Abstract: The present invention pertains to a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of kidney disease, a kidney inflammation inhibitor, an inflammatory cell death inhibitor for the kidneys, or a food for the prevention or improvement of kidney disease, that include D-alanine or a derivative thereof. In addition, the present invention pertains to the use of D-alanine or a derivative thereof, for the production of a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of kidney disease.

Abstract: A communication apparatus according to the present disclosure is a communication apparatus included in a first vehicle, the communication apparatus including a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface communicates with a server. The controller detects a second vehicle located in a vicinity of the first vehicle. The controller generates positional information for the second vehicle based on a position of the first vehicle when the second vehicle is detected. The controller transmits the positional information for the second vehicle to the server via the communication interface, when the communication interface can communicate with the server.

Abstract: A vehicle control device is applied to a vehicle including at least a shift control system configured to switch a shift range. The vehicle control device is configured to control the vehicle to perform autonomous driving travel without depending on an operation of a driver in at least one driving operation. The vehicle control device includes a controller. The controller is configured to determine the propriety of travel by the autonomous driving travel according to a type of abnormality that occurs in the shift control system. The controller is configured to perform travel control of the vehicle according to the propriety of the travel by the autonomous driving travel.

Abstract: A control apparatus is communicably connected to a vehicle, the control apparatus including a controller configured to: upon receiving a use request for a delivery service of luggage using a trunk of the vehicle, identify a parking space that the vehicle is scheduled to park at; and determine whether a door of the trunk will be openable when the vehicle is in a parked state at the parking space.

Abstract: A server is communicably connected to a movement impeding means provided at a parking space. The server includes a controller configured to: upon detecting reservation of the parking space, operate the movement impeding means to prevent other vehicles from parking in the parking space; upon detecting approach of a reserving vehicle that is a subject of the reservation of the parking space, cancel operation of the movement impeding means to enable the reserving vehicle to park in the parking space; and upon detecting parking of the reserving vehicle in the parking space, operate the movement impeding means.

Abstract: A server according to the present disclosure includes a communication interface and a controller. The controller receives, from a vehicle via the communication interface, received-radio-wave information indicating a state of a radio wave wirelessly received by the vehicle, and determines a position of the vehicle based on the received-radio-wave information using association information associating one or more positions with states of respective radio waves received at the one or more positions.

Abstract: A server is communicably connected to a vendor terminal and a vehicle, and includes a controller. The controller is configured to, upon receiving, from the vendor terminal, a request for electronic settlement in respect of a service, perform a comparison of a location where the service is to be provided with a location of the vehicle, which is associated with a settlement means used for settlement of the service, and when a result of the comparison is within an allowable range, authorize the electronic settlement.

Abstract: A communication apparatus according to the present disclosure is a communication apparatus included in a first vehicle, the communication apparatus including a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface communicates with a server. The controller detects a second vehicle located in a vicinity of the first vehicle. The controller generates positional information for the second vehicle based on a position of the first vehicle when the second vehicle is detected. The controller transmits the positional information for the second vehicle to the server via the communication interface, when the communication interface can communicate with the server.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle including (i) a power transmission device, (ii) a shift operation device that is to be operated by a driver of the vehicle to an operation position corresponding to a shift position of the power transmission device, and (iii) a switching device for switching the shift position of the power transmission device through actuation of an actuator. The control device is configured, upon occurrence of a momentary interruption of a control-device electric-power source that is supplied with an electric power from a vehicle electric-power source, to not perform an initial position learning process for setting a reference position of the actuator, until a shift switching operation for switching the shift position of the power transmission device is performed by a driver of the vehicle.

Abstract: A control system for a vehicle including a power transmission system and a switching device has an electronic control unit configured to make a door open-close determination as to whether a door of the vehicle is open or closed, using an open-close signal indicating opening or closing of the door, and execute automatic parking control by causing the switching device to switch the power transmission system to the parking state, when the door open-close determination indicates that the door is open, while the vehicle is stopped with the power transmission system placed in the non-parking state. The electronic control unit determines that the door is open, when the open-close signal generated from at least one of a plurality of sensors provided for the same door changes from a close signal to an open signal.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes: a brake control portion which is configured, when a vehicle is stopped, to cause a braking apparatus to keep a stopped state in which the vehicle is held stopped independently of operation of a brake pedal of the vehicle; a driver-assistance control portion which is configured to start a driver assistance operation in response to a manual operation made by the operator, and which is configured, when the stopped state is kept by the brake control portion, to withhold start of the driver assistance operation; and a withhold cancel portion which is configured, when a returning operation of the brake pedal has been made by the operator, to cause the driver-assistance control portion to cancel withhold of the start of the driver assistance operation.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of developing an analytical method which makes it possible to diagnose early or mild renal disorders. The method is based on calculating a disease-state index value for renal disorders on the basis of the quantities of D-form and/or L-form amino acids, from feces or intestinal content. By comparing the disease-state index value with a threshold value determined from the disease-state index values of a renal failure patient group and a healthy subject group, it is possible to diagnose a mild renal disorder patient group.

