Abstract: A vehicle including an ECU configured to execute software update by using software distributed from a server includes a start switch configured to stop a control system of the vehicle when the start switch is turned OFF, and a control device. The control device is configured to request acceptance to execute activation after the start switch is turned OFF. The control device is configured to, when the ECU is a single-bank computer: download the software; and then instruct the ECU to install the downloaded software in the ECU and activate the installed software after a user accepts to execute the activation. The control device is configured to, when the ECU is a dual-bank computer, instruct the ECU to activate the installed software after the user accepts to execute the activation.

Abstract: An exhaust manifold includes first and second plate members fixed to an inlet of a junction pipe at which exhaust gases from exhaust pipes join together. The first and second plate members are combined with each other so as to partition the inlet for each of the exhaust pipes. The first plate member includes a slit into which the second plate member is inserted. A width of the slit is greater than a plate thickness of the second plate member. The first plate member is provided with first and second contact portions. The first and second contact portions respectively protrude from opposite sides of the slit in a width direction of the slit and contact with the second plate member inserted into the slit.

Abstract: An information processing device is configured to control writing of data to a storage mounted on a vehicle by multiple. The information processing device includes an execution device. A storage area of the storage includes a shared area shared by multiple applications. A priority for allowing writing of data to the shared area is set for each of the applications. Data of each of the applications includes transfer data to be transmitted to a data center and normal data different from the transfer data. The execution device is configured to set the priority of writing of the transfer data when the transfer data is written to the shared area to be higher than the priority of writing of the normal data.

Abstract: A hydrogen engine system includes: a hydrogen engine; a cooling channel through which a liquid heat medium that cools the hydrogen engine flows; and a vaporizer, disposed in the cooling channel, through which the heat medium and liquid hydrogen flow, the vaporizer causing the heat medium to vaporize the liquid hydrogen to generate hydrogen gas.

Abstract: A secondary battery system of a vehicle includes a battery in which a function is maintained by a differential pressure between an internal pressure and an external atmospheric pressure, and a CPU that controls a temperature of the battery based on information related to an average of external atmospheric pressures of the battery based on a traveling history of the vehicle, and information related to a present external atmospheric pressure of the battery based on a present position of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vaporizer, through which a liquid heat medium and liquid hydrogen flow, causing the heat medium to vaporize the liquid hydrogen, includes: a spiral tube, spirally wound, in which liquid hydrogen flows; a casing being a hollow long member housing the spiral tube thereinside, the heat medium flowing on an outer surface of the spiral tube; and a spacer being a long member disposed inside a winding inner diameter of the spiral tube.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a first evaluation section that performs regression analysis for plural types of material sample based on first data including plural explanatory variables that are feature values and an objective variable that is a performance by regression analysis for respective combinations explanatory variables and that also evaluates error with respect to the regression analysis result, a second evaluation section that performs regression analysis for respective combinations of explanatory variables based on second data resulting from modifying a value of the objective variable in the first data and that also evaluates error with respect to a result of the regression analysis on the combination, a generation section that generates a distribution expressing a frequency of combinations of the explanatory variables with respect to the regression analysis result with the first data and that generates a distribution expressing a frequency of combinations of the explanatory variables

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle control system. The vehicle control system includes an autonomous driving control system that controls autonomous driving of the vehicle, and a safety control system that communicates with the autonomous driving control system and stops the vehicle when the autonomous driving control system fails or when communication is abnormal. The safety control system notifies the autonomous driving control system of the contents of the failure when a failure of a part of the function of the safety control system occurs. The autonomous driving control system sets a traveling route to a destination during the autonomous driving in accordance with the contents of the failure.

Abstract: An information processing device, including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: generate a first virtual machine, and a second virtual machine for analyzing the first virtual machine; allocate a portion of a predetermined resource to the generated first virtual machine; and in a case in which the second virtual machine has been generated, secure, in the predetermined resource, an allocation region allocated to the second virtual machine.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to acquire a satellite image of ground level captured by an artificial satellite, and propose a travel route to a destination based on road information related to a road on which a vehicle can travel to the destination, the road information having been determined based on the acquired satellite image.

