Abstract: A conductive member includes a strip conductive portion 24 and an arm portion 22 integral with the strip conductive portion 24 and extending from a side end portion 24a of the strip conductive portion 24 to be almost parallel in a longitudinal direction, the arm portion being bent in a direction of plate thickness for the strip conductive portion 24.

Abstract: A conductive member includes a strip conductive portion 24 and an arm portion 22 integral with the strip conductive portion 24 and extending from a side end portion 24a of the strip conductive portion 24 to be almost parallel in a longitudinal direction, the arm portion being bent in a direction of plate thickness for the strip conductive portion 24.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for polishing end faces of optical connector ferrules, wherein control is performed to achieve uniform pressure of each ferrule with respect to a polishing plate of the apparatus, there by improving the precision of polishing the ferrule end faces. A polishing apparatus (100) for polishing end faces of ferrules to a convex spherical shape comprises a polishing plate (4), a polishing apparatus main unit (2) capable of freely moving the polishing plate (4) in the XY plane while rotating it, a cylinder block mechanism (3) with a plurality of pressure-applying mechanisms (13) arranged in a ring, and a height adjustment mechanism (5) of the cylinder block mechanism, the pressure-applying mechanism (13), having a piston shaft (16) which is pushed outward in a direction perpendicular to the polishing plate (4) by an air cylinder (17), the ferrule (10) being mounted to the end part of the pressure-applying mechanism (13) via a ferrule holding plate (20).

Abstract: A network system has: an application server for providing service; a client for using the service; and a key server. The client acquires and stores a management cryptographic key, acquires a transaction cryptographic key to be used for a transaction with the application server, encrypts the transaction cryptographic key with the management cryptographic key, sends the encrypted transaction cryptographic key to the key server, requests the key server to send back the encrypted transaction cryptographic key for a transaction, and decrypts the encrypted transaction cryptographic key with the management cryptographic key to acquire the transaction cryptographic key. The key server stores the sent, encrypted transaction cryptographic key and sends the encrypted transaction cryptographic key to the client in response to a request from the client.

Abstract: An alternator is capable of preventing a short circuit at a coil end, improving an ability of cooling a stator winding assembly, and reducing noises. A multi-phase stator winding of the alternator has: a plurality of joint portions where a distal end extending in an axial direction of a first conductor portion drawn out from a first layer in a slot and a distal end extending in an axial direction of a second conductor portion drawn out from a second layer in a slot located a predetermined number of slots apart in a circumferential direction are connected outside the slot on an end surface side of the stator core; and a coil end where the joint portions are disposed in a plurality of rows in the circumferential direction. The joint portions are set apart by half a slot from a diametrical line in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: In a valve main body, there is provided a guide pin having an aligning end portion for aligning with respect to a central axis of a fuel injection path. This guide pin is inserted into the valve main body, and a whirler is inserted into the guide pin, and a valve seat is fixed at one end of the valve main body such that the aligning end of the guide pin is aligned with respect to the central axis of the fuel injection path. The guide pin is then pulled away from the valve main body, and the valve body is inserted into the valve main body so that the section of the valve body to be slid in the whirler can be inserted into the valve body sliding hole.

Abstract: A security management and audit of a business information system in accordance with an information security policy is simplified. Provided is a security management and audit program database 133 in which the information security policy and an object system correspond to management and audit programs. The management and audit program corresponding to a range of the information security policy and the object system, which are designated by an operator, is retrieved and automatically executed. The management and audit program performs a management and audit concerning an information security policy of an object system corresponding to itself.

Abstract: A security management and audit of a business information system in accordance with an information security policy is simplified. Provided is a security management and audit program database 133 in which the information security policy and an object system correspond to management and audit programs. The management and audit program corresponding to a range of the information security policy and the object system, which are designated by an operator, is retrieved and automatically executed. The management and audit program performs a management and audit concerning an information security policy of an object system corresponding to itself.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cylinder interior fuel injection valve and an apparatus for adjusting a fuel injection amount used therefor may sufficiently cope with a fluctuation in fuel pressure or combustion gas pressure that would occur in an actual engine. According to this manufacturing method, a position of an adjuster is adjusted (step 110), a fuel injection amount is measured (step 111), and it is judged whether or not the measured value of the fuel injection amount falls within a range of a rated value (step 112). Then, if the fuel injection amount is out of the range of the rated value, the process is returned back to the step 110, and if it falls within the range of the rated value, the process shifts to a subsequent step 113. Subsequently, a spring force of a valve closing spring is measured (step 113), and it is judged whether or not the measured value of the spring force falls within a control range (step 114).

