Abstract: A control support device which supports control of an apparatus by using a learned model by machine learning, includes: a data acquisition unit acquiring an input/output data set which are data relating to an internal or external state of the apparatus and including input parameters and an output parameter of the learned model; a learning unit generating a learned model by performing the machine learning using the input/output data set acquired by the data acquisition unit; and a determination unit determining a learned model which is to be used for the control from among a plurality of learned models, which include a learned model having been completely generated and can be used for the control, based on the input parameters acquired by the data acquisition unit and a learning situation of the machine learning in the learning unit.

Abstract: Separation efficiency of a gas in a gas separator mounted on a vehicle is improved. The gas separation system mounted on the vehicle provided with an internal combustion engine includes the gas separator configured to separate a predetermined component in the gas under the existence of water, a first passage connected to the gas separator so as to introduce an atmosphere into the gas separator, and a second passage connecting between an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine and the first passage so as to introduce exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine into the gas separator.

Abstract: A charging method of a secondary battery having plural cells includes: connecting the plural cells in series and conducting constant current charging by a first power source; measuring voltages of the plural cells; and connecting the plural cells in parallel and conducting constant voltage charging by a second power source, a voltage of which is lower than a voltage of the first power source, in the case where a measured voltage difference among the plural cells is smaller than a specified value.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a power storage device, a charging device configured to be supplied with electric power from a power supply unit and to charge the power storage device, and an electronic control unit configured to detect information on a maximum output power of the power supply unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a predetermined process associated with charging based on the maximum output power of the power supply unit which is indicated by the detected information.

Abstract: A battery case includes a case-penetrating hole. An external terminal includes a member-engaging hole and is stacked on an outside of the battery case so that the member-engaging hole and the case-penetrating hole align with each other. An internal terminal includes a shaft portion and a fastening portion. The shaft portion is inserted through the case-penetrating hole and the member-engaging hole from an interior of the battery. The fastening portion is fastened to a circumferential periphery of the member-engaging hole by crushing a tip end of the shaft portion. The internal terminal is stacked on an inside of the battery case. The fastening portion and the external terminal include a welded portion welded along a weld line set across a periphery of the fastening portion. The welded portion has a length K1 along the weld line and a width K2 along a direction perpendicular to the weld line, and the length K1 is at least 1.5 times longer than the width K2.

Abstract: An information processing system including: a road-side apparatus installed at an entrance or an exit of a toll road or a facility, the road-side apparatus being configured to perform predetermined wireless communication with an in-vehicle apparatus in a vehicle passing through the entrance or the exit; and a server is provided. The server includes a control unit configured to: if passage of the vehicle through the entrance or the exit is detected by the road-side apparatus, acquire destination information relating to a destination of the vehicle and state information relating to a state of the vehicle from the in-vehicle apparatus; select advertisement information to be distributed to the vehicle, based on the destination information; determine whether or not a predetermined condition for ensuring safety of running of the vehicle is satisfied, based on the state information; and if the predetermined condition is satisfied, distribute the advertisement information to the vehicle.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a secondary battery; first and second fuel cells; first and second scavenging devices configured to scavenge the first and second fuel cells, respectively; and a control device configured to perform a first scavenging process of scavenging the first fuel cell by driving the first scavenging device using a charged power of the secondary battery when the first and second fuel cells are in a power generation stopped state and to perform a second scavenging process of scavenging the second fuel cell by driving the second scavenging device using a generated power of the first fuel cell when the first fuel cell is in a power generation state and the second fuel cell is in the power generation stopped state.

Abstract: A road line detection device includes a processor configured to: calculate, for each pixel of an image acquired by a camera mounted on a vehicle, a confidence score that a road line is represented in the pixel, and a confidence score that another object is represented in the pixel; set a correction region in a range assumed to include a road line in the image during changing lanes; correct, for each pixel included in the correction region, the confidence score for a road line or the confidence score for another object in such a way that the confidence score for a road line is high relative to the confidence score for another object; and detect a road line from the image based on each pixel in which the confidence score for a road line is higher than the confidence score for another object.

Abstract: A power storage unit housed in a battery case, includes: a plurality of battery cells; end plates; and first member. The plurality of battery cells is arranged side by side in the first direction. The end plates are disposed at both ends of the plurality of battery cells arranged side by side in the first direction. The first member extends in the first direction of the battery cells and couples the end plates disposed at both ends of the battery cells. The first member includes a second member fixed to the battery case.

Abstract: A method of installing a drive shaft in a casing accommodating a drive pinion and a ring gear such that the drive shaft is connected to a coupling unit accommodated in the casing, the coupling unit including: an input rotary member, an output rotary member, a clutch, and a covering member. The method including steps of: fitting the stop ring in the annular groove, and inserting the engaging shaft portion of the drive shaft into the engaging hole of the output rotary member, until the stop ring is brought into expanded state thereof in the annular cutout portion; and detecting the expanded state of the stop ring in the annular cutout portion, by measuring a dimension between first and second measuring points set respectively on the drive shaft and the covering member.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit configured to display an index corresponding to a deterioration state of a secondary battery and an EV travelable distance; and a control unit configured to control display of the display unit such that a first decreasing amount by which the EV travelable distance displayed on the display unit decreases with the elapse of time until a predetermined condition has been satisfied is less than a second decreasing amount by which the EV travelable distance displayed on the display unit decreases with the elapse of time after the predetermined condition has been satisfied.

