Abstract: Copper reacts with a sulfide solid electrolyte to generate copper sulfide when an anode current collector layer made from copper, and an anode mixture layer containing the sulfide solid electrolyte are used to compose an anode, and the resistance of the interface between the anode current collector layer and the anode mixture layer increases. To alloy an anode current collector layer to lower the reactivity to a sulfide solid electrolyte, specifically, an anode includes: an anode mixture layer; and an anode current collector layer that is in contact with the anode mixture layer, wherein the anode mixture layer contains an anode active material and a sulfide solid electrolyte, and at least a surface of the anode current collector layer is made from material that contains an alloy of copper and metal of a higher ionization tendency than copper, the surface being in contact with the anode mixture layer.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle with an engine and a rotary machine each coupled to a drive wheel in a power transmittable manner, comprises: an electronic control device that makes the rotary machine output a starting-time compensation torque to compensate a drop in a drive torque caused in a starting process of the engine in addition to a running torque when the engine is started while the vehicle is in a running state in which the drive torque is generated by the rotary machine and the engine is in a stopped state. The electronic control device starts the engine such that a starting-time inertia torque that is generated according to starting of the engine and causes the drop in the drive torque is made smaller when a torque margin of the rotary machine which is applied to the starting-time compensation torque is relatively small than when the torque margin is relatively large.

Abstract: The present cooling-water circulation system includes a cooling-tower-side circulation path for circulating cooling water between a cooling tower and a chiller machine, and a chiller-machine-side circulation path for circulating cooling water between the chiller machine 6 and a cooling target part. The cooling-tower-side circulation path and the chiller-machine-side circulation path are connected by a first connection pipe for introducing cooling water circulating in the chiller-machine-side circulation path into the cooling-tower-side circulation path.

Abstract: A cylinder head cover is mounted on a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine to cover a camshaft supported by the cylinder head. The cylinder head cover includes a cover main body and a baffle plate. The cover main body includes a head mounting surface to be connected to the cylinder head and a bulging portion bulging away from the cylinder head farther than the head mounting surface. The bulging portion includes a recess that is recessed to approach the head mounting surface. The recess includes a bottom wall inclined with respect to a horizontal plane in a state in which the cover main body is mounted on the internal combustion engine. The baffle plate is joined to a surface of the bulging portion facing the camshaft at least at a section corresponding to the bottom wall of the recess.

Abstract: An electric power conversion system includes: an inverter; a voltage converter including a high-voltage end connected to a direct-current power source and a low-voltage end connected to the inverter; and a controller. The controller is configured to control switching elements such that a voltage of the low-voltage end becomes lower than a voltage of the high-voltage end in a first state. The controller is configured to control the switching elements such that the voltage of the low-voltage end becomes equal to the voltage of the high-voltage end in a second state.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte laminate which can prevent a reduction in the discharge capacity of an all-solid-state battery despite the inclusion of an insulator such as alumina in the solid electrolyte laminate is disclosed. The disclosed solid electrolyte laminate includes a solid electrolyte and an insulator, wherein the solid electrolyte laminate has a multi-layer structure including a first low-insulator-content solid electrolyte layer, a high-insulator-content solid electrolyte layer, and a second low-insulator-content solid electrolyte layer laminated in this order. The content ratio of the insulator in each of the first and the second low-insulator-content solid electrolyte layer is lower than the content ratio of the insulator in the high-insulator-content solid electrolyte layer.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided with: a calculator configured to calculate a plurality of controlled variables for decelerating a host vehicle, if there are a plurality of deceleration targets ahead in a traveling direction of the host vehicle, in association with the plurality of deceleration targets; an output device configured to select and output one controlled variable from the plurality of controlled variables; and a controller programmed to perform the deceleration support control on the basis of the one controlled variable. When a deceleration support control is performed on the basis of a first controlled variable as the one controlled variable, the output device outputs a second controlled variable, which is different from the first controlled variable out of the plurality of controlled variables, instead of the first controlled variable as the one controlled variable, on condition that the second controlled variable is greater than a switching controlled variable.

Abstract: A vehicle side portion structure includes an inner member and an outer member that is disposed outward of the inner member in a vehicle width direction, the inner member and the outer member being bonded to each other through spot welding. An upper corner portion of the inner member is provided with a welded portion provided with a welding point on which the spot welding is performed, and a bead portion is provided in the vicinity of the welded portion of the inner member such that the bead portion surrounds the welded portion.

