Abstract: A vehicle is a vehicle on which an ADK is mountable. The vehicle includes: a VP that controls the vehicle in accordance with an instruction from the ADK; and a VCIB that serves as an interface between the ADK and the VP. The VP outputs a brake pedal position signal in accordance with an amount of depression of a brake pedal by a driver, and outputs a brake pedal intervention signal, to the ADK through the VCIB. The brake pedal intervention signal indicates that the brake pedal is depressed, when the brake pedal position signal indicates that the amount of depression is larger than a threshold value, and indicates beyond autonomy deceleration of the vehicle, when a deceleration request in accordance with the amount of depression is higher than a system deceleration request.

Abstract: An ADS performs processing including setting an immobilization command to “Applied” when an autonomous state has been set to an autonomous mode, when an acceleration command has a value indicating deceleration, when an actual moving direction indicates a standstill state, and when a wheel lock request is issued, setting the acceleration command to V1, and setting the acceleration command to zero when an immobilization status has been set to “11”.

Abstract: A vehicle is a vehicle on which an autonomous driving kit (ADK) is mountable. The vehicle includes: a vehicle platform (VP) that controls the vehicle in accordance with an instruction from the ADK; and a vehicle control interface that serves as an interface between the ADK and the VP. The VP receives a driver deceleration request in accordance with an amount of depression of a brake pedal by a driver, and receives a system deceleration request from the ADK through the vehicle control interface. During an autonomous mode, the VP specifies the sum of the driver deceleration request and the system deceleration request as a target deceleration of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle is a vehicle on which an autonomous driving kit (ADK) is mountable. The vehicle includes: a vehicle platform (VP) that controls the vehicle in accordance with an instruction from the ADK; and a vehicle control interface that serves as an interface between the ADK and the VP. The VP receives a driver deceleration request in accordance with an amount of depression of a brake pedal by a driver, and receives a system deceleration request from the ADK through the vehicle control interface. During an autonomous mode, the VP specifies the sum of the driver deceleration request and the system deceleration request as a target deceleration of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for producing a hydrocarbon, including: preparing a molten salt containing an oxide of a first metal; adding carbon dioxide to the molten salt; obtaining precipitates containing a first metal carbide by applying a voltage to the molten salt containing carbon dioxide; and obtaining a gas containing a hydrocarbon and a hydroxide of the first metal by hydrolyzing the first metal carbide.

Abstract: A vehicle travel control device controls an independent turn wheel vehicle or a swivel three-wheeled vehicle having three or more wheels. The device instructs a turn with a normal driving operation, instructs a pivot turn for setting one wheel as a turning center and driving other wheels using a target instruction value, turns each wheel individually according to the turning center of the pivot turn, and brakes and drives each wheel individually. Further, the device acquires vehicle characteristics from a vehicle characteristic storage device, and calculate a turn wheel angle and a drive direction of each wheel based on the target instruction value to execute the pivot turn of the vehicle.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating film, including a first layer in which a first unit layer composed of TiaAl1-a-bBbN, where 0.30?a?0.50, and 0<b?0.10, and a second unit layer composed of TicAl1-cN, where 0.70?c?1.00, are alternately layered and a second layer in which a third unit layer composed of TidAl1-d-eBeN, where 0.25?d<0.45, 0<e?0.10, and a fourth unit layer composed of TifAl1-f-gBgN, where 0.35?f<0.55, 0<g?0.10, are alternately layered, in the first layer, a percentage (T2/T1)×100 of the number T2 of atoms of titanium to a total T1 of the numbers of atoms of titanium and aluminum is 60% or more, a ratio I(200)/I(002) is 2 or more, and a half width of a peak originated from the (002) plane is 2 degrees or more.

Abstract: A model generation method according to one aspect of the present invention acquires first data and second data regarding a crystal structure of a material, and performs machine learning for a first encoder and a second encoder by using the first data and the second data. The second data indicates a property of the material with an index different from that of the first data. The first encoder is configured to convert the first data into a first feature vector, and the second encoder is configured to convert the second data into a second feature vector. The dimension of the first feature vector is the same as the dimension of the second feature vector. In machine learning, the first encoder and the second encoder are trained so that the values of the feature vectors of the positive samples are positioned close to each other, and the feature vector of the negative sample is positioned far from the feature vector of the positive sample.

Abstract: A vehicle comprises an autonomous driving system and a vehicle platform that controls the vehicle in response to a command received from the autonomous driving system. In the present vehicle, when the autonomous driving system issues a first command to request the vehicle platform to provide deceleration to stop the vehicle and a first signal indicates 0 km/h or a prescribed velocity or less, the autonomous driving system issues a second command to request the vehicle platform to maintain stationary. And after brake hold control is finished, a second signal indicates standstill. Until the second signal indicates standstill, the first command continues to request the vehicle platform to provide deceleration.

Abstract: A power tool isolates a battery pack from vibrations. A power tool includes a motor, a main housing accommodating the motor, a first elastic member supported by the main housing, a battery housing supported by the first elastic member, a battery holder to which a battery pack is attachable and that is movably supported by the battery housing, and a second elastic member that restricts relative movement of the battery housing and the battery pack attached to the battery holder.

