Abstract: A winding overhang guide is for the winding of conductive electrical wires around teeth of a wound rotor. The winding overhang guide includes a central opening for receiving a rotor shaft. Further, gadroons are arranged regularly, projecting into the central opening and arranged to deform against the shaft.

Abstract: A method controls an autonomous vehicle equipped with at least one perception unit and a first map including stored digital data representing the actual infrastructure of the environment of the autonomous vehicle. The method includes defining a first trajectory of the autonomous vehicle and a first associated kinematic profile, detecting, from data transmitted by the perception unit, a situation to be optimized on a given segment of the first trajectory located in front of the autonomous vehicle, optimizing at least one element from the first map and the first kinematic profile, optimizing the first map including determining a local map on the given segment, and/or optimizing the first kinematic profile including a determination of a second kinematic profile associated with the given segment, and controlling the displacement of the autonomous vehicle over the given segment taking into account the local map and/or the second kinematic profile.

Abstract: A method for preparing a solid electrolyte is described. The method involves mixing a solid electrolyte selected from among sulfides with an agent comprising at least sulfur, adding the mixture obtained to an organic solvent, and then recovering the resulting solid electrolyte. The method may be used to form the solid electrolyte as a separator for a battery cell.

Abstract: A vehicle wheel rim is printed with a metal alloy by a three-dimensional printing method. The rim includes a substantially circular rolling strip defined by a front edge and a rear edge. The rolling strip includes a central rim base, a front part including fittings for a front tire support, located between the rim base and the front edge, and a rear part including fittings for a rear tire support, located between the rim base and the rear edge. The rim is designed to be mounted on a vehicle such that the front edge is located on an outer side of the vehicle and the rear edge is located on an inner side of the vehicle. The rolling strip includes a plurality of cavities in the thickness thereof and in a radial section.

Abstract: In an installation structure of a high-voltage electrical device installed on a front section of a vehicle, the high-voltage electrical device is attached to a cross member of a vehicle body by an L-shaped front bracket. The cross member extends in a lateral direction of the vehicle in front of the high-voltage electrical device. A boss protrudes forward from a housing of the high-voltage electrical device. A lower vertical portion of the front bracket is fastened to the boss by a bolt and its upper horizontal portion is fixed to the cross member. A vulnerable portion is formed at a root of the boss.

Abstract: A method for controlling a level of charge of a traction battery of an electric vehicle connected to an electricity distribution grid by way of a charger during a downtime phase of the vehicle. The method includes a first step of forcibly discharging the battery, performed in a discharging circuit associated with the battery, with a discharge current that is calibrated in terms of strength with respect to the nominal capacity of the battery, so as to slowly and completely discharge the battery to its minimum voltage, and a step of normally charging the battery with a setpoint charging current prescribed by the charger or the battery, so as to charge the battery to a useful level of charge of the battery.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communicator for communicating with an on-vehicle communicator mounted on a vehicle and a communication terminal to be operated by a user, and a controller configured to acquire, from the on-vehicle communicator, an update history of at least some of map data stored in a storage medium of the vehicle, determine whether the map data needs to be updated on a basis of the update history, transmit an inquiry signal to the communication terminal via the communicator to inquire whether to allow updating of the map data when the controller has determined to need to update the map data, and transmit an update instruction signal for instructing updating of the map data to the on-vehicle communicator via the communicator when the controller has received an allowance signal for permitting updating of the map data from the communication terminal via the communicator.

Abstract: An information processing device judges whether or not it is possible to transmit or receive a data amount related to a data amount information by the direct communication based on a positional information where the moving object and another moving object travels in the future, a communication environment information of the direct communication in the future according to the positional information, and the data amount information that the moving object will transmit to or receive from another moving object in the future; generates a communication plan information between the moving object and another moving object for at least one of the direct communication and the indirect communication when it is judged the data amount cannot be transmitted or received by the direct communication, and transmits the communication plan information to another moving object.

Abstract: A controller includes an extraction unit, an arrival time calculation unit, a departure time calculation unit, a stop location calculation unit and a transmission unit. The extraction unit extracts stop-scheduled vehicles, which are scheduled to stop in a stopping area. The arrival time calculation unit calculates arrival times when the stop-scheduled vehicles will arrive at the stopping area based at least on user-side information of users who use the stop-scheduled vehicles, or on position information of the stop-scheduled vehicles. The departure time calculation unit calculates a scheduled departure order indicating an order in which the stop-scheduled vehicles will depart the stopping area. The stop location calculation unit calculates stop locations of the stop-scheduled vehicles based on the scheduled departure order. The transmission unit transmits information indicating the stop locations to the stop-scheduled vehicles.

Abstract: A two-piece electric battery housing includes a lower housing and an upper housing. An EPDM seal to which a metal frame is attached is inserted between the lower housing and the upper frame to ensure good water-tightness of the obtained housing.

Abstract: A method for setting an anticipator module with which a control device controls the trajectory of a motor vehicle is equipped includes detecting whether the anticipator module is unsuitable during a turn by taking account of a lateral deviation with respect to an ideal trajectory and/or a contribution of a feedback module of the control device, determining primary parameters, calculating a secondary parameter by an optimization-based calculation method taking account of the determined primary parameters, and updating a bicycle model of the vehicle by taking account of the calculated secondary parameter.

