Abstract: The present disclosure provides a joining technique capable of improving strength and reducing electrical resistance of a connecting portion that performs heterometal interjunction in a sealed battery. A mode of the sealed battery disclosed herein includes an electrode body, a battery case, a positive electrode internal terminal, a positive electrode external terminal, a negative electrode internal terminal, and a negative electrode external terminal. In the sealed battery, in a connecting portion between the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal, an upper end of the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal are stacked with a plated layer interposed therebetween and, at the same time, the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal are joined to each other via the plated layer.

Abstract: An electric vehicle cooling system, including: a first radiator installed at a vehicle and configured to cool a power unit driven by electrical power; and a second radiator installed at the vehicle, disposed at a vehicle front side of the first radiator, and configured to cool an autonomous driving control device configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle.

Abstract: A robot control system is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots, in which: each of the mobile robots includes right and left wheels, and a sensor that detects actions of the right and left wheels; and the control system calculates abrasion degrees of right and left components for the right and left wheels, depending on a detection result of the sensor, and manages traveling of the plurality of mobile robots, depending on the abrasion degrees.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller that is configured to: acquire driving behavior information as an indication of prudence of a driver in driving a vehicle, acquire a vehicle avatar corresponding to the vehicle, the vehicle avatar having a basic personality set thereto according to information about the vehicle, create a message according to the basic personality of the vehicle avatar based on the driving behavior information, and output the message, that is created, as an utterance of the vehicle avatar.

Abstract: The present disclosure creates a communication group with surrounding users during movement. The present disclosure is an information processing system including a server and a user terminal. A server includes a first controller configured to: receive a group creation request of a communication group with a second user terminal that exists in a predetermined range from the first user terminal and is moving in the same direction as the first user terminal, from the first user terminal; create a communication group including users of the first and second user terminals; and notify the first and second user terminals that the communication group is created. A user terminal includes a second controller configured to: detect the second user terminal during movement; transmit the group creation request to the server; receive a notification that the communication group is created from the server; and notify the user that the communication group is created.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrode disclosed herein includes: steps of forming a coating film composed of an electrode material by passing the electrode material through a gap between a rotating first roll and a rotating second roll; adhering the coating film to the second roll and conveying the coating film; and transferring the conveyed coating film onto an electrode current collector conveyed by a conveying device to form an electrode mixture layer composed of the coating film. The speed ratio between a peripheral speed of the second roll and a conveying speed of the electrode current collector is changed by changing the peripheral speed of the second roll on the basis of the thickness of the coating film or the width of the gap. The timing of the change in the speed ratio is allowed to be based on the Equation (1) described in the description.

Abstract: An in-seat airbag device including an airbag main body having a front-rear chamber that expands past a side of a head of a passenger toward a seat front side and is disposed at the side of the head of the passenger, and a distal end chamber that expands from a seat front side end portion of the front-rear chamber toward a seat width direction inner side and is disposed at a seat front side of a face of the passenger, wherein the airbag main body and a seatback frame are connected by a force limiter mechanism that moves the airbag main body toward a seat front side when a load, which is toward a seat front side and is applied to the airbag main body, exceeds a predetermined threshold value at a time of head restraining when the head of the passenger is restrained.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus determines that a control start condition is satisfied when there is an object in an area of a moving route of the own vehicle and determine that a control forbidding condition is satisfied when there is an oncoming vehicle which satisfies a predetermined moving condition that the oncoming vehicle moves in an oncoming lane next to a moving lane of the own vehicle and approaches the own vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus determines that the control forbidding condition is not satisfied when a forbidding cancelling condition is satisfied, the forbidding cancelling condition being satisfied when a first me elapses since determining that the oncoming vehicle satisfying the predetermined moving condition disappears after determining that the control forbidding condition is satisfied and executes the steering control when the control start condition is satisfied, and the control forbidding condition is not satisfied.

Abstract: A vehicle display device is provided, the vehicle display device including a communication section configured to receive an image of a remote driver remotely operating a vehicle, an external vehicle display section configured to display an image externally to the vehicle, and a display control section configured to cause the image of the remote driver received by the communication section to be displayed on the external vehicle display section.

