Abstract: A locking apparatus has a lock driver to electrically lock and unlock a door, a fingerprint read/verify unit to receive a fingerprint from a user, verify the received fingerprint by comparing it with registered fingerprint data) and if the fingerprint verification authenticates the user, enable the lock driver to electrically operate, a key cylinder attached to the door, an interlink linking the key cylinder with the lock driver, and a key to manually operate the lock driver in cooperation with the key cylinder and the interlink.

Abstract: A fermentation controller correctly controls fermentation and produces a required material by fermentation. The fermentation controller (3) controls fermentation in a material production unit (1) that produces a material by fermentation. The controller (3) includes a capacitance sensor (63) to detect a capacitance change representative of a fermenting state in the material production unit and a memory (77) to store a reference capacitance change representative of a reference fermenting state. The controller compares the detected capacitance change with the reference capacitance change and controls fermentation in the material production unit according to the comparison result.

Abstract: An underground buried object detecting apparatus has a capacitance sensor attached to a base plate to be faced to the ground, to detect an underground capacitance change, reference value storing means for prestoring a reference capacitance according to a capacitance change when no target buried object is present in the ground, operation means for comparing the detected capacitance change with the stored capacitance and detecting the presence of a target buried object in the ground, and a buzzer for receiving a signal from the operation means and informing of the presence of the target buried object.

Abstract: It is possible to provide a mobile communication terminal capable of further enhancing the versatility and a management apparatus using the same.

Abstract: To detect a variation of capacitance in a path of a piping and enable to decide a fluid state of a fluid substance flowing through the path in the piping, a capacitance sensor (15) includes a measuring electrode (33) and a grounding electrode (35) made of a conductive metallic film and wound around a path in the piping (1), with an insulator (17) in between. A shield member (23) covers the measuring electrode and grounding electrode, with an insulator in between. The grounding electrode is narrower than the measuring electrode, and the measuring electrode and the grounding electrode are alternately disposed and are wound to be spiral along a flow direction.

Abstract: A game system correlates games played on cellular phones with games played on arcade game machines.

Abstract: An apparatus for supporting objects to identify is manufacturable at low cost and is capable of providing correct images of the objects.

Abstract: An accident notification system for a vehicle includes a damage predicting system which detects that a vehicle occupant has been injured in an accident involving the vehicle, a vehicle position detecting system which detects the position of the vehicle, and a mobile communication terminal which receives a signal predicting injury to the vehicle occupant from the damage predicting system to generate a calling from the vehicle to a call center. The call center performs a notification to an accident response facility on the basis of the calling and obtains prediction information that the vehicle occupant has been injured from the damage predicting system and vehicle position information detected by the vehicle position detecting system. Accordingly, even when there is no one who notifies an accident response facility of an accident, emergency cleaning-up after an accident and treatment for an injured vehicle occupant can be made.

Abstract: A game system using tokens allows a user to play a game on a mobile communication terminal at a location remote from a game hall. The game system includes a game hall (1) to lend tokens to a player so that the player may play game machines (3) installed in the game hall with the tokens, keep tokens deposited by the player after the play, and return the kept tokens to the player so that the player may play the game machines with the tokens, a management unit (7) provided for the game hall, connectable to the Internet and having a database (9) to store and update data on the kept tokens, a mobile communication terminal (13) connectable to the Internet to receive game content and allow the player to play a game on the mobile communication terminal, and a game content provider (11) to provide the game content to the Internet.

Abstract: A discrimination object deflecting apparatus can discriminate and sort medals quickly in an amusement facility or the like. The apparatus is composed of a discrimination section for continuously discriminating continuously moving medals, a passage for continuously moving the discriminated medals according to a discriminating speed of the discrimination section, a deflection passage connected to one side of the passage, a deflection drive section which is provided on the other side of the passage to be countered to the deflection passage and is actuated according to a discriminating signal of the discrimination section and flips the medal moving along the passage towards the deflection passage, and a control section for controlling to drive the deflection drive section according to the discriminating signal of the discrimination section.

