Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Christopher Lang

Yuji Yasui

Yo Ito

Kentaro Ishisaka

Nobuyuki Watanabe

Hirotaka Uchitomi

Kovi Ahego

Liyan Liu

Kanae Ohkuma

Hiroyasu Takizawa

Holly A Haynes

Yuki Hayashi

Jun Ito

Hisao Asaumi

Shun Iwasaki

Takafumi Hirose

Kenta Sugitate

Yasuhisa Kume

Hisakazu Yamane

Tomohisa Manabe

Shion Tokunaga

Satoshi Koike

Hidemi Seki

Izumi Kondo

Daniel A Favela Tentori

Masashi Yuki

Yudai Hirohata

Masaaki Onoda

Kanae Okuma

Kazuki Nishioka

Takayuki Shimoyamada

Rie Fukushima

Tyler A Tisdale

Alanna Ho

In this battery pack arrangement structure, since a case main body of a battery case is made of a metal by die-casting, not only is it possible to reduce the number of components and the weight by forming, integrally with the case main body, a cross member protruding upward from a case bottom wall and extending in the vehicle width direction and a second fixing portion protruding outward in the vehicle width direction from a case side wall, but it is also possible to enhance the side collision resistance by increasing the strength of the case main body including the cross member and the second fixing portion. Moreover, since the second fixing portion protruding outward in the vehicle width direction from the case side wall is fixed to a floor frame, due to the collision load of a side collision being directly transmitted from the floor frame to the cross member of the case main body and supported, it is possible to ensure the side collision resistance even when the strength of the floor frame is decreased so as to lighten the weight.

Battery pack arrangement structure

A thermal management system having a first mode of operation configured to transfer heat from a first plurality of components of a vehicle in the first fluid flow path and to selectively transfer heat to at least one of a second plurality of components in a second fluid flow path; a second mode of operation configured to transfer heat from the first plurality of components in the first fluid flow path and selectively transfer heat from the second plurality of components in an alternative second fluid flow path; and a third mode of operation configured to transfer heat from both the first plurality and the second plurality of components of the vehicle in a third fluid flow path. A controller is operable to selectively change the mode of operation between the first mode of operation, the second mode of operation and the third mode of operation based on operating conditions of the vehicle.

Thermal management system for a vehicle

A vehicle includes a communicator configured to receive driving information from a management server, a controller configured to drive the vehicle on the basis of the driving information from the communicator, a manager configured to manage a compartment of the vehicle in which a service user receives a service from a service provider, and an interface set up in association with service-related information provided by the service provider and the compartment.

Vehicle and service management device

An information processing system includes an acquirer configured to acquire a boarding request, a deriver configured to derive, when an action schedule of an automatic driving vehicle includes a standby state based on a boarding request acquired by the acquirer, a usage charge of the automatic driving vehicle reflecting a cost generated in a traveling state in which the automatic driving vehicle carries a user and travels and a cost generated in the standby state, and an output configured to output information including the usage charge derived by the deriver.

Information processing system, information processing method, and storage medium

A chiller/heater combination system for electric vehicles. The system includes a heat exchanger for 3 fluids. A first fluid is a high-temperature heat exchange fluid that cools components that generate heat, a second fluid is air conditioning refrigerant, and a third fluid is low-temperature heat exchange fluid used to heat or cool the motive unit. The heat exchanger may be a stacked plate design for three fluids. The low-temperature heat exchange fluid is cooled or heated in the three-fluid heat exchanger.

Chiller/warmer combination for an electric vehicle

A first connector on a case front wall of a battery pack is connected to a first electric motor with a first power line interposed therebetween. A second connector on a case rear wall of the battery pack is connected to a second electric motor with a second power line interposed therebetween. A fuel tank is arranged behind the battery pack. A muffler is disposed on an exhaust pipe extending from an engine toward the rear along a side surface in a vehicle width direction of the battery pack and is inclined so as to be near the fuel tank behind the battery pack. The second power line is at least partially arranged in a space surrounded by the second connector, the fuel tank, and the muffler as seen in a vertical direction.

Hybrid vehicle

An information-processing device of the present invention includes an acquisition unit that acquires sensor detection information indicating a detection result from a sensor mounted in a vehicle, a derivation unit that derives a plurality of indices for a surrounding environment based on the sensor detection information acquired by the acquisition unit, and an evaluation unit that evaluates attribute information of a point at which the sensor detection information is acquired based on the plurality of indices derived by the derivation unit.

Information-processing device, information-processing method, and program

An event vehicle dispatch device includes: an event notifier configured to notify a plurality of vehicles or owners of the vehicles of an event held in an area in which the plurality of vehicles are able to park; and an adjuster configured to adjust the number of vehicles corresponding to vehicle attributes of vehicles arriving at the area based on the vehicle attribute of each of the plurality of vehicles.

Event vehicle dispatch device, event vehicle dispatch method, program, and management system

A heat circulation system for a vehicle includes: an energy supply circuit that supplies heat energy supplied from a heat source to at least a vehicle cabin heater or a battery heater and cooler; and an energy absorption circuit that supplies cold energy supplied from a heat pump mechanism to at least a vehicle cabin cooler or the battery heater and cooler. The heat circulation system for a vehicle further includes a water circulation circuit, and the water circulation circuit includes at least one of a first heat exchanger that generates hot water by exchanging heat with the energy supply circuit and a second heat exchanger that generates cold water by exchanging heat with the energy absorption circuit.

Heat circulation system for vehicle

An electrified vehicle includes a frame with first and second longitudinal members and first and second transverse members, and a front subframe located forwardly of the frame. A wireless charging pad is located rearwardly of the front subframe between the longitudinal and transverse members of the frame. A support structure for preventing damage to the wireless charging pad includes first and second structural support members extending along opposite sides of the wireless charging pad, and a transverse structural support member extending between the first and second structural support members.

Support structure for wireless charging pad

A power supply device includes: an electric storage unit; a connection unit connected to the electric storage unit; a housing which houses the electric storage unit; a power receiving unit which receives AC power in a noncontact manner; a rectifier which converts the AC power into DC power and outputs the DC power; an AC lead wire which connects the power receiving unit and the rectifier; and a DC lead wire which connects the rectifier and the connection unit. The power receiving unit is connected to the housing via a heat conduction unit, an opening is provided on a surface facing the power receiving unit in the housing, any one of the AC lead wire, the DC lead wire and the rectifier is disposed to pass through the opening, and the housing has a heat capacity larger than that of the power receiving unit.

Power supply device and transport apparatus

An electrical system for providing power to an accessory in a vehicle is provided. The electrical system includes a power source, a relay coupled to the power source, an accessory socket coupled to the relay, and a switch coupled to the relay and disposed at least partially within the accessory socket. The accessory socket is configured such that the switch is in a closed state when an accessory is coupled to the accessory socket and the switch is in an open state when the accessory is not coupled to the accessory socket. When the switch is in the closed state, the relay consumes power from the power source and when the switch is in the open state, the relay does not consume power from the power source.

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Wako, Japan

Christopher Lang