Abstract: A conductive sliding member includes, in an annular space between a relatively rotating shaft and a housing having conductivity, an annular conductive lip portion that is formed of a molded body of an elastic body having conductivity, and is slidable on a surface of the shaft; and a sealing device bonding portion that is provided on an outer peripheral side of the conductive lip portion and is capable of being bonded to a sealing device main body portion on a side opposite to a sealing target fluid side of a sealing device that seals the annular space.

Abstract: An electrically conductive structure includes: a holding member that is an annular member with electrical conductivity around an axis x; and an electrically conductive member that is an annular member around the axis. The electrically conductive member has at least one gap formed to extend in a radial direction and includes at least one electrical conductor with electrical conductivity extending around the axis x. The electrically conductive member is held by the holding member. The electrical conductor has a pair of ends in a direction around the axis x. The gap is continuous with the ends of the electrical conductor.

Abstract: A sealing device capable of maintaining an electrically conductive performance relative to even an inner peripheral member rotating at a high speed. The sealing device includes an electrically conductive elastic body unit that is an annular member and that includes a portion made of an elastic material with electrical conductivity. The electrically conductive elastic body unit is able to come into contact with a shaft of an electric motor and a housing. The electrically conductive elastic body unit is able to form an electrically conductive circuit between the shaft of the electric motor and the housing. An impedance of the electrically conductive circuit during a rotation of the shaft of the electric motor at a circumferential velocity of 60 m/s or less is in a range from 0.01 ? to 100 ?.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a brake mechanism and a first power source. The brake mechanism includes: a hydraulic brake provided for a vehicle wheel to suppress rotation of the wheel in accordance with a hydraulic pressure; a hydraulic pressure supply device including a high-pressure source that supplies a high hydraulic pressure, and first and second electromagnetic valves, to supply the hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic brake by controlling the first electromagnetic valve using the hydraulic pressure; and a control device that performs drive assist control by controlling the hydraulic pressure supply device. The first power source supplies power to the brake mechanism. The control device supplies a current to a solenoid of the first electromagnetic valve while suspending supply of a current to a solenoid of the second electromagnetic valve when a voltage of the first power source is lower than a set voltage during the drive assist control.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle, a storage medium, and a control method are provided. The control device includes processing circuitry configured to receive a motion request of a vehicle from each of driver-assistance systems. The vehicle includes the driver-assistance systems. The processing circuitry is configured to select one of the received motion requests as an arbitration result, and output, based on the arbitration result, an instruction signal that is used to control an actuator of the vehicle, and vary the instruction signal over a predetermined period of time when the instruction signal switches as the motion request switches.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle, a storage medium, and a control method are provided. Processing circuitry is configured to receive a requested acceleration from a driver-assistance system of a vehicle and determine an initial acceleration. The initial acceleration is a starting point for modifying a vehicle acceleration toward the requested acceleration. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a transition acceleration that connects the initial acceleration to the requested acceleration and output, based on the transition acceleration, an instruction signal that is used to control an actuator of the vehicle.

Abstract: A sealing device is arranged between two relatively displaceable members containing an object to be sealed, for example, a drive shaft of an electric vehicle, and a housing for the drive shaft. A sealing body made of conductive rubber provided in the sealing device is fixed in a state of contact with the housing by an outer peripheral seal, and brings a sealing surface provided on a conductive lip into surface contact with the drive shaft to seal the object. A grease groove is provided on the sealing surface to retain grease having conductivity. The grease is filled between the drive shaft and the sealing surface, and forms a conducting circuit along with the sealing body which makes the drive shaft acting as an antenna for electromagnetic noise and the housing conductive.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes one or more processors configured to: perform feedback control on an acceleration of the vehicle by controlling a driving force of an internal combustion engine mounted on the vehicle based on a difference between a requested acceleration of the vehicle from an application and an actual acceleration of the vehicle; calculate a first predicted acceleration that is a predicted acceleration of the vehicle on an assumption that the internal combustion engine is controlled into a fuel-cut state; and control the internal combustion engine into the fuel-cut state without performing the feedback control when a coasting condition that is predetermined is satisfied and the first predicted acceleration is equal to or higher than a lower limit value that is predetermined as a negative value.

Abstract: A member to be compressed for an electrochemical device obtained by crosslinking a crosslinkable composition containing a fluorine-containing elastomer containing a unit based on at least one crosslinkable group-containing monomer selected from the group consisting of a crosslinkable group-containing monomer (1) represented by the general formula (1): CX12?CF—Rf1—X2 wherein each X1 independently represents H or F, and Rf1 represents a fluorinated alkylene group or a fluorinated oxyalkylene group, and X2 represents I or Br; and a crosslinkable group-containing monomer (2) represented by the general formula (2): CX32?CX3—Z1—CX3?CX32 wherein each X3 independently represents H, F, an alkyl group or a fluorinated alkyl group, and Z1 represents an alkylene group, a fluorinated alkylene group, a cycloalkylene group, a fluorinated cycloalkylene group, an oxyalkylene group or a fluorinated oxyalkylene group.

Abstract: An information processing method includes receiving shift requests to control a shift range of a vehicle from a plurality of application software products configured to implement driver assistance functions of the vehicle, arbitrating the shift requests by using, as a condition, whether each of the received shift requests is a request in a traveling range or a request in a parking range, when the traveling range is the shift range in which a driving wheel of the vehicle is rotatable and the parking range is the shift range in which the driving wheel is not rotatable, and generating an instruction value for an action request to drive an actuator based on a result of arbitration.

