Abstract: To provide a banknote handling apparatus (1) capable of reducing a waiting time of a customer, as compared with a case in which a general banknote replenishing operation is performed when a banknote to be dispensed falls short in a dispensing process. The banknote handling apparatus (1) includes a memory unit (32) configured to record the stored-number of banknotes stored in the banknote handling apparatus (1) by denomination.

Abstract: The present invention provides a banknote storing/feeding device 23 that can increase a storing amount of banknotes while the device is made compact as a whole. The banknote storing/feeding device includes a winding roller 38 that winds and unwinds banknotes together with a tape 37, and a reel 40 that winds and unwinds the tape 37 with respect to the winding roller 38. The banknote storing/feeding device includes a motor 55 including a motor main body 56 disposed inside the winding roller 38, and a first drive axis 58 and a second drive axis 59 projecting from a first end portion side and a second end portion side of the motor main body 56. The banknote storing/feeding device includes a transmission mechanism 70 that transmits a drive force from the second drive axis 59 of the motor 55 to the reel 40. A drive force from the first drive axis 58 of the motor 55 is transmitted to the winding roller 38 to rotate the winding roller 38.

Abstract: A drum rotating device enables a drum and a driving device mounted in the drum to be supported with a simple structure and which reduces the possibility that the driving shaft of the driving device may be offset with respect to the rotation axis of the drum. The drum rotation device includes the drum and the driving device arranged to drive and rotate the drum. The drum includes an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder arranged inside the outer cylinder coaxially therewith, and a support wall arranged to connect the outer and inner cylinders to each other at an approximately intermediate portion in the axial direction. The outer and inner cylinders are substantially cylindrical. The driving device is fixed to a frame at one axial end. The driving shaft of the driving device extends through the drum and is rotatably supported by the frame through a bearing at the other axial end.

Abstract: A banknote handling machine for handling banknotes including a windowed banknote that has a window capable of transmitting light formed at a predetermined position comprising: a transport path configured to transport a banknote; a window identification unit configured to judge whether the banknote being transported on the transport path is a windowed banknote; a transport path sensor, which is arranged in the transport path, configured to detect the banknote passing thereon; and a banknote presence/absence detection unit configured to judge a presence or an absence of the banknote associated with a detection signal from the transport path sensor. The banknote presence/absence detection unit performs a detection based on a detection result of the window identification unit.

Abstract: A banknote handling machine for handling banknotes including a windowed banknote that has a window capable of transmitting light formed at a predetermined position comprising: a transport path configured to transport a banknote; a window identification unit configured to judge whether the banknote being transported on the transport path is a windowed banknote; a transport path sensor, which is arranged in the transport path, configured to detect the banknote passing thereon; and a banknote presence/absence detection unit configured to judge a presence or an absence of the banknote associated with a detection signal from the transport path sensor. The banknote presence/absence detection unit performs a detection based on a detection result of the window identification unit.

Abstract: To provide a banknote handling apparatus (1) capable of reducing a waiting time of a customer, as compared with a case in which a general banknote replenishing operation is performed when a banknote to be dispensed falls short in a dispensing process. The banknote handling apparatus (1) includes a memory unit (32) configured to record the stored-number of banknotes stored in the banknote handling apparatus (1) by denomination.

Abstract: The present invention provides a banknote storing/feeding device 23 that can increase a storing amount of banknotes while the device is made compact as a whole. The banknote storing/feeding device includes a winding roller 38 that winds and unwinds banknotes together with a tape 37, and a reel 40 that winds and unwinds the tape 37 with respect to the winding roller 38. The banknote storing/feeding device includes a motor 55 including a motor main body 56 disposed inside the winding roller 38, and a first drive axis 58 and a second drive axis 59 projecting from a first end portion side and a second end portion side of the motor main body 56. The banknote storing/feeding device includes a transmission mechanism 70 that transmits a drive force from the second drive axis 59 of the motor 55 to the reel 40. A drive force from the first drive axis 58 of the motor 55 is transmitted to the winding roller 38 to rotate the winding roller 38.

