Coin Controls Limited

Money Controls, Inc.

Crane Payment Innovations Gmbh

Coin Control Limited

Les Hutton

Malcolm Bell

Kevin Mulvey

John Ashby

Dennis Wood

Andrew Barson

Andrew William Barson

Robert Sydney Walker

Adam Rawicz-Szczerbo

Malcolm Reginald Hallas Bell

A banknote acceptorfor authenticating a banknote, has a sensing station S with detectorthat produces image signals corresponding to a face the banknote. A processorpre-processes the image signals and compares them with stored reference data corresponding to an acceptable banknote from memoryto determining the authenticity of the banknote and its denomination. A display devicedisplays an imagecorresponding to the banknote under test based on the image signals from the detector, to allow the user to perform a visual check that the banknote detected at the sensing station corresponds to the banknote under test presented by the user. Also, the detected denomination of the banknote is displayed on device. The user can accept or reject the banknote using buttonsand, and retrieve images of previously accepted banknotes with button

Banknote acceptor with visual checking

A banknote acceptor for authenticating a banknote, has a sensing station S with detectorthat produces image signals corresponding to a face the banknote. A processorpre-processes the image signals and compares them with stored reference data corresponding to an acceptable banknote from memoryto determining the authenticity of the banknote and its denomination. A display devicedisplays an imagecorresponding to the banknote under test based on the image signals from the detector, to allow the user to perform a visual check that the banknote detected at the sensing station corresponds to the banknote under test presented by the user. Also, the detected denomination of the banknote is displayed on device. The user can accept or reject the banknote using buttonsand, and retrieve images of previously accepted banknotes with button

This invention relates to a packaging device () for packaging a stack of sheet objects that have an attributable monetary value in a container (), the device () comprising means () for determining value data relating to the monetary value attributed to a sheet object to be stacked in the container (), and an RF reader/writer () for writing said value data to an RFID device () associated with the container ().

Packaging device and container for sheet objects

The coin validator is calibrated by inserting a calibration key different from coins to be validated in a static position in the validator such that eddy currents are induced in the key by operation of its sensor coils so as to produce a calibration value of signals form the sensor coils as a function of the individual characteristics of the validator. The calibrating value of the sensor signals may be compared with ensemble data concerning corresponding calibration values derived from an ensemble of coin validators of the same design.

Coin validator calibration

Coin discrimination apparatus

A multicoin tester has a coin inlet path 1 along which coins under test run edgewise past coils 2, 3 on opposite sides of the path, and through the windings of a coil 4. Electronic circuitry responsive to the inductive coupling of the coin with the coils operates a gate 5 to either reject the coin onto path 1b or to accept the coin into path 1a. As shown in FIG. 2 each of the coils 2, 3 and 4 is arranged in a parallel L-C resonant circuit 10, 11, 12 connected in the feedback path of an amplifier A1, the resonant circuit being energised sequentially by multiplexer M1. Each of the circuits 10, 11 and 12 has its own natural resonant frequency. The resonant circuits 10, 11, 12 are driven by a voltage controlled oscillator VCO. A phase locked loop including a phase comparator PS1 drives the oscillator VCO at a frequency corresponding to the natural resonant frequency of whichever of the circuits 10, 11 and 12 is connected thereto. As a coin passes say the coil 2, the resonant frequency of circuit 10 is modified by the coin and the phase locked loop changes the frequency of the VCO to maintain resonance. The resulting output at 15 varies both in amplitude and frequency. The amplitude deviation is digitized by an analogue to digital coverter ADC and compared by a microprocessor MPU with stored values in an EEPROM to determine coin acceptability and denomination; so as to operate gate 5 and provide other optional outputs.

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Rochdale, United Kingdom

Les Hutton