Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toru Ono

Yushi Oka

Akihiko Sato

Shigemichi Hamano

Yasushi Kusaka

Shinichi Takata

Hideyuki Ikegami

Masahiro Serizawa

Akira Morisawa

Toshihiro Kawai

Shinichi Inoue

Kenji Morita

Akira Umemoto

Takuya Itoh

Tomoyuki Kato

Makoto Fujii

Kiyoshi Okamoto

Noriaki Matsui

Hideyuki Nagata

Akiko Kanno

Shin-Ichi Takata

Yushi Touwa-Tennohdai High Town 2-1201 Oka

Shigemichi View Park Yamamo 211Goh Hamano

Akihiko c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Sato

A vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle includes: an operation detection unit that detects an operation performed on the vehicle by a user; a power supply control unit that controls execution of power supply from a first battery involved in vehicle traveling to an auxiliary load powered by a second battery that is different from the first battery, with a start switch of the vehicle being off; and a prohibition control unit that prohibits the power supply to the auxiliary load by the power supply control unit, in response to the operation of the user detected by the operation detection unit.

Vehicle control device, method, program, and vehicle

A charging control device includes: a determination section configured to make a determination as to whether an auxiliary device battery that supplies electric power to auxiliary devices of a vehicle is within a predetermined first temperature range; and a control section configured to, in a case in which the auxiliary device battery is within the first temperature range, cause a charging section to charge the auxiliary device battery.

Charging control for improving efficiency of charging auxiliary device battery

A battery cell short circuit detection device includes: a control unit that controls operation of a direct current-direct current converter; a first acquisition unit that acquires a storage rate of the battery; a second acquisition unit that acquires a current flowing into the battery and a current flowing out of the battery when the direct current-direct current converter is operating; a third acquisition unit that acquires a terminal voltage value that is a voltage that appears at a terminal of the battery when the direct current-direct current converter is not operating; and a determination unit that determines presence or absence of the short circuit between the battery cells based on an average storage rate indicating an average value of the storage rate of the battery, an average inflow current value indicating an average value of the current flowing into the battery, and the terminal voltage value.

Battery cell short circuit detection device, method, and storage medium

A vehicle control device for a vehicle includes a processor. The vehicle includes a first battery, a second battery, an auxiliary load powered by the second battery, and a DC-to-DC converter configured to supply electric power from the first battery to either the second battery or the auxiliary load, or to both of the second battery or the auxiliary load. The processor is configured to: determine the state of a start switch and the boarding state of the vehicle; acquire the voltage of the second battery; and when the processor determines that the vehicle is in a non-started on-board state, determine based on the voltage of the second battery an order in which the DC-to-DC converter and the auxiliary load are driven. The non-started on-board state is a state in which the start switch is off and a user is presumed to be in the vehicle.

Vehicle control device, control method, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle

A vehicle control apparatus mounted on a vehicle including a DC-DC converter that supplies electric power from a first battery to a second battery and an auxiliary load includes an electronic control unit configured to control an operation of the converter, determine a state of a starter switch of the vehicle, detect a user operation to the vehicle, and acquire charging status information of the second battery. The electronic control unit is configured to, when the electronic control unit detects a first operation by the user and determines that the starter switch is off, drive the converter such that the converter charges the second battery, and, when an electric power amount charged in the second battery reaches a target amount of charge set based on an amount of electric power to be consumed by the auxiliary load while the starter switch is off, stop the converter.

Vehicle control apparatus, control method, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle

There is provided an arbitration device that arbitrates operation requests from a plurality of first power loads in a vehicle, the arbitration device including: a reception section; a memory section; a calculation section that calculates a total power consumption combining the first power consumption and the second power consumption; and a control section at which priorities of the plurality of first power loads are specified, when the total power consumption exceeds a threshold, the control section selecting which of the first power loads to approve based on the priorities and causing each operating first power load that is not approved to pause operation, and, when the total power consumption is less than or equal to the threshold, the control section allowing each operating first power load to continue operation.

Arbitration device for arbitrating plural power loads in vehicle

A vehicle is provided with an electrical storage device, a first connector capable of charging and discharging the power of the electrical storage device, a second connector capable of charging and discharging the power of the electrical storage device, and an ECU for controlling charging and discharging performed via the first connector and the charging and discharging performed via the second connector. The ECU selects and implements any one of the following according to the operation of an operation unit provided to a first plug connected to the first connector: discharging from the electrical storage device via the first connector, charging to the electrical storage device via the first connector, discharging from the electrical storage device via the second connector, and charging to the electrical storage device via the second connector.

