Abstract: A relay device includes a relay connected between a first communication network and a second communication network. The second communication network uses a communication protocol different from the first communication network. A first frame is transmitted in the first communication network, and has a first payload including control information, a first data ID for identifying the control information, and a data length code indicating a data length of the first payload. A second frame is transmitted in the second communication network, and has the first frame, a second data ID indicating that the first frame is included, and unique data stored in a predetermined storage area at a position behind the first frame. The relay recognizes the first frame without performing a frame recognition process on the data in the predetermined storage area when recognizing the first frame in the second frame on a basis of the data length code.

Abstract: A vehicle park lock control method is presented with range positions including a P-range position and an N-range position in each of which a driving force is prevented from being transmitted to a driving wheel of a vehicle. A park lock mechanism is activated when in the P-range position. An operator is allowed to select whether or not to cause the park lock mechanism to be activated in response to key-off operation when in the N-range position. In response to continuous shifting of a range selector to one or more specific ones of the range positions, the park lock mechanism is prevented from being activated in response to key-off operation when in the N-range position.

Abstract: An object detection method includes irradiating a position in front of a host-vehicle with an electromagnetic wave, and detecting an object in front of the host-vehicle based on a reflected wave of the electromagnetic wave. The object detection method further includes capturing an image of the position in front of the host-vehicle to acquire an image, and determining whether the object is floating matters based on the acquired image if a state where the object is not detected changes to a state where the object is detected.

Abstract: The control unit includes a wiring board on which a connector is disposed. The connector is disposed on a back surface of the wiring board, the back surface being a back surface on a back side of a facing surface facing a body of the control unit. The wiring board includes legs protruding from the back surface on the back side of the facing surface facing the body.

Abstract: When a subject vehicle arrives at a destination while traveling, or when a driver of the subject vehicle becomes unable to drive during travel or when a failure occurs that interferes with the travel of the subject vehicle during the travel, a control plan for autonomous stop control is generated, the control plan comprising deceleration control for decreasing a speed of the subject vehicle; pulling over control for moving the subject vehicle from a lane in which the subject vehicle travels to the shoulder of the road; and stop control for stopping the subject vehicle at the shoulder of the road, and on a basis of this control plan, the autonomous stop control is performed to decelerate the subject vehicle and then move it to the shoulder of the road by individually and sequentially performing each of the deceleration control, the pulling over control, and the stop control.

Abstract: An electric vehicle control method includes: basic torque distribution processing of determining a basic torque command value for each drive motor based on a total required driving force for the electric vehicle and driving force distribution for each of the drive systems; vibration damping processing of obtaining a corrected torque command value by performing correction for reducing vibration of a driving force transmission system on each basic torque command value; and driving force control processing of controlling a driving force generated by each drive motor based on the corrected torque command value. The vibration damping processing includes estimating whether each of the drive systems is in a dead zone section individually, and adjusting a correction amount for the basic torque command value of the drive system in the dead zone section according to the driving force distribution.

Abstract: For an in-cylinder direct injection spark ignition internal combustion engine including an intake port provided with a tumble control valve, a startup control method is presented. When a startup of the engine satisfies a predetermined cold start condition requiring a retard operation of the engine for catalyst warmup, a startup process is performed. The startup process includes: closing the tumble control valve; after the closing of the tumble control valve, starting to crank the engine; implementing fuel injection of the engine by a single-injection operation during a time period from an initial cycle of combustion of the engine to an event that the engine rises and reaches a predetermined rotation speed; after the event, shifting from the single-injection operation to a multiple-injection operation; and substantially simultaneously with the shifting to the multiple-injection operation, starting an ignition timing retard.

