Abstract: An infrared heater is disposed on one side of an electrode sheet transferred along a transfer path. A radiation temperature sensor is disposed on the other side of the electrode sheet to measure the temperature of the back surface of the electrode sheet corresponding to the back side of a front surface portion of the electrode sheet that is the closest to the infrared heater. The radiation temperature sensor is configured such that the peak wavelength of infrared light radiated to the surface of the electrode sheet by the infrared heater is not included in the detectable wavelength range of infrared light detected by the radiation temperature sensor.

Abstract: A power storage module includes an electrode laminate having a plurality of bipolar electrodes, a positive terminal electrode, and a negative terminal electrode, a sealing portion, and a buffer region formation member that forms a sealed buffer region. Each bipolar electrode has a current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode active material layer. Positive terminal electrode has a positive electrode current collector foil and positive electrode active material layer. Negative terminal electrode has a negative electrode current collector foil and negative electrode active material layer. Sealing portion seals a region formed between a positive electrode uncoated portion and a negative electrode uncoated portion in a state where becomes a pressure within region is lower than atmospheric pressure. Buffer region formation member forms a buffer region at a position overlapping region in a stacking direction.

Abstract: An anode-side separator that is used in a water electrolysis device includes a metal backing made of titanium or stainless steel, an electroconductive oxide film provided on a surface of the metal backing, the electroconductive oxide film containing indium tin oxide, and a noble metal film provided on a surface of the electroconductive oxide film, the noble metal film containing platinum.

Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and apparatuses for a trailer detection system. The trailer detection system includes an image sensor configured to detect a trailering load attached to the vehicle, and an electronic control unit (ECU) coupled to the image sensor. The ECU is configured to determine the vehicle is operating in a tow mode, determine a frontal area of the trailering load, determine a category of the trailering load based on the frontal area, and adjust a pedal gain based on the category of the trailering load.

Abstract: A communication system includes a relay device and a diagnosis target device. The relay device includes a port configured to connect a diagnostic tool. The diagnosis target device is connected to the relay device via a bus. When the diagnosis target device has received specific data whose source appears to be the diagnostic tool, the diagnosis target device sends an inquiry signal for inquiring of the relay device about a monitoring result for the specific data. The relay device determines in response to the inquiry signal whether the specific data is legitimate data from the diagnostic tool. The relay device sends the monitoring result including a determination result to the diagnosis target device.

Abstract: A communication system includes a relay device and a diagnosis target device. The relay device includes a port configured to connect a diagnostic tool. The diagnosis target device is connected to the relay device via a bus. The relay device determines whether a communication path of diagnostic data for diagnosing the diagnosis target device is correct when the relay deice has received the diagnostic data, the diagnostic data being data that is transferred between the relay device and the diagnostic tool. The relay device sends to the diagnosis target device a monitoring result including a determination result as to whether the communication path of the diagnostic data is correct.

Abstract: A vehicle including an ECU configured to execute software update by using software distributed from a server includes a start switch configured to stop a control system of the vehicle when the start switch is turned OFF, and a control device. The control device is configured to request acceptance to execute activation after the start switch is turned OFF. The control device is configured to, when the ECU is a single-bank computer: download the software; and then instruct the ECU to install the downloaded software in the ECU and activate the installed software after a user accepts to execute the activation. The control device is configured to, when the ECU is a dual-bank computer, instruct the ECU to activate the installed software after the user accepts to execute the activation.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, when the controller receives a first notification indicating that an equipment installed in a vehicle is in an inappropriate state that is not in a predetermined state from the vehicle shared by multiple users, reads borrowing information that includes a combination of information indicating a period of use of the vehicle and identification information of the user who uses the vehicle during the period of use. The information processing apparatus identifies one or more users as transmission destinations of a second notification indicating that the vehicle is in the inappropriate state based on reference time based on the first notification and the period of use. The information processing apparatus transmits the second notification to the user terminals used by the identified one or more users.

Abstract: An information processing device, including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: generate a first virtual machine, and a second virtual machine for analyzing the first virtual machine; allocate a portion of a predetermined resource to the generated first virtual machine; and in a case in which the second virtual machine has been generated, secure, in the predetermined resource, an allocation region allocated to the second virtual machine.

