Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition which contains an intestinal bacterium belonging to Bacteroidetes and having an inflammation reducing activity, or a substance derived from the intestinal bacterium and having an inflammation reducing activity and which has at least one activity selected from an anti-inflammatory activity, an immunoregulation activity, an epithelial barrier restoring activity, an IL-10-inducing activity, and an IL-22-inducing activity, and to an ameliorating agent for an inflammatory disease, an autoimmune disease, or an infectious disease containing the intestinal bacterium and the substance derived from the intestinal bacterium and having an inflammation reducing activity.

Abstract: A rideshare management system includes: a communicator configured to communicate with a plurality of terminal devices used by a plurality of users; an acquirer configured to acquire use requests from the plurality of users in which a use condition including at least a desired access place is defined; a user arrival situation monitor configured to monitor an arrival situation of the users at a predetermined place derived according to the desired access place; and a service manager configured to search for an available vehicle according to the use condition included in the use requests and determine a vehicle service schedule and configured to determine a user accessing the vehicle at the predetermined place according to the arrival situation of the users monitored by the user arrival situation monitor.

Abstract: A semiconductor module, including a semiconductor chip that includes a switching device having a control electrode, and a control terminal connected to the control electrode, a first resistance being formed between the control electrode and the control terminal and having a positive temperature coefficient, and a second resistance connected to the control terminal, the second resistance having a negative temperature coefficient. A temperature coefficient of a combined resistance at the control terminal is zero or negative.

Abstract: A semiconductor module, including a semiconductor chip that includes a switching device having a control electrode, and a control terminal connected to the control electrode, a first resistance being formed between the control electrode and the control terminal and having a positive temperature coefficient, and a second resistance connected to the control terminal, the second resistance having a negative temperature coefficient. A temperature coefficient of a combined resistance at the control terminal is zero or negative.

Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a main surface, a plurality of conductive patterns provided on the main surface, a plurality of switching elements disposed on one of the conductive patterns, each switching element having a first electrode and a second electrode and being connected to the one of the conductive patterns through its first or second electrode, and at least one first wiring member each directly connecting the first electrodes of two switching elements that are respectively disposed on different conductive patterns and are electrically connected in parallel.

Abstract: A vehicle use system includes an authentication information assignor that assigns authentication information for using a vehicle to a user, an authenticator (180) that acquires the authentication information to permit use of the vehicle, at least a part of the authenticator being mounted in the vehicle (100), and a driving controller (220, 260) that automatedly controls acceleration, deceleration, and steering of the vehicle, in which the authentication information assignor assigns the authentication information in which constraints are applied to both a time period and an area in which traveling is possible to the user, and the driving controller enables the user to use the vehicle in a range of the constraints applied to the authentication information.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control system including an information acquirer (15) that acquires situation information indicating a situation of surroundings of an autonomous vehicle; collectors (153, 526) that collect, from situation information acquired by the information acquirer, first situation information acquired by the information acquirer in relation to a situation satisfying a predetermined condition including that the autonomous vehicle is traveling without any passengers; and controllers (120, 160) that allow the autonomous vehicle to travel in a first travel mode determined in advance for acquiring the first situation information.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a service management device that is configured to estimate an out-of-use period in which a user does not use an automated driving vehicle on the basis of reference information including a usage schedule of the automated driving vehicle by the user, and that is configured to manage a predetermined service provided in a state in which the user does not use the automated driving vehicle in the estimated out-of-use period, and a controller configured to generate an action plan of the automated driving vehicle in the out-of-use period according to the predetermined service managed by the service management device.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a service management device configured to manage a predetermined service provided in a state in which a user is not using an automated driving vehicle in an out-of-use period which is set in a usage schedule of the automated driving vehicle by the user, and a controller configured to generate an action plan of the automated driving vehicle in the out-of-use period according to the predetermined service managed by the service management device.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control system including a reception unit (30, 20, 510) that receives setting of a use schedule of an automatic driving vehicle by a user, and a control unit (146, 520) that causes the automatic driving vehicle to travel as a taxi from a starting time of a period in which the user does not use the automatic driving vehicle to a termination time and causes the automatic driving vehicle to travel so that the automatic driving vehicle returns to a location designated by the user by the termination time, with reference to the use schedule received by the reception unit.

Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognition unit (130) that is configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle that is able to be automatically driven, and a control unit (120, 160) that is configured to perform a predetermined operation with respect to a cause of obstruction to traffic of a traffic participant due to a predetermined contact of the subject vehicle in a case that the recognition unit recognizes that the predetermined contact of the subject vehicle has occurred, and the control unit differentiates an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that an occupant is not onboard the subject vehicle from an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that the occupant is onboard the subject vehicle.

Abstract: A service assistance device includes an acquirer configured to acquire position information associated with each of a plurality of users and movement direction information associated with each of the plurality of users; a group former configured to group some or all of the plurality of users on the basis of the position information and the movement direction information; and a service specifier configured to specify a service for the users on the basis of attributes of the users included in the group.

Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a main surface, a plurality of conductive patterns provided on the main surface, a plurality of switching elements disposed on one of the conductive patterns, each switching element having a first electrode and a second electrode and being connected to the one of the conductive patterns through its first or second electrode, and at least one first wiring member each directly connecting the first electrodes of two switching elements that are respectively disposed on different conductive patterns and are electrically connected in parallel.

Abstract: A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a surrounding situation of an automatically driven vehicle, and a driving controller (120, 160) that automatically controls acceleration/deceleration and steering of the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of a result of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer and also includes a situation information acquirer that acquires situation information indicating an in-vehicle situation of an automatically driven vehicle, a detector that detects a forgotten item that is left in the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of the situation information acquired by the situation information acquirer, and a controller that controls the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of a result of the detection of the detector.

Abstract: A rideshare management system includes: a communicator configured to communicate with a plurality of terminal devices used by a plurality of users; an acquirer configured to acquire use requests from the plurality of users in which a use condition including at least a desired access place is defined; a user arrival situation monitor configured to monitor an arrival situation of the users at a predetermined place derived according to the desired access place; and a service manager configured to search for an available vehicle according to the use condition included in the use requests and determine a vehicle service schedule and configured to determine a user accessing the vehicle at the predetermined place according to the arrival situation of the users monitored by the user arrival situation monitor.

Abstract: A ridesharing management device includes: a communicator configured to communicate with a plurality of terminal devices used by a plurality of users; an acquirer configured to acquire pick-up requests of the plurality of users in which a use condition including at least a desired pick-up place is defined; and a service manager configured to perform a grouping process of grouping users associated with the use condition and an allocating process of allocating a vehicle which is able to be used by the grouped users according to the use condition included in the pick-up request and configured to determine a pick-up place at which the allocated vehicle is picked up so that the grouped users are able to be assembled according to results of the grouping process and the allocating process.

Abstract: A semiconductor device of the present invention suppresses high frequency noise caused in a semiconductor device incorporating SiC elements. The semiconductor device includes semiconductor elements connected in series, a SiC diode element connected in parallel to the semiconductor element, and an oscillation suppressing circuit being connected in parallel to the semiconductor element and the SiC diode element and suppressing voltage fluctuation caused in the SiC diode element in response to turn-ons of the semiconductor element. The oscillation suppressing circuit suppresses voltage fluctuation caused in the SiC diode element in response to turn-ons of the semiconductor element thereby improving reliability of the semiconductor device.

Abstract: A vehicle communication control method for controlling communication between a vehicle communication device mounted in a vehicle and an out-of-vehicle communication device includes causing one or more computers to determine whether an information usage amount that is an index value indicating the amount of information communicated between the vehicle communication device and the out-of-vehicle communication device has exceeded a predetermined amount and to restrict communication between the vehicle and the out-of-vehicle communication device in a case that the predetermined amount has been exceeded.

Abstract: A space having a certain thickness is provided between a metal base and a heat-dissipation fin set or the like. A semiconductor device is provided, including: a package portion; a metal base which is housed in the package portion and is exposed at a lower surface of the package portion; a semiconductor chip which is housed in the package portion and is placed above the metal base; and a frame portion provided to surround a penetration space penetrating the package portion, wherein a lower end of the frame portion protrudes below the lower surface of the package portion and a lower surface of the metal base. It is preferable that the frame portion is inserted in the penetration space after the penetration space is formed in the package portion.

Abstract: an information processing method in which an electronic device embedded in footwear or attached to the footwear. The footwear having a communicator configured to communicate with one or more external terminals executes an authentication step of authenticating, whether or not a user wearing the footwear is an authorized user, an acquisition step of acquiring at least a payment request of a reward for the user wearing the footwear from the one or more external terminals via the communicator when the authentication has succeeded, an acceptance step of accepting the acquired payment request in accordance with a prescribed action performed by the user, and a transmission step of transmitting an acceptance result to the one or more external terminals via the communicator.