Abstract: An automatic parking system includes an infrastructure sensor that is able to detect a state of a parking lot. A blind spot area that does not allow the state of the parking lot to be detected by the infrastructure sensor is identified in the parking lot, and the state of the parking including the blind spot area, the state of the parking lot being detected by an on-board sensor of a vehicle in the parking lot, is acquired. Based on the state of the parking lot detected by the infrastructure sensor and the state of the parking lot that includes the blind spot area and that is detected by the on-board sensor of the vehicle in the parking lot, a travel route for the vehicle traveling in the parking lot is generated.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that is configured to determine whether or not a driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, and perform, when it is determined that the driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, a first control process of determining output of a machine mounted on the vehicle to be performed at a second value that is smaller than a first value in a normal state, the first value determined according to first information based on a stroke amount of an accelerator pedal.

Abstract: A dual side view display includes a waveguide with an inside transparent layer and an outside transparent layer spaced apart from and parallel to the inside transparent layer, and a plurality of inside view liquid crystal (LC) pixels and a plurality of outside view LC pixels disposed within the waveguide. The plurality of outside view LC pixels are disposed within the waveguide parallel to and in-plane with the plurality of inside view LC pixels. The plurality of inside LC pixels includes a plurality of outside blocking layers configured to block light scattered in the plurality of inside view LC pixels from propagating through the outside transparent layer. Also, the plurality of outside view LC pixels includes a plurality of inside blocking layers configured to block light scattered in the plurality of outside view LC pixels from propagating through the inside transparent layer.

Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle includes a first reference straight steering angle acquisition unit configured to acquire a first reference straight steering angle which is a steering angle of the autonomous driving vehicle in a straight travelling state, a second reference straight steering angle acquisition unit configured to acquire a second reference straight steering angle which is the steering angle when a magnitude of a difference between an estimated yaw rate estimated from the steering angle of the autonomous driving vehicle and the yaw rate of the autonomous driving vehicle detected from the yaw rate sensor is less than a yaw rate threshold value, and an autonomous driving permission unit configured to permits an autonomous driving of the autonomous driving vehicle when both the first reference straight steering angle and the second reference straight steering angle are acquired.

Abstract: A shifting mechanism, in which a movable member integrated with an engagement pin will not be rotated by a friction acting between a cam groove and the engagement pin, includes: a shift drum that on which a cam groove is formed; a cam sleeve having an engagement pin inserted into the cam groove; a fork shaft reciprocated between predetermined positions by rotating the shift drum; a support stem extending parallel to a center axis of the cam sleeve; and a projection formed integrally with the cam sleeve to come into contact with the support stem when the cam sleeve is rotated.

Abstract: A remote parking apparatus comprises an electronic control unit which executes a remote parking control to move an own vehicle and park the own vehicle in a designated parking space in response to receiving a signal transmitted wirelessly from an operation terminal. The electronic control unit is configured to set a parking space as the designated parking space even when there is an obstacle interrupting parking the own vehicle in the parking space.

Abstract: A water-based paint composition has performance to decompose ozone. The water-based paint composition includes a manganese oxide-based catalyst, an activated carbon, a polyacrylate-based dispersant, a water-soluble resin, a pH adjuster, and a water-based solvent.

Abstract: A driver monitor system and method of optimizing use of cognitive resources of a user in a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes in-cabin video cameras, a display device, and processing circuitry. The method performed by the processing circuitry includes monitoring eye gaze direction using images from the in-cabin video cameras, gradually softening image regions and lines displayed in the display device that are outside a first vision area of the user of the vehicle, and using the eye gaze direction to predict whether the user is transitioning into a new focus vision area that had been outside the first vision area. When the user's eyes begin to move, begin sharpening softened image regions and lines such that by the time eyes have shifted into the new focus vision area, the image regions and lines in the new focus vision area reach full sharpness.

