Abstract: A vehicle including a vehicle hood disposed over a front end compartment of the vehicle, the hood having a front end and a rear end, the rear end being proximal to a front windshield area of the vehicle; at least one hood actuator operably coupled to the hood, the at least one hood actuator being configured to move at least a portion of the hood relative to the front end compartment; and a controller in communication with the at least one hood actuator, the controller being configured to control the at least one hood actuator in response to a predetermined vehicle operating condition. The hood further includes an active hinge defining a hood pivot axis disposed between the front end and the rear end, whereby the at least one hood actuator is configured to move only a forward portion of the hood disposed between the active hinge and the front end of the hood.

Abstract: In an act-of-looking-aside determination device, when a route change detector detects a route change of an own vehicle, an act-of-looking-aside determiner refrains from determining that a driver is in an act-of-looking-aside state even when a line-of-sight direction of the driver deviates from a determination reference range after the line-of-sight direction of the driver detected by a line-of-sight direction detector is detected as a line-of-sight direction toward at least one of a rearview mirror R and a side mirror determined based on a relative position between the own vehicle and another vehicle, the rearview mirror and the side mirror being provided in the own vehicle. Thus, even when the line of sight of the driver is turned to the rearview mirror or the side mirror during a route change of the own vehicle, an erroneous determination on an act-of-looking-aside state can be prevented.

Abstract: An alert control device including: a risk area identifying unit for identifying a risk area outside a mobile object based on operation information of the mobile object; a transmission control unit for controlling transmission of risk area information containing risk area location information outward the mobile object; a reception control unit for controlling reception of response information for the risk area information; and the output control unit for controlling output of alert information at least into the mobile object based on the response information. An alert controlling method including: identifying a risk area outside a mobile object based on operation information of the mobile object; controlling transmission of risk area information containing risk area location information outward the mobile object; controlling reception of response information for the risk area information; and controlling output of alert information at least into the mobile object based on the response information.

Abstract: A communication apparatus is provided in a movable object, and communicates with an external server. The communication apparatus includes a communication control unit for controlling communication with the server, and controlling communication with a movable object control unit controlling the movable object and communication with an update control unit controlling program update of the movable object control unit. The communication control unit performs, when control on the movable object control unit is to be performed from the server, control to receive a first startup request and a command for the movable object control unit from the server, start up and control the movable object control unit, and performs, when control related to program update of the movable object control unit is to be performed from the server, control to receive a second startup request for the update control unit from the server, and start up the update control unit.

Abstract: A vehicle surface simulation apparatus for mapping a nozzles spray pattern of a water leak tester configured to spray water onto an exterior of a vehicle. A jig of the apparatus can be configured to simulate a plurality of exterior surface portions of two different vehicles. The jig can include at least a first area configured to represent at least a portion of a side-view profile of the first vehicle and the second vehicle, and at least a second area configured to represent at least a portion of a front-view profile of the first vehicle and at least a portion of a rear-view profile of the second vehicle. The funnel can be supported in one of the areas such that a funnel inlet lies in a plane that represents a predetermined surface of the vehicle. The conduit can be in fluid communication with the funnel and the container.

Abstract: In a rotary electric machine housing, a first bearing and a second bearing are provided for supporting a rotating shaft. The rotary electric machine housing includes a sub-housing. A collection flow path is formed in the sub-housing, and communicates with a plurality of air bleed passages formed in a gas turbine engine, collectively.

Abstract: An abnormality determining section disconnects both a positive wire and a negative wire between a load module and a second ground circuit, connects one of a positive wire or a negative wire between a main power source apparatus and the second ground circuit, and determines whether there is an abnormality in a second main power source circuit based on an amount of power supplied to the second ground circuit in a state where one of the positive wire or the negative wire of the second main power source circuit is connected to a reference potential by the second ground circuit.

Abstract: A travel control apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform: recognizing a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle; generating a target path of the subject vehicle according to the surrounding situation; calculating a correction amount for correcting the target path in a direction away from a first other vehicle traveling in a first adjacent lane in the vehicle width direction, when the subject vehicle is predicted to pass a side of the first other vehicle or the first other vehicle is predicted to pass a side of the subject vehicle; when a second other vehicle traveling in a second adjacent lane is recognized, determining whether to correct the target path based on a traveling situation of the second other vehicle; and correcting the target path based on the correction amount when the target path is determined to be corrected in the determining.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a front wheel, a rear wheel, and a power unit. The power unit is disposed between the front wheel and the rear wheel in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. An internal combustion engine and a compressor are modularized. The compressor is configured to operate on rotational power generated in the internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine includes a crankshaft and an output shaft. Rotation axes of the crankshaft and the output shaft are parallel to each other and extend in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. The compressor is disposed on one side of the crankshaft in a left-right direction. The output shaft is disposed on the other side of the crankshaft in the left-right direction.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting device is provided which improves overlooking of pedestrians by a driver even under adverse conditions such as nighttime and rainy weather. A vehicle lighting device includes: a low-beam irradiation part that illuminates a lower irradiation region ahead and below a vehicle: a pattern irradiation part that irradiates irradiation light on a lateral irradiation region on a side of the travel path of the vehicle in an irradiation pattern in which bright regions and dark regions are alternately repeated; an environmental information acquisition device which acquires information related to the moisture environment around the vehicle; and a controller which changes the irradiation mode of the low-beam irradiation part and/or pattern irradiation part based on information acquired by the environmental information acquisition device.

