Abstract: An information transmission apparatus can use a salesclerk information storage unit. The salesclerk information storage unit stores, by a plurality of salesclerks, salesclerk identification information about the salesclerk and detailed information about the salesclerk in association with each other. Then, the information transmission apparatus includes a salesclerk position transmission unit and a detailed information transmission unit. The salesclerk position transmission unit transmits, for each of a plurality of salesclerks present in a store, salesclerk position information about the salesclerk and salesclerk identification information about the salesclerk in association with each other to a customer terminal.

Abstract: A wiring base includes a base, a signal conductor, and a ground conductor including a first ground conductor. The base includes a first surface, a first region, and a second region. The first region is located near an outer side of the first surface. An external board is mounted in the first region. The second region is other than the first region. The signal conductor extends through a region including the first region of the first surface in a first direction away from the outer side. The first ground conductor is located in the base at a distance from the signal conductor of less than ¼ of a wavelength of a high-frequency signal. The high-frequency signal is transmitted through the signal conductor. The first ground conductor includes a first grid portion at a first location overlapping the first region and at least a portion of the signal conductor.

Abstract: A sheet-shaped-medium feeder includes a housing, a mount portion that is disposed to be vertically movable in the housing and that receives sheet-shaped media, a lift that vertically raises or lowers the mount portion, a discharger that transports the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion in order from an upper one of the sheet-shaped media, and first air outlets that blow air to the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion at left and right edges in a feed width of the sheet-shaped media. The mount portion is changeable to a long mount portion capable of receiving long sheet-shaped media by extending an end portion of the mount portion upstream from an unchanged position in a transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media, the end portion corresponding to an upstream end portion in the transportation direction.

Abstract: A feeder includes a body, a mount portion disposed in the body to support from below part of recording media stacked thereon, a lift that raises the mount portion, a support portion connected to the body to support from below another part of the recording media while the mount portion is raised, the support portion being located higher than a position of a mount surface of the mount portion while the recording media are stacked on the mount portion, a blowing portion that blows air between the recording media stacked on the mount portion, and a transport portion that transports the recording media stacked on the mount portion.

Abstract: A transfer system includes a hand that supports a workpiece to be transported; an arm that moves the hand; a scanning controller that moves the hand by the arm along a scanning direction that intersects sides which are provided to be fixed to the hand and not parallel with each other, such that the sides pass a known reference position in a transfer path of the workpiece; and a position detector that detects a positional deviation of the hand in a direction intersecting the scanning direction, based on a timing at which one of the side reaches the reference position and a timing at which the other side reaches the reference position RP, while the scanning controller is moving the hand.

Abstract: A sheet accommodating apparatus includes a main body portion, a loading portion that is provided in the main body portion and supports a portion of a sheet loaded thereon from below, a lifting unit that lifts the loading portion, and a supporting portion that is connected to the main body portion and supports another portion of the sheet from below during a process in which the loading portion is lifted.

Abstract: A sheet feeder including: a housing including a mount portion that receives recording media; an open-close portion that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing to close the mount portion and rotates about a first hinge to open or close a mount space over the mount portion; and a manual insertion portion at least part of which is disposed on the open-close portion to receive manually inserted recording media, the manual insertion portion being rotatable about the first hinge or a second hinge disposed parallel to the first hinge to rotate upward from a position where the manual insertion portion overlaps the open-close portion.

Abstract: An accommodating device includes: a main body portion; a pulling-out portion on which recording media are loaded, the pulling-out portion being capable of being pulled out from the main body portion; a prevention portion configured to prevent the pulling-out portion from being pulled out by being locked to the main body portion in a state where the pulling-out portion is housed in the main body portion; and a fixing portion configured to fix the pulling-out portion to the main body portion in the state where the pulling-out portion is housed in the main body portion.

Abstract: A sheet accommodating apparatus includes a loading portion onto which a sheet is loaded, a lifting and lowering unit that lifts and lowers the loading portion, a raising portion that raises a sheet loading surface with respect to a lowermost lowering position of the loading portion and above which a portion of the sheet is loaded, and an extension portion that extends to a position outward of the loading portion from the raising portion side as seen in plan view and supports another portion of the sheet.

Abstract: An accommodating device includes: a main body portion; a pulling-out portion on which recording media are loaded, the pulling-out portion being capable of being pulled out from the main body portion; a prevention portion configured to prevent the pulling-out portion from being pulled out by being locked to the main body portion in a state where the pulling-out portion is housed in the main body portion; and a fixing portion configured to fix the pulling-out portion to the main body portion in the state where the pulling-out portion is housed in the main body portion.

