Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Yoshinori Koshida

Hiroshi Kikuchi

Takashi Itaya

Jiro Tanuma

Isao Miyake

Shusaku Tanabe

Minoru Isobe

Yukio Ota

Shyoichi Watanabe

Masaaki Iwamoto

Koki Sugawara

Yasuo Okazaki

Nobuhiro Motoi

Satoshi Murakami

Tohru Mori

Takahiro Oda

Naohiro Yamada

Shin-ichi Suto

Kemmi Ayukai

Seiji Yoshizawa

Satoshi Hamasaki

Sinichi Suto

Katunori Yuasa

Mitsuru Nakaya

Akihisa Tashiro

Card, bonding jig, and card reader-writer

Transaction processing system and transaction processing method

A thermal recording apparatus includes an apparatus unit having a carrier path in which a thermal recording media is carried. A heat member is provided on the carrier path in the apparatus unit for applying heat energy onto the thermal recording media. A control portion is provided for selectively applying a high level driving energy and a low level driving energy to the heat member. When a record on the thermal recording media is erased, the control portion applies the high level driving energy to the heat member, and then applies the low level driving energy to the heat member. When the record is printed onto the thermal recording media, the high level driving energy is applied to the heat member.

Thermal recording apparatus and erasing method of a record therefor

Combination cash-handling machine and banknote dispensing cassette

Banknote dispensing cassette used for a cash-handling machine

An apparatus for handling strips of paper removably incorporated in paper strip handling equipment. The apparatus has a box having a window for handling strips of paper, a shutter section for opening and closing the window, a drum section having therein a pooling section for temporarily accommodating strips of paper, and an anti-intrusion portion provided on either one of opposite edges of the shutter section with respect to the opening and closing direction of the shutter for preventing a strip of paper, trash or similar alien substance from being inserted in the apparatus through a clearance formed between the box and the shutter section.

Apparatus for handling strips of paper

An optical sensor unit for detecting a predetermined object to be detected comprises an optical element, a connector for connection to a wiring cable of an external equipment, and a printed circuit board having a predetermined printed wiring thereon for connecting the optical element to the connector while the optical element is completely sealed by the printed circuit board at the lower end thereof and by the case at the upper portion and sides thereof whereby reduction of quantity of the light emitted from the optical element due to collection of dust can be prevented and whereby the attachment and detachment operations of the optical sensor unit can be effected with ease.

Optical sensor unit with sealed optical element and cable connector

In an apparatus for processing embossed characters on an embossed card, a sensing head has sensing wires extending generally parallel with each other in a first direction, the tips of the sensing wires disposed at different positions along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The sensing wires are repeatedly actuated toward their tips. Advancement of each sensing wire exceeding a predetermined distance is detected and electrical signals indicating the results of detection are produced. The embossed card is moved relative to the sensing head in a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, with the surface of the embossed card held parallel with the second and third directions, and close to the tips of the sensing wires. The sensing wire is repeatedly actuated toward the embossed card so that the tip of each sensing wire hits or does not hit the surface of the embossed card before exceeding the predetermined distance depending on whether or not the sensing wire is confronting an embossment or not.

Apparatus for processing embossed cards

A cash dispenser operated by a customer to feed bills out of a safe, then stack the bills in a temporary-stacking section, and presents the bills together with a slip which is printed with particulars of an account to the customer. The temporary-stacking section includes a first stage for stacking the bills and a second stage located above the first stage for receiving the slip. The printed slip is transferred to the second stage from one side of and at an angle of substantially 90 degrees relative to the second stage by a transferring section. A bundle transporting section includes lower transport belts interposed between a bill outlet of the dispenser and the temporary-stacking section, and upper transport belts movable in a rotational motion relative to the lower transport belts. The bills and slip are piled up on the temporary-stacking section and then driven toward the bill outlet of the dispenser by the upper and lower transport belts. The slip is fed from a printing unit directly onto the top of bills which are piled up in a horizontal position in the same manner as during the transfer.

