Abstract: A travel support control device: creates a travel support plan in which one of travel modes including a CD mode and a CS mode is assigned to each travel section based on look-ahead information generated for a travel route to allow a hybrid electric vehicle to travel and calculates a total distance of electric traveling on the travel route; creates a travel support plan for travel sections to a travel section immediately before an information non-acquirable area in which information required for creating the look-ahead information is not acquirable and calculates the total distance of electric traveling on the travel route, when the information non-acquirable area is included in the travel route; and stops switching of the travel mode based on travel support control and continuously calculates the total distance of electric traveling on the travel route, when the hybrid electric vehicle is traveling in the information non-acquirable area.

Abstract: When an adjustment target road in which a state of charge of the battery needs to be actively adjusted such as a congested road or a downhill road has been detected in the travel route based on the look-ahead information, the travel support control device performs state-of-charge adjustment control up to the adjustment target road. The travel support control device detects the adjustment target road based on look-ahead information generated for an estimated route on which it is estimated that the hybrid vehicle is to travel when the travel route has not been set, and performs the state-of-charge adjustment control up to the adjustment target road when the adjustment target road has been detected. At this time, a detection range for detecting a congested road and a detection range for detecting a downhill road in the estimated route are different.

Abstract: A travel support control device creates a travel support plan in which one of travel modes including a CD mode and a CS mode is assigned to each travel section of a travel route based on prediction information generated for the travel route, performs travel support control, and calculates a total distance of electric traveling on the travel route as one result of the travel support control. When a hybrid electric vehicle is traveling in an area outside of communication coverage while the travel support control is being performed, the travel support control device stops switching the travel mode based on the travel support plan and keeps calculating the total distance of electric traveling on the travel route.

Abstract: There is provided a hybrid vehicle that enables user to be more appropriately notified of a control effect by performing a drive support control. A hybrid vehicle includes an engine; a motor; a battery; map information; and a control device programmed to set a drive route from a current location to a destination, to create a drive support plan that assigns one of drive modes including a CD mode and a CS mode to each of drive sections of the drive route, and to perform drive support control that causes the hybrid vehicle to be driven along the drive support plan. The control device accumulates control effect obtained by performing the drive support control and notifies the control effect when the hybrid vehicle reaches the destination. The control device deletes the control effect when the predetermined deletion condition is satisfied.

Abstract: In a control device, an instruction acquirer acquires an instruction to suppress in a specified period supplying of generated power generated by power generator installed in a power-consuming area to a commercial electrical power system. Upon the instruction acquirer acquiring the instruction, a water heater controller commands a water heater installed in the power-consuming area to perform a water heat-up operation when a predetermined condition is satisfied in the specified period.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes first and second light-emitting elements arranged along a first direction; at least one light-transmissive member having a lateral surface and covering the upper surfaces of the first and second light-emitting elements; and a light-reflective member in contact with at least portions of the lateral surfaces of the first and second light-emitting elements, and the lateral surface of the light-transmissive member. The light-transmissive member has first and second surfaces exposed from the light-reflective member and located above the upper surfaces of the first and second light-emitting elements, respectively. The light-reflective member includes a first portion located between the first surface and the second surface in the first direction above the first and second surfaces. The first portion includes at least one concave curved surface in a first cross-section extending along the first direction and perpendicular to the upper surface of the first light-emitting element.

Abstract: A travel assistance apparatus includes an ECU that is configured to: draw up a travel plan in which any one of drive modes, including a CD mode and a CS mode, is assigned to each of travel segments of a scheduled travel route, execute travel assistance control for causing a vehicle to travel according to the travel plan; when a total of consumption energy is greater than a value obtained by adding a first margin value to a remaining battery power, draw up the travel plan and execute the travel assistance control; and, when the total of consumption energy is greater than a value obtained by adding a second margin value less than the first margin value to the remaining battery power when the travel assistance control is started again after suspension of the travel assistance control, maintain or adjust the travel plan and execute the travel assistance control.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes first and second light-emitting elements arranged along a first direction; at least one light-transmissive member having a lateral surface and covering the upper surfaces of the first and second light-emitting elements; and a light-reflective member in contact with at least portions of the lateral surfaces of the first and second light-emitting elements, and the lateral surface of the light-transmissive member. The light-transmissive member has first and second surfaces exposed from the light-reflective member and located above the upper surfaces of the first and second light-emitting elements, respectively. The light-reflective member includes a first portion located between the first surface and the second surface in the first direction above the first and second surfaces. The first portion includes at least one concave curved surface in a first cross-section extending along the first direction and perpendicular to the upper surface of the first light-emitting element.

Abstract: A protector includes a plurality of lead-out openings through which electric cables are configured to be led out, and an electric cable attachment part which is provided in a projecting manner at an opening edge part of the lead-out opening and to which the electric cables are configured to be attached through a hinge part with flexibility. The electric cable attachment part is bent toward the lead-out opening by the hinge part, and a bent state thereof is configured to be held by a holding part.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, a battery, an electric motor, and a controller. The controller is configured to set a traveling schedule to a destination by assigning any control mode out of a charge depleting mode and a charge sustaining mode to each of a plurality of traveling sections on a scheduled traveling route from a current position to the destination. The traveling sections include at least one of a first section, a second section, and a third section. The first section is a traveling section that requires traveling with the internal combustion engine stopped. When the traveling sections include the first section, the controller is configured to execute a suppression process for suppressing consumption of electric power in the battery as compared to a case where the traveling sections do not include the first section.