Abstract: A vehicle control device is applied to a vehicle including at least a shift control system configured to switch a shift range. The vehicle control device is configured to control the vehicle to perform autonomous driving travel without depending on an operation of a driver in at least one driving operation. The vehicle control device includes a controller. The controller is configured to determine the propriety of travel by the autonomous driving travel according to a type of abnormality that occurs in the shift control system. The controller is configured to perform travel control of the vehicle according to the propriety of the travel by the autonomous driving travel.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle provided with drive wheels, an automatic transmission, and a manual shifting device for shifting the automatic transmission, the control apparatus includes an automatic parking control portion configured to implement an automatic parking control for automatically parking the vehicle in a predetermined parking space, and controls the automatic transmission to be shifted according to a shifting control signal corresponding to an operation of the manual shifting device, the automatic parking control portion comprising a shifting control portion configured to place the automatic transmission in a power-cutoff state in which a vehicle drive force is not transmitted to the drive wheels, when the manual shifting device is operated to a position a running direction in which is different from a running direction of the vehicle when the automatic parking control is implemented.

Abstract: A vehicle shift control device comprises: a shift position deciding portion deciding a shift position of a shift operating device based on a sensor signal output according to an operation of the shift operating device; and a drive power output command portion selecting a shift range based on a shift position determination signal output from the shift position deciding portion to cause a vehicle to run, when a communication abnormality has occurred so that the shift position determination signal is not transmitted from the shift position deciding portion to the drive power output command portion, the vehicle shift control device selecting a shift range maintained at the time of occurrence of the communication abnormality of the shift position determination signal if a vehicle speed is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and selecting a neutral range if the vehicle speed is less than the predetermined value.

Abstract: An operator is a momentary operator. An electronic control unit is configured to when the operator does not pass through any one of traveling operation positions while the operator is operated from an initial position to an neutral operation position and then returned to the initial position, and when the operator is continuously held at the neutral operation position for a first predetermined time or longer, change a shift range of an automatic transmission to the neutral range, and when the operator passes through at least one of the traveling operation positions while the operator is operated from the initial position to the neutral operation position and then returned to the initial position, prohibit a change of the shift range to the neutral range even when the operator is continuously held at the neutral operation position for the first predetermined time or longer.

Abstract: A shift range is selected based on a vehicle speed or acceleration of a vehicle and a shift range kept by a drive unit at the time when it is determined that there is a malfunction in shift sensors. Thus, it is possible to avoid a disabled self-propelled state resulting from a change into a neutral range through a fail-safe operation and keep limp home running.

Abstract: A SBW-ECU includes: a P unreleasable region determination portion configured to determine whether a road surface slope Sr at a vehicle position and an output voltage Volr of an auxiliary battery fall within a predetermined parking lock unreleasable region or not; and a P release request rejection portion configured to reject a P release request in a case where P release request rejection conditions to are all satisfied, including a fact that the P unreleasable region determination portion determines that the road surface slope Sr at the vehicle position and the output voltage Volr of the auxiliary battery fall within the parking lock unreleasable region (the P release request rejection condition (c) is satisfied).

Abstract: A vehicle speed limit apparatus includes a processor configured to calculate a demand value, calculate a pre-correction upper limit value based on a limit acceleration, correct the pre-correction upper limit value based on a first accumulated value to calculate a first upper limit value, correct the pre-correction upper limit value based on a maximum drive force of a drive force generation apparatus and the current acceleration to calculate a second upper limit value, select the smaller of the demand value and the second upper limit value when the first upper limit value exceeds a predetermined threshold corresponding to the maximum drive force, and select the smaller of the demand value and the first upper limit value when the first upper limit value does not exceed the predetermined threshold, and control the drive force generation apparatus to generate the drive force corresponding to the selected value.

Abstract: An upper-limit vehicle speed should be prevented from being set to speed different from an intention of a driver. When it is detected that a speed limit is changed, an upper-limit vehicle speed setting ECU temporarily switches a control mode from a normal mode to an inquiry mode. An ASL operation unit serves a function for a change operation of upper-limit vehicle speed in the normal mode, and serves a function for a reply operation about whether the speed limit is accepted in the inquiry mode. When the ASL operation unit is operated in the normal mode, the upper-limit vehicle speed setting ECU does not switch the control mode to the inquiry mode, even if a change of a speed limit is detected, until a certain period of time (a certain period during which a mode switching prohibition period is set) has passed since the operation.