Abstract: A management device includes a memory and a processor having at least of one piece of hardware. The processor is configured to send a reconfirmation notification on a storage time limit to a client terminal associated with a client who has requested a delivery of a package when a vehicle that is parked or stopped in a predetermined area for providing a vehicle cabin thereof for receiving other person's packages stores the package and when it is within a predetermined time until the storage time limit of the package.

Abstract: A parking lot management device includes a memory and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to identify a plurality of vehicles which enters a parking lot by analyzing an image which is captured at an entrance of the parking lot, to select parking positions which are different in the parking lot and in which moving routes from the entrance of the parking lot to the parking positions do not interfere with movement and parking of other vehicles in the parking lot for the plurality of vehicles, and to transmit the selected parking positions and the moving routes to the parking positions to the plurality of vehicles.

Abstract: A management device includes a memory and a processor having at least one piece of hardware. The processor is configured to determine whether a schedule can be changed based on the information on a package to be collected or delivered when a schedule change request is received from a client terminal or a provider terminal. The client terminal is associated with a client of a delivery of a package, and the provider terminal is associated with a provider of a vehicle which is parked or stopped in a predetermined area and the vehicle cabin of which is provided as a collection/delivery place of the package. Then, the processor sends a determination result to the sending terminal of the schedule change request.

Abstract: A lane change support apparatus includes an electronic control unit configured to, when it is recognized that there is an abnormality in a driver of a host vehicle, determine whether or not lane change is possible. The electronic control unit is configured to determine that the lane change is possible when a vehicle speed of the host vehicle is lower than a predetermined upper limit speed, a following vehicle present closest to the host vehicle has stayed in a rear guard vehicle approval range for a predetermined time or longer, and a vehicle is not present in a lane change allowance gap.

Abstract: A vehicle control device is applied to a vehicle including at least a shift control system configured to switch a shift range. The vehicle control device is configured to control the vehicle to perform autonomous driving travel without depending on an operation of a driver in at least one driving operation. The vehicle control device includes a controller. The controller is configured to determine the propriety of travel by the autonomous driving travel according to a type of abnormality that occurs in the shift control system. The controller is configured to perform travel control of the vehicle according to the propriety of the travel by the autonomous driving travel.

Abstract: A control system includes a controller. The controller counts the number of driving times of a high pressure fuel pump, which is the number of reciprocating motions of a plunger based on a crank counter. The controller estimates a high pressure system fuel pressure based on the calculated number of driving times, a fuel temperature detected by a fuel temperature sensor, and a low pressure system fuel pressure detected by a low pressure system fuel pressure sensor when the high pressure system fuel pressure is not able to be acquired from a high pressure system fuel pressure sensor. The controller sets an opening period of an in-cylinder fuel injection valve based on the estimated high pressure system fuel pressure and to perform an engine start by an in-cylinder fuel injection when the high pressure system fuel pressure is not able to be acquired from the high pressure system fuel pressure sensor.

Abstract: A control unit of a server device, as an information processing apparatus of the present disclosure, is configured to execute: notifying a terminal held by a first user associated with pick-up/delivery (P/D) of a package of a P/D route and a scheduled passing time of the P/D route, at a predetermined time before a scheduled P/D time; receiving a boarding request of the first user, which is for boarding at a first location on the P/D route or within a first predetermined range around the P/D route, from the terminal; and transmitting to a moving object traveling for the P/D, a command for transporting the first user from the first location to a P/D destination.

Abstract: A cargo handling place reservation system includes a reception unit configured to receive a reservation application from a user; and a reservation unit configured to reserve a reservation target candidate place as the cargo handling place for the reservation target transportation vehicle. The reservation unit is configured to extract vacant candidate places, which are the candidate places where other reservations are not set in an allocated time slot from the expected arrival time of the reservation target transportation vehicle at the candidate place until a use time allocated to the reservation target transportation vehicle elapses, by referring to a vehicle information storage unit and a candidate place information storage unit, to determine the reservation target candidate place from the extracted vacant candidate places, and to set the reservation in the allocated time slot as the reservation status of the reservation target candidate place in the candidate place information.

Abstract: A control system includes a controller. The controller estimates the swing-back amount indicating the turning amount of the crankshaft in the reverse rotation direction until the crankshaft stops. The controller calculates a stop-time counter value which is a value of a crank counter at the time when the engine is stopped based on a final counter value which is the value of the crank counter calculated last before the crankshaft stops and the estimated swing-back amount. The controller corrects the swing-back amount used for calculating the stop-time counter value based on a difference between the number of driving times calculated with reference to the map based on the calculated stop-time counter value and the value of the crank counter and the number of driving times calculated by increasing the number of driving times by one each time the high pressure system fuel pressure increases by the threshold or more.

Abstract: An information processing system is equipped with a ranging unit that measures a distance from a vehicle to an object existing around the vehicle, a sound collection unit that collects a sound around the vehicle, a sound pressure level detection unit that detects a sound pressure level representing an intensity of the sound, a contact detection unit that detects a contact of the vehicle with the object when the sound pressure level that is detected when the distance is equal to zero becomes higher than a predetermined threshold, and a user specification unit that specifies a user of the vehicle of which the contact has been detected, based on user identification information for identifying the user of the vehicle, when the contact is detected.

