Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux

Kenji Koyama

Takeshi Ishida

Kenji Nakajima

Jun Yamada

Genzo Yoshizawa

Kenji Nishiumi

Tsunehiro Aso

Hiroshi Kasama

Iwao Kanasashi

Takahiro Hayashi

Yasuyuki Kodama

Shinichi Kosugi

Masato Yagi

A coin treating device, wherein a key cylinder type locking means for limiting the release of the latch of the latch means is disposed in a coin storage unit so that the coin storage unit cannot easily be removed from a device main body other than in some specific cases.

Coin treating device

A coin handling method and a device which can prevent functions from being degraded by adoption of an escrow mechanism in order to temporarily hold a plurality of inserted coins to provide convenience and to prevent counterfeit coins from being used and also to provide a normal operation even if any coins are temporarily held at the time when the power is turned on. The inserted coins are temporarily held in an escrow passage, the number of temporarily held coins can be determined arbitrarily, and the coins inserted not less than the determined number are returned by an operation of a authentic/counterfeit sorting lever in order to return the inserted coin. And, to collect coins, a return passage lever and a coin box passage lever are operated depending on the states of respective portions so to guide the coins temporarily held in the escrow passage to a coin tube, a return passage or a coin box passage. At the time when the power is turned on, the coin box passage lever is switched toward the coin box passage, and an escrow pin is operated to guide the coins in the escrow passage to the coin box.

Coin handling method and device

A coin mech controller (70), when receiving a coin payment set command from a main controller (10), judges the presence or absence of a coin within an acceptor (100). In the absence of a coin within the acceptor (100), the coin mech controller (70) controls to immediately pay out coins corresponding to a coin payment amount calculated by the main controller (10). In the presence of a coin within the acceptor (100), the coin mech controller (70) controls to pay out coins corresponding to the coin payment amount calculated by the main controller (10) after the coin within the acceptor (100) has passed through. The coin mech controller (70) determines the numbers of coins having different coin sorts and corresponding to the payment amount calculated by the main controller (10), sets a payment pattern of a coin sort priority corresponding to maximum one of the determined numbers of coins in different sorts, and controls a coin dispenser (220) of a coin mech body (200) according to the set payment pattern to pay out coins from coin tubes (210-1 to 210-4).

Coin processor

A coin payout device that has been improved such that a coin jam will be automatically dislodged in the event that a coin jam occurs, and there will be no problem of overpayment. When coin payout is performed by the forward rotation of a coin payout motor (40), a coin payout controller (80) detects the occurrence of a coin jam from the operational circumstances of a carrier switch (60) up to the time when a first timer (81) runs out, and determines whether the reverse rotation of the coin payout motor (40) would cause a problem based on the current state of the carrier switch (60), so that the coin payout motor (40) is reversed and the coin jam dislodged only when no problem will be caused.

Coin payout device

In a case where a succeeding coin has arrived at a coin discriminator (110) before a preceding coin passed through the coin discriminator (110) arrives at a disposition position of a true/false coin distributor (120), the true/false coin distributor (120) is shifted to a false coin side to distribute both of the preceding and succeeding coins to the false coin side. When the preceding coin passed through the coin discriminator (110) is true one and if the succeeding coin has already arrived at the coin discriminator (110) immediately after passage of the preceding coin through the true/false coin distributor (120), the true/false coin distributor (120) is shifted to the false coin side to distribute only the succeeding coin to the false coin side. When the preceding coin passed through the coin discriminator (110) is false one and if the succeeding coin has arrived at the coin discriminator (110) before the preceding coin passes through the true/false coin distributor (120), the true/false coin distributor (120) is shifted to the false coin side to distribute the succeeding coin to the false coin side.

The type of denomination of a coin inserted through a coin slot is discriminated by a coin discriminating section while the coin is being conveyed substantially horizontally by a mechanism for horizontally conveying coins, and the discriminated coin is distributed by coin distributing levers for selectively executing a first distributing operation for distributing coins to a relevant coin accumulating section and a second distributing operation for introducing the coins to an ensuing coin distributing section. As for the coin distributing levers, all the coin distributing levers leading to the coin distributing section corresponding to the discriminated type of denomination are set in a state in which the first distributing operation is prohibited, and subsequently the coin distributing section corresponding to the discriminated type of denomination is caused to effect the first distributing operation, and as the coin to be distributed passes through the coin distributing levers, the state in which the first distributing operation of the coin distributing sections leading to the coin distributing section corresponding to the discriminated type of denomination is prohibited is sequentially canceled.

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Kawagoe, Japan

Kenji Koyama