Cash dispenser of the type transporting a slip and bills together

A cash dispenser for dispensing bills in response to a customer's operation includes a bill outlet for presenting bills to a customer, and a safe removably mounted on the cash dispenser and loaded with bills to be dispensed. Feeding and transporting paths feed bills from the safe and transport them to the bill outlet. The safe includes a single casing in which a plurality of storing sections are defined. The storing sections are disposed at substantially the same level as each other and store bills individually. The feeding and transporting paths include a plurality of feeding devices each being associated with a respective one of the storing sections for feeding the bills one by one from the storing sections. The feeding and transporting paths further include transport belts for transporting the bills fed outo the bill outlet and a sensor for sensing the conditions of bills.

Cash dispenser with manifold safe

A rotary actuator includes a case, a shaft rotatably supported in the case, a moving coil with conductors extending radially from the shaft as a center, a support which supports the moving coil on the shaft, facing magnets set with facing unlike poles arranged alternately in the direction of motion of the moving coil on either side of it and generating a magnetic flux which crosses the moving coil conductors, a device for restricting rotation of the shaft such that the conductors of the moving coil do not move outside the magnetic flux generated by the magnet set, and a drive unit for sending electric current through the moving coil. The rotary actuator may further include an assisting device for assisting shaft rotation which includes moving magnets on the side edges of the support and fixed magnets installed in the case facing the moving magnets, either the moving or fixed magnets being electromagnets.

Rotary actuator

A method and apparatus for processing an embossed card on which embossed characters are formed. The apparatus performing the method by optically reading embossed characters and producing corresponding electrical signals. The produced corresponding electrical signals are then compared with characteristic data of a predetermined set of characters. From this comparison, identification of the embossed characters is determined.

Method and apparatus for processing embossed card

A printer includes a first paper feed passage extending from the rear of a platen to a printing position through the lower part of the platen, and a second paper feed passage extending from substantially just under the printing position to the printing position. A first pinch roller is disposed on the way to the first paper feed passage for pressing a first paper against the platen. The first paper is fed by rotating the platen. A second pinch roller is disposed on the way to the second paper feed passage for pressing the second paper against the platen. Rotation of the platen causes the second paper to be fed. In addition, a paper insertion device includes a flat part for placing a paper thereon and a slit for converting the advance direction of a paper from horizontal to vertical. With the second paper placed on the flat part and inserted into the printer, the paper is directed upwardly by a curved surface defining the slit and is allowed to enter the second paper feed passage with ease for further advance.

Printer and paper insertion device suitable therefor

A printer comprises a first paper feed passage extending from the rear of a platen to a printing position through the lower part of the platen, and a second paper feed passage extending from substantially just under the printing position to the printing position. A first pinch roller is disposed on the way to the first paper feed passage for pressing a first paper against the platen. The first paper is fed by rotating the platen. A second pinch roller is disposed on the way to the second paper feed passage for pressing the second paper against the platen. Rotation of the platen here causes the second paper to be fed. In addition, a paper insertion device according to the present invention includes a flat part for placing a paper thereon and a slit for converting the advance direction of a paper from horizontal to vertical. With the second paper placed on the flat part and inserted into the printer, the paper is directed upward after the curved surface of the slit and allowed to enter the second paper feed passage with ease for further advance.

A face and back mechanism for coordinating the faces and backs of sheets has a rotating and moving device capable of holding sheets, a conveying passage feeding the sheets into the rotating and moving device, a stopper for stopping the sheets held by the rotating and moving device at a prescribed position, and an extracting and conveying-out device for extracting each of the stopped sheets from the rear end thereof and conveying it out. Any sheets to be reversed are reversed in a short period of time, and conveyed in the direction of a joint point of convergenge of the conveying passage and a bypassing passage.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshinori Koshida