Abstract: An adhesion interface observation method is adapted to observe a region in vicinity of an adhesion interface following adhesion and curing of an adhesive that is coated on adhered members and adheres the adhered members to each other. The adhesion interface observation method includes: exposing the cured adhesive by removing one of the adhered members; forming an observation region by cutting a predetermined part of the adhesive by a predetermined thickness; obliquely cutting the observation region in an oblique direction that is inclined with respect to a thickness direction of the observation region; and observing, by a surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, Raman scattering light generated by applying excitation light to an observation possible region that is positioned on a side, of a part of the observation region having been subjected to the oblique cutting, on which a thickness of the part of the observation region is small.

Abstract: An assembling device includes a holding member and a processing device. The holding member is configured to hold a first assembly component and a second assembly component. The processing device is configured to process a first excess thickness portion and a second excess thickness portion. The first excess thickness portion is provided at the first assembly component and is configured to adjust a gap between the first assembly component and the second assembly component. The second excess thickness portion is provided at the second assembly component and is configured to adjust the gap.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to a technique automatically adapting a vehicle HMI to a user preference. The HMI includes a touchscreen displaying selectable icons associated with functions. Every time the HMI detects a selection of a first icon by a user among the icons, the HMI sends to the server, first information on a first function associated with the first icon, when the first icon is selected, and where the HMI is located when the first icon is selected. The server analyzes the first information to recognize a pattern of behavior taken by the user in selecting the first icon, generating a first user preference. The HMI updates an arrangement of the icons on the touchscreen based on the first user preference. The first user preference includes parameters that includes a certain day of a week, a certain time of that day, and a location.

Abstract: A vehicle accident surrounding information link apparatus is to be provided in an emergency report system in which emergency information about an accident is transmitted, to a server apparatus, from a vehicle involved in the accident. The vehicle accident surrounding information link apparatus includes an acquirer, a determiner, and a generator. The acquirer is configured to acquire accident surrounding information transmitted from a peripheral terminal that is different the vehicle. The determiner is configured to determine whether the acquired accident surrounding information is information about the accident of the vehicle. In a case the determiner determines the acquired accident surrounding information is information about the accident of the vehicle, the generator is configured to generate link information that associates the accident surrounding information with the emergency information transmitted from the vehicle to the server apparatus.

Abstract: A battery stack structure includes a battery stack, a passage, a junction box, and a bus bar. The battery stack includes spaced battery cells. The passage is adjacent to a first side of the battery stack. The passage allows air to flow in the passage before the air cools the battery stack. The junction box is adjacent to a second side of the battery stack. The junction box allows the air to flow in the junction box after the air has cooled the battery stack. The junction box contains an electronic device. The bus bar is contained in the junction box and is electrically and thermally coupled to the electronic device. The bus bar allows passing of current. The direction of the flow of the air flowing from the battery stack faces a major surface of the bus bar.

Abstract: According to one implementation, a prepreg lamination apparatus includes first and second rollers, a table, and a feed structure. The first roller sends out a first prepreg tape which is a part of material of an FRP. The second roller sends out a second prepreg tape which is another part of the material of the FRP. The table is for laminating the first and second prepreg tapes directly or indirectly. The feed structure is adapted to feed out the first and second prepreg tapes in a feeding direction by moving the first and second rollers relatively to the table while performing at least one of movement of the first roller relatively to the second roller, and rotation of at least one of the first and second rollers relatively to the table around an axis which is not parallel to each of rotation axes of the first and second rollers.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus in a vehicle that includes left wheels, right wheels and brake mechanisms each provided for both. The apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more storage media storing a program causing a brake control process in which brake fluid pressure is applied to the brake mechanisms of one-side wheels, either left or right wheels, to bring the one-side wheels to a locked state under the condition including that the vehicle is in a stopped state or in a substantially stopped state through driver emergency control that is to be applied to the vehicle in response to detection of emergency of a driver who drives the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle includes: a brake mechanism configured to brake a wheel in accordance with a pressure of a brake fluid; a hydraulic circuit configured to adjust the pressure of the brake fluid and transfer the brake fluid to the brake mechanism; and a controller. The controller includes one or more processors to execute: a torque adjustment process of giving an offset to increase a required driving torque determined based on an operation amount of accelerator of the vehicle in a case where it is determined that the vehicle is in a stolen state; and a brake fluid pressure adjustment process of applying control to the hydraulic circuit to pressurize the brake fluid so as to compensate for an increase in the required driving torque due to the offset.

Abstract: The vehicle control apparatus comprises one or more processors, one or more storage media storing a program to be executed by the one or more processors. The program includes one or more instructions. The one or more instructions cause the one or more processors to perform a brake control process in which, after a stroke of a predetermined amount or more is made to a brake pedal by a brake booster to apply brake fluid pressure to the brake mechanism to make the brake fluid pressure in a pressurized state in response to input of a predetermined signal corresponding to detection of theft of the vehicle, the stroke of the brake pedal by the brake booster is cancelled while a first valve disposed in a brake fluid pressure circuit is kept at a closed state to keep the pressurized state of the brake fluid pressure applied to the brake mechanism.

