Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a driving-assist control unit and a remote control unit. The driving-assist control unit is configured to perform an automatic driving control of stopping a vehicle in accordance with detection of an abnormal state of a driver of the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling. The remote control unit is configured to perform a control of transmitting remote control permission notification after the vehicle is stopped by the automatic driving control. The remote control permission notification permits a remote control of the vehicle.

Abstract: In order to absorb collision energy so as to prevent an increase in reaction force against a pedestrian to a level higher than or equal to a certain level during collision, a bumper absorber of the present invention includes: a trunk part that extends in an X direction and that is simply compressed in the X direction in response to an impact; and a branch part that branches off from the trunk part toward a rear of a vehicle body, the branch part having a branching part in which the branch part branches off from the trunk part and which is provided with a breakage inducing part that causes breakage between the trunk part and the branch part in response to the impact.

Abstract: A strut mount includes: an inner member coupled to a suspension; an outer bracket having an outer cylinder portion housing the inner member, and a flange portion protruding radially outward from the outer cylinder portion and coupled to a vehicle body; an elastic member interposed between the inner member and the outer cylinder portion; and a seal member interposed between the flange portion and the vehicle body. The seal member includes an annular portion located between the flange portion and the vehicle body, and a first downward extending portion extending downward from an outer peripheral portion of the annular portion toward the opposite side from the vehicle body. The flange portion includes a placement surface portion which faces toward the vehicle body and on which the annular portion is placed, and a first sidewall portion extending from an outer peripheral portion of the placement surface portion to the opposite side from the vehicle body.

Abstract: An alert system includes an in-vehicle object detector and an alert controller. The in-vehicle object detector detects objects in a vehicle compartment, including an occupant. The alert controller is configured to control execution of alert output operations if the occupant is left in the compartment after the vehicle's driver has left the vehicle. The alert output operations include at least an output operation of an alert to a mobile terminal of the driver. The alert controller is configured to cause the in-vehicle object detector to begin a detection processing for detecting the occupant being left in the compartment if the driver has left the vehicle, determine whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment, and switch between the alert output operations in accordance with whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment.

Abstract: In a vehicle air guide path structure, a vertically long air guide path forming member is provided along an outer edge of a side surface portion of a vehicle body on a rear side of a wheel house. A vertically long air guide path is formed at the rear side of the wheel house. The vertically long air guide path suctions air from the wheel house and exhausts air along a side surface of the vehicle body. A partition member partitions the vertically long air guide path so as to form a plurality of sections in an upper-lower direction. A vertically long inclined surface is formed on the side surface portion of the vehicle body at a rear side of the vertically long air guide path. The partition member protrudes to a rear side from the vertically long air guide path.

Abstract: A vehicle drive assistance apparatus includes a surrounding environment information acquiring unit, a crossing-vehicle recognition unit, a contact estimation unit, a contact avoidance operation determination unit, and a front-vehicle recognition unit. The crossing-vehicle recognition unit recognizes a crossing vehicle based on the surrounding environment information acquired by the surrounding environment information acquiring unit. The contact estimation unit estimates a possible contact between an own vehicle and the crossing vehicle at an intersection by comparing an intersection entering time of the own vehicle with an intersection entering time of the crossing vehicle.

Abstract: A charging control apparatus includes a battery, an electric charge mover, and a processor. The battery includes multiple cells. The electric charge mover is configured to move electric charge between the multiple cells. The processor is configured to, upon charging the battery, cause the electric charge mover to move the electric charge of one or more cells serving as a part of the multiple cells to another one or more cells of the multiple cells, and perform a partial charging that charges the one or more cells serving as the part of the multiple cells after causing the electric charge mover to move the electric charge.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus for a vehicle includes a surrounding environment information acquirer that acquires environment information about a surrounding of the vehicle, a leading-vehicle detector that detects a leading vehicle based on the environment information, a moving-body detector that detects a moving body in the surrounding of the vehicle based on the environment information, a vehicle-speed detector that detects a vehicle speed of the vehicle, and a region setter that sets a cut-in detection region for detecting entrance of the moving body between the vehicle and the leading vehicle when a travel controller causes the vehicle to travel such that the vehicle follows the leading vehicle. The region setter sets a protruding region that is included in the cut-in detection region based on at least the vehicle speed such that a length of protrusion in a left-right direction of the protruding region increases as the vehicle speed decreases.

Abstract: An electric power supply device installed in a vehicle includes a relay provided between a high-voltage battery and one or more pieces of in-vehicle equipment, and a processor. The processor is configured to, based on a state of a main switch configured to operate a traveling system of the vehicle, switch on or off of the relay, and is configured to control electric power supply from the high-voltage battery to the one or more pieces of in-vehicle equipment. The processor is configured to supply electric power from the high-voltage battery to particular in-vehicle equipment during maintaining the relay on when the main switch is turned off during the relay being on and the one or more pieces of in-vehicle equipment include the particular in-vehicle equipment. The particular in-vehicle equipment is configured to operate after the main switch is turned off.

Abstract: A shift mode control system includes a control apparatus that controls a shift mode of a vehicle, a first operation device that receives a first operation to switch an automatic mode to a manual mode, and a second operation device that receives a second operation to switch the manual mode to the automatic mode. The control apparatus includes a processor that calculates a speed ratio change amount that is a difference between a first speed ratio set when the automatic mode is switched to the manual mode in accordance with the first operation and a second speed ratio set when the manual mode is switched to the automatic mode in accordance with the second operation. The processor updates the speed ratio change amount set as a switching condition for automatically switching the manual mode to the automatic mode to the speed ratio change amount calculated by the processor.

