Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Subaru Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Other

Nippon Chemi-con Corporation

Hiroto Kobayashi

Toshihiro Hayashi

Hiroshi Akita

Shingo Ugajin

Takuya Iwase

Kazuaki Ueda

Takumi Funabashi

Kenta Someya

Kazuo Nomoto

Shigeki Oyama

Tatsuya Hattori

Kazuhiro Kagawa

Hiroyuki Saito

Minoru Noguchi

Manabu Iwaida

Koichi Yoshida

Kenichi Murakami

Kenji Sato

Yasuhiro Matsumoto

Takashi Higono

Keiichi Ito

Takuya Nishinuma

Akinori Shimomai

Toshikatsu Katagiri

Takeshi Fujino

Kouki Ozaki

Koichi Yamamoto

Koji Kotani

Toshiyuki Matsuoka

Masanori Tsutsui

Naoyuki Abe

Kenta Sugitate

Kosuke Tachikawa

Naoki Fujihara

Satoko Ito

Yoshifumi Egawa

Nozomu Sugo

Tetsu Miyamoto

Kengo Aoki

Takahiro Takeshita

Daisuke Tamashima

Ayumu Uno

Byoungju Lee

Takeshi Otani

Masahide Nishio

Kazuo Andou

Kazuma Inoue

Takeshi Taguchi

Tsukasa Ohkawa

Makoto Ue

Yasushi Ohura

Akiko Toriumi

Naoyuki Nakamura

A travel control apparatus for a vehicle includes a surrounding environment recognition device, a collision time calculator, a collision object estimator, an after-collision travel range estimator, a collision detector, and a travel control unit. The surrounding environment recognition device includes a recognizer, a collision object recognizer that recognizes an object that has a possibility to come into collision with the vehicle, and a safety degree region setter that sets safety degree regions. The collision object estimator estimates a travel route of the object and a collision position on the vehicle. The after-collision travel range estimator estimates a travel range of the vehicle after the collision based on the estimated collision position. When the collision between the vehicle and the object is detected, the travel control unit performs travel control depending on a safety degree in one of the safety degree regions in front of the travel range after the collision.

Travel control apparatus for vehicle

A travel control apparatus for a vehicle includes a surrounding environment recognition device, a collision time calculator, a collision object estimator, and an after-collision travel range estimator. The surrounding environment recognition device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of the vehicle, and a collision object recognizer configured to recognize an object that has a possibility to come into collision with the vehicle in the recognized surrounding environment. The collision time calculator is configured to calculate a predicted time to the collision between the vehicle and the object. The collision object estimator is configured to, based on the predicted time to the collision, estimate a travel route of the object and a collision position on the vehicle where the object collides with the vehicle. The after-collision travel range estimator is configured to estimate a travel range of the vehicle after the collision based on the estimated collision position.

A traveling control apparatus includes a computer device configured to perform control that causes a first vehicle to travel at a set constant vehicle speed or to travel following a second vehicle traveling in front of the first vehicle. The computer device is configured to set a third vehicle traveling on a merging lane merging with a traveling lane of the first vehicle and having an intention to enter a traveling lane of the first vehicle as a target to follow, and, when the third vehicle is set as the target to follow, perform a merge-to-follow process in which an inter-vehicular distance is allowable which is shorter than a target inter-vehicular distance set in the control that causes the first vehicle to travel following the second vehicle traveling on the traveling lane of the first vehicle.

Traveling control apparatus

A vehicle driving assist device includes an oncoming moving body recognizer configured to recognize an oncoming moving body; a lateral position distribution characteristics acquisition unit configured to acquire distribution characteristics of a lateral position of the oncoming moving body; a risk determination region setting unit configured to set, based on the distribution characteristics, a risk determination region for calculating a risk degree; a risk degree calculator configured to calculate the risk degree for the oncoming moving body; and a preliminary collision avoidance controller configured to recognize the oncoming moving body as the obstacle in accordance with the risk degree, and perform preliminary collision avoidance control in response to the oncoming moving body prior to the emergency collision avoidance control. The risk determination region setting unit is further configured to variably set the risk determination region so that the risk degree relatively increases as the distribution characteristics tend to disperse.

Vehicle driving assist device

A vehicle driving assist device includes a processor that functions as a receiver, an emergency collision avoidance controller, and a preliminary collision avoidance controller. The receiver receives, in relation to an oncoming moving body moving in an oncoming lane adjacent to a traveling lane of a vehicle and having a velocity component in a direction opposite to a traveling direction of the vehicle, a risk degree calculated based on a history of a distance from a lane marker defining the oncoming lane to the oncoming moving body, by communication with a device outside the vehicle. Upon determination that the vehicle is highly likely to collide with an obstacle, the emergency collision avoidance controller performs emergency collision avoidance control. The preliminary collision avoidance controller recognizes the oncoming moving body as the obstacle in accordance with the risk degree, and performs preliminary control prior to the emergency collision avoidance control.

