Abstract: A power storage cell includes an electrode assembly, a cell case, and an external terminal. The cell case has a case main body and a lid. The lid has a lid main body, and an inversion plate that is able to short-circuit the lid main body and the external terminal. The inversion plate has: a base portion; an inversion portion connected to inside of the base portion, the inversion portion being able to come into contact with the external terminal; and a low-elastic member made of a conductive material having an elastic modulus smaller than an elastic modulus of the inversion portion, the low-elastic member being provided on a surface of the inversion portion facing the external terminal. The low-elastic member is elastically deformed with the low-elastic member being sandwiched between the inversion portion and the external terminal when the inversion portion is inverted.

Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for wireless communications is provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits to a base station, a first message comprising a first field and a second field. The first field corresponds to information associated with receiving data of at least one MBS service. The second field associated with receiving data of the at least one MBS service via at least one first beam. The UE then receives data of the at least one MBS service via the at least one first beam.

Abstract: A method of controlling an SDN system, an SDN sub-controller, and an SDN system is provided. The SDN controller sends a keepalive notification to the SDN switch and the SDN sub-controller. The SDN switch sends a switching request to the SDN sub-controller on condition that the keepalive notification cannot be received during a predetermined specific period. The SDN sub-controller starts to control a communication setting of the SDN switch on condition that the keepalive notification cannot be received during the specific period and that the switching request has been received.

Abstract: The controller is installed in the vehicle together with a motor for driving, an air conditioning unit for air conditioning the passenger compartment, auxiliary equipment, and a battery that supplies power to the motor, air conditioning unit, and auxiliary equipment. The controller is programmed to calculate the driving electricity cost based on the battery energy consumption integrated value, the integrated distance traveled, the air conditioning energy consumption integrated value, the auxiliary equipment energy consumption integrated value, and the positional energy variation of the vehicle during the trip, at the end of the trip. And then the controller is programmed to learn the driving learning electricity cost using the driving electricity cost, when the driving electricity cost is less than the threshold value.

Abstract: A power storage device is a power storage device provided on a lower surface of a floor panel of a vehicle, the power storage device including: a housing case; a power storage module housed in the housing case; and a cooler housed in the housing case to cool the power storage module, wherein the housing case includes a bottom plate, a refrigerant passage through which a refrigerant flows is formed in a portion of the housing case, the portion being located above the bottom plate, and the refrigerant passage is connected to the cooler.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus executes a collision avoidance control when a collision condition becomes satisfied. The collision condition includes a condition that a lap rate of the own vehicle and the object is equal to or greater than a lap rate threshold. The threshold set when the own vehicle turns, is greater than the threshold set when the own vehicle does not turn. The threshold set when a condition satisfaction period of time is equal to or greater than a predetermined period of time, is smaller than the threshold set when the condition satisfaction period of time is smaller than the predetermined period of time. The condition satisfaction period of time is a period of time that a collision probability condition continues being satisfied while the own vehicle is turning. The collision probability condition is a condition that the own vehicle has a probability of colliding with the object.

Abstract: A hybrid electric vehicle comprising: an engine; a filter for collecting particulate matter from the engine; a motor provided on a power transmission path between the engine and the drive wheels; a torque converter having a lock-up clutch provided on the power transmission path between the motor and the drive wheels; and a control device, wherein the control device includes: a first determination unit that determines whether there is a request for regeneration control of the filter by a fuel cut in the engine; a second determination unit that determines whether the lock-up clutch cannot be engaged; and a regeneration control unit that, when an affirmative determination is made in the first determination unit and a negative determination is made in the second determination unit, executes auxiliary regeneration control that assists the rotation of the engine by the motor while releasing the lock-up clutch and executing the fuel cut.

Abstract: A cabin management apparatus according to the present disclosure is a cabin management apparatus configured to manage a cabin of a vehicle, the cabin management apparatus including a communication interface, an output interface, and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to receive, by the communication interface, emergency stop information for the vehicle, receive, by the communication interface, the degree of automated controllability over a door of the vehicle, and provide, by the output interface based on the emergency stop information, a different notification depending on the degree of automated controllability over the door.

Abstract: A control device includes: a control unit that controls a vehicle. Further, the control unit determines, when the vehicle travels in a section including a plurality of lanes, whether a negative emotion associated with a lane change is detected in a preceding vehicle on a same lane as the vehicle, and causes, in a case of determining that the negative emotion is detected, a notification device of the vehicle to give notification of instruction information giving an instruction for the lane change.

