Abstract: A switching element includes trenches extending in a first direction, inter-trench semiconductor layers, and connection regions arranged linearly at intervals along a second direction to form columns. The inter-trench semiconductor layers intersect the columns at intersection portions. The intersection portions include connection intersection portions including connection regions and non-connection intersection portions without the connection regions which are arranged in each of the columns in a pattern in which a portion where the connection intersection portion are arranged continuously and a portion where the non-connection intersection portions are arranged continuously are arranged alternately. A phase of the pattern is shifted in the second direction between the adjacent columns. A Chebyshev distance from each of the non-connection intersection portions to a closest one of the connection intersection portions is 1.

Abstract: In a battery system including a battery, a storage unit, and a control unit, the storage unit stores a first battery identifier associated with personal information in another system and a second battery identifier not associated with personal information in the other system, and the control unit selectively transmits either the first battery identifier or the second battery identifier to a predetermined information processing device together with battery information related to a status of the battery.

Abstract: An information processing device acquires first data relating to a status of a first vehicle having a driving battery, acquires second data relating to a status of the driving battery, and calculates an evaluation value relating to the first vehicle based on the first data and the second data.

Abstract: A system includes a management server, a plurality of first terminals corresponding to respective first objects, and a plurality of second terminals corresponding to respective second objects. The management server is configured to accept setting of correlative relations between the first objects and the second objects, by receiving association requests in accordance with usage relations being generated between the first objects and the second objects. The management server is configured such that, when, in accordance with accepting the setting of the correlative relation by two or more of the association requests being accepted with respect to a same first object, two or more correlative relations are established by two or more different second objects with respect to the same first object, the setting of one correlative relation is set to active, and the settings of other correlative relations are set to non-active, in accordance with status information.

Abstract: A management system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first server, a second server, and a management server. When a use relationship occurs between a first target and a second target, the first server authenticates the first target in response to a request from a second terminal of the second target, and the second server authenticates the second target in response to a request from a first terminal of the first target. The management server receives results of the authentication from the servers, and sets a correspondence between a first identifier of the first target and a second identifier of the second target when both the first target and the second target have successfully been authenticated.

Abstract: A terminal of a first target that is one of a mobility and a user has a controller. The controller provides electronic information to another terminal of a second target that is the other of the mobility and the user. The controller obtains an electronic signature of the second target and an electronic certificate of the second target from the other terminal. The controller verifies the validity of the electronic certificate of the second target using a public key of a certificate authority and verifies the validity of the electronic signature of the second target using a public key of the second target. In response to the success of the verification of the validity of the electronic certificate and the electronic signature, the controller sends a request to set a correspondence relationship between the first target and the second target to a management server.

Abstract: A management server according to one aspect of the present disclosure accepts setting of a correspondence relation between a first target and a second target in response to a linking demand. In a case where a predetermined condition is not satisfied, the management server acquires authentication results of both the first target and the second target and sets the correspondence relation in accordance with success in authentication of both the first target and the second target in the acquired authentication results. On the other hand, in a case where the predetermined condition is satisfied, authentication of at least one target out of the first target and the second target is omitted. The management server acquires an authentication result of the other target and sets the correspondence relation in accordance with success in authentication of the other target in the acquired authentication result.

Abstract: A management server according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes at least one processor. The processor receives a first identifier, first unique information, a second identifier, and second unique information in response to occurrence of a use relationship between a first target and a second target, requests authentication of the first target by transmitting the received first identifier and the received first unique information to a first server, requests authentication of the second target by transmitting the received second identifier and the received second unique information to a second server, and sets a correspondence between the first identifier and the second identifier when both the first target and the second target have successfully been authenticated.

Abstract: A management server according to an aspect of the present disclosure receives a first certificate and a second certificate from a terminal according to a use relation occurring between a first target and a second target and receives a first time limit certificate and a second time limit certificate from a server. The management server performs collation of the first certificate and the first time limit certificate and collation of the second certificate and the second time limit certificate to authenticate the targets. When both of the authentications of the first target and the second target are successful, the management server sets a correspondence relation between a first identifier and a second identifier.

Abstract: In a system, a first terminal of a proxy individual of a first target receives authority imparting information from a terminal of a proxy requesting individual of the first target. A second terminal of a target individual of a second target requests verification of an agency in response to a request from the first terminal. According to success of the verification, at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal transmits a linking demand toward a management server. The management server sets a correspondence relation between the proxy requesting individual and the target individual according to authentication for the proxy requesting individual being successful to enable proxy exercise of an authority of the proxy requesting individual by the proxy individual via the target individual.