Abstract: A method for producing a hydrocarbon including: preparing a molten salt containing a carbonate of a first metal; obtaining precipitates containing a first metal carbide by applying a voltage to the molten salt; and obtaining a gas containing the hydrocarbon and a hydroxide of the first metal by hydrolyzing the first metal carbide.

Abstract: A fluid device includes a substrate having a plurality of wells on one surface; and a first lid disposed to face the well of the substrate, in which the first lid has an inlet that penetrates the first lid in a thickness direction, an injection tube that communicates with the inlet and extends above the inlet, an outlet that penetrates the first lid in a thickness direction, a discharge tube that communicates with the outlet and extends above the outlet, and an annular wall portion in a plan view provided along a peripheral edge portion of an upper surface of the first lid, and an upper end of the wall portion is higher than upper ends of the injection tube and the discharge tube.

Abstract: An impact tool includes a light emitter unit that is isolated from vibrations. An impact tool includes a motor, a hammer rotatable by the motor, an anvil strikable by the hammer in a rotation direction, a hammer case accommodating the hammer, a light emitter unit including a light emitter that illuminates an area adjacent to a front end of the anvil, and a radial elastic member supported by the hammer case and supporting the light emitter unit from radially inside.

Abstract: A panel member is provided in front of a seat of a vehicle at a height such that knees of an occupant who moves forward from the seat come into contact with therewith. The panel member includes a cover member defining a surface thereof and a reinforcement member attached to a back side of the cover member over an entire region thereof. The reinforcement member includes an outer part, a central part, and an inner part in a vehicle width direction. The outer part is provided with a first grid-shaped rib unit. The inner part is provided with a second grid-shaped rib unit that expands in the vehicle width direction more easily than the first grid-shaped rib unit. The central part is provided with no rib unit, and is provided with a coupling member coupling the first and second rib units.

Abstract: A panel member is provided in front of a seat in a vehicle cabin of a vehicle at a height such that knees of an occupant who moves forward from the seat come into contact with the panel member. The panel member includes a cover member and a reinforcement member. The cover member defines a surface of the panel member. The reinforcement member is provided behind the cover member. The reinforcement member includes an upper part in an up-down direction of the vehicle and a lower part other than the upper part. The upper part is provided with a grid-shaped rib unit extending over an overall width of the reinforcement member in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle. The lower part is provided with a grid-shaped rib unit in a region excluding a central part of the reinforcement member in the vehicle width direction.

Abstract: Fluoroelastomers containing at least 25 weight percent perfluorinated thermoplastic fillers are described. The perfluorinated thermoplastic fillers comprise a first perfluorinated thermoplastic filler having a first d50 particle size of 10 to 250 nanometers. and a second perfluorinated thermoplastic filler having a second d50 particle size of 5 to 500 micrometers. The first thermoplastic filler may be obtained from a latex while the second thermoplastic filler may be obtained as a dry powder. Methods of making such materials and cured articles prepared from them are also described.

Abstract: Provided are an optical communication apparatus, an optical communication method, and an optical communication system that each can improve transmission characteristics. An optical communication apparatus includes a monitor unit configured to, when the optical communication apparatus connects to an optical communication network and converts an optical signal received from another optical communication apparatus to a digital signal, monitor a reception waveform of the optical signal, the optical communication network including a plurality of optical communication apparatuses connected via a transmission line that transmits WDM signal light in which a plurality of optical signals are wavelength-division multiplexed; and a center wavelength controlling unit configured to, based on the monitored reception waveform, feedback-control a center wavelength of a transmission waveform of an optical signal that the other optical communication apparatus transmits.

Abstract: A refrigerant distribution device includes: first refrigerant pipes connected to refrigerant pipes extending from an outdoor unit; second refrigerant pipes connected to refrigerant pipes extending from indoor units; solenoid valves provided on at least two or more of the second refrigerant pipes; a controller having a first terminal portion to which wires that extend from the solenoid valves and a second terminal portion to which wires extending from the outdoor unit are connected; and a case. First refrigerant pipes have a first connection portion connectable to the refrigerant pipes that extend from one side of the case, and a second connection portion connectable to the refrigerant pipes that extend from the other side of the case. The first terminal portion and the second terminal portion are mutually disposed in differing locations, and the controller is detachable and attachable to the case when the controller is rotated 180 degrees around an axis.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing diamond, comprising electrolytically reducing carbon dioxide into diamond to obtain diamond in an electrolytic reduction apparatus having an anode, a cathode, and an electrolytic solution containing carbon dioxide, wherein the electrolytic solution comprises an ionic liquid.

Abstract: Methods of making anti-sticking perfluorinated articles are described. The methods include molding curing, and heat-treating a composition prepared from a coagulated and dried blend of latex dispersions of a perfluoro-elastomeric gum and a perfluoroplastic. The curing steps are performed at temperatures below the melting point of the perfluoroplastic, while the heat-treatment step occurs at a temperature above this melting point. The resulting articles are also described.