Abstract: A sealant application apparatus includes a seal gun, a distance meter, a moving mechanism and a controller. The seal gun has a nozzle for discharging sealant toward a fastener. The distance meter is fixed to the nozzle. The distance meter measures a distance from a measurement position to a surface of the sealant. The moving mechanism moves the seal gun relatively to the fastener. The controller controls the moving mechanism and the seal gun. The sealant is started to be discharged out from the seal gun in a state where the nozzle has been positioned to cover the fastener at a position away from a surface of the object by a predetermined distance. Subsequently, the sealant is applied to the fastener under a sealant application condition according to the distance measured by the distance meter while moving the nozzle away from the surface of the object.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a stator winding. The stator core has a cylindrical shape and a plurality of slots. The stator winding includes a plurality of phase windings each including a plurality of segment conductors inserted into the slots and coupled to each other in series. Each of the segment conductors has a pair of straight parts and a bend. The pair of straight parts is accommodated in two of the plurality of slots. The bend protrudes from an end face of the stator core and couples the pair of straight parts to each other. In each of the plurality of slots, the number of the bends protruding from the end face of the stator core to extend in one of circumferential directions matches the number of the bends protruding from the end face of the stator core to extend in the other of the circumferential directions.

Abstract: A vehicle headlamp device to be applied to a vehicle includes a light source, a lens, and a controller. The light source is configured to emit light. Light emitted from the light source is to pass through the lens. The controller is configured to control light distribution patterns for the light. The light distribution patterns include at least a first light distribution pattern and a second light distribution pattern. The first light distribution pattern illuminates an area ahead of the vehicle during running of the vehicle. The second light distribution pattern is projected as a marking at an optical axis adjustment that is performed during manufacturing of the vehicle. The controller causes a part of the light source to emit light so that the second light distribution pattern is formed.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a center differential device and an air pressure controller. The center differential device includes a first output shaft coupled to front wheels and a second output shaft coupled to rear wheels. The center differential device is configured to perform differential operation between the first output shaft and the second output shaft and to limit the differential operation between the first output shaft and the second output shaft. The air pressure controller is configured to control air pressure of one or more tires of the front wheels and the rear wheels such that an average rotational speed of the front wheels and an average rotational speed of the rear wheels are equal to each other.

Abstract: A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, a generator, and a controller. The collector collects information about movement of mobile bodies. The mapping unit maps positions of the mobile bodies on the basis of the information collected by the collector. The generator generates course-related information by using information including the positions of the mobile bodies mapped by the mapping unit. The controller controls movement of each of the mobile bodies on the basis of the generated course-related information. The mapping unit maps a position error of a first mobile body together with a position of the first mobile body, in a case of determining that the position error occurs on the basis of the information collected by the collector. The generator generates the course-related information that allows the first mobile body to move within a range including the position and the position error thereof.

Abstract: A preform includes a stack of a plurality of fiber materials. The fiber materials each include a first fiber layer including a reinforcing fiber and having a sheet shape, in which the reinforcing fiber has a melting point and a tensile strength that are higher than a melting point and a tensile strength of an aliphatic polyamide fiber, and a second fiber layer including the aliphatic polyamide fiber and having a sheet shape, and provided on at least one of surfaces of the first fiber layer. The aliphatic polyamide fiber includes a first polyamide resin and a second polyamide resin having a melting point higher than a melting point of the first polyamide resin by 7 degrees centigrade to 50 degrees centigrade.

Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine includes a stator core and a stator winding. The stator core includes a core inner-peripheral portion including slots. The stator winding includes a phase winding including segment conductors. The phase winding includes parallel conductors connected in series. Each parallel conductor includes ones of the segment conductors connected in parallel. The segment conductors include weld end portions protruding from the slots, bent in circumferential directions of the stator core, and welded to one another to constitute conductor joint portions. The weld end portions include weld end portions which protrude from each of the slots and which include first and second weld end portions. The first and second weld end portions are bent in the circumferential directions. The second weld end portions are smaller in number than the first weld end portions.

Abstract: A vehicle external environment recognition apparatus includes a light source extraction processor, a light source pair identification processor, a degree of reliability derivation processor, a light source pair re-identification processor, and a vehicle identification processor. The light source pair identification processor identifies a first pair of light sources based on positional relation of extracted light sources. The degree of reliability derivation processor derives a degree of vehicle reliability of the first pair of light sources. The degree of vehicle reliability indicates how reliably the first pair of light sources is regarded as belonging to the identical vehicle.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes an operation unit, an operation-unit sensor, a motor, and a driving force controller. The operation-unit sensor is configured to detect an operation-unit operation amount. The operation-unit operation amount is an amount of operation of the operation unit. The motor is capable of generating a negative driving force for decelerating the vehicle. The driving force controller is configured to cause the motor to drive a wheel of the vehicle with the negative driving force on a basis of the operation-unit operation amount, and to derive the negative driving force in accordance with an initial time change. The initial time change represents an amount of change in the operation-unit operation amount per unit time relative to an operation-unit operation amount at an initial position of the operation unit.

Abstract: A vertical take-off and landing aircraft includes a wing body, a duct, a rotary wing, upper-surface hinges, and upper-surface covers. The upper-surface hinges are provided at an upper-surface opening of the duct. The upper-surface covers are pivotally supported by the upper-surface hinges, and configured to cause the upper-surface opening to be open and closed. The upper-surface covers are configured to pivot, upon forward moving of the aircraft, in a closing direction by negative pressure generated on an upper surface side of the wing body, to cause the upper-surface opening to be closed. The upper-surface covers are configured to pivot, upon hovering of the aircraft, in an opening direction by pressure of an airflow flowing in the duct from the upper side to a lower side in accordance with rotation of the rotary wing, own weights of the upper-surface covers, or both, to cause the upper-surface opening to be open.