Abstract: An information processing method includes receiving a request for user data that is related to an external service, and retrieving the user data segments based on the request. The user data segments are then combined to generate the user data, which is then provided to the client device that requested the user data. After receiving the user data, the client device uses the user data to access the external service to which the data relates.

Abstract: An information processing method includes receiving a request for user data that is related to an external service, and retrieving the user data segments based on the request. The user data segments are then combined to generate the user data, which is then provided to the client device that requested the user data. After receiving the user data, the client device uses the user data to access the external service to which the data relates.

Abstract: An object is to properly perform failure recovery in an electronic money system where on-line terminals and off-line terminals coexist. For both an electronic money card and a center server, a flag selectable between two values, “transaction in progress” and “transaction completed”, is prepared. In the course of processing information between the electronic money card and the center server, the processing is caused to progress while setting their flags on (inverting them from “transaction completed” to “transaction in progress”), or setting them off (resetting them from “transaction in progress” to “transaction completed”) in a synchronized manner. If any failure occurs during the processing, the state of the flag at the time of occurrence of the failure is saved in both of them, and therefore based on these states, it is possible to specify the time at which the failure has occurred.

Abstract: A branch pipe is formed on a metal tube using a forming tool including a milling part and a burring part adjacent the milling part. The milling part has a first diameter and is provided with a prescribed cutting edge on its outer peripheral surface. The burring part has a sloping surface with a maximum second diameter larger than the first diameter, and has a slope diameter that gradually diminishes in a direction away from the milling part. The branch pipe forming tool can be used for forming a branch pipe on a metal tube regardless of the shape of the metal tube.

Abstract: A branch pipe is formed on a metal tube using a forming tool including a milling part and a burring part adjacent the milling part. The milling part has a first diameter and is provided with a prescribed cutting edge on its outer peripheral surface. The burring part has a sloping surface with a maximum second diameter larger than the first diameter, and has a slope diameter that gradually diminishes in a direction away from the milling part. The branch pipe forming tool can be used for forming a branch pipe on a metal tube regardless of the shape of the metal tube.

Abstract: A press working machine includes a lower mold that is vertically movable between a first position for exchanging the lower mold, a second position for exchanging a workpiece, a third position for placing and displacing the workpiece on and from the lower mold, and a fourth position for pressing the workpiece between an upper mold and the lower mold. The machine further includes a servo motor and an eccentric cam for vertically moving the lower mold. A workpiece feed bar is moved only in the horizontal direction, whereby the structure of a feed bar horizontal mover is extremely simplified and the overall press working machine is also simplified in structure.

Abstract: A press working machine includes base members having concave portions, slider members arranged in the concave portions, link arms attached to first ends of the slider members respectively, and cylinders attached to the arms, for bending and extending the same. Furthermore, press members having curved mold-facing surfaces are arranged on the slider members. Molds having deformable structures are arranged on the press members. A workpiece is inserted between the molds, to be press-worked. The slider members are actuatable to press the press members against the molds, so as to deform the molds into different mold shapes. Thus, it is possible to press-mold workpieces into a plurality of shapes with a single mold assembly, thereby reducing the cost for manufacturing the mold assembly, omitting an operation of exchanging the mold assembly, and reducing the manufacturing cost.

Abstract: A joint structure provides a strong contact force between two metal plates that are joined together by the joint structure. A first metal plate is provided with a lug and an opening under the lug. An edge portion of a second metal plate is inserted under the lug and partially press molded with the lug, so as to be press-fitted into the opening in a state wherein the press-fitted portion is held between the opening and the lug. The press-fitted portion of the second metal plate has a cutoff edge portion which is cut off from the remaining portion of the plate, and a connected edge portion which is not cut off from but remains connected with the remaining portion. The cutoff edge portion contacts a corresponding edge of the opening in the first metal plate to ensure and maintain proper lateral registration of the two plates.

