Abstract: An access control device or an access control method receives an access request from an application programming interface (API) use application provided outside a vehicle, controls access to a vehicle API, and assigns, to the API use application, an access privilege to a vehicle API that provides a function of a start confirmation unit, assigns an access privilege to the vehicle API necessary for providing a target service to the API use application.

Abstract: A service providing system includes a vehicle control system and a server. The vehicle control system implements coordination between a service-system functional block and a functional block. The functional block converts an access request expressed in a vehicle-independent format and transmitted from the service-system functional block into a vehicle-dependent format. The coordination control section transfers the access request to the functional block, and creates an access log. The server uses the access log to calculate an interface usage fee generated by the service-system functional block using the functional interface.

Abstract: An information notification system, a vehicle control device, an information notification method, or a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program determines notifiable information indicating a situation required for notifying an occupant of application information, provides the notifiable information to an application, and notifies the occupant of the application information based on the notifiable information.

Abstract: A robot system includes an end effector configured to hold a workpiece, an operation device connected to the end effector and configured to operate the end effector, and a control device configured to control an operation of the operation device. The control device controls: a step of assembling the workpiece in a form in which a pressing-target object is sandwiched by arranging the pressing-target object on a first plate jig arranged at a set position and thereafter placing a second plate jig on the first plate jig through operating the end effector; and a step of conveying the workpiece to press position at which the pressing-target object is pressed by holding the pressing-target object, the first plate jig, and the second plate jig altogether as the workpiece with the end effector.

Abstract: A press molding method of a glass optical element using a mold, the method including plural steps with pressurizing, in each of which load is imposed on a piece of glass material at a temperature above the glass transition temperature, and a step without pressurizing between two steps with pressurizing, wherein in a step without pressurizing between a first step with pressurizing and a second step with pressurizing, the second step with pressurizing being the next step with pressurizing after the first step with pressurizing, the temperature of the mold is reduced by 50 degrees centigrade or greater with respect to the temperature of the mold in the first step with pressurizing and then the mold is heated before the start of the second step with pressurizing.

Abstract: By a platooning formation pattern proposal method, a platooning formation pattern proposal device, or a platooning formation pattern proposal system, a formation pattern of platooning is proposed when vehicles perform the platooning, information related to the formation pattern is collected, information in a predetermined index is extracted from the collected information, a score of the index is calculated, a recommendation formation pattern is proposed.

Abstract: By a platooning formation pattern proposal method, a platooning formation pattern proposal device, or a platooning formation pattern proposal system, a formation pattern of platooning is proposed when vehicles perform the platooning, information related to the formation pattern is collected, information in a predetermined index is extracted from the collected information, a score of the index is calculated, a recommendation formation pattern is proposed, a person having provided a predetermined value is granted a predetermined right.

Abstract: A knee joint that is capable of widening a moveable range, and that has good energy efficiency and is small and lightweight is described. Also described is a knee joint that is of an active type, but comparatively inexpensive. A drive section moves a driven member. An elastic member is arranged between the driven member and a linear motion member. The linear motion member elastically moves in at least one direction, in accordance with movement of the driven member, by way of the elastic member. A crank mechanism can realize bending and extension of the knee joint by converting linear motion of the linear motion member to rotational motion.

Abstract: A knee joint that is capable of widening a moveable range, and that has good energy efficiency and is small and lightweight is described. Also described is a knee joint that is of an active type, but comparatively inexpensive. A drive section moves a driven member. An elastic member is arranged between the driven member and a linear motion member. The linear motion member elastically moves in at least one direction, in accordance with movement of the driven member, by way of the elastic member. A crank mechanism can realize bending and extension of the knee joint by converting linear motion of the linear motion member to rotational motion.

Abstract: A knee joint that is capable of widening a moveable range, and that has good energy efficiency and is small and lightweight is described. Also described is a knee joint that is of an active type, but comparatively inexpensive. A drive section moves a driven member. An elastic member is arranged between the driven member and a linear motion member. The linear motion member elastically moves in at least one direction, in accordance with movement of the driven member, by way of the elastic member. A crank mechanism can realize bending and extension of the knee joint by converting linear motion of the linear motion member to rotational motion.