Abstract: An autonomous driving trajectory determination device that is configured to determine an autonomous driving trajectory of a vehicle is configured to include: a standard trajectory generation unit configured to generate a standard trajectory for the autonomous driving of the vehicle; a moving object behavior detection unit configured to detect a behavior of a moving object; a deviating moving object detection unit configured to detect a deviating moving object that deviates from a standard state set in advance based on the behavior of the moving object and the map information; a number-of-deviating-moving objects calculation unit configured to calculate the number of deviating moving objects, which is the number of deviating moving objects interfering with the standard trajectory; and a trajectory determination unit configured to determine whether or not to set the standard trajectory as the autonomous driving trajectory based on the number of deviating moving objects.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes: an information acquisition unit acquiring feature information indicating a feature regarding vehicle driving of an occupant of a vehicle; and a control unit changing at least one property included in a driving property or a manipulation property in the vehicle. Further, the control unit changes at least one property included in the driving property or the manipulation property of the vehicle, from a basic property of the vehicle to a property reflecting the feature information, based on the feature information, and brings the changed property close to the basic property of the vehicle in accordance with at least one of an integrated value of boarding hours, an integrated value of running distances, and the number of boardings of the vehicle of the occupant.

Abstract: A battery pack includes: a cell stack; a first duct and a second duct configured to feed cooling air toward the cell stack; and a housing case. The first duct and the second duct extend in a first direction and are spaced apart from each other in a second direction, the first direction being parallel to a front-back direction of a vehicle in a mounted state in which the battery pack is mounted on the vehicle, the second direction being parallel to a width direction of the vehicle in the mounted state. The first duct is arranged on an outer side of the cell stack on one side in the second direction, and the second duct is arranged on an outer side of the cell stack on the other side in the second direction.

Abstract: A front door includes: a door body; a door sash configuring a window frame; a window disposed in the window frame; and a pillar having an upper end connected to a front end of an upper sash of the door sash, the upper sash supporting an upper edge of the window, the pillar having a lower portion fixed to the door body. The pillar includes a frame portion extending downward from a connection position between the upper sash and the pillar. A window supporting portion is coupled to the frame portion above the door body so as to extend frontward from the frame portion. The window supporting portion is located more frontward than the frame portion as the window supporting portion is located more downward. A front end of the window is supported by the window supporting portion at a position more frontward than the frame portion.

Abstract: In a rear opening structure of a vehicle, a roof panel and a trough are arranged on an upper end of an opening for coupling a back door. Each of left and right ends of a vertical wall of the roof panel in the width direction includes a welding point where the roof panel and the trough are welded to each other. Beads that extend in the vertical direction are provided such that each of the beads is arranged in a vicinity of one of the welding points of the left and right ends of the vertical wall and on an inner side of the one of the welding points of the left and right ends. An end of each bead in the vertical direction is connected to at least one of a rear end surface and a horizontal wall of the roof panel.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an integrated sheet of a MEGA and a resin frame, capable of curing a UV curable adhesive in a short time by suppressing an inhibition of curing of the UV curable adhesive and thereby providing excellent productivity is provided. A manufacturing method for an integrated sheet in which a resin frame is bonded to a MEGA, includes preparing a laminate in which a gas diffusion layer is laminated on at least one surface of a MEA, applying a coating of an UV curable adhesive to the laminate; placing a resin frame on the UV curable adhesive and applying a pressure to the frame, and irradiating the UV curable adhesive with ultraviolet rays, in which the irradiating includes a first irradiation step, and a second irradiation step in which ultraviolet rays are applied with irradiation intensity higher than irradiation intensity in the first irradiation step.

Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a target position recognition unit configured to recognize a target position, a parking route generation unit configured to generate a parking route, and an automatic steering unit configured to automatically operate a steering device. The parking route generation unit generates a first route and a second route. The first route is a parking route to a temporary target position that is obtained by laterally moving the target position toward inside of the parking route in a turning direction. The second route is a parking route to the target position from a designated position in the middle of the first route. The automatic steering unit automatically operates the steering device to cause the subject vehicle to follow the first route until the subject vehicle reaches the designated position and to follow the second route from the designated position until the subject vehicle reaches the target position.

Abstract: The moving amount detection device includes: a plurality of optical sensors; a moving amount acquisition unit configured to acquire a moving amount of the moving body by using image data acquired from the optical sensors; and an arithmetic processing unit configured to detect the moving amount of the moving body in a coordinate system of a reference position on the moving body by performing arithmetic processing using the moving amount of the moving body in the predetermined coordinate systems of each of the plurality of optical sensors, wherein the plurality of optical sensors are disposed so that three or more of them are not arranged on the same straight line and the predetermined coordinate systems that are respectively set in the plurality of optical sensors have angles different from each other with respect to the coordinate system in the reference position.

