Abstract: A vehicle including an embossed surface for improving aerodynamic characteristics includes a front bumper member provided at a lower portion of a front surface of a vehicle body of the vehicle. On a surface of a side surface portion of the front bumper member, the embossed surface having a directional pattern for assisting an airflow to direct in one direction along the surface is formed. The one direction is raised rearward relative to a front-rear direction of the vehicle body.

Abstract: A charging system includes a charging control unit, a detector, an acquisition unit, a calculation unit, and an estimation unit. The charging control unit controls a charging operation performed from a power feeding system including a power storage device to a storage battery. The detector detects, multiple times, charging electric power supplied to the storage battery. The acquisition unit acquires pieces of charging data each including data indicating a temporal change in the charging electric power supplied from the power feeding system to the storage battery. The calculation unit calculates respective approximate curves of the pieces of charging data. The estimation unit estimates a power feedable time during which the power feeding system is able to feed power, based on the approximate curves calculated based on the pieces of charging data, by using values of the charging electric power detected by the detector.

Abstract: An automatic steering control apparatus includes a lane line detector, a shape data detector, a traveling processor, and a steering angle processor. The lane line detector is configured to detect right and left lane lines. The shape data detector is configured to detect shape data. The traveling processor is configured to, in a case where both the lane lines are detected, execute a first lane-line control that is an automatic steering control to be executed on the basis of both the lane lines, and configured to, in a case where only one of the lane lines is detected as a detected lane line, execute a determining process that compares data on the detected lane line and the shape data and that determines whether to execute a second lane-line control that is the automatic steering control to be executed on the basis of only the one of the lane lines.

Abstract: A power storage apparatus includes a first storage battery, a first flow path, a connector, a pump, and a controller. The first flow path allows a coolant to flow therein to the first storage battery. The connector couples the first storage battery to an electric power device of an external apparatus including the electric power device and a second flow path. The connector couples the first flow path to the second flow path and thereby allows the first and second flow paths to form a circulatory flow path. The second flow path allows the coolant to flow therein. The pump is provided on the first flow path and controls a flow rate and a flowing direction of the coolant. The controller controls an operation of the pump. The controller switches the flowing direction of the coolant multiple times after the first and second flow paths are coupled to each other.

Abstract: A vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus includes a monocular distance calculator, a relaxation distance calculator, and an updated distance calculator. The monocular distance calculator calculates a monocular distance of a three-dimensional object from a luminance image generated by an imaging unit. The relaxation distance calculator calculates a relaxation distance of the three-dimensional object from two luminance images generated by two imaging units based on a degree of image matching between the two luminance images determined using a threshold more lenient than another threshold used to determine the degree of image matching to generate a stereo distance of the three-dimensional object. The updated distance calculator calculates an updated distance of the three-dimensional object by mixing the monocular distance and the relaxation distance at a predetermined ratio.

Abstract: A vehicle has a vehicle body provided with a pair of rockers, the rockers each being provided on one side of a floor panel in a right-left direction and on another side of the floor panel in the right-left direction. The vehicle has a battery pack that is disposed below the floor panel, and that stores electric power to be supplied to a traveling motor. The vehicle has a pair of fixing members, the fixing members each being disposed on one side of the battery pack in the right-left direction and another side of the battery pack in the right-left direction, that is configured to fix the battery pack to the rockers. The vehicle has an elastic member disposed between the battery pack and the fixing members. The elastic member is disposed in a state compressed by the battery pack and the fixing members.

Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a forward recognizer configured to recognize a forward situation of a vehicle, a brake controller configured to perform brake control, and a determiner configured to determine execution of the brake control and drive control based on target data obtained by the forward recognizer and/or from map information. The brake controller performs the brake control to stop the vehicle at a position before a stop line of a road surface, based on a recognition result from the forward recognizer. When the vehicle stops and the forward situation is determined to be safe the determiner slowly drives the vehicle to another position before a crossing road edge where the road on which the vehicle drives intersects with another road. When the vehicle is at the other position and the forward situation is determined to be safe, the determiner slowly drives the vehicle from the other position by a predetermined distance.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an information storage, an information notifier, a reply acquirer, a vehicle characteristic specifier, and a vehicle characteristic setter. The information storage is configured to store question information including a plurality of questions. The information notifier is configured to extract a question from the stored question information in accordance with a predetermined rule and notify the question through a notification device. The reply acquirer is configured to acquire a reply to the notified question. The vehicle characteristic specifier is configured to specify a vehicle characteristic based on the reply. The vehicle characteristic setter is configured to set the specified vehicle characteristic is the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle bumper structure to be applied to a vehicle includes an impact absorber to be disposed on a front end side or a rear end side of the vehicle so as to extends in a vehicle width direction. The impact absorber includes small reaction section and a large reaction section. The small reaction section is to be disposed on an outer end side in the vehicle width direction. The small reaction section is configured to generate a predetermined reaction against a colliding object. The large reaction section is to be disposed on an inner side of the small reaction section in the vehicle width direction. The large reaction section is adjacent to the small reaction section. The large reaction section is configured to generate a larger reaction against the colliding object than the predetermined reaction.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes: a roof panel, a rail disposed below the roof panel and extending in a left-right direction, a brace disposed below the roof panel and coupled to an end of the rail and extending from the rail toward in a front-rear direction, a reinforcing member reinforcing a connection portion where the rail is coupled to the brace. A first end of a main wall of the reinforcing member is welded to a first-end-side flange of the rail. A second end of the main wall is welded to a second-end-side flange of the rail and to an end of the brace on the first side in the front-rear direction. The reinforcing member includes flanges welded to the bottom wall of the rail.

Abstract: A container holding mechanism is applied to a fuel cell vehicle including a driving mechanism capable of driving rear wheels and disposed on a side of the rear wheels. The container holding mechanism includes a first hydrogen gas, a second hydrogen gas, a third hydrogen gas container, and a moving unit. The first hydrogen gas container is disposed behind a rear drive shaft. The second hydrogen gas container is disposed in front of the rear drive shaft. The third hydrogen gas container disposed in parallel with the second hydrogen gas container in front of the rear drive shaft. The moving unit is configured to move the driving mechanism pushed out by the first hydrogen gas container in collision in such a manner that the driving mechanism avoids the second hydrogen gas container and the third hydrogen gas container.

Abstract: A vehicle travel locus transmission system to be mounted on a vehicle includes a GNSS receiver, a vehicle-side transceiver, a locator processor, a wheel speed sensor, a gyro sensor, and an acceleration rate sensor. The locator processor generates, on predetermined cycles, a latest first linear coordinate as a linear function parameter that couples latest first positional coordinates and second positional coordinates on a previous cycle. The first and second positional coordinates are to be acquired on the basis of a positioning signal received by the GNSS receiver. On the condition that an angle formed by the first linear coordinate with an extension of a second linear coordinate generated on the previous cycle exceeds a predetermined threshold, the locator processor sends data regarding the first linear coordinate together with vehicle identification data, from the vehicle-side transceiver to an external device.

Abstract: A driving support system for a vehicle includes an information obtainer, a target vehicle speed calculator, a comparison processor, and a determination processor. The information obtainer is configured to obtain curvature information about a curvature of a driving lane of the vehicle and about a curvature of an adjacent lane. The adjacent lane is adjacent to the driving lane. The target vehicle speed calculator is configured to calculate a target vehicle speed in the driving lane and a target vehicle speed in the adjacent lane using the curvature information. The comparison processor is configured to compare a difference between the target vehicle speed in the driving lane and the target vehicle speed in the adjacent lane with a threshold. If the difference is greater than or equal to the threshold, the determination processor is configured to determine that a road branches off in a traveling direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle driving support apparatus for a vehicle includes: a driving environment information acquirer; a vehicle state detector; a storage; and a driving support controller configured to set an indicated target steering angle at which the vehicle is caused to run along a target running path to perform steering control. When a steering-wheel operation by a driver is steering override, the driving support controller acquired status data including curvature data about a corner and stores the status data in the storage. When the vehicle is to enter a corner or during cornering, the driving support controller determines whether the curvature data coinciding with the curvature of the corner exists in the status data previously acquired. When the coinciding curvature data exists, the driving support controller corrects the indicated target steering angle is with the status data including the coinciding curvature data to set a corrected target steering angle.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus to be installed in a vehicle includes an airflow generator and a controller. The airflow generator is provided on an inner surface of a wheel house or on a wheel. The wheel house provides a wheel containing section of a vehicle body. The wheel is contained in the wheel containing section. The airflow generator is configured to generate an airflow that flows from the wheel containing section toward outer side in a vehicle widthwise direction. The controller is configured to control the airflow generator.

