Nippon Conlux Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux

Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Coinco

Masayuki Watabe

Kenji Nishiumi

Yoshinori Maruyama

Takashi Ono

Yoshikazu Mori

Osamu Sugimoto

Susumu Kojima

Shigeru Yasuda

Michihiro Ota

Hideaki Onda

Susumu Kozima

A coin dispensing apparatus having a simple construction and capable of dispensing coins securely and easily. A guide member is arranged extending along a tangent to a column formed in the center of rotation of the disk, whereby the coins can be smoothly transported along the guide member by means of a force from first protrusions without applying an impulsive force to the first protrusions and the guide member. Each coin transported to a predetermined position by the associated first protrusion is further transported to the outside of the transportation limit of the first protrusion by a second protrusion which is associated with a subsequent through hole, and is delivered securely to a coin dispensing port. A stirring rod having a rigid portion with an elliptic section and a rod with a circular section is fixed to the center of rotation of the disk, and the coins in a hopper are stirred by the protuberances on the outer peripheral surface of the rigid portion. Thus, extraordinary rotation of the disk and overloading of a motor, which may be caused by bridging or interference of the coins in the hopper, is prevented.

Coin dispensing apparatus

A bill processor temporarily collects liquid entering the processor body through the liquid inlet and guided below a bill inlet or guided along a tilted bottom surface of the processor body in a liquid collector disposed at the bottom of a front cover which is provided with the bill inlet, and then discharges the liquid to the outside of a device to which the bill processor is mounted through a liquid guiding member connected to the liquid collector.

Latch device

In a bill processor including a main body and a bill stacker arranged on the rear surface side of the main body for storing stacked bills therein, the position of a supporting device for turnably supporting the bill stacker to the main body and the position of a latching device for latching the bill stacker to the main body are changed depending on the 'upstack attitude' or the 'downstack attitude' of the main body, without changing the position of the bill stacker relative to the main body.

Bill processor

Bill processors

A paper currency discriminating device which is improved to prevent the illegal extraction of paper currency more reliably. An impeller 10 associated in the rotating direction of timing belts 14 for transferring the paper currency is so disposed at the exit of a paper currency transfer passage 6 as to protrude upward over the paper currency transfer face of an upper transfer plate 3. Moreover, the impeller 10 at the time of introducing the paper currency is inhibited from backward rotation to prevent any illegal extraction of the paper currency once introduced. At the same time, a decision signal is outputted after it is detected by a passage detection sensor P3 that the trailing end of the paper currency being transferred reaches the impeller 10 over an extraction preventing lever 33. As a result, it is possible to prevent the illegal use of the paper currency by the extraction which is done before the end of the introduction. Moreover, the illegal recovery of the paper currency by abusing the opening action of the paper currency transfer passage 6 is prevented by preventing any additional insertion of paper currency by closing the paper currency transfer passage 6 with a shutter member 24 till the introduction of the paper currency is ended.

Paper currency discriminating device

A first bill feeding plate 33 and a second bill feeding plate 34 cooperatively constitute a bill feeding passage 31 of a bill discrimination apparatus 1. The first bill feeding plate 33 is formed at a bottom of a casing 67, which is swingably supported on the second bill feeding plate 34 through a hinge shaft 36. An opening lever 82, having an engaging hook 83 and an operating projection 84, is swingably supported at a distal end of the casing 67. The first bill feeding plate 33 is fixed to the second feeding plate 34 when the engaging hook 83 is engaged with an engaging piece 94. Pulling up the operating projection 84 causes the opening lever 82 to start a swing motion about a bearing piece 87.This causes the engaging hook 83 to separate from the engaging piece 94, and the casing 67 rotates in a counterclockwise direction. Thus, the first bill feeding plate 33 separates from the second bill feeding plate 34 to widely open the bill feeding passage.

Bill discriminating apparatus

In a bill discriminating apparatus, a bill stacking unit is adapted for detachable attachment to a bill discriminating unit at both an up-stacking position and a down-stacking position. At the up-stacking position the stacking unit is arranged at a position higher than the bill discriminating unit whereas at the down-stacking position the stacking unit is arranged at a position lower than the bill discriminating unit. The bill stacking unit is detachably attached by a detachable attaching mechanism to the bill discriminating unit at one of both the up-stacking position and the down-stacking position. A torque is transmitted by a torque transmitting mechanism from a drive mechanism of a bill conveyer of the bill discriminating unit to a drive pulley of the stack conveyer of the stacking unit.

