Abstract: An improvement system includes: a first correlation calculation unit which reads parameter information, which is information regarding a plurality of evaluation indexes in a business process, and calculates a first correlation in which a correlation between the evaluation indexes is expressed by a correlation coefficient; a graph generation unit which creates a causal relationship graph, in which the evaluation indexes are set as nodes and the correlation between the evaluation indexes is represented by a link, on the basis of the first correlation and order information which is information regarding priorities of the plurality of evaluation indexes; an interface unit which presents the causal relationship graph to a user and receives a change to the causal relationship graph by the user; and an order calculation unit which updates the order information on the basis of the change to the causal relationship graph by the user, and enables the graph generation unit to generate the causal relationship graph after

Abstract: A cover of a housing of a strain detection device includes a peripheral wall portion having a cylindrical shape, a top plate portion that has a disc shape and closes an upper end of the peripheral wall portion, and a reinforcing portion provided protruding from the top plate portion. A volume of the cover is 15% or more and less than 40% of a volume of a cylinder including an upper surface of the top plate portion, an outer peripheral surface of the peripheral wall portion, and a bottom surface of the peripheral wall portion. In the strain detection device, a maximum deformation amount of the top plate portion of the cover in a central axis direction of the peripheral wall portion due to a differential pressure between an internal pressure of an internal space of a case sealed by the cover and an air pressure of a tire is 4.1% or less of an outer diameter of the cover.

Abstract: A suspension system performs calculations using machine learning by making sensor information and suspension state information associate with each other. The suspension system includes: a weight parameter storage unit; a vehicle state estimation unit; a first vehicle behavior calculation unit that calculates a first physical value based on the estimation result; a second vehicle behavior calculation unit that calculates a second physical value based on the sensor information; an estimation accuracy verification unit that outputs estimation accuracy of the state of the suspension by comparing the first physical value and the second physical value to each other; and a traveling data control unit that instructs learning of weight parameters based on an output result of the estimation accuracy.

Abstract: A vehicle data collection device includes a setting unit which determines a collection setting that is setting information for each ECU corresponding to a collection request; a collection condition determination unit which sets a collection condition based on the collection setting, and determines whether the collection condition is satisfied; a collected data output unit which sets collected data based on the collection setting, and acquires the collected data from each ECU; a multi-stage holding unit which holds collected data output before the collection condition is satisfied and collected data output after the collection condition is satisfied based on the collection setting; a transmission standby unit which keeps the held collected data in a standby state for transmission; and a transmission unit which transmits the collected data kept in the standby state by the transmission standby unit to a request source.

Abstract: An Electronic Control Unit (ECU) is configured to control electric brake mechanisms configured to provide respective braking forces to respective wheels of a vehicle. When a first braking force provided to a first wheel cannot be controlled due to a failure in a first frictional braking apparatus, the ECU is configured to output a braking instruction for causing a second frictional braking apparatus to generate a second braking force according to magnitude of the first braking force.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to obtain an internal combustion engine control device capable of appropriately correcting an output value of a flow rate sensor provided in an intake flow path of the internal combustion engine and reducing an error between a corrected air flow rate and an actual air flow rate. A control device (100) for an internal combustion engine (10) of the present invention includes a CPU (103) that computes an intake air amount of the internal combustion engine based on a sensor signal of an air flow sensor (12) provided in an intake passage (15), computes a pulsation rate from a pulsation amplitude and an average air amount of the intake air amount, and calculates a correction value for correcting a pulsation error of the intake air amount using the pulsation rate and an engine rotation speed of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: Provided is a map information processing device which contributes to the improvement of high-precision map verification performance by generating road information for extracting a road area corresponding to a road and a demarcation line corresponding to a traffic lane from an aerial image, inferring the position of an occlusion which may cover the road, determining if the demarcation line is in the vicinity of the occlusion forms a continuous, and determining whether or not the traffic lane in the vicinity of the occlusion has continuity such that a misunderstanding about the continuity of the road when the presence of no occlusion is possible can be avoided to suppress the inclusion of incorrect information. This device generates traffic lane information which can be also used to generate appropriate traffic lane information for an area for which road information cannot be extracted due to an occlusion.

Abstract: A core member of a current detector includes an annular core having a magnetic gap, a first mold portion sealing a part of the core, and a second mold portion sealing the first mold portion, in which the first mold portion has a pair of pressing surfaces with the magnetic gap being interposed therebetween, and the pair of pressing surfaces are sealed by the second mold portion.

Abstract: A communication device includes a classification unit that classifies received frames into a plurality of classes, a queueing unit that buffers the frames for each of the classes, a gate unit that opens/closes the frames, a scheduling unit that determines the open/closed state and sets a guard band as a transmission inhibition period at a proximity of a gate open state end time, to ensure a transmission timing of another class, and a transmission unit that transmits the frame passed through by the gate unit. The scheduling unit sets a guard band width corresponding to a frame maximum length, and controls the open/closed state to ensure the guard band width.

Abstract: A bendable circuit substrate (3) is provided with a first rigid part (11), a second rigid part (12) and a flexible part (13). The first rigid part (11) is provided with power source terminals (40) (positive electrode terminal (40A), negative electrode terminal (40B)), and power is supplied to the second rigid part (12) via power source positive electrode wirings (BA) of the flexible part (13). The power source positive electrode wirings (BA) are provided to the respective first layer and the second layer so as to be superimposed on each other in the lamination direction, in the flexible part (13).

