Abstract: A network system includes: an electric power system including a first power supply system and a second power supply system; a higher-level device connected to a first power supply of the first power supply system and a second power supply of the second power supply system; a first intermediate device connected to the first power supply of the first power supply system and configured to control supply of an electric power to a first lower-level device; and a second intermediate device connected to the second power supply of the second power supply system and configured to control supply of an electric power to a second lower-level device that is a redundant component for the first lower-level device.

Abstract: An ECU of a vehicle performs diagnosis processing for diagnosing whether or not a charge relay has stuck after end of charging of a power storage. When the diagnosis processing has not normally ended, the ECU requests connection again of a connector to a charge port for performing re-diagnosis processing for diagnosing again whether or not the charge relay has stuck. When the connector and the charge port are connected to each other again, the ECU determines whether or not it has received a charging start signal from a DC power feed facility. When the ECU has received the charging start signal, it does not perform re-diagnosis processing.

Abstract: A rotor has a plurality of magnetic poles aligned in a circumferential direction, each magnetic pole includes a first magnet equipment portion and a second magnet equipment portion positioned more toward an inner circumferential side than the first magnet equipment portion, the second magnet equipment portion has a pair of inner magnet holes placed symmetrically with respect to a center of the magnetic pole, and one or more inner magnets equipped in each of the inner magnet holes, each inner magnet hole has a bent line shape with one or more points of bending in an axial direction view, and an end, on a center side in a circumferential side of the magnetic pole, of the inner magnet hole is expanded on both sides in a thickness direction thereof, and functions as a magnetic barrier having a larger thickness than the inner magnet.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a storage battery, a capacitor unit connected to the storage battery, a power converter including three phases connected to the storage battery in parallel, a control device configured to control a switching on and off of switching elements included in the three phases respectively, a first connection terminal connected to a P terminal of a DC charger and located between first and second switching elements in any one of the three phases, and a second connection terminal connected to an N terminal of the DC charger and located between third and fourth switching elements in another one of the three phases.

Abstract: A flat routing material includes a flat conductive material and an insulating coating covering the conductive material. The routing material includes a bent portion as a part bending in an edgewise direction at a predetermined angle or more, and one or more folds extending toward the outer peripheral side of the bent portion are provided on at least the inner peripheral side of the bent portion. The folds are manufactured by press working.

Abstract: A motion conversion mechanism includes a shaft having an external thread and a cylinder having an internal thread that is screwed with the external thread. The motion conversion mechanism converts rotating motion of one of the shaft and the cylinder into linear motion of the other of the shaft and the cylinder. The cylinder is provided with two internal thread portions, each having the internal thread, such that a threadless portion is interposed between the two internal thread portions in an axial direction.

Abstract: There is provided an air purification device for a vehicle having a radiator core that is provided in an interior portion of an engine bay in a front portion of a vehicle, and through which air that has been introduced from a vehicle front side passes into the interior portion of the engine bay in the direction of the vehicle rear side, and a radiator fan that is disposed on the vehicle rear side of the radiator core, and has plate-shaped fan portions that are rotated by rotation drive force supplied from a motor assembly so as to introduce air from outside the engine bay into the interior portion of the engine bay, and that also has an ozone decomposition catalyst coated onto the fan portions.

Abstract: A control unit for controlling an upstream braking actuator for generating upstream pressure and a downstream braking actuator for controlling braking pressures of four wheels using the upstream pressure is configured to, when a braking pressure of any wheel cannot be reduced, perform backup control so that the target upstream pressure becomes the target braking pressure of the relevant wheel, and is configured to, when performing anti-skid control in a situation where automatic braking and backup control are being performed, control the target upstream pressure such that the target upstream pressure becomes a target upstream pressure for the automatic braking when the target upstream pressure is the target braking pressure for the relevant wheel, and such that the target upstream pressure becomes the target braking pressure for the anti-skid of the relevant wheel when the target upstream pressure is not the target braking pressure of the relevant wheel.

Abstract: A fuel vapor treating apparatus includes a canister, a purge pipe, a purge control valve, and a heating device. The canister is configured to store fuel vapor generated in a fuel tank. The purge pipe is configured to deliver the fuel vapor stored in the canister to an intake passage of an internal combustion engine together with air. The purge control valve is configured to be attached to the purge pipe to be selectively opened and closed in order to adjust a purge flow rate. The purge control valve is also configured to be opened based on a purge request that is made after the internal combustion engine is started. The heating device is configured to heat the purge control valve after the internal combustion engine is started and before the purge request is made.

Abstract: The positive electrode active material disclosed herein includes a base portion including a lithium transition metal complex oxide having a layered crystal structure, and a coating portion including an electroconductive oxide having a layered crystal structure. A smaller angle ? formed by a stacking plane direction of the lithium transition metal complex oxide and a stacking plane direction of the electroconductive oxide satisfies the following conditions: an average angle ?ave. obtained by arithmetically averaging the angle ? satisfies 0°??ave.?60°; and a ratio of points in which the angle ? is greater than 60° is 39% or less.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an exhaust gas control catalyst including a base and a catalyst coating layer having a two-layer structure on the base. The catalyst coating layer includes a lower layer on the base, and an upper layer on the lower layer. The upper layer of the catalyst coating layer contains Rh particles in which a mean particle diameter measured by observation using a transmission electron microscope is 1.0 nm or more and 2.0 nm or less and a particle-diameter standard deviation ? is 0.8 nm or less. A length of the upper layer from an end face on a downstream side in an exhaust gas flow direction falls within a range of 70% or more and 100% or less of a total length of the base.