Abstract: A method of generating composite image data using a first vehicle including a first camera and first network interface hardware and a second vehicle including a second camera and second network interface hardware includes establishing an external connection between the first vehicle and the second vehicle with the first network interface hardware and the second network interface hardware, generating a triggering event signal in the first vehicle in response to a triggering event, sending the triggering event signal to the second vehicle, capturing first image data using the first camera and capturing second image data using the second camera, and stitching the first image data and the second image data into composite image data.

Abstract: A vehicular arbitration system includes: a main manager configured to receive one or more requests from a plurality of first application execution units and to determine a request for operating a predetermined on-vehicle device based on the received one or more requests and a predetermined rule; and a plurality of sub-managers respectively configured to arbitrate the request determined by the main manager and a request input from at least one second application execution unit that is different from the plurality of first application execution units and to control the on-vehicle device based on an arbitration result.

Abstract: An armrest includes a protruded section extending in a vehicular front-rear direction and protruded toward a vehicular interior side, and the protruded section includes an upper section, a lower section, and an intermediate section that is between the upper section and the lower section and connects the upper section and the lower section on a vehicular interior side. The armrest further includes ribs that are on a vehicular exterior side with respect to the intermediate section and arranged in the vehicular front-rear direction and each of the ribs extends from the upper section to the lower section. The ribs include a low rigidity rib and a high rigidity rib that are arranged next to each other in the vehicular front-rear direction, and the high rigidity rib having rigidity higher than that of the low rigidity rib.

Abstract: A connecting rod of an example in the present disclosure is divided into a rod body and a cap at an oblique division at a large end, the rod body and the cap fastened by bolts. The connecting rod includes a joining plane and first and second restricting parts. The joining plane is a flat joining surface parallel to the division surface of the large end and is formed on at least one of two abutting portions on which the rod body and the cap join. The first and second restricting parts restrict lateral deviations of the rod body in first and second directions with respect to the cap, respectively. The first and second directions are opposite directions. Each of the first and second restricting parts restricts the lateral deviations by a single set of first or second opposing surface provided between the rod body and the cap.

Abstract: A four-wheel drive vehicle comprises: a dog clutch; an electronically controlled coupling; and a control device switching a drive state to the four-wheel drive state when the control device determines that a running road surface is a low friction road and switching the drive state to the two-wheel drive state when the control device determines that the running road surface is a high friction road. In the case of switching the drive state from the four-wheel drive state to the two-wheel drive state, the control device temporarily releases the electronically controlled coupling to redetermine whether the running road surface is the low friction road or the high friction road before releasing the dog clutch and prohibits switching from the four-wheel drive state to the two-wheel drive state when it is redetermined that the running road surface is the low friction road.

Abstract: A moving object control system includes a server, a portable terminal configured to transmit authentication information issued by the server, and a controller provided in a moving object and configured to authenticate the portable terminal according to the authentication information transmitted from the portable terminal, and when the portable terminal is authenticated, control the moving object in response to an operation signal from the portable terminal. The controller is configured to perform information communication with the server and control the moving object according to control information received from the server.

Abstract: A vehicle control system configured to operate a vehicle in line with a driver's intention in respective operating mode. An operating mode of the vehicle is select from a normal mode in which a first acceleration characteristic is employed, and a sport mode in which a second acceleration characteristic to propel the vehicle in a dynamic manner is employed. In the normal mode, a controller increases a target acceleration with an increase in depression of an accelerator at a first change rate, and decreases the target acceleration with an increase in a vehicle speed at a second change rate. In the sport mode, the controller increases the target acceleration with an increase in depression of the accelerator at the first change rate, and decreases the target acceleration with an increase in the vehicle speed at a third change rate smaller than the second change rate.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating and evaluating driving scenarios with varying difficulty levels is provided. The disclosed systems and methods may be used to develop a suite of regression tests that track the progress of an autonomous driving stack. A robustness trace of a temporal logic formula may be computed from an always-eventually fragment using a computation graph. The robustness trace may be approximated by a smoothly differentiable computation graph, which can be implemented in existing machine learning programming frameworks. The systems and methods provided herein may be useful in automatic test case generation for autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles.

Abstract: A motor cooling device includes an annular member that rotates with a shaft of a motor, and an oil catch unit that has a groove-shaped cross-section and is disposed along an outer circumference of the annular member, with a groove of the oil catch unit facing an outer circumferential surface of the annular member. The oil catch unit extends toward a backward side in a rotation direction of the annular member so as to form an arc shape, and includes a closure plate that covers the groove at an end in a circumferential direction located on a forward side in the rotation direction, and an oil spout hole that is bored near the closure plate. The annular member includes a protrusion that is provided on the outer circumferential surface of the annular member and that moves toward the closure plate when the annular member rotates with the shaft.