Abstract: A method to use high temperature thermal storage for integration into building heating/cooling systems and to meet building's peak power demand. The method can be used to store the thermal energy at any desirable rate and then discharge this stored energy to meet the demand for short or long time intervals. Input energy stored with this method is thermal energy, however, output can be thermal or electric based upon the requirement.

Abstract: To provide a non-transitory computer-readable recording-medium storing an information acquiring program (IAP) that can be implemented by a computer controlling a mobile terminal (MT). The IAP includes five program codes (PCDs). The 1st-PCD causes the computer to use a camera for capturing an on-printed-matter marker. The 2nd-PCD causes the computer to detect a mobile state of the MT. The 3rd-PCD causes the computer to recognize the mark for creating a provision request based on recognition information of the recognized marker and mobile information representing the MT's mobile state detected by the 2nd-PCD. The 4th-PCD causes the computer to transmit the provision request to an information provision apparatus and to receive indication information as a reaction to the provision request from the IA. The 5th-PCD causes the computer to create image information (II) based on the indication information and causes a display part to display the II.

Abstract: A method to use high temperature thermal storage for integration into building heating/cooling systems and to meet building's peak power demand. The method can be used to store the thermal energy at any desirable rate and then discharge this stored energy to meet the demand for short or long time intervals. Input energy stored with this method is thermal energy, however, output can be thermal or electric based upon the requirement.

Abstract: To provide a non-transitory computer-readable recording-medium storing an information acquiring program (IAP) that can be implemented by a computer controlling a mobile terminal (MT). The IAP includes five program codes (PCDs). The 1st-PCD causes the computer to use a camera for capturing an on-printed-matter marker. The 2nd-PCD causes the computer to detect a mobile state of the MT. The 3rd-PCD causes the computer to recognize the mark for creating a provision request based on recognition information of the recognized marker and mobile information representing the MT's mobile state detected by the 2nd-PCD. The 4th-PCD causes the computer to transmit the provision request to an information provision apparatus and to receive indication information as a reaction to the provision request from the IA. The 5th-PCD causes the computer to create image information (II) based on the indication information and causes a display part to display the II.

Abstract: A document reading device is disclosed which allows an original document to be read without an operator actuating a start key. If a series of operations are performed, such as loading an original document into a sheet feeding tray after the lapse of a time period “a” from the reading of a previous original document, removing the original document within a predetermined time period “b” after the loading, loading the original document into the sheet feeding tray again within the predetermined time period “b”, and causing a document sensor to detect whether the loading of the original document is for a time period that exceeds a predetermined time “c”, a request to begin reading the original document will be issued without an operator actuating the start key.

Abstract: A document reading device is disclosed which allows an original document to be read without an operator actuating a start key. If a series of operations are performed, such as loading an original document into a sheet feeding tray after the lapse of a time period “a” from the reading of a previous original document, removing the original document within a predetermined time period “b” after the loading, loading the original document into the sheet feeding tray again within the predetermined time period “b”, and causing a document sensor to detect whether the loading of the original document is for a time period that exceeds a predetermined time “c”, a request to begin reading the original document will be issued without an operator actuating the start key.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a cooling method and a cooling apparatus in which a thermal storage and a cooling in a vehicle, in particular in an automobile, are provided with the minimum electric power consumption, and an idling of an engine necessary for the cooling during the automobile stopping time is unnecessary. The cooling method includes performing a thermal storage by producing ice in the vehicle by utilizing a surplus electric power, and after stopping the engine, operating an air blowing fan, introducing an air to be cooled into a duct, which is cooled from outside thereof by the ice, and carrying out a heat exchange between the air and the ice, and with a cold air introduced from the duct cooling an interior portion of the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a cooling method and a cooling apparatus in which a thermal storage and a cooling in a vehicle, in particularly in an automobile, are provided with the minimum electric power consumption and an idling of an engine necessary for the cooling during the automobile stopping time is dissolved.