Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsuhiro Miura

Naoto Hasegawa

Tae Sugimura

Tadashi Yamada

Toyokazu Nakashima

Ryuichi Kamaga

Josuke Yamane

Tomoyuki Kozuka

Tomokazu Maya

Ryosuke Kobayashi

Shoichi Shono

Genshi Kuno

Yasuhiro Baba

Tomo Sasaki

Tooru Nakanishi

Yuki Tatsumoto

Akira Sasaki

Jun Muto

Fumiki Tanahashi

Masafumi Uchihara

Keigo Yamada

Saori Matsumoto

Eisuke Ando

Kazuyuki Sasaki

Yasuhiro Tajima

Yoshikazu Motozono

Eisaku Kakiuchi

Yuta Egawa

A VCIB performs processing including issuing a request for maintenance after a vehicle returns when the vehicle is carrying out autonomous driving, a failure occurs, and the vehicle is able to continue a service operation, stopping the service operation and outputting a back request when the vehicle is unable to continue the service operation and the vehicle is able to travel, and stopping the service operation and outputting a stop request when the vehicle is unable to continue traveling.

Vehicle and interface system for autonomous driving with fault-based operational requests

An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit acquires biometric information and occupant information of an occupant of a vehicle, estimates state information of the occupant based on the acquired biometric information, and compares the estimated state information and the acquired occupant information with past data for another occupant in which the state information and the occupant information are associated with facility information of a service facility used, to determine a service facility fit for the occupant.

Information processing device, information processing system, program, and vehicle

An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a vehicle includes a control unit and a communication unit. The control unit is configured to acquire, from the vehicle via the communication unit, vehicle information including at least one of open-close information of a door of the vehicle and location information of the vehicle, and determine a personality of a driver of the vehicle based on the vehicle information.

Information processing apparatus, program, and information processing method

An information processing device that provides a travel route to a destination to an occupant of a vehicle includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire travel information obtained by another vehicle that travels on a candidate route to the destination set by the occupant from a second point in time prior to a first point in time when the destination is set to the first point in time in relation to traveling of the other vehicle, and to decide the travel route optimal for driving of the vehicle to the destination based on the acquired travel information.

An information processing apparatus communicable with a vehicle includes a controller. The controller is configured to store behavior information of a user in the vehicle in association with a date and time, acquire an image via an imaging unit of the vehicle when a difference between behavior information at a specific time and behavior information at a time later than the specific time is detected, an store the image in association with the date and time and the behavior information.

Information processing apparatus, non-transitory storage medium, and information processing method

A server includes a controller configured to control operation of a vehicle, and a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus held by a first user. The communication interface acquires, from the terminal apparatus, a list including a vehicle designation condition designated by the first user when the first user reserves boarding of a vehicle. The controller determines a vehicle to be boarded by the first user based on the list.

Server, vehicle dispatch method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

An image projection device which is mounted on a vehicle or worn by a driver of the vehicle includes a control unit and a projection unit. The control unit accepts a selection for specifying a particular user, detects a current location, acquires an image showing at least a part of an appearance of the particular user, which is captured when the particular user has previously driven a particular user's vehicle at a location which is the same as or near to the current location, and projects the image onto a driver's seat of the vehicle by the projection unit.

Image projection device, medium, and image projection method

An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit acquires actual traveling information about a first vehicle that travels along a first traveling route, and generates control information for reproducing a traveling state of the first vehicle on the first traveling route, based on the acquired traveling information about the first vehicle.

A vehicle includes a cabin having a first room and a second room that are capable of accommodating at least one passenger, and configured to isolate one or more passengers accommodated in the first room from one or more passengers accommodated in the second room, a guidance apparatus configured to guide the at least one passenger to be accommodated in either the first room or the second room, and a control apparatus configured to control the guidance apparatus. When a user boards as the at least one passenger, the control apparatus determines which of the first room and the second room the user is to board, based on information regarding the user. The guidance apparatus is configured to guide and board the user to whichever of the first room and the second room determined by the control apparatus.