Abstract: A propeller shaft for transmitting driving force of a vehicle includes a first shaft unit mounted to the vehicle via a vehicle mounting member. The first shaft unit includes a sleeve yoke, a stub shaft, and a tube. The sleeve yoke is connected to an output shaft of a transmission of the vehicle, and receives the driving force via the output shaft. The stub shaft is disposed oppositely to the sleeve yoke in a direction of a rotational axis of the first shaft unit. The tube connects the sleeve yoke and the stub shaft. The stub shaft includes a weakest part structured to be less in torsional strength than a remaining part of the first shaft unit and formed at a position at which the stub shaft overlaps with the vehicle mounting member in the direction of the rotational axis.

Abstract: A disc brake (10) includes friction pads (24 and 25) that are provided at positions next to a disc rotor (11) in a disc axial direction and provided to be able to move in the disc axial direction, and a carrier (21) that has an inner circumferential surface (21b) supporting the friction pads (24 and 25) and formed along an outer circumferential edge of the disc rotor (11) and filter portions (55 and 56) provided on the inner circumferential surface (21b) in a manner of facing the outer circumferential edge of the disc rotor (11).

Abstract: Provided is a driving assistance device that is safe and convenient in a situation where reverse playback cannot be performed in passing each other on narrow paths or the like. Driving operation of driver and surrounding obstacle information are stored at forward movement. At this time, the information of the front sensor (or the front camera) and the information of the rear sensor are integrated to determine and store the object type (stationary object, moving object). After the backward movement assistance is started, the surrounding obstacles of the rear sensor are collated with the stored surrounding obstacles, and execution of the backward movement assistance based on the stored driving operation is determined according to the collation result.

Abstract: A physical quantity detection device (20), which can be disposed in a main flow path (22a) where a measurement target gas (2) flows in one direction, includes: a circuit chamber (135a) that accommodates a circuit board (300); an inflow hole (220) that communicates the main flow path (22a) with the circuit chamber (135a) and allows the measurement target gas (2) flowing through the main flow path (22a) to flow into the circuit chamber (135a); an outflow hole (170) that communicates the main flow path (22a) with the circuit chamber (135a) and allows the measurement target gas (2) in the circuit chamber (135a) to flow out to the main flow path (22a); and a sensor (322) disposed in the circuit chamber (135a) to be at least partially located on a path (2a) of the measurement target gas (2) flowing from the inflow hole (220) to the outflow hole (170).

Abstract: An electronic control device includes: an object recognition unit that recognizes surrounding objects based on external environment information acquired by an external environment sensor; an obstacle object generation unit that generates an obstacle object regarding an object that generates a blind spot region by shielding observation by the external environment sensor among the recognized objects; and a blind spot object management unit that manages, as a blind spot object, a blind spot region generated by the obstacle object, in which the object recognition unit generates solid object information regarding an object that can enter and exit the blind spot region among the recognized objects, and the blind spot object management unit associates a solid object that has entered the blind spot region with a blind spot object in the blind spot region, and cancels association of a solid object that has exited the blind spot region with a blind spot object in the blind spot region.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an image processing device performs a first layer matching processing for obtaining a first parallax in units of an image region of a first size by specifying an image block having the high similarity to a first image block provided in one of two images from a first search range based on a first predetermined search width in the other image and a second layer matching processing for obtaining a second parallax in units of an image region of a second size by specifying an image block having the high similarity to a second image block provided in one image of the two images from a second search range based on the first parallax and a predetermined second search width in the other image, and expands the first search width or the second search range and performs a search when an image block having the high similarity to the first image block exists at an end of the first search range, in the first layer stereo matching processing.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to providing a defect inspection apparatus and a defect inspection method capable of improving determination accuracy of an inspection. A defect inspection method includes causing a defect inspection apparatus to perform an image acquisition step of changing a relative pose between an inspection target and an imaging portion and capturing an image each time the relative pose is changed, thereby acquiring a plurality of images, a feature amount acquisition step of acquiring a specific feature acquired by scanning each of the plurality of images as a first feature amount, a waveform data acquisition step of acquiring first waveform data in which the first feature amount is arranged in an order of a change in the relative pose, and a defect determination step of determining a defect according to the first waveform data.

Abstract: A control apparatus is provided for an autonomous driving vehicle in a restricted area. The control apparatus can acquire state information of a moving object in the restricted area. The moving object includes a non-autonomous moving object and an autonomous driving vehicle, and the non-autonomous moving object includes a pedestrian and/or a non-autonomous driving vehicle. The state information includes motion information and position information, and the motion information includes a motion direction and a motion speed. The control apparatus can determine a temporary restricted passage space based on state information of the moving object, and adjust, based on the temporary restricted passage space and state information of a current autonomous driving vehicle, traveling of the current autonomous driving vehicle.

Abstract: An object is to appropriately control a heat balance of an ignition device to suppress an increase in size and cost of the ignition device. An internal combustion engine control device controls an internal combustion engine in which a current flowing through an ignition coil of an ignition device is interrupted according to a predetermined ignition timing. The internal combustion engine control device includes a request setting unit, an adjustment unit, and an ignition control unit. The request setting unit determines a request energization amount of the ignition coil on the basis of the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine. The adjustment unit adjusts an energization amount of the ignition coil according to a temperature related to the ignition device and a request energization amount. The ignition control unit controls an interruption state of the ignition coil according to the energization amount of the ignition coil adjusted by the adjustment unit.

Abstract: A communication device transmits a data signal and includes a setpoint data variation diagnosis unit that, using first setpoint data for adjusting a transmission waveform when the data signal is transmitted and received to and from an external device via a transmission line, and second setpoint data for adjusting a transmission waveform when the data signal is looped back between a transmission circuit and a reception circuit in a transmission device, determines, based on a prescribed determination condition, each of a variation in the first setpoint data when the data signal is transmitted and received to and from the external device via the transmission line and a variation in the second setpoint data when the data signal is looped back between the transmission circuit and the reception circuit, and diagnoses, based on determination results, failure signs of the communication device and the transmission line.