Abstract: At an acceptance terminal 10, a desired self-governing community and standard input items 80 necessary for certificate issuance application are entered by using a touch panel display 11 or by inserting a resident registration card into a card read section 12. The entered information is transmitted from the acceptance terminal 10 to a terminal operations center 40. An acceptance terminal operations server 41 of the terminal operations center 40 acquires format information concerning an application form for certificate issuance used in the self-governing community entered as stated above from a format management database 42 on the basis of the entered information, and prepares an application form for certificate issuance used in the above-described self-governing community by using the standard input items 80 on the basis of the acquired format information.

Abstract: A disk recorder/player (1) including a skew adjusting means of a thin design is provided which includes a base (101), a disk rotation driving mechanism (102) for an optical disk (4), an optical pickup (103), first and second guide shafts (105, 106) to support the optical pickup (103) at opposite ends of the latter, an optical pickup moving means (104) guided by the first and second guide shafts (105, 106) in moving the optical pickup (103) radially of the optical disk (4), an elastic member (126) put in contact with the first and second guide shafts (105, 106) to force the first and second guide shafts (105, 106) in a direction generally perpendicular to the main side of the optical disk (4), an adjusting screw (127) put into contact with the first and second guide shafts (105, 106) from the opposite side of the elastic member (126) to move the first and second guide shafts (105, 106) in a direction opposite to the direction of forcing by the elastic member (126), and a skew adjusting means (109) which adjust

Abstract: A change management system and method or the like are provided which are capable of permitting purchasers to easily perform the management of changes by effectively utilizing the change for investments, thereby improving the benefits of the purchasers as well as activating purchase dealings. In the change management method for managing changes through investments by using a computer and a network, data on the changes and persons who should receive the changes is registered as change data. When an investment server 14 receives information on investments to be made from an ATM terminal 2 or the like, access is made to investment-related management enterprise side systems 8-12 based on this information, so that prescribed investment processing is carried out by the investment-related management enterprise side systems 8-12 while using electronic data.

Abstract: A change management system including a change information input section for inputting change information about an amount of change as the balance of a payment, a change summing section for summing the individual amounts of change, a judgment section for discriminating whether or not the total amount of change reaches a predetermined amount, a notifying section for, if the result of the discrimination is positive, notifying the individual customer of such positive result; and a transfer transaction section for performing a transfer transaction of at least part of the total amount to an account of the customer. The change management system enables easy management of change as the balances of payments for transaction. Customers also use accumulated change transferred to their account with ease and are attracted in purchasing commodities or receiving service in stores with cash dispensers accustomed to the change management system.

Abstract: A service providing system includes an automated transaction machine (ATM), installed in a nonbank location of a fee recipient entity under a payment-by-results contract with a service provider, a history information obtaining unit for obtaining electronic history information of the ATM, and an ATM placement fee determination unit, operatively connected with the history information obtaining unit, for determining an ATM placement fee, which is to be paid to the fee recipient entity, based on the electronic history information obtained in the history information obtaining unit. In the service providing system, an ATM placement fee is fairly determined based on contribution to the service provider, such as the number of transactions performed on the individual ATM, and the fee recipient entity keenly tries to keep the ATM in proper condition for service.

Abstract: A cash dispensing system including a cash dispenser for dispensing cash to clients of the financial institution on their respective requests after the cash dispenser is loaded with cash, which currently belongs to the manager, as prospective permit-to-pay cash; and an account managing section for managing client's accounts and a manager's account of the financial institution; the account managing section being operable to record a credit, of the same amount as an amount of cash to be dispensed to the last-named individual client by the cash dispenser, to the manager's account of the financial institution. The cash dispensing system allows the manager of a retail store to deal with a problem arose during dispensing the prospective permit-to-pay cash without requesting the financial institution or a handling agent. It is possible to prevent a large amount of cash from being left in the retail store thereby enhancing the security.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an automatic cash transaction apparatus having a main body and an additional unit. On the basis of instruction information from the user, an apparatus main body executes processes regarding a cash transaction while communicating with a high-order apparatus. An input/output apparatus having a telephone is provided as an additional unit for the apparatus main body. The input/output apparatus synthesizes audio data on the basis of an instruction from the apparatus main body and outputs an audio message signal to a telephone. The user operates dial buttons of the telephone in accordance with the audio message. Since the telephone has the same dial button arrangement as that of the telephone which is daily used, even a visually handicapped person can easily execute a necessary inputting operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for analyzing blood samples by detecting particle agglutination patterns formed on inclined bottom surfaces of reaction vessels formed in a microplate includes a diluted sample preparing section for delivering given amounts of blood cells and serum contained in a sample tube into diluting vessels mounted on a sample plate secured on a rotating endless belt and for discharging predetermined amount of a diluent into the diluting vessels to form diluted blood cell and serum samples, a diluted sample delivering section for delivering given amounts of the diluted blood cell and serum samples contained in the diluting vessels into an array of reaction vessels of the microplate in a selective manner according to test-items to be analyzed and a reagent delivering section for discharging given reagents into the reaction vessels.

Abstract: A method of measuring an amount of total protein TP.sub.i of a test sample from an electrophoretic image of the test sample including a step of forming an electrophoretic image of a standard sample having a known amount of total protein TP.sub.1, a step of integrating absorbance values of the electrophoretic image of the standard sample to derive an integrated value of concentration D.sub.1 of the electrophoretic image, a step of integrating absorption values of the electrophoretic image of the test sample to derive an integration value of concentration D.sub.i of the electrophoretic image of the test sample, and a step of deriving the amount of total protein TP.sub.i of the test sample in accordance with an equation of ##EQU1## .

Abstract: In a method of printing on a test report a pattern of fraction images of various kinds of proteins contained in a serum sample, an electrophoretic signal obtained by photoelectrically scanning a substrate bearing electrophoretic images is sampled to derive a number of digital samples, a reference digital sample having a maximum amplitude and denoting a peak point of albumin component is detected, a predetermined number of digital samples are extracted on the basis of the reference digital sample having the maximum amplitude, an electrophoretic image pattern is printed on a test report by using the extracted digital samples such that the reference digital sample is recorded at a predetermined point on the test report.

Abstract: An electronic translator is featured in which a particular sentence, phrase or idiom is accessed from a memory utilizing at least two key words. The key words are contained with the particular sentence, phrase or idiom. The translator is adapted to identify that a sentence, phrase or idiom stored in the translator contains one of the key words each time one of the key words is inputted.

Abstract: An interface circuit for an information processing device comprises a plurality of buffer circuits each formed of a plurality of C-MOS tri-state buffers. The buffers are provided for communicating between the devices and an interface line which includes a power supply line and a signal line. Each buffer is powered from its specific power source and if this specific power source is inoperative, from the remaining power sources other than its specific power source.