Abstract: An autonomous work machine for automatically performing a work on a work area while moving in the work area, includes an image capturing unit configured to capture the work area; and a control unit configured to specify, based on an image of the work area captured by the image capturing unit, contents of a failure having occurred in the work area, and control the autonomous work machine based on the specified contents of the failure.

Abstract: A saddle riding vehicle cornering light structure is provided on a saddle riding vehicle which banks a vehicle body in a rightward-leftward direction and performs cornering, and enlarges an illumination range in a direction to which the vehicle body is banked at the cornering, the structure including: a banking angle detection device that detects a banking angle of the vehicle body using a distance measurement device which measures a distance to a road surface; and a light main body that illuminates the direction to which the vehicle body is banked in accordance with the banking angle detected by the banking angle detection device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for separating a first member (1) and a second member (2) joined to each other comprising the steps of placing a clamp ring (14) on the surface of the first member, plunging a rotating probe (17) having a screw thread on a peripheral surface thereof into the surface of the first member through a through hole (10) of the clamp ring until a tip end of the probe reaches beyond an interface between the first member and the second member, the screw thread being directed so as to lift material of the bonded part away from the second member as a lifted part. The two members can be rejoined to each other by collapsing the lifted part into a bonded part once again by using a rotating probe and a clamp ring.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a first detector configured to detect a behavior of a vehicle, a second detector configured to detect a peripheral situation of the vehicle, a storage configured to store a control logic that outputs information indicating a behavior of the vehicle when at least information indicating a peripheral situation of the vehicle is input to the control logic, a deriver configured to execute the control logic to derive a behavior of the vehicle based on at least the peripheral situation of the vehicle detected by the second detector, and a determinator configured to compare a first behavior of the vehicle detected by the first detector at a certain reference time with a second behavior of the vehicle derived by the deriver based on the peripheral situation detected by the second detector at the reference time to determine whether or not the control logic is accurately operated.

Abstract: The vehicle control system includes a braking force generating device (6, 22) configured to generate a braking force to shift a load of a vehicle to a side of front wheels thereof at an initial stage of a cornering, and a control device (31) configured to control the braking force generated by the braking force generating device. The control device calculates an additional deceleration (Gxadd) according to vehicle state information, calculates a requested fore and aft acceleration (Gxr) according to a requested fore and aft force (Fxr) for the vehicle, calculates a correction coefficient (K) for weakening the additional deceleration according to the requested fore and aft acceleration, corrects the additional deceleration by the correction coefficient, and calculates an additional braking force (Fbadd) to be generated by the braking force generating device according to the corrected additional deceleration.

Abstract: A continuously variable transmission includes, in a case: a drive pulley and a driven pulley each including a fixed-side pulley half and a movable-side pulley half configured to move axially relative to the fixed-side pulley half; a belt including a plurality of elements and a plurality of rings wound around the drive pulley and the driven pulley; a parking gear provided to the fixed-side pulley half of the driven pulley; a parking pawl configured to be fitted to the parking gear; a parking rod configured to swing the parking pawl; and a guide member configured to guide the parking rod, the continuously variable transmission transmitting a driving force a wheel while changing a transmission ratio by changing groove widths of the drive pulley and the driven pulley, wherein the case includes an auxiliary rib having a gap from the drive pulley equal to or smaller than a predetermined width.

Abstract: A continuously variable transmission includes, in a case: a drive pulley and a driven pulley each including a fixed-side pulley half and a movable-side pulley half configured to move to the fixed-side pulley half; a belt including a plurality of elements and a plurality of rings wound around the drive pulley and the driven pulley; a parking gear provided to the fixed-side pulley half of the driven pulley; and a parking pawl configured to be fitted to the parking gear, the continuously variable transmission transmitting a driving force to a wheel while changing a transmission ratio by changing groove widths of the drive pulley and the driven pulley, wherein the case includes an annular rib integrally molded with the case in a manner surrounding an outer periphery of the parking gear except for a position intersecting a swing trajectory of the parking pawl and a predetermined position.

Abstract: An electric prosthetic leg includes a below-knee member, an above-knee member, a knee joint mechanism coupling the below-knee member and the above-knee member such that angles formed between the below-knee member and the above-knee member are variable, and an expansion-contraction device capable of varying the angles formed between the below-knee member and the above-knee member by expanding and contracting, in which one side of the expansion-contraction device in an extending direction is mechanically connected to the below-knee member, and the other side of the expansion-contraction device is mechanically connected to the above-knee member. Assuming that smaller one of minimum formed angles, of the angles formed between the below-knee member and the above-knee member centering on a pivoting portion of the knee joint mechanism, is defined as a second formed angle, the expansion-contraction device is partially disposed on a side of a first formed angle.

Abstract: A vehicle behavior control method is suitable for a vehicle behavior control device. The vehicle behavior control device includes: a lateral acceleration sensor, detecting lateral acceleration occurring in a vehicle body; a wheel speed sensor, detecting a wheel speed of a wheel; a steering angle sensor, detecting a steering angle of the wheel; a steering angle lateral acceleration calculation unit, calculating steering angle lateral acceleration from the wheel speed and the steering angle; and a yaw moment control unit, applying yaw moment to the vehicle body. In the vehicle behavior control method, when the lateral acceleration and the steering angle lateral acceleration meet a predetermined condition, a yaw moment directed inward in a turning direction of the vehicle body is applied by the yaw moment control unit.