Abstract: A vehicle exhaust dissipation system includes a fan unit and one or more processors. A memory is communicably coupled to the one or more processors and stores a fan control module including computer-readable instructions that when executed by the processor(s) cause the processor(s) to, responsive to a determination that an ambient temperature is equal to or below a fan rotor activation temperature, control operation of the fan unit to generate an airflow directed into an exhaust gas exiting the vehicle from a vehicle exhaust opening.

Abstract: A sufficient sealing property of a through hole is ensured. A sealing structure includes a cylindrically-shaped body part inserted into the through hole, formed of a thin plate of a first thickness, one end of the body part being open and another end of the body part being closed, a tapered part connected to the opened one end of the body part and including a diameter gradually expanding outward as a distance from the body part increases, and a first bent part connected to the tapered part, formed of a thin plate thinner than the first thickness, and bent inward so that a protruding part protruding outward elastically abuts against an inner peripheral surface of the through hole.

Abstract: A battery pack is placed on a battery frame. The battery frame has a lateral frame which extends in a lateral direction. A connection bracket for connecting the battery frame and a floor of a vehicle is joined to an end of the lateral frame. With the joining of the end of the lateral frame with the connection bracket, a crank shape is formed in the lateral direction. A reinforcement plate functioning as a brace is placed at a corner portion of the crank shape.

Abstract: A vehicle control device include a processor. The processor is configured to monitor a primary power source and a secondary power source for anomalies, the primary power source and the secondary power source supplying electrical power to a plurality of drive devices configured to control deceleration and steering of a vehicle, and in a case in which an anomaly has been detected in at least one of the primary power source or the secondary power source as a result of the monitoring, control the vehicle by supplying electrical power to a drive device having a lower electrical power consumption amount among the plurality of drive devices.

Abstract: A vehicle control device that controls an air conditioning device and a battery in a vehicle that uses a coolant of the air conditioning device that cools a vehicle cabin for cooling the battery, the vehicle control device including: an air conditioning load determination unit that determines whether the air conditioning device is driven by a predetermined load or more; and a battery input-output control unit that controls at least one of an input power or an output power of the battery. When the air conditioning device is driven by the predetermined load or more, at least one of the input power or the output power is restricted without cooling the battery.

Abstract: When a frontmost white line of a crosswalk cannot be detected due to an obstacle existing on the crosswalk, an edge position of the obstacle closer to a pedestrian in an image acquired by a camera is set as the frontmost white line of the crosswalk. As a result, a vibration generation device vibrates in a pattern that urges the pedestrian to stop at the time when the pedestrian reaches a position before the edge position of the obstacle closer to the pedestrian, so that a stop notification for walking can be appropriately performed to the pedestrian even when the obstacle exists on the crosswalk.

Abstract: An all-solid-state battery including a cell laminate including two or more unit cells, and a resin layer covering a side surface of the cell laminate, wherein each unit cell includes a positive electrode current collector layer, a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector layer laminated in this order, at least one of the positive electrode current collector layer, positive electrode active material layer, solid electrolyte layer, negative electrode active material layer, and negative electrode current collector layer includes extending parts which extend more outwardly from the side surface of the cell laminate than the other layers, and gaps are formed between the extending parts, and the ratio of the compressive modulus of the resin layer to the compressive modulus of the cell laminate is 0.4 or less.

Abstract: An electric vehicle cooling system, including: a first radiator installed at a vehicle and configured to cool a power unit driven by electrical power; and a second radiator installed at the vehicle, disposed at least at one side in a vehicle width direction, or another side in the vehicle width direction, of the first radiator so as not to overlap with the first radiator as viewed along a vehicle front-rear direction, and configured to cool an autonomous driving control device configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted seat device includes an SB main frame, a back rest which the back of a seated person leans on, a relay disc fixed to the back rest, a first engagement member fixed with respect to the SB main frame at a position higher than the relay disc, an upper wire for suspending and holding the back rest from the first engagement member so as to be able to swing with respect to the SB main frame with the relay disc being the center, and a height adjustment mechanism constructed to be capable of pulling in part of the upper wire, so that an amount by which the upper wire is pulled in is changed to cause a change in disposed height of the back rest with respect to the SB main frame.