Abstract: A money changer management system enables an easy inventory of a money changer (1) and prevents accidents. The system includes the money changer and a management unit (3). The money changer has a cabinet (5) having a lockable door (7), a lockable change unit (25) installed in the cabinet, to hold money and dispense money of equal value in exchange for money deposited into the money changer, the held, dispensed, and deposited money being at least one of paper money and hard money, and a circulator-counter (31, 33, 35) to count the money in the change unit while once circulating the money in the change unit. The management unit manages the money in the money changer according to information about the amount of the money in the money changer and information from the circulator-counter.

Abstract: A locking apparatus has a personal authentication apparatus capable of easily reconstructing data.

Abstract: A locking apparatus allows a user to lock and unlock a door even if the user loses a key. The locking apparatus involves a reduced number of parts and is easy to install on a door.

Abstract: A pattern identification apparatus is used to speedily identify tokens at a game arcade. The apparatus is inexpensive and has an image pickup device (15). The image pickup device has an area sensor (17) consisting of a two-dimensional matrix of photoelectric pixels. Each of the photoelectric pixels has a photodiode (19), a signal comparator (21), and a signal holder (23). The photoelectric pixels are connected to address lines (5), respectively. Required ones of the address lines are specified. Signals are read, to a data line, out of the signal holders of the photoelectric pixels that are connected to the specified address lines in response to addressing signals passed through the specified address lines. The specified address lines correspond to concentric circles (45, 47, 49) defined on a target (39) of disk shape. The target is identified according to the read signals that represent the concentric circles defined on the target.

Abstract: An apparatus surely and easily controls articles kept in, for example, a safe.

Abstract: A locking apparatus has improved operability and is manufacturable at low cost.

Abstract: There is provided a telephone system, which can surely read a telephone number written on a sheet such as a name card and make a call to the telephone number. OCR reader 3, key input section 4 and calling control section 5 are connected to CPU 1. In telephone directory memory 7 connected to the CPU 1, telephone number data obtained based on written content data read by the OCR reader 3 can be saved as it is or in an edited state, telephone number data newly entered by the key input section 4 can be saved, and the saved data can be taken out at an optional point of time. Identification/determination section 8 connected to the CPU 1 carries out identification and determination to obtain telephone number data from the written content data read by the OCR reader 3 under predetermined conditions.

Abstract: A chip collecting machine includes an electric fan 1 for sucking air; a suction chamber 3 formed with a suction drum 13 in a vertical bottomed cylindrical shape for air suction by the electric fan 1; a suction hose 5 externally connected to the suction chamber 3 in a communicating manner; a dust separating filter 7 supported at the upper end of the suction drum 13 to hang downward in the suction chamber 3, being interposed between a discharge opening 25 of the suction hose 5 and the electric fan 1; and a collecting case 9 formed in a vertical bottomed cylindrical shape, being demountably disposed outside the dust separating filter 7 in the suction chamber 3, the inside of which case 9 communicating with the discharge opening 25 of the suction hose 5.

Abstract: A machine management system employs a wireless point-of-sale (POS) system and enables shops such as game arcades to be expanded in a wide area at low cost.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to enable the player to start very easily the operation of game machines. In order to achieve this end, the charge management system of the present invention comprises game machines 1, 3 provided with fingerprint information inputting section 5, 7, a MPU 13 connected through wire or by radio with the game machines 1, 3, a fingerprint information registration section 17 and card information inputting section 19, a charging information data base 23, a card manager 31 communicable through phone line 29 and a card information data base 23. When card information is inputted and fingerprint information is registered, the information is transmitted to the card manager 31 to be collated with the card information contained in the card information data base 33. When the collated results agree, an approval signal is transmitted from the card manager 31 to the MPU 13.