Vehicle

A design support method of verifying control on a device of an image forming apparatus registers, in a storage device, trigger information for specifying a content of control to be executed when a start condition for switching the control state of the device is satisfied (S). The apparatus then registers, in the storage device, the allowable range of the state change of the device due to control switched when the start condition is satisfied (S). The apparatus then verifies whether the state change of the device due to the control switched when the start condition is satisfied falls outside the allowable range, by referring to the operation state of the device which is input through an input unit, and the trigger information registered in the storage device (S).

Support method for simulating a printing operation

A simulator apparatus simulates a behavior of an image forming apparatus in order to verify the behavior. The simulator apparatus includes a computing unit that performs a simulation operation on the behavior of the image forming apparatus, and a selection unit that selects a simulation speed of the computing unit.

Simulator apparatus and simulation method

After the start of an image formation operation, feeding of a sheet on which an image is to be formed is started, and an image formed on an image carrier is transferred onto the fed sheet. On the other hand, after the start of the image formation operation, in a case that the sheet has not been detected within a predetermined time period in a predetermined position on the upstream side of a transfer position, transfer is stopped, and after the stoppage of the transfer, re-feeding of the sheet is performed. By the re-feeding, in a case that the sheet has been detected in the predetermined position, formation of an image to be transferred onto the sheet is started, then the timing of start of the feeding of the sheet is delayed from the timing of start of the feeding in normal times.

Image forming apparatus with sheet feeding retry function

A design support method of inspecting control on an image forming apparatus based on a simulation result of operation control on a virtual device which is modeled to simulate operation of the image forming apparatus includes the steps of referring to control definition information for determining whether an operation request is proper with respect to a virtual device for which the operation request is input, in accordance with an operating state of the virtual device, and determining, based on the control definition information referred to in the referring step whether operation of the virtual device can be performed.

Support method, design support apparatus, and storage medium

A sheet conveying system in which when a sheet is passed from a sheet conveying apparatus to another, each including a sheet conveyance controller, the receiving apparatus can smoothly control acceleration, deceleration, or stop of conveyance of the sheet. A first sheet conveying device includes a first conveying roller pair to nip and convey a sheet, a releasing mechanism to release nipping of the sheet by the first conveying roller pair, and a first controller to control the first conveying roller pair and the releasing mechanism. A second sheet conveying device includes a second conveying roller pair to nip and convey the sheet conveyed by the first sheet conveying device, a second controller to control the second conveying roller pair, and a detecting device to detect position of a sheet. In response to the detection by the detecting device, the second controller causes the releasing mechanism to release the nipping of the sheet by the first conveying roller pair.

Sheet conveying system, as well as image forming apparatus and sheet conveying apparatus thereof

An image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearing member and a developing portion having a plurality of developing devices provided facing the latent image bearing member, as well as an inputting portion for inputting an image signal, an auto-discriminating portion for automatically discriminating the kind of image input, and a control portion for changing between a first mode for executing monochrome image formation, a second mode for executing color image formation, and an auto-selecting mode for changing over between the first mode and the second-mode according to the discrimination of the auto-discriminating portion. In the auto-selecting mode, movement of a predetermined developing device to a predetermined position is started before the auto-discriminating portion makes the discrimination.

Image forming apparatus having change-over type developing device

An image forming apparatus that is capable of carrying out image formation on a recording medium such as plain paper without increasing the FCOT (First Copy Out Time) and is also capable of carrying out optimal image formation on a recording medium, such as thick paper, for which the processing speed is reduced with no registration misalignment between the leading ends of toner images and the leading end of the recording medium. An image is primarily transferred onto a rotatively driven image carrier, and the image on the image carrier is secondarily transferred onto a recording medium. An image writing reference position signal for starting image formation is issued based on the circumference of the image carrier which is the length of the image carrier in the direction of rotation thereof or based on a detected reference position on the image carrier. A user can selectively switch, through operation of an operating section, between the issuing of the image writing reference position signal based on the circumference of the image carrier and the issuing of the image writing reference position signal based on the detected reference position.

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Toru Ono