Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a printing system capable of outputting print of a style desired by the user without any waste of sheets. In a printing system according to the present invention achieving this object, a plurality of different output styles corresponding to print contents are stored in a memory (106, 214), a print content to be image-formed is specified by a specifying unit (102, 107, 108, 213), image data is converted into the output style corresponding to the specified print content by a controller (104, 211), and image formation is performed by an image forming unit (220) based on the converted data. Output styles may be stored so that the user can select thereamong.

Abstract: In a rental estimation method according to the present invention, rental information with regard to rental devices is provided to a customer through a data exchange between a terminal (9) of the customer and a management server (5) of a rental company. The rental estimation method includes a data input step for entering work content data indicating a work content through the customer terminal (9), and a necessary device reporting step for reading out a list of a plurality of necessary devices matching the work content and rental information corresponding to the necessary devices from a predefined database (2 to 4) and for providing them to the customer.

Abstract: A construction machine comprises a location detector for detecting location information for the construction machine, a determination device for determining whether or not location information is to be transmitted and outputting a transmission signal if it is determined that information is to be transmitted, and a transmitter for transmitting the detected location information to a base station in response to the transmission signal.

Abstract: An image delivering apparatus is provided comprising a reader for reading the image of an original, a delivery portion for delivering data of the image read by the reader to a destination on a network, a display for displaying a screen of settings to be used for delivering the data of the image from the delivery portion, a screen capture portion for capturing the screen of settings filled with entry data in a given procedure, a storage portion for storing the captured screen of settings as a screen data, and an output portion for releasing the screen data saved in the storage portion.

Abstract: A security system of a construction machine of the present invention has a construction machine, a base station and a communication device. The construction machine comprises a data sending and receiving portion for sending first information, a storage portion for storing received information, and a control portion for controlling an operation of the construction machine. The base station receives the first information from the data sending and receiving portion of the construction machine and sends second information to the construction machine and manages the construction machine. It is configured so that the communication device is connected to the base station through a communication network and can send third information to the construction machine through the base station.

Abstract: A security system for a construction machine including a construction machine equipped with a body controller for storing a first password, management apparatus arranged in a location apart from the construction machine and a portable communications unit for storing a second password provided communicably with the management apparatus and the body controller. The portable communications unit, receiving the first password from the management apparatus, replaces the second password with the first password. The body controller determines whether the second password output from the portable communications unit coincides with the first password. In case these passwords coincide with each other, an engine drive signal is output. Otherwise the engine is kept inoperable. This prevents possible theft of a construction machine.

Abstract: A working machine failure diagnosis method for performing a failure diagnosis by transmitting and receiving signals through communication devices provided at a working machine and at an information management center, according to the present invention, includes: a first step in which a first signal related to a failure of the working machine is generated at the working machine and the first signal is transmitted to the information management center from the working machine via the communication devices; a second step in which, after the first signal is transmitted, the information management center generates a second signal for identifying a location of the failure based upon the first signal and the second signal is then transmitted from the information management center to the working machine via the communication devices; and a third step in which failure information corresponding to the first signal and the second signal is provided to an operator.

Abstract: In order to provide a near field light head capable of guiding light efficiently to a near field light generating element, capable of being fabricated easily and at low cost and in correspondence with small-sized formation and thin-sized formation, the near field light head of the present invention has a transparent board 101 includes a near field light generating element 102 at a lower face thereof. An upper face or inside of the transparent board 101 is formed with a lens 103 to be opposed to the near field light generating element 102. The upper face of the transparent board 101 is mounted with a single mode fiber 104. The single mode fiber 104 is successively connected with a graded index (GI) fiber 105 and a coreless fiber 106. An end face of the coreless fiber 106 which is not connected to the GI fiber 105 constitutes a reflecting face 107 constituting 45 degrees relative to the upper face of the transparent board 101. The reflecting face 107 is arranged right above the lens 103.

Abstract: The MFP 101 compresses the image data read by the scanner 102 using the JBIG format, and then stores the image data in the image-data storing unit 104. The converting unit 109 of the MFP 101 converts the stored image data into a specific file format and then outputs this converted image data. Herewith, the user need not have the MFP read the original source once again even when image data of that source is requested to be output in a different file format.

Abstract: A method and system for managing a construction machine whereby working time for each of different parts of a hydraulic excavator is measured. Measured data is stored in a memory of a controller and then transferred to a base station computer via satellite communication to be stored in a database. At each repair/replacement of a part in each hydraulic excavator, the base station computer calculates, based on the operation data, a replacement time interval of the part on the basis of the working time per section to which the part belongs, and then stores and accumulates it. The base station computer also reads the stored data for each hydraulic excavator, determines, for each part, a replacement rate of the part having a substantially equal replacement time interval, and calculates a target replacement time interval of the part in accordance with the replacement time interval corresponding to a maximum replacement rate.

