Abstract: A vehicle occupant protecting device including: an airbag that is accommodated at an upper portion of a vehicle seat, that receives a supply of gas from an inflator and is inflated and expanded toward a seat front side, and that includes a front inflating portion, which is inflated at a seat front side with respect to a head portion of a vehicle occupant, and a pair of left and right lateral inflating portions, which are connected to the front inflating portion and are inflated at sides of the seat with respect to the head portion, the airbag being structured as an integral bag body that covers the head portion; and reinforcing portions that extend in a seat vertical direction at an interior of a seatback, and that connect an upper portion and a lower portion of a seatback frame that structures a frame of the seatback.

Abstract: An in-vehicle camera including: a camera component that records out of the vehicle through a window glass; a cover that covers the camera component from the vehicle interior side, with a gap existing between the cover and the window glass; and a blocker that is secured to a vehicle interior-side surface of the window glass inside the cover and is configured to allow passage of air between the inside and the outside of the cover via the gap while blocking light passing through the gap and reflected into the camera component.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to achieve both high initial performance and durability performance of a fuel cell.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine (i) acquires a rotational speed signal correlated with a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine, (ii) extracts, from the acquired rotational speed signal, at least first-order and lower-order than the first-order components of the rotational speed signal, (iii) extracts, from the acquired rotational speed signal, at least an n-th-order component of the rotational speed signal, (iv) determines that no disturbance has occurred when a first-order parameter regarding a magnitude of an amplitude of the extracted first-order and lower-order than the first-order components is smaller than a first threshold, and (v) determines that a disturbance has occurred when the first-order parameter is equal to or larger than the first threshold and an n-th-order parameter regarding an amplitude of the extracted n-th-order component is equal to or larger than a second threshold.

Abstract: A balance device for an internal combustion engine includes a crankshaft and a balance shaft. The crankshaft includes a CS eccentric weight. The balance shaft includes a BS eccentric weight. A CS connected point deviated from the CS main shaft, and a BS connected point deviated from the BS axial shaft are connected with a connection rod. A CS connection mechanism that enables relative rotation of the crankshaft and the connection rod is provided at the CS connected point. A BS connection mechanism that enables relative rotation of the balance shaft and the connection rod is provided at the BS connected point. A guide section guides a motion of the connection rod so that the balance shaft rotates in an opposite direction to the crankshaft.

Abstract: An action of injection of the main injection fuel (QM) from the fuel injector (3) is started within a range of crank angle from 10 degree before the compression top dead center to 10 degree after the compression top dead center. A smaller amount of the auxiliary injection fuel (QN) than the main injection fuel (QM) is made to be injected from the fuel injector (3) before the main injection fuel (QM) so as to make the auxiliary injection fuel (QN) ignite by the premixed charge compression ignition. The injection timing of the auxiliary injection fuel (QN) is controlled to a timing whereby a heat generated by the premixed charge compression ignition of the auxiliary injection fuel (QN) causes the premixed charge compression ignition of the main injection fuel (QM) after the start of injection of the main injection fuel (QM).

Abstract: In an electric power steering device which controls an assist motor such that a turning angle of turning wheels approaches a target turning angle set corresponding to steering torque based on an operation of a steering wheel by a driver, pure steering torque is calculated by correcting detection steering torque detected by a torque sensor based on a steering angle detected by a steering angle sensor, and a target turning angle is set based on this pure steering torque. Thereby, influence of moment of inertia and viscous friction of a constituent member on an upstream side of the torque sensor in a steering mechanism, etc. is eliminated, and a correct target turning angle is set. As a result, the turning angle can accurately correspond to the operation of the steering wheel by the driver to attain good drivability.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine comprises an ammonia supplier which includes a storage unit configured to store a precursor of ammonia or ammonia (reducing agent or the like), and a controller programmed to carry out output restriction control as such control that an output of the internal combustion engine is restricted to be not more than a predetermined output such that a NOx purification rate brought about by the storage reduction NOx catalyst is within an allowable range if an amount of the reducing agent or the like stored in the storage unit is less than a predetermined storage amount.

Abstract: A damping force control device for controlling damping forces of shock absorbers by a control device, which is configured to to estimate first vertical speeds at the positions of wheels based on the vertical accelerations of a vehicle body at the positions of the wheels, to estimate second vertical speeds of the vehicle body caused by driver's driving operation based on driving operation amount of the driver, to calculate target damping forces by subtracting products of damping coefficients of the ride comfort control and second vertical speeds from the sums of products of the damping coefficients of the ride comfort control and first vertical speeds and products of damping coefficients for controlling posture change of the vehicle body and the second vertical speeds, and to control damping coefficients of the shock absorbers based on the target damping forces.

Abstract: A ventilation apparatus of an internal combustion engine of the invention ventilates a chain chamber by recirculating blow-by gas to an intake passage through a blow-by gas recirculation pipe and introducing air into the chain chamber through an air introduction pipe. The air introduction pipe is secured to a head cover wall portion which corresponds to a portion of a head cover wall which defines the chain chamber.

