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What is claimed is:

1. A processing system comprising:
a data management server for storing registration information about a customer;
a customer communication terminal adapted for data communication with said data management server and for outputting information for identifying a customer; and
a process execution terminal for receiving said information for identifying the customer from said customer communication terminal and executing a process for said customer, wherein:
said process execution terminal provides said information to said data management server when receiving said information for identifying the customer;
said data management server identifies the customer based on said information provided from said process execution terminal, generates reply information based on said registration information about said customer, and provides said reply information to said process execution terminal; and
said process execution terminal executes a process for said customer based on said reply information when receiving said reply information.
2. The processing system according to claim 1, wherein:
said data management server sends said information for identifying the customer to said customer communication terminal when said customer communication terminal accesses said data management server; and
said customer communication terminal receives said information sent from said data management server and outputs said information to said process execution terminal.
3. The processing system according to claim 1, wherein said data management server inquires to an external credit institution about a credit card number for payment and provides information obtained from said external credit institution as said reply information if said registration information is the number of a card for payment.
4. The processing system according to claim 1, wherein said data management server communicates an amount billed included in said registration information as said reply information if said registration information is information about billing issued to said customer.
5. The processing system according to claim 1, wherein:
said data management server determines whether an admission ticket is valid or not and provides the determination as said reply information, if said registration information is information about said admission ticket; and
said process execution terminal outputs information indicating whether said customer is granted admittance or not based on said reply information from said data management server.
6. A processing system comprising:
a data management server for associating an identification code identifying a customer with registration information registered for said customer and sending mark data representing said identification code to a customer communication terminal; and
a process execution terminal adapted for data communication with said data management server, said process execution terminal having a mark reader for reading a mark displayed on the display of said customer communication terminal based on said mark data, and executing a process for said customer based on said read mark data, wherein:
said process execution terminal sends said mark data read by said mark reader to said data management server;
said data management server identifies said registration information associated with said identification code based on said mark data sent from said process execution terminal, generates instruction information indicating a process to be performed for said customer based on said registration information, and sends said instruction information to said process execution terminal; and
said process execution terminal, which receives said instruction information, executes the process for the customer based on said instruction information.
7. The processing system according to claim 6, wherein said mark is a two-dimensional barcode.
8. The processing system according to claim 6, wherein said mark data sent to said customer communication terminal from said data management server is invalidated after the completion of the process in said process execution terminal.
9. The processing system according to claim 6, wherein said data management server sets information different from a payment card number held by said customer or an account number of said customer as said identification code.
10. The processing system according to claim 9, wherein said data management server sets a telephone number of said customer communication terminal as said identification code.
11. A server comprising:
data storage for associating an identification code identifying a customer with registration information registered for said customer and storing said identification code and said registration information;
a customer communication section capable of data communication with a customer communication terminal; and
a code issuing section for sending said identification code to said customer communication terminal through said customer communication section in response to a received request.
12. The server according to claim 11, wherein said code issuing section sends said identification code in barcode data form.
13. The server according to claim 11, wherein:
said data storage associates a password set by said customer with said identification code and stores said password and said identification code; and
said code issuing section verifies whether a password, input from said customer communication terminal, matches said password stored in said data storage, and issues said identification code.
14. The server according to claim 11, further comprising:
a process executer communication section capable of data communication with a process execution terminal for execution of a process requested by said customer; and
an instruction information issuing section for generating instruction information indicating the process to be performed by said process execution terminal for said customer based on said registration information associated with said identification code when receiving said identification code issued by said code issuing section through said process executer communication section from said process execution terminal, and providing said instruction information to said process execution terminal through said process executer communication section.
15. The server according to claim 14, wherein:
said data storage stores as said registration information a number of membership points held by said customer;
said instruction information issuing section informs a process execution terminal of the number of membership points as said instruction information when receiving said identification code and stores a new number of membership points in said data storage when receiving a new number of membership points changed from said number of membership points from said process execution terminal.
16. The server according to claim 15, further comprising a process confirmation section for confirming whether a process requested by said process execution terminal should be performed or not with said customer communication terminal before said instruction information issuing section provides said instruction information to said process execution terminal.
17. A processing terminal comprising:
a code receiver for receiving an identification code, output from a communications terminal of a customer, for identifying said customer; and
process information output logic for inquiring of an external server about said identification code received by said code receiver and outputting process information for said customer based on a reply from said external server about said identification code.
