Abstract: Systems and methods for a multi-function mobility device to provide cargo container transport are provided. A multi-function mobility device includes a frame configurable between a plurality of configurations. The frame includes a plurality of individually controllable wheeled leg members configured to traverse uneven terrain. The mobility device is configured to transform the frame into a cargo transport configuration that accepts two stacks of cargo bins locked together. The mobility device is also configured to transform the frame into a rideable configuration that accepts a person.

Abstract: A method comprises, upon determination that one user profile is associated with a detected one or more mobile devices, loading the one user profile associated with the detected one or more mobile devices, upon determination that a plurality of user profiles are associated with the detected one or more mobile devices, loading the user profile that was most recently loaded on the vehicle, and upon determination that no user profiles are associated with the detected one or more mobile devices, loading a guest profile.

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: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to: determine whether a terminal apparatus is present in a vehicle with reference to first positional data that indicates a position of the vehicle and second positional data that indicates a position of the terminal apparatus; and in a case in which the terminal apparatus is determined as being present in the vehicle, determine, according to a driving state of the vehicle, whether to prohibit a first operation to be performed on the terminal apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing device to be mounted on a vehicle includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive a first input as a request from an application via an application programming interface, convert the received first input into a second input that is an input for a manager to fulfill the request, and output the second input to the manager.

Abstract: An intake duct includes a duct body. The duct body includes an upstream opening and a downstream opening. The duct body includes a twisted and bent portion. The twisted and bent portion includes a first side section and a second side section. The upstream opening and the downstream opening respectively include first sections, which are on a first side in the height direction. The upstream opening and the downstream opening respectively include second sections, which are on a second side in the height direction. The twisted and bent portion is twisted and bent such that the first side section connects the first section of the upstream opening and the second section of the downstream opening to each other, and the second side section connects the second section of the upstream opening and the first section of the downstream opening to each other.

Abstract: A control device includes a control unit. In the control device, the control unit acquires information indicating a flight path of an unmanned aerial vehicle that transports a cargo collected at a first point to a second point, determines whether the flight path has a third point where a person may be present on the ground, when it is determined that the flight path has the third point, sets an upper limit value of load capacity of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and when weight of the cargo is equal to or lower than the upper limit value, causes the unmanned aerial vehicle to collect and transport the cargo.

Abstract: A braking and driving force control device includes a target braking and driving force calculation unit, and a braking and driving force distribution unit. The braking and driving force distribution unit causes a driving device to generate a target braking and driving force in a case where the target braking and driving force is within the availability, and in a case where the target braking and driving force is less than a lower limit value of the availability, causes the driving device to generate a braking and driving force corresponding to the lower limit value of the availability, performs arithmetic processing of suppressing time variation on the lower limit value of the availability, and causes a braking device to generate a braking force corresponding to a difference between the lower limit value of the availability after the arithmetic processing and the target braking and driving force.

Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to a mobility device. The mobility device includes a frame, a pair of foot plates, and a base. The frame has a pair of side rails. The pair of foot plates are pivotally attached to the pair of side rails. Each of the pair of foot plates have a transport surface. The base has an upper surface and an opposite lower surface. The lower surface of the base includes at least one receiving cavity that corresponds to a shape of the pair of foot plates. The base is positioned on the transport surface to receive the pair of foot plates within the at least one receiving cavity and is configured to receive a plurality of cargo containers on the upper surface.

Abstract: An information processing device to be mounted on a vehicle includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine, in response to a request for the vehicle, one mode out of a plurality of modes defining behavior of the vehicle that is related to usage and operation of the vehicle, make transition of a status of the vehicle among a plurality of statuses that is based on a state and a sub-mode, and control the vehicle based on the status of the vehicle that has been achieved by the transition. The state and the sub-mode are permitted in the determined mode.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller. When it is determined that a user is at home, the controller obtains taste information relating to the taste of the user for food and drink. The controller selects a candidate item to be delivered on the basis of the obtained taste information. The candidate item to be delivered is a candidate of an item of food and drink to be delivered to the user's home. The controller executes specific processing relating to delivery of the selected candidate item to be delivered to the user's home.

Abstract: An information processing device to be mounted on a vehicle includes a processor. The processor is configured to provide an activation instruction for an application based on an operation schedule of the vehicle. The processor is configured to receive a first command as a request from the application activated in response to the activation instruction. The processor is configured to convert the received first command into a second command used to control on the vehicle for fulfilling the request. The processor is configured to control a device mounted on the vehicle based on the second command.

