This invention concerns direct currency conversion, that is automatic currency conversion at point of payment for card transactions. In particular it concerns a method for operating equipment associated with a financial transaction. The method includes the steps of: Presenting a card related to a customer's account. Recording a card number from the card. Applying all or part of the card number to ...

Actionneur électromagnétique comportant une bobine électrique (1) montée dans une culasse (2) magnétique, une première partie polaire (3) et une seconde partie polaire (4), solidaires de la culasse (2), lesquelles s'étendent chacune au voisinage d'un côté d'un espace libre (5) dans lequel se déplace un noyau magnétique (6), mobile en translation sous l'effet de l'alimentation électrique de la bobi...

An apparatus for producing a pneumatic tire reinforcement, said apparatus being intended to produce a reinforcement consisting of a thread ( 2 ) delivered substantially continuously and on demand by an appropriate delivery device, said apparatus being intended to be used in cooperation with a substantially toroidal form ( 1 ) on which said reinforcement is progressively built up by depositing arch...

Ce moyen de transport d'un produit (20) pourvu d'au moins une paroi rectiligne, comprend au moins un compartiment (10) de dimensions appropriées, propres à recevoir ledit produit, et défini par un fond (4) et des parois latérales (12 - 15).Le fond (4) dudit compartiment reçoit un élément - support intermédiaire (5) suspendu par rapport audit fond (4), et susceptible de faire fonction d'amortisseur...

The device has a fastening unit (3) comprising a slat (5), which is formed of steel and presents an unstable position in which the slat is rectilinear and a stable position in which the slat is wound on itself. Length of the slat is determined, such that the slat surrounds half of a peripheral zone of a person`s limb in the stable position. A protective covering (6) houses the slat. The fastening ...

A fully immersed roller rotating type plating equipment that improves plating quality uniformly and also reduces plating time by preventing the surface of a treatment object from being exposed to the atmosphere during plating is provided. In a plating equipment(100) capable of performing rotary plating by dipping a roller(10) which is axially connected to a shaft(12) longitudinally and has rotary ...

PURPOSE: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided to prevent losses of a semiconductor substrate by using two-step contact etching processes for exposing a cell and a peripheral region. CONSTITUTION: A transistor and a capacitor are sequentially formed on a semiconductor substrate(11) defined by a cell and a peripheral region. Then, two-step contact etching processes for metal...

In the method for preparation of microspheres by in-water drying method, an iterative process is employed, which comprises emulsifying a medicament-containing polymer solution (4) containing an organic solvent in an emulsifying device (1) to form an emulsion; transferring this emulsion into a microsphere storage tank (2); introducing a part of said emulsion to a cross flow filter (3) from the micr...

A novel highly grafted, multi-functional olefm copolymer is provided comprising an additive reaction product of a method comprising reacting acylating agent with an olefin copolymer having a number average molecular weight greater than about 1,000 in the presence of a free radical initiator and essentially free of hydrocarbon solvent in an extruder to provide an olefin copolymer intermediate compr...

PURPOSE: To provide a suit brush having the simple constitution for automatically recovering refuse removed from clothes, easily seizing the recovering quantity, and easily disposing of the refuse. CONSTITUTION: A short pile group 27 having the tip inclined toward the opening end part side of an inner cylinder with a central branch line 26 as a boundary is arranged on an outer peripheral surface o...