Abstract: A vehicle storage management system includes execution circuitry and a storage. The storage has a dynamic partition, which has been allocated in advance, and a static partition, which has been allocated in advance. The execution circuit is configured to delete data from the dynamic partition when a prescribed time has elapsed since the data was stored in the dynamic partition, reallocate a portion of the dynamic partition as an additional static partition when there is a request to install a new application, and store the new application in the additional static partition.

Abstract: The full charge capacity measuring device is a full charge capacity measuring device that measures a full charge capacity of a sub-battery provided for backup of a main battery that supplies electric power to an automatic operation system. The full charge capacity measuring device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a temperature of the sub-battery, a determination unit that determines whether or not the current temperature of the sub-battery is less than a lower limit temperature at which the automatic operation system can operate, and a measurement control unit that performs measurement control of the full charge capacity of the sub-battery when the current temperature is less than the lower limit temperature.

Abstract: An information processing device including a control unit, wherein the control unit acquires information indicating an action tendency of a user from a terminal device of the user, and when it is determined that the base of the user has been changed based on the information, executes a first change process of changing an advertisement due to a geographical change of the base, and determines whether or not to execute a second change process of changing an advertisement related to a lifestyle of the user according to whether or not the change of the base satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, when the controller receives a first notification indicating that an equipment installed in a vehicle is in an inappropriate state that is not in a predetermined state from the vehicle shared by multiple users, reads borrowing information that includes a combination of information indicating a period of use of the vehicle and identification information of the user who uses the vehicle during the period of use. The information processing apparatus identifies one or more users as transmission destinations of a second notification indicating that the vehicle is in the inappropriate state based on reference time based on the first notification and the period of use. The information processing apparatus transmits the second notification to the user terminals used by the identified one or more users.

Abstract: A reservation system is configured to make a reservation for a charging device configured to charge a vehicle. The reservation system includes a first processing unit configured to manage reservation time frames of the charging device available to a user of a shop, a second processing unit configured to manage providing time frames of a service from a service representative who provides the service to the user at the shop, and a third processing unit configured to execute a process for receiving a time frame of reservation desired by the user among time frames overlapping between available reservation time frames and available providing time frames based on the reservation time frames of the charging device managed by the first processing unit and the providing time frames of the service from the service representative managed by the second processing unit.

Abstract: A control device executes processing including: executing first elimination processing when there is a history of addition of degradation indicator values ?D and also when degradation indicator value ?D is larger than a first threshold value TH1; measuring a characteristic value of a cell; executing second elimination processing; determining reusability when the characteristic value is within an allowable range; determining unreusability when the characteristic value is out of the allowable range; and executing the second elimination processing when degradation indicator value ?D is first threshold value TH1 or less.

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of initiating a vehicle event, retrieving a user profile associated with a user participating in the vehicle event, applying a vehicle status, based on the user profile, to the vehicle event, permitting access to a first set of vehicle features based on the vehicle status, collecting vehicle actions performed during the vehicle event for a period of time, and determining whether to increase or decrease a vehicle status based on the collected vehicle actions.

Abstract: An in-vehicle control device is installed in a vehicle and comprises a control unit performing control related to communication between a first in-vehicle device and a second in-vehicle device via an in-vehicle network. The control unit generates setting information of the in-vehicle network according to a state of the vehicle, derives a required time period required to change a network setting according to the setting information in the first in-vehicle device, derives a required time period required to change a network setting according to the setting information in the second in-vehicle device, and performs a setting change instruction on at least one of the network setting in the first in-vehicle device and the network setting in the second in-vehicle device so that the derived two required time periods at least partially overlap with each other.

