Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Masao Nakayama

Masayuki Higashi

Toshinori Shigeyama

Toshinori Hemmi

Yoshito Shibata

Takuya Fukuura

Kazuhiro Tomita

Masashi Nagata

Takao Okuhara

Yoshiyuki Fukushima

Shimoto Ichihara

Yoshihiro Taniguchi

Takeshi Oiwa

Takuya Yamane

Shojiro Onzuka

Shunsuke Kowase

Tsuyoshi Horiguchi

Masayoshi Kawamoto

A coin validation device that is implemented in a coin handling machine which stores therein a deposited coin on a denomination-by-denomination basis and which pays out stored coin in response to a disbursement instruction, the coin validation device, includes: a carrier that carries the deposited coin in a horizontally-fallen state in one direction; and a discriminator that identifies authenticity and denominations of the coin carried in the one direction by the carrier. Further, the carrier carries a coin, which is discriminated as a counterfeit coin by the discriminator, in another direction opposite to the one direction.

Coin validation device

A bill processing device includes: a first denomination bill storage box configured to store therein first denomination bills to be used as change; a mix box configured to store therein a plurality of denominations of bills other than the first denomination bills in a mixed manner; and an examination box configured to function as a temporary storage box in examination of recounting numbers of bills stored in the first denomination bill storage box and the mix box, the bill processing device being configured to perform reception and dispensing processing of bills. Only second denomination bills to be used as change are stored in the examination box or the mix box in the reception or after the examination, and the second denomination bills stored in the examination box or the mix box are dispensed when a dispensing instruction to dispense the second denomination bills is given.

Bill processing device

A coin conveying device for a coin processing apparatus configured to store an input coin according to denomination, and dispense a coin stored therein in accordance with a payout instruction is provided. The coin conveying device includes: a rail portion configured to form a conveyance path to convey a coin; a conveying portion including holders connected endlessly, each holder being configured to hold one coin, the conveying portion being configured to convey the input coin from below to above by displacing the conveying portion in one direction along the rail portion; and a controller configured to, when the input coin is put in the conveying portion, displace the conveying portion in a reverse direction that is opposite to the one direction for a predetermined time, and displace the conveying portion in the one direction after the predetermined time has elapsed.

Coin conveying device

A bill processing device includes: a device main body including a depositing portion; a plurality of storage boxes where each has an outlet port; a dispensing box including a bill output port; an outlet door configured to open and close the outlet port of each of the storage boxes; a plurality of outlet port detectors where each is configured to detect the outlet port being opened by the outlet door; and a controller configured to determine that cash balance is unknown only when at least one of the outlet port detectors detects that the outlet port is opened.

A banknote processing device includes: a plurality of storage units configured to store a banknote having a predetermined condition in a storage unit corresponding to the banknote among the plurality of storage units when the banknote is fed through a depositing port provided on a device main body; and a dispensing box configured to discharge the banknote through a dispensing port provided on the dispensing box by conveying the banknote, which is sent from the storage unit, to the dispensing box when a dispensing instruction is given. The dispensing box is configured to collect the banknote being stored in the storage units when a collecting instruction is given.

Banknote processing device

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Yokkaichi, Japan

Masao Nakayama