Abstract: An arrangement structure of an intake duct includes an air inlet for introducing outside air from outside of a vehicle, a heat bump, an intake duct, and a first shielding member. The heat bump radiates heat to the introduced outside air introduced from the air inlet. The intake duct has an intake port for taking in a part of the introduced outside air. The intake duct is connected to an engine of the vehicle. The first shielding member defines a flow path of the introduced outside air and shielding the intake port from a flow of the introduced outside air. The first shielding member includes at least an upper wall for defining an upper part of the flow path from the air inlet to the heat bump and side walls for defining a side part of the flow path. The intake port is located above the upper wall.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle, the vehicle including a belt continuously variable transmission including a mechanical oil pump driven by an engine and an electric oil pump driven by an electric motor, the engine being configured to drive a drive wheel, in which when a rotation speed of the engine is less than or equal to a prescribed rotation speed as the vehicle decelerates, driving of the electric motor is controlled to supply a hydraulic pressure from the electric oil pump to the belt continuously variable transmission, and when the deceleration of the vehicle exceeds a prescribed deceleration, the driving of the electric motor is restricted not to supply the hydraulic pressure from the electric oil pump to the belt continuously variable transmission.

Abstract: A hydraulic control device for a hydraulic actuation machine including a main oil pump configured to supply oil to the hydraulic actuation machine, a sub oil pump configured to temporarily supply oil to the hydraulic actuation machine based on a drive request so as to compensate for an oil shortfall when supply of oil from the main oil pump to the hydraulic actuation machine is stopped or insufficient, and a drive unit configured to drive the sub oil pump, wherein when an elapsed time elapsed from a time point when the sub oil pump is driven reaches a predetermined time, the hydraulic control device generates an air discharge command for discharging air accumulated in the sub oil pump and outputs the air discharge command to the drive unit, and the drive unit drives the sub oil pump to discharge the air accumulated in the sub oil pump based on the output air discharge command.

Abstract: A vehicle door assembly includes an inner door panel that defines a door cavity, a latch mechanism and a reinforcing bracket. The latch mechanism has a latch lever that moves when the latch mechanism is operated to release the vehicle door from a closed orientation. The reinforcing bracket has a first end and a second end. The first end is attached to a forward area of the inner door panel. The second end has an attachment portion, a lever capture portion and a tab portion. The attachment portion is attached to a rearward area of the inner door panel. The lever capture portion is outboard from the latch lever. The tab portion is adjacent to the lever capture portion. The reinforcing bracket is shaped and configured to deform in response to an impact event moving the lever capture portion inboard toward the latch lever interfering with movement thereof.

Abstract: A continuously variable transmission has an oil pan, an oil strainer located above the oil pan and a control valve unit located above the oil pan. The control valve unit has a shape having a cutting portion formed by a part of the control valve unit being cut out when viewed from an oil pan side. The oil strainer is arranged so as to overlap the cutting portion. With this structure, it is possible to ease a restriction on layout in terms of a height direction in the continuously variable transmission.

Abstract: A motor mount system includes a motor unit and a frame that supports the motor unit via four bush mounts. The four bush mounts have configurations that are identical to each other. Among the four bush mounts, a bush mount is closest to a center of gravity of driving reaction force input to two bush mounts disposed in front of the motor unit, or a center of gravity of driving reaction force input to two bush mounts disposed behind the motor unit, and the bush mount is disposed in a state where the bush mount is rotated in a direction in which rigidity to a load in a vertical direction is higher than rigidity of other bush mounts.

Abstract: A vehicle oxygen generating system includes a heat source, a power source, a vehicle air handling assembly of a vehicle air conditioning system, an H2O source and an electrochemical oxygen producing device. The oxygen producing device is connected to the H2O source receiving H2O therefrom. The oxygen producing device uses heat from the heat source and electricity from the power source to produce H2 and O2 from H2O. The O2 produced by the oxygen producing device is directed to the vehicle air handling assembly and moved into a passenger compartment of a vehicle.

