Abstract: A two-wheeled motor vehicle includes a seat frame supporting a seat. A metal collar incorporated in the seat frame has a cylindrical shape and is covered by a resin member. The seat frame is fastened at its lower and upper fastening portions to a vehicle body frame of the motor vehicle. The seat frame has a degradation indicating part for indicating degradation of the seat frame when the resin member located at an inner diameter side of the metal collar deforms under a predetermined load to allow the upper fastening portions on the lower fastening portions.

Abstract: A battery charging apparatus includes a position sensor for outputting a position detection signal, a sensor for detecting an output current or voltage of a predetermined phase, a regulator for supplying DC power obtained by rectifying three-phase AC from the generator to a battery, and an inverter control section for executing energization control of the respective switching elements of the regulator based on a phase of an induced voltage of the generator calculated on the basis of the position detection signal. The inverter control section inputs a revolution speed signal Ne of the generator, the position detection signal Tp, and either output signal out of a current signal or a voltage signal detected by the sensor, and estimates an error of an attaching position of the position sensor with respect to the induced voltage of the predetermined phase based on the position detection signal and the output signal.

Abstract: A vehicular display apparatus on a vehicle includes a display device which displays a magnitude of an acceleration which is being detected by an acceleration sensor on a display unit, and also displays a magnitude of an acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor when an ESC controller generated a braking force on road wheels on the display unit.

Abstract: A current applying device is provided in which a contact body which surface-contacts with an inspection target body makes contact with the surface of the inspection target body uniformly; current can be favorably applied from the contact body to the inspection target body; and the contact body alone can be replaced. A probe device 1 for applying current by being in pressure-contact with the power semiconductor H includes: a contact body 2 which surface-contacts with the power semiconductor H; and a plurality of electrically-conductive two-tier springs 31 which press the contact body 2 onto the power semiconductor H; the contact body 2 and the plurality of electrically-conductive two-tier springs 31 are separate bodies, and the plurality of electrically-conductive two-tier springs 31 electrify the contact body 2 while providing pressing force F to each of a plurality of sections of the contact body 2.

Abstract: Provided is a substrate for carbon nanotube growth in which no metal particles as a catalyst aggregates and a method for manufacturing the substrate. A substrate for carbon nanotube growth 1 includes a base plate 2, a catalyst 3, a form-defining material layer 4 which allows the catalyst 3 to be dispersed and arranged, and a covering layer 5 which has a metal oxide to cover the catalyst. A method for manufacturing a substrate for carbon nanotube growth 1 includes a step of sputtering on a base plate 2 a metal which forms a catalyst 3 and oxidizing the surface of the metal, a step of sputtering a form-defining material on the base plate 2, and a step of further sputtering on the form-defining material a metal which forms a catalyst 3 and oxidizing the surface of the metal.

Abstract: A vehicular active vibrational noise control apparatus includes an amplitude limiter for limiting the amplitude of a canceling signal based on a signal level of an audio signal, and a vehicle speed detector for detecting the vehicle speed of a vehicle, which incorporates therein the vehicular active vibrational noise control apparatus. The amplitude limiter changes an amplitude limitation rule, which represents a relationship of a limiting value for the amplitude of the canceling signal to the signal level, depending on the vehicle speed, and limits the amplitude of the canceling signal based on the limiting value determined according to the amplitude limitation rule.

Abstract: A fluid supply system includes a tank, a shutoff valve, a fluid fill channel, a fluid supply channel, a fill detector, a pressure detector, and a controller. The shutoff valve includes a shared channel to enable fluid to flow from a fill hole to the tank and to flow from the tank to a fluid usage device. The pressure detector is provided in the fluid supply channel. The controller is configured to output a close instruction to the shutoff valve and configured to execute a processing to determine open valve malfunctions in the shutoff valve based on changes in pressure values which are input from the pressure detector. The controller stops the processing to determine open valve malfunctions when the fill detector detects that the fluid supply system is in the supplying state.

Abstract: A vehicular imaging device is formed by housing a camera, which takes an image of one side and rearwardly of a vehicle body, in an interior of a minor housing of the door mirror. Since an objective lens of the camera is disposed further inside than the outer surface of the mirror housing, it is possible to prevent raindrops or snow flowing from top to bottom along the outer surface of the mirror housing by virtue of gravity or raindrops or snow flowing from front to rear along the outer surface of the mirror housing due to being pushed by air flow from adhering to the objective lens of the camera, thereby enabling the image taking function of the camera to be maintained.

Abstract: A power control unit for an electric vehicle is provided with: a first electric power converter used during traveling and cooled by a first surface of a cooling section; and a second electric power converter used during charging from an electric power source outside the vehicle and cooled by a second surface of the cooling section. The first electric power converter and the second electric power converter are arranged at positions superposed on each other when viewed in the direction from the first surface to the second surface.

Abstract: A walking assist device is capable of operating at an appropriate cycle in view of the motion cycle of a human being to be assisted while at the same time reducing the number of control parameters to be adjusted or set. A second phase oscillator, based on which the phase of the periodic operation of each actuator is controlled, is calculated on the basis of the difference between a first phase oscillator, which indicates a phase of the periodic motion of each thigh relative to the upper body of a human being, and the second phase oscillator, and an intrinsic angular velocity. A current intrinsic angular velocity is set by correcting a previous intrinsic angular velocity by an amount based on a previous difference between the first phase oscillator and the second phase oscillator such that the previous difference approaches a desired difference.