Vehicle, vehicle control method and operation management system

A power supply apparatus includes a battery cell, a voltage conversion circuit connected to the battery cell, a first housing that fixes the battery cell in a manner to enable heat transfer, a second housing that fixes the voltage conversion circuit in a manner to enable heat transfer, and a low thermal conductive layer interposed between mating surfaces of the first housing and the second housing having a thermal conductivity smaller than a thermal conductivity of the first housing. The battery cell and the voltage conversion circuit are accommodated in an internal space formed by the first housing and the second housing.

Power Supply Apparatus

An electric power source system includes an electric power generator, a voltage conversion device, a battery, an electrical load, and a control device. The voltage conversion device converts a direct current voltage. The battery is electrically connected to the electric power generator through the voltage conversion device. The electrical load is electrically connected to the electric power generator in a parallel relationship with the battery without passing through the voltage conversion device. The control device is configured to charge the battery through the voltage conversion device based on regenerative electric power in a regenerative state in which the regenerative electric power is generated by the electric power generator. the control device is configured to increase an electric power consumption of the electrical load further when the control device detects an event that impedes the charging in the regenerative state than when the control device does not detect the event.

Electric power source system

Provided is a method for inspecting a heat sink that enables an accurate inspection of an insulating film formed on a surface of heat sink fins. The method including a metallic housing that includes a plurality of cooling fins arranged side by side on an outer surface thereof, and an insulating film formed on a surface of the cooling fins and between the cooling fins. The method includes disposing, in an electrolyte solution, an inspection electrode including a plurality of electrode fins insertable between the cooling fins to face the housing with a predetermined distance therebetween in such a way that the cooling fins and the electrode fins are alternately arranged; and applying a voltage between the housing and the inspection electrode, which are arranged to face each other, and inspecting a formation state of the insulating film based on a measured value of a current.

Method and apparatus for inspecting heat sink and method for manufacturing heat sink

Assuming that a transformer has a primary to secondary winding turn ratio 1:N, VR denotes a voltage of regenerated power, VCd denotes a discharge final voltage of a first battery connected with a transformer-primary-side center tap, VCc denotes a charge final voltage of the first battery, VBd denotes a discharge final voltage of a second battery connected with a transformer-secondary-side full bridge circuit, VBc denotes a charge final voltage of the second battery and Drain denotes a lower limit of a duty ratio D of a transformer-primary-side full bridge circuit, an apparatus determines upon (VBd/N)&#x2266;VR&#x2266;(VBc/N) that the first and second batteries may be able to be charged with regenerated power and determines upon VCd&#x2266;VR&#x2266;(VCc/Dmin) that the first battery may be able to be charged with the regenerated power.

Electric power conversion apparatus and method of controlling the same

A power conversion apparatus includes a transformer; a primary side full bridge circuit provided on a primary side of the transformer; a first port connected to the primary side full bridge circuit; a second port connected to a center tap of the primary side of the transformer; a secondary side full bridge circuit provided on a secondary side of the transformer; a third port connected to the secondary side full bridge circuit; and a control unit configured to cause an upper arm of the secondary side full bridge circuit to operate in an active region in a case where a capacitor connected to the third port is charged with a transmitted power transmitted to the secondary side full bridge circuit via the transformer from the primary side full bridge circuit when power of the second port is stepped up and the stepped up power is output to the first port.

Power conversion apparatus and method for starting up the same

A power conversion apparatus includes a transformer comprising a primary coil and a secondary coil; a primary full-bridge circuit comprising the primary coil disposed at a first bridge part; a secondary full-bridge circuit comprising the secondary coil disposed at a second bridge part; and a control unit configured to control a phase difference between switching at the primary full-bridge circuit, and switching at the secondary full-bridge circuit, to adjust transmission power transmitted between the primary full-bridge circuit and the secondary full-bridge circuit. When an absolute value of the phase difference is less than or equal to a first predetermined value, the control unit inverts a positive and a negative of the phase difference, to switch a power transmission direction between the primary full-bridge circuit and the secondary full-bridge circuit.

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Mitsuhiro Miura