Abstract: A method of designing an anisotropic composite laminate structure to constitute a predetermined member of an airframe structure of an aircraft and includes a plurality of types of composite layers containing reinforcing fibers with different fiber orientations is provided. The method includes dividing the anisotropic composite laminate structure in the predetermined member into a plurality of regions in a thickness direction. The method includes determining, for each of the regions, at least a stacking sequence of the plurality of types of composite layers in accordance with a direction of stress acting on the predetermined member.

Abstract: A lane line recognition apparatus includes an imaging device, a lane-line-search-region setting section, a light-streak-search-region setting section, a light-streak determination section, a light-streak-reaching determination section, and a mask processing section. The imaging device is to be mounted on a vehicle and captures an image of a traveling environment in front of the vehicle. The lane-line-search-region setting section sets a lane-line search region on the image. The light-streak-search-region setting section sets a light-streak search region adjacently to the lane-line search region. The light-streak determination section determines whether a light streak that crosses, in a vertical direction of the image, the light-streak search region is found. The light-streak-reaching determination section determines, if the light streak is found, whether the light streak reaches the lane-line search region.

Abstract: An occupant state detection system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, a determination apparatus, and an occupant state detection apparatus. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more memories store data including traveling-state comparative data and stopped-state comparative data. The one or more processors cooperate with one or more programs included in the one or more memories to receive occupant monitoring data from the occupant monitoring apparatus and determination data from the determination apparatus. On the basis of the determination data, the one or more processors compare the occupant monitoring data with the traveling-state comparative data on the condition that the vehicle is in the traveling state, and compare the occupant monitoring data with the stopped-state comparative data on the condition that the vehicle is in the stopped state, to detect a state of the occupant in the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus includes a stereo speed derivation unit, a monocular speed derivation unit, a predicted speed derivation unit, a mixture ratio derivation unit, and an object speed derivation unit. The stereo speed derivation unit derives a stereo speed indicating a speed of a three-dimensional object extracted from a distance image derived from luminance images of two image-capturing units. The monocular speed derivation unit derives a monocular speed indicating a speed of the three-dimensional object extracted from the luminance image of one of the image-capturing units. The predicted speed derivation unit derives a predicted speed based on a past speed of the three-dimensional object. The mixture ratio derivation unit derives a mixture ratio of the stereo, monocular, and predicted speeds. The object speed derivation unit mixes the stereo, monocular, and predicted speeds at the mixture ratio, to derive an object speed.

Abstract: A heat management device may include: a heat circuit comprising a heat exchanger passage, a radiator passage communicating with the heat exchanger passage, and a battery passage communicating with the heat exchanger passage by bypassing the radiator passage; a heat exchanger cooling heat medium by heat exchange; a radiator exchanging heat between outside air and the heat medium in the radiator passage; a control valve changing a channel of the heat medium in the heat circuit; a pump pumping out the heat medium in the heat circuit from the heat exchanger passage to the battery passage and from the heat exchanger passage to the radiator passage; and a controller. The controller may execute: a heating operation for heating the heat medium in the battery passage by a battery; and a circulation operation for cooling the heat medium in the radiator passage by the radiator.

Abstract: A driving force controller for vehicle includes a driving force calculator and a driving controller. The driving force calculator calculates an instructed driving force, and includes a first determination unit that determines whether or not a predicted driving force satisfies a first condition. The predicted driving force assumes that the instructed driving force calculated on a first control cycle is changed at a rate of change calculated on the first control cycle, until a second control cycle. The first condition includes that a range between the instructed driving force calculated on the first control cycle and the predicted driving force at least partly cover a first range including a zero driving force. The driving force calculator imposes limitation on the rate of change in the instructed driving force to be calculated in the second control cycle, on the condition that the first condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a charging lid, a water droplet detector, and a controller. The charging lid is configured to cover a charging port of an inlet in an openable and closable manner. The water droplet detector is configured to detect water droplets on the vehicle. The controller is configured to release a lock of the charging lid when an access key configured to wirelessly communicate with the vehicle and provide an instruction to lock or unlock a door of the vehicle is present near the vehicle or when an unlock condition for keeping the door unlocked is satisfied. The controller is configured to, in response to the water droplet detector detecting water droplets, lock the charging lid in a closed state, regardless of whether the unlock condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An automatic emergency reporting system for a vehicle includes a determiner, a normality transmitter, a detector, and an emergency transmitter. The determiner determines a quality of communication between a communication terminal of the vehicle and a server. The normality transmitter transmits rich information available in the server from the communication terminal in a normal state. The detector detects an emergency of the vehicle. The emergency transmitter transmits emergency information from the communication terminal to the server after the detection. The emergency transmitter transmits the rich information with the emergency information in response to the detection of the emergency of the vehicle in a state in which a status of the communication with the server is satisfactory. The emergency transmitter transmits the emergency information in response to the detection of the emergency of the vehicle in a state in which the status of the communication with the server is not satisfactory.

Abstract: A vehicle controlling apparatus includes first and second slip determining units, first and second slip controllers, and a target torque corrector. The first slip controller is configured to maintain a slip rate of a first drive wheel at a predetermined slip rate, in a case where an execution condition of a first slip control is determined by the first slip determining unit as being satisfied. The second slip controller is configured to maintain a slip rate of a second drive wheel at a predetermined slip rate, in a case where an execution condition of a second slip control is determined by the second slip determining unit as being satisfied. The target torque corrector is configured to decrease a target torque of a second motor, in a case where the execution condition of the first slip control is satisfied and where the execution condition of the second slip control is unsatisfied.