Abstract: A function changing system of construction machinery includes a hydraulic excavator and a base station. The hydraulic excavator is deployed at a construction site and is provided with a rewritable memory storing control programs and/or data required for control of the machinery, a CPU for reading out the control programs from the memory and executing them, and a communications device The base station is provided with a communications device, a center server for identifying the serial number of the hydraulic excavator and transferring information with the control unit, and a database managed by the center server and storing control programs corresponding to the hydraulic excavator. When changing or switching an attachment of the hydraulic excavator, information is transferred with the center server of the base station and the control programs or data stored in the storage unit are rewritten to enable work suited to the changed part.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus composed in a hierarchical architecture of a hardware resource, a first control program over the hardware resource, a second control program and an application program over the first control program. The first control program includes a first API for receiving a first request relating to image processing from the second control program and a second request relating to image processing from the application program, and controls, on receiving either of the first and second requests, the hardware resource to perform image processing based on the received request. The second control program includes a second API publicly released in advance for receiving a third request relating to image processing from an external source, converts the received third request to a command supported by the first API, and passes the command as the first request to the first control program.

Abstract: Construction machine management, permitting operation of a construction machine only under specified conditions and inhibiting its operation in case it is in a state incongruent with preset working conditions. Working conditions for each construction machine are set up by a working conditions setup means, including a geographically divided working area and a working time zone in which a construction machine is allowed to operate in a specified working area. Setup working conditions are stored in a memory means. At the time of starting a construction machine, the status of the construction machine is checked for by a status checkup means which is adapted to check for current position of the construction machine and current time against the working area and working time zone of the setup working conditions.

Abstract: A method and system for managing a construction machine and processing apparatus therefor includes a controller 2 mounted on a hydraulic excavator 1 working in fields. An operating time for each of an engine 32, a front 15, a swing body 13 and a travel body 12 is measured and stored in a memory of the controller 2. The measured data is transferred to a base station computer 3 and stored in a database 100 inside the base station computer 3. The base station computer 3 reads, per hydraulic excavator, the data stored in the database 100 and then prepares and outputs a distribution graph of the number of operated machines with respect to the working time (engine running time) of the hydraulic excavator. While looking at the distribution graph, a machine maker estimates the number of hydraulic excavators to be renewed and estimates the sales quantity of hydraulic excavators, thereby setting up a production plan of hydraulic excavators.

Abstract: A hydraulic excavator periodically measures its current location at predetermined time intervals by the GPS device in an inoperative state where its engine key is in the off position and sends the current location data and time data to a management server by a main controller and communicator. The management server receives the periodically sent location data at its communicator and successively stores it in its memory. The current location data and the measurement time data to provide a location confirmation service by a location information provider. Changes in location can be confirmed on a map, the movement of the hydraulic excavator can be tracked, and assistance can be given for confirmation of location and prevention of theft.

Abstract: A maintenance system of a hydraulic excavator (11) is provided with a maintenance monitoring device (21), a maintenance management server (12) for managing trouble information and operating information for each working machine, a model information server (13), and a service personnel mobile terminal (14) connected to one another through the Internet (15). When trouble occurs in the hydraulic excavator, the maintenance system (21) transmits trouble information to the maintenance management server (12), and the maintenance management server (12) transmits information on occurrence of trouble to the mobile terminal (14) and displays it on a display unit. This system manages the maintenance manuals and other data for each model in a model information database separate from the maintenance database and correlates the two databases based on the model data.

Abstract: A working machine failure diagnosis method for performing a failure diagnosis by transmitting and receiving signals through communication devices provided at a working machine and at an information management center, according to the present invention, includes: a first step in which a first signal related to a failure of the working machine is generated at the working machine and the first signal is transmitted to the information management center from the working machine via the communication devices; a second step in which, after the first signal is transmitted, the information management center generates a second signal for identifying a location of the failure based upon the first signal and the second signal is then transmitted from the information management center to the working machine via the communication devices; and a third step in which failure information corresponding to the first signal and the second signal is provided to an operator.

Abstract: A transfer protocol conversion method and a protocol conversion equipment are disclosed in order to transmits TS packets for a CATV network, a DAVIC network or the like by use of IP packets for the Internet. In a network using TS packets, the transmission is made with an Internet protocol header stored in a private field of an adaptation field defined in the TS packet. An equipment for protocol conversion between a network using TS packets and an Internet forms an IP packet for the Internet by use of the header transferred by the private data. Further, lower 8 bits of the IP address of an IP packet and lower 8 bits of the PID value of a TS packet are made the same and upper 24 bits of the IP address are converted into a 5-bit value so that the converted 5-bit value is made to correspond to upper 5 bits of the PID value.

Abstract: In a network cache and a cache control method involving the transfer of a large volume of data as the time of reproduction of multimedia data including video data, a stabilized data transfer is made by eliminating the waste of cached data or a useless cache processing which may be caused by the interruption of a user's operation. When a data transfer request from a user terminal connected to a local network is made to a server existing on the internet, a user request processing program starts a cache program. The cache program performs a cache processing independently of the data delivery to the requesting user terminal by the user request processing program so that even if the user's request is interrupted, the storage of transferred data into a cache file is performed without ceasing. Also, a required bit rate for data made an object of transfer is analyzed for comparison with a network throughput between the server and the network cache.

Abstract: Assessment information needed to calculate a used vehicle assessment value of a hydraulic excavator 10 is input to a portable telephone 20 and is then transmitted from the portable telephone 20. The transmitted assessment information is received at a manufacturer's base station 40 at a remote location. The used vehicle assessment value of the hydraulic excavator 10 is calculated based upon the received assessment information, and history information and operation information on the hydraulic excavator 10 read out from an operation information database 43 and a history database 42 in correspondence to an ID number assigned to the hydraulic excavator which is included in the assessment information.