Abstract: Vehicle guidance with systemic optimization may include traversing, by a current vehicle, a vehicle transportation network, by obtaining, by the current vehicle, systemic-utility vehicle guidance data for a current portion of the vehicle transportation network and traversing, by the current vehicle, the current portion of the vehicle transportation network in accordance with the systemic-utility vehicle guidance data. Obtaining the systemic-utility vehicle guidance data may include obtaining vehicle operational data for a region of a vehicle transportation network, wherein the vehicle operational data includes current operational data for a plurality of vehicles operating in the region, operating a systemic-utility vehicle guidance model for the region, obtaining systemic-utility vehicle guidance data for the region from the systemic-utility vehicle guidance model in response to the vehicle operational data, and outputting the systemic-utility vehicle guidance data to the current vehicle.

Abstract: A hood hinge assembly for a vehicle hood includes a support bracket and a hinge arm. The support bracket is configured to be fixed to a vehicle body structure. The hinge arm is movably connected to the support bracket. The hinge arm is movable about a pivot axis between a first position in which the vehicle hood is closed and a second position in which the vehicle hood is fully open. A stop tab is connected to the support bracket. The stop tab prevents movement of the hinge arm beyond the second position.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an all-solid-state battery cell includes depositing an interlayer directly onto an anode current collector; depositing a solid electrolyte onto the interlayer opposite the anode current collector; forming a cathode on the solid electrolyte opposite the interlayer, wherein the cathode contains one or more lithium-containing compounds; and applying pressure to achieve uniform contact between layers. The manufactured all-solid-state battery cell is anode-free prior to charging. The interlayer is configured such that lithium metal is deposited between the interlayer and the anode current collector during charging, the interlayer prevents contact between the lithium metal and the solid electrolyte, and the interlayer has a greater density than a density of the solid electrolyte.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine in which a coil wrapped in an insulating sheet is fixed to a slot provided in an iron core, wherein the insulating sheet has a porous structure, the coil and the insulating sheet, and the insulating sheet and the iron core are each fixed by an insulating varnish which is brought into a dispersion state by ultrasonic irradiation, and a mixed layer in which the insulating varnish and the insulating sheet are mixed due to penetration of the insulating varnish is formed in at least a predetermined range from a surface layer to an interior of the insulating sheet.

Abstract: A cylinder block (1) includes a main block body (2) made of a metal material and an outer member (3) made of a resin material and welded to the main block body (2). The main block body (2) has a cylinder wall (13) defining therein a cylinder bore (16) and a second columnar part (14B) formed at a position apart from the cylinder wall (13). The outer member (3) has a second columnar part insertion hole (53) and defines a water jacket between the outer member (3) and the cylinder wall (13). The second columnar part (14B) is placed in the second columnar part insertion hole (53) with a predetermined clearance left between the second columnar part insertion hole (53) and the second columnar part (14B), in a state of being isolated from the water jacket, and extends to a cylinder head.

Abstract: A charging/discharging control method and a charging/discharging control device, when controlling a power module connected to any of a plurality of power systems, receive a signal broadcast for each of the power systems via a receiver included in the power module, calculate a degree of relationship between the acquired signal and an input voltage inputted to the power module for each of the power systems, and control the power module based on the signal relating to the power system having the degree of relationship greater than or equal to a prescribed threshold.

Abstract: An abnormality detection device detects an abnormality of a screen display displayed on a display. The abnormality detection device is configured to monitor screen display data displayed by the display; determine, based on the screen display data and a user operation regarding the screen display performed by a user, whether or not the screen display has transitioned according to the user operation; extract a screen region which is a target of transition by the user operation within the screen display as a target region; and compare the screen display data corresponding to the target region of when the user operation was performed with the screen display data corresponding to the target region of after a lapse of a predetermined period from the user operation, so as to determine whether or not the screen display has transitioned; and when the screen display does not transition within the predetermined period, determine that the screen display is in a freeze state of being unresponsive to the user operation.

