Abstract: An autonomous vehicle which transports a user through autonomous driving, having: a body temperature sensor that detects a body temperature of the user; in-cabin signage attached in a vehicle cabin; and a sanitation controller that adjusts a sanitation state in the vehicle cabin. When the body temperature of the user detected by the body temperature sensor is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the sanitation controller causes the in-cabin signage to display a sanitation caution message.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle operation system including a first operation management server and a second operation management server. The first operation management server calculates a running route to the destination, a border point, and a scheduled arrival time at which the first vehicle is to arrive at the border point, and informs the second operation management server of these. Further, the first operation management server sends an operation instruction to the first vehicle to instruct it to run from the current position to the border point. The second operation management server sends an operation signal to a second vehicle to instruct it to arrive at the border point by the informed scheduled arrival time, and then to run from the border point to the destination after the user transfers from the first vehicle to the second vehicle at the border point.

Abstract: A software updating method for transmitting update data for software installed in vehicle controllers via wireless communication from an operation managing server to a plurality of vehicles on which the vehicle controllers are respectively mounted, for causing each of the vehicle controllers to update the software, in which the operation managing server is configured to group the plurality of vehicles into a plurality of groups, and vary timings of causing the vehicle controllers to update the software on a group-by-group basis.

Abstract: An on-vehicle interface apparatus includes a touch screen and an I/F controller. The I/F controller stores a first message and a second message having a lower urgency level in association with respective events. The I/F controller displays operation switches including operation switches regarding traveling of a vehicle irrespectively of the events on the touch screen, and, in response to occurrence of an event, displays a corresponding message on the touch screen. The I/F controller, in response to detection of a touch operation on a display region of the first message during display of the first message, outputs to the vehicle controller a signal that instructs execution of the driving control corresponding to the first message.

Abstract: Provided is a grommet with high durability against bending and a grommet-equipped wire. A wire can be inserted in a grommet. The grommet includes a first fixing portion to be fixed to a door panel, a second fixing portion to be fixed to a vehicle panel, and a connecting portion that is elastically deformable and that connects the first fixing portion and the second fixing portion to each other. In this grommet, in a closed state in which the door panel is closed relative to the vehicle panel, an intermediate portion of the connecting portion hangs down to a level that is lower than levels of opposite end portions of the connecting portion. Accordingly, when the door is opened, the vehicle panel and the door panel are separated from each other, and the intermediate portion of the connecting portion is thereby lifted.

Abstract: Provided is a grommet with high durability against bending and a grommet-equipped wire. A wire can be inserted in a grommet. The grommet includes a first fixing portion to be fixed to a door panel, a second fixing portion to be fixed to a vehicle panel, and a connecting portion that is elastically deformable and that connects the first fixing portion and the second fixing portion to each other. In this grommet, in a closed state in which the door panel is closed relative to the vehicle panel, an intermediate portion of the connecting portion hangs down to a level that is lower than levels of opposite end portions of the connecting portion. Accordingly, when the door is opened, the vehicle panel and the door panel are separated from each other, and the intermediate portion of the connecting portion is thereby lifted.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an excitation inrush current suppressing apparatus comprising: bus voltage measurement equipment which measures each phase voltage of the single-phase AC-side bus; transformer voltage measurement equipment which measures a single-phase-side voltage of the transformer; phase detector which detects a cutoff phase when opening the circuit breaker by monitoring each phase voltage measured by the bus voltage measurement equipment and the single-phase-side voltage measured by the transformer voltage measurement equipment, holds the detected cutoff phase, and outputs the same phase as the held cutoff phase; and close command output device which closes the circuit breaker by the same voltage phase as the cutoff phase output from the phase detector.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an excitation inrush current suppression device for suppressing excitation inrush currents flowing through a breaker of the three-phase collective operation type for opening and closing connection is configured to measure a three-phase AC voltage of the power supply bus bar to calculate prospective magnetic fluxes of the transformer, and to measure a three-phase AC voltage on the transformer side to calculate residual magnetic fluxes of the transformer after shutoff, so as to set the breaker closed when polarities of the prospective magnetic fluxes respectively agree with polarities of the residual magnetic fluxes in all of the phases respectively.

Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide for materials, methods for using such materials and structures that both incorporate such materials and are made using such methods that can be smoothly debonded at or near room temperature while providing a fixable bond that allows for wafer processing such as wafer thinning, anisotropic dry etching and chemical resistance during plating and etching.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an excitation inrush current suppressing apparatus comprising: bus voltage measurement equipment which measures each phase voltage of the single-phase AC-side bus; transformer voltage measurement equipment which measures a single-phase-side voltage of the transformer; phase detector which detects a cutoff phase when opening the circuit breaker by monitoring each phase voltage measured by the bus voltage measurement equipment and the single-phase-side voltage measured by the transformer voltage measurement equipment, holds the detected cutoff phase, and outputs the same phase as the held cutoff phase; and close command output device which closes the circuit breaker by the same voltage phase as the cutoff phase output from the phase detector.

Abstract: A gas-insulated device for electrical power is disclosed that includes: a fixed contact unit and a movable contact unit which are disposed to face with each other in an airtight container filled with a carbon dioxide gas or a gas mixture including a carbon dioxide gas, serving as an arc extinguishing gas. The fixed contact unit includes a fixed arc contact, a fixed conduction contact disposed outside the fixed arc contact, and a conductive supporting member for electrically connecting between the fixed arc contact and the fixed conduction contact and supporting these contacts.

Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide for materials, methods for using such materials and structures that both incorporate such materials and are made using such methods that can be smoothly debonded at or near room temperature while providing a fixable bond that allows for wafer processing such as wafer thinning, anisotropic dry etching and chemical resistance during plating and etching.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an excitation inrush current suppression device for suppressing excitation inrush currents flowing through a breaker of the three-phase collective operation type for opening and closing connection is configured to measure a three-phase AC voltage of the power supply bus bar to calculate prospective magnetic fluxes of the transformer, and to measure a three-phase AC voltage on the transformer side to calculate residual magnetic fluxes of the transformer after shutoff, so as to set the breaker closed when polarities of the prospective magnetic fluxes respectively agree with polarities of the residual magnetic fluxes in all of the phases respectively.

Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide for materials, methods for using such materials and structures that both incorporate such materials and are made using such methods that can be smoothly debonded at or near room temperature while providing a fixable bond that allows for wafer processing such as wafer thinning, anisotropic dry etching and chemical resistance during plating and etching.