Abstract: An optical media converter system is divided into an outdoor installed optical media converter and an indoor installed unit, which are connected to each other through an electrical Ethernet cable. The indoor installed unit includes two electrical Ethernet terminations and a power source section for supplying an electrical power from indoor to outdoor. The outdoor installed optical media converter includes an optical-electric converter, optical Ethernet termination, electrical Ethernet termination, and a power source section for generating a power source by an electrical power supplied from the indoor. With the above configuration, there can be provided an optical media converter system in which the need to draw the fiber-optic cable into a home can be eliminated, cost involved in a wiring work can be reduced, and a circuit design thereof is advantageous in cost reduction.

Abstract: An optical media converter system is divided into an outdoor installed optical media converter and an indoor installed unit, which are connected to each other through an electrical Ethernet cable. The indoor installed unit includes two electrical Ethernet terminations and a power source section for supplying an electrical power from indoor to outdoor. The outdoor installed optical media converter includes an optical-electric converter, optical Ethernet termination, electrical Ethernet termination, and a power source section for generating a power source by an electrical power supplied from the indoor. With the above configuration, there can be provided an optical media converter system in which the need to draw the fiber-optic cable into a home can be eliminated, cost involved in a wiring work can be reduced, and a circuit design thereof is advantageous in cost reduction.

Abstract: The invention provides a remaining money management system which can predict and manage a demanded cash amount for an ATM. The remaining money management system includes one or more automatic cash transaction apparatus, and a remaining money management apparatus which manages remaining money amounts based on transaction data from the automatic cash transaction apparatus. The remaining money management apparatus includes a storage section for cumulatively storing transaction data from the automatic cash transaction apparatus, and a prediction section for calculating and predicting demanded cash amounts within a designated time for the automatic cash transaction apparatus based on transaction data in the past accumulated in the storage section. The remaining money amount management system can be applied to an apparatus for managing ATMs installed in monetary facilities such as banks.

Abstract: A printer is used for printing information on a center-folding type book when the book is in the open state, and comprises a printing head, a platen movable toward and away from the printing head, and feed rollers for moving the opened book through the printing position defined by the printing head and the platen, such that the printing operation is carried out on a leading half of the book and then on a trailing half thereof. A gap between the printing head and the platen is adjusted in response to a variation of a thickness of the half of the book positioned at the printing position; this adjustment being carried out by abutting the platen against the half of the book, and then moving the platen away therefrom by a given distance, before the printing operation is carried out on a first line contained in the trailing half of the book and closest to a center-holding line thereof.

Abstract: A needle-type colloid osmometer is disclosed. This osmometer comprises a hollow needle body having at least one hole at its outer wall and acting as a part of a pressure sensing chamber, a cylindrical semipermeable membrane fitting the needle body therein, and a sampling chamber receiving the needle body with the membrane. The osmometer is usable for measuring colloid osmotic pressure of blood, lymph, body fluid or the like in the fields of clinical pathology, physiology, biochemistry, biology and the like.