Abstract: A power storage device includes: a power storage module; an accommodating case that accommodates the power storage module; a cooler that cools the power storage module via the accommodating case; a gap filler being disposed in part of a gap between the power storage module and the accommodating case; and an adhesive part that bonds the gap filler to the accommodating case. The accommodating case includes a cooling area cooled by the cooler. The power storage module and the gap filler are arranged in the cooling area. The gap filler includes an opposite surface that faces the cooling area. The adhesive part is arranged at a periphery of the opposite surface so as to seal a gap between the opposite surface and the cooling area.

Abstract: A display control device for a vehicle includes a memory and a processor connected to the memory. The processor is configured to display an object display and a lane display at a display section provided in a cabin of the vehicle. The object display depicts an object located in front of the vehicle, the lane display depicts a lane extending in front of the vehicle, and the object display and lane display are each displayed as a view thereof from the side of the object at which the vehicle is disposed. The processor is also configured to, in accordance with a distance between the object and the vehicle, alter a display ratio of the object display relative to a width of the lane display.

Abstract: A self-piercing rivet includes a head, an outer cylindrical part extending from the head and formed in a cylindrical shape, and an inner cylindrical part extending from the head, provided spaced apart inside the outer cylindrical part, and formed in a cylindrical shape. In the manufacturing method for a fastening structure, a self-piercing rivet is driven into an overlapping part of a first fastened member and a second fastened member to fasten the first fastened member and the second fastened member.

Abstract: A program update system includes a vehicle including a first and second electronic device, and a program transmission device. The program transmission device is configured to communicate with the vehicle and transmit a program for the first electronic device and a program for the second electronic device to the vehicle. The program transmission device transmits an update program for a first electronic device to a second electronic device. The program transmission device transmits a program in a state before the update for backup. The second electronic device updates the program for the first electronic device based on the update program. The second electronic device stores the program in the state before the update.

Abstract: A system comprises: a remote controller that causes a vehicle to run by remote control, the vehicle being capable of running along a track in a factory during a course of manufacture, the vehicle including a vehicle communication unit and a driving controller, the vehicle communication unit having a communication function, the driving controller implementing driving control over the vehicle; a track information acquisition unit that acquires track information that is information about an environment of a track on which the vehicle is configured to run by the remote control; and a running method determination unit that determines a running method using the acquired track information, the running method including at least one of a possibility or impossibility of running of the vehicle and a running route along which the vehicle is to run.

Abstract: An operation management system configured to manage operations of registered mobilities in a limited specific area, including a computer configured to: generate a road surface map data such that a position in map data and road surface information are associated with each other, based on positional information and road surface information obtained from at least one of the registered mobilities on which a road surface condition detecting device is installed; compute a positon where a puddle is formed, based on i) one of water sprinkling information that is information on water sprinkling over a road surface by a sprinkler vehicle or weather information of the specific area and ii) the road surface map data; designate a designation mobility from among the registered mobilities and modify a target route of the designation mobility based on the puddle position; and send a command regarding the modified target route to the designation mobility.

Abstract: A driver monitoring device has a processor which acquires surrounding vehicle information, surrounding road environment information and driver line-of-sight direction information, performs autonomous driving or driving assistance of a host vehicle based on the surrounding vehicle information and the surrounding road environment information, determines whether the driver's visual recognition in a direction of travel of the host vehicle is sufficient, alerts the driver when the driver's visual recognition in the direction of travel of the host vehicle is not sufficient, changes non-visual recognition determination criterion used for determining that the driver's visual recognition in the direction of travel of the host vehicle is not sufficient; and changes the non-visual recognition determination criterion so that the greater the number of the stopped or decelerating surrounding vehicles in the surrounding region, the easier it becomes to be determined that the driver's visual recognition is not sufficient.

Abstract: A nickel-metal hydride battery of the present disclosure comprises: a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and an aqueous electrolyte, wherein a negative electrode active material contained in the negative electrode active material layer is a hydrogen storage alloy having an AB2 main phase, the A site includes Ti, Zr, or a combination thereof, and the B site includes Mn, Cr, Ni, Fe, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: A terminal executes the process including a step of transmitting model information and location information, when the terminal receives a search request, and a step of executing display processing, when it receives charging station information. When the management server receives the model information and the position information, the management server executes a step of extracting, a step of acquiring various temperatures, and a step of calculating the SOC recovery amount and transmitting the charging station information.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving vehicle control in relation to curved roadways. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to determining a route for a vehicle that is represented using points for navigating to a destination, identifying one or more curves along the route according to proximities of the points. The method includes generating difficulty indicators for respective ones of segments that include the one or more curves. The method includes providing the difficulty indicators as the vehicle encounters the respective ones of the segments that include the one or more curves.

