Toyota Motor Corporation Patente

A positive electrode active material comprises secondary particles, wherein each of the secondary particles includes primary particles, and each of the primary particles includes an olivine-type phosphate compound and lithium zirconate.

The teaching herein provides an electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery with excellent input/output characteristics, using an olivine type compound and a layered rocksalt type oxide as its positive electrode active materials. The description herein provides a positive electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery. This positive electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery comprises: a positive electrode current collector layer; and a positive electrode composite layer containing an olivine-type compound and a layered rocksalt-type oxide as its positive electrode active materials. The positive electrode composite layer comprises a first region on a side that is closer to a first surface of the positive electrode composite layer, the first surface being opposite to a second surface of the positive electrode composite layer facing the positive electrode current collector layer, and the first region contains the layered rocksalt-type oxide at a higher concentration.

An electronic control unit includes communication units configured to be switched between a standby state, in which a communication function is restricted, and an active state, in which the restriction of the communication function is lifted. The communication units include a first communication unit (13) and a second communication unit (14) that execute first communication and second communication, respectively. The electronic control unit shifts the first communication unit (13) from the standby state to the active state in response to receiving a first activation notification through the first communication. The electronic control unit sends a second activation notification, which is a message requesting activation of the second communication unit (14) of another other electronic control unit, through the first communication and then starts the second communication with another electronic control unit.

A power storage device (10) comprises a plurality of power storage cells (100), a lower case including a bottom wall (212), and a partition plate (250) provided between the plurality of power storage cells and the bottom wall. Each power storage cell (100) has a lower surface provided with a safety valve (SV). The bottom wall (212) includes a supporting portion (212a) that supports the partition plate, and a groove (212b) that protrudes from the supporting portion downward and has a shape extending in one direction. The partition plate (250) includes a connected portion (252) connected to the supporting portion, and a lidding portion (254) located above the groove and cooperating with the groove to form an emission path (S). The lidding portion (254) has a plurality of through holes (254h) each provided at a position facing the safety valve (SV).

A power storage device (10) includes: a plurality of power storage cells (100); and an insulator member (150) having a shape extending from a power storage cell disposed at one end in a first direction to a power storage cell disposed at the other end in the first direction. Each power storage cell has a valve locating surface (114a), and each valve locating surface (114a) includes a safety valve (SV). The insulator member (150) is in contact with the valve locating surface (114a) and includes a plurality of intermediate vulnerable portions (152). Each intermediate vulnerable portion (152) is formed at a position between a pair of power storage cells (100) adjacent to each other in the first direction, and extends in the second direction.

A positive electrode active material comprises a primary particle (1) and a covering (5). The primary particle includes lithium manganese phosphate. The covering (5) covers at least part of a surface of the primary particle (1). In a radial direction of the primary particle (1), the covering (5) includes a first region (5a) and a second region (5b). Each of the first region (5a) and the second region (5b) includes carbon. In TEM-EDS analysis, signal intensity of manganese in the second region (5b) is more than signal intensity of manganese in the first region (5a).

A vehicle control system (50) according to the present disclosure includes: a lighting control unit (206) configured to turn on a predetermined light (L1) attached to a vehicle (100) configured to be movable by unmanned driving; a position estimation unit (207) configured to estimate a position of the vehicle (100) that travels on rollers of a drum tester (400) based on a position of a turned-on predetermined light (L1) of the vehicle (100) that travels on the rollers of the drum tester (400) specified from an image captured by a camera (310) configured to capture an image of a test area (TA1) where the drum tester (400) is installed; and a traveling control unit (208) configured to control the traveling of the vehicle (100) based on a result of the estimation by the position estimation unit (207).

A vehicle monitoring system (50) according to the present disclosure is a vehicle monitoring system (50) configured to estimate a position of a vehicle (100) that travels on rollers of a drum tester (400) from an image captured by a first camera (301) configured to capture a first area (A1) where the drum tester (400) is installed, the vehicle monitoring system (50) including a first position estimation apparatus (207a) configured to estimate the position of the vehicle (100) that travels on the rollers of the drum tester (400) based on a position of a turned-on predetermined light (L1) of the vehicle (100) that travels on the rollers of the drum tester (400) specified from the image captured by the first camera (301).

A matching method is executed by an information processing device (10), and includes: acquiring (S20) personal information about a customer; acquiring (S30) characteristic information about staff members; determining (S40) compatibility between the customer and each staff member, based on the personal information and the characteristic information; and deciding (S50) a staff member that deals with the customer, based on a determination result.