Abstract: A seat reclining device includes a ratchet, a guide, and pawls for locking relative rotation between the ratchet and the guide. The ratchet has a second convex portion protruding so as to abut against a ride-up protrusion of a main pawl. The second convex portion has, only in a partial region thereof in the rotation direction, a relief concave portion configured to avoid abutment in the rotation direction between the ride-up protrusion and the second convex portion.

Abstract: A resonator having a cavity and an opening is formed. The cavity is formed between a transaxle case and a facing wall, of a first housing case, that faces the transaxle case. The opening is configured such that the cavity is partially opened to a lateral side through the opening. A volume of the cavity and a volume of the opening are set such that a resonance frequency of the resonator is lower than a natural frequency of the facing wall of the first housing case. Since the resonance frequency of the resonator is lower than the natural frequency of the facing wall, even when the facing wall vibrates at the natural frequency, the cavity does not resonate. Hereby, abnormal noise caused from the transaxle can be reduced.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle controller for controlling a hybrid vehicle including a hybrid system is provided. The hybrid system includes an engine, a motor generator, a battery configured to supply power with the motor generator, a clutch configured to connect the engine to the motor generator, and a relay configured to connect the motor generator to the battery. The hybrid vehicle controller includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to execute, when an operation requesting opening of the relay is performed, a process that releases the clutch, a negative torque application process that applies a negative torque, which is a torque for lowering a rotational speed of the motor generator, to the motor generator, after releasing the clutch, and a process that releases the relay when the rotational speed of the motor generator becomes less than a threshold.

Abstract: A method comprises determining a relative position between a mobile device and a parked vehicle and causing one or more sounds to be emitted, wherein a volume or a pattern of the one or more sounds is based on the relative position between the mobile device and the parked vehicle.

Abstract: A downsized differential assembly having a simple structure, which can be mounted easily on automobiles. The differential assembly comprises: a first gear as an internal gear; a second gear as an external gear; a first eccentric gear as an external gear meshed with the first gear; a second eccentric gear as an internal gear meshed with the second gear; a supporting member supporting the first eccentric gear and the second eccentric gear; a first motion translating mechanism translating revolving motion of the first eccentric gear into rotary motion of the first rotary shaft; and a second motion translating mechanism translating revolving motion of the second eccentric gear into rotary motion of the second rotary shaft. Gear ratios between the first gear and the first eccentric gear and between the second gear and the second eccentric gear are different, and the first rotary shaft and the second rotary shaft are rotated in opposite directions.

Abstract: A seat lifter device includes: an output shaft; a support unit that supports the output shaft; an input unit; a ratchet-type feed unit configured to transmit rotation of the input unit to the output shaft; a lock unit configured to lock rotation of the output shaft relative to the support unit; a friction generation unit configured to apply a friction force between a rotation member and the support unit in response to an operation of the input unit rotating in a direction in which the seat is lowered; and a slippage preventing unit. When the input unit rotates in the direction in which the seat is lowered and the output shaft rotates preceding to the feed unit against the friction force to slip, the slippage preventing unit is fitted to the support unit by an elastic force in response to slippage of the output shaft to stop the slippage.

Abstract: A shift-by-wire system configured to switch shift positions includes a detent plate, a detent spring, a rotating electrical machine, a gear device, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit provided in the shift-by-wire system is configured to control a rotating electrical machine torque. The electronic control unit is configured to reverse the rotating electrical machine torque after the electronic control unit makes the rotating electrical machine output the rotating electrical machine torque for turning the detent plate in a turning direction to switch the shift position, then the detent torque generated in the detent plate by a push of the engagement portion is reversed in the turning direction from a counter-turning direction opposite to the turning direction, and before backlash elimination in a backlash portion of the gear device by the reversed detent torque is finished.

Abstract: A headlight control apparatus sets a forward moving vehicle as a target vehicle, acquire a target longitudinal difference between a reference lateral line in a forward image and a target vehicle lateral line which defines a position of the target vehicle in a longitudinal direction in the forward image, acquire a target lateral difference between a reference longitudinal line in the forward image and a target vehicle longitudinal line which defines a position of the target vehicle in the lateral direction in the forward image, set a target lighting angle of the at least one headlight, depending on the target longitudinal and lateral differences, and adjust the lighting angle of at least one headlight to the target lighting angle.