Abstract: A controller is provided which is configured to perform: acquiring user identification information that is identification information of a user of a vehicle and an authentication face image that is an image of a face of the user for authentication; acquiring vehicle identification information that is identification information of the vehicle associated with the user identification information; acquiring information on an attribute of the vehicle associated with the vehicle identification information; and generating a processed authentication face image by processing the authentication face image according to the information on the attribute of the vehicle.

Abstract: A controller is provided which acquires user identification information that is identification information of a user of a vehicle; acquires an authentication face image that is an image associated with the user identification information and is an image of a face for authentication of the user of the vehicle; acquires a user's face image that is an image generated by photographing the user of the vehicle with a camera disposed outside the vehicle; performs face authentication based on a comparison between the authentication face image and the user's face image; and acquires, from the user's face image, first information to be used in the next and subsequent face authentications in response to the face authentication not being successful.

Abstract: A management server according to an aspect of the present disclosure accepts setting of a correspondence relation by receiving a linking demand in response to occurrence of a use relation between a first target and a second target. If a second correspondence relation between a first first target and a second second target different from a first second target is accepted while setting of a first correspondence relation between the first first target and the first second target is established, the management server (I) releases the first correspondence relation, and establishes setting of the second correspondence relation, or (II) does not permit setting the second correspondence relation, and maintains the setting of the first correspondence relation, according to a predetermined rule.

Abstract: A tempered glass has a surface and a thickness. When a compressive stress of the tempered glass is represented by a positive number and a tensile stress thereof is represented by a negative number, the compressive stress at the surface is 400 MPa or more, a stress profile of the tempered glass obtained by measuring a stress in a depth direction from the surface has inflection points at each of which a second derivative of the stress profile becomes zero between the surface and a depth equal to half of the thickness, and the compressive stress value at a first inflection point at a position closest to the surface among the inflection points is 150 MPa or less. The compressive stress at a second inflection point at a position deeper than the first inflection point is 45 MPa or less.

Abstract: A memory device includes source-level material layers containing a lower source-level semiconductor layer, a source contact layer, and an upper source-level semiconductor layer, an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over the source-level material layers, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack and into an upper portion of the source-level material layers, and a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and including a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel. The source contact layer includes a horizontally-extending portion and a vertically-extending portion having a greater vertical extent than the horizontally-extending portion, having an inner cylindrical sidewall contacting a bottom portion of the vertical semiconductor channel, and contacting a bottommost insulating layer within the alternating stack.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes memory blocks arranged in a first direction and bit lines that are arranged in a second direction, and are arranged with the memory blocks in a third direction. The memory block includes first conductive layers arranged in the third direction, a second conductive layer disposed on a side opposite to the bit lines in the third direction with respect to the first conductive layers, semiconductor layers that extend in the third direction, are opposed to the first conductive layers, have one ends in the third direction electrically connected to the second conductive layer, and have the other ends in the third direction electrically connected to the bit lines, and electric charge accumulating films disposed between the first conductive layers and the semiconductor layers. The first conductive layers and the second conductive layer are separated between the memory blocks.

Abstract: A vibration generating device includes a housing; a movable body housed in the housing; a support configured to support the movable body so as to be vibratable; a bracket that includes a main plate and an attachment plate extending from the main plate, and is attached to the housing via the attachment plate; a coil attached to the main plate; and a permanent magnet attached to the movable body and configured to generate a magnetic flux toward the coil.

Abstract: A drive unit for an electrically assisted bicycle includes a one-way clutch including an inner member linked to an end of a connecting shaft and an outer member linked to a drive sprocket wheel. The inner member includes clutch pawls and a boss. The outer member includes clutch teeth that are able to engage with the clutch pawls and an extension to be coupled to the drive sprocket wheel. The extension includes a recess to accept the boss at an inner member side thereof. The recess has an inner peripheral surface that is able to slide against an outer peripheral surface of the boss.

Abstract: A memory device includes an alternating stack comprising silicon oxycarbide layers and electrically conductive layers, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack, and a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and containing a vertical semiconductor channel and a memory film including a ferroelectric material layer in direct contact with sidewalls the electrically conductive layers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel flavin-dependent lactate dehydrogenase and a method for improving stability of lactate dehydrogenase.