Abstract: In the press working machine, a first working plate is downwardly moved by a rod of an air cylinder. At this time, the lower end of a lock pin is in contact with a horizontal plane, whereby the first working plate is rotated about a second rotation axis. Thus, a first rotation axis is upwardly rotated about the second rotation axis, to further upwardly move a lower mold base. At this time, a lower mold and an upper mold are already in contact with each other, whereby a high thrust is caused between the molds to enable molding/joining of metal plates or the like. Consequently, it is possible to provide a press working machine which can embody both of a low-thrust/high-speed area and a high-thrust/low-speed area through only a single air cylinder.

Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus and method for bonding a sheet material to an elongated base material, in which the sheet material is transferred by a transferring device towards the base material, and the sheet material is bonded by a bonding device to the base material. A static electricity generating device is attached to the bonding device for generating static electricity on the sheet material to cause the sheet material to adhere to the bonding device, so that the sheet material is prevented from falling from the bonding device prior to the bonding step. Furthermore, an apparatus and method for manufacturing a flexible flat cable, applying the above bonding apparatus and method is also disclosed. In this apparatus and method, a pair of insulating tape sheets are transferred towards electric conductors.

Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus and method for bonding a sheet material to an elongated base material, in which the sheet material is transferred by a transferring device towards the base material, and the sheet material is bonded by a bonding device to the base material. A static electricity generating device is attached to the bonding device for generating static electricity on the sheet material to cause the sheet material to adhere to the bonding device, so that the sheet material is prevented from falling from the bonding device prior to the bonding step. Furthermore, an apparatus and method for manufacturing a flexible flat cable, applying the above bonding apparatus and method is also disclosed. In this apparatus and method, a pair of insulating tape sheets are transferred towards electric conductors.

Abstract: A forming apparatus for shaping a long plate member (31), converts on initial cross-section into a final sectional configuration, e.g., into a U-shaped final sectional configuraiton. The forming apparatus has an upper die (32) and a lower die (33) defining a forming part with pressing surfaces which are movable toward each other for a pressing operation. The long plate member is appropriately fed into the forming part. A drive mechanism reciprocates the upper die (32). The forming part defined by the upper die (32) and by the lower die (33) includes an initial forming region which is located on an inlet for the long plate member. The initial forming region has a forming configuration corresponding to a flat sectional configuration. A final forming region located at an outlet for the long plate member has a forming configuration corresponding to a U-shaped sectional configuration.

Abstract: A drawing machine for drawing a workpiece (41) comprises first and second drawing dies (42, 43), first and second push rods (45, 46, 47, 48) and first and second junction rods (53, 54). When the first push rods (45, 46) are downwardly moved, the first junction rod (53) is pressed and moved by the first push rod (45) to press the first drawing die (42). Consequently, the first drawing die (42) forms a first-stage drawn part in the workpiece (41). When the second push rods (47, 48) are downwardly moved, the second junction rod (54) is pressed and moved by the second push rod (48), to press the second drawing die (43). Consequently, the second drawing die (43) forms a second-stage drawn part in the workpiece (42). Thus, a plurality of stages of drawn parts can be formed by the same machine. A large number of holes (51, 52) may be provided in a junction die (55) for receiving junction rods (53 ), to insert the junction rods (53) in only prescribed ones of the holes.

Abstract: A joint construction for metal sheets is made by joining first and second metal sheets with the aid of a plastic working deformation. The first metal sheet is provided with first cut-up pieces to have openings therein. A portion of one end edge of the second metal sheet partly superposed on the first metal sheet is held between the openings and the first cut-up pieces and in this state it is pressed with the cut-up pieces so that the portion is pressed into the openings. The portion of the second metal sheet pressed into the openings is locked by the peripheral walls of the openings and by the cut-up piece pressing against the portion.

Abstract: An inner box for a cooking appliance comprises a front panel (5) having an opening, a cylindrical barrel section (6), and a rear panel (8). The peripheral edge (7A) of the opening in the front panel (5) is joined to the front end edge of the barrel (6), while the rear end edge of the barrel is joined to the outer peripheral end edge of the rear panel (8). Each of the joints is formed by a crimping operation and at least one of the crimped joints is provided with interlocking elements which engage each other as a result of the crimping operation.