Hitachi, Ltd.

Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation

Hitachi Software Engineering Company, Ltd.

Hitachi Electronics Services Co. Ltd.

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Shigeru Sasaki

Shigeki Takayama

Masahiro Sasagawa

Takahiro Hisasue

Katsumi Suzuki

Toshinori Shiraki

Masataka Kawauchi

Yuichi Kobayashi

Yoshifumi Sato

Shuji Terada

Takeshi Nakatani

Toshio Hirosawa

Yasunori Hamada

Atsushi Ueoka

Motohide Kokunishi

Kazuyuki Nakamura

Masao Okayama

Tadashi Yamagishi

Fujio Fujita

Masahiko Ishimaru

Yoshikazu Ichikawa

Kazuo Moritou

Michio Hirano

Kaoru Kozuma

Hideki Namba

Shinji Shibata

Shigeo Nakajima

Akira Nomiyama

Hidetomo Mori

Takashi Sato

Yasuo Hira

Kazumi Kawamoto

Akira Suzuki

Riichi Katou

Kazushi Yoshida

Hidemi Sato

Osami Matsushita

Michiaki Ida

Katsumi Matsubara

Riichi Uchida

Tsuyoshi Ogasawara

Tutomu Itoh

Yasunari Niioka

Masanori Terao

Katsunori Nitta

Yoshio Fukudome

Katsuhiko Kasuya

Tamio Innami

Toshiaki Nagai

Naoya Sasaki

Haruo Yamanaka

Tadashi Satou

Yasuo Shiragai

Katumi Suzuki

Tsutomu Itoh

Yutaka Nagasawa

Atsuko Fukusima

Tutomo Itoh

Kiichi Nakamura

Yoshiharu Takahashi

Katsuaki Inoue

A hydrogenated copolymer obtained by hydrogenating an unhydrogenated copolymer comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, the hydrogenated copolymer containing at least one hydrogenated copolymer block (B) which is obtained by hydrogenating an unhydrogenated random copolymer block comprised of conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, wherein the hydrogenated copolymer has the following characteristics: the hydrogenated copolymer has a content of the vinyl aromatic monomer units of from more than 40% by weight to less than 95% by weight; at least one peak of loss tangent (tan &#x3b4;) is observed at &#x2212;10 to 80&#xb0; C. in a dynamic viscoelastic spectrum obtained with respect to the hydrogenated copolymer; and substantially no crystallization peak ascribed to the copolymer block (B) is observed at &#x2212;20 to 80&#xb0; C. in a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) chart obtained with respect to the hydrogenated copolymer.

Hydrogenated copolymer and composition containing the same

An object of the present invention is to provide a hydrogenated block copolymer having excellent flexibility, heat resistance, abrasion resistance and surface texture (no stickiness, oil bleeding etc.) and good processability, and a composition thereof. The present invention provides a hydrogenated block copolymer that has therein at least one of each of a vinyl aromatic compound polymer block A, a hydrogenated polymer block B of a random copolymer comprising a conjugated diene and a vinyl aromatic compound, and a hydrogenated polymer block C of a conjugated diene polymer having a vinyl bond content of not less than 30%, the hydrogenated block copolymer having a vinyl aromatic compound content of more than 50 wt % and less than 95 wt %, and a composition containing the hydrogenated block copolymer.

Hydrogenated block copolymer and composition thereof

An individual article management arrangements for managing an individual article distributed through a plurality of sites with a form thereof changed at least one of said plurality of sites, including: information processing apparatuses installed at said plurality of sites; and a data center apparatus connected to each of said information processing apparatuses through a network. The data center apparatus and the information processing apparatuses are configured to effect predetermined operations.

Traceability system

An individual article management system for managing an individual article distributed through a plurality of sites with a form thereof changed at least one of the plurality of sites. Each of the information processing apparatuses transmits read identification information and formed index data to a data center apparatus through a network, and the data center apparatus, receives the transmitted identification information and the transmitted index data, and stores each of the received index data into a storing apparatus so as to be associated with each other on the basis of the identification information for identifying the individual article.

Traceability arrangements for managing an individual article distributed through a plurality of sites with a form thereof changed at at least one of the plurality of sites, the traceability arrangements including: receiving, from information processing apparatuses installed at each of the plurality of sites, both identification information read from a tag attached to each individual article for identifying the article, and index information including change information indicating a change in distribution situation and form of a predetermined individual article; associating and storing the received change information with one another in accordance with the identification information; accepting an input of search condition information including the identification information; and specifying a distribution route of the each individual article based on the accepted search condition information.