Abstract: In an air cleaner unit having a casing body of carbon fiber and configured to introduce outside air into an engine, a lamination layer part formed by laminating plural kinds of materials is arranged in a region of at least a portion of the air cleaner unit. The lamination layer part is formed of a carbon fiber layer and an elastic material layer. The casing body is provided with an opening to be connected to an air intake duct. The lamination layer part is formed of a first lamination layer part and a second lamination layer part of which the elastic material layer is thicker than that of the first lamination layer part. The second lamination layer part is arranged around the opening.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes: a light source; a sealed housing accommodating the light source therein; and an aiming screw rotatably supported in a through-hole which extends through the housing. Therefore, an optical axis of light emitted from the light source can be adjusted by rotating the aiming screw. A breathing passage communicating inside and outside of the housing with each other is provided inside the aiming screw, so that it is unnecessary to separately provide a breathing passage, thereby enabling decrease in the number of parts, and simplification of the structure. Accordingly, breathing of the housing of the lighting apparatus is achieved using a simple and compact structure.

Abstract: A map generation system includes: an extraction unit that collects vehicle speed information, which includes at least a speed, acceleration, and deceleration, from a vehicle and that extracts rapid deceleration information, which includes a first location where a rapid deceleration event satisfying predetermined conditions has occurred, and a traveling direction of the vehicle at the time when the rapid deceleration event has occurred from the collected vehicle speed information; a storage unit that stores map data; a division unit that generates mesh map data by dividing the map data stored in the storage unit into a plurality of meshes in a predetermined size and a predetermined number of divisions; and an estimation unit that estimates a location that requires caution when the vehicle travels therethrough, as a caution-required place, based on the rapid deceleration information extracted by the extraction unit and the mesh map data generated by the division unit.

Abstract: A door lock system includes a trunk partitioned from a passenger compartment of a vehicle, a hood that opens and closes the trunk, a door lock mechanism that locks a door of the vehicle independently from locking of the hood, a control unit that controls driving of the door lock mechanism in response to predetermined communication performed with an electronic key carried by a user, and an opening detection unit that detects whether the hood is open. If the opening detection unit detects that the hood is open, the control unit inhibits the door lock mechanism from locking the door even when the predetermined communication is performed.

Abstract: A vehicle body side structure includes a pair of left and right pillars, a center bulk, and gussets. The pair of pillars extend in an up-down direction in side parts of a vehicle body. The center bulk is disposed behind a seat of a vehicle and extends between the pillars in a vehicle width direction. The gussets are connected to the pillars and the center bulk. The gussets each include a first connecting portion connected to a corresponding one of the pillars, a second connecting portion connected to the center bulk, a retractor attachment portion provided below the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion and serving as a component attachment portion where a vehicle body component is attached, and a fragile portion provided between the second connecting portion and the retractor attachment portion.

Abstract: A stay time integrating device integrates stay time of an accelerator pedal in each pedal stroke position within a predetermined stroke range including a click position. A click stroke calculating device calculates a click stroke based on a pedal stroke position where stay time calculated by the integrating device is the shortest. Thus, it is possible to correctly calculate the click stroke with which the accelerator pedal is actually depressed beyond the click position. In accordance with the click stroke, a control stroke calculating device updates a relationship of the control stroke with a pedal stroke. Accordingly, even if the click stroke varies from one vehicle to another, kick-down which a driver intends can be performed in synchronism with depression of the accelerator pedal beyond the click position by compensating for the variation.

Abstract: A method for sending a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) request that includes receiving a V2G request for a specific geographical region; determining which of a plurality of vehicles are in the specific geographic region; determining a subset of the plurality of vehicles located in the specific geographic region that meet at least one criteria to join the V2G request, wherein the at least one criteria uses historical data of the plurality of vehicles to reduce battery degradation of the plurality of vehicles; and sending a signal to the subset of the plurality of vehicles to join the V2G request.

Abstract: Provided is a navigation system capable of matching map information used by a navigation apparatus and a navigation server with an appropriate frequency and at an appropriate timing. When there is differential information between the navigation map information and the support map information, index information for identifying the differential information is transmitted from the navigation server to the navigation apparatus and the navigation apparatus outputs preliminary information indicating a brief summary of the differential information generated according to the index information. When a request signal based on a request operation by a user in the navigation apparatus is transmitted from the navigation apparatus to the navigation server, the differential information is transmitted form the navigation server to the navigation apparatus, so that the navigation map information is updated in accordance with the differential information.

Abstract: A seat support structure for a saddle-riding vehicle having a rider's seat and a pillion seat separate from and disposed posterior to the rider's seat includes a bracket disposed on the rider's seat which is fixed to a vehicle body, the bracket providing a coupling between the rider's seat and the pillion seat, wherein the bracket is detachably inserted in a front portion of the pillion seat when the pillion seat is mounted to the vehicle body, and the pillion seat has a rear portion removably secured to the vehicle body.