Abstract: A developing apparatus includes an electrostatic latent image bearer, a developing sleeve, a case, and an air filter. The case accommodates a two-component developer and the developing sleeve. The air filter is attached to the case. The air filter has a thickness of 2 to 20 mm and has a density gradient with a pressure loss of 2 to 40 Pa at a wind speed of 10 cm/s. The air filter forms an airflow sucked into the case from a gap between the developing sleeve and the case and forms an airflow discharged from the case through the air filter. The two-component developer accommodated in the case contains a magnetic particle a surface of which is coated with a resin layer. The resin layer contains at least one type of chargeable particle.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a second deep layer between a first deep layer and first current distribution layer and a base region in an active region and in a part of an inactive region adjacent to the active region. The second deep layer has a second stripe portion including lines connecting to the base region and the first deep layer. The semiconductor device further includes a second current distribution layer between the first current distribution layer and the base region and arranged between the lines of the second stripe portion. The first deep layer has a first stripe portion including a plurality of lines, and each line has an end portion connecting to a frame-shaped portion and an inner portion on an inner side of the end portion. The width of the end portion is equal to or greater than the inner portion.

Abstract: A cap frame includes a body member including an arc-shaped curved wall extending in a particular direction, an attaching portion connected to the body member, and a retaining member including a clamping portion having a plurality of protrusions aligned along the particular direction, and a facing portion. The attaching portion is removably attachable to a moving mechanism of an embroidery machine. In a state where the retaining member is attached to the body member, the clamping portion is elastically deformed in conformance with the curved wall and presses, toward the curved wall, a cap sandwiched between the curved wall and the clamping portion. The facing portion faces the curved wall of the body member. Each protrusion extends toward the curved wall from a leading end of the facing portion in a removing direction and faces a leading end of the curved wall of the body member in the removing direction.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure sets a provisional combination of a driver user and fellow passenger users and acquires attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger users included in the provisional combination. The information processing apparatus transmits the baggage attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger user included in the provisional combination and information inquiring whether or not to agree to the provisional combination to a terminal used by the driver user included in the provisional combination. Upon receiving information indicating agreement to the provisional combination from the terminal of the driver user, the information processing apparatus sets the provisional combination as an official combination.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure in a mode in which a plurality of users share the same vehicle sets, when determining a combination of a driving user and fellow users, a scheduled traveling route which is a scheduled route along which the vehicle travels from a getting-in spot to a getting-off spot of each of the fellow users. Upon detecting that the vehicle is traveling off a scheduled traveling route while the fellow users are in the vehicle, the information processing apparatus transmits warning information which is information warning a first user terminal of the driving user and a second user terminal of the fellow user that the vehicle is traveling off the scheduled traveling route.

Abstract: A cap frame includes a body member including an arc-shaped curved wall extending in a particular direction, an attaching portion connected to the body member, and a retaining member including a clamping portion having a plurality of protrusions aligned along the particular direction, and a facing portion. The attaching portion is removably attachable to a moving mechanism of an embroidery machine. In a state where the retaining member is attached to the body member, the clamping portion is elastically deformed in conformance with the curved wall and presses, toward the curved wall, a cap sandwiched between the curved wall and the clamping portion. The facing portion faces the curved wall of the body member. Each protrusion extends toward the curved wall from a leading end of the facing portion in a removing direction and faces a leading end of the curved wall of the body member in the removing direction.