A vehicle control system according to the present disclosure is a vehicle control system configured to cause a vehicle (100) to travel by itself to a drum tester (400) and control an operation of the vehicle (100) on the drum tester (400). The vehicle control system includes detection means (310) for detecting arrival of a target vehicle (100) at the drum tester (400) and a controller (200) configured to cause the target vehicle (100) to travel by itself to the drum tester (400) and control an operation of the target vehicle (100) on the drum tester (400). When the arrival of the target vehicle (100) at the drum tester (400) is detected by the detection means (310), the controller (200) switches a control mode for the target vehicle (100) from a traveling control mode to a test control mode for controlling the operation of the target vehicle (100) on the drum tester (400).

A computer-implemented method for tracking at least one pixel from a reference frame to a current frame in a video comprising the reference frame and the current frame, the at least one pixel having a known position in the reference frame, the method comprising:- estimating a plurality of position candidates for the at least one pixel in the current frame, each position candidate being associated with an optical flow from the reference frame to the current frame;- evaluating at least one score for each of the position candidates based on the reference frame, the current frame and the optical flow;- determining the position of the at least one pixel in the current frame by selecting one of the position candidates or combining two or more of the position candidates based on the respective at least one score.

A vehicle driving control device comprising a deceleration control device that controls deceleration of a vehicle, and a driving support ECU configured to execute deceleration support control such that the vehicle is automatically decelerated by the deceleration control device when it is determined that it is necessary to decelerate the vehicle based on the driving conditions of the vehicle in a situation where a deceleration support control switch is on, in which the driving support ECU executes the deceleration support control when it is determined that alertness level of a driver is equal to or less than a threshold value in a situation where the deceleration support control switch is off.

A control device (30) controls a battery (23) installed in a vehicle. The control device is configured to acquire charge-discharge requests for the battery from a plurality of devices, evaluate the acquired charge-discharge requests based on the devices from which the charge-discharge requests originated, and output a control signal in response to a control request, in which the control signal controls the battery, and the control request indicates a result of the evaluation.

A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an electrode active material capable of suppressing the volume change of the electrode layer. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an electrode active material including a secondary particle that is an aggregation of a plurality of primary particle, wherein the primary particle is a Si-based active material containing a Si element, and a particle size D₁₀ (µm) and a particle size D₅₀ (µm) of the secondary particle satisfy the specified formula (1).

A current collector (100A) includes a support portion (110) and a conductive portion (120). The support portion (110) includes an electrically insulating resin composition. The conductive portion (120) includes a first conductive layer (121), a second conductive layer (122), and a third conductive layer (123). The first conductive layer (121) and the second conductive layer (122) extend from the support portion (110). The third conductive layer (123) is disposed between the first conductive layer (121) and the second conductive layer (122), is joined to both the first conductive layer (121) and the second conductive layer (122), and extends from between the first conductive layer (121) and the second conductive layer (122).

A battery of the present disclosure has an electrode body, a case accommodating the electrode body, and a resin body electrically insulating the electrode body and the case. The electrode body includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, an electrolyte, a negative electrode active material layer and a negative electrode current collector. The case includes a metal tube having a first opening and a second opening, and covers that seal the first opening and the second opening respectively. The resin body includes plural concave regions extending from the first opening toward the second opening.

Provided is a consent confirmation device that confirms whether or not an occupant consent has been obtained for provision of data acquired in the vehicle to outside of the vehicle, in a manner without creating a burden on the occupant. The consent confirmation device has a confirming unit that confirms whether or not an occupant consents to provision of data acquired in a vehicle, when occupant identification information identifying the occupant of the vehicle does not match consenter identification information identifying a consenter who has consented to provision of the data.

The current collector includes: a first layer that includes Al; a second layer that is disposed on the first layer and includes a metal element M, the metal element M having an oxidation-reduction potential based on Li of 2.3V or more and not being an amphoteric element; and a third layer that is disposed on the second layer and includes a resin.

A charging device (100) includes: a communication unit (13) that acquires authentication information about an EVSE (200); a processor (11) that determines, based on the authentication information, whether or not the EVSE (200) is under a time-based billing system; and a processor (21) that is capable of switching between timer charging and immediate charging. When timer charging is set and when it is determined that the EVSE (200) is under a time-based billing system, the processor (21) switches from timer charging to immediate charging.

A power cutoff device includes a pyro-fuse device (21), a receiver (25), and a controller (22). The pyro-fuse device (21) is provided in a power system of a vehicle (10) and configured to shut off the power system when an abnormality of the vehicle (10) is detected. The receiver (25) receives a signal for requesting driving of the pyro-fuse device (21) from the outside of the vehicle (10). The controller (22) drives the pyro-fuse device (21) when the receiver (25) receives the signal.