Abstract: A method for filtering attack streams targeting a connectivity module receiving a plurality of incoming connection streams includes: determining a plurality of aggregates; determining a plurality of first measurement vectors; determining another aggregate resulting from the combination of a plurality of incoming connection streams during another time period; determining another first measurement vector associated with the other aggregate; determining an abnormality score depending on the result of projecting the other first measurement vector and projecting the plurality of first measurement vectors and then, if the abnormality score is comprised in an area of doubt regarding the presence of an attack stream determining a plurality of second measurement vectors, each associated with one of the aggregates; determining another second measurement vector associated with the other aggregate; and detecting the presence or absence of an attack by analysing the other second measurement vector.

Abstract: A communication system includes a first communication device, a second communication device and a relay device. The first and second communication devices are connected to a communication network. The relay device is connected to the communication network and relays communication between the first and second communication devices. The relay device includes a relay unit and a priority determination unit. The relay unit carries out a receiving process for receiving data frames transmitted from the first communication device to the communication network and a transmission process for transmitting the received data frames to the second communication device. The priority determination unit determines the priority of the transmission process of the received data frames based on the data frames received by the relay unit. The relay unit carries out a transmission process of the data frames based on the priority determined by the priority determination unit.

Abstract: The present invention acquires surrounding information of surrounding environment of a vehicle; sets a virtual viewpoint position ahead of the vehicle in a traveling direction; uses the acquired surrounding information and generates virtual surrounding information indicating the surrounding environment at the set virtual viewpoint position; transmits a first control signal for controlling an external device located at a location away from the vehicle to display the generated virtual surrounding information; receives driving operation information on a driving operation of the vehicle output from the external device; generates driving assistance information for assisting driving of the vehicle based on the received driving operation information; and generates a second control signal for controlling an output device installed in the vehicle to output the driving assistance information.

Abstract: A wound rotor, such as a wound rotor for an electric machine, includes a shaft having a main axis. The shaft includes a manifold. The wound rotor also includes a winding wire and n poles wound and ordered with an ascending order number obtained by rotation about the main axis. The n wound poles can be distributed radially about the main axis. The n poles are wound with the wire in series in turn according to their ascending order numbers, the last pole, however, not being wound last.

Abstract: A driving circuit applies a voltage to a switching element to switch between an ON state and an OFF state. The switching element includes a control terminal, a high-potential terminal, and a low-potential terminal, and is switched between the ON state and the OFF state depending on the voltage of the control terminal in a case in which a potential of the low-potential terminal is defined as a reference potential. The driving circuit includes a negative-voltage power supply for applying a negative voltage as the voltage to the control terminal when the switching element is switched from the ON state to the OFF state, and a voltage changing unit for changing the voltage immediately before the switching element is switched from the OFF state to the ON state to be higher than the negative voltage immediately after the switching element is switched from the ON state to the OFF state.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor base body, and a first main electrode and a second main electrode provided on the semiconductor base body. The semiconductor base body includes a drift region of a first conductivity type through which a main current flows, a column region of a second conductivity type arranged adjacent to the drift region in parallel to a current passage of the main current, a second electrode-connection region of the first conductivity type electrically connected to the second main electrode, and a low-density electric-field relaxation region of the first conductivity type having a lower impurity concentration than the drift region and arranged between the second electrode-connection region and the column region.

Abstract: A vehicle allocation support device: acquires baggage information about baggage carried in a vehicle; acquires user information that includes at least user position information indicating a current position of a user or destination information indicating a scheduled destination of the user; acquires vehicle information including vehicle position information indicating a position of the vehicle; specifies a usage area in which the baggage is to be used, based on an estimated usage place that is information corresponding to the baggage and in which the baggage is estimated to be used and one of the user information and the vehicle information; and determines a vehicle allocation route for allocating the vehicle to at least the current position of the user, the scheduled destination of the user, or the usage area, based on a positional relationship between the usage area and one of the user position information and the scheduled destination information.

Abstract: A vehicle dispatch support device extracts one or more reserved vehicles for which a vehicle dispatch plan has been determined according to reserved vehicle dispatch request data requested by a reserved user; extracts one or more available vehicles that can arrive at a desired boarding place of the reserved user via a desired boarding place and a desired alighting place of the new user prior to a usage start time of the reserved user; calculates, as a margin time, a time difference between the usage start time and an arrival time for the available vehicles to arrive at the desired boarding place of the reserved user via the desired boarding place and the desired alighting place of the new user; and sets an available vehicle of which the margin time is short as a dispatch vehicle candidate to be dispatched to the new user.

Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle including: based on map information including information of an installation position of a traffic light and information of a lane controlled by the traffic light and a range of the angle of view of a camera mounted on the own vehicle, calculating an imaging-enabled area in which an image of the traffic light can be captured on the lane by the camera; determining whether or not the own vehicle is positioned in the imaging-enabled area; and when the own vehicle is positioned in the imaging-enabled area, controlling the own vehicle in such a way that the traffic light is not shielded from the range of the angle of view of the camera by a preceding vehicle of the own vehicle.