Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery including an electrode body, a current collector terminal disposed on a side surface of the electrode body, and a laminate film covering the electrode body and the current collector terminal. The current collector terminal has a first surface opposed to the electrode body, a second surface opposed to the first surface, a third surface extending from an outer edge of the first surface toward the second surface side, and a first connecting surface connecting the third surface and the second surface. When the battery is viewed in the thickness direction, the boundary between the third surface and the first connecting surface is set to B1, and the boundary between the first connecting surface and the second surface is set to B2, the B2 is located inside the B1 in the thickness direction. The laminate film covers the third surface and the first connecting surface.

Abstract: A vehicle communication system, including plural control devices configured to carry out communication with one another, wherein a transmitting device and a receiving device each include a memory and a processor. The processor at the transmitting device generates first authentication information based on a message and the encryption key, and in a case in which there is an abnormality at the encryption key, transmits the predetermined authentication information and the message to the receiving device. The processor at the receiving device generates second authentication information based on the encryption key and the received message, collates the first authentication information and the second authentication information, and authenticates the message, and in a case in which, after starting-up of the receiving device, authentication has not succeeded even once, and the received first authentication information and the predetermined authentication information match, accepts the received message.

Abstract: A method for determining alternative fuel vehicle options for a driver includes obtaining, with a controller, a vehicle driving dataset for a first vehicle, where the vehicle driving dataset comprises CAN bus data of the first vehicle logged for a period of time, assigning points to one or more alternative fuel vehicles based on application of a set of point-based rules to one or more subsets of the vehicle driving dataset, identifying a second vehicle from the one or more alternative fuel vehicles having a greatest number of assigned points, and outputting an alternative fuel vehicle recommendation comprising the second vehicle.

Abstract: An inside handle may include: a handle body disposed in an opening and operated by a user; and a handle base that supports the handle body such that the handle body is capable of swinging around a rotation shaft parallel to the opening between an ordinary position and an operation position. The handle body may include: a design surface disposed along the opening when the handle body is at the ordinary position; an operation surface that extends from a distal end of the design surface relative to the rotation shaft to the interior of the opening, the operation surface forming a concave portion in which a finger of the user that operates the handle body is disposed; a pair of protection walls that is positioned on both sides of the concave portion formed by the operation surface and that extends from the design surface to the interior of the opening.

Abstract: An exercise community formation apparatus includes an exercise-related information acquisition unit configured to acquire exercise-related information for each of a plurality of members belonging to a specific community, an extraction unit configured to extract at least two or more members from the plurality of members based on the exercise-related information for each of the plurality of members, and an output unit configured to output a result of the extraction. The exercise-related information indicates a proficiency level for each of at least one or more exercise subjects of the corresponding member and a time period to which the corresponding member can assign an exercise.

Abstract: In a vehicle lid seal structure, one of a housing and a lid is provided with an annular sealing member on a face facing the other. A cross-sectional structure of the annular sealing member includes a base portion and a lip portion. The base portion is attached to one of the housing and the lid. The lip portion extends from the base portion toward the other of the housing and the lid. The lip portion includes a connecting end between the lip portion and the base portion, and a free end that is an end portion opposite to the connecting end of the lip portion. Further, the lip portion is provided with a folding starting point between the connecting end and the free end. The folding starting point is provided for causing folding deformation of the lip portion toward a radially-outward side of the annular sealing member.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an interface configured to acquire an image of a first user, information regarding posture or motion of the first user, and information regarding posture or motion of a second user, and a controller configured to generate difference information regarding a difference between the posture or motion of the first user and the posture or motion of the second user. The controller is configured to notify the second user of the difference information while controlling a display device to display the image of the first user or an image of the second user.

Abstract: A method of filling a tank with hydrogen includes: a step of attaching a filling tank to a filling device; and a step of controlling hydrogen filling from the filling device to the filling tank based on a temperature sensor provided in a dummy tank.

Abstract: The tourism support device includes a reception unit that receives a selection of an area by a user and a destination in the area, a display unit that displays an icon for receiving a selection of a purpose including a map of the area and a movement unit, a control unit that performs control to superimpose a marker on the map at a position where the purpose can be achieved in accordance with the selected purpose, and a presentation unit that presents the movement unit and the tourist spot recommended in the area in accordance with the destination when the purpose related to the movement unit is selected.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a confirmation section that confirms, at a time of vehicle door locking, whether or not an information processing device configured to be used to perform the vehicle door locking, is inside the vehicle; a determination section that, in a case in which it has not been confirmed by the confirmation section that the information processing device is inside the vehicle, determines whether or not vibration or movement of the information processing device has been detected within a predetermined period of time from the door locking; and an actuation section that, in a case in which vibration or movement of the information processing device has not been detected by the determination section, actuates an alarm.