Abstract: A lower limb restraint airbag device, including: an airbag that is configured to be inflated and deployed toward a knee and a shin of a passenger seated in a vehicle seat by gas ejected from an inflator, and to make contact with at least the knee; a reaction force plate that is configured to be pulled out to a seat front side of the airbag in conjunction with inflation and deployment of the airbag; and a lock mechanism that is configured to block movement toward a seat front side of the pulled out reaction force plate.

Abstract: An information processing method includes, by an information processing apparatus: receiving first information relating to a second vehicle acquired using a sensor from a first in-vehicle terminal installed in a first vehicle; specifying communication identification information on the second vehicle based on the first information and second information indicating a characteristic of a surrounding vehicle present around the first vehicle; and sending the communication identification information to the in-vehicle terminal.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving initiating hitchless towing between a lead vehicle and a following vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes in response to initiating hitchless towing between a lead vehicle and a following vehicle, generating a hitching path that provides a route from the following vehicle to the lead vehicle, controlling the following vehicle to travel the hitching path, aligning the following vehicle with the lead vehicle, and controlling the following vehicle to perform the hitchless towing by following the lead vehicle without a physical connection.

Abstract: The masking material includes a penetrating portion according to a predetermined pattern. The masking material includes a mask portion and at least the mask portion contacting the substrate is made of an elastic material. The penetrating portion includes an expanded portion that is expanded outwardly from a portion contacting the substrate toward the electrolyte membrane in a thickness direction of the mask portion such that in a state where the mask portion is elastically deformed by a pressing force of the electrolyte membrane, a shape of a cross section of a formation space of the penetrating portion in which the metal film is to be formed becomes rectangular.

Abstract: A vehicle comprising: an engine that is a driving power source; a filter that collects an exhaust particulate matter from the engine; and a control device, wherein the control device includes: a temperature raising control unit that raises the temperature of the filter by retard processing of the ignition timing of the engine; and a retard amount control unit that lowers the retard amount of the ignition timing at the time of cold start of the engine than the retard amount of the ignition timing at the time of warm start of the engine.

Abstract: In a video processing section of a vehicle periphery monitoring system, a virtual mirror video is generated in which a virtual vehicle image virtually illustrating a vehicle and a left-right direction display image indicating left-right directions of the vehicle are overlay displayed on a synthesized video that has been synthesized so as to connect videos captured by a rear camera, a first side camera, and a second side camera together and so as to be reversed in a vehicle width direction.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a non-aqueous secondary battery includes the steps of preparing a case main body, preparing a lid, applying a lubricant to a contact location, and assembling a lid to an open end of the case main body. In the step of preparing a lid, a lid to be fitted to the open end of the case main body is prepared. In the step of applying a lubricant, the lubricant is applied to at least a portion of the contact location at which the case main body and the lid are in contact with each other. In the step of assembling the lid to the open end, the lid is assembled to the open end with the lubricant having been applied to the contact location. The lubricant may be a solvent used in a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for non-aqueous secondary batteries.

Abstract: A water electrolysis cell includes a separator having, on its front and back, grooves serving as channels. The separator has, in its ends in a planar direction, an oxygen electrode- side supply hole, an oxygen electrode-side discharge hole, a hydrogen electrode-side supply hole, a hydrogen electrode-side discharge hole, an inter-cell channel supply hole, and an inter-cell channel discharge hole, as viewed in plan. A sealing member surrounding the oxygen electrode-side supply hole and a sealing member surrounding the oxygen electrode- side discharge hole, as viewed in plan, are located in the separator, but no sealing members are located around the hydrogen electrode-side supply hole, the hydrogen electrode-side discharge hole, the inter-cell channel supply hole, and the inter-cell channel discharge hole.

Abstract: An operation management system including a controller configured to execute: a position obtaining process to obtain positional information from each registered mobility; a correlating process to correlate each registered mobility and specification information stored in a storage device with each other; a travel-history storing process to store, in the storage device, a traveled route which is a travel history of each registered mobility, so as to be correlated with map information; and a road-surface-condition obtaining process to calculate a road surface condition including a position and a shape of a rut corresponding to the traveled route based on information on a detection value of a sensor of each of registered mobility, the type of a road surface included in the map information, the specification information, and the traveled route and to store, in the storage device, the road surface condition so as to be correlated with the map information.