Abstract: A method for generating a visual representation of an environment based on a point cloud includes hierarchically processing the point cloud with different granularity levels to generate multiple groups of primitives and multiple sets of points. The method also includes generating a group of intermediate sets associated with the point cloud, each intermediate set associated with one of the multiple groups of primitives and one of the multiple sets of points, having a same granularity level. The method further includes iteratively determining respective features associated with each intermediate set of a sequence of intermediate sets, each intermediate set included the set of primitives and the set of points, the respective features including first features of the set of primitives and second features of the set of points. The method still further includes generating the visual representation based on the respective features of each one of the sequence of intermediate sets.

Abstract: The processor, under circumstances where both the first and second conditions that decelerate the own vehicle are met, and deceleration control triggered by the establishment of the first condition is being preferentially executed, controls the image display. This happens when the first target involved in the establishment of the first condition is located outside a specific area extending forward from the own vehicle, which is a part of the detection area of the forward sensor and set as an area visible to the driver. Simultaneously, if the second target involved in the establishment of the second condition is located inside this specific area, the processor displays the second information about the second target on the image display device and does not display the first information about the first target.

Abstract: A motion manager includes one or more processors configured to: receive a stop holding request for keeping a vehicle in a stopped state as one of motion requests from application software; and output an instruction value for turning ON a hydraulic brake to the hydraulic brake on a condition that the stop holding request is received. The one or more processors are configured to continue outputting the instruction value to a parking brake regardless of a presence or absence of the stop holding request, when outputting an instruction value for turning ON a parking brake to the parking brake after starting outputting the instruction value and until switching of the parking brake to an ON state is completed.

Abstract: A control system for controlling transport of a vehicle in any of steps from production to shipment of the vehicle includes a state identification unit that identifies a vehicle state that is a state of the vehicle, and a control notification unit that determines a control content of the vehicle by using the identified vehicle state and notifies the vehicle of the control content. The control notification unit determines to control at least either one of a transport route of the vehicle and a timing of starting the transport as the control content such that a magnitude of a difference between the vehicle state and a preset target state is suppressed.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a fluoride-ion battery capable of achieving high charge and discharge capacities. The fluoride-ion battery of the present disclosure comprises a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and an electrolyte layer formed between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer. In the fluoride-ion battery of the present disclosure, the negative electrode active material layer contains metallic magnesium, magnesium fluoride, and calcium barium fluoride, wherein a mass ratio of metallic magnesium to magnesium fluoride is 0.1 to 10.0.

Abstract: A solar charging system includes a solar panel including a tandem solar cell. A control unit includes a measuring circuit that measures a voltage and a current of power input to the first DC-DC converter. A storage device stores data defining a relationship between a first command value and a second command value. The solar charging system controls the first DC-DC converter according to the first command value and controls the second DC-DC converter according to the second command value. The first command value is determined by executing maximum power point tracking while measuring a voltage and a current. The second command value is determined by using the data stored in the storage device and based on the first command value.

Abstract: A method for a credible information guide is described. The method includes identifying a source of content accessed by a user as a non-credible information source if a credibility score is less than a credibility threshold. The method also includes determining a similarity of a message between content of the non-credible information source and a credible content from one or more credible information sources. The method further includes recommending a selected information source to the user, having a credibility score between the non-credible information source and the one or more credible information sources when a lack of message similarity is determined. The method also includes continuing the recommending of selected information sources having gradually increasing credibility scores until a credible source accessed by the user.

Abstract: An upper support including a bracket to be attached to a vehicle body side, and a support main body attached to a center portion of the bracket to receive a suspension component. The bracket includes upper and lower metal brackets having respective flanged parts overlapped with each other, and their overlapped surfaces are welded and fixed at multiple locations in a circumferential direction. Fixing bolts for attaching the bracket to the vehicle body side are provided to an overlapped portion of the flanged parts and are spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction. An adhesive is applied to an outer peripheral edge of the overlapped portion of the flanged parts, and the adhesive provides sealing at an outer peripheral end between the overlapped surfaces of the flanged parts in outer peripheral regions of the corresponding fixing bolts.

Abstract: A battery electric vehicle includes a battery, an inverter having three arm circuits, a motor having three coils connected to a neutral point and three arm circuits, a relay, a ground wire, and a controller. The controller can selectively perform a normal charging operation and a heat generation charging operation. In normal charging operation, equal current flows in all three coils in the positive direction from the neutral point to the arm circuit. In the heat generation charging operation, a first current flows in the positive direction in at least one of the three coils, and a second current flows in the opposite direction from the arm circuit toward the neutral point in the other coils. The total value of the first currents is greater than the total value of the second currents.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for category and joint agnostic reconstruction of articulated objects. An example method includes obtaining images of an environment having objects and generating, using a trained AI encoder, first information associated with the images based at least in part on the images, the first information comprising a plurality of joint codes and a plurality of shape codes associated with the images. The method further includes generating, using a trained AI decoder, second information associated with the objects based at least in part on the plurality of joint codes and the plurality of shape codes, the second information comprising shape information, one or more joint types, and one or more joint states corresponding to at least one of the objects. The method further includes storing the second information in memory.