Abstract: A payment terminal includes a camera configured to capture an image, a card slot for inserting a contact type IC card, and a panel arrangement surface on which a touch panel is arranged. A lens of the camera, the card slot, and the panel arrangement surface are arranged in order in the height direction from a placement surface of the payment terminal. The panel arrangement surface is oriented obliquely upward toward a user positioned in front of the card slot. An optical axis direction of the lens is obliquely upward toward the user, and the lens is provided closer to the user than the card slot.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a phenyl group, a benzyl group, a phenethyl group, an alkylamine group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a dialkylamino group having 2 to 8 carbon atoms, and ##STR2## represents a nobornylidene group or bicyclo [3,3,1]9-nonylidene group which may have a substituent, and ##STR3## represents a pyridine, quinoline, pyrrole or benzothiophene group which may have a substituent.

Abstract: There is provided a resin having a high refractive index. The resin is a polymer comprising units derived from a sulfur-containing unsaturated compound. The present invention also provides novel sulfur-containing unsaturated compounds which in useful in the production of the resin. Examples of these compounds include ##STR1## and CH.sub.2 .dbd.CCH.sub.3 COSCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 SC.sub.3 H.sub.6 SCH.sub.3.

Abstract: A photochromic compound represented by the following general formula [I] ##STR1## wherein ##STR2## represents a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group or a divalent heterocyclic group each of which may have a substituent,R.sub.1 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group or a monovalent heterocyclic group each of which may have a substituent, ##STR3## represents a norbornylidene or adamantylidene group which may have a substituent,X represents an oxygen atom or a group of the formula >N--R.sub.3 in which R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent, andR.sub.2 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent.Also provided are a process for production of the photochromic compound, a composition containing the photochromic compound, and the use of the photochromic compound. The colored form of this photochromic compound has excellent thermal stability.

Abstract: Disclosed is a compound represented by the following general formula(I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group or a substituted amino group, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, which may be the same or different, represent an alkyl group, or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 together form a nobornylidene group or bicyclo (3, 3, 1) 9-nonylidene group which may have a substituent, and ##STR2## represents a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group or divalent unsaturated heterocyclic group which may have a substituent, with the proviso that when R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represent an alkyl group, ##STR3## represents a bicyclic aromatic fused ring which is substituted with at least one substituent selected form the group consisting of a halgoen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, --R.sub.5 --S--R.sub.6 and ##STR4## (in which R.sub.5 represents an alkylene group or --O--R.sub.8).sub.n (in which R.sub.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula [I] ##STR1## wherein ##STR2## represents a norbornylidene group or an adamantylidene group each of which may have a substituent, andX represents an oxygen atom, the group >N--R.sub.2, the group >N--A.sub.1 --B.sub.1 --A.sub.2).sub.m (B.sub.2).sub.n R.sub.3, the group >N--A.sub.3 --A.sub.4, or the group >N--A.sub.3 --A.sub.4, provided that when ##STR3## is an adamantylidene group, X is selected from the above groups excepting the oxygen atom and the group >N--R.sub.2 ; and plastic lens containing the compound of the above formula [I].

Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula [I] ##STR1## wherein ##STR2## represents a norbornylidene group or an adamantylidene group each of which may have a substituent, andX represents an oxygen atom, the group >N-R.sub.2, the group >N-A.sub.1 -B.sub.1 --A.sub.2).sub.m (B.sub.2).sub.n R.sub.3, the group >N-A.sub.3 -A.sub.4, or the group >N-A.sub.3 -R.sub.4, provided that when ##STR3## is an adamantylidene group, X is selected from the above groups excepting the oxygen atom and the group >N-R.sub.2 ; and plastic lens containing the compound of the above formula [I].

Abstract: A monomeric mixture for a cured polymeric material used as organic glass includes an aromatic di(meth)allyl carbonate (I), an aliphatic di(meth)allyl carbonate (II) and di(meth)allyl carbonate (III) having aromatic and aliphatic moieties. The amount of the di(meth)allyl carbonate of formula (III) is 0.1 to 10 parts by weight per 10 parts by weight of the aliphatic di(meth)allyl carbonate of formula (II). The monomeric mixture retains its uniform state without phase separation during long-term storage and gives a cured polymeric material having excellent transparency.

Abstract: A monomeric mixture for a cured polymeric material used as organic glass includes an aromatic di(meth)allyl carbonate (I), an aliphatic di(meth)allyl carbonate (II) and di(meth)allyl carbonate (III) having aromatic and aliphatic moieties. The amount of the di(meth)allyl carbonate of formula (III) is 0.1 to 10 parts by weight per 10 parts by weight of the aliphatic di(meth)allyl carbonate of formula (II). The monomeric mixture retains its uniform state without phase separation during long-term storage and gives a cured polymeric material having excellent transparency.

Abstract: A cured resin consisting substantially of a first polymer unit derived from an unsaturated compound having two terminal vinyl groups consisting of bis(alkyleneoxyphenyl)-diacrylates or dimethacrylates, bis(alkyleneoxyphenyl)diallyl ethers, and bis(alkyleneoxyphenyl)diallyl carbonates, and a second polymer unit derived from another unsaturated compound radical-polymerizable with the first-mentioned unsaturated compound, said polymer units being bonded to each other at random.The aforesaid cured resin can be producted by copolymerizing an intimate mixture consisting substantially of at least one compound selected from the first-mentioned unsaturated compounds having two terminal vinyl groups and prepolymers thereof and at least one compound selected from other unsaturated compounds radical-copolymerizable with the first-mentioned unsaturated compounds and prepolymers thereof in the presence of a radical polymerization initiator.