Abstract: Lithium antimony sulfide compounds having crystal structure of a space group selected from P4/mmm, P21, P212121, Pmma, P2/c and Pnma and having a lithium ion conductivity of at least 10?5 S/cm are described. The materials are useful as coatings of lithium metal anodes to prevent dendrite formation and to provide solid-state lithium batteries having high energy density.

Abstract: A server is configured to communicate with a vehicle. The vehicle includes a battery and a storage unit for storing software. The server includes a communication device and a processing device. The communication device is configured to perform wireless communication with the vehicle. The processing device is configured to be capable of executing update processing for updating the software via the wireless communication. A first owner (user) as an owner of the vehicle has entered into a first lease contract for leasing the battery. When the owner has been changed from the first owner to a second owner and the second owner enters into a second lease contract for leasing the battery, the processing device permits the update processing.

Abstract: A battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material includes a lithium nickel composite oxide. The lithium nickel composite oxide includes Fe. An XAFS spectrum of a K-absorption edge of Pe in the positive electrode has a peak top in a range of 7132±2 eV.

Abstract: A display control device for a vehicle, includes an image forming section configured to form an AR image having a shape that conforms to a dividing line of a lane in which a vehicle travels, an object recognition section configured to recognize object positioned in the lane, and a processor configured to control the image forming section so as to form the AR image. In a case in which it has been determined, based on a distance between the vehicle and the object, that there is a possibility that the AR image will overlap with the object, the processor reduces a visibility of a specific portion of the AR image, which is a portion that has a possibility of overlapping with the object, relative to a case in which it has not been determined that there is a possibility that the AR image will overlap with the object.

Abstract: A power storage device includes: a power storage module; an accommodation case that has an upper surface and that accommodates the power storage module; and an electrical connector provided to be connectable to a vehicle-side electrical connector, and a coolant connector provided to be connectable to a vehicle-side coolant connector, wherein the electrical connector and the coolant connector are each provided to protrude upward from the upper surface, and are arranged side by side with a space being interposed between the electrical connector and the coolant connector, and a flow suppressing portion is provided between the electrical connector and the coolant connector in an arrangement direction in which the electrical connector and the coolant connector are arranged side by side, so as to suppress flow of a coolant from the coolant connector side toward the electrical connector side when the coolant is leaked from the coolant connector.

Abstract: A processor of a vehicle monitoring device obtains log information of an event that has occurred in a vehicle on-board device, determines whether a diagnosis is necessary based on the obtained log information, and transmits a diagnostic data set to an external server when determining that a diagnosis is necessary. The diagnostic data set transmitted to the server by the processor includes log information based on which a diagnosis is determined to be necessary, log information that is obtained prior to the determination, and log information that is obtained after the determination.

Abstract: A laminated battery has an electrode body and a laminate sheet covering the electrode body, and has a fused portion at which one end side and another end side of the laminate sheet that covers the electrode body are fused together. The fused portion has a step portion at which a thickness of a region near the electrode body side is thinner than a thickness of a region far from the electrode body side. Ratio (LS1/LE) of outer peripheral length LE of the electrode body and inner peripheral length LS1 of the laminate sheet that covers the electrode body is greater than or equal to 1.00 and less than or equal to 1.05.

Abstract: A motor may include a rotor; a stator comprising a stator core and a coil; a housing that houses the rotor and the stator; and a first annular member that provides a seal between a first end face of the stator core in an axial direction of the stator core and an inner wall surface of the housing. The first annular member may have a cylindrical shape about an axis of the stator core. The first annular member may include at least one first hole and at least one second hole through which refrigerant is injected toward a first coil end. The at least one first hole may be located on a first plane perpendicular to the axis. The at least one second hole may be located on a second plane that is perpendicular to the axis and spaced apart from the first plane in the axial direction.

Abstract: An information management device includes a travel route acquisition unit, a satellite image acquisition unit, and a detection unit. The travel route acquisition unit acquires a travel route of the vehicle. The satellite image acquisition unit acquires a satellite image in which the periphery of the travel route acquired by the travel route acquisition unit is captured. The detection unit detects one or more available spaces in the parking lot located around the travel route from the satellite image acquired by the satellite image acquisition unit.