Abstract: An arithmetic processing unit 40 estimates a possible existence region of a specific state quantity by performing polyhedron projection processing for finding a projection region obtained by projecting a convex polyhedron to a subspace representing the specific state quantity, where the convex polyhedron is within a space configured with the contact reaction forces of a plurality of contacting portions (13, 23) of a mobile robot 1 and the specific state quantity as variable components and where the convex polyhedron is specified by a mechanical relation between the contact reaction forces and the specific state quantity and by a linear inequality representing a contact reaction force constraint condition.

Abstract: An arithmetic processing unit 40 estimates a possible existence region of a specific state quantity by performing polyhedron projection processing for finding a projection region obtained by projecting a convex polyhedron to a subspace representing the specific state quantity, where the convex polyhedron is within a space configured with the contact reaction forces of a plurality of contacting portions (13, 23) of a mobile robot 1 and the specific state quantity as variable components and where the convex polyhedron is specified by a mechanical relation between the contact reaction forces and the specific state quantity and by a linear inequality representing a contact reaction force constraint condition.

Abstract: A controller 40 for a mobile robot 1 estimates, in a climbing up or down motion of the robot 1, the difference between the actual position and attitude of a distal end portion 13 of a to-be-supported movable link 3 that has been supported by a structure A and the desired position and attitude thereof, and determines a motion target of the robot 1 such that at least either the desired relative position/attitude of the distal end portion 13 of the to-be-supported movable link 3 with respect to a base body 2 or the desired support position/attitude of the distal end portion 13 of a to-be-moved movable link 3, which is to be moved, is adjusted according to the estimated value of the difference.

Abstract: A piping connection device includes a female block member fixed integrally with a male block member, and a first pipe is inserted into the female block member. The piping connection device further includes a drain passage through which a part of an outer peripheral surface of the first pipe communicates with an outer surface of the female block member. The drain passage is disposed in a portion higher in heat capacity than the other portions in the female block member.

Abstract: A controller 40 for a mobile robot 1 estimates, in a climbing up or down motion of the robot 1, the difference between the actual position and attitude of a distal end portion 13 of a to-be-supported movable link 3 that has been supported by a structure A and the desired position and attitude thereof, and determines a motion target of the robot 1 such that at least either the desired relative position/attitude of the distal end portion 13 of the to-be-supported movable link 3 with respect to a base body 2 or the desired support position/attitude of the distal end portion 13 of a to-be-moved movable link 3, which is to be moved, is adjusted according to the estimated value of the difference.

Abstract: A piping connection device includes a female block member fixed integrally with a male block member, and a first pipe is inserted into the female block member. The piping connection device further includes a drain passage through which a part of an outer peripheral surface of the first pipe communicates with an outer surface of the female block member. The drain passage is disposed in a portion higher in heat capacity than the other portions in the female block member.

Abstract: Problem: It has been desired to form a plurality of combinations of plating films continuously on a single transfer rail and to form a plating film having a high quality and a uniform thickness on the surfaces of a lead frame and leads. Solving Means: The plating apparatus is provided below the single transfer rail with a plurality of plating tanks, in which plating solution baths are disposed. By moving the plating solution between the plating tanks and the plating solution baths, it is possible to select a plating film to be formed on a conductive member (21). As a result, it is possible to form combinations of plating films on the conductive member (21) continuously by the single transfer rail.

Abstract: A transformer has a primary winding connected between a pair of d.c. input terminals via an on-off switch, and a secondary winding connected between a pair of d.c. output terminals via a rectifying and smoothing circuit. The output voltage applied from the rectifying and smoothing circuit to the load is held constant by switching the input voltage through feedback control. The switch is driven in either of two different prescribed modes depending upon whether the converter is under normal or light load. In order to ascertain the load magnitude a flyback period determination circuit is connected to a tertiary winding of the transformer for providing a signal indicative of a flyback period during which a flyback voltage exists across the transformer tertiary after the switch is turned off each time. Each flyback period is compared with two different reference periods of time for hysteretic determination of whether the converter is under normal or light load. Several other embodiments are disclosed.