Abstract: A user sends a request signal to a delivery management server 60 by utilizing a mobile station 10 in response to a broadcast service provided by a broadcast station 70. The request signal includes a music song ID of music song data segments which the user wants to be delivered and also an address of the destination to which the music song data segments be delivered. Upon the receipt of the request signal, the delivery management server 60 returns, in the case of unpopular songs, the music song data segments and a decrypting key for decrypting the data segments, and on the other hand, it returns, in the case of popular songs, only the decrypting key to the mobile station 10 or a STB 40.

Abstract: Program guide information of the program to be broadcast by the broadcast station 1 is reserved in the EPG server 15 of the center station 11. The EPG server 15 retrieves for each user, the program satisfying the conditions such as the category of the program registered in the personal information database 16, and then transmits the guide information of the retrieved programs to the portable telephone 14 of a user who has set the conditions, via the communication network 10. Thereby, even if the user is outside the home, if there is a program satisfying the conditions specified by the user, the user can obtain the information concerning the program by utilizing the portable telephone 14. Then, the user can instruct, with reference to the obtained program information, a recording operation from the portable telephone 14 to the VTR 6 in the home 12.

Abstract: A flow control valve in which the main body of the valve and the first and the second cylinder is disposed coaxially with each other. The valve body disposed in the main body forms a first and a second separate chamber in the main body. A first and a second valve rod projecting from the valve body opposes the first and the second cylinder, respectively. The displacements of the pistons in the first and the second cylinder due to a fluid limits the displacement of the valve rods and the valve body. The opening and the closing of the passageway between the first and the second separate chamber is adjusted by the movement of the valve body, thereby flow of fluid being controlled.

Abstract: An injection molding machine comprises an injection piston-cylinder mechanism including therein an injection piston and a booster piston. The booster piston is provided with a longitudinal through hole through which a pressurized fluid is supplied from an external source into the piston-cylinder mechansim so as to act on the injection piston to fill the mold cavity with molten bath. When the inner pressure of the cylinder chamber between both pistons reaches a predetermined value or the injection piston reaches a predetermined position, a valve assembly which is connected to the cylinder chamber through a conduit is operated so as to drain the pressurized fluid in the cylinder chamber in a controlled manner thereby to advance the booster piston.