Abstract: Provided is an electric motor control method includes: calculating a second torque command value by correcting the first torque command value by a vibration compensation torque for suppressing vibration in an electric motor rotation speed; limiting the vibration compensation torque based on a limit request suggesting amount suggesting a situation in which suppression of vibration in the electric motor rotation speed is to be limited; determining a limit level representing a degree of limit on the vibration compensation torque; and calculating a voltage command value by feeding back a torque suggesting amount suggesting an electric motor torque to the second torque command value. In the torque control step, a feedback gain of the torque suggesting amount is determined with reference to the limit level.

Abstract: An information processing method and an information processing device acquire a path information on a path included in a road network set on a map data, acquire a reroute request indicating an instruction to regenerate a route when generating the route that a vehicle is scheduled to travel in correspondence with the road network based on the path information stored in the database, acquire a path type indicating whether a target path on which the vehicle is traveling at a timing when the reroute request is acquired is a first path or a second path bifurcating from the first path, included in the road network, and delete the path information stored in the database based on the path type.

Abstract: A repair place transmission device is configured to: acquire a movement schedule for moving a user to a destination using a vehicle; acquire a current location of the vehicle; an abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether or not an abnormality is present in the vehicle; extract, from the movement schedule, a travel route from the current location to the destination and a plurality of destinations located on the travel route; extract, for each of the destinations, a repair place for repairing the vehicle located within a predetermined range from the destination as the repair place corresponding to the destination when the abnormality is determined to be present in the vehicle; compute, for each of the repair places, an influence level indicating a level of influence on the movement schedule by repairing the vehicle in the repair place; and transmit a control signal for outputting repair place data on the repair place having a lower influence level in priority over repair place data on the r

Abstract: A connector includes a housing having a plurality of cavities, a seal member having a plurality of seal holes, a rear holder that holds the seal member between the housing and the rear holder, and a terminal fitting that is inserted into the cavity through the seal hole. The seal member includes a main body portion disposed on a side of the rear holder, and a plurality of protrusions protruding forward from the main body portion. Each of the seal holes has a shape penetrating in a front-rear direction from the main body portion to each of the protrusions. A space that allows displacement of the protrusions is provided between the housing and the seal member. The housing is provided with a restriction portion that is disposed between the plurality of the protrusions with a gap interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A driving force control method controls driving force distribution to each of a first driving source connected to front wheels and a second driving source connected to rear wheels so that a pitch angle of a vehicle behaves as desired. The method includes setting a pitch rate during starting of the vehicle to a corrected pitch rate different from a predetermined basic pitch rate, wherein the basic pitch rate is determined according to basic driving force distribution for achieving desired vehicle characteristics of the vehicle, and the corrected pitch rate is determined so as to adjust a feeling of acceleration of an occupant of the vehicle according to a change in a requested acceleration of the vehicle.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes two drive sources and two clutches, and is switchable between a neutral mode and a parallel mode during vehicle traveling. The two drive sources are both disconnected from drive wheels in the neutral mode, and are both connected to the drive wheels in the parallel mode. A control method for the hybrid vehicle includes implementing at least one of a first switching control and a second switching control. The first switching control includes, upon switching from the neutral mode to the parallel mode, implementing two synchronization controls on rotational speeds before and after the two clutches, concurrently during at least a partial period. The second switching control includes, upon switching from the parallel mode to the neutral mode, implementing two controls to cause transmitted torques of the two clutches to respectively approach zero, concurrently during at least a partial period.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method implemented in a V2X device (2) for exchanging V2X messages comprising data packets with one or more receiving V2X devices connected via a cellular communication network (4), the method comprising the steps of (a) running one or more V2X applications, running a V2X application comprising the generation of V2X message data associated with the V2X application, (b) transmitting the V2X message data to a distribution interface (203) at an injection time, and (c) transmitting the V2X message, in a format which is encoded using the message data retrieved from the distribution interface (203), to the receiving V2X devices via a radio link, using radio access technology, at a send time. The injection time is determined on the basis of an initial injection time defined by a predefined period.

