Abstract: A production line system includes a cooling processing step of cooling a coolant for processing machines (lathes) of work, and a heating processing step of heating washing fluid for a washing machine which washes the work after processing by the lathes. The heating processing step and the cooling processing step are performed by a heat pump in one heat pump cycle. Further, a heat balance between heating in the heating processing step and cooling in the cooling processing step is adjusted with the setting temperature of the washing fluid and the setting temperature of the coolant.

Abstract: A vehicle component includes a molded cover molded into a shape of a surface of a part attached to a vehicle and a surface-emitting device bonded or fitted and fixed along a back face of the molded cover. The molded cover is vacuum formed by solid decorative molding of a translucent resin molded member with a translucent film, and light from the surface-emitting device is transmitted through the molded cover and emerges in a predetermined light-emitting area which is a part of a surface of the vehicle component. The vehicle component obtains a light-emitting function with a relatively simple structure and in a relatively compact form with a design not impaired and excellent in beauty and appearance.

Abstract: A production line system includes a cooling processing step of cooling a coolant for processing machines (lathes) of work, and a heating processing step of heating washing fluid for a washing machine which washes the work after processing by the lathes. The heating processing step and the cooling processing step are performed by a heat pump in one heat pump cycle. Further, a heat balance between heating in the heating processing step and cooling in the cooling processing step is adjusted with the setting temperature of the washing fluid and the setting temperature of the coolant.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device authentication system capable of authenticating devices efficiently using the common key system. When a CE device requests service offerings from a service server, the service server in turn requests the CE device to be authenticated by a device authentication server. Given the request, the CE device causes the device authentication server to perform device authentication on that device and transmits the result of the device authentication to the service server. Upon receipt of the device authentication result from the CE device, the service server causes the device authentication server to check that the authentication has been performed correctly and then starts offering services to the CE device. The CE device and device authentication server share a pass phrase, and each of the two parties checks that the other party indeed retains the pass phrase for mutual authentication.

Abstract: A CE apparatus (9) is a terminal capable of including apparatus authentication information therein with a high degree of safety. A management server (7) encrypts apparatus authentication information and transmits the encrypted apparatus authentication information to a factory (5). A factory worker links a connection means (10) to a connector of the CE apparatus (9). The encrypted apparatus authentication information transmitted by the management server (7) to the factory (5) is supplied to the CE apparatus (9) in a state of being encrypted as it is by way of the connection means (10). The CE apparatus (9) includes an embedded write module for decrypting the encrypted apparatus authentication information and storing the apparatus authentication information in a storage unit. That is to say, the apparatus authentication information supplied by way of the connection means (10) is decrypted by the write module and stored in the storage unit employed in the CE apparatus (9).

Abstract: A device authentication module and an encryption module can be connected via a dynamic link in a CE device. A random number is generated in an authentication server (5). The device authentication module (7) combines a pass-phrase and this random number to generate a digest, and transmits this and a device ID to the encryption module (8). The encryption module encrypts a communication pathway and transmits these items of information to the authentication server (5). The authentication server (5) searches for the pass-phrase based on the device ID and combines this and the generated random number to generate a digest. This digest is compared with the digest received from the encryption module (8) for device authentication. The encryption module (8) receives from the device authentication module (7) not the pass-phrase but a digest, and therefore can be connected via a dynamic link instead of a static link.

Abstract: A stress distribution resulting from variation in in-plane film quality of a stress relaxation layer and a reflective layer is eliminated. A reflective layer is stacked on a substrate via a stress relaxation layer. The stress relaxation layer has a stress relaxation portion having a uniform film thickness distribution to cancel the internal stress of the reflective layer, and a stress distribution eliminating portion with a film thickness distribution approximated to a second order even function. The stress is substantially proportional to the film thickness. Thus, formation of a given film thickness distribution allows the stress distribution to be controlled. However, changing the film thickness distribution based on a design value may degrade the optical characteristics. Thus, the film thickness distribution of the stress distribution eliminating portion, which serves to eliminate the stress distribution, is approximated to the second order even function.

Abstract: An optical element for X-ray includes a substrate, a first multilayer film having a reflection property with respect to light in a soft X-ray wavelength range, and a second multilayer film, disposed between the substrate and the first multilayer film, for reducing film stress of the first multilayer film. The second multilayer film has a periodic structure having a unit period film thickness which is 90% or more and less than 110% of a two or more integral multiple of 7 nm.