Abstract: A stator includes a core having a yoke having an annular shape, and teeth protruding toward a center of the yoke and provided at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the yoke, a coil disposed to surround the teeth, a power line connected to a coil end portion of the coil, protruding in an axial direction of the core, and having one end and the other end, the power line having a terminal portion connected to the other end opposite to the one end connected to the coil end portion, a bent portion bent to extend in a predetermined direction, and a coating portion coating the bent portion over both ends of the bent portion, and a mold portion surrounding the coil end portion and integrally surrounding the coil end portion, the one end of the power line, and at least part of the coating portion.

Abstract: Power electronics device assemblies, circuit board assemblies, and power electronics assemblies are disclosed. In one embodiment, a power electronics device assembly includes an S-cell including a first metal layer, a first graphite layer bonded to the first metal layer, an electrically insulating layer bonded to the first graphite layer, a second graphite layer bonded to the electrically insulating layer and a second metal layer bonded to the second graphite layer, the second metal layer comprising a surface and a recess provided within the surface. The power electronics device assembly further includes a power electronics device disposed within the recess of the surface.

Abstract: The vehicle controller is programmed to make a communication attempt from the first communication device to an energy supply device when the energy supply device supplies energy to the energy storage device from an external energy supply device; supply energy with communication between the first communication device and the energy supply device when a response is received from the energy supply device to the communication attempt; and supply energy with communication between the second communication device and the energy supply device when no response is received from the energy supply device to the communication attempt.

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to adjusting a prediction model for control at handling limits associated with a projected trajectory during automated driving. In one embodiment, a method includes adjusting parameters of a prediction model using friction estimates and sideslip costs associated with a projected trajectory of a vehicle, the friction estimates being derived from Kalman filtering. The method also includes scaling, using the prediction model, handling limits of the vehicle for the projected trajectory according to a friction circle. The method also includes generating, by the prediction model, vehicle dynamics using a load transfer and a brake distribution, the vehicle dynamics being associated with estimated road conditions and the handling limits. The method also includes outputting, by the prediction model using the vehicle dynamics, a driving command to the vehicle for the projected trajectory.

Abstract: A communication control method for controlling a communication between a transmission-side device and a reception-side device is provided. The communication control method includes data transmission processing that transmits multiple types of transmission target data in parallel from the transmission-side device to the reception-side device by using multiple communication lines. The data transmission processing includes: acquiring an available communication speed of each of the multiple communication lines; acquiring data priority of the multiple types of transmission target data; selecting the multiple communication lines one by one in sequence; and allocating the multiple types of transmission target data to the selected communication line in an order of the data priority such that the selected communication line is used up to a specified speed equal to or lower than the available communication speed of the selected communication line.

Abstract: The server includes a communication unit that acquires, by communication, information related to a performance in power control of electrified vehicle. In addition, the server includes a processor (control unit) that performs control to provide a privilege related to the communication service to the user of electrified vehicle based on the acquired information related to the track record.

Abstract: A drive device includes: an electric motor; an electric motor temperature sensor that measures a temperature regarding the electric motor; a power control device; an oil circuit that cools the electric motor with oil circulated by an oil pump; an oil temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the oil; a water circuit that cools the power control device with water; a water temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the water; a heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the oil circuit and the water circuit; and a control device. The control device drives the power control device and the electric motor for heat generation when the temperature regarding the oil is equal to or lower than a first threshold value, and detects a failure based on transition of the temperature of the electric motor, transition of the temperature of the oil, and transition of the temperature of the water.

Abstract: A holding device includes: a grip portion that holds a side surface of one side of a workpiece; a supporting portion that supports the grip portion and moves the workpiece; a detection unit that detects a force applied to the grip portion; and a control unit that controls an angle of the supporting portion with respect to the ground such that a force detected by the detection unit does not exceed a threshold value when the supporting portion moves the workpiece.

Abstract: An incentive providing system capable of letting a user behave in such a way that his/her stress level is lowered and thus reducing his/her stress is provided. The incentive providing system according to the present disclosure executes: processing for acquiring a stress level indicating a degree of stress of a user; and providing an incentive for a user in a case in which the stress level of the user is lower than a predetermined standard.