Abstract: A navigation ECU executes processing including the following steps. The steps include: a step of acquiring information on travel sections to destination; a step of setting a starting point travel section and an nth travel section; a step of setting an n+1th travel section as an nth travel section when the starting point travel section and the nth travel section are identical in regulation information and road type, and difference in load is equal to or less than a threshold A; and a step of integrating the travel sections from the starting point travel section to an n?1th travel section when the starting point travel section and the nth travel section are not identical in regulation information and road type, and the difference in load is greater than the threshold A.

Abstract: An HV-ECU executes processing of steps. The steps include: a step of turning on a result display permission flag when an assist condition visible to a user is established; a step of calculating energy consumption in each travel section and total energy consumption when all the assist conditions are established and look-ahead information is updated; a step of generating a travel plan when the total energy consumption is greater than remaining energy; a step of executing switching control in accordance with the travel plan; and a step of outputting a result display when the result display permission flag is in an ON state when a vehicle reaches a destination.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a controller configured to control an engine and an electric motor in one of a plurality of control modes. The controller is configured to execute a switching control to switch the control mode in accordance with a traveling plan. The controller is configured to report at least one of first information and second information using a report device, the first information indicating that the switching control is capable of being executed, the second information indicating that the switching control is not executed. The controller is configured to report third information using the report device in a case where the first information is reported by the report device, the third information being relevant to the switching control, and not to report the third information in a case where the second information is reported by the report device.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an electric motor, a power storage device, an engine, and a controller. The controller executes switching control for switching control modes. The controller adds, to a first traveling distance, a traveling distance that is obtained when a state in which the engine is not operating and a power storage amount of the power storage device is higher than a threshold continues, and adds, to a second traveling distance, a traveling distance that is obtained when a state in which the engine is not operating and a charge depleting mode is selected continues.

Abstract: A prediction calculator uses a prediction model to determine a predicted value of an amount of power to be generated by a power generation apparatus and a predicted value of an amount of power to be consumed by an appliance. The predicted values are associated with accuracy information. An operation planner makes an operation plan using the predicted values determined by the prediction calculator, a user schedule included in user setting information, and an electricity rate table or weather forecast information. When the accuracy of the predicted value is lower than a predetermined reference, the operation planner makes the operation plan only using other information without using the predicted value.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes first and second light-emitting elements arranged along a first direction; at least one light-transmissive member having a lateral surface and covering the upper surfaces of the first and second light-emitting elements; and a light-reflective member in contact with at least portions of the lateral surfaces of the first and second light-emitting elements, and the lateral surface of the light-transmissive member. The light-transmissive member has first and second surfaces exposed from the light-reflective member and located above the upper surfaces of the first and second light-emitting elements, respectively. The light-reflective member includes a first portion located between the first surface and the second surface in the first direction above the first and second surfaces. The first portion includes at least one concave curved surface in a first cross-section extending along the first direction and perpendicular to the upper surface of the first light-emitting element.

Abstract: For processing a workpiece held by a chuck table with branched pulsed laser beams, if it is assumed that branch intervals at which adjacent ones of the branched pulsed laser beams are spaced from each other on a surface of the workpiece are represented by L, a value calculated by dividing a processing feed speed at which the chuck table is moved with respect to a condensing lens by a processing feed unit by the frequency of the pulsed laser beam at a processing point where the branched pulsed laser beams are applied to the workpiece is represented by S, and any integer is represented by n, then the branching intervals, the processing feed speed, and the frequency of the pulsed laser beam are established to satisfy the relationship of L?n×S.

Abstract: A laser recording method is for processing a recording object with laser light emitted from a laser light source. The laser recording method includes: detecting a moving speed of the recording object with a location of the laser light source when the laser light source emits laser light, as an observation point, while moving at least one of the recording object and the laser light source; and correcting power output of the laser light set such that an amount of energy applied by the laser light per unit area of the recording object is constant even if the moving speed is changed, to compensate energy loss derived from thermal diffusion occurring on the recording object based on the moving speed detected at the detecting.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes: an internal combustion engine; a motor generator; an electric storage device electrically connected with the motor generator; and a control device configured to set a control mode of an electric storage level of the electric storage device, to one of a charge depleting mode and a charge sustaining mode. The control device is configured to expand a permissible fluctuation band of the electric storage level during the charge sustaining mode, when the control device is performing a first switching control, compared to when the control device is not performing the first switching control, the first switching control being a control in which the control device automatically performs switching between the charge depleting mode and the charge sustaining mode, at least partly based on a predicted load on a planned traveling route for the hybrid vehicle.

Abstract: A wafer processing method includes a protective member laying step of placing a protective member on a face side of a wafer, a reverse side grinding step of grinding a reverse side of the wafer to thin the wafer, a cut groove forming step of positioning a cutting blade in alignment with projected dicing lines one at a time on the reverse side of the wafer, cutting the wafer with the cutting blade to form cut grooves in the wafer which terminate short of the face side thereof, and a cutting step of applying a laser beam to the wafer from the reverse side thereof along the cut grooves to completely sever the wafer along the projected dicing lines into individual device chips.