Abstract: An evaporative fuel treating apparatus includes: a canister; a vapor passage configured to cause a fuel tank to communicate with the canister; a closure valve including a valve disc arranged in the vapor passage and a stepping motor configured to open and close the valve disc; and a control device configured to control the closure valve. The control device is configured, in opening the valve disc to perform a pressure relief operation of the fuel tank, to: execute a flow rate estimation processing that calculates an estimated flow rate of gas passing through the closure valve, based on the absolute value of the amount of change of in-tank pressure of the fuel tank and a space volume inside the fuel tank; and execute a motor control processing that controls the number of steps of the stepping motor such that the estimated flow rate approaches a required flow rate.

Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine provided with a combustion control part successively performing at least first main fuel injection and second main fuel injection for causing premix charged compression ignition of fuel so that a pressure waveform showing a change of a rate of cylinder pressure rise over time becomes a two-peak shape and a peak ratio which is a ratio of a first peak value of a first peak of the pressure waveform and a second peak value of a second peak falls within a predetermined range. The combustion control part calculates the ignition delay time of the fuel injected by the second main fuel injection (second ignition delay time) and reflects the injection correction amount in the target injection amount of the second main fuel injection (second target injection amount) if an injection correction amount is set for the amount of fuel injected from the fuel injector and the second ignition delay time is less than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A fuel cell includes: an electrolyte membrane; first and second catalyst layers respectively formed on first and second surfaces of the electrolyte membrane; and a separator, the first catalyst layer being arranged between the separator and the electrolyte membrane, wherein the separator includes first and second grooves through which reactant gas flows between the first catalyst layer and the separator.

Abstract: A dashboard component assembly for a vehicle, including: a cover-panel; a main body and an auxiliary body, the auxiliary body being retained on the main body so as to be movable in at least one dimension relative to the main body prior to installation of the cover-panel, the cover-panel is configured to cover at least a portion of each of the main body and the auxiliary body; a primary datum included by one of the cover-panel or the main body; a primary datum retainer included by the other of the cover-panel or the main body, the primary datum is configured to engage at least one primary datum retainer to cause a predetermined alignment of the cover-panel with regard to the main body; a secondary datum included by one of the cover-panel or the auxiliary body; a secondary datum receiver comprised by the other of the cover-panel or the auxiliary body.

Abstract: Provided is a parking navigation method and system including a vehicle including an in-vehicle computer system having at least one processor and associated memory device, wireless communication circuit, and display. The memory device storing an application program having instructions, the instructions when executed perform a method including: detecting, via the wireless communication circuit, entry into a parking structure, the parking structure including a capability of identifying open parking spaces, synchronizing the vehicle with the parking structure, determining an available parking space in the parking structure, generating a route to the available parking space, displaying a map having a route to the parking space.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a storage unit configured to store rental conditions of a vehicle presented by an owner of the vehicle and rental result information of the vehicle; an acquisition unit configured to acquire rental conditions and rental result information of the first vehicle from the storage unit; an analysis unit configured to extract rental result information of a second vehicle, the rental conditions of the first vehicle and rental conditions of the second vehicle being common in at least a part, compare and analyze the rental result information of the second vehicle and the rental result information of the first vehicle; a generation unit configured to generate, based on an analysis result, recommendation information on the rental conditions of the first vehicle for improving a rental result of the first vehicle; and an output unit configured to output the recommendation information.

Abstract: A decompression pin is inserted into a swing range of an end portion of a rocker arm, on a side which is supported by a lash adjuster, when the rocker arm has been inclined toward a direction in which a valve is opened. The decompression pin comes into contact with the end portion of the rocker arm 4 when the rocker arm is inclined toward a direction in which the valve is closed, and thereby restricts the rocker arm from returning to a position at which the valve is completely closed, and the valve becomes in a slightly opened state even in a compression stroke.

Abstract: A port injection valve injects fuel into an intake passage. A base injection amount is an injection amount proportional to an amount of fresh air introduced into a cylinder of an internal combustion engine. A division process involves dividing the base injection amount into a synchronous injection amount and an asynchronous injection amount. In an intake-synchronous injection, the fuel is injected in synchronization with a period in which an intake valve is open. In an intake-asynchronous injection, the fuel is injected at a time advanced with respect to the intake-synchronous injection. In a selective correction process, the asynchronous injection amount is corrected according to a required correction amount for the base injection amount, and the synchronous injection amount is not corrected.

