In a contents sale system, original contents data are encrypted into encryption-resultant contents data in response to original playback key data. The original playback key data are encrypted into first encryption-resultant playback key data. The first encryption-resultant playback key data are encrypted into second encryption-resultant playback key data in response to an ID of a sale destination ...

A terminal apparatus obtains desired information from information providers and prints the information in high quality as needed. The terminal adds advertisement information to the desired information, which reduces the cost for obtaining and printing the desired information. The terminal calculates the advertisement fee by counting the number of printing of the advertisement. The terminal charges...

Verfahren und Loyalitätsplattform (1) zum Zuweisen und Einlösen von Loyalitätspunkten und zum Erstellen von dafür geeigneten Loyalitätspunkteprogrammen, in denen Loyalitätspunkte Kunden gutgeschrieben werden, die sich beim Bezug von Produkten und/oder Dienstleistungen von einem mit dem betreffenden Loyalitätspunkteprogramm registrierten Dienstanbieter mit einer in diesem Loyalitätspunkteprogramm r...

An apparatus for injecting fluid into a wellbore. The apparatus comprises a housing (12) and a valve sleeve (50). The housing (12) has a chamber (36) and a port (30) in communication with the chamber (36). The chamber (36) is adapted to hold a first fluid, such as a cement accelerant, therein. The valve sleeve (50) serves to open the port (30) so that the fluid first fluid is free to flow out of t...

This invention relates to an improved method and apparatus for producing diamond film by chemical vapor deposition. Said method comprises the steps of providing an environment comprising hydrogen and a hydrocarbon gas; dissociating hydrogen gas of said environment by dielectric barrier discharge to obtain atomic hydrogen; and depositing diamond on a deposition surface from said hydrocarbon gas, as...

Disclosed is a normally solid, high molecular weight, gel-free, irradiated ethylene polymer having a density of from 0.89 to 0.97 g/cc characterized by high melt strength due to strain hardening which is believed to be caused by free-end long chain branches of the molecular chains forming the polymer. Also disclosed is a process for making the polymer by high energy radiation of a normally solid, ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce precast concrete products which can be used as precast materials for civil engineering and construction be mixing coal ash, cement, water and a binder into waste liquids of various kinds different in characteristics in a suitable manner depending on the characteristics of the waste liquids and solidifying and aging the resultant mixture in molds. SOLUTION: In produ...

The present invention relates to a method for recycling rubber-containing articles and more particularly reinforced articles such as the tire casings of vehicles. This method comprises placing the article in a chamber in which an ozone-containing gas is fed, and applying mechanical deformation forces on said article. The ratio between the ozone consumption value for recycling the article and the p...

Disclosed is are high molecular weight copolyester compositions which possess high melt viscosity and melt strength which render them foamable with a wide range of foaming agents. The copolyesters consist essentially of (A) diacid residues comprising (i) from about 99.9 to about 95 mol % of residues of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid having 8 to 12 carbon atoms and (ii) from about 0.1 to about 5.0 m...

An acrylic film comprising 70 to 95 parts by weight of (A) an acrylic rubber-containing polymer and 5 to 30 parts by weight of (B) an acrylic-based thermoplastic polymer and having a total amount of (A) the acrylic rubber-containing polymer and (B) the acrylic-based thermoplastic polymer of 100 parts by weight, a gel content of 50 to 70% by weight, and elongation at break in one direction of 180% ...

A film coating including siloxane groups is applied to a surface of a protective film made of silicone. The coating protects a metallization layer formed on a substrate surface. An independent claim is also included for a vehicle light having a UV translucent front lens and an element having a film coated as above.

Extended business transactions are processed in a client-server system in a manner which allows processing initiated by a client to be interrupted before the transaction is complete and later resumed by the same or another client from the point of interruption. This is achieved by storing state information indicative of the progress of the transaction in a repository in association with an end-use...

A method for priming an object with through electrodeposition. The object is initially immersed into a first tank having a first primer bath and a first primer layer is electrodeposited onto the object. The object is removed from the first primer bath and cured to a first predetermined level. The object is then immersed into a second tank having a second primer bath and a second primer layer is el...

Due to their dense structures, conventional three-dimensional tissues are suitable for applications as reinforcing members but not for applications such as filters. According to the present invention, a three-dimensional fibrous tissue is woven by setting four adjacent partitions in a carrier movement space 10, shifting the carrier movement space 10 in a row and a column directions of the space by...

Since there are some cases where a CF film used as an interlayer dielectric film of a semiconductor device has a leak current which is too high to obtain required characteristics, it is required to decrease the leak current of the CF film. Ar gas is used as a plasma producing gas, and a compound gas of C and F, e.g., C4F8 gas, a hydrocarbon gas, e.g., C2H4 gas, and a boron containing gas, e.g., BF...

A method and apparatus for controlling power up of an electronic device with a video camera is provided. The present invention provides for using a video camera attached to an electronic device, such as a computer system, to cause the electronic device to be powered up from sleep mode when motion is detected. The electronic device may also be powered up from being shut down. In one embodiment, the...

The cooling arrangement has a thermally insulating housing, a door and at least two cold compartments in series at different temperature separated by an integral intermediate floor (16). Inner cladding extends over both compartments at a distance from outer cladding forming an intermediate volume (23) filled with thermal insulation material (24). At least one ventilation line (18) on the thermal i...

An acoustic wave resonator filter (10) provides series and shunt resonator elements (22, 24) in a ladder network. The series elements (22) are configured in a lowpass configuration. The shunt elements (24) act as impedance inverters in a passband of the filter and they series resonate at an antiresonant frequency of the series elements (22) in a stopband which provides additional isolation. The el...

An automobile computer system having a computer that runs an open platform operating system configured to support multiple applications, including applications that can be installed by a user. The system includes an operator interface that is mountable for viewing by an operator of an automobile. A plurality of application icons are scrollable across the visual operator interface by a user. The ap...

A system which distributes requests among a plurality of network servers receives a request from a remote source at a first one of the network servers, and determines whether to process the request in the first network server. The request is processed in the first network server in a case that it is determined that the request should be processed in the first network server. On the other hand, the...