Abstract: An arrangement for holding and guiding a sliding opening element relative to a body of a vehicle including a device for guiding the opening element including a rail and a movement structure that engages with the rail. The arrangement also includes a headliner trim element to be mounted on the vehicle and a movable headliner flap to be mounted pivotably relative to the trim element. The movable flap includes a guide element that runs parallel to the main direction and is able to engage with the movement structure so as to move the movable flap relative to the trim element and vary a degree of opening of the movable flap.

Abstract: A travel assistance device includes a traveling boundary acquisition unit configured to acquire lane information around a subject vehicle, a surrounding object acquisition unit configured to acquire surrounding object information, an obstacle determination unit configured to determine whether an obstacle hindering travel of the subject vehicle is present, an avoidance determination unit configured to determine whether the subject vehicle is allowed to avoid the obstacle by a steering control, and a blind spot determination unit configured to determine whether a blind spot is present on an oncoming lane opposed to a travel direction. An avoidance section setting unit is configured to set an avoidance end position of an avoidance section to execute an avoidance control. A vehicle control unit is configured to generate a travel route for the subject vehicle to travel from an avoidance start position to the avoidance end position of the avoidance section.

Abstract: An information providing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an intersection area on a travel route that is set by autonomous travel control, the intersection area intersecting with an area in which another moving object can move; a recognition unit configured to recognize a travel environment around a subject vehicle; a determination unit configured to determine, based on the travel environment, whether or not the subject vehicle can pass through the intersection area; and a provision unit configured to provide an onboard terminal and/or an electronic terminal in the subject vehicle with information that notifies that the subject vehicle is approaching the intersection area. The provision unit changes the information in accordance with a determination result of the determination unit while the subject vehicle is traveling to the intersection area. The intersection area includes an intersection provided with a traffic light.

Abstract: A stator body for an axial-flux electric machine includes: a plate in the form of a ring centered on a longitudinal axis, the plate including an upper face and at least one upper relief projecting from the upper face; and teeth, at least one of which includes a lower relief, a first side of which has a shape complementary to that of a portion of the upper relief, the upper relief being interlocked with the lower relief. The body includes a locking element extending opposite the upper face of the plate and interposed between the tooth and the plate so as to immobilize the upper relief in the position interlocked with the lower relief, and blocking unit blocking the position of the locking element with respect to the plate.

Abstract: A method is for calculating a management setpoint for the consumption of fuel and of electric current by a hybrid motor vehicle including at least one electric motor that is supplied with electric current by a traction battery and an internal combustion engine that runs on fuel. The method includes: dividing a journey into segments; acquiring attributes for each segment; for each segment, acquiring a relationship between the fuel and electrical consumption; determining an optimal consumption point in each acquired relationship to maximize discharging the traction battery over the segments for which use of the internal combustion engine is not authorized, minimize the fuel consumption of the hybrid motor vehicle over the entire journey, and maximize the discharging of the traction battery upon completion of the journey; and developing a setpoint for power management over the entire journey, according to the coordinates of the optimal points.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte layer for a lithium secondary battery that suppresses the generation of internal short-circuit caused by a dendrite composed of lithium metal is provided. The solid electrolyte layer includes a plurality of particles of a first solid electrolyte and a second solid electrolyte coating a surface of the plurality of particles and filling in a space among the plurality of particles. The second solid electrolyte is a sulfide solid electrolyte or an oxide solid electrolyte.

Abstract: A method for controlling a device of a motor vehicle includes, in a first time step, receiving data characterizing a state of the vehicle and the environment, determining an initial vector on the basis of the data, selecting a first control profile on the basis of the initial vector, transmitting the first profile so as to control the device, and then, in a second time step, updating the data, determining an updated vector, selecting a second control profile on the basis of the updated vector, and if the second profile is different from the first profile, transmitting the second profile so as to update the control of the device of the vehicle.

Abstract: An information providing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an intersection area on a travel route, the intersection area intersecting with an area in which another moving object can move; a recognition unit configured to recognize a travel environment around a vehicle; a determination unit configured to determine, based on the travel environment, whether or not the vehicle can pass through the intersection area; and a notification unit configured to notify an onboard terminal and/or an electronic terminal in the vehicle of a cause of the vehicle being unable to pass through the intersection area when the determination unit determines that the vehicle cannot pass through the intersection area. When notifying the cause using a display device, the notification unit lowers a contrast of a display portion of the intersection area relative to a display portion of the travel route and increases a degree of emphasizing a display portion of the cause.