Abstract: In a method for predicting deterioration of grease, the grease is applied between a semiconductor module and a cooler. The semiconductor module accommodates a semiconductor element. The method for predicting deterioration includes predicting deterioration of the grease after specified heat cycles by using: a variable G1/G2 that is acquired by dividing an initial storage modulus G1 of the grease by an initial loss modulus G2 of the grease at an expected maximum use temperature of the semiconductor element; and distortion dD of the grease at the time when the initial storage modulus G1 and the initial loss modulus G2 have the same value.

Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a NOx storage reduction catalyst, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst, and an electronic control unit configured to shift an operation state of the engine from a rich operation state to a lean operation state, in a case where an acquired temperature of the NOx storage reduction catalyst is higher than a storage limit temperature, and an acquired NH3 adsorption amount is equal to or larger than a lower limit adsorption amount when a lean operation restart request is made, and not to shift the operation state from the rich operation state to the lean operation state in a case where the acquired temperature of the NOx storage reduction catalyst is higher than the storage limit temperature and the acquired NH3 adsorption amount is smaller than the lower limit adsorption amount when the lean operation restart request is made.

Abstract: A vehicle door structure includes a mirror retainer having a main body, which is joined to the front end of an outer reinforcement with a part of the main body overlapping with the outer reinforcement. The mirror retainer includes an upper leg, which has a first facing surface facing a lower leg and is joined to the inner panel. The lower leg has a second facing surface facing the upper leg and is joined to the inner panel. A reinforcing member is connected to the first facing surface and at least one of a main body inner surface and the second facing surface so as to reinforce the mirror retainer.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided with: an acquirer configured to obtain an expected end timing of a first deceleration support control, which is a deceleration support control for a first target, and an expected start timing of a second deceleration support control, which is the deceleration support control for a second target, if there is the first target as a deceleration target ahead of a host vehicle in the traveling direction and if there is the second target as the deceleration target ahead of the first target; and a controller programmed or configured to perform an interpolation deceleration support control of interpolating the first deceleration support control and the second deceleration support control, in a predetermined period including at least a part of an interval between the expected end timing and the predicted start timing, if the interval is less than a first time.

Abstract: The on-vehicle device includes: an oscillation unit configured to output a clock signal; at least one calculation unit configured to operate on the basis of the clock signal; a temperature sensor; a load estimation unit configured to estimate a load on the calculation unit, and on the basis of the estimated load, estimate whether or not there is a possibility of temperature increase in the calculation unit; and a clock setting unit configured to set a frequency of the clock signal to be outputted from the oscillation unit, wherein the clock setting unit decreases the frequency of the clock signal, if the load estimation unit estimates that there is a possibility of temperature increase in the calculation unit, and the temperature measured by the temperature sensor is equal to or greater than a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A negative electrode material contains composite particles. Each of the composite particles contains a negative electrode active material particle and a film. The negative electrode active material particle contains a silicon oxide phase and a lithium silicate phase. The film covers a surface of the negative electrode active material particle. The film contains an anion-exchange resin. To an ion-exchange group of the anion-exchange resin, a fluoride ion is bound. The content of the anion-exchange resin in the negative electrode material is not higher than 33 mass %.

Abstract: Provided is a butt laser-welding method for a metallic member in which a laser beam is scanned so as to repeatedly cross butting surfaces of metallic members to weld the metallic members to each other. When the laser beam is scanned so as to cross the butting surfaces, the closer the laser beam comes to the butting surfaces, the more an irradiation energy density of the laser beam is increased. The bottom surfaces of the molten pools formed on the metallic members are inclined so as to descend toward the butting surfaces.

Abstract: A wiper mount bracket including an attachment portion, a pair of first welded portions each of which is provided with a welding point to be spot welded to the vehicle body, a second welded portion that is disposed on one side with respect to the attachment portion and the first welded portions in a direction perpendicular to an arrangement direction of the pair of first welded portions and that is provided with a welding point to be spot welded to the vehicle body, and a recess portion that is disposed between the second welded portion and the attachment portion together with the first welded portions. A protruding bead through which an input load from the wiper driving unit is transmitted toward an outer edge of the first welded portion is provided in a vicinity of each of the welding points of the first welded portions.

