second frequency is changed to a third frequency. In a reception circuit, a first level of a first output signal is changed to a second level according to a first induced signal via a transformer, the second level of the first output signal is changed to the first level according to a second induced signal via the transformer, and a second output signal is changed to an active level when a frequency of the second induced signal has changed to the third frequency.

Abstract: A power system includes a battery module and a battery ECU. The battery module includes multiple battery stacks. Each of multiple battery stacks includes multiple battery cells, multiple detectors which independently detect physical values of the multiple battery cells, respectively, and multiple individual communicators which wirelessly output detection results of the multiple detectors. Each of the multiple individual communicators communicates a radio signal wirelessly to and from a general monitor. The multiple battery stacks and the general monitor are accommodated in a storage space in a housing having electromagnetic shielding performance. A shield is also accommodated in the storage space while facing a communication hole formed on the housing.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving vehicle behavior planning to avoid undertaking maneuvers. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a driving context from sensor data about a surrounding environment of an ego vehicle. The driving context identifying lanes of a roadway and a position of the ego vehicle in the lanes. The method includes, in response to determining that the driving context and a state of a nearby vehicle satisfy a merge threshold, generating a trajectory for the ego vehicle that avoids undertaking the nearby vehicle. The method includes controlling the ego vehicle according to the trajectory.

Abstract: In a control apparatus, a heater adjuster performs a regeneration task of causing a heater to heat a sensing member of a particulate matter sensor to burn particulate matter deposited on the sensing member to thereby remove the particulate matter from the sensing member. The heater adjuster performs a deposition reduction task of maintaining, for a predetermined duration, a temperature of the sensing member at a deposition reduction temperature that reduces additional particulate-matter deposition on the sensing member. The predetermined duration is defined from completion of a regeneration task to a time when an environmental condition around the particulate matter sensor is determined to be stable. The heater adjuster stops the heater from heating the sensing member if a condition determiner determines that the environmental condition around the particulate matter sensor is stable.

Abstract: Performed are an accommodation step of accommodating a pair of conductive members in a die, a sealing step of injecting a resin to seal the conductive members, and an extraction step of extracting a conductive member module. In the sealing step, the conductive members are sealed while a force is applied by the resin injected into the die to the individual conductive members in directions away from each other, and the individual conductive members are supported by support members disposed outside.

Abstract: A power system has: an electrical load; first and second lines respectively including first and second power sources; and inter-line switch. The first power source outputs a power supply voltage. The second power source includes a storage battery. The power system includes: an anomaly determination unit determining an anomaly in the first line; a state control unit opening the inter-line switch if the occurrence of an anomaly is determined; first and second paths in parallel to each other between a connection point to the connection path and the second power source in the second line; a charging unit on the first path to charge the storage battery to a higher voltage than the power supply voltage of the first power source; and a discharge regulation unit on the second path to regulate discharge of the storage battery in the second line.

Abstract: A power conversion apparatus connected to three or more voltage units, includes three or more power conversion circuits connected to respective units of the three or more voltage units; and a multiport transformer connected to the three or more power conversion circuits at mutually different ports, in which at least one voltage unit of the three or more voltage units is an electrical load.

Abstract: A straddled vehicle engine unit including an internal combustion engine and a misfire detection device. The misfire detection device includes a crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquisition unit and a misfire determination unit. The misfire determination unit includes first to third determination units. The first determination unit determines whether or not the crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquired by the crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquisition unit is greater than a set physical quantity determination reference. The second determination unit determines whether or not a fluctuation pattern constituted by a physical quantity and the crankshaft rotation speed fluctuation physical quantity acquired at least before or after the physical quantity falls within a set misfire pattern range.

Abstract: A SiC single crystal composite includes: a central portion positioned at a center in plan view; and an outer circumferential portion surrounding an outer circumference of the central portion, in which crystal planes of the central portion and the outer circumferential portion are inclined to each other or different from each other, a boundary is present between the central portion and the outer circumferential portion, and a direction of a crystal constituting the central portion and a direction of a crystal constituting the outer circumferential portion are different from each other via the boundary.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve body, a fixed core, a movable core, a holder, and a stopper. The movable core has an inner core that contacts the stopper, and an outer core press-fitted to an outer peripheral surface of the inner core. The outer core has, in a moving direction of the movable core, a press-fit region which is press-fitted to the outer peripheral surface of the inner core, and a non-press-fit region which is not press-fitted to the outer peripheral surface of the inner core and is adjacent to the press-fit region in the moving direction. Between the inner peripheral surface of the holder and the outer peripheral surface of the movable core, the smallest gap in the press-fit region is larger than the smallest gap in the non-press-fit region.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas purification filter, a partition wall has communicating pores. Each communicating pore has a surface opening on the gas-inflow-side surface and a plurality of portions, each portion having a diameter being reduced and then increased from the surface opening, one of the portions, whose diameter is the smallest, being defined as an inlet neck portion. As viewed in cross section in a thickness direction of the partition wall, the surface opening of each communication pore has a diameter defined as a surface opening diameter, the inlet neck portion of each communication pore has a diameter defined as an inlet neck diameter. The inlet neck diameter is smaller than the surface opening diameter, and an average value of the inlet neck diameters is 15 ?m or less. A surface opening ratio of the communicating pores in plan view of the gas-inflow-side partition wall surface is 40% or more.

Abstract: An electric component manufacturing device includes a preheater that contacts and preheats a transported work, a melting heater that is downstream of the preheater in a transport direction of the work and contacts and heats the work at a temperature which is higher than a temperature of the preheater and at which a solder melts, a cooler that is downstream of the melting heater in the transport direction and contacts and cools the work, and a transporter that supports and transports the work to sequentially contact the preheater, the melting heater, and the cooler in this order. The transporter performs intermittent transport in which the work is transported from the preheater to the melting heater without stopping to contact both the preheater and the melting heater at the same time, and then the work stops on the melting heater.

Abstract: A motor includes: a rotating shaft; a motor portion; a circuit board; a case having a circuit housing recess portion for housing the circuit board; and a cover made of a synthetic resin and sealing the opening portion of the circuit housing recess portion. The cover has an outer circumference rib and an inside rib. The outer circumference rib is located on the outer circumferential side from the opening end surface of the circuit housing recess portion and projects from the outer circumferential edge of the cover toward the front surface side of the cover and the rear surface side of the cover. The inside rib is located inside from the opening end surface and projects at least either on the front surface side of the cover or on the rear surface side of the cover.

Abstract: A method of guiding an operator of a vehicle includes determining, in response to a vehicle-sharing request, whether a vehicle operation condition is satisfied based on state information of the vehicle. The method includes, in response to the vehicle operation condition being satisfied, identifying a set of vehicle operation instructions from a plurality of vehicle instructions corresponding to the vehicle, where the set of vehicle operation instructions correspond to the vehicle operation condition. The method includes, in response to the vehicle operation condition being satisfied, identifying a notification system from among a plurality of notification systems based on the vehicle operation condition, and providing, using the notification system, the set of vehicle operation instructions.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator for a rotary electric machine including: a process of abutting, on each other, tip end parts of one coil piece and an other one coil piece for forming a stator coil of a rotary electric machine; and a welding process of irradiating a welding target location regarding the tip end part having been abutted with a laser beam having a wavelength of 0.6 ?m or less, in which in the welding process, the laser beam is generated for every pulse oscillation in a laser oscillator in a mode of having a laser output of 3.0 kW or more, and in at least a part of a period during one pulse oscillation, the laser beam is moved so that an irradiation position changes linearly parallel to an abutment surface of the tip end part.