Abstract: A vehicle control device that is installed at a vehicle configured to perform lane change assistance and that comprises a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: receive a request for a lane change by lane change assistance from an occupant of the vehicle; acquire surroundings information of the vehicle; when the request for a lane change has been received, determine whether or not the lane change by lane change assistance is viable based on the acquired surroundings information; and display a message, asking whether or not the request for a lane change by lane change assistance is to be continued, on a display section provided in a cabin of the vehicle in cases in which the lane change by lane change assistance has been determined to be difficult.

Abstract: A server communicates with a vehicle that includes a battery. The server includes a communication device and a processing device. The communication device is configured to communicate with the vehicle. The processing device is configured to generate a restriction command for restricting discharge power of the battery. A first owner (user) as an owner of the vehicle has entered into a first lease contract for leasing the battery. When the owner has been changed from the first owner to a second owner and the second owner does not enter into a second lease contract for leasing the battery, the processing device transmits a restriction command to the vehicle through the communication device.

Abstract: A reception-side apparatus includes: M receive antennas; and a processor configured to execute a first process of acquiring a first signal received from a first transmission-side apparatus from among signals simultaneously received from the N transmission-side apparatuses by receive diversity processing, and acquiring first data by demodulating and decoding the first signal. In the case of N>M, the processor acquires, for each of all patterns of a combination of a first signal, second signals from M?1 transmission-side apparatuses which are to be cancelled by receive diversity processing and third signals from N?M transmission-side apparatuses which are not to be cancelled by the receive diversity processing, a power ratio of power of the first signal relative to total power of the second and third signals based on a predetermined weight and a channel estimate of each signal, and selects a combination with the largest power ratio from among all the patterns.

Abstract: A communication system includes a relay device and a diagnosis target device. The relay device includes a port configured to connect a diagnostic tool. The diagnosis target device is connected to the relay device via a bus. The relay device determines whether a communication path of diagnostic data for diagnosing the diagnosis target device is correct when the relay deice has received the diagnostic data, the diagnostic data being data that is transferred between the relay device and the diagnostic tool. The relay device sends to the diagnosis target device a monitoring result including a determination result as to whether the communication path of the diagnostic data is correct.

Abstract: A battery has a separator, a positive electrode active material layer, a positive electrode side current collector, an adhesive layer, a negative electrode side current collector, and a negative electrode active material layer, in that order. The negative electrode side current collector has a first through-holes that are provided at a non-formation portion at which the negative electrode active material layer is not formed, and a second through-holes that are provided at the region where the negative electrode active material layer is formed. A gap is provided between the adhesive layer and the negative electrode side current collector. The gap is provided so as to communicate the first through-hole and the second through-hole.

Abstract: A power storage module includes an electrode laminate having a plurality of bipolar electrodes, a positive terminal electrode, and a negative terminal electrode, a sealing portion, and a buffer region formation member that forms a sealed buffer region. Each bipolar electrode has a current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode active material layer. Positive terminal electrode has a positive electrode current collector foil and positive electrode active material layer. Negative terminal electrode has a negative electrode current collector foil and negative electrode active material layer. Sealing portion seals a region formed between a positive electrode uncoated portion and a negative electrode uncoated portion in a state where becomes a pressure within region is lower than atmospheric pressure. Buffer region formation member forms a buffer region at a position overlapping region in a stacking direction.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body including a mounting portion that opens downward and that is configured to mount a battery, and the battery that is detachably mountable to the mounting portion. The battery includes a battery main body and a battery-side connecting portion that protrudes upward from the battery main body. The mounting portion includes a vehicle-body-side connecting portion that fits with the battery-side connecting portion. The battery-side connecting portion is movable relative to the battery main body in a lateral direction.