Abstract: A server communicates with a vehicle that includes a battery. The server includes a communication device and a processing device. The communication device is configured to communicate with the vehicle. The processing device is configured to generate a restriction command for restricting discharge power of the battery. A first owner (user) as an owner of the vehicle has entered into a first lease contract for leasing the battery. When the owner has been changed from the first owner to a second owner and the second owner does not enter into a second lease contract for leasing the battery, the processing device transmits a restriction command to the vehicle through the communication device.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a first evaluation section that performs regression analysis for plural types of material sample based on first data including plural explanatory variables that are feature values and an objective variable that is a performance by regression analysis for respective combinations explanatory variables and that also evaluates error with respect to the regression analysis result, a second evaluation section that performs regression analysis for respective combinations of explanatory variables based on second data resulting from modifying a value of the objective variable in the first data and that also evaluates error with respect to a result of the regression analysis on the combination, a generation section that generates a distribution expressing a frequency of combinations of the explanatory variables with respect to the regression analysis result with the first data and that generates a distribution expressing a frequency of combinations of the explanatory variables

Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a display and a controller. The display displays a map image. The controller controls the display. The controller controls the display to, when a placement position of at least one power facility is displayed on the map image, display power-rate-related information and the placement position of the at least one power facility on the map image. The at least one power facility supplies electric power to an object having a power storage device mounted thereon, to charge the power storage device. The power-rate-related information is information related to a power rate unit price for charging.

Abstract: An information processing device is configured to control writing of data to a storage mounted on a vehicle by multiple. The information processing device includes an execution device. A storage area of the storage includes a shared area shared by multiple applications. A priority for allowing writing of data to the shared area is set for each of the applications. Data of each of the applications includes transfer data to be transmitted to a data center and normal data different from the transfer data. The execution device is configured to set the priority of writing of the transfer data when the transfer data is written to the shared area to be higher than the priority of writing of the normal data.

Abstract: A control device includes a processor and a storage device, which stores a learned model learned through machine learning. The processor is configured to perform vibration suppression control for suppressing vibration caused by torsional resonance of a drive shaft when the electric vehicle is traveling on an uneven road. The learned model is a model that predicts a vertical load of the drive shaft after a specified time. In the vibration suppression control, the processor uses a prediction result obtained by the learned model to determine whether to perform speed-increasing correction or speed-decreasing correction and switches between the speed-increasing correction and the speed-decreasing correction to increase the rotation speed of the motor when the drive wheel is slipping on a road and decrease the rotation speed of the motor when the drive wheel is gripping the road.

Abstract: A vehicle storage management system includes execution circuitry and a storage. The storage has a dynamic partition, which has been allocated in advance, and a static partition, which has been allocated in advance. The execution circuit is configured to delete data from the dynamic partition when a prescribed time has elapsed since the data was stored in the dynamic partition, reallocate a portion of the dynamic partition as an additional static partition when there is a request to install a new application, and store the new application in the additional static partition.

Abstract: A server includes a communication unit configured to acquire information on a power supply and demand balancing request, and one or more processors configured to control power control in a reservation slot in which a reservation is made for the power control by a user of an electrified vehicle. The processors are configured to execute control to check, with the user during a period from a start of the power control in the reservation slot to a time immediately after an end of the power control, whether the power control responding to the power supply and demand balancing request is executable after the reservation slot.

Abstract: A reservation system is configured to make a reservation for a charging device configured to charge a vehicle. The reservation system includes a first processing unit configured to manage reservation time frames of the charging device available to a user of a shop, a second processing unit configured to manage providing time frames of a service from a service representative who provides the service to the user at the shop, and a third processing unit configured to execute a process for receiving a time frame of reservation desired by the user among time frames overlapping between available reservation time frames and available providing time frames based on the reservation time frames of the charging device managed by the first processing unit and the providing time frames of the service from the service representative managed by the second processing unit.

Abstract: A road surface drawing control device for a vehicle that comprises a target information acquisition device that acquires information on targets around the vehicle; a communication device that communicates with a keyless entry terminal device operated by a user of the vehicle; a road surface drawing device that draws a road surface around the vehicle; a road surface drawing ECU that controls the operation of the road surface drawing device, and when the road surface drawing ECU determines that the user of the vehicle is within a reference distance from the vehicle based on the target information acquired by the target information acquisition device or that the keyless entry terminal device has been operated based on the communication between the communication device and the keyless entry terminal device, the road surface drawing device is activated to draw the road surface.

Abstract: An information processing device including a control unit, wherein the control unit acquires information indicating an action tendency of a user from a terminal device of the user, and when it is determined that the base of the user has been changed based on the information, executes a first change process of changing an advertisement due to a geographical change of the base, and determines whether or not to execute a second change process of changing an advertisement related to a lifestyle of the user according to whether or not the change of the base satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: The information processing device includes a storage unit, a communication unit, a time information provision unit, and a control unit. The storage unit stores spot information including location information and time frame information. The communication unit can communicate with information equipment carried by a user and an in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle on which the user is located, and can acquire current location information of either or both of the information equipment and the vehicle. The time information provision unit provides current time information. The control unit determines a virtual area based on the current location information, extracts a spot located in the virtual area based on the spot information, and determines whether to generate a notification related to the extracted spot based on the location information of the extracted spot, the time frame information associated with the extracted spot, the current location information, and the current time information.