Abstract: A cooling structure for a battery pack is provided. The battery pack is positioned in a luggage space of a vehicle. The cooling structure includes an intake port, a blower, a first duct, and a second duct. An intake port is positioned in an occupant space. A blower is positioned on a side opposite to the occupant space across the battery pack, and configured to supply air blowing in from the intake port to the battery pack. A first duct is configured to connect the intake port and an inflow port of the blower to each other. A second duct is configured to connect an outflow port of the blower and a suction port of the battery pack to each other.

Abstract: The system includes a vehicle and a remote centre, which manages traveling information of a plurality of vehicles. The remote centre transmits a message containing a collection condition to the in-vehicle communication set by wireless communication. The message has a header and a plurality of frames. The header identifies the in-vehicle communication set as the destination. Each frame has three fields. The Destination ECU is not used in the message from the remote centre to the communication set. A destination information conversion unit in the in-vehicle communication set fills in this field before sending the frame over the vehicle network. An information collection control device collects vehicle data from control devices connected to the vehicle network according to the collection condition and returns collected vehicle data to the remote centre.

Abstract: A pipe fixing device includes: first and second clamps that fix a pipe; and first and second engaging parts that are fixed to the pipe and engage respectively with the first and second clamps. The first clamp and the first engaging part configured to engage with each other such that the first engaging part is restrained from moving toward one side in an axial direction of the pipe and from moving in a circumferential direction of the pipe relative to the first clamp. The second clamp and the second engaging part configured to engage with each other such that the second engaging part is restrained from moving toward another side in the axial direction of the pipe and from moving in the circumferential direction of the pipe relative to the second clamp.

Abstract: A vehicular display device includes: a decoration panel that includes a base, the base including one surface thereof configured as a design surface and an opening formed therein, and the decoration panel being provided at an interior in a vehicle; a diffusion member that is configured to block the opening of the base; and a sheet member that includes a light transmission type screen portion, the light transmission type screen portion including a light transmitting portion and a light shielding portion mixed therein, the light transmitting portion being configured such that light that has been irradiated from a side of another surface of the base to be diffused by the diffusion member is transmitted, and the light shielding portion being configured such that the light cannot be transmitted, and the sheet member being provided on the design surface such that the light transmission type screen portion covers the diffusion member.

Abstract: In a film forming method, in a state where a metal solution is sealed in a first accommodation chamber of a housing with a solid electrolyte membrane and a fluid is sealed in a second accommodation chamber of a placing table with a thin film, a substrate is placed on the placing table and the placing table and the housing are moved relative to each other to cause the substrate to be interposed between the solid electrolyte membrane and the thin film, the solid electrolyte membrane and the thin film are pressed against the substrate interposed therebetween to cause the solid electrolyte membrane and the thin film to conform to a surface and a rear surface of the substrate, thereby forming a metal film.

Abstract: A second core calculates an intervening variable that is defined by an inner function, when a time derivative of a state variable is expressed by a function having the state variable, the inner function, and an observable input variable as independent variables. A first core calculates a function by using respective values of the state variable, the intervening variable, and the input variable, and obtains a value of the state variable by time-integration of a value of the function. In the calculation of the function, the value of the state variable calculated in previous time, a value of the intervening variable calculated by the second core in the previous time, and a value of the input variable inputted in this time are used.

Abstract: A controller controls an electric motor such that a pulsation compensation torque corresponding to a pulsation component of a torque of an internal combustion engine, which appears in a drive shaft, is supplied to the drive shaft as a damping torque for suppressing vibrations of a hybrid vehicle. A determination is made as to whether a torque of the electric motor, excluding the pulsation compensation torque, is smaller than a predetermined value. When it is determined that the torque excluding the pulsation compensation torque is smaller than the predetermined value, the controller selects one mode having a highest energy efficiency of the hybrid vehicle from among a plurality of modes, and controls the internal combustion engine and the electric motor based on the selected mode.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide nickel cobalt manganese composite hydroxide particles having a small particle diameter and a uniform particle size distribution, and a method for producing the same. [Solution] A method for producing a nickel cobalt manganese composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction is provided. The method includes: a nucleation step of performing nucleation by controlling a pH of an aqueous solution for nucleation including metal compounds containing nickel, cobalt and manganese, and an ammonium ion donor to 12.0 to 14.0 in terms of the pH as measured at a liquid temperature of 25° C. as a standard; and a particle growth step of growing nuclei by controlling a pH of an aqueous solution for particle growth containing nuclei formed in the nucleation step to 10.5 to 12.0 in terms of the pH as measured at a liquid temperature of 25° C. as a standard.

Abstract: When reproduction of a filter is required, and a filter temperature is within a first temperature range, an ECU executes a control process including the steps of executing a successive motoring control, determining an intermittent motoring period, an intermittent stopping period, and an intermittence number when the filter temperature is within a second temperature range, and executing an intermittent motoring control.

Abstract: A voltage conversion control apparatus is a voltage conversion control apparatus which controls a voltage converter having an upper switching element and a lower switching element, and has a calculating device which calculates duty ratio such that output current of an electricity storage apparatus reaches target value and the duty ratio is within predetermined allowable range; a limit relaxing device which relaxes at least one of upper limit value and lower limit value of the allowable range on the basis of magnitude relationship between predetermined threshold value and current deviation which is obtained by subtracting the output current from the target value; and a controlling device which controls the upper switching element and the lower switching element to perform a switching control on the basis of the duty ratio which is calculated by the calculating device.