Abstract: The present subject matter provides colored wear tiles for use in optical sorting apparatuses and related methods that separate an associated material into a desired product and an undesired product. The colored wear tiles have a color and/or lightness value that permeates the entire body of the wear tile and sufficiently differs from the color and/or lightness of the associated material in order to allow the colored wear tile, or portions or pieces thereof, that may mix with the associated material, to be separated from the desired product by the sorting apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of reducing the output speed of a transmission in a vehicle, whereby the transmission includes a speed sensor and a controller and the vehicle includes a proximity sensor. The method includes measuring the output speed with the speed sensor and comparing the measured output speed to an output speed threshold. The controller receives throttle percentage and compares the throttle percentage to a throttle threshold. The method further includes receiving an input signal from the proximity sensor and comparing the input signal to a signal threshold. The output speed of the transmission can be controlled based on the values of the measured output speed, throttle percentage, and input signal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for sorting coins, the diameter and thickness of which are within predefined size ranges.

Abstract: Methods, techniques, and systems for the live presentation of products and services to potential consumers in a manner that levels the playing field for suppliers/providers of different sizes, capabilities and with differing resources are provided. Examples provide a Dynamic Product Presentation System (“DPPS”), which enables suppliers and/or vendors to advertise and place new or replacement products before consumers according in a new commerce stream and enables potential consumers to interact on a personalized level with products including goods and/or services that may interest them before they buy them, to engage specialized services, return or exchange goods or other things, be presented with products and/or services that are automatically targeted to their buying habits and predicted needs, etc., all in the comfort of their own residence or location without the inconveniences of traditional shopping models or online environments.

Abstract: The present subject matter provides colored wear tiles for use in optical sorting apparatuses and related methods that separate an associated material into a desired product and an undesired product. The colored wear tiles have a color and/or lightness value that permeates the entire body of the wear tile and sufficiently differs from the color and/or lightness of the associated material in order to allow the colored wear tile, or portions or pieces thereof, that may mix with the associated material, to be separated from the desired product by the sorting apparatus.

Abstract: A device has a deposit, a sell, and an audit mode of operation to monitor and reconcile bills. The device includes a memory storing records, an input receptacle to receive bills, an image scanner to image bills, a transportation mechanism to transport bills, and one or more processors. In the deposit mode, the one or more processors extract serial numbers and generate records. Each record includes a physical bill location field to indicate the location that the bill is expected to be physically located. In the sell mode, the one or more processors update the physical bill location fields to indicate that the expected physical bill location is a second location. In the audit mode, the one or more processors determine if each record corresponds with an audit record and generate an indication that the teller drawer is balanced responsive to a determination that each audit record corresponds with a respective record and a determination that each record corresponds with an audit record.

Abstract: In order to prevent the paper sheets from being wound around the winding roller, unevenly, in substantially the same position, the paper-sheet storing/feeding machine includes at least one tape, a winding roller, to which one end of the tape is attached, and which is configured to wind and rewind the paper sheets together with the tape, a reel, to which the other end of the tape is attached, and which is configured to wind and rewind the tape relative to the winding roller, a driving source configured to rotate the winding roller, a sensor configured to detect each paper sheet transported thereto, and, a control unit configured to implement a control, each time the transported paper sheet is detected, in which the driving source is controlled to decelerate the winding roller after accelerating the winding roller in a winding direction with the detection of the transported paper sheet by the sensor, and configured to control the driving source, in order to change the length of the tape used for storing one pap

Abstract: A method of validating a media item, comprising: for each of a plurality of sensors that sense a media item, determining a respective validation score indicating a likelihood that the sensed media item is valid; and determining if the media item is valid responsive to the plurality of validation scores. Apparatus for validating a media item and a document processing module are also provided.

Abstract: A banknote deposit apparatus includes: a storing box 70 configured to receive the banknote stacked in a stacking unit 60 so as to store the banknote; and a clamping and transporting mechanism 10 configured to clamp surfaces of the banknote stacked in the stacking unit 60 and to transport the banknote to a direction parallel to the surfaces of the clamped banknote so as to store the banknote in the storing box. A front opening 61 through which the stacked banknote is taken out from outside, and a front shutter unit 62 configured to open and close the front opening are disposed on a front surface of the stacking unit 60.

Abstract: System and method for traffic mapping service are disclosed for allowing plurality of users having each a navigation device to transmit their locations to a server and optionally to signal to the server their requested destination. The system and method are further capable of calculating traffic parameters such as current traffic speed at a given road based on the momentary locations of the users. The system and method of the invention may also calculate and advise the users of preferred roads to take in order to arrive at the requested location with minimum delay.

Abstract: A media transport module comprising: a transport extending from a pick coupling area to a stacking port; and a retractable guide. The retractable guide is moveable to extend beyond the stacking port when media items are being stacked and thereby guide media items ejected from the stacking port onto a carriage plate. The retractable guide is also moveable to retract to the stacking port when media items have been stacked so that the carriage plate can close without touching the retractable guide.

Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic transaction apparatus comprising an upper unit and a lower unit, wherein a means is provided for reducing the cost of manufacturing the upper unit. An automatic transaction apparatus comprises: an upper unit (2a) provided with a bill deposit/withdrawal part (3) and a sorting part (4); and a lower unit (2b) comprising denomination-specific cassettes (13) and a reject storage part (15). The automatic transaction apparatus is provided with: an upper conveyance path (7) which conveys bills to the parts in the upper unit (2a); and a lower conveyance path (10) which is connected to the upper conveyance path (7) and is disposed in the lower unit (2b), and which branches midway and conveys bills to the denomination-specific cassettes (13) or the reject storage part (15).

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus for receiving and dispensing bills and a method for receiving and dispensing bills using the apparatus. The apparatus includes: a bill receiving or dispensing port which is provided in an ATM to receive or dispense bills; a carriage unit which clamps the bills received into the port or clamps the bills to be dispensed and transfers the bills to the port; a separation and piling unit which has a separation space in which the received bills wait for being separated individually from each other sheet-by-sheet, and a piling space in which the bills to be dispensed are piled; a carriage transfer unit which moves the carriage unit along a trajectory between the bill receiving or dispensing port and the separation and piling unit; and a controller which controls operation of the carriage unit, the separation and piling unit and the carriage transfer unit.

Abstract: Receipting and dispensing module (32-1) for equipments of automatic deposit and withdrawal of banknotes including a banknote seat (234) for storing banknotes (32) with arrangement in superimposition and subdivision in two banknote stacks (238f and 238r) and a couple of insertion and extraction devices (241f and 241r) for the insertion and the extraction of the banknotes. The banknote seat (234) is usable by each banknote stack and the insertion and extraction devices are arranged at the ends of the banknote seat. The module (32-i) comprises an input-output passage (82) and a diverting member (246) controllable for causing the banknotes to transit between the input-output passage (82) and one or the other insertion and extraction device. Guiding and moving elements (247) are provided for guiding and moving the banknotes between the diverting member (246) and one (241r) of the insertion and extraction devices (241f and 241r).

Abstract: The invention relates to a restaurant system (2), comprising a) at least one working area (3) for cooking and/or preparing meals and/or beverages, b) at least one customer area (4), in particular with one or more tables (5) for restaurant customers, c) working area (3) and customer area (4) being connected via a transport system (6) for meals and/or beverages, d) the transport system (6) being designed to transport meals and/or beverages from the working area (3) to the customer area (4), and e) the transport of meals and/or beverages from the working area (3) to the customer area (4) via the transport system (6) taking place, at least in some sections, by means of gravity.

Abstract: A coin deposit and summation device having a coin denomination identification mechanism and a coin denomination summation mechanism. The device determines different mechanical movement paths according to different diameters of different coin denominations, with each mechanical movement path resulting in a mechanical trigger corresponding to the identified coin denomination; each resulting mechanical trigger drives a mechanical counter wheel to perform denomination summation once according to the identified coin denomination. The device can be designed to achieve denomination identification and summation of 0.5, 0.25 and 0.2 dollar coins.

Abstract: A media cassette loader is described. The media cassette loader comprises a base; a media loading surface inclined at an angle to the base; and an end wall upstanding from a lower end of the media loading surface. The end wall supports media items stacked on the media loading surface. The media loading surface and the end wall are dimensioned to be accommodated within a media cassette body. This allows the media cassette body to be placed over the media loading surface when stacked with media items so that the cassette body surrounds the stacked media items.

Abstract: A device and method for preventing fraudulent withdrawal of a bill from a bill acceptor after credit has been given. The device includes a cash box, a punch plate and a security device. The security device includes at least one bill-cutting edge and at least one string-cutting surface. A method uses a security device to cut a bill when a fraudulent withdrawal of the bill is attempted.

Abstract: A power transmission device for a vehicle equipped with a wet multiple disk clutch for disconnecting the power at the time of gearshift by using a clutch controller, wherein the amount of engagement where the clutch is half-engaged is learned maintaining precision. In the present invention, the clutch controller of the wet multiple disk clutch moves a clutch piston over the whole stroke thereof by using the working fluid for varying the amount of engagement at the start of learning the amount of engagement at a point where the clutch starts half-engaging and, immediately thereafter, the amount the clutch is half-engaged is detected. Upon moving the clutch piston, the working fluid present among the friction disks of the wet multiple disk clutch is drained and is replaced by the new working fluid avoiding detection error caused by the fluctuation in the temperature of the working fluid and eliminating unstable operation of the clutch piston caused by static friction of a large resistance.

Abstract: The complexity of a task is reduced when a user processes a valuable medium, such as sales proceeds, of a plurality of days, on a sales day basis, all at once at a later date. A valuable-medium processing apparatus includes a valuable-medium processing unit that processes a valuable medium, a storage unit that stores therein information on the valuable medium processing, a display unit that displays the information on the valuable medium processing, an input unit for inputting the information on the valuable medium processing, a display control unit that causes the display unit to display information on a no-processing day when the valuable medium was not processed by the valuable-medium processing unit, and a control unit that causes the valuable-medium processing unit to process the valuable medium on a specific no-processing day when the specific no-processing day displayed on the display unit was inputted by using the input unit.