A method of authorizing a key or lock device comprises the following steps: a first user device and a first system device used in a first level of a lock system, such as at a manufacturer, are created. A first encryption key is stored in the first user device and the first system device. When the user device is to be shipped to a second level of the lock system, such as a locksmith, an authenticat...

PURPOSE:To obtain a concrete excellent in operating efficiency and strength of a molding by blending a raw material for the concrete having a specified unit amount of cement, etc., with a specific natural anhydrous gypsum and a polycarboxylic acid-based cement dispersing agent in prescribed amounts. CONSTITUTION:This concrete is produced by blending (A) a raw material for the concrete having 400-6...

PURPOSE:To produce a water-permeable paving material using a large amt. of incineration ash of sewage sludge. CONSTITUTION:A hard aggregate comprising at least one of slag and pulverized brick or essentially comprising these, incineration ash of sludge, and water are supplied to a fast rotary vane granulating machine to produce composite particles consisting of the hard aggregate with dense deposi...

PURPOSE: To utilize a photoreactive semiconductor and a carrier in an excellent handling state at a low cost by adding a microfibrillated cellulose fiber to them. CONSTITUTION: A semiconductor constituted of a metal oxide particle such as zinc oxide, tungsten trioxide, titanium dioxide and cerium oxide having 1-3eV forbidden energy band and causing photocatalytic reaction is mixed with a carrier o...

A distributed information processing system which includes a server having a resume-request processor and clients having resume-request units or processor. An user at the client site operates a resume switch to save an operation state of the client in the server's magnetic disc, and resume it from the server's magnetic disc. The operation state includes contents of the main memory, contents of the...

Methods and apparatus are provided for changing the repetition rate of image data. A correlation value representing similarity between fields or frames of the image data is produced and one or more fields or frames are added to or subtracted from the image data selectively based on the first correlation value to produce output image data having a repetition rate different from an initial repetitio...

A film for temporaneously and/or permanently protecting surfaces in general, comprises a base layer, to be bound to a surface to be protected and one or more outer layers, co-extruded with the base layer, and made of thermoplastic and/or elastomeric materials, including addition agents, and providing a rough surface, to be exposed to the view, which can be printed and written upon and has a paper-...

Procédé de prétraitement d'un gaz naturel sous pression contenant des hydrocarbures, des composés acides tels l'hydrogène sulfuré et le dioxyde de carbone et de l'eau. On refroidit le gaz naturel pour condenser une partie d e l'eau. Puis le gaz naturel partiellement déshydraté est mis en contact avec un flux liquide composé d'une majorité l'hydrogène dans deux zones de contact successives pour obt...

The invention relates to a method for the plastic shaping of a biaxially-drawn film, comprising at least one base layer, containing at least one polymer (I), made from at least one hydroxycarboxylic acid and >=0.2 wt %, based on the weight of the layer, of a thermoplastic polymer (II), different from polymer (I). Said film is plastically moulded by application of pneumatic and/or mechanical forces...

The present invention is an aqueous coating composition and method of preparing same that uses certain polyoxyalkylene phosphate surfactants to increase the compatibility of inorganic pigments such as TiO2 with latex polymer binders to reduce the clustering of the inorganic pigment particles in the aqueous coating composition. The aqueous coating composition of the invention includes at least one ...

A method and apparatus for determining the integrity of data stored in a PROM device provides at least one holding latch connected to two sets of blocks. The first set of blocks contains data. The second set of blocks contains CRC information corresponding to the data in the first set of blocks. Upon reading the data from a first data block, the CRC information from the corresponding CRC block is ...

The present invention provides a breakdown monitoring system for monitoring the software breakdown of the computer as the monitoring object, and sending out the notification to other computers connected through the network during occurrence of breakdown and controlling the breakdown monitoring system of computers as computer as monitoring object by the instructions of other computers connected thr...

A system and method for managing a memory storage device including a physical memory having free space for storing content maintained in compressed form and organized as pages. The system includes a control device for managing performance of input and output operations of compressed content to and from the memory storage device, with output operations including a memory pageout operations for reco...

The present invention relates to an information memory apparatus having access limiting function and the information system using the same apparatus. For example, the invention relates to the nonvolatile memory suitable for use in the represented flash memory or the memory card with the embedded nonvolatile memory, and the effective technique of the information distributing system that uses those ...

An apparatus and method for resolving data dependencies among a plurality of instructions within a storage device, such as a reorder buffer in a superscalar computing apparatus employing pipeline instruction processing. The storage device has a read pointer, indicating a most recently-stored instruction and has a write pointer, indicating a first-stored instruction of the plurality of instructions...

PURPOSE:To obtain a retarder of heat generation by hydration capable of suppressing the heat generation by the hydration of cement and preventing the crack of a hardened concrete caused by the heat generation by using a granular body composed of hardly water-soluble portion of dextrin as a main component. CONSTITUTION:The retarder of heat generation by hydration of cement comprises primarily the g...

PCT No. PCT/GB92/01412 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 31, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 31, 1994 PCT Filed Jul. 30, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO/0002809 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 18, 1993.A catheter (1a, 1b) is provided with an ultrasonic transducer array at its tip (3), the transducer array having been manufactured from an annulus of piezoelectric material (10) by making longitudinal mutually parallel slots (18) in the materi...

A data transmission system (1) suitable for use with an impact transmissive body (4) and including a data transmitting device (6) having a reciprocable impact impeller head (3) for transmitting an encoded series of discrete mechanical impacts to a first surface of the impact transmissive body and a data receiving device (5) having an impact sensitive transducer (2) at a second surface of the impac...

The present invention provides copolymer-based compositions which are used to produce point for roof tiles, in order to prevent algal vegetation, crack formation, increased water absorption, as well as chipping off of the paint, more particularly on concrete roof tiles.

A new additive for projectable conglomerate building materials that comprises at least a rheological grade clay, preferably sepiolite, a water reducing agent/flux and an aerating agent, as well as the use of this additive as a component of projectable conglomerate building materials, such as mortar and concrete, is described.