Abstract: A battery includes a current collecting member connected to a power generating element housed in an outer casing with a lid, and a rivet placed outside the outer casing. The current collecting member includes a plate-shaped portion placed along the lid. The rivet includes a through part extending through the lid, and a contact part contacting a first surface of the plate-shaped portion. A part of a peripheral end portion of the contact part is joined to the first surface. An edge portion of a non-joined portion of the peripheral end portion, facing the first surface, includes a tapered surface generating a gap smaller at a position closer to the through part. The tapered surface has a maximum size of 0.1 mm or more in a direction from the peripheral end portion to the through part and 0.03 mm or more in a thickness direction of the peripheral end portion.

Abstract: A management device for managing an operation of a cargo transportation vehicle that autonomously travels on a road with no driver and that is able to store cargo in each of a plurality of storages shielded by doors that are opened and closed includes a receiver configured to receive request information about transportation of the cargo from a user, an operation determiner configured to determine the operation of the cargo transportation vehicle so that the cargo transportation vehicle arrives at a delivery destination of the cargo, a registrant configured to register a plurality of users pre-designated as recipients of the cargo, and a processor configured to perform a process of controlling a control mechanism of the storage so that the recipient is able to unload the cargo from the storage when an authentication process on the recipient registered by the registrant has succeeded.

Abstract: Provided is a management device for managing an operation of a package delivery vehicle configured to travel autonomously on a road without accommodating a driver, and capable of storing a package into each of a plurality of storages each covered by an openable and closable door, the management device including: a storage device that stores a program; and a hardware processor, in which the hardware processor is configured to execute the program stored in the storage device to: receive application information on delivery of the package from a user; and determine an operation of the package delivery vehicle, in which the hardware processor is configured to cause the package delivery vehicle during delivery of a package to collect a new package.

Abstract: An unmanned delivery machine includes a vehicle body that travels autonomously on a road without a driver and a storage device that includes a plurality of storage portions which are closed by a door portion which is able to be opened and closed and that is detachably attached to the vehicle body. The storage device in which luggage is stored in the plurality of storage portions is attached to the vehicle body.

Abstract: A management device is a management device that manages an operation of a luggage transportation vehicle which travels autonomously on a road without a driver getting on a vehicle and has luggage storages shielded by openable doors, and includes a receiver configured to receive application information related to transportation of the luggage with a designated delivery point, and an operation determiner configured to determine an operation of the luggage transportation vehicle based on at least the application information, in which the operation determiner brings, when a predetermined condition regarding a positional relationship between the luggage transportation vehicle and a recipient of the luggage is satisfied, the luggage transportation vehicle close to the recipient, and causing the luggage transportation vehicle to perform an operation for allowing the recipient to receive the luggage at a point different from the delivery point before the luggage transportation vehicle reaches the delivery point.

Abstract: An unmanned delivery system includes: an unmanned delivery machine that travels autonomously on a road without a driver and is able to store luggage in a plurality of storage portions which are closed by a door portion which is able to be opened and closed in accordance with a delivery instruction statement; and a management device that manages an operation of the unmanned delivery machine.

Abstract: A management device, a transport system, a management method, and a program capable of improving convenience are provided. The management device is a management device that is configured to manage a service using an unmanned delivery unit including a package storage space. The management device includes: an acquisition part configured to acquire a detection result, which is acquired by the weight detection part, relating to a first package loaded into the unmanned delivery unit by a user from the unmanned delivery unit; a financial accounting part configured to settle a delivery fee of the first package on the basis of the detection result, which is acquired by the weight detection part, relating to the first package that is acquired by the acquisition part; and a guide part configured to cause a terminal device to output information for guiding the delivery fee of the first package that is settled by the financial accounting part.

Abstract: An unmanned delivery machine capable of improving convenience is provided. An unmanned delivery machine includes a vehicle body, a drive device, a baggage storage part, and doors. The drive device is configured to automatically drive the vehicle body. The baggage storage part is provided on the vehicle body. Doors are provided on a front surface and a rear surface of the vehicle body, are configured to allow access to the baggage storage part and are openable and closable.

Abstract: Provided is a management device for managing an operation of a package delivery vehicle including a storage of a package covered by an openable and closable door, which is configured to travel autonomously on a road without accommodating a driver, the management device including: a storage device that stores a program; and a hardware processor, in which the hardware processor is configured to execute the program stored in the storage device to: receive application information on delivery of the package from a user; and determine an operation of the package delivery vehicle based on at least the application information, in which the hardware processor is configured to cause the package delivery vehicle to stop on a road to load a package into the package delivery vehicle.

Abstract: A management device for managing an operation of a cargo transportation vehicle that autonomously travels on a road in a state in which there is no driver in the cargo transportation vehicle and that is able to store cargo in each of a plurality of storages shielded by doors that are opened and closed includes a receiver configured to receive request information about transportation of the cargo from a user, an information provider configured to provide a time at which the cargo transportation vehicle will arrive at a delivery destination of the cargo to a terminal device of a recipient of the cargo, and an operation determiner configured to determine an operation of the cargo transportation vehicle so that the cargo transportation vehicle arrives at the delivery destination at the time.