Abstract: A sealing device includes an annular reinforcing ring fixed to a housing, an annular elastic member that includes a fixing portion fixed to the reinforcing ring, and a lip that protrudes from the fixed portion and is in slidable contact with an outer peripheral surface of a shaft, and at least one annular spring that presses the lip against the outer peripheral surface of the shaft, the lip being between the at least one spring and the outer peripheral surface of the shaft. The elastic member is made of an electrically conductive elastic material. A contact surface, which is a part of the lip and is in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the shaft, is straight when viewed in a cross section defined by a plane that includes a central axis of the elastic member. A width of the at least one annular spring is greater than its thickness.

Abstract: An air management system component containing a crosslinked fluoroelastomer layer obtained by crosslinking a fluoroelastomer composition that contains a peroxide-crosslinkable fluoroelastomer and a hydrotalcite compound. Also disclosed is the fluoroelastomer composition.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes one or more processors configured to: perform feedback control on an acceleration of the vehicle by controlling a driving force of an internal combustion engine mounted on the vehicle based on a difference between a requested acceleration of the vehicle from an application and an actual acceleration of the vehicle; calculate a first predicted acceleration that is a predicted acceleration of the vehicle on an assumption that the internal combustion engine is controlled into a fuel-cut state; and control the internal combustion engine into the fuel-cut state without performing the feedback control when a coasting condition that is predetermined is satisfied and the first predicted acceleration is equal to or higher than a lower limit value that is predetermined as a negative value.

Abstract: An information processing method includes receiving shift requests to control a shift range of a vehicle from a plurality of application software products configured to implement driver assistance functions of the vehicle, arbitrating the shift requests by using, as a condition, whether each of the received shift requests is a request in a traveling range or a request in a parking range, when the traveling range is the shift range in which a driving wheel of the vehicle is rotatable and the parking range is the shift range in which the driving wheel is not rotatable, and generating an instruction value for an action request to drive an actuator based on a result of arbitration.

Abstract: A brake control device includes a processor that controls a brake device of a vehicle. The processor receives a first braking request indicating first braking force by the brake device which is requested from an application that implements a driver assistance function of the vehicle. The processor receives a second braking request indicating second braking force by the brake device which is requested depending on an operation amount of a brake pedal of the vehicle. The processor starts override control when the processor receives the second braking request while the processor controls the brake device in accordance with the first braking request.

Abstract: A composition including a fluorine-containing polymer and a cross-linking agent, wherein the fluorine-containing polymer contains a vinylidene fluoride unit, a unit of a fluorine-containing monomer (1) represented by the following general formula (1): CHX1?CX2Rf??(1) wherein one of X1 and X2 is H, the other is F, and Rf is a linear or branched fluoroalkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, and a unit of a monomer providing a crosslinking site. The monomer providing a crosslinking site is a monomer having at least one crosslinkable group selected from a cyano group, a carboxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group and a hydroxyl group. Also disclosed is a crosslinked rubber molded article obtained by crosslinking the composition.

Abstract: A vehicle brake system, including: a first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism and a second hydraulic-pressure control mechanism configured to control a braking force; and a controller including a first-abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism is in a first abnormal state, a second-abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism is in a second abnormal state that the first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism reaches before reaching the first abnormal state, and an assist control device configured to control the second braking-force control mechanism so as to control the braking force when an assist wait time elapses after the second-abnormal-state detecting device has detected that the first hydraulic-pressure control mechanism is in the second abnormal state, the assist wait time being determined based on a temperature of a working fluid obtained by a temperature obtaining device o

Abstract: A vehicle brake system, including: a first-braking-force control mechanism configured to control a first braking force, a second-braking-force control mechanism configured to control a second braking force, an abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first-braking-force control mechanism is in an abnormal state, a pseudo-abnormal-state detecting device configured to detect whether the first-braking-force control mechanism is in a pseudo abnormal state in which the first-braking-force control mechanism is suspected to be in the abnormal state, and a controller including a pseudo abnormal state controller configured to control the second-braking-force control mechanism in an operating state of the first-braking-force control mechanism so as to control the second braking force when the pseudo-abnormal-state detecting device detects that the first-braking-force control mechanism is in the pseudo abnormal state.

Abstract: A vehicle braking device includes a braking actuator, a hydraulic pressure generation device, a hydraulic pressure sensor, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute an upstream pressure maintaining process of controlling the hydraulic pressure generation device to increase and maintain the upstream hydraulic pressure, a downstream pressurization process of controlling the braking actuator such that hydraulic fluid is supplied to the wheel cylinder through the hydraulic pressure flow path in a state in which the upstream hydraulic pressure is maintained, and a failure determination process of determining that a failure has occurred in the braking actuator in a case where the upstream hydraulic pressure is not decreased to be equal to or lower than a determination threshold value as the downstream pressurization process is executed.

Abstract: A member to be compressed for an electrochemical device obtained by crosslinking a crosslinkable composition containing a fluorine-containing elastomer containing a unit based on at least one crosslinkable group-containing monomer selected from the group consisting of a crosslinkable group-containing monomer (1) represented by the general formula (1): CX12?CF—Rf1—X2 wherein each X1 independently represents H or F, and Rf1 represents a fluorinated alkylene group or a fluorinated oxyalkylene group, and X2 represents I or Br; and a crosslinkable group-containing monomer (2) represented by the general formula (2): CX32?CX3—Z1—CX3?CX32 wherein each X3 independently represents H, F, an alkyl group or a fluorinated alkyl group, and Z1 represents an alkylene group, a fluorinated alkylene group, a cycloalkylene group, a fluorinated cycloalkylene group, an oxyalkylene group or a fluorinated oxyalkylene group.