Abstract: An automated commodity customer delivery driven method/system to manage commodity sales by acquiring a chance of purchase of a selecting customer as well as another new customer for a relevant commodity by assuring availability of the inventory for both customers of the relevant commodity. The shop inventory for the selecting customer is acquired according to acceptance of a temporary reservation status for requesting acquisition of the inventory of the selected commodity and the inventory in the shop that was acquired for the selecting customer is returned to the number of inventories for selling to the other new customer, based upon a specified method of transferring the selected commodity to the selecting customer.

Abstract: In a usual state, information concerning all stores where a user is registered as a member (a list of stores where the user is registered as a member) is listed on an electronic paper of a membership card. When the user who carries the membership card enters one store where the user is registered as a member, the membership card recognizes the entering into the store and thereby switches automatically the displayed contents on the electronic paper into information concerning that store. When the user passes through the exit of the store, the displayed contents on the electronic paper is returned to the listing display of all stores. Even a single card has the functions of a large number of cards and is valid to all the stores. This avoids the necessity that the user should carry a large number of cards.

Abstract: A sheet guide apparatus includes a transfer cylinder, delivery chains, and sheet guide structure. The transfer cylinder holds a sheet. The delivery chains hold the sheet received from the transfer cylinder and conveys the sheet along a first convey path which is at least substantially arcuate. The sheet guide structure guides the sheet conveyed by the delivery chains. The sheet guide structure includes a movable guide member and stationary guide member. The movable guide member is movable between positions close to and spaced apart from the first convey path. The stationary guide member is stationarily arranged at a position spaced apart from the first convey path. When the movable guide member is close to the first convey path, a thin-sheet guide surface having a continuous substantially arcuate section is formed by only the movable guide member.

Abstract: An automated commodity customer delivery driven method/system to manage commodity sales by acquiring a chance of purchase of a selecting customer as well as another new customer for a relevant commodity by assuring availability of the inventory for both customers of the relevant commodity. The shop inventory for the selecting customer is acquired according to acceptance of a temporary reservation status for requesting acquisition of the inventory of the selected commodity and the inventory in the shop that was acquired for the selecting customer is returned to the number of inventories for selling to the other new customer, based upon a specified method of transferring the selected commodity to the selecting customer.

Abstract: A plate inserting apparatus in a rotary printing press inserts a plate in a leading edge plate clamp of a plate cylinder. The plate inserting apparatus includes a plate holder and actuators. The plate holder holds the plate. The actuators move the plate holder in directions to come close to and separate from the plate cylinder. The plate holder forms a moving track comprised of at least a first straight portion and a curved portion. The first straight portion extends in a direction to insert the plate held by the plate holder into the plate fixing unit. The curved portion is connected to a counter plate cylinder-side end of the first straight portion to change a traveling direction of the plate holder.

Abstract: A scroll compressor has a pair of interleaved scrolls. An Oldham coupling is attached to the orbiting scroll to prevent of the orbiting scroll. This Oldham coupling has keys that are sliding received in slots. One side of each key is loaded while the opposite side is non-loaded. The non-loaded side of the key has stepped or profiled surface to provided clearance to allow deflection of the key. In another embodiment, the stepped or profiled surface is provided on the non-loaded side of the slot.

Abstract: A plate removal apparatus in a rotary printing press, which removes outside a printing unit a plate unfixed from a plate fixing unit of a plate cylinder in the printing unit includes a first guide member and a regulating member. The first guide member falls inside the printing unit in removing the plate from the plate cylinder to guide the plate removed from the plate cylinder outside the printing unit. The regulating member is interlocked with falling operation of the first guide member to prevent the plate guided by the first guide member from entering into the printing unit.

Abstract: A plate exchanging apparatus in a rotary printing press, which removes an old plate from a plate fixing unit of a plate cylinder and inserts a new plate includes a plate holder and an actuator. The plate holder holds the new plate. The actuator performs one of moving and swinging operations of the plate holder in directions to come close to and separate from the plate cylinder. The actuator selectively positions the plate holder to a first position where the new plate is held in the plate holder, a second position where the new plate held by the plate holder is retreated from an old plate removal path, and a third position where the new plate is inserted into the plate fixing unit of the plate cylinder.

Abstract: A plate inserting apparatus in a rotary printing press for inserting a plate into a plate fixing unit of a plate cylinder includes a plate holder, a cover, and a first reference pin. The plate holder moves between a first position where the plate holder holds the plate and a second position where the held plate is inserted into the plate fixing unit of the plate cylinder. The cover selectively opens and closes a plate insertion side of the plate cylinder. The first reference pin is fixed to the cover to position the plate before held by the plate holder when the plate holder is located at the first position.

Abstract: A multiplication, division and square root extraction apparatus which calculates the solutions to addition, division and square root extraction functions by approximation using iteration has a multiplier, an adder-subtracter and a shifter of prescribed bit width connected to a bus. Iteration is conducted by inputting the output of the multiplier to the adder-subtracter or the shifter and returning the result to the input of the multiplier via the bus. A shifter and an arithmetic and logic unit connected to a second bus connected to the aforesaid bus via a switch have a greater bit width than the prescribed bit width and are used for large scale calculations, thus preventing a reduction in processing speed.

