Abstract: A receipt printer according to an embodiment includes a sheet roller that transports a sheet from a sheet roll to a receipt issuing port. A printing device prints receipt data on the sheet. A cutter configured performs full cutting so that the sheet is separated from the sheet roll and partial cutting so that the sheet remains partially connected to the sheet roll. A processor controls the cutter to perform the partial cutting after the printing device prints the receipt data on the sheet, and also controls the cutter to perform the full cutting when a predetermined condition is satisfied after the partial cutting is performed.

Abstract: There is provided a travel reference line determination system and an automatic driving system capable of determining a travel reference line of a vehicle appropriately even under conditions where information representing the track environment of the vehicle is hard to get. An ECU of an automatic driving system calculates a model y coordinate value ymw_i using a map in FIG. 4 (Step 12), calculates an estimated y coordinate value y_i using track environment data D_info (Step 11), calculates curvature C so that an error between the model y coordinate value ymw_i and the estimated y coordinate value y_i may be minimized (Step 18), calculates a travel trajectory Xf using the curvature C (Step 4), and executes automatic driving control using the travel trajectory Xf (Steps 31 to 33).

Abstract: A travel trajectory determination system 1 includes an ECU. The ECU acquires a second road target point Xt0, determines an arc Ar between two inner contact points Xi and Xo of a circle IC inscribed in a first straight line L1 extending from a vehicle in a traveling direction of the vehicle while passing through an intersection, and a second straight line L2 extending in such a manner as to intersect with the first straight line L1 in the intersection while passing through the second road target point Xt0, and determines a future travel trajectory Xf of the vehicle by use of the arc Ar.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a control device for an engine that enables precise control of the equivalence ratio. The system from the fuel injection amount to the output from a LAF sensor is modeled as an injection amount-sensor output model by means of a model equation containing model parameters and a lag coefficient. The system from the equivalence ratio to the LAF sensor output is modeled as a port equivalence ratio-sensor output model by means of a model equation containing the lag coefficient. The control device is equipped with: a feedback-use identifier that successively identifies values for the model parameters; a LAF lag compensation-use identifier that successively identifies values for the lag coefficient; and a stoichiometric driving mode controller that determines the value of a fuel injection amount.

Abstract: A receipt printer according to an embodiment includes a sheet roller that transports a sheet from a sheet roll to a receipt issuing port. A printing device prints receipt data on the sheet. A cutter configured performs full cutting so that the sheet is separated from the sheet roll and partial cutting so that the sheet remains partially connected to the sheet roll. A processor controls the cutter to perform the partial cutting after the printing device prints the receipt data on the sheet, and also controls the cutter to perform the full cutting when a predetermined condition is satisfied after the partial cutting is performed.

Abstract: A failure determination system for a vehicle speed detection device, which, in a case where only one vehicle speed detection device is used, can always accurately perform failure determination of the device, and ensure a high marketability, while avoiding increases in manufacturing costs and product prices of the system. An ECU calculates an engine speed, calculates a detected vehicle speed based on a detection signal from a vehicle speed sensor, calculates an estimated total transmission gear ratio indicative of correlation between the detected vehicle speed and the engine speed, stores the estimated total transmission gear ratio, calculates a reference vehicle speed using a value of the estimated total transmission gear ratio, calculated predetermined times earlier, and the engine speed, and determines a failure of the sensor using a for-use-in-monitoring vehicle speed error which indicates an error between the reference vehicle speed and the detected vehicle speed.

Abstract: A travel control apparatus (140) includes a acquisition unit (141), which acquires information on a target track through which a vehicle (M) will pass in the future, a parameter determiner (142), which determines a parameter by which a track model defined by one or more parameters coincides with a track acquired by the acquisition unit, and a steering controller (143), which feedforward-controls steering of the vehicle on the basis of at least the track model defined by the parameter determined by the parameter determiner, wherein the parameter determiner determines the parameter on the basis of a direction of a change in the degree of separation between the track model and the target track with respect to a change in the parameter.

Abstract: A vehicle controller includes: a recognizer (121,122) configured to recognize a distance to a stop position as a first distance on the basis of an image captured by an imaging unit that images the front of a vehicle; and a braking distance estimator (123B) configured to estimate a braking distance to the stop position on the basis of the first distance recognized by the recognizer at a predetermined time point and a second distance acquired on the basis of a speed of the vehicle and to adjust a degree of reflection of the second distance in the braking distance on the basis of the first distance recognized by the recognizer after the predetermined time point.

Abstract: A running track determining device capable of appropriately determining a running track of a subject vehicle in the future in a speedy manner and an automatic driving apparatus including the running track determining device is provided. A running track determining device (1) includes an ECU (2). The ECU (2) calculates a risk potential (Prisk) representing an area having a possibility of the presence of a traffic participant from the present to the future in surroundings of the subject vehicle (3) in accordance with surrounding status data (D_info) detected by a status detecting device (4), calculates a benefit potential (Pbnf) representing an ideal running area in the future in which the subject vehicle (3) should run, and determines a running track (Tr_sk) of the subject vehicle (3) in the future by using the risk potential (Prisk) and the benefit potential (Pbnf).

Abstract: A vehicle controller (100) includes: a recognizer (121) configured to recognize surrounding conditions of a vehicle on the basis of an output from an onboard sensor; and a speed determiner (123A) configured to determine a target speed of the vehicle on the basis of a set speed based on a legal speed limit or a speed set by an occupant of the vehicle and recognition accuracy information indicating recognition accuracy in the recognizer and to determine the target speed of the vehicle to be lower than the set speed when the recognition accuracy indicated by the recognition accuracy information decreases.