Abstract: The battery pack includes a cell stack and a battery case. The cell stack is formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape. The battery case is formed in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and accommodates the cell stack. The battery case includes a first protrusion protruding from an outer surface of the battery case to an outside of the battery case at a position of a gap between adjacent battery cells in a stacking direction of the cell stack.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of: determining a first subgroup of a group of vehicles and a second subgroup of the group of vehicles, wherein the second subgroup has a higher carbon footprint than the first subgroup; and determining a driving behavior modification of a vehicle in the second subgroup based on a driving behavior of one or more vehicles in the first subgroup.

Abstract: Systems, vehicles, and methods for seatbelt assistance. A system may include a sensor. The sensor may be configured to detect a physical property of a user sitting on a seat. The system may further include a motor. The motor may be configured to extend a seatbelt part towards a body center of the user. The system may further include an electronic control unit (ECU). The ECU may be coupled to the sensor and the motor. The ECU may be configured to receive the detected physical property of the user. The ECU may be further configured to prompt the motor to extend the seatbelt part towards the body center of the user based on the detected physical property of the user.

Abstract: A connector described herein includes a circuit board housing, circuit board terminals, an electric cable housing, electric wire terminals, and a holder. The circuit board housing is fixed to a circuit board. The circuit board terminals are held by the circuit board housing. The electric cable housing is coupled to an end of the electric cable. The electric wire terminals are held by the electric cable housing. The holder maintains electrical connection between the circuit board terminals and the electric wire terminals. The holder is fixed to the circuit board housing and the electric cable housing. The holder has a strength less than a strength of the circuit board housing and a strength of the electric cable housing.

Abstract: A vehicle bumper assembly includes an adaptive energy absorption module operatively connected to a vehicle bumper body. The adaptive energy absorption module includes a primary deformable impact absorber member defining a primary impact chamber having a shape that is structurally adaptive or otherwise conforms to an impact force received by the bumper body. A secondary deformable impact absorber member is arranged in the primary impact chamber and defines a secondary impact chamber containing a shear thickening fluid that exhibits a decreasing viscosity responsive to the impact force. A plurality of fluidically connected tertiary deformable impact absorber members are arranged in an array the primary impact chamber and defines a plurality of tertiary impact chambers containing a volume of fluid, and has a shape that is structurally adaptive to the impact force.

Abstract: An engine control system according to the present disclosure includes an oil temperature sensor and a waste gate valve control unit. The oil temperature sensor detects a temperature of an engine oil. The waste gate valve control unit controls opening and closing of a waste gate valve based on the temperature of the engine oil detected by the oil temperature sensor. More specifically, when the temperature of the engine oil detected by the oil temperature sensor is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, the waste gate valve control unit controls the waste gate valve so that it opens.

Abstract: An exercise apparatus includes a pedal main part on which a user U in a sitting posture places his/her foot, a pedal support part configured to support the pedal main part so that the pedal main part is movable within a predetermined range along a foot-length direction, and a guiding mechanism configured to guide the pedal support part so that the pedal support part moves along a predetermined rotational trajectory in a cyclic manner. According to the above-described configuration, it is possible to prevent each of joints such as a hip joint, a knee joint, and an ankle joint from moving outside the range of movement of the joint. The exercise apparatus may also include a rubber tube that resists the movement of the pedal main part relative to the pedal support part.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of encrypting, by a transport, received data based on a first biometric associated with an occupant, unencrypting, by the transport, the encrypted data, based on a verification of a second biometric, wherein the second biometric is a continuum of the first biometric, and providing, by the transport, the unencrypted data to the occupant.

Abstract: A wire harness attachment structure for a vehicle seat capable of being flipped up from a usage position where the vehicle seat is disposed on a floor to a storage position where the vehicle seat is disposed along a standing wall portion of a vehicle body, includes: a rotation shaft that couples the vehicle seat to the standing wall portion; a guide member including a pair of wall portions arranged to face each other in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, and being partly opened in a radial direction between the wall portions; and a wire harness that electrically couples the vehicle seat and the vehicle body. A portion of the wire harness is disposed between the wall portions and does not come into contact with a member other than the wall portions when the vehicle seat is flipped up from the usage position to the storage position.