Abstract: A parking system includes a parking facility, a moving device, charging and discharging equipment, a battery-state detector, and a control processor. The control processor is configured to cause the moving device to move, to a first parking lot with a high temperature, vehicles in the parking facility scheduled to travel, and to move, to a second parking lot with a low temperature, vehicles not scheduled to travel. The control processor is configured to cause or instruct the charging and discharging equipment to perform charging of a drive battery of an unsatisfied vehicle on the basis of a state-of-charge value of drive batteries of the vehicles present in the first parking lot detected by the battery-state detector. The unsatisfied vehicle is a vehicle that is the vehicle in the first parking lot and whose drive battery has a charge state that does not reach a predetermined charge state.

Abstract: A bonding system includes a supporting jig having a mounting surface on bonding substrates which are mounted, a bonding device that sandwiches and welds the bonding substrates between itself and the mounting surface, an articulated robot to which the bonding device is attached, and a control unit that controls the articulated robot and the bonding device.

Abstract: A cutting insert has a plate shape centered on an insert center axis. The cutting insert includes a front surface and a back surface facing an insert axial direction, an outer peripheral surface facing outward in an insert radial direction, and a cutting edge at an intersecting ridge line between the front surface and the outer peripheral surface. The back surface has a flat shape perpendicular to the insert center axis. The outer peripheral surface includes a flank surface coupled. The flank surface is inclined inward in the insert radial direction as extending in the insert axial direction from the front surface side to the back surface side. The front surface includes a rake surface. The rake surface is inclined from a back surface side to a front surface side in the insert axial direction as extending inward in the insert radial direction from the cutting edge.

Abstract: An information processing device is configured to determine whether an animal is suffering from motion sickness. The animal is an animal other than an occupant who rides in a mobile object. The information processing device includes one or more processors, and one or more memories communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to acquire an image captured by a camera configured to capture an image of the animal. The one or more processors are configured to, based on behavior data of the animal, determine whether the animal is suffering from motion sickness. The behavior data is externally observable from the captured image.

Abstract: A vehicle fluid controller to be applied to a vehicle. The vehicle fluid controller includes a jet generator, a wind detector, and a jet controller. The jet generator is configured to generate a jet of air and is disposed at an edge of a vehicle-body opening through which a vehicle cabin of the vehicle is allowed to be open to an outside of the vehicle. The wind detector is configured to detect a speed and a direction of wind acting on the vehicle body of the vehicle. The jet controller is configured to control the jet from the jet generator in accordance with the speed and the direction of the wind in such a manner as to disturb an airflow passing over the vehicle-body opening along a surface of the vehicle body.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a thermoplastic resin material, including: a mold for molding a base material containing a thermoplastic resin into a predetermined shape; and a transfer mechanism that places the base material in the mold, wherein the transfer mechanism includes a detection mechanism that detects a state of the base material, and a controlling unit that controls operation of the mold and the transfer mechanism.

Abstract: According to one implementation, a preform shaping apparatus includes a rigid mold and a pressurizing jig. The rigid mold has a shape corresponding to a shape of a preform which has been shaped. The pressurizing jig presses an unshaped material of the preform to the rigid mold at different positions and different timings. Further, according to one implementation, a method of shaping a preform includes: producing the shaped preform by pressing an unshaped material of the preform to a rigid mold at different positions and different timings; and using a pressurizing jig for pressing the material. The rigid mold has a shape corresponding to a shape of the preform. The pressurizing jig is adapted to apply pressures on the material at the different positions and the different timings.

Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processor that switches, when detecting a physical abnormality of an occupant of an own vehicle based on physical information of the occupant, the own vehicle to an emergency mode in which the own vehicle automatically travels to a destination. The processor receives, when the own vehicle is switched to the emergency mode, other vehicle information from another vehicle switched to the emergency mode. The other vehicle information includes information on a physical abnormality of an occupant of the other vehicle. Based on the other vehicle information and own vehicle information including information on the physical abnormality of the occupant of the own vehicle, the processor sets the order of priority to determine which of the own vehicle or the other vehicle is allowed to travel preferentially, and sends, based on the order of priority, a medical aid request to an information processor.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus to be used in a vehicle controllable on the basis of a voice input includes a determination unit and an input unit. The determination unit is configured to determine whether a main operator of the vehicle is in a predetermined state where the main operator is not possible to perform an operation or is not performing an operation. The input unit is configured to accept an operational input based on a voice of the main operator, as well as to accept an operational input based on a voice of a passenger of the vehicle in a case where the determination unit has determined that the main operator is in the predetermined state.

Abstract: A charging connector connection determining method includes providing a locking pin at a charging inlet of an electric vehicle, in which the locking pin is configured to move to be in a first state that allows for attachment, to the charging inlet, of a charging connector provided at an end of a charging cable, a second state in which the locking pin is positioned more in an advancing direction than the first direction to be engaged with the charging connector, and a third state in which the locking pin is positioned more in the advancing direction than the second state and prevents the charging connector from being attached to the charging inlet, and determining presence of coupling of the charging connector to the charging inlet, by moving the locking pin in the advancing direction and detecting a state of the locking pin among the first, second, and third states.