The invention provides a use of a solution as an ink to provide, in an ink-printing operation onto a surface of an intermediate product in the production of a perovskite solar cell, a surface film convertible into a functional layer of the perovskite solar cell via drying, wherein the ink-printing operation employs a print head (P) having at least 100 nozzles and/or deposits the ink over an area of at least 0.3 m<2> of the surface, the functional layer is one of an electron transport layer (3a), a perovskite layer, and a hole transport layer, and the solution contains a precursor of the functional layer in a polar solvent which contains an alcohol and/or and ether.

An emotion estimation method that is executed by an information processing device (10) includes: acquiring voice data; determining whether the voice data includes linguistic information; and estimating an emotion corresponding to the voice data by inputting the voice data to a first estimation model, when the voice data includes the linguistic information, or estimating the emotion corresponding to the voice data by inputting the voice data to a second estimation model, when the voice data does not include the linguistic information. The first estimation model estimates the emotion based on the linguistic information. The second estimation model estimates the emotion without being based on the linguistic information.

A signal localization device (1), comprising: a single sensor (4), a first redirection device (21) configured to guide an emitted signal (2) to the sensor (4) through a first channel, said first channel having a first intrinsic delay and a first spatial sensitivity so as to provide the emitted signal (2) to the sensor (4) with a first delay, a second redirection device (8) arranged to guide the emitted signal (2) to the sensor (4) through a second channel, said second channel having a second intrinsic delay and a second spatial sensitivity so as to provide the emitted signal (2) to the sensor (4) with a second delay, the first delay and the second delay being different, the second redirection (8) device comprising a delay structure (5) configured to provide the second delay to the emitted signal as a function of a direction (3) of the emitted signal (2), and a processing unit (6), configured to identify a localization of the emitted signal (2) as a function of the emitted signal, the first delay and the second delay.

Obtaining an electric machine comprising concentrically arranged stator and rotor with a computer-implemented prediction of an Eigenfrequency for each of sets of specifications representing material and geometry options for the stator, including- solving the Eigenvalue problem with a finite element solver, an input of which includes a mass matrix and a stiffness matrix, the stiffness matrix comprising equivalent material parameters of a laminar 3D structure with a sub-structure periodically occurring with periodicity around a central axis in the 3D structure from a laminar element with repeated occurrence of the laminar element along the central axis, and elements/tuples- relating an average or an interpolation of coefficients of deformation within constraints to volume portions of the 3D structure to provide representative volume elements and- computed with the periodicity and model order reduction with proper orthogonal decomposition on tuples representing the sub-structure.

A solid-state battery (100) has a first collector (110), a first electrode layer (111), an electrolyte layer (120), a second electrode layer (131) and a second collector (130), in that order, wherein the first collector (110) includes a resin layer (112) that contacts the first electrode layer (111), the first electrode layer (111) contains an electrode active material, and the electrode active material has an active material resin.

The evaluation jig (50) includes a pair of female terminals (100) connectable to a pair of male terminals of a charging connector and an electric wire (200) that connects the paired female terminals (100) to each other. The electric wire (200) has a cross-sectional area of 70 mm² or more and 95 mm² or less. The electric wire (200) has a length of 2 m or more.

The present disclosure relates to an electric vehicle (100) having an electric motor (4F, 4R) as a driving source. The electric vehicle (100) comprises an accelerator operation device (22), a control device (101) that controls the electric motor (4F, 4R), and a torque operation device (24) configured to receive operation by a driver of the electric vehicle (100). The control device (101) acquires an operation amount of the torque operation device (24), and changes torque of the electric motor (4F, 4R) in accordance with the operation amount of the torque operation device (24).

To locally heat only a trim edge. A processing method includes: punching a steel plate; and heating an end face of a heating coil by disposing the heating coil in a non-contact manner along an end surface of a trim edge of the steel plate formed in the punching and perpendicular to a plate thickness direction of the steel plate and applying a current through the heating coil to cause an induced electromotive force on the steel plate. The heating coil is configured by winding a coil wire spirally at least one time.

A vehicle structure (10) including a first framework module (16) and a second framework module (14, 18), the first framework module (16) supporting a battery pack (28) and including: a pair of side members (32) at both end portions, in a vehicle width direction, of the first framework module (16); and a first cross member (34, 36) extending between the pair of side members (32) at substantially central portions, in the vehicle front-rear direction, of the pair of side members (32); the pair of side members (32) and the first cross member (34, 36) being integrally formed; and the second framework module (14, 18) including: a second cross member (24, 40, 42); and a pair of extension portions (26, 44) respectively extending, in the vehicle front-rear direction, at both side portions, in the vehicle width direction, of the second cross member (24, 40); the pair of extension portions (26, 44) being joined to end portions of the pair of side members (32), and the second cross member (24, 40, 42) and the pair of extension portions (26, 44) being integrally formed.

