Abstract: The server acquires first data concerning a load applied to a body of an electric mobile apparatus, acquires second data concerning the performance of a storage battery mounted on the mobile apparatus, calculates a remaining lifetime of the body on the basis of the first data, calculates a remaining lifetime of the battery on the basis of the second data, compares the remaining lifetime of the body with the remaining lifetime of the storage battery, and instructs at least one of an activation of an unused function and an enhancement of a used function among a plurality of functions consuming the electric power of the mobile apparatus when the remaining lifetime of the body is shorter than the remaining lifetime of the storage battery.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus performs a delinquent driving detection process. The delinquent driving detection process includes: inquiring of an external database, using information on one or more other vehicles in a vicinity of the vehicle and/or area information including a point where the vehicle is positioned, about whether there is a delinquent driving vehicle that has performed delinquent driving among the one or more other vehicles; detecting presence or absence of delinquent driving by the one or more other vehicles based on an inquiry result from the database; generating, in response to detection of the presence of the delinquent driving, delinquent driving vehicle information including ID information of a delinquent driving vehicle that performs the delinquent driving and traveling trajectory information of the delinquent driving vehicle and the vehicle; and requesting the database that the delinquent driving vehicle information be registered or updated.

Abstract: A self-driving control device mountable on a vehicle configured to communicate with a server device. The self-driving control device includes: a processor; and a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: generating a route to a destination; controlling traveling during self-driving of the vehicle to the destination based on information of the route to the destination; and receiving information of a guidance route to a place satisfying the demand transmitted from the server device in response to input operation of a demand on an order of a user. In generating the route to the destination, the processor generates information of a route obtained by merging the guidance route with the route to the destination as the information of the route to the destination in response to approval operation of the user with respect to the place.

Abstract: Provided are a technique for preparing a porous cellulose medium without using a special gelling agent for a solution in which cellulose acetate serving as a raw material is dissolved; and a porous cellulose medium and the like produced using the technique. A method for producing a porous cellulose medium comprises the step of preparing a flowable homogeneous composition comprising cellulose acetate, a basic compound, and a solvent including water, and gelling the composition by deacetylation reaction of the cellulose acetate.

Abstract: In order to secure the charge/discharge performance of an on-board battery in accordance with an external request, an on-board battery temperature regulating apparatus for regulating the temperature of the on-board battery that is charged or discharged based on a charge or discharge request from an external apparatus includes: a temperature regulator capable of regulating the temperature of the on-board battery; and a controller that determines a presence or absence of the charge or discharge request from an external apparatus to the on-board battery, and controls, when the charge or discharge request is determined to be present, the temperature regulator such that the temperature of the on-board battery is at least within a temperature range where the on-board battery is capable of being charged with or discharging requested power requested from the external apparatus.

Abstract: A synchronization system for synchronizing operations of an autonomous vehicle (AV) and a restaurant system of a restaurant is provided. The AV transmits to the restaurant system, order data of an order placed via the AV and estimated time of arrival (ETA) by the AV. The restaurant system, generates a food preparation/delivery (FPD) process for execution by at least one resource of the restaurant, and generates at least one scheduled instruction to the at least one resource of the restaurant for executing the at least one FPD process. The restaurant system further determines, based on progress status of the at least one FPD process being executed, an estimated order completion time for the order. The synchronization system controls the AV and the restaurant system to minimize a difference between the ETA and the estimated order completion time.

Abstract: A method is provided for detecting a bullying event. The method includes collecting, using a plurality of autonomous vehicle (AV) sensors provided on the AV, sensor data of an interaction between the AV and another vehicle. Once collected, the collected sensor data is stored in a memory, and a bullying signature is retrieved from the memory. The method further includes comparing, via a processor, the collected sensor data and attributes of the bullying signature for determining whether a bullying event has been detected. When a similarity between the collected sensor data and the attributes of the bullying signature is determined to be above a predetermined threshold, the method determines that the collected sensor data corresponds to a bullying event. In response to the detection, the method generates a bullying event flag for the bullying event.

Abstract: Provided are a technique for preparing a porous cellulose medium without using a special gelling agent for a solution in which cellulose acetate serving as a raw material is dissolved; and a porous cellulose medium and the like produced using the technique. A method for producing a porous cellulose medium comprises the step of preparing a flowable homogeneous composition comprising cellulose acetate, a basic compound, and a solvent including water, and gelling the composition by deacetylation reaction of the cellulose acetate.

Abstract: A separating agent for chromatography is provided that is useful for the separation of specific compounds, e.g., for the optical resolution of amino acids. This separating agent for chromatography provides a higher productivity and contains a crown ether-like cyclic structure and optically active binaphthyl. This separating agent for chromatography containing a crown ether-like cyclic structure and optically active binaphthyl is provided by introducing a substitution group for binding to a carrier into a specific commercially available 1,1?-binaphthyl derivative that has substituents at the 2, 2?, 3, and 3? positions, then introducing a crown ether-like cyclic structure, and subsequently chemically bonding the binaphthyl derivative to the carrier through the substitution group for binding to the carrier.

Abstract: A separating agent for chromatography is provided that is useful for the separation of specific compounds, e.g., for the optical resolution of amino acids. This separating agent for chromatography provides a higher productivity and contains a crown ether-like cyclic structure and optically active binaphthyl. This separating agent for chromatography containing a crown ether-like cyclic structure and optically active binaphthyl is provided by introducing a substitution group for binding to carrier into a specific commercially available 1,1?-binaphthyl derivative that has substituents at the 2, 2?, 3, and 3? positions, then introducing a crown ether-like cyclic structure, and subsequently chemically bonding the binaphthyl derivative to the carrier through the substitution group for binding to carrier.

Abstract: A motor driver drives a motor composed of a rotor and plural-phase windings that generate a magnetic field for rotating the rotor, including: a plurality of transistors that operate as switches for supplying current to the windings; a position detector operable to detect a rotational position of the rotor, based on a terminal voltage of each winding; and a switching controller operable to have performed a switching method to turn the transistors to an ON state or to an OFF state for controlling the rotor at the predetermined speed by means of the position detector, wherein the switching controller further controls so as to force each of the transistors into the OFF state for a predetermined duration in a predetermined cycle, and the position detector detects only while the switching controller forcedly keeps the transistor in the OFF state.

Abstract: A motor driver drives a motor composed of a rotor and plural-phase windings that generate a magnetic field for rotating the rotor, including: a plurality of transistors that operate as switches for supplying current to the windings; a position detector operable to detect a rotational position of the rotor, based on a terminal voltage of each winding; and a switching controller operable to have performed a switching method to turn the transistors to an ON state or to an OFF state for controlling the rotor at the predetermined speed by means of the position detector, wherein the switching controller further controls so as to force each of the transistors into the OFF state for a predetermined duration in a predetermined cycle, and the position detector detects only while the switching controller forcedly keeps the transistor in the OFF state.