Abstract: A multilayer film reflector for X-rays has alternately stacked layers formed on a substrate and comprising a layer (high refractive index layer) comprising a material having a large difference between a refractive index to soft X-ray and a refractive index in vacuum, and a layer (low refractive index layer) comprising a material having a small difference between a refractive index to soft X-ray and a refractive index in vacuum, wherein at least one intermediate layer having a crystalline structure is provided between the low refractive index layer and the high refractive index layer. Thereby, the crystallization of the low refractive index layer is promoted, the refractive index of the low refractive index layer is lowered, so that the reflectance of the multilayer film reflector is improved.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device authentication system capable of authenticating devices efficiently using the common key system. When a CE device requests service offerings from a service server, the service server in turn requests the CE device to be authenticated by a device authentication server. Given the request, the CE device causes the device authentication server to perform device authentication on that device and transmits the result of the device authentication to the service server. Upon receipt of the device authentication result from the CE device, the service server causes the device authentication server to check that the authentication has been performed correctly and then starts offering services to the CE device. The CE device and device authentication server share a pass phrase, and each of the two parties checks that the other party indeed retains the pass phrase for mutual authentication.

Abstract: A CE apparatus (9) is a terminal capable of including apparatus authentication information therein with a high degree of safety. A management server (7) encrypts apparatus authentication information and transmits the encrypted apparatus authentication information to a factory (5). A factory worker links a connection means (10) to a connector of the CE apparatus (9). The encrypted apparatus authentication information transmitted by the management server (7) to the factory (5) is supplied to the CE apparatus (9) in a state of being encrypted as it is by way of the connection means (10). The CE apparatus (9) includes an embedded write module for decrypting the encrypted apparatus authentication information and storing the apparatus authentication information in a storage unit. That is to say, the apparatus authentication information supplied by way of the connection means (10) is decrypted by the write module and stored in the storage unit employed in the CE apparatus (9).

Abstract: A device authentication module and an encryption module can be connected via a dynamic link in a CE device. A random number is generated in an authentication server (5). The device authentication module (7) combines a pass-phrase and this random number to generate a digest, and transmits this and a device ID to the encryption module (8). The encryption module encrypts a communication pathway and transmits these items of information to the authentication server (5). The authentication server (5) searches for the pass-phrase based on the device ID and combines this and the generated random number to generate a digest. This digest is compared with the digest received from the encryption module (8) for device authentication. The encryption module (8) receives from the device authentication module (7) not the pass-phrase but a digest, and therefore can be connected via a dynamic link instead of a static link.

Abstract: An information distribution system, a terminal device, an information distribution server, an information distribution server, an information distribution method, a terminal device connection method, an information processing program product, and a storage medium are provided. An information distribution system with a tree-structure network includes an information distribution server placed in a root node and terminal devices placed in nodes below the root node. Bidirectional communication can be always performed between the nodes.

Abstract: A terminal-device authentication system is capable of appropriately allocating the allocation target of a CE device. The device ID of the CE device (3) includes company information. The CE device (3) uses the company information to inquire of a company-information allocation server (6) about an authentication-target allocation server (8) to be connected and uses the device ID to inquire of the authentication-target allocation server (8) about an authentication server (9) to be connected. The CE device (3), which is authenticated in the authentication server (9), transmits an authentication result to a service server (10).

Abstract: The present invention provides a device-authentication system capable of efficiently performing authentication before using a service through a network. A CE device (3) includes a browser (9) for accessing a service server (4) and an authentication module (7) for allowing an authentication server (5) to perform device authentication. A device-authentication plug-in (8) is a plug-in having a function of starting the authentication module (7). The device-authentication plug-in (8) can be specified by a predetermined MIME format, and the browser (9) starts the device-authentication plug-in (8) after receiving an EMBED tag having the MIME format.

Abstract: A multilayer film reflector for X-rays has alternately stacked layers formed on a substrate and comprising a layer (high refractive index layer) comprising a material having a large difference between a refractive index to soft X-ray and a refractive index in vacuum, and a layer (low refractive index layer) comprising a material having a small difference between a refractive index to soft X-ray and a refractive index in vacuum, wherein at least one intermediate layer having a crystalline structure is provided between the low refractive index layer and the high refractive index layer. Thereby, the crystallization of the low refractive index layer is promoted, the refractive index of the low refractive index layer is lowered, so that the reflectance of the multilayer film reflector is improved.

Abstract: In the translation of a source program to an object program, callee side functions that overlap in cache memory and are called by the same caller side function are detected, and all but one of the overlapping callee side functions called by a given caller side function are replaced with a replica of the original callee side function that will be stored in the cache in a non-overlapping position. The resulting set of callee side functions called by the caller side function are non-overlapping when stored in the cache, and thus the thrashing problem is avoided. This procedure may be repeated a predetermined number of times, or until all instances of overlap have been eliminated through the use of replicated callee side functions.

Abstract: A language processing method detects function call in a source program by static analysis, inserts a branching code to profile process per function call detected in the source program and setting a region of a table storing number of times of corresponding function call per an identification number of call pair in function call, executes translation of the source program inserted the branching code to the profiling process, and increments number of function call of the table with taking the identification number corresponding to kind of call pair in corresponding function call, as index, when the inserted profiling process is present.