Abstract: A feeder includes a body, a mount portion disposed in the body to support from below part of recording media stacked thereon, a lift that raises the mount portion, a support portion connected to the body to support from below another part of the recording media while the mount portion is raised, the support portion being located higher than a position of a mount surface of the mount portion while the recording media are stacked on the mount portion, a blowing portion that blows air between the recording media stacked on the mount portion, and a transport portion that transports the recording media stacked on the mount portion.

Abstract: A sheet-shaped-medium feeder includes a housing, a mount portion that is disposed to be vertically movable in the housing and that receives sheet-shaped media, a lift that vertically raises or lowers the mount portion, a discharger that transports the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion in order from an upper one of the sheet-shaped media, and first air outlets that blow air to the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion at left and right edges in a feed width of the sheet-shaped media. The mount portion is changeable to a long mount portion capable of receiving long sheet-shaped media by extending an end portion of the mount portion upstream from an unchanged position in a transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media, the end portion corresponding to an upstream end portion in the transportation direction.

Abstract: A sheet-shaped-medium feeder includes a housing, a mount portion that is disposed to be vertically movable in the housing and that receives sheet-shaped media, a lift that includes line members to vertically raise or lower the mount portion by hanging the mount portion with the line members, and a discharger that transports the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion. The mount portion is changeable to a long mount portion capable of receiving long sheet-shaped media by extending, further upstream in a transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media, an upstream end portion of the mount portion in the transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media. The lift has the line members attached at a portion of the long mount portion corresponding to an unchanged portion of the mount portion, and at a portion of the long mount portion corresponding to an extended portion of the mount portion.

Abstract: A sheet feeder including: a housing including a mount portion that receives recording media; an open-close portion that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing to close the mount portion and rotates about a first hinge to open or close a mount space over the mount portion; and a manual insertion portion at least part of which is disposed on the open-close portion to receive manually inserted recording media, the manual insertion portion being rotatable about the first hinge or a second hinge disposed parallel to the first hinge to rotate upward from a position where the manual insertion portion overlaps the open-close portion.

Abstract: Provided is an air purifier that allows efficient contact between air and a photocatalyst. An air purifier according to an aspect of the invention includes: a light source; a catalytic member which includes a mesh like carrier formed in a tubular shape and a photocatalyst supported on a surface of the carrier, and which is provided outside and spaced apart from the light source; a reflecting tube which is provided outside and spaced apart from the catalytic member, and which reflects light emitted from the light source and transmitted through the catalytic member; and a centrifugal blower which includes an impeller rotating substantially coaxially with respect to the reflecting tube and a housing having an intake port connected to one end of the reflecting tube.

Abstract: A sheet accommodating apparatus includes a main body portion, a loading portion that is provided in the main body portion and supports a portion of a sheet loaded thereon from below, a lifting unit that lifts the loading portion, and a supporting portion that is connected to the main body portion and supports another portion of the sheet from below during a process in which the loading portion is lifted.

Abstract: A sheet accommodating apparatus includes a loading portion onto which a sheet is loaded, a lifting and lowering unit that lifts and lowers the loading portion, a raising portion that raises a sheet loading surface with respect to a lowermost lowering position of the loading portion and above which a portion of the sheet is loaded, and an extension portion that extends to a position outward of the loading portion from the raising portion side as seen in plan view and supports another portion of the sheet.

Abstract: A transfer system includes a hand that supports a workpiece to be transported; an arm that moves the hand; a scanning controller that moves the hand by the arm along a scanning direction that intersects sides which are provided to be fixed to the hand and not parallel with each other, such that the sides pass a known reference position in a transfer path of the workpiece; and a position detector that detects a positional deviation of the hand in a direction intersecting the scanning direction, based on a timing at which one of the side reaches the reference position and a timing at which the other side reaches the reference position RP, while the scanning controller is moving the hand.

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot including a first hand, a second hand, an arm mechanism, and an elevator. The first hand is to hold a substrate. The second hand is to hold the substrate. The arm mechanism supports the first hand and the second hand to provide a height difference between the first hand and the second hand in a height direction of the robot. The elevator is to move the arm mechanism in the height direction within a moving range larger than the height difference. Both the first hand and the second hand put the substrate in the holder. Circuitry is configured to control the robot to move the arm mechanism in the height direction by the elevator to pass the substrate from the first hand to the second hand via the holder.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a photocatalyst-carrying mesh sheet which firmly supports anatase type titanium oxide as a photocatalyst to prevent peeling, and increases opportunities for contact with the photocatalyst to significantly improve a purification treatment efficiency provided by the photocatalyst and to suppress manufacturing cost. A photocatalyst-carrying mesh sheet (S1) is disclosed, which includes: a net-form titanium sheet (11) having a periodic pattern; a titanium oxide film (3) formed on a surface of the net-form titanium sheet (11); and an anatase type titanium oxide particle (4) supported on the titanium oxide film (3).