18. The processing terminal according to claim 17, wherein said code receiver receives said identification code data from said customer communications terminal by a wireless communication.
19. The processing terminal according to claim 17, wherein said code receiver comprises a barcode reader for reading a two-dimensional barcode displayed on the display of said customer communications terminal.
20. The processing terminal according to claim 17, wherein said process information output logic displays an amount claimed from said customer based on a reply provided by said external server about said identification code.
21. A communication terminal comprising:
a display for displaying an image;
a communicator capable of accessing an external server;
a code issue requester for accessing an external server through said communicator and requesting said external server to issue a process code; and
a display controller for causing said display to display said process code in two-dimensional barcode form, wherein said process code is issued from said external server and received through said communicator.
22. The communications terminal according to claim 21, wherein said two-dimensional barcode displayed on said display is associated with information on billing issued to a customer holding said communications terminal.
23. The communications terminal according to claim 21, wherein said two-dimensional barcode displayed on said display includes data for an admission ticket.
24. A processing method performed when requested by a customer who registers registration information in a data management server to perform a predetermined process, the method comprising the steps of:
transferring an identification code generated by said data management server for said customer to a terminal held by said customer;
communicating said identification code from said terminal held by said customer to a process execution terminal;
sending an inquiry about said identification code from said process execution terminal to said data management server;
generating instruction information for indicating a process to be performed for said customer based on said registration information associated in said data management server with said identification code and communicating said instruction information to said process execution terminal; and
executing a process in said process execution terminal based on said communicated instruction information.
25. A data management method comprising the steps of:
receiving and storing registration information about a customer;
issuing an identification code identifying said customer, associating said identification code with said registration information, and sending said issued identification code to said customer when requested by said customer; and
identifying said registration information associated with said identification code, generating reply information based on said registration information, and sending said reply information to a process execution terminal when said identification code is provided by said process execution terminal.
26. A process execution method comprising the steps of:
receiving an identification code output by a communications terminal of a customer, said identification code identifying said customer; and
inquiring of an external entity about said identification code and outputting process information for said customer based on a reply from said external entity about said identification code.
27. A program product executable on a computer for causing the computer to perform the steps of:
receiving registration information about a customer and storing said registration information;
in response to a request received from said customer, issuing an identification code identifying said customer and associating said identification code with said registration information;
sending said issued identification code to said customer;
identifying said registration information associated with said identification code and generating reply information based on said registration information, when said identification code is communicated from a process execution terminal; and
sending said reply information to said process execution terminal.
28. A program product executable on a computer for causing the computer to perform the steps of:
receiving an identification code output by a communication terminal of a customer, said identification code identifying said customer; and
inquiring of an external entity about said identification code and outputting process information for said customer based on a reply from said external entity about said identification code.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claims which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. An electronic control unit of an engine, capable of injecting fuel in expansion andor exhaust strokes (expansionexhaust stroke injection) at a time of warming-up of a catalyst, comprising:
said electronic control unit controlling fuel injection such that when a temperature of the catalyst rises higher than a predetermined temperature and a fuel injection amount Ti3rdRQ required for the expansionexhaust stroke injection is smaller than a minimum fuel injection time Timin of an injector, a ratio Rti3rd of the expansionexhaust stroke injection to a predetermined cycle period PRD3RDMAX and an injection period PRD3RD are calculated by the following equations:
Rti3rd=Ti3rdRQTimin, and
PRD3RD=Rti3rd*PRD3RDMAX,
and, under a constraint of the minimum fuel injection time Timin, fuel injection in the expansionexhaust strokes is performed for the injection period PRD3RD over each cycle period PRD3RDMAX, and the expansionexhaust stroke injection is not performed in the cycle periods PRD3RDMAX other than the injection period PRD3RD.
2. The unit according to claim 1, wherein the required fuel injection amount or injection timing in the expansionexhaust strokes is determined on a basis of the temperature of the catalyst.
3. The unit according to claim 1, wherein, for each injection cycle, the expansionexhaust stroke injection is performed in a selected cylinder and is not performed in the other cylinders.
4. The unit according to claim 3, wherein the selected cylinder is changed with a lapse of time.
5. The unit according to claim 4, wherein a cylinder is selected such that an inflow position on the catalyst of an exhaust gas from a previous cylinder and an inflow position from a selected cylinder are apart from each other.
