Abstract: A pillar delivery method is a method for delivering a plurality of pillars onto a substrate, including a glass panel, to manufacture a glass panel unit. The pillar delivery method includes an irradiation step, a holding step, and a mounting step. The irradiation step includes setting, over a holder, a sheet for use to form pillars and irradiating the sheet with a laser beam to punch out the plurality of pillars. The holding step includes having the plurality of pillars, which have been punched out of the sheet, held by the holder. The mounting step includes picking up some or all of the plurality of pillars from the holder and mounting the pillars onto the substrate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glass panel unit includes an assembling step, a bonding step, a gas exhausting step, a sealing step, and an activating step. The bonding step includes melting a peripheral wall in a baking furnace at a first predetermined temperature to hermetically bond a first glass pane and a second glass pane together with the peripheral wall thus melted. The gas exhausting step includes exhausting a gas from an internal space through an exhaust port in the baking furnace to turn the internal space into a vacuum space. The sealing step includes locally heating to a temperature higher than a second predetermined temperature, and thereby melting, either a port sealing material or an exhaust pipe to seal the exhaust port and thereby obtain a work in progress. The activating step includes activating a gas adsorbent after the sealing step to obtain a glass panel unit.

Abstract: This invention is directed to an information communication system. An agent terminal (2) constituting this system forms character of a predetermined shape to display the character to permit conversation between the character and user to transmit personal information, etc. of user obtained through conversation to an agent access server to display information from the agent access server in a form such that the character introduces that information. The agent access server (3) constituting the information communication system analyses access from the agent terminal (2) to select a dedicated server (5) in accordance with analysis result thereof to send out information from the agent terminal (2) to send out answer information from the dedicated server (5) to the agent terminal (2). The dedicated server (5) specially processes this information to send out answer information.

Abstract: This invention is directed to an information communication system. An agent terminal (2) constituting this system forms character of a predetermined shape to display the character to permit conversation between the character and user to transmit personal information, etc. of user obtained through conversation to an agent access server to display information from the agent access server in a form such that the character introduces that information. The agent access server (3) constituting the information communication system analyses access from the agent terminal (2) to select a dedicated server (5) in accordance with analysis result thereof to send out information from the agent terminal (2) to send out answer information from the dedicated server (5) to the agent terminal (2). The dedicated server (5) specially processes this information to send out answer information.