Abstract: Power is transmitted between the input shaft and the rotor shaft by the sun gear and the gear meshing. This eliminates the need for bearings to receive radial loads. Further, a thrust bearing disposed between the one axial end surface of the sun gear and the input shaft, and a second ball bearing abutting the other axial end surface of the sun gear are provided. This eliminates the need for a bearing for receiving a thrust load of the sun gear. A terminal block is arranged in a space opposite to the planetary gear device with respect to the electric motor caused by the reduction of the bearing. Therefore, it is possible to dispose the terminal block while suppressing or avoiding the increase in the size of the vehicle drive device.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire a detected value of a sensor that detects presence or absence of a person within a predetermined range outside one or more openings that is formed in a wall surface of a first building, each of the one or more openings using light control glass, the wall surface facing outside, and control transmittance of the light control glass based on the detected value of the sensor. A building includes one or more opening that is formed in at least a wall surface that faces outside, the opening using light control glass; a sensor that detects presence or absence of a person within a predetermined range outside the one or more openings; and a control device that controls transmittance of the light control glass based on a detected value of the sensor.

Abstract: A server includes a processor configured to: acquire a starting time representing a time when a user starts to use a moving object including a rechargeable secondary battery; estimate a charging completion time by which a required amount of power is charged to the moving object; determine whether or not charging of the moving object is completed by the starting time based on the starting time and the charging completion time; and switch a charging mode of charging the moving object performed by a charging device from a usual charging mode to a rapid charging mode in a case where the charging of the moving object is not completed by the starting time.

Abstract: A control device for a series hybrid vehicle, the series hybrid vehicle including: an engine, a catalyst that is disposed in an exhaust path of the engine, a generator that generates electric power using power output from the engine, a battery that stores the electric power generated by the generator, and a traction electric motor that is driven with electric power of the battery, the control device including an electronic control unit configured to: acquire information on a temperature of the catalyst; and, when the information on the temperature of the catalyst is information corresponding to the temperature of the catalyst being equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature, change an operating point of the engine to an operating point that reduces a temperature of the exhaust gas while generating the electric power by the generator.

Abstract: A charging device disclosed herein includes an input port, an output port, and a relay circuit. The input port is electrically connected to an external power source provided externally and that is configured to be able to input direct-current power and alternating-current power from the external power source. The output port is electrically connected to an electrified vehicle and that outputs direct-current power to the electrified vehicle. The relay circuit relays electric power between the input port and the output port. The relay circuit includes a converter circuit that converts alternating-current power into direct-current power when the alternating-current power is input to the input port, and an input bypass circuit that causes direct-current power to bypass the converter circuit when the direct-current power is input to the input port.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle provided with a power source and a fluid transmission device that includes a lockup clutch. The control apparatus includes: (a) a follow-up-running control portion for controlling a follow-up running in which the vehicle automatically runs following a preceding vehicle with a predetermined inter-vehicle distance to the preceding vehicle; and (b) a lockup-clutch control portion for controlling the lockup clutch such that an operation state of the lockup clutch is placed in one of a released state, a slipping state or an engaged state. The lockup-clutch control portion is configured, during the follow-up running, to execute a fluid-temperature increase suppressing control for controlling the operation state of the lockup clutch in a manner that suppresses increase of a temperature of a working fluid which circulates in the fluid transmission device and which is used to switch the operation state of the lockup clutch.

Abstract: A boundary is at an engine drive restricted zone where operation of the internal combustion engine is restricted. An adjusting device adjusts of at least one of the temperature inside the cabin using electric power, the humidity inside the cabin using electric power, or the air pollution degree inside the cabin. In response to a prediction that (1) a host vehicle will enter the inside of the engine drive restricted zone and that (2a) the time period for the host vehicle to reach the boundary is within a preset time period or that (2b) the distance between the host vehicle and the boundary is within a preset distance, the value of at least one of the temperature inside the cabin, the humidity inside the cabin, and the air pollution degree inside the cabin is reduced before the host vehicle enters the inside of the engine drive restricted zone.