6. The unit according to any of claims 1, wherein the temperature of the catalyst is calculated by a thermal model using an engine operating state.
7. The unit according to claim 1, wherein the required fuel injection amount or injection timing of the expansionexhaust stroke injection is determined on a basis of a time elapsed since a start of the engine.
8. The unit according to claim 1, wherein the expansionexhaust stroke injection is performed sequentially for a plurality of cylinders over a plurality of cycles, and
wherein an order of the plurality of cylinders for the expansionexhaust stroke injection is determined such that a honeycomb catalyst’s area through which exhaust gas is flowing from a cylinder in which the last injection had been performed and another honeycomb catalyst’s area through which an exhaust gas is to flow from another cylinder in which the next injection to be performed are as far away from each other as possible.
9. The unit according to claim 8, wherein, for each injection cycle, the expansionexhaust stroke injection is performed only in a selected cylinder.
10. A computer-implemented method of controlling an engine, capable of injecting fuel in expansion andor exhaust strokes (expansionexhaust stroke injection) at a time of warming-up of a catalyst, comprising:
controlling fuel injection such that when a temperature of the catalyst rises higher than a predetermined temperature and a fuel injection amount Ti3rdRQ required for the expansionexhaust stroke injection is smaller than a minimum fuel injection time Timin of an injector, a ratio Rti3rd of the expansionexhaust stroke injection to a predetermined cycle period PRD3RDMAX and an injection period PRD3RD are calculated by the following equations:
Rti3rd=Ti3rdRQTimin, and
PRD3RD=Rti3rd*PRD3RDMAX,
and, under a constraint of the minimum fuel injection time Timin, fuel injection in the expansionexhaust strokes is performed for the injection period PRD3RD over each cycle period PRD3RDMAX, and the expansionexhaust stroke injection is not performed in the cycle periods PRD3RDMAX other than the injection period PRD3RD.
11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:
determining the required fuel injection amount or injection timing in the expansionexhaust strokes on a basis of the temperature of the catalyst.
12. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:
performing the expansionexhaust stroke injection only in a selected cylinder for each injection cycle, wherein the selected cylinder is changed with a lapse of time.
13. The method according to claim 12, wherein a cylinder is selected such that an inflow position on the catalyst of an exhaust gas from a previous cylinder and an inflow position from a selected cylinder are apart from each other.
14. The method according to claim 10, wherein the temperature of the catalyst is calculated by a thermal model using an engine operating state.
15. The method according to claim 10, wherein a required fuel injection amount or injection timing of the expansionexhaust stroke injection is determined on a basis of a time elapsed since start of the engine.
16. The method according to claim 10, wherein the expansionexhaust stroke injection is performed sequentially for a plurality of cylinders over a plurality of cycles, and
wherein an order of the plurality of cylinders for the expansionexhaust stroke injection is determined such that a honeycomb catalyst’s area through which exhaust gas is flowing from a cylinder in which the last injection had been performed and another honeycomb catalyst’s area through which an exhaust gas is to flow from another cylinder in which the next injection to be performed are as far away from each other as possible.
17. The method according to claim 16, further comprising performing the expansionexhaust stroke injection cylinder is changed with a lapse of time.
18. A computer-executable program for controlling an engine, capable of injecting fuel in expansion andor exhaust strokes (expansionexhaust stroke injection) at a time of warming-up of a catalyst, said program, when executed on a computer, performing:
controlling fuel injection such that when a temperature of the catalyst rises higher than a predetermined temperature and a fuel injection amount Ti3rdRQ required for the expansionexhaust stroke injection is smaller than a minimum fuel injection time Timin of an injector, a ratio Rti3rd of the expansionexhaust stroke injection to a predetermined cycle period PRD3RDMAX and an injection period PRD3RD are calculated by the following equations:
Rti3rd=Ti3rdRQTimin, and
PRD3RD=Rti3rd*PRD3RDMAX,
and, under a constraint of the minimum fuel injection time Timin, fuel injection in the expansionexhaust strokes is performed for the injection period PRD3RD over each cycle period PRD3RDMAX, and the expansionexhaust stroke injection is not performed in the periods PRD3RDMAX other than the injection period PRD3RD.
19. The program according to claim 18, comprising:
determining the required fuel injection amount or injection timing in the expansionexhaust strokes on a basis of the temperature of the catalyst.
