Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a first vehicle communication unit performing communication with a mobile terminal, a first distance measuring unit measuring, with first precision, a vehicle-terminal distance being a distance between a vehicle and the mobile terminal, a terminal position information obtaining unit obtaining terminal position information transmitted from the mobile terminal, a second distance measuring unit measuring the vehicle-terminal distance with second precision being measurement precision lower than the first precision based on the terminal position information, and a high-precision distance measurement determining unit determining whether the first distance measuring unit is caused to measure the vehicle-terminal distance or not based on the vehicle-terminal distance measured by the second distance measuring unit.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a vehicle communication control unit performing communication with a mobile terminal positioning within an out-vehicle communication area, a distance measuring unit measuring a vehicle-terminal distance, the vehicle-terminal distance being a distance between a vehicle and the mobile terminal, and a distance measurement control unit measuring the vehicle-terminal distance by switching, based on a predetermined condition, between a first distance measurement mode repeatedly measuring the vehicle-terminal distance by the distance measuring unit without depending on reception of measurement instruction information transmitted from the mobile terminal and a second distance measurement mode measuring the vehicle-terminal distance by the distance measuring unit in response to reception of the measurement instruction information when communication is established between the vehicle communication control unit and the mobile terminal.

Abstract: In a vehicle utilization supporting system, a total charge calculation part calculates a total charge including a travel charge calculated by a travel charge calculation part and a predicted excess charge calculated by a predicted excess charge calculation part. In a case where a plurality of moving routes are extracted by a moving route extraction part, a moving route selection information provision part provides selection information of the moving routes based on the total charge for each moving route calculated by the total charge calculation part and predicted moving time for each moving route calculated by a predicted moving time calculation par.

Abstract: A depositing application acceptance unit accepts a baggage depositing request for requesting deposition, in a depositing space, of baggage stored in a vehicle. An end-of-use condition recognition unit recognizes an end-of-use time point and an end-of-use place of the vehicle. A baggage transfer asking unit transmits, to a communication terminal of a transfer service provider, baggage transfer asking information for asking for transfer of the baggage to the depositing space from the vehicle, the baggage transfer asking information including information of the end-of-use time point and the end-of-use place of the vehicle, when the depositing request acceptance unit accepts the baggage depositing request.

Abstract: A process for the thermal cracking of hydrocarbons by feeding them into a line together with a fused salt, which comprises: feeding a fused salt mixed with steam into a reaction tube of a thermal cracking furnace of external heating type and further feeding raw hydrocarbons mixed with steam into said reaction tube to thermally crack the raw hydrocarbons; quenching the resulting fluid mixture of the cracking products, fused salt and steam in a quenching device, then dividing the fluid mixture into the fused salt and a gaseous substance, removing sludge and, if necessary, sulfur compounds from thus separated fused salt and recirculating the fused salt to the reaction tube and the quenching device; and dividing thus separated gaseous substance into an oil containing coke, tarry substances and fused salt mist and the intended cracking gas, and subjecting the oil to treatment with steam to convert the coke and tarry substance in the oil into water gas or to partial burning treatment with air or oxygen to divide th

Abstract: Hydrocarbons are cracked in the presence of a mist of molten salt containing of basic compounds of alkali and alkaline earth metals and mixtures thereof, the amount of the molten salt to hydrocarbon being, by weight, from 0.01:1 to 10:1 followed by quenching at a temperature not lower than the melting point of the molten salt, and separating the cracked gas from the molten salt.