Abstract: A fuel cell vehicle capable of generating electric power in an optimum wet state is provided. A fuel cell vehicle including a fuel cell, a radiator configured to cool a coolant which has been warmed by cooling the fuel cell and send it back to the fuel cell, a grille shutter configured to adjust a flow rate of air taken into the radiator from an air intake, a sensor configured to measure an impedance of the fuel battery, and a control unit configured to control the grille shutter to open and close. The control unit controls the grille shutter to open when a measured value of the impedance becomes greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A problem is to provide a sliding member capable of easily improving friction characteristics, and a production method therefor. A solution is a sliding member 10, wherein a sliding portion 11 is formed of a metallic material, and the sliding member 10 has, on a surface of the sliding portion 11, a Cr-containing modified layer 12 formed by blasting a shot media containing Cr as a composition. The sliding member 10 slides under an environment of a lubricant containing Mo as an additive, in which active Cr exposed on the surface by sliding accelerates decomposition reaction of the additive contained in the lubricant to form a molybdenum disulfide-containing film having low friction on the surface of the sliding portion 11.

Abstract: A wheel house unit structure is provided which has a wheel house including a curved surface portion, a circular cylindrical suspension tower provided at the curved surface portion, at the vehicle front side, of the wheel house, and a reinforcement member connected to the curved surface portion of the wheel house and to an outer circumference of the suspension tower. The reinforcement member has a ridge which connects the curved surface portion and the outer circumference of the suspension tower in a front-and-rear direction of the vehicle, and forms a closed cross section structure with the curved surface portion of the wheel house and the outer circumference of the suspension tower.

Abstract: An onboard device transfers an encrypted message encrypted outside a vehicle to one or more vehicle controllers connected to a vehicle network. When the encrypted message is an individual message to one of the vehicle controllers, the onboard device transmits the encrypted message to the one of the vehicle controllers via the vehicle network. When the encrypted message is a common message to the one or more vehicle controllers, the onboard device decrypts the encrypted message using an encryption key owned by the onboard device and then transmits the decrypted message to the one or more vehicle controllers via the vehicle network.

Abstract: The vehicle braking device includes a pilot pressure control portion which executes normal control in which the pilot pressure is controlled in response to the target value of the servo pressure and shortening control in which the change amount of the pilot pressure per unit time is greater than the change amount under the normal control in a mutually different timing, a state judging portion which judges the state of the master piston relating hysteresis of sliding resistance of the master piston based on the detection result of the servo pressure detecting portion or the liquid pressure co-relating with the servo premeasure and a control switching over portion which terminates the shortening control based on the detection result of the servo pressure detecting portion and the detection result of the state judging portion.

Abstract: A method and system of evaluating shift performance of an automatic transmission system having gears and a torque converter. The method includes driving the automatic transmission with an input motor while applying a rotational load by a pair of output motors. A command is applied to a solenoid to change fluid pressure, the time of issuance of the command is recorded, and the transmission shifts between a pair of the gears. Periodic measurements are made for transmission output torque. Threshold values are determined for the torque converter rotation speed and for the transmission output torque. A lag time is determined between the threshold for the turbine speed and the detected time for the solenoid. An engage time is determined based on the torque threshold and the turbine speed threshold. Lag time, peak transmission, and output torque are used to judge performance of the automatic transmission system.

Abstract: A front left speaker cover for a front left speaker includes a first hole forming portion in which holes each having a bottom are formed. The first hole forming portion is a section including a first edge of the front left speaker cover. The holes include a first hole and a second hole. The first hole is formed in the first edge of the front left speaker cover and opens in a surface direction of the front left speaker cover. The second hole is formed in a section different from the first edge and a fourth edge. The distance from the surface of the front left speaker cover to the bottom of the first hole is shorter than the distance from the surface of the front left speaker cover to the bottom of the second hole.

Abstract: The modular wheelchair system includes an upper component, and an autonomous power base configured to detachably couple to the upper component. The autonomous power base includes one or more processors, one or more memory modules, and machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the autonomous power base to: determine whether the upper component is separated from the autonomous power base; and navigate to a location in response to determination that the upper component is detached from the autonomous power base.

Abstract: When an abnormality occurs in the main ECU, assist control A or B is executed by the substitute ECU as emergency traveling path control. The assist control A is executed when the target path TP_RS does not intersect the white lane. In the assist control A, feedforward control is executed for making the subject vehicle M travel along the target path TP_RS. In the assist control A, feedback control is also executed to keep the distance LD_CL in the transverse direction from the center of the traveling lane to the reference position. The assist control B is executed when the target path TP_RS intersects the white lane. In the assist control B, only the feedforward control is executed in which the subject vehicle M is controlled to travel along the target path TP_RS.