Abstract: An object of this disclosure is to provide a lithium ion battery in which generation of heat can be suitably suppressed. Provided is a lithium ion battery including a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode collector, a positive electrode active material layer, and an insulating layer provided on another part of the surface of the positive electrode collector, so as to be adjacent to the positive electrode active material layer. The insulating layer contains an inorganic filler and a binder. At least part of the surface of the inorganic filler is covered with LPO.

Abstract: A vehicle control interface connects a vehicle platform including a first computer that performs travel control of a vehicle and an autonomous driving platform including a second computer that performs autonomous driving control of the vehicle. The vehicle control interface includes a control unit configured to execute: acquiring, from the second computer, a first control command including a plurality of commands for the vehicle platform; removing, from the first control command, a command that does not correspond to a predetermined kind of command by filtering the plurality of commands included in the first control command; converting the first control command, after filtering the plurality of commands, into a second control command for the first computer; and transmitting the second control command to the first computer.

Abstract: To predict a failure condition in a power module of a vehicle, it is determined whether a discontinuity in statistical data characterizing physical measurements of the power module meets a threshold criterion. Responsive to the discontinuity meeting the threshold criterion, a data offset in the physical measurements is computed at the discontinuity. A shift correction is applied to the physical measurements in accordance with the computed data offset responsive to a determination that the discontinuity is attributable to a restart of the power module. Other statistical data characterizing the shift-corrected physical measurements are computed and the statistical data and the other statistical data are provided to a machine learning processor that predicts the failure condition in the power module.

Abstract: A control system includes a controller. The controller acquires a crank counter value each time a fixed time elapses. The controller calculates the number of the crank counter values corresponding to the top dead center of the plunger between a previously acquired crank counter value and a currently acquired crank counter value with reference to the map each time the crank counter value is acquired and calculate the number of driving times of the high pressure fuel pump by integrating the calculated number.

Abstract: A method for producing a steel plate member according to an example aspect of the present disclosure includes heating first and second steel plates and press-forming the heated first and second steel plates while sandwiching the first and second steel plates between an upper die and a lower die and cooling the first and second steel plates. In the press-forming, end parts of the first and second steel plates are overlapped, and the overlapped end parts are pressure-welded by the press-forming.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and an information processing apparatus. the vehicle that includes an image capturing device and that delivers a package. The information processing apparatus that includes a processor configured to determine, in a case where a recipient is not present at a delivery destination of the package, reception of the package by a substitute person present at a residence different from that of the recipient. The vehicle captures the substitute person receiving the package, with the image capturing device. The processor is configured to transmit, in a case where reception of the package by the substitute person is completed, captured data of the image capturing device to a user terminal associated with the recipient. The vehicle is an autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: A braking force controller includes: a target jerk calculation unit; a first estimation unit configured to estimate an increment of braking force when a prescribed factor that increases braking force to be generated by the first actuator unit currently occurs; a second estimation unit configured to estimate the increment of the braking force when the prescribed factor occurs within a prescribed period; and a control unit configured to determine a negative jerk generated when the second actuator unit generates the braking force such that a sum of the negative jerk and the jerk generated by the first actuator unit without the prescribed factor becomes the target jerk. When the increment of the braking force due to the prescribed factor is larger than a prescribed value, the control unit corrects the determined negative jerk such that an absolute value of the negative jerk becomes smaller.

Abstract: A cylinder head includes an exhaust port through which exhaust gas discharged out of a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine passes. The cylinder head includes a first fin and a second fin projecting from an inner wall of the exhaust port and extending in a flow direction of the exhaust gas. The cylinder head includes a first projection projecting from the inner wall of the exhaust port and extending in a direction intersecting the first fin. The cylinder head also includes a second projection projecting from the inner wall of the exhaust port and extending in a direction intersecting the second fin.

Abstract: A method of producing a lithium ion secondary battery includes the following (A) to (E). (A) A negative electrode active material powder having a BET specific surface area of 2.2 m2/g or more and 5.2 m2/g or less is prepared. (B) Fluorine is incorporated into the negative electrode active material powder. (C) Wet granules are prepared by mixing the negative electrode active material powder, a water-soluble binder powder, and water. (D) A negative electrode is produced by forming the wet granules into a film form. (E) A lithium ion secondary battery including the negative electrode, a positive electrode, and an electrolytic solution is produced. When the negative electrode active material powder is formed into a pellet having a density of 1.5 g/m3, fluorine is incorporated into the negative electrode active material powder so that the pellet has a water contact angle of 96° or more and 138° or less.

Abstract: A vehicle front portion structure that includes: a first vehicle body frame that extends in a vehicle transverse direction at a vehicle front portion; a second vehicle body frame that is positioned at a rear side of the first vehicle body frame, and that extends in the vehicle transverse direction at the vehicle front portion; and a non-contact charger having a front side part that is joined to the first vehicle body frame and having a rear side part that is joined to the second vehicle body frame, wherein the non-contact charger includes: a power receiving coil, a cover having a charger bottom surface that is positioned beneath the power receiving coil, and a pair of left and right longitudinal direction frames that respectively extend in a vehicle longitudinal direction at left and right sides of the power receiving coil.