Abstract: A suspension includes a housing, a radius arm, a radius arm bush, and a shock absorber. Inclination angles ?1 and ?2 satisfy ?F·tan ?2>M·tan ?1, in which: ?1 is an inclination angle at which a straight line coupling the center of the radius arm bush to the center of a rear wheel is inclined to a horizontal line, to lower toward the rear wheel, viewed from a side of the vehicle in a steady state; ?2 is an inclination angle at which an axis of expansion and shrink of the shock absorber is inclined to a vertical direction, to allow the shock absorber's upper end to more forward from the shock absorber's lower end; M is an unsprung mass of the suspension; and ?F is an amount of increase in a vertical load on the rear wheel from the steady state during a shrinkwise stroke of the shock absorber.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus to be provided in a vehicle includes a flap and an airflow generator. The vehicle includes a wheel disposed to be partly protruded downward from a vehicle body of the vehicle. The flap is protruded, in front of the wheel, downward from the vehicle body. The airflow generator is configured to generate an airflow, and provided in an underneath of the vehicle body. The airflow generator is configured to generate an airflow. The airflow moves backward and downward of the vehicle and the airflow moves obliquely relative to a horizontal plane.

Abstract: A vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus includes first and second width derivation units, a degree-of-overlap derivation unit, and a specific object determination unit. The first width derivation unit derives a first width of a first three-dimensional object based on a luminance image. The second width derivation unit derives a second width of a second three-dimensional object based on a distance image. The degree-of-overlap derivation unit obtains an overlap width with which the first and second widths overlap horizontally, and set, as a degree of overlap, whichever is greater out of a value obtained by dividing the overlap width by the first width and a value obtained by dividing the overlap width by the second width. The specific object determination unit determines that the first and second three-dimensional objects are an identical specific object, on the condition that the degree of overlap is greater than a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A vehicle occupant notification apparatus provides a notification to a vehicle occupant by retracting a seatbelt of a vehicle and includes an operation-amount measuring instrument, an arithmetic controller, and a retraction device. The operation-amount measuring instrument measures a measurement seatbelt operation amount when the vehicle occupant sits on a seat of the vehicle and fastens the seatbelt. The measurement seatbelt operation amount is either one of a measurement seatbelt pull-out amount and a measurement seatbelt pull-out angle. The arithmetic controller determines whether the measurement seatbelt operation amount is larger than or equal to a predetermined value. The retraction device varies a retraction amount in the retraction of the seatbelt when the notification is to be provided by retracting the seatbelt based on a command from the arithmetic controller. The command indicates that the measurement seatbelt operation amount is larger than or equal to the predetermined value.

Abstract: A clutch control system includes a clutch, and a control unit. The control unit includes one or more processors, and one or more memories configured to store an executable instruction(s). The one or more processors are configured, in accordance with the instruction, to: acquire an engine torque; based on the engine torque, calculate a base transmission torque of the clutch; calculate a first transmission torque of the clutch by limiting, based on a first limiting condition, an amount of change of the base transmission torque; based on the first transmission torque, control the clutch; during return from a fuel cut, calculate a second transmission torque of the clutch by limiting the amount of change of the base transmission torque based on a second limiting condition that is more limiting than the first limiting condition; and, during return from the fuel cut, control the clutch based on the second transmission torque.