The method is for carrying out market research using a communication network comprising a client system to which a server system is connected. A user can select a target group electronically on the server system via the client system. The user can determine electronically by the same way a type of question for at least one question. In the same manner, the user can determine a research method. On...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make even many LEDs controllable, and to control a fluorescent display tube and the LEDs simultaneously. SOLUTION: A control signal from a timing control circuit 11 is supplied to a gate electrode of a high voltage FET 12. The drain electrode of the FET 12 is pulled up to +5 V, and the source electrode thereof is connected with a fluorescent display tube voltage circuit 16...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for issuing a commuter pass with a reduced risk for the loss thereof. SOLUTION: The system comprises: a reception means (13) for receiving an input concerning a real valid period of a commuter pass desired to be purchased; a control means (25) for controlling information concerning the commuter pass to be issued in response to the reception of the input; a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sealed lead acid battery of long life in service condition in order to solve the problem of sharply decreasing life, which is caused by being used in not fully charged state, i.e., in a half charged state and exerting large energy input-output by the use of a highly efficient current, by enhance ment of energy density, and to provide a method of using the same. S...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To raise the impregnation rate of an electrolyte into a separator, to shorten the injection time of liquid when manufacturing a battery, to homoge nize the keeping of the electrolyte in the separator, to prevent the heat distor tion of a pole plate or a cell, to suppress the dendrite short, to prevent the corrosion of a lattice body, to make the size of the battery larger, an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cover member of a hybrid integrated circuit device in which a space can be saved. SOLUTION: In the cover member 20 formed into box shape by a ceiling plate 21 and a plurality of wall plates 22 and 28 above a substrate 10 on which a hybrid integrated circuit is formed, lower end parts of a pair of opposite wall plates 22 can be located on the outside of a side fac...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle, which makes braking feed different, due to cancellation of regenerative braking. SOLUTION: The hybrid vehicle 1, whose two wheels 10, 10 are driven by an engine 2 at all times and the two wheels driven by a drive motor 6 driven by a battery 4 under prescribed conditions to be four-wheel drive, is equipped with a storage means 24 which bolts a clut...

Object (3) radiography is improved by estimation of the scattered radiation that it transmits to radiation detectors. To this end an object simulation (8) is used having similar attenuation properties so that its scattered radiation can be measured. The total radiation received that has transversed an object (3) is then modified using weighting coefficients determined using the simulation.

A health ornament such as a necklace, a bracelet or a wristband, characterized in that it is manufactured by a method comprising incorporating a titanium powder prepared by combusting a mixed gas of oxygen and hydrogen in a high pressure water, heating metallic titanium by the combusted gas, to thereby pulverize the titanium, into an elastomeric material. The health ornament exhibits satisfactory ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information terminal technology to implement information sharing suitable to the environment, such as a peer-to-peer network. SOLUTION: An information receiving terminal is structured for analyzing the receiving positional information of other documents for connection, and change the positional information of the other documents into positional information withi...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable usage of directly opening and of standard Internet access method, and to attain acceleration of the speed of the access speed to an web server. SOLUTION: The system is provided with cache servers 3, each having a control means which downloads service information from a cache memory having a priority area and a non-priority area, and a center web server, and stores t...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To present a real-time update state of contents at a link destination shown by a link included, in the link including contents, when accessing to the link including contents without having to use a speedy and large capacity memory. SOLUTION: When access is made to the link including the contents, the system makes an access to the link including contents relevant to the link i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent useless expenditure of memory capacity by efficient man agement of file information, having the same data with the file information which has already been downloaded. SOLUTION: When receiving the file information of each link attached to patrol sites specified in advance (step A11 to A13), the sameness with the link file information which has already been downloade...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily create and update a homepage which can correspond to a plurality kind of non-compatible browsers, and manage data in a consolidated manner. SOLUTION: A Web server 2 is equipped with templates 8, 10, 12, 14, an original database, a data conversion means, a browser database for storing model information of various types of portable terminals, and a data attaching mean...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep confidentiality of users. SOLUTION: A server 110 of a center 100, constituting a software utilization system 10, transmits application programs to a user 200 via BS broadcast via a communication satellite 32 or the Internet 40. At the user 200, a program receiver part 212 of a terminal device 210 receives a program and stores the program into an application program me...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the convenience of users by letting other devices automatically take over services, when a downloading in progress is stopped. SOLUTION: This device is a data-shareable device for constituting a service group sharing data between devices connected with each other through a network. In addition, a data-transmitting means 12a for transmitting data to other devices an...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system which controls other-side interfacing functions of a terminal device, on the side of the server by a user's operation of the terminal device. SOLUTION: The server 1 is provided with a user individuality information- storing part 13 that stores a fixed value, which the user wants to the functions of the terminal device 3 in association with the identificati...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a search engine, having a mechanism to register a server list to a server selecting device which distributes access to a proper server, without giving a suer the awareness of existence of a distributed server when the user gets access to the list of services obtained with an optical keyword searching or directory searching to the search engine. SOLUTION: A distribu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To select pieces of address information provided in either optically readable codes or accessing devices for accessing them. SOLUTION: Address-designating information (a selection flag 12 and a selection designation number 13) for designating one or more addresses of information sources from the addresses of the information sources, which are preliminarily fixed is included i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system for providing services which make use of location information. SOLUTION: The location information-related service system 1 comprises a cellular phone 20 a user has, a search service system 30 which provides the cellular phone 20 with a location information &phiv of the objects of search 90, such as a subject of search and a service provider 40 ...