Abstract: A damage estimation device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a temperature change amount in a period during which an inflow air temperature rises and a period length, a distortion amount derivation unit that derives a distortion amount of a cooling device in the above period, based on the temperature change amount, and a damage value derivation unit that derives an accumulated damage value by integrating a value depending on the distortion amount. When the period length is shorter than a period length determination value, the distortion amount derivation unit derives a larger value as the distortion amount than when the period length is equal to or longer than the period length determination value.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The memory is in communication with the processor, where the memory stores computer-readable instructions that are executed by the processor. The processor performs operations including storing, in association with each other, vehicle position information with which a vehicle is identified, and parcel receipt information with which the vehicle is specified instead of an address or a name. The operations further include specifying the vehicle based on the parcel receipt information. The operations further include acquiring authentication information with which the vehicle is unlocked. The operations further include sending the authentication information to a device.

Abstract: A multi-cylinder internal combustion engine is configured to perform an all-cylinder operation and a partial-cylinder operation. The ignition timing controller executes a process that sets a knock control amount and a knock learning value, a process that determines whether knocking is occurring, a process that updates a value of the knock control amount in accordance with whether knocking is occurring, a process that updates the knock learning value such that the knock learning value gradually approaches a knock control operated amount, a process that operates ignition timing of each cylinder based on the knock control amount and the knock learning value, and a process that limits update of the knock learning value such that a followability of the knock learning value to the knock control operated amount is lower during the partial-cylinder operation than during the all-cylinder operation.

Abstract: A method for monocular depth/pose estimation in a camera agnostic network is described. The method includes projecting lifted 3D points onto an image plane according to a predicted ray vector based on a monocular depth model, a monocular pose model, and a camera center of a camera agnostic network. The method also includes predicting a warped target image from a predicted depth map of the monocular depth model, a ray surface of the predicted ray vector, and a projection of the lifted 3D points according to the camera agnostic network.

Abstract: A method executed by an information processing apparatus configured to communicate with a vehicle that transports one or more packages stored in a storage space includes acquiring a transportation condition for a package to be stored in the storage space and controlling an environment of the storage space during transportation of the package, or limiting acceleration magnitude of the vehicle during transportation of the package, based on the acquired transportation condition.

Abstract: An authentication device authenticates a user using biometric information. The authentication device including: a storage unit, a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, a controller, an authentication processing unit, and an update processing unit. When the first acquisition unit acquires identification information, and a combination for which the number of successes for the acquired identification information is greater than or equal to a predetermined number is present in combination information, the controller sets a threshold such that a false acceptance rate for erroneously authenticating a person other than a registered user becomes lower than when the combination is not present.

Abstract: An information processing device according to one aspect includes: a storage unit configured to store, for each of a plurality of areas in which a vehicle is allowed to be parked, fee data associated with fee information, the fee information being information on a parking fee; and a control unit configured to acquire vehicle data sent from a first vehicle, and calculate a parking fee corresponding to the first vehicle based on the vehicle data and the fee data when the first vehicle is parked in any of the areas.

Abstract: A delivery system includes a moving apparatus on which a parcel to be transferred to a predetermined region is loaded and that is capable of moving the parcel along a circulation route along which the moving apparatus circulates in the region. The delivery system acquires delivery information including position information about a delivery destination of the parcel, generates a delivery plan for delivering the parcel to the delivery destination, based on the acquired delivery information, and controls the moving apparatus such that the moving apparatus moves the parcel to the delivery destination on the circulation route based on the delivery plan and fulfills the transfer of the parcel when permission information indicating that the transfer of the parcel is permitted has been received.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to: generate a plurality of movement plans for touring around a plurality of spots; acquire, for each of the plurality of spots included in each of the plurality of movement plans, spot information that is information that affects a level of satisfaction of a user visiting the spot; and present, to the user, each of the plurality of movement plans together with the spot information about each of the plurality of spots.

Abstract: An information processing device receives identification information for identifying a predetermined cargo handling operation which is performed at a base for loading or unloading cargo, identifies a user who is able to accept the cargo handling operation based on the identification information, and generates request information which is displayed to the identified user based on the identification information.

