Abstract: An information management device includes: an obtainer that obtains first company information and personal information from a first company, the first company information relating to a first product or service of the first company, the personal information relating to a user who has purchased the first product or who has been provided with the service; a company information storage that stores the first company information obtained; a personal information storage that stores the personal information obtained; an integrator that integrates the company information and the personal information based on a purchase record or a use record to generate integrated information, the purchase record indicating that the user has purchased the first product, the use record indicating that the user has used the service; and a manager that manages an output of the integrated information based on restriction information for restricting an output destination of the integrated information.

Abstract: This invention relates to a production system for retail goods which is intended for timely collection of accurate sales information from retail outlets and flexible production of goods in accordance with the same information, and includes sales information collecting units for collecting sales information at a plurality of sales outlets, a production size determining unit for determining a production quantity to be produced in the future for a plurality of goods based on the sales information received from the plurality of sales information collecting units, and a production unit for flexibly manufacturing the plurality of goods based on the sales information which is collected at the plurality of sales information collecting units.

Abstract: This invention relates to a production system for retail goods which is intended for timely collection of accurate sales information from retail outlets and flexible production of goods in accordance with the same information, and comprises a retail sales information collecting means, a production quantity setting means for determining a production quantity according to the information so collected, a directing means for directing the preparation and production of raw materials according to the determined production quantity, and a production means for producing the determined production quantity according to a direction to produce. Also provided is a raw materials ordering system, which determines production quantities of raw materials in accordance with production plans for ensuring flexible production of the products without the disadvantage of carrying excessive inventories and for economical and efficient control and supply of raw materials.

Abstract: A production system for retail goods and a raw material ordering system. The production system allows a timely collection of accurate sales information from retail outlets and a flexible production of the goods in accordance with the same information. The production system includes a retail sales information collecting device, a production quantity setting device for determining a production quantity according to the information so collected, a directing device for directing the preparation and production of raw materials according to the determined production quantity, and a production device for producing the determined production quantity according to a direction to produce.

Abstract: This invention relates to a production system for retail goods which is intended for timely collection of accurate sales information from retail outlets and flexible production of goods in accordance with the same information, and comprises a retail sales information collecting means, a production quantity setting means for determining a production quantity according to the information so collected, a directing means for directing the preparation and production of raw materials according to the determined production quantity, and a production means for producing the determined production quantity according to a direction to produce. Also provided is a raw materials ordering system, which determines production quantities of raw materials in accordance with production plans for ensuring flexible production of the products without the disadvantage of carrying excessive inventories and for economical and efficient control and supply of raw materials.

Abstract: A stocker box stocking a plurality of CDs and a player box adjacent to the stocker box are disposed next to each other. Each of the boxes has an opening on a side wall so as to oppose to an opening formed on a side wall of the adjacent box. A horizontal guide rail device is provided in each box, extending to the opening thereof. A horizontal carrier is provided to be moved along the guide rail devices of the stocker and second player boxes passing through the openings. A plurality of coils are mounted on each of the guide rail devices, arranged in a moving direction of the horizontal carrier. The horizontal carrier has a magnet to form a magnetic field passing through some of the coils. The coils are sequentially excited so as to move the carrier in the moving direction.

Abstract: A storing portion is provided for storing a plurality of recordable discs, and a recording device is for recording an accompaniment reproduced by a singalong disc player and a vocal part sang at the accompaniment. A loading device is provided for carrying a disc between the storing portion, and the recording device. An ejecting mechanism is provided for ejecting a recorded disc.

Abstract: A recording device is provided for recording an accompaniment reproduced by a singalong disc player and a vocal part sang at the accompaniment on a recordable disc. A rerecording command during recording is detected for rerecording information on the recordable disc and for producing a rerecording signal. In response to the rerecording signal the recording the information is stopped, and an address of a recorded area of the disc is stored in a memory as an unnecessary area. In response to a restart signal, recording the information is restarted from an end of the unnecessary area. When the rerecording has been finished, the recordable disc is finalized such that the unnecessary area is not reproduced thereafter based on the stored address.

Abstract: A disc playing and controlling apparatus which includes a plurality of magazine type disc players. When a first disc player is operating, the apparatus controls the other disk players to find and load a disc holding the next song to be played. Before searching for the next song, the controller determines whether one player is already set in a standby position or whether the next song is located in the player currently being operated. If no player has been set for the next program, the apparatus reads the next selection from a program list and identifies which magazine contains the selected program based on a data map. The map stores each player number and magazine number in an one-to-one relation with the table of contents data for each song.

Abstract: A disk storage/select player includes several disks and several menu boards for indexing data items contained on the disks. The menu boards are each shaped like a polyhedral column. A driver turns one of the menu boards, and a synchronous rotation transfer element transfer the rotation of the one menu board to the remaining menu boards so that all of the menu boards rotate in synchronism.

Abstract: A multi-disk player having a magazine for accommodating plural disks and a playback means. The playback means moves along an axis parallel to the axis of alignment of the disk in the magazine to a position adjacent a selected disk. The selected disk is extracted from the magazine and moved to a playback position in the playback means. Movement of the disk is under control of a motor, a movable member which responds to the motor and a tray engagement member which is actuated by the movable member. The movable member also actuates camming mechanisms which control the clamping and unclamping of the disk in the playback position and the unlocking and locking of the pick up means.

