International Business Machines Corporation

Krd Corporation

Ntn Corporation

Tsutomu Sawa

Hiroyuki Takenoshita

Hirohide Komatsu

Toshiki Hada

Takashi Ito

Tomoko Taketomi

Naota Yamamoto

Tsukasa Yamakawa

Koichi Sato

Kohei Shibata

A bearing assembly includes an IC tag with information to be reliably exchanged between the IC tag and an external reader/writer, and a rolling bearing including outer and inner races and rolling elements disposed between the outer and inner races. The IC tag communicates with the external reader/writer device without contacting the reader/writer device, is attached to a metal member of the rolling bearing, includes a tag antenna, and is configured so information can be exchanged between the tag antenna and a reader/writer antenna of the reader/writer device by forming a closed magnetic circuit between the tag antenna and the reader/writer antenna. The IC tag is received in a hole in a metal member surface. The tag antenna includes at least two protrusions facing the opening of the hole and arranged so magnetic fluxes leaving/entering the protrusions pass inside the edge defining the hole opening and extend outside the hole.

Bearing assembly including IC tag

There is provided a management apparatus associated detachably with a cash cassette for managing the cash cassette storing bills or coins for cash transactions with users at an automatic teller machine. The cash cassette includes an error information recording area for recording identification information identifying a type of error in the event of occurrence of the error, and a count information recording area for recording count information indicating the number of bills or coins expected to be in the cash cassette. Based on the identification information acquired from the error information recording area, the management apparatus determines whether a predetermined type of error has occurred. When determining that such a type of error has occurred, the management apparatus outputs an instruction to management staff to count the number of bills or coins in the cash cassette, or when determining that such a type of error has not occurred, it outputs the count information from the count information recording area.

Method and system for automatic teller machine cash management

To prevent for a prolonged time period, the fixed-position floating status of a head in the control operation of a storage unit, and to prevent a decrease in the reliability due to deterioration in the properties of a storage medium, a control apparatus is described. The control apparatus relays read/write instructions for a magnetic disk unit, and includes an access-area setting unit that dynamically specifies one of a plurality of unit areas provided in a magnetic disk storage area as an access area for data, an addressing unit that updates the value of a write address in a data write request with an address that represents a physical sector corresponding to an access area in the storage area, and a valid-area changing unit that migrates data to a sector in an access area from a physical sector in another unit area corresponding to the sector at predetermined time.

Apparatus and method for magnetic head control in storage accesses

A management apparatus associated detachably with a cash cassette is provided for managing the cash cassette storing bills or coins for transactions with users at an automatic teller machine. The cash cassette includes an error information recording area for recording a type of error in the event of occurrence of the error, and a count information recording area for recording the number of bills or coins expected to be in the cash cassette. Based on the information acquired from the error information recording area, the management apparatus determines whether a predetermined type of error has occurred. When determining that such a type of error has occurred, the management apparatus outputs an instruction to management staff to count the number of bills or coins in the cash cassette, or when determining that such a type of error has not occurred, it outputs information from the count information recording area.

A printer including a printing head for performing printing while moving over a printing medium, a gap roller capable of rolling along a direction of moving of the printing head, and a platen bar placed so as to face the printing head and the gap roller. The printer further includes a controller for controlling a pressing force of the platen bar applied to the gap roller according to a printing end position of the printing head on the printing medium.

Printer and method of controlling the same

The present invention provides a printer system responsive to the request of an operator for performing specified control on a specified portion of a medium during a print operation. Such control minimizes the labor required by an operator to change the set-up condition of the printer when different print media is used. Print operations having modified print attributes for specified areas are set-up for each type of media in advance and stored in a storage device of a printer or a host processor for controlling the printer, such as a personal computer or a server. When a medium is inserted into the printer, medium identifying information, such as a bar coded form number or the size of the medium is used to determine which record stored in the storage device corresponds to the selected medium. The controlled print operation, such as a high print pressure printing, a high quality printing, a change or modification of line/column space, or a modification of font, is made in the area specified by the position data.

Method, apparatus, and program for printing using modified print attributes

In the present invention, the platen bar is compositely formed of three materials. For a sole layer, a material is used which has high hardness and strength, and has a property that the repulsion against the impact of the print wires is large. For an elastic layer, a material is used which transmits less vibration to the platen base in the print operation and absorbs the impact when the wires of a printhead strike the sole layer. For platen bases, a material is used which has a very high hardness, a high molding precision, and less dimensional change due to temperature change or change with time. The elastic layer is exposed on the surface and a gap roller is positioned at the exposure location. With this, the occurrence of the dent by the gap roller can be prevented when the printing on a copy form is performed.

Platen and printer

There is provided a paper feed roller capable of being used for delivering and feeding paper, which is high in coefficient of friction, has sufficient hardwearing properties with the coefficient of friction not affected by the change in environment of temperature and humidity, is low in ink transferability and is small in change in passage of year of the coefficient of friction of the surface. A coating layer 5 formed of an elastic material such as rubber is formed on an surface of a core material 4 molded of a foamed material such as sponge, and a bonding agent 6 having an elasticity such as denatured silicon is coated on the surface of the coating layer 5 so that ceramic particles 7 are fixed without clearance to provide a paper feed roller 1. Alternatively, the bonding agent 6 is directly coated on the surface of the core material 4 molded of a pliable material such as soft rubber and sponge so that the ceramic particles 7 are fixed without clearance to provide the paper feed roller 9.

Paper feed roller

A paper feed roller for delivering and feeding paper, which has a high coefficient of friction that is not affected by changes in temperature or humidity, good hardwearing properties, and is low in ink transferability. The paper feed roller includes a coating layer formed of an elastic material such as rubber which is formed on a surface of a core material molded of a foamed material such as sponge. A bonding agent having an elasticity such as denatured silicon is coated on the surface of the coating layer. Ceramic particles are embedded and fixed in the bonding agent In an alternative embodiment the bonding agent is directly coated on the surface of core material which is molded from a pliable material such as soft rubber and sponge.

A head wire for use in a high-speed impact dot matrix printer head, having an elongated body, made of a high speed steel wire material or titanium alloy wire material. One end of the body is connectable to an armature of the printed head and a second end on an ink ribbon for printing characters on a paper material. The second end has a coating formed around its periphery and consists of a ceramic hard titanium compound or an aluminum oxide.

Head wire and manufacturing process thereof

A circulation-type bill deposit and dispensing apparatus, is provided with a shift mechanism which moves the bills to a predetermined position to the left or right side with respect to their feed direction so as to eliminate dispersion of bills in the lateral direction. Thus errors in discrimination of truth or falsehood or in discrimination of denominations and feed jams are prevented. An inverse shifting mechanism is also provided for moving bills to the opposite side from the initial shift (with respect to the feed direction) by a predetermined amount.

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Fujisawa, Japan

Tsutomu Sawa