Abstract: A control device as a noise estimation device is applied to a vehicle including an internal combustion engine as a power source and a transmission as a power transmission mechanism. The control device is provided with a storage device that stores mapping data, which is data that defines a mapping learned by machine learning, and a CPU as an execution unit. When variables on an output of the power source and variables indicating a state of the power transmission mechanism are input as input variables, the mapping outputs, as output variables, variables indicating a sensory level of noise caused when rattling sound generated by the operation of the power transmission mechanism is transmitted to a cabin of the vehicle. The CPU estimates the sensory level based on the values of the output variables output from the mapping by inputting the values of the input variables into the mapping.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a coil. The coil has a first segment coil, a second segment coil having a wire diameter greater than a wire diameter of the first segment coil, and a crossover wire connecting the first segment coil and the second segment coil. The first segment coil is disposed in a slot radially innermost to the stator core. At least one second segment coil is disposed in the slot. The crossover wire has a changeover portion at which a wire diameter of the crossover wire changes from a wire diameter of the first segment coil to a wire diameter of the second segment coil.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to generate an electronic key for unlocking a storage configured to be locked with an article stored therein, and a communication interface configured to transmit the electronic key generated by the controller to a terminal apparatus of a user in a case in which the user is forecasted to arrive at a store after a time slot for providing the article at the store has passed.

Abstract: An air-conditioning garment includes a garment main part that is worn on the upper body of a wearer, and two fans that are attached to a lower part of a back part of a garment main part, and configured to feed outside air into the inside of the garment main part. Each of the two fans includes a fan main body and a case that houses the fan main body and includes two air outlets. The two air outlets are formed so that their blowing directions are restricted to being upward or obliquely upward. The two air outlets are formed in such a manner that their blowing directions have an upwardly-opened V-shape.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is applied to a traffic mode where a plurality of users including a first user and a second user ride in an identical vehicle and travel, and the second user gets off the identical vehicle earlier than the first user. A controller is configured to execute: acquiring destination points of the first user and the second user; setting a predetermined area including the destination point of the first user and an area proximate to the destination point of the first user; determining whether the destination point of the second user is within or outside the predetermined area; and upon determining that the destination point of the second user is outside the predetermined area, setting a combination between the first user and the second user so that the first user and the second user are allowed to ride in the identical vehicle.

Abstract: Systems and methods of wheelchair systems having a companion control mode are disclosed. The wheelchair system includes a companion and a wheelchair. The wheelchair includes one or more wheels, at least one actuator coupled to the one or more wheels, a processing device, and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium in communication with the processing device. The non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium includes one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to determine the companion, generate a companion profile based on the determined companion, determine a movement of the companion, and actuate the at least one actuator to drive the one or more wheels to follow the movement of the companion. The actuation of the at least one actuator to drive the one or more wheels to follow the movement of the companion is an autonomous control.

Abstract: A charge control system includes: a charging apparatus including a first processor to cause the charging apparatus to store electric power to be supplied to a preset region; a facility group installed in the region, to be supplied with electric power from the charging apparatus, and including a second processor; and a charge control device including a third processor configured to predict a snowfall amount in the region, calculate a snow removal electric power amount for removing snow covering the facility group based on the predicted snowfall amount, and perform charge control for causing the charging apparatus to store electric power equal to or more than the calculated snow removal electric power amount.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein the volume variation of an electrode layer during charge/discharge may be suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material used for an all solid state battery, the active material comprising at least Si, and in infrared spectrum, when a maximum peak intensity in 900 cm?1 or more and 950 cm?1 or less is regarded as I1, and a maximum peak intensity in 1000 cm?1 or more and 1100 cm?1 or less is regarded as I2, the I1 and the I2 satisfy 0.55?I2/I1?1.0, and 0.01?I1.

Abstract: An inorganic mold release agent for a core that is applied to a surface of a core containing an aggregate and an inorganic binder, and the mold release agent for a core is a powder containing silica powder, which is applied in a powder form to the surface of the core.

Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide an anode current collector that is capable of inhibiting the reaction with liquid electrolyte. The present invention achieves the object by providing an anode current collector to be used for a fluoride ion battery; and the anode current collector being a simple substance of Fe, Mg, or Ti, or an alloy containing one or more of these metal elements.

Abstract: A charge control system includes a charging apparatus including a first processor configured to cause the charging apparatus to store electric power to be supplied to a preset region, and a charge control apparatus including a second processor configured to calculate a charge amount of the charging apparatus and perform charging control for the charging apparatus based on the calculated charge amount, wherein when calculating the charge amount, the second processor calculates a charge amount to be larger in a case where the engine driving prohibited zone is set in the region than a charge amount in a case where the engine driving prohibited zone is not set in the region.

