Abstract: A vehicle control device performing upshift to a forward gear stage in a current travel section in a case where: (1) the forward gear stage is higher than a current gear stage; (2) a travel resistance of a vehicle in the current travel section is greater than a driving force in a case of traveling at the forward gear stage; (3) a stall amount until the vehicle passes an end point of the current travel section in a case where the vehicle travels in the current travel section at the forward gear stage is equal to or smaller than a specified value; and (4) a value obtained by subtracting the travel resistance of the vehicle in a forward travel section from a driving force in a case where the vehicle travels in the forward travel section at the forward gear stage is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine exhaust purification device includes a filter which is disposed in an exhaust path and collects particulate matter in exhaust gas, an injection valve which is disposed upstream of the filter in the exhaust path and injects fuel into the exhaust path, a fuel pump which supplies a fuel to the injection valve, a shut-off valve which is interposed between the fuel pump and the injection valve, and selectively shuts off a fuel supply from the fuel pump to the injection valve, and a control unit which controls the injection valve and the shut-off valve. The control unit closes the shut-off valve when the control unit detects an opened adherence failure of the injection valve and detects an abnormal temperature rise of the filter during regeneration of the filter.

Abstract: The present invention is configured such that a control device for a lane departure warning device that outputs a warning on the basis of the position relationship of a vehicle and a lane boundary line is equipped with a detection unit for detecting a switch of the main brake from on to off, and a warning control unit for preventing a warning from being issued when the detection unit has detected said switch. The present invention thereby provides a control device for a lane departure warning device that is capable of reducing warnings which could be an annoyance to drivers.

Abstract: This detection device comprises: a detection unit that detects the face orientation and/or the gaze orientation of a driver from an image of the driver while driving a vehicle; and a determination unit that determines the position of the head of the driver in the image. The detection unit adjusts the face orientation and/or the gaze orientation to be detected from the image according to the determined position of the head.

Abstract: A steering assistance device includes: a steering angle sensor for detecting a steering angle of a vehicle; a motor for performing steering assistance of the vehicle by applying torque to a steering shaft; and a control unit for increasing increases the amount of steering assistance by the motor in case where the detected steering angle is included in an angular range corresponding to a steering play segment in which steering will not alter the direction of wheels of the vehicle as compared with a case where the detected steering angle is not included in an angular range.

Abstract: This particulate matter (PM) sensor is provided with a porous body that has a partition disposed in a passage for exhaust gas including particulate matter, at least a pair of electrodes that oppose each other in a prescribed direction so as to sandwich the porous body, and a deposition part that includes the surface of the partition on the upstream side of the passage, has the particulate matter deposited thereon, and has, formed therein, pores having an average pore diameter smaller than the average pore diameter of the portion of the partition other than the deposition part.

Abstract: A display control device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire location information items representing locations of each of a plurality of vehicles and a plurality of status information items representing statuses of each of the plurality of vehicles, the plurality of vehicles being registered in advance in association with a user using a user terminal; a setting receiving unit configured to receive a display condition set by the user; and a display control unit configured to display a map image on the user terminal such that an icon image representing a vehicle whose status information item satisfies the display condition is positioned at the center of the map image and a position of the icon image of the vehicle in the map image corresponds to the location of the vehicle represented by the location information item.

Abstract: This oil pressure control device is provided with: an oil cooler which cools engine oil circulating through a hydraulic circuit of an engine; a bypass oil passage which bypasses the oil cooler; an oil cooler bypass valve by means of which an engine oil flow passage is switched between the oil cooler and the bypass oil passage; an oil pressure sensor which measures a first oil pressure, which is the oil pressure of engine oil; and a valve control unit which controls opening and closing of the oil cooler bypass valve to reduce the magnitude of a difference between the first oil pressure and a second oil pressure, which is a target oil pressure determined on the basis of the rotational speed of the engine and a fuel injection quantity.

Abstract: Hydraulic-oil control devices are provided herein that perform hydraulic-oil supply control in a dual clutch device having a first clutch and a second clutch. A hydraulic-oil control device according to embodiments herein includes a first linear solenoid valve that adjusts hydraulic oil having a line pressure for a first hydraulic chamber and supplies the hydraulic oil thereto, a second linear solenoid valve that adjusts hydraulic oil having a line pressure for a second hydraulic chamber and supplies the hydraulic oil thereto, a shuttle valve that outputs the hydraulic oil having a higher pressure between the pressure of the hydraulic oil in the first hydraulic chamber and the pressure of the hydraulic oil in the second hydraulic chamber, and a switch valve that adjusts the amount of hydraulic oil supplied to a first space and a second space, according to the pressure of the hydraulic oil output from the shuttle valve.

Abstract: A control apparatus (12): creates a torque correction table indicating a relationship between a change rate of an intake air amount, a change of the main injection amount and the main injection timing of a fuel injection apparatus (8) in the torque value of a diesel engine (1) in a lean state; measures an intake air amount in a rich state by using an MAF sensor (11); calculates a change rate of the measured intake air amount for the intake air amount in the lean state; obtains a correction value of the main injection amount and a correction value of the main injection timing of the fuel injection apparatus (8) based on the calculated change rate and the torque correction table; and performs an injection of the fuel in the rich state at the main injection amount and the main injection timing, corrected by the respective correction values.