Abstract: A sensor includes a grayscale digital light processing (g-DLP) 3D printed monolithic substrate with at least one microfluid channel. The monolithic substrate is formed from a resin configured to form a solid polymer using g-DLP 3D printing with a Young's modulus ranging from 0.1 MPa to 100 MPa. The resin includes a donor moiety, an acceptor moiety different than the donor moiety, a rigid moiety, a photoinitiator, and a photoabsorber. The donor moiety is in the form of an acrylate monomer with a side group, the acceptor moiety is in the form of an acrylate monomer with a side group, and the rigid moiety is in the form of an acrylate monomer with a side group. Also, the sensor can include a sensor fluid disposed within the at least one microfluid channel.

Abstract: A management method for a power storage device includes: when a discharging request for energy management is received, determining (S172) whether or not a degree of deterioration of a power storage device is larger than a first reference value with regard to a battery lease vehicle (vehicle including a power storage device having been lent); and based on a result of the determination, instructing (S18) the battery lease vehicle in which the degree of deterioration of the power storage device is smaller than the first reference value, to perform discharging to outside of the vehicle in accordance with the discharging request, and not instructing the battery lease vehicle in which the degree of deterioration of the power storage device is larger than the first reference value, to perform discharging in accordance with the discharging request.

Abstract: In this stator, lead wire extended portions and a power wire extended portion are extended from a resin portion by an extended portion separating portion such that the lead wire extended portions are separated from the power wire extended portion by distances that are greater than a maximum value of the width of clearance between an end-side portion of the lead wire extended portion and a facing portion located next to the end-side portion, the resin portion being provided so as to cover lead wire portions and a power wire portion.

Abstract: A light illumination control device that controls light emission of front lamps based on results of sensing an object present at a front side of an own vehicle, including a processor coupled to a memory, wherein: when the object is a target of light adjustment, the processor computes a light adjustment area that is an area including the object that is a target of light adjustment and when an amount of light that is illuminated is made to be different than that of illuminated regions other than the light adjustment area, and when the object that is a target of light adjustment is an approaching object that advances in a direction of approaching the own vehicle, and a distance between the own vehicle and the approaching object is less than or equal to a predetermined value, the processor enlarges a range of the computed light adjustment area.

Abstract: An engine control device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an engine is in a complete explosion state, a calculation unit configured to calculate an integrated intake air amount that is an integrated value of an intake air amount of the engine after an affirmative determination is made by the determination unit, a setting unit configured to set a target equivalent ratio of the engine in accordance with the integrated intake air amount, and a control unit configured to control an intake air amount and a fuel injection amount of the engine such that an equivalent ratio of an air-fuel mixture becomes the target equivalent ratio.

Abstract: In a fastening structure that fastens an exhaust manifold to a cylinder head of an engine, a bolt that extends through a flange is inserted into and fixed to a bolt hole of the cylinder head. The flange includes a contact surface that contacts a coupling surface of the cylinder head, and an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to the contact surface. A clearance is provided between the bolt and the cylinder head inside the bolt hole in a range extending from the coupling surface of the cylinder head to a specified length.

Abstract: A method for adjusting an information system of a mobile machine, the information system being configured to calculate 3D information relative to a scene in which the mobile machine is moving, the method including: acquiring at least a first image of the scene at a first time and a second image of the scene at a second time; detecting one or more scene features in the first image and the second image; matching the one or more scene features across the first image and the second image based upon detection of the one or more scene features; estimating an egomotion of the mobile machine based upon the matching of the one or more scene features across the first image and the second image; and adjusting the information system by taking into account the estimation of the egomotion of the mobile machine.

Abstract: Method and systems for determining when to cancel coolant stop. An initial coolant temperature value is measured. The initial coolant temperature value is used to create Multiple Control Valve (MCV) opening thresholds. A first threshold is generated for MCV opening threshold for engine speed. A second threshold is generated for MCV opening for intake air mass flow. A comparison is made between the first threshold and the currently measured engine speed and/or a comparison is made between the second threshold and the currently measured intake air mass flow. The comparison(s) are then used to determine when to cancel coolant stop and open the MCV.