Abstract: A cylinder cleaning apparatus for a printing press includes a cleaning unit, an actuator, another actuator, and a control unit. The cleaning unit is supported by a printing press frame to be movable between a cleaning position where a cleaning web is in contact with a circumferential surface of a cylinder and a retreat position where the cleaning web is separate from the circumferential surface of the cylinder. The cleaning unit has a cleaning cloth supply roll for supplying the cleaning web to the circumferential surface of the cylinder and a cleaning cloth take-up roll for taking up the cleaning web supplied from the cleaning cloth supply roll. The actuator is fixed to the printing press frame to pivot the take-up roll for a predetermined amount, thereby taking up the cleaning web. Another actuator moves the cleaning unit to one of the cleaning position and the retreat position in accordance with whether the cylinder is in a first or second cleaning mode.

Abstract: A multiplication, division and square root extraction apparatus which calculates the solutions to addition, division and square root extraction functions by approximation using iteration has a multiplier, an adder-subtracter and a shifter of prescribed bit width connected to a bus. Iteration is conducted by inputting the output of the multiplier to the adder-subtracter or the shifter and returning the result to the input of the multiplier via the bus. A shifter and an arithmetic and logic unit connected to a second bus connected to the aforesaid bus via a switch have a greater bit width than the prescribed bit width and are used for large scale calculations, thus preventing a reduction in processing speed.

Abstract: The interface portion of a coprocessor is provided with a FIFO (First-In First-Out) buffer and means for accepting instructions in succession. Pipeline control of the instructions becomes possible in this way, and protocol means associated with a microprocessor is also provided.

Abstract: A high-speed image signal processing system for encoding an image signal, read out at a high speed, into an encoded signal, and/or for recording a decoded signal obtained through a decoding operation on an encoded signal. The image signal, obtained through a scanning operation on an original document, is sent to an encoder through an image bus. A code bus, provided at an output of the encoder, is connected with an encoded-signal memory for storing the encoded signal. A code transfer unit, for performing input/output operation over the encoded signal and for performing transfer of the encoded signal from the code bus to a system bus, is disposed between the code bus and the system bus. A control unit, performing control over the entire system, and a document management data memory, storing management data for performing management over documents stored in the encoded-signal memory, are connected to the system bus.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting a plate on a plate cylinder includes a plate lockup device, reference pins, and a lamp. The plate lockup device is provided in a gap formed in the circumference surface of the plate cylinder. The reference pins are electrically rendered conductive by an insertion end of a plate inserted to a gripper surface of the plate lockup device, thereby detecting insertion of the plate. The lamp confirms and indicates insertion of the plate from an output from the reference pins.

Abstract: A plate mounted state confirming apparatus includes reference pins, a transmitting coupler, and a receiving coupler. The reference pins detect contact of an insertion end of a plate inserted in a gripper portion of a plate lockup device provided in a gap formed in an outer circumferential surface of a plate cylinder in an axial direction thereof. The transmitting coupler outputs a detection signal obtained by the reference pins as an electrical signal from a plate cylinder. The receiving coupler receives the electrical signal from the transmitting coupler outside the plate cylinder in a non-contact manner.

Abstract: A multiplication, division and square root extraction apparatus which calculates the solutions to addition, division and square root extraction functions by approximation using iteration has a multiplier, an adder-subtracter and a shifter of prescribed bit width connected to a bus. Iteration is conducted by inputting the output of the multiplier to the adder-subtracter or the shifter and returning the result to the input of the multiplier via the bus. A shifter and an arithmetic and logic unit connected to a second bus connected to the aforesaid bus via a switch have a greater bit width than the prescribed bit width and are used for large scale calculations, thus preventing a reduction in processing speed.

Abstract: A microcomputer system has a microprocessor and a number of independent coprocessors for executing individual instructions according to instruction data sent from the microprocessor. An address bus and a data bus interconnect the coprocessors with the microprocessor. The microprocessor sends instruction data to the coprocessors via the data bus and concurrently sends coprocessor designation data to the coprocessors via the address bus. The coprocessor designated by the designation data reads and reacts to the instruction data while the other coprocessors within the system disregard the instruction data.

Abstract: A function arithmetic unit which performs elementary operations at high speeds and which enables required memory capacity to be reduced. The function arithmetic unit includes a constant memory which stores a constant that corresponds to the number of successive iterative operations; a controller which causes addition or subtraction in the successive iterative operations; and arithmetic units which receive, as initial values, an argument of an elementary function value to be found and two constants determined depending upon the elementary functions to be found, and which subject these initial values to n iterative operations to produce elementary function values. A further arithmetic unit subjects the elementary function values to multiplication, addition, subtraction, or division, or a combination thereof, thereby to produce the thus obtained value.

Abstract: The optimum control conditions for a plurality of looms are simply estimated with the use of a trial loom. Hereby, the plurality of looms are operated under a centralized control method. The looms, even if they vary in their respective characteristics, can be effectively operated by correcting standard control data for controlling the looms in response to variations of the loom characteristics. The present centralized control method can save much labor and time to improve productivity of the looms, by properly eliminating elaborate trial weaving processes.