Abstract: A management device includes a communication unit that communicates with a company and a processor that calculates an amount of carbon dioxide emitted by manufacturing a product using a predetermined calculation method. The communication unit notifies the company of information including the amount of carbon dioxide, and the predetermined calculation method.

Abstract: An ECU of a vehicle control apparatus obtains, using a frontward PVM camera, front side target object information that includes information on a target object that is located in a blind angle detection area lateral to and outside of a target object detection area of a frontward camera. The ECU specifies, based on the front side target object information, a kind and a moving state of a blind angle target object, and determines a front side obstacle area based on the kind and moving state of the blind angle target object. When the ECU determines that a target object whose kind and moving state coincide with the kind and the moving state, respectively, to which the front side obstacle area corresponds is located in the front side obstacle area, the ECU decreases a driving force to suppress a start of moving of the host vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a housing attached to a vehicle and including an opening, an outer lens covering the opening of the housing and including an inner surface subjected to an anti-fogging treatment, and a light source disposed in an internal space defined by the housing and the outer lens. The inner surface of the outer lens includes a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region and positioned below the first region. The inner surface of the outer lens is provided with a protrusion, a step, or a groove along a boundary between the first region and the second region.

Abstract: A power storage device includes a terminal cover mounted in a terminal base. The terminal cover includes a base portion attached to the terminal base, cover the terminal base, and have an opening exposing a terminal bolt; and a cover portion attached to the base portion and covering at least the opening. The base portion has a first wall and a second wall protruding in a second direction from the base portion and facing each other with a wiring sandwiched therebetween.

Abstract: A vehicle has a function of drawing a notification display on a road surface with light. In a case where a shift position of the vehicle is a P range and a switch for turning off the drawing is selected, it is permitted to turn off the light of the drawing of the notification display. As another condition, in a case where there is no approaching object around the vehicle when the vehicle moves rearward and the switch for turning off the drawing is selected, it is permitted to turn off the light of the drawing of the notification display.

Abstract: A positive plate for a nonaqueous rechargeable battery includes a positive electrode substrate and a positive electrode mixture layer that contains at least a positive electrode active material. Particles of the positive electrode active material having a specific surface area of a range of 1.5 m2/g to 3.0 m2/g prior to manufacture of the positive plate for the nonaqueous rechargeable battery are used. A difference between a specific surface area of the positive plate for the nonaqueous rechargeable battery after manufacturing the positive plate for the nonaqueous rechargeable battery and the specific surface area of the particles of the positive electrode active material prior to manufacture of the positive plate for the nonaqueous rechargeable battery is in a range of 0.66 m2/g to 1.8 m2/g.

Abstract: A relay station comprises antennas, wireless devices corresponding to the antennas, and a controller to control an operation of the wireless devices. Each of the wireless devices includes a receiver to convert the first radio signal received by a corresponding antenna into a baseband signal, an FIR filter to assign a delay to the baseband signal; and a transmitter to convert a signal output from the FIR filter into a second radio signal transmitted from the corresponding antenna to the reception station. The controller sets a different delay amount in the FIR filter in each of the wireless devices so that the FIR filter assigns a delay, which is different from among the antennas, to the baseband signal input from the receiver in each of the wireless devices.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to determine a travel route for a vehicle traveling in a facility, the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to determine the travel route for the vehicle based on operation information on disaster prevention equipment installed in the facility and/or first image information including an image of a passageway in the facility, the image being captured by an imaging apparatus installed in the facility, and vehicle position information indicating a position of the vehicle, and a communication interface configured to transmit, to the vehicle, travel route information indicating the travel route.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure including: rockers structuring portions of vehicle transverse direction outer sides of a vehicle body lower portion; center pillars, whose lower portion at a vehicle lower side being structured to include an outer side wall portion positioned at vehicle transverse direction outer side of the rocker, and an inner side wall portion positioned at vehicle transverse direction inner side of the rocker; transverse direction supporting portions disposed at interiors of the rockers, at each of the transverse direction supporting portions being formed a transverse direction through-portion that extends in a vehicle transverse direction; and transverse direction mounting portions that are inserted, in the vehicle transverse direction, through outer side inserted-through portions provided in the outer side wall portions, inner side inserted-through portions provided in the inner side wall portions, and the transverse direction through-portions, and that detachably connect the rockers and the low