Vehicle driving assist device and vehicle driving assist system

A vehicle driving assist device comprises a risk determination region setting unit configured to set a risk determination region for calculating a risk degree that decreases as a distance outward from a center of the oncoming moving body in a width direction of the oncoming moving body increases. The risk determination region setting unit is further configured to set the risk determination region such that the risk degree is zero at a distance in a vehicle width direction between the vehicle and the oncoming moving body matching an average distance. The average distance is calculated based on distances in the vehicle width direction between the vehicle and oncoming moving bodies acquired every time the vehicle passes by the oncoming moving bodies.

A vehicle driving assist device comprises: an oncoming moving body recognizer configured to recognize an oncoming moving body; a risk determination region setting unit configured to set a risk determination region for calculating a risk degree that decreases as a distance outward from a center of the oncoming moving body in a width direction of the oncoming moving body increases; a risk degree calculator configured to calculate the risk degree for the oncoming moving body in accordance with an overlap state between the target traveling path of the vehicle and the risk determination region; and a preliminary collision avoidance controller configured to recognize the oncoming moving body as the obstacle in accordance with the risk degree, and perform preliminary collision avoidance control in response to the oncoming moving body recognized as the obstacle prior to the emergency collision avoidance control.

A vehicle includes a battery, an air conditioner, a first temperature adjustment circuit including a first pump and a chiller, a second temperature adjustment circuit including a second pump and a radiator, a coupling passage configured to connect the first temperature adjustment circuit and the second temperature adjustment circuit to form a coupling circuit, an electromagnetic switching valve configured to switch between a circulation state in which the heat medium can circulate through the coupling circuit and a non-circulation state in which the heat medium cannot circulate through the coupling circuit, a first temperature sensor configured to acquire a first temperature which is a temperature of the battery, and a control device configured to select any one mode of a plurality of modes in accordance with the first temperature.

Vehicle

A battery pack includes a first core pack and a second core pack each holding a plurality of unit cells. The unit cells of a first cell group or second cell group that is closest to a connector are electrically connected to the connector through a third busbar. The unit cells of the first cell group or second cell group that is most distant from the connector are electrically connected to the connector through a fourth busbar.

Battery pack

A battery pack includes a first core pack and a second core pack each holding a plurality of unit cells. The unit cells of one of first cell groups (or second cell groups) in each of the first core pack and the second core pack are electrically connected to a connector through a positive-side connection busbar and a negative-side connection busbar, respectively. Vertically adjacent cell groups are electrically connected to each other through cell group interconnection busbars. Insulator is interposed between the mutually facing cell group interconnection busbars that present a largest potential difference.

An information processing device for controlling an output device capable of communication, the information processing device includes: circuitry configured to: receive an output setting of the output device including a combination of set values for a plurality of setting items; record, in response to determination of the output setting, the determined output setting including the combination of the set values for the setting items in a storage area; and present one or more output settings acquired from the storage area as a candidate to be reused.

Information processing device, method, and system for controlling an output device and recording and displaying output settings

An information processing device includes processing circuitry to: determine whether data to be printed is to be a target to be combined; accumulate in a memory the data to be printed determined to be the target to be combined; combine the accumulated data to be printed to generate combined data in response to a print request, the combined data including combined information indicating that the data to be printed has been combined; generate print data from the combined data; and transmit the print data determined to be the target to be combined to a printing device.

Information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium

Information processing device, method and system for recording and displaying output settings

An information processing apparatus executes a printer driver that requests an image processing apparatus to perform image processing on data. The information processing apparatus includes a processor, in communication with a memory, executing a process including executing, by a plurality of process executors, predetermined processes corresponding to extended functions added to the printer driver, according to a request from the printer driver; storing process information relating to the predetermined processes that are respectively executed by the plurality of process executors; determining an execution order of the predetermined processes that are respectively executed by the plurality of process executors in the printer driver, based on the stored process information; and requesting the plurality of process executors to execute, on the data, the predetermined processes in the determined execution order, according to an instruction from the printer driver.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method

An information processing apparatus for executing a printer driver that requests an image processing apparatus to perform image processing, the information processing apparatus including a processor, in communication with a memory, executing a process including executing, by a plurality of process executors, a process in response to a request from the printer driver, the process corresponding to at least one extended function to be executed on print data; storing, in a storage area, process information relating to the plurality of process executors; accepting a request for a printing process; acquiring, by the printer driver, the process information from the storage area, upon accepting the request for the printing process; and requesting, by the printer driver, at least one of the plurality of process executors to execute the process on the print data, based on the acquired process information.

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Hiroto Kobayashi