Abstract: In addition to storing cassettes (16a) to (16f) that store banknotes that are dispensed when money is normally dispensed, a bait money storing portion (14) is provided that stores bait money serving as an emergency banknote to be dispensed in case of an emergency. When the bait money is requested to be dispensed in case of an emergency, the bait money is forcibly transported from the bait money storing portion (14) to a banknote outlet, with the result that the bait money is dispensed quickly.

Abstract: A drum rotating device enables a drum and a driving device mounted in the drum to be supported with a simple structure and which reduces the possibility that the driving shaft of the driving device may be offset with respect to the rotation axis of the drum. The drum rotation device includes the drum and the driving device arranged to drive and rotate the drum. The drum includes an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder arranged inside the outer cylinder coaxially therewith, and a support wall arranged to connect the outer and inner cylinders to each other at an approximately intermediate portion in the axial direction. The outer and inner cylinders are substantially cylindrical. The driving device is fixed to a frame at one axial end. The driving shaft of the driving device extends through the drum and is rotatably supported by the frame through a bearing at the other axial end.

Abstract: The CPU (31) of a banknote handling machine has a window identification portion (312) which judges whether a banknote is windowed; a presence/absence detection portion (316) which detects presence or absence of the banknote through transport path sensors (PSN); a front/rear end identification portion (317) which judges the passage of the front end portion and the rear end portion of the banknote at positions corresponding to the transport path sensors (PSN); an identification stop portion (315) which stops operation of identifying the passage of the rear end portion at a position corresponding to one of the transport path sensors (PSN) by the front/rear end identification portion (317), for a preset identification stop period (LS) from the time when the absence of the banknote is detected, in the case where the presence/absence detection portion (316) detects the absence of the banknote after the front/rear end identification portion (317) judged that the front end passed the position corresponding to one of

Abstract: In addition to storing cassettes (16a) to (16f) that store banknotes that are dispensed when money is normally dispensed, a bait money storing portion (14) is provided that stores bait money serving as an emergency banknote to be dispensed in case of an emergency. When the bait money is requested to be dispensed in case of an emergency, the bait money is forcibly transported from the bait money storing portion (14) to a banknote outlet, with the result that the bait money is dispensed quickly.

Abstract: A hot chamber die casting machine for casting aluminum and its alloys includes separated ceramic parts, namely a ceramic injection cylinder constituting a pump body, a ceramic outer sleeve, a ceramic injection pipe, and a metallic or thermet flange avoiding a large one piece ceramic body and stress concentrations at critical points. The outer sleeve holds the injection cylinder together with the injection pipe in the molten metal. The flange is fixed to a structure which is outside of and independent from a molten metal container and a heating furnace, thus temperature fluctuations do not affect this injection apparatus. The flange can also be fixed to the structure to which an injection hydraulic cylinder is secured in such a manner that the centers of the hydraulic cylinder, the plunger and the injection cylinder are aligned to perform a stable injection operation. A seal ring is disclosed between no-parallel conical cone shaped-fitting ends between the injection pipe and the injection cylinder.

Abstract: An injection apparatus for a hot-chamber die-cast machine including a cylindrical sleeve; a plunger body slidingly movably disposed in the sleeve and having a circumferential groove on an outer cylindrical surface and passages extending from a pressurizing face to the groove. Divided seal rings fit loosely in the groove of the plunger body in such a manner that the divided rings are urged radially outwardly by the pressure of the molten metal in the sleeve through the passages when the plunger body is moved. The divided rings satisfy the following conditions:t.sup.3 .ltoreq.4.5.times.10.sup.2 (mm).times.D.sup.2 .times.P/Ewhere t: thickness (mm) of the divided rings, E: Young's modulus (Pa) of the divided rings, D: inner diameter (mm) of the sleeve, and P: pressure (Pa) which should be exerted onto the molten metal when injected.