20. The program according to claim 18, wherein the temperature of the catalyst is calculated by a thermal model using an engine operating state.
21. The program according to claim 18, wherein the expansionexhaust stroke injection is performed sequentially for a plurality of cylinders over a plurality of cycles, and
wherein an order of the plurality of cylinders for the expansionexhaust stroke injection is determined such that a honeycomb catalyst’s area through which exhaust gas is flowing from a cylinder in which the last injection had been performed and another honeycomb catalyst’s area through which an exhaust gas is to flow from another cylinder in which the next injection to be performed are as far away from each other as possible.

1. A device for anchoring a ladder onto a ground surface comprising a first anchoring member having a front side and a back side and a second anchoring member having a front side and a back side, said ladder having a first leg and a second leg, said each of the first and second anchoring member comprising:
a channel bracket having a bottom, a first sidewall and a second sidewall, said bottom having an undersurface and an oversurface;
a ground-engaging member having a first end, a second end and a length portion, said first end of said ground-engaging member being attached to the bottom of said channel bracket, said second end and said length portion being adapted for engagement with the ground;
a pivot rod having a first end and a second end, said first end being affixed to a spot on the first sidewall of the channel bracket and a second end being affixed to the second sidewall of the channel bracket, said pivot rod traversing an inside portion of the channel bracket from the first sidewall of the channel bracket to the second sidewall of the channel bracket; and
a brace member having a first sidewall, a second sidewall, an open bottom, a front wall and a back wall, said pivot rod being threaded though an opening in the first sidewall and an opening in the second sidewall in a manner that said pivot rod supports the brace member and in a manner that said brace member is adapted for pivoting around the pivot rod in a direction from the front side of the anchoring member toward the back side of the anchoring member and vice versa,
said ground-engaging member of the first anchoring member and the around-engaging member of the second anchoring member each comprises a straight post adapted for insertion into the ground,
wherein the device for anchoring a ladder onto a ground surface, in a position of the ground-engaging member of the first anchoring member being engaged with the ground, the brace member of the first anchoring member is adapted for containing the first leg of the ladder and further adapted for pivoting from at least a position wherein the front wall of the brace member is substantially parallel with the ground at the front side of the first anchoring member to a position wherein the back wall of the brace member of the first anchoring member is substantially parallel with the ground at the backside of the first anchoring member, said first leg of the ladder being placed onto the pivot rod of the first anchoring member, said pivot rod of the first anchoring member is guiding and supporting the first leg of the ladder in the course of said first ladder leg moving from the position wherein the front wall of the brace member is substantially parallel with the ground at the front side of the first anchoring member to the position wherein the back wall of the brace member of the first anchoring member is substantially parallel with the ground at the backside of the first anchoring member.
2. The device of claim 1 wherein, in a position of the ground-engaging member of the second anchoring member being engaged with the ground, the brace member of the second anchoring member is adapted for containing the second leg of the ladder and further adapted for pivoting from at least a position wherein the front wall of the brace member is substantially parallel with the ground at the front side of the second anchoring member to a position wherein the back wall of the brace member of the second anchoring member is substantially parallel with the ground at the backside of the second anchoring member, said second leg of the ladder being placed onto the pivot rod of the second anchoring member, said pivot rod of the second anchoring member guiding and supporting the second leg of the ladder in the course of said second ladder leg moving from the position wherein the front wall of the brace member is substantially parallel with the ground at the front side of the second anchoring member to the position wherein the back wall of the brace member of the second anchoring member is substantially parallel with the around at the backside of the second anchoring member.
3. A device for anchoring a ladder onto a ground surface comprising a first anchoring member having a front side and a back side and a second anchoring member having a front side and a back side, said ladder having a first rung, said ladder also having a first vertical side attached to a side of the first rung and a second vertical side attached to an opposite side of the first rung, said each of the first and second anchoring member comprising:
a channel bracket having a bottom, a first side and a second side, said bottom having an undersurface and an oversurface;
a ground-engaging member having a first end, a second end and a length portion, said first end of said ground-engaging member being attached to the bottom of said channel bracket, said second end and said length portion being adapted for engagement with the ground;
a pivot rod having a first end and a second end, said first end being affixed to a spot on the first side of the channel bracket and the second end being affixed to the second side of the channel bracket;
a brace member having a first sidewall, a second sidewall, an open bottom, a front wall and a back wall, said pivot rod being threaded though an opening in the first sidewall and an opening in the second sidewall in a manner that said pivot rod supports the brace member and in a manner that said brace member is adapted for pivoting around the pivot rod in a direction from the front side of the anchoring member toward the back side of the anchoring member and vice versa, said brace member being adapted for supporting the first rung of a ladder;
a lateral extension tab attached to an upper portion of the brace member front wall; and
a lateral extension tab attached to an upper portion of the brace member back wall.