Abstract: A method of managing a vehicle Internet service in a cellular network is provided. For each time interval: a vehicle, equipped with a control unit, sends a request to perform exchange of data linked to a remote service on a current server associated with the current geographic area of coverage. The current server includes a virtual machine to perform operations of the remote service. When the vehicle is on outskirts of current geographical area a distance from the area less than a first threshold, the current server estimates the value of a probability vector. The current server estimates value of risk per request and value of energy per request necessary for parallel replications of the virtual machine of the request on the servers corresponding to zones of geographical coverage contiguous to the current zone; and and estimates a number of replications of the virtual machine linked to the request to be made.

Abstract: An information processing device and an information processing method determine a vehicle to be allocated to a user based on a vehicle allocation request from an information terminal operated by a user, calculate an accuracy of a position of the information terminal based on a position data indicating the position of an information terminal, extract a waiting point that is a candidate for a point where the user and the vehicle meet, based on the position data, and transmit the waiting point to the information terminal. Here, a number of waiting points extracted when the accuracy is low is greater than a number of waiting points extracted when the accuracy is high.

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 resolving an exception situation in autonomous driving includes receiving telemetry data from an autonomous vehicle (AV); identifying, using the telemetry data, features and feature values; identifying, using the features and the feature values, a solution to the exception situation; determining a confidence level of the solution; in response to the confidence level exceeding a threshold, transmitting the solution to the AV; and in response to the confidence level not exceeding the threshold, forwarding the solution to a mobility manager, obtaining, from the mobility manager, a validated solution, and transmitting the validated solution to the AV.

Abstract: A travel assistance device configured to detect a surrounding environment of a first vehicle by an onboard sensor of the first vehicle and assist the autonomously traveling first vehicle in traveling includes at least one computer configured to perform processing including: setting allowable travel speed, that is a speed at which the first vehicle can be caused to travel under autonomous driving control, to a speed lower than a legal speed or a set speed, that is a speed set by a user, according to a recognition state of the onboard sensor or a vehicle state of the first vehicle; and generating an alternative route including a road having a speed limit less than or equal to the allowable travel speed as a target travel route of the first vehicle, based on the current position of the first vehicle, the destination of the first vehicle, and the allowable travel speed.

Abstract: A bumper reinforcement includes a main body made of metal, a reinforcing channel member, and a resin block. A mounting portion of a crash box is formed at a vicinity of each end of the main body. The reinforcing channel member includes a web, an upper flange and a lower flange that are placed on an outer panel, an upper panel and a lower panel of the main body at the mounting portion of the crash box, respectively. The reinforcing channel member is extended outward from the each end of the main body. The resin block is provided on an inner face of the reinforcing channel member. The resin block is contact with or joined to the outer panel and an inner panel of the main body at each end of the main body and extended from the each end to an outer edge of the reinforcing channel member.

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 driving assist method performs a lane change control to make a lane change to an adjacent lane. The method includes: detecting whether there is a request from the host vehicle to make a lane change to the adjacent lane; detecting whether there is any intention for another vehicle traveling in the adjacent lane to make a lane change towards the host vehicle lane upon detection of a presence of the lane change; establishing a lane-change-intending other vehicle as a designated vehicle for a place-swapping lane change upon detection of a presence of the intention for another vehicle to make a lane change towards the host vehicle lane; and setting the position of the designated vehicle traveling in the adjacent lane as a target lane change to be made by the host vehicle, and performing a lane change control based on the target lane change.

Abstract: A wire harness routing structure for a chargeable vehicle includes a battery installed in the chargeable vehicle, a charging inlet for charging the battery, arranged on a vehicle body side part of the chargeable vehicle, and a wire harness connected to the battery and the charging inlet. A tip of the charging inlet to which the wire harness is connected is positioned inside a vehicle body passing through the vehicle body side part.

Abstract: A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle is configured to stop in response to a request from a prospective passenger and allow the prospective passenger to board.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit and a controller. The communication unit performs data communication with another vehicle present in an area around a host vehicle. The controller controls the data communication performed by the communication unit. Based on an amount of transition in frequency due to a Doppler shift corresponding to a relative speed of the other vehicle in relation to the host vehicle, the controller extracts, from among a plurality of the other vehicles, a designated moving body with which the communication unit is to perform the data communication. The controller initiates the data communication with the designated moving body.

Abstract: Failure prediction information output control device has a failure prediction unit (6) predicting failure of vehicle based on vehicle signal, a failure time estimation unit (7) estimating a time when the failure of the vehicle occurs based on the predicted failure, a data base (2) storing identification information of a management and repair participant of the vehicle, an occupant detection unit (3) detecting identification information of an occupant, a judgment unit (4) judging whether the occupant is the management and repair participant, and an output control unit (9) which, when it is judged that the time when the failure of the vehicle occurs in a case where the occupant is a user who is not the management and repair participant at a time when the failure of the vehicle is predicted is out of a vehicle usage period, does not output notification information about the predicted failure to the occupant.