Abstract: A method of die casting using a plunger tip of a reciprocal plunger for forcibly injecting the molten metal supplied to the inner space of a sleeve into the mold cavity through a spool bush connected therebetween. The temperature of at least a portion of at least one of the plunger tip, the sleeve, and the spool bush is measured. Retracting of the plunger is commenced on the basis of the measured temperature after each shot of die casting. The measured temperatures of the plunger tip, the sleeve, and/or the spool bush is utilized for calculating the clearance at the peripheral surface of the plunger tip, and the retracting of the plunger is commenced at the time the clearance is calculated to reach a predetermined set value of clearance.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a profiled product having fins such as an impeller having vanes which cannot be formed directly by casting a preliminary product having fins of the desired shape, a concave filled out portion being provided at one side of the root of each fin along the length of each fin depending upon the required final shape of the fin, while a corresponding cut out portion is formed at the opposite side of the root of each fin at the position corresponding to the above filled out portion, and then applying a force to each fin so as to cause plastic deformation thereof at the position where the concave filled out and cut out portions are provided thereby permitting the location of the root of each fin to be displaced toward the side provided with the filled out portion by the amount corresponding to the variation in the amount of the filled out and cut out portions to form the required final shape of each fin.

Abstract: The method of die casting a metallic cast product having a hollow metallic member embedded therein by locating the hollow member in position in a casting cavity and injecting molten metal into the cavity around the hollow member including confining a pressure resisting medium within the interior of the hollow member by seals prior to injecting the molten metal into the cavity, thereby positively preventing the hollow member from being collapsed by the pressure of the molten metal injected into the cavity. The pressure resisting medium is sealingly confined within the hollow member by tightly applying a sealing plug to the respective open ends of the hollow member after the pressure resisting medium completely fills the hollow member. One of the sealing plugs may be movable in response to the increase in the internal pressure of the pressure resisting medium.

Abstract: The method for cooling a plunger tip in a die casting machine of the cold chamber type comprises forcibly cooling the inner hollow space in the plunger tip by applying a flow of cooling fluid into and out of the inner hollow space during the time from about the commencement of the injection of the molten metal into the cavity of the moulds of the die casting machine by the forward stroke of the plunger to the commencement of the return stroke of the plunger, and applying, after terminating the application of the cooling fluid to the inner hollow space of the plunger tip, a flow of pressurized gas into and out of the inner hollow space of the plunger tip during the time at least necessary for expelling the remaining cooling fluid from the inner hollow space of the plunger tip so as to prevent excessive cooling and permit the plunger tip to be subjected to uniform natural cooling by the pressurized gas.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for monitoring the operation of a reciprocating liquid injection unit wherein charges of an injection liquid, such as molten metal, are injected one-by-one to a point of consumption, such as an injection molding die, by an injection plunger reciprocating in a sleeve and driven by a double acting hydraulic cylinder and fluctuations in the oil pressure on the return side of the hydraulic cylinder are monitored to detect abnormal increases in such pressure which indicate the occurrence of dragging between the injection sleeve and the plunger head.

Abstract: A molten metal injecting device for a cold chamber type die casting machine wherein a cavity is provided in which a metal cast body is formed between a movable die and a stationary die. Molten metal in an injection sleeve is injected into the cavity by a piston through a narrow gate. The sleeve has a feeding port for introducing the molten metal. An opening is provided in the sleeve in which the piston on the end of the plunger is exposed partially between the feeding port of the sleeve and the inserting end of the plunger. Lubricant spraying nozzles and compressed air blowing nozzles are arranged towards the opening, and a mechanism is provided for rotating the piston.

Abstract: Die-cast aluminum alloy products of excellent toughness and high strength are obtained from an alloy consisting essentially of 7 to 12% of Si, preferably 8 to 10% of Si, 0.2 to 0.5% of Mg, preferably 0.25 to 0.35% of Mg, 0.65 to 1.2% of Fe, preferably 0.7 to 1.0% of Fe and 0.55 to 1.0% of Mn, preferably 0.6 to 0.8% of Mn, the balance being Al and impurities. These products are produced by die-casting a molten aluminum alloy of this composition into any desired shape employing the known pore-free die-casting process with oxygen gas as the reactive gas and subjecting the cast product to solution heat treatment at a temperature ranging from 450.degree. to 530.degree. C, and then aging at a temperature ranging from 150.degree. to 230.degree. C, to thereby improve the toughness and high strength thereof.