Abstract: An information processing system includes: illicit behavior detection circuitry configured to detect illicit behavior by a customer regarding purchase of items at a store; determination circuitry configured to determine whether the amount of illicit behavior by the customer detected by the illicit behavior detection circuitry satisfies a predetermined criterion; and first output circuitry configured to, in response to the determination circuitry determining that the amount of illicit behavior by the customer satisfies the criterion, output a first alert to an in-store terminal, the first alert indicating occurrence of the illicit behavior.

Abstract: The present invention provides a currency processing device including: an operation part that accepts operations performed by a user; an operation mode switching part that switches between a manned mode in which a store clerk is allowed to perform settlement processing, and a self-mode in which a customer is allowed to perform settlement processing; and an operation control part that performs control so that operations are accepted in the operation part in the manned mode, and operations are not accepted in the operation part in the self-mode.

Abstract: An interconnection sheet is arranged which is separate to a rear stop. At least one second securement hole in at least one of left and right waterproof tapes is not covered by the interconnection sheet, and a rear stop is arranged to fill the at least one second securement hole.

Abstract: A disk reproducing apparatus includes a disk detecting lever that has a switch abutting section and a light intercepting section and rotates according to the loading operation and the ejecting operation of a disk caused by abutment of the outer edge of the disk against a detecting pin; a single switch that is switched by the switch abutting section and thereby detects the loading start position, and also the inserting position of the disk; and a single photosensor that detects the inserting position of the disk with keeping the light intercepting condition thereof by either the light intercepting section or the disk and also detects the ejection end position when the light intercepting condition brought about by the disk has been released and then the light intercepting condition brought about by the light intercepting section is released.

Abstract: A lever having an end rotatably supported by a rack is disposed, a long groove is formed in either another end of the lever or a base chassis and extends in a direction approximately perpendicular to a direction of transporting an optical pickup, a fulcrum member is disposed in either the base chassis or the other end and is rotatably and slidably engaged with the long groove, and to slide along the long groove when the optical pickup is transported, and a spring that always exerts a pushing force in a direction of rotating the lever with the other end being a fulcrum and with the end being a point of action to exert a pushing force of bringing the rack into contact a gear series upon the rack is disposed between a predetermined position of the base chassis and an intermediate position of the lever.

Abstract: A lever having an end rotatably supported by a rack is disposed, a long groove is formed in either another end of the lever or a base chassis and extends in a direction approximately perpendicular to a direction of transporting an optical pickup, a fulcrum member is disposed in either the base chassis or the other end and is rotatably and slidably engaged with the long groove, and to slide along the long groove when the optical pickup is transported, and a spring that always exerts a pushing force in a direction of rotating the lever with the other end being a fulcrum and with the end being a point of action to exert a pushing force of bringing the rack into contact a gear series upon the rack is disposed between a predetermined position of the base chassis and an intermediate position of the lever.

Abstract: A disc device includes a conveying roller and a disc guide which are disposed in such a way as to be able to move upwardly and downwardly with respect to a main unit thereof, and a moving unit for downwardly moving said conveying roller and said disc guide by different amounts of travel respectively in synchronization with a downward movement of an inserted disc and placement of the disc on a turntable.

Abstract: A disk reproducing apparatus includes a disk detecting lever that has a switch abutting section and a light intercepting section and rotates according to the loading operation and the ejecting operation of a disk caused by abutment of the outer edge of the disk against a detecting pin; a single switch that is switched by the switch abutting section and thereby detects the loading start position, and also the inserting position of the disk; and a single photosensor that detects the inserting position of the disk with keeping the light intercepting condition thereof by either the light intercepting section or the disk and also detects the ejection end position when the light intercepting condition brought about by the disk has been released and then the light intercepting condition brought about by the light intercepting section is released.

Abstract: To be provided are a heat treatment apparatus having blocking members which block gaps between the side walls of nozzle boxes provided with slit nozzles, whose size in the lengthwise direction is greater than the width of a sheet, and the side walls of a heat treatment chamber, and gas having a uniform velocity fluctuating no more than ±25% in the lengthwise direction of the slit nozzles is blown out of the slit nozzles to subject the sheet to heat treatment, resulting in little unevenness of temperature in the widthwise direction and reduced energy loss, and a heat treatment method using this heat treatment apparatus.

Abstract: To be provided are a heat treatment apparatus having blocking members which block gaps between the side walls of nozzle boxes provided with slit nozzles, whose size in the lengthwise direction is greater than the width of a sheet, and the side walls of a heat treatment chamber, and gas having a uniform velocity fluctuating no more than ±25% in the lengthwise direction of the slit nozzles is blown out of the slit nozzles to subject the sheet to heat treatment, resulting in little unevenness of temperature in the widthwise direction and reduced energy loss, and a heat treatment method using this heat treatment apparatus.

Abstract: Disclosed are a belt type continuous plate manufacturing apparatus including two endless belts 11, 11? with their facing belt surfaces running toward the same direction at the same speed, and a gasket 7 sandwiched by belt surfaces at their both side edge portions, in which a polymerizable raw material is fed into a space surrounded by the facing belt surfaces and the gasket from its one end, and solidified together with running of the belts in a heating zone, and a plate polymer is taken out from the other end, wherein a plurality of upper and lower roll pairs 4, 4? each composed of an upper roll 4 and a lower roll 4? and having axes orthogonally grossing the belt running direction are placed along the belt running direction as a mechanism of holding the belt surfaces of the endless belts 1, 1? in the heating zone, and the outer diameter D of the roll body portion of the upper and lower roll pair is in the range of 100 mm to 500 mm; and a method of producing a plate polymer using this apparatus.

Abstract: The wire handling apparatus of the present invention comprises a length measuring unit, a first clamp mechanism and a second clamp mechanism, a cutter mechanism, a first terminal pressing mechanism and a second terminal pressing mechanism, a first carrier mechanism and a second carrier mechanism, and a wire discharge mechanism, and synchronous moving means for upwardly/downwardly moving a receiving clamp part of the wire discharge mechanism in synchronization with upward/downward movement of a clamp part of the said second clamp mechanism in a terminal pressing operation of the said second terminal pressing mechanism is provided while the position of the said receiving clamp part is coincided with the position of a coated wire so that grasping of the coated wire by the receiving clamp part is enabled in the terminal pressing operation of the second terminal pressing mechanism.