Abstract: A steering device (1) installed in a vehicle is equipped with: a steering wheel (10); a steering shaft (20) having a first shaft part (21), one end of which is directly connected to the steering wheel (10), and a second shaft part (22) connected to the first shaft part (21) on the other end side thereof; a coaxial motor (50) which applies a rotational force to the first shaft part (21), and has a motor housing (51) which supports the steering shaft (20) and surrounds the periphery of the first shaft part (21); and a motor securing unit (70) which, in order to determine the support position of the steering wheel (10), secures the motor housing (51) and a support bracket (60) secured inside the vehicle compartment.

Abstract: A steering device (1) installed in a vehicle is equipped with: a steering wheel (10); a steering shaft (20) having a first shaft part (21), one end of which is directly connected to the steering wheel (10), and a second shaft part (22) connected to the first shaft part (21) on the other end side thereof; a coaxial motor (50) which applies a rotational force to the first shaft part (21), and has a motor housing (51) which supports the steering shaft (20) and surrounds the periphery of the first shaft part (21); and a support bracket (60) which extends in the axial direction of the steering shaft (20) in a front region inside the vehicle compartment, is secured to the vehicle compartment on the bottom end side and top end side thereof, and at the top end side thereof, sandwiches the motor housing (51) from both the left and right sides in the vehicle widthwise direction.

Abstract: A steering device exhibiting improved layout properties around a steering shaft. A steering device (1) installed in a vehicle has a first steering shaft (4) connected to the steering wheel (3), and a coaxial motor (20) which applies a rotational force to the first steering shaft (4) and is provided in a manner such that the output shaft thereof is coaxial with the first steering shaft (4).

Abstract: A control device (40) is connected to a differential pressure sensor (41), a navigation system (42), and a fuel injection valve (17). The control device (40) is configured to: execute a regeneration control of monitoring a purification situation (C1) and supplying unburned fuel (F2), which is injected from the fuel injection valve (17) and does not contribute to driving, to an exhaust gas purification system (20) in a case where the purification situation (C1) becomes a deteriorated situation (Ca); and execute a control of monitoring a road situation (C2) and stopping the regeneration control before the road situation (C2) actually becomes an accelerator off situation (Cb) in which an accelerator opening degree (?1) of an accelerator pedal (43) becomes off.

Abstract: A travel control device whereby wasted energy consumption can be suppressed. The travel control device (100) has: a leading vehicle detection unit (110) that, once a leading vehicle that has been followed at no more than a set vehicle speed has gone, determines whether or not a new leading vehicle has been detected within a prescribed time; a speed determination unit (120) that, if a new leading vehicle has been detected, determines whether or not the speed difference between the speed of a host vehicle and the speed of the leading vehicle is within a set range having zero as the reference therefor; and a travel control unit (130) that, if the speed difference is within the set range, controls the host vehicle so as to prohibit acceleration for reducing the distance between the host vehicle and the new leading vehicle to a set inter-vehicle distance.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a NOx sensor purification instructions for a NOx sensor causes: an on-vehicle electronic computer mounted in the vehicle, when it comes to a predetermined purification time, to execute a start procedure to send a start command to perform a purification control to the control unit; and control unit, in response to the start command, to execute a purification procedure to perform the purification control which causes the current flowing in the reference pump cell from the reference pump current to be a purification pump current, which is set to a current value larger than the reference pump current.

Abstract: In order to adequately suppress both an increase in NOx emission amount and deterioration of fuel consumption rate, the present invention provides a fuel injection control information generation device equipped with: a test point information storage unit for holding test point information including a plurality of test points constituted by sets of engine speed, fuel injection amount, and oxygen concentration; and a control information generation unit for generating, for each test point included in the test point information, fuel injection control information in which the engine speed, fuel injection amount, and oxygen concentration of the test point are associated with an optimum fuel injection timing at which an index pertaining to the total of a fuel consumption rate and an NOx emission amount in the test point becomes the smallest.

Abstract: The image processing device includes a scale correction unit. In a case where a difference between a width of a lane calculated by a lane-width calculation unit and a width of the lane acquired from map data is greater than a predetermined value that serves as a criterion for correcting errors, the scale correction unit corrects a correlation between a length of a subject in a captured image and the number of pixels constituting the captured image.

Abstract: A transmission assembly structure includes an engine-side joining surface, a transmission-side joining surface, which is joined to the engine-side joining surface, an engine component which is provided on an outside of the engine-side joining surface in a radial direction in the flywheel housing and protrudes toward the transmission side, a guide member which is provided on the engine-side joining surface or in the vicinity of the engine-side joining surface of the flywheel housing and in a vicinity of the engine component and which protrudes toward the transmission side further than the engine component, and a guide hole, which is provided on the transmission-side joining surface of the transmission housing or in the vicinity of the transmission-side joining surface and into which the guide member is inserted.

Abstract: A rich-wait-time threshold value is set based on the NOx discharge amount per unit time discharged from an internal combustion engine. When the elapsed time, i.e. either the elapsed engine operation time since rich control was performed on a lean NOx trap catalyst device, or the elapsed engine operation time since the engine was started, becomes equal to or greater than the rich-wait-time threshold value, a determination that the rich control be started is added as a necessary condition for starting the rich control. Accordingly, an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine, an internal combustion engine, and an exhaust gas purification method for an internal combustion engine are provided, with which the execution timing of the rich control for recovering the NOx occlusion capacity of the lean NOx trap catalyst device is rendered more appropriate, and thus NOx reduction is performed with little fuel consumption deterioration.