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: 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: 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 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.

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: Provided is a member to be compressed for an electrochemical device obtained by crosslinking a crosslinkable composition containing a fluorine-containing elastomer, wherein the fluorine-containing elastomer exhibits a difference ?G? (G?(100° C.)?G?(180° C.)) between the storage elastic modulus G?(100° C.) at a measurement temperature of 100° C. and the storage elastic modulus G?(180° C.) at a measurement temperature of 180° C., in the dynamic viscoelasticity test (strain amplitude: 0.5 Deg; frequency: 100 CPM) with a rubber process analyzer satisfying the following conditions: 40 kPa<?G?<175 kPa.

Abstract: A braking force control apparatus includes a fluid pressure generation mechanism, a braking mechanism and an electric control unit. The fluid pressure generation mechanism causes a braking mechanism to generate a required fluid pressure. The braking mechanism applies a braking force depending on the required fluid pressure to each of wheels through the pressing of a braking member against a rotating rotary member due to the required fluid pressure. The electronic control unit performs, when the required fluid pressure is generated and a vehicle state shifts from a running state to a stopped state at a first time point, stop-time boost control to boost the required fluid pressure at and after the first time point.

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 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 molded product having a surface that is to be in contact with a coolant, the surface being formed of a crosslinked product of an amorphous fluorine-containing elastomer having a glass transition temperature of 25° C. or less, the fluorine-containing elastomer being a copolymer of: vinylidene fluoride; a fluorine-containing monomer represented by formula (1) below: CHXa?CXbRf??(1) wherein one of Xa and Xb is H, the other thereof is F, and Rf is a linear or branched fluoroalkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; and another monomer copolymerizable therewith, wherein a molar ratio of units of the vinylidene fluoride to units of the fluorine-containing monomer is 87/13 to 20/80, and units of the other monomer account for 0 to 50 mol % based on all monomer units.