Abstract: An electrode mixture including an electrode active material, a conductive fibrous carbon material, and inorganic nanoparticles applied to a surface of the electrode active material. The conductive fibrous carbon material contains magnetic metal. A ratio of coverage of the inorganic nanoparticles covering the surface of the electrode active material to content of the magnetic metal contained in the conductive fibrous carbon material is 38.5 or less.

Abstract: An air-conditioning control device includes a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to execute: estimating an emotion of an occupant in a vehicle interior when a spot air conditioning is performed on the occupant; and controlling the spot air conditioning based on an estimation result.

Abstract: An operation management apparatus operates one or more vehicles by automated driving. The operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to predict, for each vehicle based on operation plan data, a time point at which driving is switched from automated driving to manual driving, identify, as a target vehicle, a vehicle for which time until the predicted time point is less than a threshold value, acquire vehicle data and/or operation record data, determine, based on the acquired vehicle data or the acquired operation record data, one or more types of abnormality having occurred in the target vehicle, designate, from among a plurality of workers according to the determined types of abnormality, a first worker who is to perform a maintenance operation on the target vehicle at a site near the target vehicle, and notify the first worker of information that prompts the first worker to take care of the abnormality.

Abstract: The vehicle cabin state recognizing device of the present disclosure includes a plurality of cameras capable of capturing an image of a vehicle cabin provided on a steering wheel, and an image processing device connected to the plurality of cameras. The image processing device first acquires a captured image from each of the plurality of cameras. The image processing device then determines a shielding state of each of the plurality of cameras from a state of a captured image of each of the plurality of cameras. The image processing device further selects a captured image of the minimum shielding camera having the smallest shielding degree among the plurality of cameras. Then, the image processing device executes recognition processing for recognizing the state of the vehicle cabin with respect to the captured image of the minimum shielding camera.

Abstract: A vehicle control device has a processor configured to estimate an amount of rainfall per unit time based on an acoustic signal acquired by an acoustical sensor mounted on a vehicle, determine whether a present operation mode of the vehicle is a first operation mode with a lower level to which a driver is contributing to driving or a second operation mode with a higher level to which the driver is contributing to driving than the first operation mode, and decide a first time until the operation mode of the vehicle is transferred from the first operation mode to the second operation mode based on the amount of rainfall, when the operation mode of the vehicle is the first operation mode.

Abstract: A water electrolysis cell includes an electrolyte membrane that is sandwiched between two catalyst layers, the two catalyst layers, two microporous layers each of which is disposed adjacent to a surface of each of the catalyst layers opposite to the electrolyte membrane side, two gas diffusion layers each of which is disposed adjacent to a surface of each of the microporous layers opposite to the catalyst layer side, and two separators each of which is disposed adjacent to a surface of each of the gas diffusion layers opposite to the microporous layer side. In the water electrolysis cell, an area of one of an oxygen electrode and a hydrogen electrode is smaller than an area of the other, and adhesion strength between each of the microporous layers and each of the catalyst layers is higher than that between each of the gas diffusion layers and each of the microporous layers.

Abstract: The driving support apparatus performs deceleration control of the vehicle. The driving support apparatus includes: a sensitivity setting unit configured to set an actuation sensitivity of a deceleration control; a deceleration execution unit configured to execute the deceleration control based on the actuation sensitivity; and a brake operation detection unit configured to detect a brake operation by a driver. The sensitivity setting unit changes the actuation sensitivity based on a control execution count which is the number of executions of the deceleration control and a driver operation count which is the number of operations of the brake operation.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle including an operation unit that receives an operation for setting ON or OFF of a plurality of driver assistance functions, wherein at least two or more driver assistance functions among the plurality of driver assistance functions are driver assistance functions classified into a specific group in which the degree of intervention of control for the driving operation is smaller than other driver assistance functions, and the operation unit includes a main switch for collectively setting ON or OFF of the driver assistance functions classified into the specific group.

Abstract: A vehicle system of a vehicle may include a controller programmed to receive sensor data from one or more vehicle sensors as the vehicle drives along a road, determine whether the vehicle is approaching a road anomaly based on the sensor data, and upon determination that the vehicle is approaching the road anomaly, begin recording audio and continue recording audio until after the vehicle interacts with the road anomaly.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein an expansion upon intercalation of a metal ion such as a Li ion is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and the active material includes a Na element, a Si element and a M element that is a metal element with an ion radius larger than the Si element, and a proportion of the M element to a total of the Si element and the M element is 0.1 atm % or more and 5 atm % or less.