Abstract: A communication system includes a first communication station, one or more relay stations to be communicable with the first communication station, a second communication station to be communicable with the first communication station via any of the relay stations or without via any of the relay stations and a controller. The controller determines the relay station serving as an interposition in communications between the first communication station and the second communication station to maximize the communication path capacity between the first communication station and the second communication station under a predetermined constraint condition, the communication path capacity being calculated based on radio wave propagation characteristics between the first communication station and each of the relay stations, the characteristics between each of the relay stations and the second communication station, and the characteristics between the first communication station and the second communication station.

Abstract: The chair of the present disclosure includes a base, a seating surface positioned on the upper side of the base and seated by a user, a base and a seating surface are connected, a seating surface is maintained in a reference state, and a seating surface is inclined from the reference state in accordance with a force applied to the seating surface by the seating of the user in accordance with the reference state; an elastic support post installed on the upper side of the base and rotating about an axis in the vertical direction based on power; a plurality of support posts installed on the upper side of the rotating table and supporting the seating surface at the upper end portion when the seating surface is inclined; and a motor that generates power.

Abstract: An itinerary matching system according to the present disclosure includes a process of receiving registration of an itinerary, a process of extracting two registered itineraries from among a plurality of registered itineraries that have been registered and calculating a degree of matching between the two registered itineraries that have been extracted, a process of generating, upon receiving that the degree of matching exceeds a predetermined threshold value, a merged itinerary in which the two registered itineraries are merged, and a process of setting, upon receiving acceptance from a participant of each of the two registered itineraries, the participant of each of the two registered itineraries as a participant of the merged itinerary.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of exchanging data collected from sensors on a vehicle with data collected from sensors on another vehicle based on a severity of an event between the vehicles, sending the vehicle data to an entity associated with the other vehicle and sending the other vehicle data to an entity associated with the vehicle, and sending by the entities an action to take by each of the vehicles based on the sent vehicle data and the other vehicle data.

Abstract: A store terminal executes a process including a step S500 for determining whether or not to receive the allocation fee and a step S502 for determining whether or not there is a request for termination of use, and further including, when the allocation fee is received (YES in S500) and it is determined that there is a request for termination of use (YES in S502), a step S504 for acquiring a usage time, a step S506 for setting a discount amount, a step S508 for setting a usage fee, and a step S510 for executing a checkout process.

Abstract: A first relay station capable of performing, together with a second relay station, a non-replay relay for a first radio signal transmitted from a transmitting station for a receiving station having one antenna includes an antenna, a radio and a controller. The radio includes a receiver that converts the first radio signal into a baseband signal, an FIR filter that adds a delay to the baseband signal, and a transmitter that converts the signal output from the FIR filter into a second radio signal transmitted from the antenna to the receiving station. The controller ensures that the second radio signals transmitted from the respective antennas of the first and second relay stations have different delays, and that the FIR filter The delay is set in the FIR filter.

Abstract: A first module included in a first communication node executes: receiving, from a first application, a first packet that is generated in accordance with a first protocol and is generated addressed to a second communication node, adding first trace information to a predetermined region in the first packet, and passing the first packet, to which the first trace information is added, to a second layer in order to transmit the first packet to the second communication node. The first application executes deleting second trace information from a second packet that is sent from the second communication node and passing the second packet to the first application. In the case where the first application generates the first packet in response to the second packet, the first module generates, as the first trace information, information corresponding or identical to the second trace information included in the second packet.

Abstract: An energy management method includes determining whether a current time is within a target period, and executing energy management within the target period by a target resource selected from among a plurality of power storage devices. The executing the energy management includes charging the target resource to execute the energy management within the target period, and reselecting the target resource from among the power storage devices for suppression of a state in which each of the power storage devices reaches a target charging amount within the target period.