An information processing apparatus (20) includes a control unit (23) that, when connection of a charger (50) to an electricity storage body (10) has been detected, transmits predetermined information to first external equipment (30A) communicably connected to the charger (50) among one or more pieces of external equipment (30) operating in a supply area of electric power in which the electricity storage body (10) is located, after receiving charging based on the predetermined information from the charger (50), stores charging information during the charging received, the charging information being transmitted from the first external equipment (30A), and transmits request information created using the stored charging information to the first external equipment (30A) or second external equipment (30B) among the one or more pieces of external equipment.

A vehicle side portion structure (12) includes a pillar (22) provided at a rear side of a wheel house (14) in a vehicle framework at a front side of a vehicle, the pillar extending in a vehicle vertical direction and includes: a side wall portion (77) that extends in the vehicle vertical direction; a plurality of ribs (96,96A,98) that project from the side wall portion toward an outer side in a vehicle width direction; a vertical wall portion (88) that projects from the side wall portion further to an outer side, in the vehicle width direction, than the plurality of ribs, and that extends in the vehicle vertical direction; and a joining surface (92A) that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction from a distal end of the vertical wall portion (88), with an outer panel configuring an outer plate of the pillar being joined to the joining surface.

The electric vehicle is adapted to change the torque output by an electric motor to simulate the rotational speed-torque characteristic of a virtual rotating machine in response to driver operation. The electric vehicle comprises a display device and a control device. The control device displays on a display screen of the display device an indicator representing a virtual rotational speed of the virtual rotating machine. In a rotational speed range below the redline rotational speed of the virtual rotating machine, the control device continuously or discretely moves the indicator within a first display area of the display screen according to the magnitude of the virtual rotational speed. In a rotational speed range higher than the redline rotational speed, the control device moves the indicator to a second display area outside the first display area, and limits the movement of the indicator within the second display area.

A vehicle rear portion structure (10) includes a framework member (20), a side member (40) and a floor member (32). The framework member (20) is integrally molded by casting and structures a rear portion of a vehicle body. The side member (40) extends in the vehicle front-and-rear direction and is attached to a rear portion of the framework member (20). The floor member (32) is provided at the vehicle upper side of the side member (40) and includes a long hole portion (38) with a length direction in the vehicle front-and-rear direction. The floor member (32) is fastened to the side member (40) by a fastening (18) that is inserted into a vehicle rear side region of the long hole portion (38).

A vehicle management system that is applied to a vehicle (10) includes one or more processors (101) and virtual maintenance. The one or more processors (101) generate a simulated driving environment that simulates a driving environment of virtual mobility. The virtual maintenance is maintenance to be virtually performed on the virtual mobility. The one or more processors (101) execute first environment change processing of changing the simulated driving environment, based on a maintenance indicator indicating a degree of need for the virtual maintenance, and execute second environment change processing of changing the simulated driving environment, according to at least the virtual maintenance.

A current collector (100A) includes a support portion (110), a first conductive layer (120), and a second conductive layer (130). The support portion (110) includes an electrically insulating resin composition. The support portion (110) includes a support layer (111) and an extension portion (112). The first conductive layer (120) is in contact with the support layer (111) on a first side in a thickness direction (DT) of the support layer (111). The second conductive layer (130) is in contact with the support layer (111) on a second side in the thickness direction (DT). The extension portion (112) extends from the support layer (111) in an orthogonal direction (DO) orthogonal to the thickness direction (DT).

A battery of the present disclosure includes: an electrode body including a solid electrolyte; a case housing the electrode body; and a resin body provided in gaps between the case and end surfaces of the electrode body. The resin body includes a first layer laminated on the end surfaces of the electrode body and a second layer laminated on the first layer. A resin component of the first layer is a resin having a hydroxy group that is less than 100 ppm. The second layer is a layer that electrically insulates the electrode body and the case.

A motor (2) includes: a shaft (4); a rotor (6) fixed to the shaft (4); a stator (8) having an annular shape about a central axis of the rotor (6); and a motor case (20) that houses the rotor (6) and the stator (8). The motor case (20) includes a cooling medium channel (40) and discharge portions (50) in a surface of the motor case (20) that faces the stator (8) in an axial direction of the central axis. The cooling medium channel includes at least a first channel (42) through which a cooling medium flows in a vertical up-down direction. The cooling medium is discharged in the axial direction from the cooling medium channel (40) through the discharge portions (50, 150) toward the inside of the motor case (20).

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