Abstract: A frame holding device holds an embroidery frame provided with a first frame and a second frame. The second frame includes a mounting portion. The frame holding device includes a fixing portion, a base portion, an engaging portion, and a regulation portion. The base portion is connected to the fixing portion. The base portion extends in a first direction and includes a placement surface. The engaging portion is configured to engage with an engaged portion provided on the mounting portion. The regulation portion is configured to restrict the second frame from moving in a third direction by coming into contact with the mounting portion in a state in which the engaged portion and the engaging portion are engaged with each other. The third direction is a direction intersecting with the first direction and the placement surface.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to: for each of ride-joining wishing users, acquire a schedule information piece relating to travel using ride sharing, the travel being desired by the user; if it is predicted that a plurality of the ride-joining wishing users can be matched with a first vehicle that is one of vehicles corresponding to the vehicle, based on the schedule information pieces, set a predetermined priority for the matching, for each of the plurality of ride-joining wishing users; and perform matching between the first vehicle and the ride-joining wishing users in such a manner that from among the plurality of ride-joining wishing users with the respective predetermined priorities set therefor, a user whose priority is high is matched with the first vehicle in preference to a user whose priority is low.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure extracts, when the number of carpool vehicles falls below a predetermined lower limit, a driver user candidate who is a candidate of a user who can let carpool demanding users carpool in a vehicle he/she drives. The information processing apparatus of the present disclosure then transmits information that requests consent to let the carpool demanding users carpool in the vehicle driven by the driver user candidate, to a terminal used by the extracted driver user candidate, that is, information for requesting consent to provide the vehicle which is owned by each driver user candidate or the ownership right of which is owned by each driver user candidate as a carpool vehicle, thereby promoting an increase in the number of carpool vehicles.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to manage reservation for a transport service for sharing a ride in a vehicle that travels to a predetermined destination; receive a cancellation request for a first reservation for the transport service provided using a first vehicle, from a user terminal of a first user who is one of a driver user of the first vehicle or a passenger user who is scheduled to get on board the first vehicle, for whom the first reservation is established; and determine a substitute driver user or a substitute passenger user for the first user, and assign a penalty to the first user, in a case where the cancellation request for the first reservation is received from the user terminal of the first user.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure sets a provisional combination of a driver user and fellow passenger users and acquires attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger users included in the provisional combination. The information processing apparatus transmits the baggage attribute information of baggage carried by the fellow passenger user included in the provisional combination and information inquiring whether or not to agree to the provisional combination to a terminal used by the driver user included in the provisional combination. Upon receiving information indicating agreement to the provisional combination from the terminal of the driver user, the information processing apparatus sets the provisional combination as an official combination.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure sets, when determining a combination between a driver user who drives a vehicle and fellow passenger users who ride in the vehicle, a route through which the vehicle driven by the driver user can pass from a place of departure to a destination of the driver user, the route being predicted to allow the driver user to arrive at the destination by a date and time desired by the driver user, as a scheduled traveling route. The information processing apparatus then combines the driver user and a fellow passenger user whose getting-in spot and getting-off spot are located on the scheduled traveling route among fellow passenger users desiring to ride in the vehicle.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure is provided with a controller configured to execute: acquiring places of departure and destinations of fellow passenger users; determining as getting-in spots, spots which are different from the places of departure in a first range including the places of departure of the fellow passenger users and at which a third party can recognize a situation in which the fellow passenger users get in the vehicle; determining as getting-off spots, spots which are different from the destinations in a second range including the destinations of the fellow passenger users and at which a third party can recognize a situation in which the fellow passenger users get off the vehicle; and transmitting the getting-in spots and the getting-off spots of the fellow passenger users to an apparatus related to the vehicle.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure in a mode in which a plurality of users share the same vehicle sets, when determining a combination of a driving user and fellow users, a scheduled traveling route which is a scheduled route along which the vehicle travels from a getting-in spot to a getting-off spot of each of the fellow users. Upon detecting that the vehicle is traveling off a scheduled traveling route while the fellow users are in the vehicle, the information processing apparatus transmits warning information which is information warning a first user terminal of the driving user and a second user terminal of the fellow user that the vehicle is traveling off the scheduled traveling route.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention sets a provisional combination of users who share the same vehicle when determining a combination of the users sharing the same vehicle and acquires greeting moving images of users included in the set provisional combination. The information processing apparatus transmits greeting moving images of other users included in the provisional combination and information for inquiring whether or not to consent to the provisional combination to terminals of the users included in the provisional combination. Upon receiving information indicating consent to the provisional combination from the terminals of all the users included in the provisional combination, the information processing apparatus sets the provisional combination as an official combination.

Abstract: A frame holding device holds an embroidery frame provided with a first frame and a second frame. The second frame includes a mounting portion. The frame holding device includes a fixing portion, a base portion, an engaging portion, and a regulation portion. The base portion is connected to the fixing portion. The base portion extends in a first direction and includes a placement surface. The engaging portion is configured to engage with an engaged portion provided on the mounting portion. The regulation portion is configured to restrict the second frame from moving in a third direction by coming into contact with the mounting portion in a state in which the engaged portion and the engaging portion are engaged with each other. The third direction is a direction intersecting with the first direction and the placement surface.

Abstract: A utility vehicle includes: a chassis (1); a seat (6) arranged on the chassis; a cargo bed (8) arranged behind the seat and supported in a freely rotatable manner about a pivot (11) of the chassis so as to be changeable between a dumping position in which a front portion of the cargo bed is raised and a normal position in which the front portion of the cargo bed is not raised; a holding part (12) for biasing the cargo bed toward the dumping position so as to hold the cargo bed; and a support rod (101) provided separately from the holding part and supporting the cargo bed at the dumping position.

Abstract: A utility vehicle includes: a chassis (1); a seat (6) arranged on the chassis; a cargo bed (8) arranged behind the seat and supported in a freely rotatable manner about a pivot (11) of the chassis so as to be changeable between a dumping position in which a front portion of the cargo bed is raised and a normal position in which the front portion of the cargo bed is not raised; a holding part (12) for biasing the cargo bed toward the dumping position so as to hold the cargo bed; and a support rod (101) provided separately from the holding part and supporting the cargo bed at the dumping position.

Abstract: An impeller includes an impeller body which rotates about a rotation axis, and a vane which is provided at the impeller body. The impeller body receives force asymmetric with respect to the rotation axis in driving and rotation in a fluid in a manner that radially inward fluid force, which is generated due to arrangement of the vane, acts on a predetermined point in a peripheral direction. In the impeller body, a filled space filled, in a fluid, with the fluid is formed.

Abstract: An impeller includes an impeller body in which an internal flow path and a recessed section are formed; a lid covering an opening of the recessed section; and a balance weight arranged between the impeller body and the lid. The lid is attached and fixed to the impeller body through an engagement section. Holding sections for the balance weight are formed in a back-side surface of the lid. When attaching and fixing the lid to the impeller body, the balance weight is sandwiched between the holding section of the lid and the impeller body to be fixed.