Abstract: A remote driving taxi system provides a mobility service using remote driving taxis that are driven by remote drivers. Each of the remote driving taxis includes a display lamp configured to indicate whether the remote driving taxi is currently available. Management information includes use states of the remote driving taxis and assignment states between the remote driving taxis and the remote drivers. The remote driving taxi system puts on the display lamp of the remote driving taxi to which the remote driver has already been assigned and that is currently available, based on the management information. Further, the remote driving taxi system puts off the display lamp of the remote driving taxi to which the remote driver has already been assigned and that is currently unavailable, based on the management information.

Abstract: A steering wheel assembly for a vehicle, the steering wheel assembly including a steering wheel frame and a tactile notification device coupled to the steering wheel frame. The tactile notification device includes a mounting frame, a first set of disks arranged around and coupled to the first mounting frame, and an actuator operatively coupled to the first set of disks. The actuator is configured to rotate the set of disks.

Abstract: An air-cooling device includes a radiator, a duct, and a fan. The radiator includes a radiator core and a frame connected to an outer peripheral portion of the radiator core. The duct is disposed forward of the radiator. The duct includes an opening disposed forward of the radiator core and an air guide that extends from the frame to an end of the opening. The fan causes air to flow from the opening to the radiator core. The frame is disposed to extend from a position on one side of a straight line to a position on an opposite side of the straight line, the straight line extending rearward from the end of the opening. A connecting portion between the frame and the air guide is located at a distance from the straight line.

Abstract: A cable module includes a retaining member and a cable member. The retaining member includes a base portion, a guide portion, and an attaching portion. The cable member placed on the base portion includes a grip portion and a cable. The guide portion configured to guide the cable is provided on a surface of the base portion. The attaching portion protrudes from the base portion. The retaining member is configured to retain the cable member in a first position and a second position. The length of an intermediate portion of the cable located between the guide portion and the grip portion when the cable member is in the second position is longer than that when the cable member is in the first position. When the cable member is in the second position, the grip portion is attached onto the attaching portion in a condition where the intermediate portion is bent.

Abstract: A drive force control system for a vehicle configured to accurately imitate a change in a drive force in a model vehicle. A drive torque simulator computes a virtual drive torque supposed to be delivered to drive wheels of the model vehicle in response to a manual operation to manipulate the vehicle, based on torque changing factors of a powertrain of the model vehicle. An actual torque calculator computes a target torque of a motor that is practically delivered to the drive wheels in the vehicle based on the virtual drive torque computed by the drive torque simulator, taking account of torque changing factors of the powertrain of the vehicle.

Abstract: A driving support ECU initializes a target trajectory calculation parameter at a start of LCA; calculates, based on the target trajectory calculation parameter, a target trajectory function representing a target lateral position which is a target position of an own vehicle in a lane width direction in accordance with an elapsed time from the start of LCA; calculates a target control amount based on the target trajectory function; when a steering operation by a driver has been detected, again initializes the target trajectory calculation parameter; and recalculates the target trajectory function based on the target trajectory calculation parameter.

Abstract: Structures and sensor assemblies having engagement structures for securing a compliant substrate assembly are disclosed. In one embodiment, a sensor assembly includes a compliant substrate assembly having a base layer, and a deformable layer heat-sealed to the base layer such that the base layer and the deformable layer define at least one inflatable chamber. The sensor assembly further includes a first member proximate to a first edge of the compliant substrate assembly, a second member proximate to a second edge of the compliant substrate assembly, wherein the second edge is opposite the first edge, and at least one pressure sensor fluidly coupled to the at least one inflatable chamber and operable to produce a signal indicative of a pressure within the at least one inflatable chamber.