Abstract: A method of producing an all-solid-state battery includes forming an insulating layer-attached stack unit including an insulating layer and a stack unit that includes a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer and a negative electrode layer; performing a dielectric breakdown test on the insulating layer included in the insulating layer-attached stack unit, and determining that the insulating layer-attached stack unit is a non-defective product if no dielectric breakdown is present; forming an electrode member having both ends by disposing the two insulating layer-attached stack units at the both ends, the insulating layer-attached stack unit being determined to be a non-defective product; accommodating the electrode member in a case; and assembling a restraint member to the outside of the case to produce an all-solid-state battery.

Abstract: An engine having a throttle valve, a filter for collecting an exhaust particulate matter from the engine, and a control device are provided, and the control device includes an acquisition unit for acquiring a temperature of the engine, a regeneration control unit for increasing an opening degree of the throttle valve as the temperature increases, and executing a regeneration control of the filter by a fuel cut. A vehicle comprising: a retard amount control unit that increases a retard amount of an ignition timing at a time of returning from the fuel cut as the temperature increases.

Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: one or more processors configured to acquire vehicle configuration information including information on an electronic control unit (ECU) mounted on a vehicle and transmit the vehicle configuration information to a server; and acquire software distributed from the server; and a communication module configured to transmit the software acquired by the first acquisition unit to the vehicle.

Abstract: When the element temperature of the air-fuel ratio sensor becomes equal to or higher than the activation temperature, the electronic control unit starts the detection of the air-fuel ratio based on the sensor output of the air-fuel ratio sensor and the air-fuel ratio feedback control based on the detection result. The electronic control unit calculates the air-fuel ratio detection value by setting the gain of the air-fuel ratio detection value with respect to the sensor output when the sensor output is a value indicating the air-fuel ratio richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to a value smaller than that after the elapse of the synchronization period from the start of the air-fuel ratio until the element temperature becomes equal to or higher than the predetermined desorption convergence temperature.

Abstract: A management apparatus includes a controller configured to manage one or more vehicles to be rented to users in a car sharing service. The controller is configured to, in a case in which a vehicle returned by a user does not meet a return condition, notify the user that the return condition is not met when the user inputs an operation for return.

Abstract: A water electrolysis cell includes an anode-side porous channel, a membrane electrode assembly, a cathode-side porous channel, and a separator disposed on at least any one of a side of the anode-side porous channel opposite to the membrane electrode assembly side and a side of the cathode-side porous channel opposite to the membrane electrode assembly side. The anode-side porous channel, the membrane electrode assembly, and the cathode-side porous channel are provided in this order. The membrane electrode assembly includes an anode catalyst layer, an electrolyte membrane, and a cathode catalyst layer in order from the anode-side porous channel side. An area in a plane direction of the anode-side porous channel is greater than an area in the plane direction of the cathode-side porous channel in a plan view.

Abstract: A management method includes determining, by a management apparatus, a stopping location for a vehicle used for delivery, based on vehicle classification data on the vehicle, delivery environment information, and stopping environment information during the delivery.

Abstract: A tank arranged such that an axis is horizontal, and filling portions are arranged at both ends in the axial direction, and both filling portions are configured to inject gas toward an upper portion of an inside of the tank.

Abstract: A management method performed by a management apparatus includes determining a delivery vehicle based on vehicle classification data and delivery environment information.

Abstract: A multi-mode heat transfer system includes an emitter device with an inner core surrounded by an outer core having an outer surface and an emission surface disposed on the outer surface. The emission surface includes a thermal metamaterial configured to direct heat from the inner core in at least two desired directions to an object other than the emitter device. The object can include a thermal receiver devices, for example two receiver devices and the emission surface can direct heat to two different receiver devices spaced apart from the emitter device.

Abstract: A management method includes determining, by a management apparatus, an acceptable range of a delivery time based on a delivery condition of goods ordered from a store, and determining, by the management apparatus based on the acceptable range of the delivery time and vehicle classification data on a vehicle that delivers goods, goods to be loaded into the vehicle.

Abstract: An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus includes acquiring route information that indicates a route or a stop position for a delivery vehicle, the route information being generated based on driver information regarding a driver of the delivery vehicle and delivery information regarding a package to be delivered by the delivery vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle may include a camera configured to capture surroundings around the vehicle; a receiver; a display device; and a controller configured to display an image that the camera is currently capturing on the display device with reception of a signal transmitted from a vehicle washer by the receiver as a trigger.