Abstract: A vehicle with an emergency reporting function includes a processor, a vehicle communication device, a first calling device, and a vehicle outside occupant detector. The processor determines, by means of the vehicle outside occupant detector, whether an occupant who has been present inside the vehicle before an emergency is present inside the vehicle or outside the vehicle after the emergency. If the occupant is present inside the vehicle after the emergency, the processor uses the first calling device to enable a communication between an occupant inside the vehicle and an operator terminal. If the occupant is present outside the vehicle after the emergency, the processor additionally uses a second calling device to enable a communication between an occupant present outside or inside the vehicle and the operator terminal. The second calling device allows for a communication outside the vehicle.

Abstract: A compound helicopter includes a fuselage, a fixed wing, a rotary wing, and a barrier member. The fixed wing is fixed to the fuselage. The rotary wing is rotatably coupled to the fuselage. The barrier member is attached to a part, of the fuselage, that is above the fixed wing and is between the rotary wing and the fixed wing. The barrier member is configured to generate no lift upon forward flight.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an electric-device temperature acquisition unit, a charging controller, and a predicted charging time deriving unit. The electric-device temperature acquisition unit acquires a temperature of an electric device disposed in a current path for external charging for supplying electric power from a power supply external to the vehicle to a battery mounted in the vehicle. The charging controller pauses a supply of electric power to the battery in response to the temperature of the electric device becoming greater than or equal to a first threshold during the external charging, and resumes the supply of electric power to the battery in response to the temperature of the electric device becoming less than a second threshold lower than the first threshold. The predicted charging time deriving unit derives a predicted charging time predicted to be taken for the external charging in accordance with an instruction for the external charging.

Abstract: An estimation device for estimating a friction coefficient of a road surface includes a sensor, a moment calculator, and a friction coefficient estimator. The sensor is configured to detect a force acting on a wheel. The moment calculator is configured to calculate a moment around a vertical axis at a center of a ground contact load of a tire of the wheel based on an output of the sensor. The friction coefficient estimator is configured to estimate the friction coefficient of the road surface with which the tire is in contact, based on the moment.

Abstract: A vehicle body structural member is formed from a fiber-reinforced resin composite. The vehicle body structural member includes a break scheduled part. The break scheduled part is provided on a load input surface to which a collision load is expected to be input. The break scheduled part is configured to, when the collision load is input, undergo a brittle fracture and divide the load input surface into a first region and a second region on both sides respectively in a predetermined first direction. When the collision load is input, a torsion is generated in each of the first region and the second region across the break scheduled part have torsions.

Abstract: A vehicle body pillar structure includes a cylindrical member and an outer layer member. The cylindrical member is formed from a carbon fiber-reinforced resin. The outer layer member is provided on an outer circumference of the cylindrical member and is formed from a carbon fiber-reinforced resin. The outer layer member includes a recessed groove provided on a surface of the outer layer member closer to the cylindrical member, recessed in a direction away from the cylindrical member, and extending along an axial direction of the cylindrical member. A fiber-reinforced resin is disposed in the recessed groove. The fiber-reinforced resin contains continuous fibers wound around pin members provided on both axial sides of the recessed groove and is oriented along the axial direction of the cylindrical member.

Abstract: An electric vehicle includes first and second traveling motors, first and second rotational position sensors, and a measurement controller. The first rotational position sensor detects a rotation angle of the first traveling motor and has a first wheel-speed range in which a deviation of an original position of the first rotational position sensor is measurable. The second rotational position sensor detects a rotation angle of the second traveling motor and has a second wheel-speed range in which a deviation of an original position of the second rotational position sensor is measurable. The second wheel-speed range differs from the first wheel-speed range. The measurement controller executes, in an execution order, measurements of the deviations of the original positions of the first and second rotational position sensors while the electric vehicle is traveling, and switch the execution order on the basis of acceleration or deceleration data of the electric vehicle.

Abstract: An airframe maintenance-inspection system includes imaging devices, a transmitter, and a display device. The imaging devices are to be disposed in an aircraft and are configured to respectively capture images of a maintenance-inspection target during a flight of the aircraft. The transmitter is configured to transmit the plurality of images captured by the imaging devices. The display device is configured to display a shape of the maintenance-inspection target in a three-dimensionally viewable state based on the images transmitted by the transmitter.

Abstract: In a vehicle, a roof siderail outer includes an upper flange, a first portion that is disposed across a gap from a roof siderail inner, and a second portion disposed between the first portion and the upper flange. A boundary line between the upper flange and the second portion is configured of a first bent portion that is bent to form a valley crease line on an outer face of the roof siderail outer. A boundary line between the second portion and the first portion is configured of a second bent portion that is bent to form a ridge crease line on the outer face. The second bent portion extends toward the first bent portion in a rearward direction, and is connected to the first bent portion. The upper flange is welded to a rear pillar.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus is configured to inspect an inspection target including an attachment body and a specific part attached to the attachment body. A surface of the attachment body and a surface of the specific part are painted with a same color material. The inspection apparatus includes a storage device, an imaging device, and an image processing device. The storage device is configured to store in advance a reference image in which the attachment body and the specific part are captured in a state in which the specific part is correctly attached to the attachment body. The imaging device is configured to capture an inspection image of the inspection target. The image processing device is configured to determine incorrect attachment of the specific part in the inspection target based on the inspection image captured by the imaging device and the reference image stored in the storage device.