Abstract: A storage device of a noise inspection apparatus is configured to store a neural network machine-learned to receive, as inputs, an original sound characteristic value indicating a characteristic of sound generated by a transmission and an evaluation sound characteristic value indicating a characteristic of sound that reaches a vehicle cabin, and output a route part characteristic value that is a value indicating a characteristic of a vibration transfer of a vehicle part positioned on a vibration transfer route from the transmission to the vehicle cabin. An execution device of the noise inspection apparatus is configured to calculate, as an estimated value of the route part characteristic value, an output of the neural network that has received, as inputs, measured values of the original sound characteristic value and the evaluation sound characteristic value.

Abstract: A charge control system includes: a charging apparatus including a first processor to cause the charging apparatus to store electric power to be supplied to at least one preset facility; a facility server provided in the facility; and a charge control device including a second processor to acquire facility schedule information regarding a future schedule of the facility from the facility server, calculate an amount of electric power to be supplied to the facility based on a schedule of opening and closure of the facility included in the facility schedule information, and perform charging control for the charging apparatus based on the calculated amount of electric power.

Abstract: A navigation device includes: a display; and a controller configured to obtain a first remaining amount which is an energy remaining amount of traveling energy of the vehicle, obtain a travelable distance of the vehicle at the first remaining amount, obtain a current position of the vehicle, obtain a first traveling route from the current position to a destination, obtain a predicted remaining amount which is calculated based on a length of the first traveling route and the travelable distance and is a prediction value of the energy remaining amount at a point of time at which the vehicle arrives at the destination, obtain supply facility information which indicates a service state of at least one supply facility including equipment which supplies the traveling energy to the vehicle, and display a traveling route from the current position to the destination on the display, wherein the controller displays a second traveling route from the current position to the destination via the supply facility whose servic

Abstract: An onboard relay device comprises memory and a processor connected to the memory. The processor is configured to receive a data transmission request from a request originator, determine whether received data that is data received from a transmission originator is variable data or fixed data, record the received data in a cache memory section temporarily in cases in which the received data is the fixed data, determine whether or not transmission request data that is data subject to a transmission request from the request originator is recorded in the cache memory section, and in cases in which the processor has determined the transmission request data to be the received data recorded in the cache memory section, transmit the received data recorded in the cache memory section to the request originator as the transmission request data.

Abstract: A control device includes a processor configured to determine whether a non-contact power supply device is normal based on an induction current that passes through a power receiving coil of a non-contact power receiving device due to power supply via a power supply coil of the non-contact power supply device.

Abstract: When a performance flag of a temperature raising process becomes “1”, a CPU increases an injection amount for first, third and fourth cylinders from a base injection amount for making an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture equal to a theoretical air-fuel ratio, by an increase amount, and stops combustion control in a second cylinder. The CPU gradually increases a ratio of the increase amount to the base injection amount, at the start of the temperature raising process.

Abstract: A turbocharger includes a turbine wheel, a turbine housing, a bearing housing, a compressor housing, a seal plate, a variable nozzle mechanism, a penetrating shaft, and a spring member. The variable nozzle mechanism is located within the turbine housing, and adjusts the amount of exhaust gas that flows toward the turbine wheel. The penetrating shaft extends through the bearing housing and is connected to the variable nozzle mechanism. The spring member pushes out the penetrating shaft toward the compressor housing. The bearing housing and the seal plate define a cooling chamber through which coolant flows. The spring member is located in the cooling chamber.

Abstract: A controller for a vehicle is configured to execute a lubricating oil degradation degree acquisition process that calculates a degradation degree of a lubricating oil that lubricates an internal combustion engine, a battery degradation degree acquisition process that calculates a degradation degree of a battery, and an oil change time calculation process that calculates an oil change time for the lubricating oil from the degradation degree of the lubricating oil and the degradation degree of the battery. The oil change time calculation process includes calculating the oil change time so as to become earlier as the degradation degree of the battery increases.

Abstract: When an amount of PM trapped by a GPF is large and a request for regeneration is made, a CPU determines whether an execution condition for executing a temperature increasing process is satisfied. At a point in time t1, at which the execution condition is satisfied, the CPU executes a scavenging process to assign 1 to a condition satisfaction flag Ftr, cause the air-fuel ratio of air-fuel mixture in cylinders #1, #3, and #4 to be the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and stop a combustion operation in a cylinder #2. After a point in time t2, which is after a combustion cycle, the CPU executes a temperature increasing process. The temperature increasing process causes the air-fuel ratio of the air-fuel mixture in the cylinders #1, #3, and #4 to be richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and stops the combustion operation in the cylinder #2.