Abstract: A power storage cell includes: an electrode assembly; and a cell case that accommodates the electrode assembly. The cell case has a case main body provided with an opening that opens upward, a lid connected to the case main body, and an elastic member disposed between the case main body and the electrode assembly. The elastic member has a center-facing portion facing a central portion of the electrode assembly, and the center-facing portion has a shape curved to protrude in a direction away from the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an object sensor configured to detect an object around the vehicle; a warning device configured to alert a driver when an object is detected by the object sensor at a position at which a distance from the vehicle is less than or equal to a threshold; a receiver; and a controller configured to reduce the threshold when the receiver receives a signal transmitted from a vehicle washer.

Abstract: An information processing device for controlling a mobile object, the information processing device comprising: a communication unit that performs communication with the mobile object; a function control unit that controls a function necessary for causing the mobile object to autonomously travel; and a switching control unit that switches whether to control at least a part of the necessary functions by the information processing device or by the mobile object based on a communication state between the information processing device and the mobile object.

Abstract: An entity server includes a communication apparatus and a processor. The communication apparatus is configured to receive a temporary use request that requests temporary use of a vehicle by a user, the vehicle being associated with an NFT. When the communication apparatus receives the temporary use request, the processor performs locking processing for locking the NFT.

Abstract: A server (battery replacement management server) includes: a communication unit (acquisition unit) that acquires number-of-users information (situation information) in a battery replacement apparatus; and a processor (control unit) that adjusts, based on the situation information, an incentive given to a user of the battery replacement apparatus.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a VP, the VP including a specific system, an ADK attachable to and removable from the VP, the ADK giving an instruction for autonomous driving, a main communication bus, a sub communication bus, a main VCIB configured to communicate with the ADK through the main communication bus, the main VCIB giving a control instruction to the specific system in accordance with an instruction from the ADK, and a sub VCIB configured to communicate with the ADK through the sub communication bus, the sub VCIB giving a control instruction to the specific system in accordance with an instruction from the ADK. When the VP has a malfunction, the main VCIB outputs to the ADK, information for identification that allows identification of a capability value of the specific system (S214), whereas the sub VCIB outputs the information for identification to the ADK (S214).

Abstract: The information processing apparatus acquires the first body color desired by a user as a body color of a vehicle ordered by the user. Furthermore, based on at least the appraised value of the vehicle having a first body color after a predetermined period has elapsed, the information processing apparatus determines whether or not to propose to the user to topcoat the vehicle having the second body color with an easily peelable paint of the first body color.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a data set including a requested acceleration as information representing movement of a vehicle in a front-rear direction and any one of a steering angle, a yaw rate, and a rotation radius as information representing movement of the vehicle in a lateral direction from each of a plurality of applications, an arbitration unit configured to perform arbitration of information representing the movement of the vehicle in the front-rear direction and arbitration of information representing the movement of the vehicle in the lateral direction based on a plurality of the data sets received by the receiver, and a first output unit configured to output instruction information for driving an actuator based on an arbitration result of the arbitration unit.

Abstract: An information processing device is provided, which includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire a satellite image of the ground photographed by an artificial satellite; and provide, to a user, point information indicating points at which a number of persons present on the ground is equal to or greater than a first predetermined number, the points being identified based on the acquired satellite image.

Abstract: A control device includes: a controller controlling a first vehicle, the controller being configured to estimate a degree of concentration of a driver in the first vehicle during traveling of the first vehicle based on a first distance between the first vehicle and a second vehicle traveling in front of the first vehicle, a second distance between the first vehicle and a third vehicle traveling behind the first vehicle, and a relationship between a vehicle speed of the first vehicle and a predetermined vehicle speed, and execute a vehicle control of recovering the concentration of the driver based on an estimation result.

Abstract: The controller of the information processing apparatus obtains a first evaluation amount that is an evaluation amount of the first vehicle in a case that the body color of the first vehicle is assumed to be the color of the first paint coating film. The controller obtains a second evaluation amount that is an evaluation amount of the first vehicle in case that the body color of the first vehicle is assumed to be the color of the second paint coating film. The controller determines whether the second paint coating film should be removed from the first vehicle based on the first evaluation amount and the second evaluation amount. The controller outputs the above determination result.