Abstract: A vehicle controller includes an automated stopping controller (145). The automated stopping controller includes: a reference feed-forward braking force deriving unit (145B) configured to derive a reference feed-forward braking force for causing a vehicle to stop at a stop position on the basis of a speed of the vehicle and a braking distance which is a distance to the stop position based on a detection result from a sensor; and a feedback braking force deriving unit (145C, 145D, 145E) configured to derive an estimated braking distance on the basis of the speed of the vehicle and to derive a feedback braking force for decreasing a separation between the derived estimated braking distance and the braking distance. The automated stopping controller (145) performs control for causing the vehicle to stop at the stop position on the basis of the reference feed-forward braking force and the feedback braking force.

Abstract: A receipt printer according to an embodiment includes a sheet roller that transports a sheet from a sheet roll to a receipt issuing port. A printing device prints receipt data on the sheet. A cutter configured performs full cutting so that the sheet is separated from the sheet roll and partial cutting so that the sheet remains partially connected to the sheet roll. A processor controls the cutter to perform the partial cutting after the printing device prints the receipt data on the sheet, and also controls the cutter to perform the full cutting when a predetermined condition is satisfied after the partial cutting is performed.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a cash dispenser apparatus includes a cash-to-be-dispensed conveyer device, an informing device, and a controller. The cash-to-be-dispensed conveyer device dispenses cash from the storage device to the outside of the apparatus. The informing device informs that cash is being dispensed. The controller causes the cash-to-be-dispensed conveyer device to start a cash-dispensing operation, the cash-dispensing operation including dispensing cash from the storage device, an amount of the cash corresponding to a change amount based on the change information input by using the input device, and causes the informing device to execute the informing operation on condition that the cash-dispensing operation is uncompleted.

Abstract: A control apparatus using a feedback control algorithm including an integral term, which is capable of controlling a controlled object having a response lag characteristic while suppressing influences of aging and sudden changes in an operating state, and thereby improving control accuracy. The control apparatus that controls a supercharger includes an ECU. The ECU calculates a reference FB target pressure using a first-order lag equation, an allowable upper limit value based on a value obtained by adding a predetermined allowable range value to the reference FB target pressure, an FB target pressure such that an actual boost pressure does not exceed the allowable upper limit value, and a feedback correction term using a PI control algorithm such that the actual boost pressure becomes equal to the FB target pressure, and controls the actual boost pressure using a driver demand boost pressure and the feedback correction term.

Abstract: A control apparatus controlling a controlled variable of a controlled object having a response lag characteristic using a combination of feedforward control method, response-specifying control method, and disturbance compensation method. An ECU of the apparatus calculates driver demand boost pressure for feedforward-controlling actual boost pressure as controlled variable, and calculates FB target pressure as value on which response lag characteristic of the actual value to the driver demand value is reflected.

Abstract: According to the embodiment, a printer includes a feeding device, a mark detector device, and a controller device. The feeding device feeds an elongated recording medium. A bar-shape mark having a predetermined length is successively formed from a rear end of the recording medium. The mark detector device detects presence/absence of the mark on a feeding path of the feeding device. The controller device recognizes that the recording medium is in a near-end status based on a mark detection result of the mark detector device.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an exhaust purification system that is capable of purifying exhaust gas during both lean and stoichiometric driving. The exhaust purification system is equipped with: a feedback-use identifier, which identifies parameter values such that the error between the output value from a LAF sensor and the estimated value for the LAF sensor output as obtained from a model equation is minimized; and a stoichiometric driving mode controller. The controller performs feedback control and thereby determines the fuel injection amount such that in the stoichiometric driving mode the equivalence ratio value as calculated from the parameters reaches a target value which is set such that a three-way purification reaction occurs in an under-engine catalyst. The identifier identifies the model parameters before feedback control is initiated by the controller.

Abstract: An exhaust purification system for an internal combustion engine is provided that can maintain the NOx purification rate of a selective reduction catalyst at near the maximum thereof. The exhaust purification system is provided with an oxidation catalyst and CSF provided in the exhaust plumbing of the engine, a selective reduction catalyst that is provided in the exhaust plumbing on the downstream side of oxidation catalyst and CSF, and selectively reduces NOx in the exhaust, and a NO2 sensor that detects NO2 in the exhaust inside of the exhaust plumbing on the downstream side of the selective reduction catalyst. An ECU executes NO2-NOx ratio decrease processing to cause the NO2-NOx ratio corresponding to the ratio of NO2 to NOx in the exhaust flowing into the selective reduction catalyst to decrease, in a case of a detection value Vno2 from the NO2 sensor being greater than a predetermined value Vno2_th.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a money depositing and dispensing apparatus comprises a conveyance section, a reception module, a conveyance control module and a notification module. The conveyance section at least conveys either deposited money or dispensed money. The reception module receives a generation notification used to generate an error which relates to the conveyance section and is to be experienced by an operator. In a case in which the reception module receives the generation notification, the conveyance control module prohibits the conveyance of money by the conveyance section. The notification module notifies that the error, received by the reception module, which relates to the conveyance section, is generated.

Abstract: A vehicle speed control system capable of improving all of calculation accuracy of corrected vehicle speed, controllability of cruise control, and safety and marketability of the system. Vehicle speed control system includes FI ECU and meter ECU. The meter ECU calculates meter vehicle speed, and transmits the same to the FI ECU via CAN communication network. The FI ECU calculates controller vehicle speed, calculates CC vehicle speed by correcting the controller vehicle speed with a vehicle speed correction coefficient, updates and stores local correction coefficients such that the difference between the speeds is reduced while causing correlation between the speeds to be reflected thereon according to the controller vehicle speed, calculates the vehicle speed correction coefficient using the stored coefficients, determines a target vehicle speed, and performs cruise control such that the CC vehicle speed becomes equal to the target vehicle speed.