Abstract: A travel control apparatus comprises a first detector configured to detect an obstacle around a subject vehicle traveling in a first lane and a second detector configured to detect a second lane adjacent to the first lane. The travel control apparatus sets a first range at a target position for lane change in the second lane. The first range has a size equal to or larger than a size which the subject vehicle occupies on a road surface. The travel control apparatus detects a range in the second lane as a second range. The range in the second lane is located at a side of the subject vehicle, and the obstacle is absent in the range in the second lane. The travel control apparatus permits the subject vehicle to change lanes when the second range includes the first range.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a terminal member that is electrical conductive with a conductive member. The terminal member is formed by working a workpiece having a plate shape with a first surface and a second surface extending from one end toward the other end, by cutting out a recessed portion at the one end from the first surface to the second surface. In this method, the recessed portion is supported by being abutted against a supporting member, and a portion spaced from the recessed portion toward the other end side is fixed, and both side portions along the one end from the recessed portion are bent while being pressed from the first surface toward the second surface side, thereby forming, as a pair of conductive surfaces for conduction with the conductive member, second surface portions facing each other with the supporting member interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A relay control method is provided for controlling an in-vehicle motor that includes a steering angle main control module. The main control module has a power supply relay is connected to a battery, a motor drive circuit connected to a fixed contact of the power supply relay via a bus bar, and a phase relay connected to the motor drive circuit via a bus bar. The motor drive circuit contacts a heat radiation part that has a higher thermal conductivity than the power supply relay. After the ignition is turned off and with the switches for the power supply relay and the phase relay remaining in the on state, a motor energization control is performed for maintaining a rotation stop state in the motor for a predetermined time, and after the predetermined time has elapsed, the switch of the power supply relay is switched to off.

Abstract: The problem of the present invention relates to providing a valve device that, even in a case where the valve device is miniaturized, is capable of preventing a gas discharge valve from malfunctioning in response to the heat generated by an electromagnetic actuator. A valve device 100 includes: an opening and closing valve 130 that is arranged in a gas flow passage 120; and a fusible plug valve 160 that is provided with a valve body 161 operating in response to an increase in temperature of a gas, and discharges the gas to the outside of a high-pressure gas container 20, wherein the valve body of the fusible plug valve is arranged on the upstream side in the gas flow passage than the opening and closing valve on a path through which the gas flows from the supply port 23 of the high-pressure gas container toward the fuel cell 10.

Abstract: A production method is provided for producing a lithium ion secondary battery. The lithium ion secondary battery has an external casing that houses an electrolytic solution and a power generating element. The power generating element includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode layered with a separator. The production method includes first charging the lithium ion secondary battery at a voltage range of 4.0 V or lower and then opening the external casing of the lithium ion secondary battery that has been charged at a range of 4.0 V or lower to discharge gas inside the lithium ion secondary battery to the exterior. Next, the production method further includes re-sealing the external casing and charging the lithium ion secondary battery from which the gas has been discharged until the cell voltage is greater than 4.0 V.

Abstract: An own position estimation device detects a landmark position of a landmark existing around a mobile body, detects a movement amount of the mobile body, and accumulates, as pieces of landmark position data, landmark positions each obtained by moving the detected landmark position by the movement amount. The device then acquires map information including landmark positions of landmarks existing on a map by the controller, matches the pieces of landmark position data in a certain range with the landmark positions included in the map information, and estimates the own position of the mobile body, the certain range being set based on movement records of the mobile body traveling to a current position.

Abstract: A scene understanding device obtains map data where one, two or more obstacle detection frames, shaped corresponding to a road structure, for detecting an obstacle are set in advance for a specific spot on a road where a vehicle would otherwise bump into a vehicle or a pedestrian. The scene understanding device determines whether there exists an obstacle in the obstacle detection frames set for the specific spot on a scheduled traveling route of a host vehicle, and calculates the degree of risk at the specific spot based on a result of determining whether there exists an obstacle therein.

Abstract: Metal foil base material placed on lower blade is first restricted under pressure by lower blade and pad and then cut by a shearing action based on an engagement of lower blade side cutting edge and upper blade side cutting edge. Resin face sheets are fixed to the top surface of lower blade and the pressing surface of pad, the face sheets having a larger friction coefficient than that of these surfaces. By frictional forces imparted by face sheets, metal foil base material is prevented from being dragged and moved by the pressing force of the upper blade prior to cutting. Consequently, the occurrence of “burr”, “roll-up”, and so forth is eliminated thereby ensuring a good cutting quality.

Abstract: A battery degradation degree estimation device includes a total degradation degree detection unit configured to detect a present total degradation degree of a battery, a cycle degradation estimation unit configured to estimate a future cycle degradation degree due to charge/discharge of the battery, a storage degradation estimation unit configured to estimate a future storage degradation degree over time inside the battery, and a battery degradation estimation unit configured to estimate a future battery degradation degree on the basis of the present total degradation degree, the future cycle degradation degree and the future storage degradation degree.