Abstract: An HV-ECU calculates requested output torque Tec based on requested power and compares the requested output torque with controlled upper limit torque Teth. When requested output torque Tec has attained to controlled upper limit torque Teth, the HV-ECU restricts output torque of engine to controlled upper limit torque Teth and calculates actual output torque Ter at that time. Then, the HV-ECU calculates a difference (differential torque ?Te) between controlled upper limit torque Teth and actual output torque Ter. The HV-ECU learns controlled upper limit torque Teth based on differential torque ?Te.

Abstract: A vehicle pillar structure is provided including a pillar outer, a pillar inner, a front join section, and a rear join section. The pillar outer and pillar inner includes a first open cross-section and a second open cross-section having an open cross-section profile opening toward a vehicle width direction inner side in cross-section sectioned perpendicular to an extension direction of the pillar outer and the pillar inner. The pillar inner is second open cross-section disposed inside the first open cross-section so as to form a closed cross-section together with the first open cross-section. At the front join section, front walls configuring vehicle front side walls of the first open cross-section of the pillar outer and the second open cross-section of the pillar inner are joined together. At the rear join section, vehicle rear side end portions of the pillar outer and the pillar inner are joined together.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a driving drum includes: molding a first cylindrical member including first large- and small-diameter parts, a diameter of an outer circumferential surface of the first small-diameter part being smaller than that of the first large-diameter part; molding a second cylindrical member having second large- and small-diameter parts, a diameter of an inner circumferential surface of the second large-diameter part corresponding to the diameter of the outer circumferential surface of the first small-diameter part, a diameter of an inner circumferential surface of the second small-diameter part corresponding to that of the first small-diameter part, and the diameter of the inner circumferential surface of the second small-diameter part being smaller than that of the second large-diameter part; and forming a first cam groove between the first and second small-diameter parts and forming a second cam groove between the first and second large-diameter parts.

Abstract: A power transmitting device includes: a power transmitting unit that contactlessly transmits alternating-current power to be transmitted to a power receiving unit of a vehicle; a camera that detects a positional relationship between the power transmitting unit and the power receiving unit; and a power supply ECU. The power supply ECU is configured to perform an “alignment process” performing a process using the positional relationship detected by the camera for aligning the power receiving unit with the power transmitting unit, and a “power transmission function check process” causing the power transmitting unit to output a checking power to check whether a power transmission function of the power transmitting unit functions properly. When wireless communication is established with the vehicle, the power supply ECU initially performs the alignment process, and after it is determined that the alignment process completes alignment, the power supply ECU performs the power transmission function check process.

Abstract: An automatic driving system that is mounted in a vehicle includes: an information acquiring device configured to acquire driving environment information indicating a driving environment of the vehicle; and a running control device configured to execute lane change control from a first lane to a second lane, and set a lane change time which is a time required for lane change The running control device is configured to set an initial value of the lane change time, determine whether a moving object having a highest degree of approach to the vehicle is present in the second lane, and change the initial value based on a relative position of the moving object with respect to the vehicle and a relative speed of the vehicle with respect to the moving object when it is determined that the moving object having the highest degree of approach is present in the second lane.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a temperature measurement unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to, when the stack temperature is equal to or lower than a predetermined first threshold temperature at the time of startup of the fuel cell system, control a heat generation amount per unit time of the fuel cell stack to a set heat generation amount to perform a warming-up operation until the stack temperature increases to a target temperature, and when the stack temperature is equal to or higher than a predetermined second threshold temperature, execute at least one of setting the target temperature to be lower than the target temperature when the stack temperature is lower than the second threshold temperature and setting the set heat generation amount to be smaller than the set heat generation amount when the stack temperature is lower than the second threshold temperature.

Abstract: An ECU performs processing including: a step of obtaining a pilot signal CPLT and a connector connection signal PISW; a step of determining, when a connector is attached, a type of the connector; a step of controlling, when there is a function corresponding to the type of the attached connector, the connector to be set to a lock state; a step of performing control corresponding to the attached connector; and a step of maintaining, when there is no function corresponding to the type of the attached connector, an unlock state of the connector.

Abstract: A lane departure preventing device includes at least one electronic control unit. The at least one electronic control unit is configured to: when there is a likelihood that a vehicle will depart from a traveling lane, calculate a prevention yaw moment, and control a brake actuator such that the prevention yaw moment is applied to the vehicle; acquire a lateral acceleration; determine whether the lateral acceleration is greater than an ideal value by a predetermined value; control the brake actuator such that the braking force matches a target braking force required to apply the prevention yaw moment to the vehicle, when the lateral acceleration is not greater than the ideal value by the predetermined value; and control the brake actuator such that the braking force is less than the target braking force, when the lateral acceleration is greater than the ideal value by the predetermined value.

Abstract: In a vehicle drive device, a second power source is connected to a first rotating element of a differential mechanism, and the other output shaft of a first output shaft and a second output shaft is connected to a third rotating element so as to be disconnectable and connectable by a disconnection-connection mechanism. A control device places the disconnection-connection mechanism in a disconnected state. When a second traveling mode in which the third rotating element is fixed to a fixing member through engagement of an engaging element is switched to a first traveling mode in which the disconnection-connection mechanism is placed in a connected state, the control device disengages the engaging element, executes synchronous control in which rotational speeds of the other output shaft and the third rotating element are synchronized by a second power source, and switches the disconnection-connection mechanism from the disconnected state to the connected state.