Abstract: An information retrieval server includes a communication device and a processing device. The communication device communicates with servers of a plurality of business operators and a communication terminal of a user through a communication network, each of the plurality of business operators performing a car sharing service. The processing device presents information relevant to vehicles held by the plurality of business operators, to the user, acquires information input from the communication terminal, the information being information about a predetermined item included in a use condition for the car sharing service, causes the servers of the plurality of business operators to retrieve a vehicle satisfying a use condition determined by the acquired information, from the held vehicles, and sends information relevant to the retrieved vehicle, to the communication terminal.

Abstract: A fuel cell includes: an electrolyte membrane; first and second catalyst layers respectively formed on first and second surface of the electrolyte membrane; and a separator disposed opposite to the electrolyte membrane with respect to the first catalyst layer.

Abstract: A controller includes a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit is configured to acquire control information for a vehicle from an information processing device via wired communication or wireless communication. The processing unit is configured to execute a process of starting vehicle control based on the control information depending on a result of an authentication process for use authority over the control information. Subscription information about the use authority is composed of a block-chain managed by a plurality of electronic control units in the vehicle. The authentication process is executed based on the subscription information composed of the block-chain.

Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus is operated so as to increase an upon-stopping fuel pressure in accordance with an increase in an upon-stopping vehicle speed, the upon-stopping fuel pressure being a fuel pressure in a state in which an internal combustion engine is intermittently stopped, the upon-stopping vehicle speed being a vehicle speed upon intermittently stopping the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A vehicle body reinforcing structure includes: a panel-shaped reinforcing member having a through-hole penetrating through the reinforcing member in a plate-thickness direction of the reinforcing member and located inside a closed-section structure of a vehicle body framework portion; a first panel located at a position closer to an outside of the vehicle than the reinforcing member is; a second panel constituting the closed-section structure with the first panel and located at a position closer to an inside of the vehicle than the reinforcing member is; and a foaming adhesive member filled in an internal space of the closed-section structure, wherein the first panel and the second panel are bonded to each other by the foaming adhesive member penetrating through the through-hole of the reinforcing member, and the foaming adhesive member is filled between the first panel and the reinforcing member and between the second panel and the reinforcing member.

Abstract: A fuel cell includes: a membrane electrode assembly; and a separator disposed on one side of the membrane electrode assembly, wherein the separator includes flow path grooves through which reactant gas flows between the separator and the membrane electrode assembly, the flow path grooves include: wavy grooves wavily extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and a linear groove linearly extending in the first direction, the wavy grooves include: a first wavy groove located closest to the linear groove among the wavy grooves; and a second wavy groove located opposite to the linear groove with respect to the first wavy groove, and amplitude of the first wavy groove is smaller than that of the second wavy groove.

Abstract: A management server and a user terminal include a detection unit, a luggage information identification unit, a matching unit, and an output unit. Luggage identification data employed to identify luggage carried by a rider is input to the user terminal if the rider rideshares a vehicle. By making a rideshare reservation after a loading position of the luggage in the vehicle has been determined if the luggage is loadable therein, the rider is able to load the luggage being carried with reference to information indicating the loading position indicated by the output unit if ridesharing the vehicle.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle transmission that includes: transmission gears disposed on a shaft; a switching mechanism which is to be switched between a connecting state in which one of the transmission gears is rotatable integrally with the shaft and a disconnecting state in which the one of the transmission gears is rotatable relative to the shaft; a shift fork for axially moving the switching mechanism; and a shift barrel to be rotated to position the shift fork. The switching mechanism includes first and second rings and an elastic member which is disposed between the first and second rings in the axial direction and connects the first and second rings. The control apparatus determines that a failure occurs in the vehicle transmission, when a value related to a reaction force that acts on the shift barrel during rotation of the shift barrel is deviated from a predetermined range.

Abstract: A vehicle search system capable of searching a vehicle having an operating feel which matches, as much as possible, a driving tendency of a user. The vehicle search system includes: a storage unit which stores driving characteristic information indicating a driving tendency of a user; a storage unit which stores operating feel characteristic information indicating an operating feel of each of a plurality of vehicles; and a searching unit which compares the driving characteristic information and the operating feel characteristic information with each other and searches, among the plurality of vehicles, one or more vehicles having a degree of matching with the driving tendency of the user that exceeds a threshold.