Abstract: Each cell forming a battery stack has a discharge valve configured to discharge gas in the inside to the outside when an internal pressure increases. A case houses the battery stack. A plate member is provided between each discharge valve and an upper case. The plate member is arranged to overlap with each discharge valve when the battery stack and the plate member are planarly viewed from above.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to determine whether to include a regenerative brake in specifications of a proposed vehicle based on regenerative brake operation data acquired while a first vehicle including the regenerative brake is traveling in a predetermined area. The proposed vehicle is a vehicle proposed as a vehicle for a customer to drive in the predetermined area.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires images captured by a camera mounted in a vehicle, and a memory that can store the images. The controller acquires travel data on the vehicle for when the image was captured and stores the image in the memory in a case in which the travel data satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a first health characteristic of an occupant from a first device affixed to a transport, responsive to the first health characteristic being at or outside a threshold, receiving a second health characteristic of the occupant from a second device affixed to the occupant, and sending a notification to other devices that were proximate the second device when the second health characteristic is outside the threshold.

Abstract: A processor controls a first display section and a second display section provided to a vehicle such that when an occupant of the vehicle has performed a first operation while in a state in which a message is being displayed on the first display section and the second display section, the message is cleared from the first display section and the message continues to be displayed on the second display section.

Abstract: A battery system includes a nickel-metal hydride battery and an ECU that controls charging and discharging of the nickel-metal hydride battery. The ECU calculates a discharge electricity amount showing an integrated value of a current discharged from the nickel-metal hydride battery, and further calculates ?SOC of the nickel-metal hydride battery in a prescribed time period. The ECU calculates a charge reserve capacity of the nickel-metal hydride battery based on a temperature of the nickel-metal hydride battery, the discharge electricity amount, and the ?SOC.

Abstract: To provide a catalyst layer that is low in gas diffusion resistance and proton resistance even when a support having a small specific surface area is used. The catalyst layer is a catalyst layer for fuel cells, wherein the catalyst layer comprises a catalyst metal, a support and a conductive additive; wherein the support supports the catalyst metal; wherein a specific surface area of the support is 600 m2/g-C or less; wherein the conductive additive does not support the catalyst metal and has a larger aspect ratio than the support; wherein the aspect ratio of the conductive additive is more than 10; wherein, when a total mass of the catalyst layer is 100 mass %, a percent of the conductive additive contained in the catalyst layer is more than 2 mass % and less than 20 mass %; and wherein the conductive additive is a non-hydrophilized conductive additive.

Abstract: Liftgate assemblies with accessory hooks are disclosed. A liftgate assembly includes a door assembly movable in a vehicle vertical direction to an open position. The door assembly includes an interior surface panel, at least one hook disposed on the interior surface panel, and a controller communicatively coupled to the door assembly. The controller is configured to determine a presence of an item suspended from the hook when the door assembly is in the open position, transmit an alert, and prevent the door assembly from closing.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a transport, in a group of transports associated with a date of disposition, is operating below an efficiency threshold of the group of transports, and limiting transports, in the group of transports, that are operating most above the efficiency threshold, from performing functionality until the group of transports is at the efficiency threshold.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatus and methods for a power electronics assembly includes a cold plate assembly and one or more power device assemblies. The cold plate assembly includes a manifold including a heat sink cavity in a first surface and a heat sink. The heat sink includes one or more substrate cavities and the heat sink is positioned in the heat sink cavity. The one or more power device assemblies are positioned within the one or more substrate cavities. Each power device assembly of the one or more power assemblies includes a direct bonded metal (DBM) substrate including a first metal layer directly bonded to an insulator layer and a power device. The DBM substrate includes a power device cavity. The power device is positioned in the power device cavity and the power device is electronically coupled to the first metal layer.

Abstract: An exterior structure of a vehicle includes a charging port for external charging and a sensor unit for automated driving. The sensor unit is provided on at least one surface of a front surface, a back surface, and a side surface of the vehicle, and is provided to protrude outside the vehicle from the surface. The charging port is provided below the sensor unit.

Abstract: An omni-wheel may include a shaft, a plurality of rollers, and a braking device. The plurality of rollers may be circumferentially arranged about the shaft and arranged radially outward from the shaft. The braking device may include a fluid-filled bladder and a plurality of braking pads. The fluid-filled bladder may be circumferentially arranged about the shaft. The plurality of braking pads may be arranged between the fluid-filled bladder and the plurality of rollers. The fluid-filled bladder may expand radially outward when pressurized, displacing the plurality of braking pads radially outward to contact the plurality of rollers, preventing rotation of the rollers.

Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, method includes obtaining multi-level environment data corresponding to a plurality of driving environment levels, encoding the multi-level environment data at each level, extracting features from the multi-level environment data at each encoded level, fusing the extracted features from each encoded level with a spatial-temporal attention framework to generate a fused information embedding, and decoding the fused information embedding to predict driving environment information at one or more driving environment levels.

Abstract: Control circuitry executes an increase correction control for fuel when an internal combustion engine is started. A determination process determines whether warm-up in a cylinder is completed. A direct injection mode injects fuel only from a direct injection valve when it is determined that the warm-up in the cylinder is completed. A reduction process sets an increase correction amount of fuel obtained through the increase correction control when executing the direct injection mode to be less than an increase correction amount obtained prior to the execution of the direct injection mode.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method fluid flow measurements which include a pressure transducer and a flexible tube. The pressure transducer is tuned to measure flow speeds having a Reynolds number less than 100 and include an inlet. The flexible tube has a first end fluidly coupled to the inlet and a second end positioned adjacent to and in fluid communication with a plurality of fluid outlets of a microchannel flow structure. Each of the plurality of fluid outlets has a cross section defining an outlet area. The second end has a cross section defining a flexible tube area that is larger than the outlet area.

Abstract: An actuator that utilizes a Coulomb force is provided. An actuator (10) includes a base electrode (2), a counter electrode (4) opposing the base electrode (2), a first terminal (31) connected to the base electrode (2), and a second terminal (32) connected to the counter electrode (4). At least a surface (2c) of the base electrode (2) that opposes the counter electrode (4) is covered with an insulating layer (6). The counter electrode (4) includes a flexible electrical conductor being deformable by a Coulomb force acting between the base electrode (2) and the counter electrode (4) when a voltage is applied between the first terminal (31) and the second terminal (32).

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes power generation cells, which are stacked in a vertical direction. Each power generation cell is configured to generated power by using gas. Each power generation cell includes a first hole and a second hole. The first holes of the power generation cells form a gas manifold. The gas manifold extends in the vertical direction, and the gas flows through the gas manifold. The second holes of the power generation cells form a passage. The passage is adjacent to the gas manifold and extends in the vertical direction. The gas manifold and the passage are connected to each other at upper ends of the gas manifold and the passage.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a speech acquiring section that acquires speech data related to a speech of a speaker; a state acquiring section that acquires information indicating whether or not a driver attempting to start driving a vehicle is in an intoxicated state based on the speech data; and a control section configured to limit a start operation of the vehicle in a case in which the information indicates that the driver is in the intoxicated state, the start operation being an operation performed by the driver with respect to the vehicle to start driving the vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a parking assist apparatus for a vehicle, the parking assist apparatus including a first module configured to set, as a movement path, a path along which the vehicle is movable to a target position, and determine movement assist information for moving the vehicle along the movement path; and a second module configured to execute parking assist control such that the vehicle moves in accordance with the determined movement assist information, the second module being further configured to, when an occupant performs a first operation before the vehicle has reached the target position, stop the vehicle, and execute pause processing for maintaining the movement assist information.

Abstract: A damping control apparatus has a control unit that controls an active actuator that generates a control force for damping a sprung, and the control unit determines a predicted wheel passage position where a wheel is predicted to pass, performs a high-pass filtering on a first road surface displacement-related value, performs a low-pass filtering on a second road surface displacement-related value, calculates a target control force for damping the sprung when the wheel passes through the predicted wheel passage position based on a sum of the first road surface displacement-related value after high-pass filtering and the second road surface displacement-related value after low-pass filtering, and the second road surface displacement-related value has a higher possibility that a position where a control force corresponding to the target control force is generated misaligns with the predicted wheel passage position as compared with the first road surface displacement-related value.

Abstract: A vehicle is provided that includes a battery management system with an energy storage device configured to power the vehicle. The energy storage device includes a battery module with: at least one sensor, a processor, and an optical transceiver. The battery management system also includes a control unit to control the energy storage device, and a control unit optical transceiver configured for bidirectional free-space optical communication with the battery module optical transceiver via a free-space optical communication link. The battery module processor is configured to receive sensor readings and transmit them to the control unit via the free-space optical communication link. Based on the sensor readings, the control unit sends commands to the battery module processor via the free-space optical communication link.