Abstract: A vehicle may include a vehicle body including a floor panel, a battery pack located below the floor panel, and an energy absorption member located outwardly from the battery pack in a vehicle width direction and fixing the battery pack to the vehicle body. The energy absorption member may be a hollow member extending along a vehicle longitudinal direction and having a constant cross section along the vehicle longitudinal direction. An inner sidewall of the energy absorption member that faces the battery pack may incline downwardly in a vehicle height direction as it extends inwardly in the vehicle width direction.

Abstract: A road obstacle detection device which uses a pre-learned first identifier to associate a semantic label with each pixel of an image, uses a pre-learned second identifier to estimate a statistical distribution of a semantic label of a predetermined region of interest of the image from a statistical distribution of a semantic label of a peripheral region that surrounds the region of interest, and uses the statistical distribution of the semantic label associated with the region of interest and the statistical distribution of the semantic label estimated for the region of interest to estimate a likelihood that an object is a road obstacle.

Abstract: An autonomous driving system includes: a Human Machine Interface; and a control device configured to control autonomous driving of a vehicle, present a first operation instruction to a driver of the vehicle during the autonomous driving, the first operation instruction requesting the driver to perform a first response operation performed in response to a first request or a first proposal by presenting the first request or the first proposal to the driver via the Human Machine Interface, and prohibit presenting a second operation instruction different from the first operation instruction until the first response operation is completed or until a timing at which the first response operation is predicted to be completed, the second operation instruction requesting the driver to perform a second response operation performed in response to a second request or a second proposal by presenting the second request or the second proposal.

Abstract: When a computer determines that an accelerator pedal and a brake pedal are simultaneously stepped based on the signals from the accelerator position sensor and a brake switch, the first switch is turned off so that the accelerator sensor signal which will be transmitted into the computer is compulsorily made zero. A throttle-position command value which will be transmitted from the computer into a throttle actuator is reduced to a value corresponding to the idling state. If an engine output is not reduced, the computer turns off a second switch so that a throttle actuator is de-energized. A throttle valve is compulsorily brought into a position corresponding to an idling state by a biasing force of a throttle return spring.

Abstract: A plate member for a fuel cell is provided. The plate member for the fuel cell may be laminated together with a membrane-electrode assembly to constitute a fuel cell having cells and may be provided with a channel forming portion which forms a fluid channel to supply and discharge a fluid to/from the membrane-electrode assembly and/or the cells. The plate member for the fuel cell includes a first covering portion which covers the channel forming portion, and a second covering portion which covers an edge of the first covering portion together with a portion around the edge of the first covering portion.

Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle of the invention, a hybrid electronic control unit sets a drive point of an engine and torque commands Tm1* and Tm2* of motors MG1 and MG2 in a range of an input limit and an output limit of a battery, in order to satisfy a preset power demand, and sends the engine drive point to an engine ECU and the torque commands Tm1* and Tm2* simultaneously with the input limit and the output limit of the battery to a motor ECU. The motor ECU verifies whether the operations of the motors MG1 and MG2 with the torque commands Tm1* and Tm2* are in the range of the input limit and the output limit of the battery. When the operations of the motors MG1 and MG2 are out of the range of the input limit and the output limit, the motor ECU resets the torque commands Tm1* and Tm2* to make the operations of the motors MG1 and MG2 in the range of the input limit and the output limit and controls the operations of the motors MG1 and MG2 with the reset torque commands Tm1* and Tm2*.

Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle that includes an internal combustion engine (1) in conjunction with an electric motor (2), when one of a process of regenerating the purification capacity of an exhaust gas purifying device (10) and a process of charging a battery (7) is performed (S102), the presence or absence of a request to perform the other process is determined (S103) so that the two processes may be performed as simultaneously as possible to reduce deterioration in driveability and in the fuel efficiency as much as possible.

Abstract: A computer unit 71 disposed at a vehicle assembly plant 70 sends to an information providing center 40 chassis number information and MAC address information and phone number information of a communication unit 15 of a vehicle. A computer unit 81 at a vehicle sales shop 80 transmits to the center 40 chassis number information and information representing the number plate of the vehicle. The center 40 registers the sent information pieces as movable-body-specifying information and user-specifying information, respectively. By use of an apparatus 10, a user requests the center 40 to provide information. The center 40 authenticates the movable-body-specifying information and the user-specifying information sent from the apparatus 10, checks whether or not the present location of the vehicle coincides with a predetermined location, and specifies the user. Then, the center 40 provides information to the specified user.

Abstract: An apparatus for reducing a torque fluctuation of a lean burn combustion engine. An injector supplies fuel to combustion chambers of the engine. An ignitor ignites the fuel supplied into the combustion chambers. A knock sensor detects knocking in the engine. An electronic control unit (ECU) computes a delay amount of the ignition timing based on a result of knock detection by the knock sensor and controls the ignitor to delay the ignition timing by the delay amount to suppress knocking. The ECU also detects torque fluctuation of the engine. The ECU increases an amount of fuel injection from the injector by an increase amount to reduce the torque fluctuation when the detected torque fluctuation is larger than a target value. The ECU limits the increase amount when the ignition timing is delayed by more than a predetermined delay amount.