Abstract: A management device that manages a service of transporting a user in a designated section using a vehicle which is able to travel autonomously without a driver by causing the vehicle to travel includes: a user detector configured to detect whether a user in the vehicle has alighted at a scheduled alighting position of the user; and an operation controller configured to cause the vehicle to perform a predetermined operation when the user detector detects that the user has not alighted at the scheduled alighting position.

Abstract: Provided is a management device for managing an operation of a package delivery vehicle configured to travel autonomously on a road without accommodating a driver, and capable of storing a package into each of a plurality of storages each covered by an openable and closable door, the management device including: a storage device that stores a program; and a hardware processor, in which the hardware processor is configured to execute the program stored in the storage device to: receive application information on delivery of the package from a user; and determine an operation of the package delivery vehicle, in which the hardware processor is configured to cause the package delivery vehicle during delivery of a package to collect a new package.

Abstract: A management device for managing an operation of a cargo transportation vehicle that autonomously travels on a road with no driver and that is able to store cargo in each of a plurality of storages shielded by doors that are opened and closed includes a receiver configured to receive request information about transportation of the cargo from a user, an operation determiner configured to determine the operation of the cargo transportation vehicle so that the cargo transportation vehicle arrives at a delivery destination of the cargo, a registrant configured to register a plurality of users pre-designated as recipients of the cargo, and a processor configured to perform a process of controlling a control mechanism of the storage so that the recipient is able to unload the cargo from the storage when an authentication process on the recipient registered by the registrant has succeeded.

Abstract: A movable object control device includes: an image recognition part configured to recognize a road classification made to correspond to a travel condition which includes whether or not an autonomous travel of the movable object is available on a road on which the movable object travels, or an autonomous travel level thereon, or both, based on information obtained from an image taken by an imaging device of the movable object; and a control part configured to, when the image recognition part has recognized a prescribed shape or a prescribed image pattern made to correspond to the road classification, on or around the road on which the movable object travels, perform an autonomous travel of the movable object, based on the travel condition corresponding to the road classification.

Abstract: A system includes a first acquirer configured to acquire first notification information for applying for use of a vehicle from a terminal device of a user, a first processor configured to perform securing processing for securing a vehicle to be provided to the user, in accordance with the first notification information acquired by the first acquirer, and a second processor configured to perform processing based on a change in details of use of the vehicle in a case where the details of use of the vehicle have been changed after the first acquirer acquires the first notification information.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device including: a traveling controller configured to control a speed and steering of a vehicle; a receiver configured to receive a stop request from a user riding in the vehicle; and a searcher configured to search for a first location that is a closest getting on/off location where the user is able to get off, in a case in which the receiver receives the stop request, the traveling controller decelerating the speed of the vehicle, the searcher searching for the first location, and then the traveling controller directing the vehicle to the first location searched for by the searcher.

Abstract: A vehicle rental managing device, a vehicle rental reservation terminal, a vehicle rental managing system, and a vehicle rental managing method for managing vehicles to be lent to users, which are suitable for enhancing the use of vehicles from a port having an excess number to a port having a deficient number of the vehicles in order to eliminate maldistribution of the vehicles. The vehicle rental managing unit includes a vehicle excess-deficiency determination unit which determines an excess or deficient number of the vehicles at the ports by accessing rental circumstances of the vehicles, and a fee setting unit which sets a fee smaller than a normal for a use of the vehicles being lent from a port determined to have an excess number of the vehicles, or for a use of the vehicles to be returned to a port determined to have a deficient number.

Abstract: A shared vehicle distribution instruction apparatus instructs the movement of shared vehicles between ports appropriately.

Abstract: An administration apparatus is provided for reservation of a shared vehicle that administrates usage reservations of shared vehicles for the convenience of users. A control unit 11 in a control room 1 accepts an application for reservation time applied for by a user 3 via a mobile phone terminal 4, and then, according to the division of the minimum time unit of the reservation setting time, confirms the available time from one unit before that including the present time, displays it, and confirms whether there is an empty vehicle in a departure port or not with reference to a port master 15 and a reservation master 17. Then, the control unit 11 determines whether the usage start unit input by the user 3 is a unit in the future relative to the present time, including a leading buffer time of the unit, or not. In the case where the usage start unit is a future unit relative to the present time including the leading buffer time, this executes normal usage reservation.

Abstract: A vehicle managing system including a vehicle to be lent to a user and a plurality of ports used for parking the vehicle. The plurality of ports include a first port which is located in the vicinity of a station of a transportation facility, and a second port which is located in the vicinity of both a residential area where a first user who uses the station resides and a place of destination for a second user who uses the station. In the vehicle managing system, the users are divided into a plurality of groups based on a direction of the vehicle between the first port and second port and a time zone using the vehicle, and the vehicles are alternately assigned to a group that moves to the station and another group that moves from the station based on the order of the time zone using the vehicle.