Abstract: Systems and methods for testing driver awareness within a vehicle are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, the system includes an audio device, a memory, and a controller. The audio device is configured to output audible sentences to a driver of the vehicle and receive audible responses from the driver. The memory stores a plurality of dialog trees, each dialogue tree triggering a plurality of audible sentences. The controller is programmed to (i) cause the audio device to output a first audible sentence to the driver, (ii) receive response data relating to a first audible response provided by the driver to the audio device, (iii) select a dialogue tree of the plurality of dialogue trees based on the response data, and (iv) cause the audio device to output a plurality of second audible sentences from the selected dialogue tree.

Abstract: A braking/driving force control method includes detecting an accelerator stroke amount being the stroke amount of an accelerator pedal, calculating a driving force to be generated by a vehicle driving force source when the accelerator stroke amount is larger than a predetermined first stroke amount, calculating a deceleration driving force to be generated by the vehicle driving force source when the accelerator stroke amount is smaller than a second stroke amount set to a value smaller than or equal to the first stroke amount, controlling the vehicle driving force source to generate the calculated driving force and deceleration driving force, and generating a braking force on wheels according to a depressing operation of a brake pedal by a driver and controlling a brake stroke amount being the stroke amount of the brake pedal according to the calculated deceleration driving force.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst or the like may inhibit poisoning of a noble metal component by a Si-containing compound generated or detached from silicon carbide, may inhibit degradation of exhaust gas purification performances over a long period, and may have excellent long-term durability. An exhaust gas purification catalyst may have a stacked structure including at least a substrate and a first and second coat layer, in that order. The substrate may be selected from a silicon carbide carrier including silicon carbide and a silicon carbide-covering carrier on which a coating layer including silicon carbide is provided. The first coat layer may include a compound including one or more alkaline-earth metals selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba. The second coat layer may includes one or more platinum group elements selected from Rh, Pt, and Pd.

Abstract: In a vehicle including a generator and a drive motor for traveling that operates with generated electric power of the generator, setting a control mode of a carrier frequency used for PWM control for adjusting the electric power of the generator to either of a basic mode or a diffusion mode; acquiring a noise recognition degree suggestion amount suggesting a vehicle situation correlated with a level of a recognition degree of a vehicle user with respect to noise generated by an operation of the generator; executing the diffusion mode in a case where the recognition degree is estimated to be high based on the noise recognition degree suggestion amount; and executing the basic mode in a case where the recognition degree is estimated to be low.

Abstract: An in-vehicle battery system comprises: a battery; a relay for establishing or cutting off an electrical connection between the battery and an inverter; a plurality of switches respectively provided in a current path for switching the relay; and a battery control apparatus that supervises a status of the battery. The plurality of switches include a first switch provided in the battery control apparatus and a second switch provided in a vehicle control apparatus which controls traveling of the vehicle; the first switch and the second switch are serially connected to each other in the current path; the battery control apparatus controls a status of switching the first switch; and the vehicle control apparatus controls a status of switching the second switch.

Abstract: A driving assist device includes a camera and a controller. The camera detects the presence of another vehicle ahead of a host vehicle. The controller sets a detection field of the camera. The controller determines that another vehicle has cut in front of the host vehicle if a degree to which the other vehicle has entered into the detection field exceeds or equals a first prescribed value when the host vehicle is traveling, or the other vehicle has cut in front of the host vehicle if the degree exceeds or equals a second prescribed value that is smaller than the first prescribed value when the host vehicle is stopped.