4. The device of claim 3, wherein the first sidewall of the brace member is notched and the second sidewall of the brace member is notched.
5. The device of claim 3, wherein the first rung is adapted to fit inside the brace member of the first anchoring member and the second anchoring member.
6. The device of claim 3, wherein the first vertical side of the ladder is adapted to fit between the lateral extension tab attached to the upper portion of the front wall of the brace member of the first anchoring member and the lateral extension tab attached to the upper portion of the back wall of the brace member of the first anchoring member.
7. The device of claim 3, wherein the second vertical side of the ladder is further adapted to fit between the lateral extension tab attached to the upper portion of the front wall of the brace member of the second anchoring member and the lateral extension tab attached to the upper portion of the back wall of the brace member of the first anchoring member.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claims which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A multi-chip package, comprising:
a substrate having a grounding structure;
two semiconductor elements disposed on and electrically connected to the substrate;
an encapsulant formed on the substrate and encapsulating the semiconductor elements, wherein the encapsulant has a plurality of round holes formed between the semiconductor elements; and
an electromagnetic shielding structure formed in each of the round holes and connected to the grounding structure.
2. The multi-chip package of claim 1, wherein the encapsulant further has at least one strip hole, and the at least one strip hole and the round holes are spaced at an interval.
3. The multi-chip package of claim 2, wherein the electromagnetic shielding structure is further formed in the at least one strip hole.
4. The multi-chip package of claim 1, further comprising a heat dissipating element formed on the encapsulant.
5. A multi-chip package, comprising:
a substrate having a grounding layer;
two semiconductor elements disposed on and electrically connected to the substrate;
an encapsulant formed on the substrate and encapsulating the semiconductor elements, wherein the encapsulant has a plurality of round holes penetrating the encapsulant and substrate and formed between the semiconductor elements; and
an electromagnetic shielding structure formed in each of the round holes and connected to the grounding layer.
6. The multi-chip package of claim 5, wherein the encapsulant further has at least one strip hole, and the at least one strip hole and the round hole are spaced at an interval.
7. The multi-chip package of claim 6, wherein the electromagnetic shielding structure is further formed in the at least one strip hole.
8. The multi-chip package of claim 5, further comprising a heat dissipating element formed on the encapsulant.
9. A method for manufacturing a multi-chip package, comprising:
forming an encapsulant on a substrate having two semiconductor elements disposed thereon such that the semiconductor elements are embedded in the encapsulant, wherein the substrate has a grounding structure;
forming a plurality of round holes disposed between the semiconductor elements and penetrating the encapsulant; and
forming an electromagnetic shielding structure in each of the round holes and connecting the electromagnetic shielding structure to the grounding structure.
10. The method of claim 9, further comprising forming at least one strip hole in the encapsulant, and the at least one strip hole and the round hole are spaced at an interval.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the electromagnetic shielding structure is further formed in the at least one strip hole.
12. The method of claim 9, further comprising forming a heat dissipating element on the encapsulant.
13. The method of claim 9, wherein the round holes are formed by a laser drilling method.
14. A method for manufacturing a multi-chip package, comprising:
forming an encapsulant on a substrate having two semiconductor elements disposed thereon such that the semiconductor elements are embedded in the encapsulant, wherein the substrate has a grounding layer;
forming a plurality of round holes disposed between the semiconductor elements and penetrating the encapsulant and substrate; and
forming an electromagnetic shielding structure in each of the round holes and connecting the electromagnetic shielding structure to the grounding layer.
15. The method of claim 14, further comprising forming at least one strip hole in the encapsulant, and the at least one strip hole and the round hole are spaced at an interval.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the electromagnetic shielding structure is further formed in the at least one strip hole.
17. The method of claim 14, further comprising forming a heat dissipating element on the encapsulant.
18. The method of claim 14, wherein the round holes are formed by a laser drilling method.