Abstract: A copy machine having an image forming section includes a paper transport passage to such section, a turn-over guide portion which turns over the sheet formed and recorded with an image on its one surface for feeding-in, and a sheet return for returning the sheet formed and recorded with the image on its one surface, from a paper discharge section towards the turn-over guide portion. And, with each one sheet or n (n.gtoreq.2) sheets being set as one group, each of the sheets recorded on its one surface per each group, is returned to the paper feeding transport passage for effecting image formation and recording onto its other surface. The sheet returning speed is set to be either faster than the ordinary transport speed at the image forming section or to be variable so as to eliminate a loss in time during recording to the other surface of the sheet after recording onto the one surface thereof.

Abstract: A both surface recording apparatus for a copying machine includes an image forming section for forming and recording an image on one surface of each sheet, which includes, on a paper transport passage to the image forming section, a turn-over guide portion for turning over and feeding-in each sheet after having been recorded on its one surface. A passage change-over section formed into a unit is attachable to and detachable from the apparatus, and is arranged to guide the sheet formed and recorded with the image at the image forming portion, through change-over either into a passage for discharging the sheet out of the apparatus or into a passage for returning the sheet to the turn-over guide portion.

Abstract: A paper feeder for feeding a large supply of paper to a recording apparatus such as a copying machine. The recording apparatus has a main body with a driving apparatus therein, an automatic feed mechanism therein including paper storage cassettes and an automatic feed for feeding recording paper from the cassettes, and a manual feed for feeding into the apparatus recording paper manually inserted thereinto. The paper feeder has a recording paper accommodating unit for accommodating a larger number of sheets of recording paper than the cassettes, the unit having a sheet feeder for feeding the recording paper out of the unit, and releasable engaging hooks for removably attaching the unit to the main body with the feed positioned in a position opposed to said manual feed of the apparatus for delivering sheets of recording paper to the manual feed.

Abstract: A blade-type cleaning device for use in an electrophotographic copying machine which is effective to prevent generation of abnormal noise resulting from vibration of a blade member. The cleaning device has an elastic blade member in pressing contact with a surface of rotating photoconductive member for removing residual toner from the surface thereof during the movement of the photoconductive member, and a holder for holding the blade member wherein a leading edge portion of the holder and the surface of the blade member confronting it having some degree of freedom with respect to one another.

Abstract: An electrophotographic copying apparatus has a frame with two portions which are movable away from each other. An electrophotographic photoconductive member is mounted on one of the frame portions for being exposed when the frame portions are moved away from each other to enable the member to be removed from the frame. A blade-type cleaning device is provided having an elastic blade member for contacting the surface of the electrophotographic photoconductive member for removing residual toner from the surface during movement of the member and a blade holder holding the blade member and mounted on the one frame portion for movement toward and away from the surface of the electrophotographic photoconductive member. A spring is connected to the holder for biasing the holder to urge the blade member into contact with the surface when the frame portions are together.

Abstract: An electrophotographic copying apparatus has a drum with an endless photoconductive material on its periphery and has arranged around the periphery of the photoconductive drum an eraser unit, a charging unit, a slit exposure unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit and a cleaning unit disposed within or close to the developing unit. The charging, exposure and developing units are operable during the first revolution of the photoconductive drum to form an image thereon, the cleaning unit being operable to clean the surface of the photoconductive drum during the second revolution thereof. The photoconductive drum in the course of the second revolution is adapted to rotate until the rear end of the image formed on the photoconductive drum has passed the charging unit, whereupon one copying cycle is completed.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a device for cleaning the surface of a rotatably mounted photosensitive member in an electrophotographic copying machine and includes an elastic blade carried in a holder so as to be positioned in pressing engagement with the surface of the photosensitive member for removing residual developer from the photosensitive member surface. The blade is held at an angle between a surface of the photosensitive member and a side of the blade which faces opposite to the direction of rotation of the member which is either a right angle or an acute angle which is close to a right angle. Biasing means act either on the holder or on the blade in order to urge the blade toward the surface of the photosensitive member so that its forward end is in pressing contact therewith. The holder of the blade has a front wall for supporting the top surface of the blade which faces toward the direction of rotation of the photosensitive member.

Abstract: An electrophotographic copying apparatus which is capable of copying in different copying magnifications from an original to be copied onto a copy material. The copying apparatus includes an optical unit having a frame, and a lens and at least one reflecting mirror attached to the frame as one unit so that accurate variation in the magnifications is readily achieved by merely displacing the optical unit in parallel relation to its initial position.

Abstract: In a dry-type developing apparatus for use in electrophotography including a developing sleeve for conveying a two-component developer composed of a toner and a carrier to a developing station, an automatic toner replenishing device comprises a roller to which voltage is applied having recessed toner dispenser portions and a toner recovering peripheral surface portion on its periphery and rotatable in contact with a portion of the developer on the sleeve after the developer portion has passed through the developing station, bias voltage sources connected to the sleeve and to the roller respectively to produce a potential difference between the sleeve and the roller, and a toner tank arranged to cover part of the roller and containing the toner to be replenished.