Abstract: An electric motor control method is an control method which is capable of selecting a first mode or a second mode as a control mode for controlling an operation of the electric motor according to an operating state of the electric motor. The method, when the second mode is selected as the control mode, stops a part of processing in the first mode, and continuously executes other processing including integral calculation except for the part of processing in the first mode. Also, the method, when the control mode is switched from the second mode to the first mode, starts the part of processing by using at least one control value obtained by continuing the other processing.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a heat shield component includes a mixing step of mixing sol including a ceramic precursor with heat-expandable microspheres having an outer shell formed of thermoplastic resin and encapsulating a foaming agent so as to obtain a mixed solution, a coating step of applying the mixed solution to a substrate to obtain a coated product, and a heating step of heating the coated product to form a base body including a ceramic from the ceramic precursor, and leading the heat-expandable microspheres to foam so as to form a ceramic porous layer including closed pores in the base body. The ceramic porous layer has a porosity in a range of 40% to 70%.

Abstract: A method for calculating a lateral position of an ego motor vehicle on a traffic lane includes calculating a first theoretical lateral position of the ego vehicle, calculating a second theoretical lateral position of the ego vehicle, calculating a third theoretical lateral position of the ego vehicle, calculating the lateral position of the ego vehicle using a weighted average of the first lateral position, the second lateral position, and the third lateral position.

Abstract: An in-vehicle robot includes a base member, an outer member, an inner member, and first, second, and third power transmission units. The base member is rotatably mounted to a mounting object. The outer member is supported by the base member. The inner member is positioned inside the outer member and supported by the outer member. The first power transmission unit allows the inner member to rotate around a first axis with respect to the outer member. The first axis passes through a portion of the inner member supported by the outer member. The second power transmission unit allows the outer member to rotate around a second axis. The second axis passes through a portion of the outer member supported by the base member. The third power transmission unit allows the outer member to rotate around a third axis that is non-parallel to both the first axis and the second axis.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body, a tailgate, a ladder and a counterweight. The tailgate is movably attached to the vehicle body. The ladder is attached to the tailgate at a first lateral side of the tailgate. The counterweight provided to the tailgate at a second lateral side of the tailgate. The second lateral side is opposite of the first lateral side to provide a counterbalance to a weight of the ladder.

Abstract: A cathode is provided that includes a lithium-ion conductive material, at least one carbon support structure at least partially embedded within the lithium-ion conductive material, and cathode active material particles. The cathode active material particles are provided within and on a surface of each of the at least one carbon support structure. A solid-state battery is also provided that includes the cathode in which cathode active materials are provided within and on a surface of each of the at least one carbon support structure, and the at least one carbon support structure is at least partially embedded within the lithium-ion conductive material.

Abstract: A transmission used for executing, a process of performing, when a speed at which an accelerator opening is decreased is higher than a predetermined speed, an upshift until a predetermined opening is reached, and fixing a speed ratio, a process of performing, when the speed is equal to or lower than the predetermined speed and a turbine rotation speed is higher than a predetermined rotation speed, the upshift until the predetermined opening is reached, and performing, when the accelerator opening is smaller than the predetermined opening, the upshift so as to fix the speed ratio, and a process of performing, when the speed is equal to or lower than the predetermined speed and the turbine rotation speed is equal to or lower than the predetermined rotation speed, the upshift until the predetermined opening is reached, and performing, when the accelerator opening is smaller than the predetermined opening, the upshift.

Abstract: A driving assistance method for performing a lane change of an own vehicle by autonomous travel control includes: calculating a target route along which the own vehicle is caused to travel to a destination; determining whether or not multiple lane changes are required to be performed successively for the own vehicle to travel in accordance with the target route; determining whether or not the lane change is performed by the autonomous travel control; and when a determination that, in a second or later lane changes among the multiple lane changes, a lane change is not performed by the autonomous travel control is included, not performing a first lane change by the autonomous travel control.

Abstract: A device for planning a path and/or a trajectory for a motor vehicle includes a module for receiving a sequence of input variables and hardware and software for determining a control law corresponding to the path and/or the trajectory according to the sequence of input variables received. The device includes a temporal classification unit in a set of compact representations.