Abstract: A vehicle object detection system for detecting a target object in a detection area located behind and/or lateral of a subject vehicle, that is configured to generate a judgement on whether a target object which has been detected in the detection area is an alert object, to output the judgement to warning means which is configured to output a warning to a driver of the subject vehicle based on the judgement indicating that the target object is an alert object, and to generate the judgement based on: one or more positions of one or more other objects other than the target object being detected to be located between the target object and the subject vehicle, and a time period during which the target object is detected, being smaller than a specified period of time.

Abstract: When a headlight driver input indicates an AUTO mode, a VCIB accepts a headlight mode request from an ADK. The VCIB identifies a current headlight driver input. The VCIB reads first correspondence information and checks the identified headlight driver input and the accepted headlight mode request against the first correspondence information to determine an illumination status of a headlight.

Abstract: A robot operation system with improved accuracy of a learning model accuracy is provided. Provided is a robot operation system including a composite image generation unit to which CAD data of an object and a workpiece and a feature point of the workpiece are input configured to generate a plurality of composite images under random conditions from the CAD data of the object and the workpiece, an information processing apparatus configured to search for a route using a position of an end effector of a robot and a position of the feature point and move the end effector to the feature point along the searched route, and an imaging apparatus configured to photograph the object and the workpiece.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition section that acquires a satellite image of a ground area captured by an artificial satellite, and a control section that controls onboard equipment installed at a vehicle appearing in the satellite image based on an analysis result of the satellite image that the acquisition section has acquired.

Abstract: An anomaly detection device includes a processor configured to extract a feature indicating the condition of a road surface by inputting an image representing surroundings of a vehicle into a feature extractor that has been trained to extract the feature, detect an abnormal condition in which the vehicle is unable to travel normally, when the feature is outside a normal range that is a tolerable range in which the vehicle is able to travel normally, and modify the normal range, based on the distribution of normal travel features each indicating the condition of a road surface and extracted from the respective images obtained while the vehicle travels normally.

Abstract: A display control device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire information of a moving body in surroundings of a vehicle; and display a specific image on a display area provided to the vehicle according to a position of the moving body based on the acquired information of the moving body, the specific image being displayed either overlaid on or adjacent to the moving body; and in a case in which the moving body inside the display area has exited from the display area, continue to display the specific image until a specific period of time has elapsed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus calculates a fee for applying a second coating film including an easily removable layer to a first vehicle having a first coating film applied thereon. The information processing apparatus disclosed herein has a controller that calculates a first fee defined as a fee for applying the second coating film to the first vehicle that is for lease lower than a second fee defined as a fee for applying the second coating film to the first vehicle that is not for lease. In other words, the controller calculates the first fee by subtracting a first subtraction value from the second fee.

Abstract: A vehicle object detection system configured to generate a judgement on whether a target object which has been detected in the detection area is an alert object, and to output the judgement to a warning which is configured to output a warning to a driver of the subject vehicle based on the judgement indicating that the target object is an alert object, wherein system is configured to generate the judgement based on at least one of a comparison of a difference between a relative speed of the target object with respect to the subject vehicle and an absolute speed of the target object in a transverse direction of the subject vehicle with a specified range, and a comparison of an estimated arrival position of the target object, which is a position the target object is estimated to reach in the detection area in a specific period of time.

Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a housing and a compression mechanism. The compression mechanism includes a compression chamber. The housing includes an intermediate pressure chamber into which refrigerant having an intermediate pressure is introduced from an external refrigerant circuit. The intermediate pressure is higher than a suction pressure of refrigerant drawn into the compression chamber and lower than a discharge pressure of the refrigerant discharged from the compression chamber. The intermediate pressure chamber and the compression chamber in a process of compression are connected to each other by an injection passage. The injection passage includes a muffler.

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving latency when establishing peer-to-peer connections between devices. In one embodiment, a method includes, responsive to determining that a connection is to be established with at least one remote vehicle by a subject vehicle, acquiring parameters, from a remote server, that define characteristics of the connection. The method includes performing device discovery and service discovery simultaneously by embedding information about available services within a communication for device discovery. The method includes establishing the connection between the subject vehicle and the at least one remote vehicle according to the parameters.