Abstract: A workpiece cutting method basically includes providing a workpiece proximate to a first blade including a first cutting edge. The method further comprises moving a second blade including a second cutting edge in contact with the first blade such that the first and second cutting edges of the first and second blades cooperatively engage to cut the workpiece while maintaining the first and second cutting edges parallel to each other.

Abstract: A travel control method comprises a step of determining, when the second range becomes small after initiating the lane change as compared with the second range before initiating the lane change, at least one of a method of presenting information to a driver of the subject vehicle when discontinuing or continuing the lane change, a control content after discontinuing or continuing the lane change, and a travel position of the subject vehicle in a road width direction on a basis of a positional relationship in the road width direction between a lane mark which the subject vehicle gets across in the lane change and the subject vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a magnesium alloy material having excellent tensile strength and favorable ductility. Therefore, the magnesium alloy sheet material formed by rolling a magnesium alloy having a long period stacking order phase crystallized at the time of casting includes in a case where a sheet-thickness traverse section of an alloy structure is observed at a substantially right angle to the longitudinal direction by a scanning electron microscope, a structure mainly composed of the long period stacking order phase, in which, at least two or more ?Mg phases having thickness in the observed section of 0.5 ?m or less are laminated in a layered manner with the sheet-shape long period stacking order phase.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprises a port injection injector for injecting fuel into an intake port and a direct injection injector for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber. A controller causes the port injection injector and the direct injection injector to inject fuel on the basis of a running condition of the internal combustion engine. Further, the controller increases an injection amount of the direct injection injector above a normal injection amount of the direct injection injector when the internal combustion engine decelerates, thereby reducing the fuel pressure of the direct injection injector rapidly.

Abstract: A vehicle management system for managing vehicles used by users has a usage managing unit that accepts a user's request for using the vehicle and to set a return space among parking spaces as a planned return space when the user's request is accepted, the return space being a space to which the vehicle is to be returned by the user after the vehicle is used by the user, a return determining unit that determines whether or not the vehicle is returned to the planned return space set by the usage managing unit when the vehicle is actually used and returned by the user, a return permitting unit that permits a return of the vehicle in a case where the return determining unit determines that the vehicle is returned to the planned return space, and a notification unit.

Abstract: The fuel cell single cell of the present invention includes: a fuel cell unit in which an anode electrode, an electrolyte layer and a cathode electrode are sequentially laminated; a separator; and a current collection assisting layer disposed between the cathode electrode of the fuel cell unit and the separator. The separator has protruded portions that are in contact with the current collection assisting layer to form gas channels between the separator and the current collection assisting layer. Further, at least a part of an end of the cathode electrode in a planar direction of the cathode electrode extends outward beyond an end of the current collection assisting layer in a planar direction of the current collection assisting layer.

Abstract: A method of displaying information on a display of a display device via a display controller includes imaging a user of the display device using an imaging device integrated with the display device or provided around the display device, detecting a line of sight of the user from an image captured by the imaging device, determining whether the display exists within a central visual field region centered on the detected line of sight of the user or within a peripheral visual field region located outside the central visual field region, displaying notification information on the display in a first display form when the display exists within the central visual field region, and displaying the notification information on the display in a second display form when the display exists within the peripheral visual field region, the second display form having a higher abstraction level than that in the first display form.

Abstract: A vehicle regenerative speed control device is provided for suppressing undershooting, in which an actual transmission input rotational speed falls below a lower-limit rotational speed, when decreasing a transmission input rotational speed based on a request for a decrease in the regeneration amount during regenerative speed control. The vehicle regenerative speed control device includes a controller which performs a regenerative speed control for downshifting a continuously variable transmission to a low gear ratio side and increasing a rotational speed of a transmission input shaft to which a motor generator is connected when there is a request for an increase in the regeneration amount while decelerating.

Abstract: The invention provides a fuel cell (A1) in which a frame body (20) provided with a membrane electrode assembly (30) is sandwiched between a pair of separators (40, 41), and multiple projections (21) are arranged at given intervals on each of two surface sides of the frame body (20). Thus, a gas flow path (S1) for a hydrogen-containing gas is defined and formed on one surface side of the frame body (20) and a gas flow path (S2) for an oxygen-containing gas is defined and formed on the other surface side of the frame body (20). The projections (21) on the one surface side of the frame body (20) and the projections (21) on the other surface side of the frame body (20) are arranged asymmetrically with respect to the frame body (20) in a stacking direction (?) of the fuel cell.

Abstract: A motor wiring structure of the present invention relates to motor wiring for supplying electric power to coils which are respectively wound around split cores provided in a stator. The motor wiring structure includes a power supply-side terminal disposed on a power supply side, multiple coil connection-side terminals configured to be connected respectively to winding wire terminals of the coils, and multiple conductor wires each independently connecting the power supply-side terminal and one of the multiple coil connection-side terminals to each other. Moreover, the motor wiring structure includes a positioning and heat-dissipating protrusion which is provided to the coil connection-side terminal, and which is configured to position the coil connection-side terminal with respect to the stator and dissipate heat during thermal crimping with the coil.