Abstract: A vibration damping device including: a first attachment member and a second attachment member disposed apart from each other; and a main rubber elastic body connecting the first attachment member and the second attachment member, the main rubber elastic body being of a frustoconical-like shape having an outer peripheral surface whose diameter gradually increases from the first attachment member toward the second attachment member, the main rubber elastic body including a recess opening onto a center portion thereof on a large-diameter side that is a second attachment member side, and the main rubber elastic body that constitutes a bottom part of the recess integrally including a vibration-damping protrusion protruding into the recess.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a foamed resin molded body that has excellent impact resistance and rigidity and that is hardly fractured even when subjected to high impact, and a method for manufacturing the same. The foamed resin molded body is made of an olefin-based resin composition containing an olefin resin and a polyamide resin, the olefin-based resin composition has a continuous phase containing the olefin resin and a dispersed phase dispersed in the continuous phase and containing the polyamide resin, and the dispersed phase contains a melt-kneaded product of the polyamide resin and an elastomer having a reactive group that reacts with the polyamide resin.

Abstract: A system for automatic scheduling of vehicles includes a network access device configured to receive scheduling information corresponding to at least one travel request and including a user-selected starting location and a user-selected destination location. The system further includes a memory configured to store map information including road information and preselected vehicle stops. The system further includes a processor coupled to the network access device and the memory. The processor is designed to identify available vehicles to transport passengers. The processor is further designed to determine routes for the available vehicles to travel, the routes including vehicle stops and being determined based on the scheduling information, the road information, and the preselected vehicle stops. The processor is further designed to control the network access device to transmit the identified routes to the available vehicles.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicular environment estimation device capable of accurately estimating a travel environment around own vehicle on the basis of a predicted route of a mobile object or the like, which is moving in a blind area. A vehicular environment estimation device that is mounted in the own vehicle detects a behavior of another vehicle in the vicinity of the own vehicle, and estimates a travel environment, which affects the traveling of another vehicle, on the basis of the behavior of another vehicle. For example, the presence of another vehicle, which is traveling in a blind area, is estimated on the basis of the behavior of another vehicle. Therefore, it is possible to estimate a vehicle travel environment that cannot be recognized by the own vehicle but can be recognized by another vehicle in the vicinity of the own vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle allocation device allocates a vehicle in response to a vehicle allocation request from a terminal of a user, and includes a vehicle selector configured to, when acquiring the vehicle allocation request, select a vehicle having a relatively large degree of progress in learning of a relation between input and output of a parameter depending on an area to be traveled by the user from a plurality of vehicles learning a relation between input and output of a parameter depending on a predetermined area, and output a vehicle allocation instruction to the selected vehicle.

Abstract: A management device includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire setting information for onboard equipment used by a user in a vehicle, vehicle model information for the vehicle, and identification information for the user, convert the setting information that has been acquired into new setting information based on the vehicle model information, and provide the new setting information to onboard equipment used by the user corresponding to the identification information in a new vehicle.

Abstract: Automated analysis of particle beam measurement results is facilitated by a device that calculates a spatial parameter distribution representing spatial structure of a sample based on a scattering pattern corresponding to projection of the spatial structure of the sample to wavenumber space, the projection being obtained by detecting scattering of a particle beam which enters the sample and intersects with the sample.

Abstract: An in-vehicle solar charge control system includes a path switching unit provided in parallel with the first DC-to-DC converter on an electrical circuit that connects a solar DC-to-DC converter and a first battery and through which electricity having output power flows, and a switching unit controller which switches the path switching unit between a first state in which the output power is supplied to the first battery without being input to the first DC-to-DC converter, and a second state in which the output power is allowed to be input to the first DC-to-DC converter that is switched to the first operating state by a converter control unit.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus executes a collision avoiding control of avoiding collision of an own vehicle with an object when a predetermined execution condition becomes satisfied. The collision avoiding control includes a steering control of changing a steering angle of the own vehicle and a braking force control of applying braking force to the own vehicle so as to realize a target deceleration. The vehicle control apparatus terminates the steering control and decreases the target deceleration at a first rate to terminate the braking force control when a predetermined steering termination condition that the collision has been avoided, becomes satisfied. The vehicle control apparatus terminates the steering control and decreases the target deceleration at a second rate to terminate the braking force control when a predetermined cancelation condition that a driver carries out a driving maneuver, becomes satisfied. The second rate is greater than the first rate.