Hydrogenated copolymer and composition thereof

A modified hydrogenated copolymer comprising a hydrogenated copolymer and a functional group-containing modifier group bonded to the hydrogenated copolymer, wherein the hydrogenated copolymer is obtained by hydrogenating an unhydrogenated copolymer comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, the unhydrogenated copolymer having at least one polymer block (H) of the vinyl aromatic monomer units, and wherein the modified hydrogenated copolymer has the following characteristics (1) to (4): (1) a content of the vinyl aromatic monomer units of from more than 60% by weight to less than 90% by weight, based on the weight of the hydrogenated copolymer, (2) a content of the polymer block (H) of from 0.1 to 40% by weight, based on the weight of the unhydrogenated copolymer, (3) a weight average molecular weight of from more than 100,000 to 1,000,000, and (4) a hydrogenation ratio of 70% or more, as measured with respect to the double bonds in the conjugated diene monomer units.

Modified hydrogenated copolymer

In a traceability system, information of a change in distribution situation and form of an individual article, and information of identification of the individual article is collected from each of distribution sites, and collected information is strung in accordance with a predetermined rule. A flow of distribution is known and managed based on the strung information. This makes it possible to know a location from which the individual article is distributed and a route through which the individual article is distributed, thus allowing safety management of the individual article.

A bill receiving/paying device and an automated cash transaction apparatus, by which bills of different sizes are dealt and by which charging and recovery can be made together, are provided. A charging/recovery box capable of storing and discharging the bills of different sizes in an intermixed state are provided in the bill receiving/paying device to solve the problems involved in the prior art. For example, in the case of charging, the bills of different sizes stored in the charging/recovery box in the intermixed state are paid out onto a conveyance path to go thorough a bill discrimination portion so as to be discriminated thereby with respect to kinds thereof to be stored in the storage/discharge boxes every kind of bills, so that the bills packed in the charging/recovery box can be charged together in the bill receiving/paying device.

Bill receiving/paying device and automated cash transaction apparatus

An electronic money system of a token and value mixed type includes an electronic money card of a type in which a token type for preferentially paying the coin money and paying the bill money when a coin money balance is insufficient for payment, and for recording issuance numbers of bills paid/received in a transaction history in a memory area of the electronic money card. An automatic transaction machine (ATM) reads, from an electronic money card, issuance number of bills for deposit and an issuance number of an invalid bill, and transmits the numbers to a computer of a bank.

Electronic money system of token and value mixed type

Disclosed is a hydrogenated copolymer obtained by hydrogenating an unhydrogenated copolymer comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, the unhydrogenated copolymer having at least one polymer block (H) of vinyl aromatic monomer units, wherein the hydrogenated copolymer has the following characteristics (1) to (5): (1) a content of the vinyl aromatic monomer units of from more than 60% by weight to less than 90% by weight, based on the weight of the hydrogenated copolymer; (2) a content of the polymer block (H) of from 1 to 40% by weight, based on the weight of the unhydrogenated copolymer; (3) a weight average molecular weight of from more than 100,000 to 1,000,000; (4) a hydrogenation ratio of 85% or more, as measured with respect to the double bonds in the conjugated diene monomer units; and (5) substantially no crystallization peak observed at &#x2212;50 to 100&#xb0; C. in a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) chart obtained with respect to the hydrogenated copolymer.

Hydrogenated copolymer

A banknote receipt and pay-out apparatus of a recirculation type for using received banknotes as those to be paid out, which can maintain the alignment of banknotes in a receipt and pay-out box in order when the latter is installed on the banknote receipt and pay-out apparatus which can deal with banknotes having different sizes, or when the receipt and pay-out box in which the banknotes are set is transported. That is, the banknote receipt and pay-out apparatus incorporating a receipt and pay-out box for replenishing the apparatus with banknotes, recovering banknotes therefrom, and storing banknotes in a standing posture, the receipt and pay-out box comprising an alignment mechanism for holding the banknotes aligned in order around the widthwise center thereof when the banknote receipt and pay-out box is not installed on the banknote pay-out apparatus.

Banknote receipt and pay-out apparatus

Hydrogenated polymer

In a bill receiving and discharging device having a wheel for winding a tape together with a bill and a reel for winding the tape rewound from the wheel, a bill in which a cut exists at a position at which the bill cannot be held within width of the tape sometimes has a trouble such that the bill is cut into two sections at a time of discharging. In the present invention, in order to eliminate the above-described trouble, a regulating device and a discharging device for guiding an end portion of a bill to an outside of a back side region of the tape are provided.

Bill receiving and discharging device and bill handling apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Shigeru Sasaki