It is judged whether or not a bill, inserted from a bill inlet, is genuine, and then the bill is passed to a bill stacking position through a bill passage only when it is judged that the bill is genuine. The bill is pushed into an accumulating box by rotating an eccentric cam of a stacker unit at the bill stacking position when the a shutter switch becomes on after the bill passes a shutter plate and a pull out preventing lever. The eccentric cam is held at a top dead center. A bill pull out preventing apparatus includes a pull out preventing lever having a distal end portion. The distal end portion is curved to define a hook groove. The lever is arranged so that the distal end portion is directed away from the insert slot. The lever is spring biased to swing about a pivot to block the bill passage.

Method and apparatus for preventing bills or the like from being pulled

An apparatus for preventing a bill from being pulled out. The apparatus includes a hang preventing mechanism which has a tongue for preventing a bill from hanging from a bill accumulating box into a bill passage. The bill is conveyed through the bill passage to the bill accumulating box. The hang preventing mechanism is pivotally supported and is spring biased by a biasing mechanism for holding the tongue to prevent a bill, received in the bill accumulating box, from hanging from the bill accumulating box while the tongue is allowed to turn by a bill which passes through the bill passage for entering the bill accumulating box.

Apparatus for preventing bills or the like from being pulled out

Disclosed is a read/write apparatus for magnetic card, which includes a card conveyance passage along which a flexible magnetic card is guided. The passage has a direction changing portion where the direction of the passage is gradually changed, and a downstream portion where the passage extends vertically of the apparatus. By virtue of this arrangement the apparatus can be small in depth size and have a thin body. When an additional insertion button of the apparatus is depressed by a customer, zero value is written on the magnetic card and the card is returned. Upon insertion of an additional card, the sum of the balance of the additional card and the previous card is transmitted to an external information processing unit installed in a vending machine, to permit a single sales operation within the sum of the balances.

Read/write apparatus for magnetic card

A card read/write device of the type comprising an inlet sensor disposed at a card insertion inlet, a shutter which opens in response to the detection signal from the inlet sensor, a transportation mechanism driving sensor disposed backwardly of the shutter, a card transportation mechanism disposed backwardly of the second-mentioned sensor for transporting the inserted card backwardly and a card information read/write means disposed within the card transportation mechanism, characterized in that when the trailing end of the card passes past the transportation mechanism sensor in the case of returning the card, the card transporting mechanism is deactivated and when the transportation mechanism driving sensor is turned on again under these conditions, the card transportation mechanism is activated again to transport the card backwardly so that the read/write operation of the card is accomplished.

Card read/write device

This bill device is constituted of a relatively elongated casing. A bill insertion slit is formed substantially in the center of this casing in its longitudinal direction. A first U-shaped bill conveying passage communicating with the bill insertion slit is provided in one half of the casing and a second U-shaped bill conveying passage communicating with this first U-shaped bill conveying passage is provided in another half of the casing. A bill discrimination section is disposed in the former half of the first U-shaped bill conveying passage and a bill accumulating device is disposed in the latter half of the second bill conveying passage such that a plurality of bills after discrimination are retained in the two U-shaped bill conveying passages. In a case where a part of the temporarily retained bills are accepted and the rest of the bills are returned, a bill return operation is performed prior to a bill accumulating operation such that a required number of bills are returned first from among temporarily retained bills and thereafter the rest of the bills are accepted into the bill accumulating device.

Bill device

A bill discriminator including within a housing a bill conveying mechanism which comprises a bill conveying path, a driving pulley, a driven pulley and conveyor belt and which is rotatable in both forward and reverse directions for conveyance of a bill within the bill conveying path, and bill discriminating magnetic head and photo sensors disposed in the bill conveying path, characterized by further including a tiltable lever having a pressing roller which is brought into pressure contact with the magnetic head by a biasing force of a spring, a latch gear integral with the driven pulley of the bill conveying mechanism, and a rocking lever which is normally in pressure contact with the outer periphery of the latch gear and which, at the time of reverse rotation of the bill conveying mechanism, imparts a tilting action to the tiltable lever against the spring to let the pressing roller depart from the magnetic head.

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Moroyama, Japan

Masayuki Watabe