Abstract: A client-server system is provided in which access to a service by a user can properly be controlled, even if an approval by another user is required for receiving the service. First, the server 2 executes a log-in processing by using a user identifier and password transmitted from the client terminal 2, and a user control file 202. Next, the server 2 executes a service control by using a service supply request transmitted from the client terminal 1 and a service control file 42 provided with the server. When the server determines that an approval by another user is required for providing the service, the server executes the approval request to the client terminal 1 that the concerned user uses. When the reply to the approval request is affirmative, the server executes the processing in accordance with the foregoing service supply request. When the reply is negative, the server informs to the user who made the foregoing service supply request that the approval is rejected.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer system which comprises a plurality of input/output devices, an adapter device coupled to the plurality of input/output devices and a main processing unit for supplying an input/output request to each of the plurality of input/output devices through the adapter device. A plurality of input/output commands are respectively issued to the plurality of input/output devices from the main processing unit as one input/output start command. The adapter device specifies to which input/output devices the plurality of input/output commands included in the one input/output start command correspond. Further, the adapter device supplies input/output commands to the specified input/output devices respectively.

Abstract: A vehicular AC generator comprising a stator supported by a front bracket and a rear bracket; a rotor fixed to a rotating shaft supported by the front bracket and the rear bracket through bearings, provided with magnetic pole cores wherein a plurality of pairs of magnetic poles are formed in the circumferential direction, retaining an excitation coil; a pair of fans provided at a front end and a rear end of the magnetic pole cores; a plurality of inlet openings provided at end faces of the front bracket and the rear bracket; a plurality of outlet openings provided at peripheral portions of the front bracket and the rear bracket; and fans for cooling inside of the vehicular AC generator by circulating air therein by rotation of the rotor; wherein the fans each is fixed with a side plate at ends of blades thereof and at least in a front side fan of the both fans, a difference between an inner radius of the side plate and an inner radius of the inlet opening of the corresponding front bracket is larger than a wi

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for forming a curved surface, a polishing plate consisting of a film-like elastic member is supported at two positions, i.e., central and peripheral portions thereof, and is rotated while two cylinders having different heights and diameters are urged upward against portions between the central and peripheral portions of the polishing plate, and an object to be processed is urged downward against a surface formed between the two cylinders while the object is rotated, thereby forming a curved surface.

Abstract: An optical fiber connector polishing apparatus is disclosed which comprises a polishing element rotated at high speed, a chuck for supporting an optical fiber connector in such a manner that the optical fiber connector is rotatable in a reciprocation mode, a swing arm which holds the chuck to swing the chuck, in a horizontal plane, between a first fixed position and a second fixed position, a positioning unit for positioning the swing arm selectively at the first or second fixed position on the swing locus thereof, a swinging unit for swinging the swing arm in a horizontal plane continuously while the end portion of the optical fiber connector being polished with the polishing element, and a reference member for positioning the end portion of the optical fiber connector at a reference position. The polishing element and the reference member are arranged at the first and second fixed positions of the swing arm, respectively.

Abstract: An apparatus for conically machining an optical fiber connector is disclosed which comprises a grinding wheel rotated at high speed, an optical fiber connector having end portion whose machining end face is confronted with the grinding wheel, and having an optical fiber along the central axis thereof, a supporting member for supporting the optical fiber connector, which supporting member is swingable towards the grinding surface of said grinding wheel, a driver for swinging the supporting member to cause the optical fiber connector to abut against the grinding wheel, a moving unit for linearly moving the grinding wheel along the axis of rotation of the grinding wheel until the machining end face of the optical fiber connector is shifted from the grinding wheel, a reference surface juxtaposed with said grinding wheel, to set said optical fiber connector, and a reciprocating rotation unit for rotating the optical fiber connector in a reciprocation mode through at least 360.degree.

Abstract: Apparatus for processing an end face of an optical fiber connector includes a rotatable index shaft mounted on a frame. A plurality of rotatable chucks are mounted on the index shaft so as to hold optical fiber connectors, respectively. In accordance with the rotation of the index shaft, the chucks can be moved sequentially from one index position to another so as to grind and finish the optical fiber connector. A rotatable drive gear is disposed coaxially with the index shaft. A driven gear is fixedly mounted on each chuck. A pair of first and second intermediate gears are connected to the drive and driven gears, respectively. A clutch is interposed between the pair of intermediate gears and normally connecting them together to transmit the rotation of the drive gear to the driven gear to rotate each chuck.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of an expanded article having an embossed surface comprises exposing the surface of a layer of photo-setting and expandable resin composition to partially screened light to cure only that portion of the layer of resin composition which has been exposed to the light, and then heating to expand the layer of resin composition, whereby indentations are formed in the surface.