Abstract: An apparatus and a method for singling value documents involve a feeding device adapted to feed a respectively uppermost value document of a stack of value documents to a picking device adapted to pick the value document from the stack. A conveying device is adapted to receive the stack and to convey it relative to the feeding device. A distance sensor is adapted to detect at least one distance of the respectively uppermost value document of the stack received by the conveying device relative to the feeding device and generate at least one corresponding distance sensor signal. A control device is adapted to control the conveying of the stack relative to the feeding device and the location of the feeding device relative to the stack based on the distance sensor signal.

Abstract: An injection moulding apparatus including at least a first mould plate, the first mould plate having a first injection inlet arranged in fluid connection with a first gate leading into a mould cavity and a second injection inlet arranged in fluid connection with a second gate leading into the mould cavity. The first and second injection inlets are arranged to open in sequence. The second gate includes a first gate volume leading into the mould cavity. The second gate is further provided with a second gate volume allowing injection material to flow into the second gate volume at the same time as into the first gate volume and thereafter into the mould cavity.

Abstract: A sheet supply device includes a cassette, a housing, a first roller, and a first rib. The cassette is capable of accommodating a sheet. The housing movably supports the cassette in a first direction. The first roller is supported by the housing. The first roller is rotatable about a rotation axis parallel to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first roller includes a pair of flanges spaced apart from each other in the second direction. The first rib protrudes downward from the cassette. The first rib has a lower end surface in contact with the first roller between the pair of flanges. The first rib extends in the first direction. The first rib has a first width of a first portion in the second direction wider than a second width of a second portion in the second direction. The first portion is disposed between the pair of flanges in a state where the cassette is accommodated in the housing.

Abstract: The present disclosure extends to apparatuses, methods, and systems for freezing a liquid suitable for use by a frozen confection machine. The apparatuses, methods, and systems include a two-piece form suitable for producing a dense ice structure.

Abstract: A system for regulating a pump down operation may include a controller, a motor drive, a parameter estimation unit and a controller design unit. In examples, the controller may be configured to identify a difference between a downhole tension set-point to an actual downhole tension. The motor drive may be configured to adjust a line speed set point of the motor drive based at least in part on the difference from the controller to create an actual line speed from the motor drive to follow the downhole tension set-point. The parameter estimation unit may be configured to produce a fluid drag coefficient, a friction coefficient, and a line speed delay constant. The controller design unit may be configured to send one or more control gains to the controller based at least in part on the fluid drag coefficient, the friction coefficient, and the line speed delay constant.

Abstract: A sheet handling device includes: a first storage; a second storage using a storage method different form that of the first storage; a transporter that transports a sheet; and a controller that controls the transporter to transport the sheet. When the second storage is neither a transport source of the sheet nor a transport destination of the sheet, the controller controls the transporter to transport the sheet at a first speed. When the second storage is at least the transport source of the sheet or the transport destination of the sheet, the controller controls the transporter to transport the sheet at a second speed lower than the first speed.

Abstract: Provided is a mold core structure, which is arranged on a mold.

Abstract: A card transport unit transports a card ejected one-by-one from a card housing section to a card processing section, and includes: a carriage that is moved in a carriage transport path provided between the card housing section and the card processing section; a contactless card reader that includes a contactless communication antenna making contactless communication with the card; and a support member that holds the contactless communication antenna at a position opposing the carriage transport path. The carriage includes a card transport mechanism that transports the card in a card transport direction intersecting a movement direction of the carriage, and the card transport mechanism includes a motor. The motor is arranged on an opposite side of the card, which is transported by the card transport mechanism, from the contactless communication antenna.

Abstract: An image recording device having a recording unit to record an image on a sheet is provided. The image recording unit includes a feed guide defining a first conveying path; an arm disposed between the recording unit and the tray, the arm having a feed roller rotatably disposed at a free end and configured to feed the sheet in the tray to the first conveying path. The arm pivots between a first arm position, and a second arm position. The return guide pivots between a first return guide position, and a second return guide position. A space occupied by the return guide in the first return guide position overlaps a space occupied by the arm in the second arm position. The return guide is in the second return guide position when the arm is in the second arm position which is retracted from an insertion space occupied by the tray.

Abstract: A separation device (1) intended to separate a profiled element (2) from a conveying surface (3) which conveys the profiled element (2) in a longitudinal direction (L0) comprises a detachment roller (10) which is mounted so as to be able to rotate on a support (11) about a detachment axis (X10), and which is intended to be interposed, in an engagement configuration (C1), between the profiled element (2) and the conveying surface (3) to cause the profiled element (2) to become detached from the conveying surface (3).

Abstract: Systems and methods for reusable molding devices in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a reusable molding device is provided comprising: an array comprising a plurality of pixel pins, which are arranged to form a two-dimensional plane and which are each linearly movable to create an impression of a surface of an object, a first pixel guide plate, a second pixel guide plate, a first clamp pressure plate, a second clamp pressure plate, a first clamp screw, wherein the first clamp screw moves the first clamp pressure plate towards the first side of the array, a second clamp screw which moves the second clamp pressure plate towards the second side of the array, a pressure clamp frame enclosing the first and second pixel guide plates and the first and second clamp pressure plates, and a top pressure plate, which includes an injection entrance bore.

Abstract: A medium processing device includes a depositing/dispensing unit that has a feeding unit into which media are fed and a shutter opening/closing the feeding unit and a foreign material storage unit that is disposed on a side opposite to the feeding unit with a gap formed in the depositing/dispensing unit interposed therebetween and stores foreign materials that have entered from the gap.