Glory Ltd.

Ryo Hasegawa

Hidekazu Tanaka

Masafumi Chikamori

Seiji Morikawa

Naoki Tomigaki

Daiki Yokoie

Yuji Adachi

Hirofumi Kamatani

Masatoshi Kageyama

Kazumasa Morimoto

Yusuke Ohno

A magnetism detection device capable of improving the ability to detect magnetic features of coins and reducing a change in outputs due to a change in transport positions of coins, a coin recognition device, and a method for detecting magnetism using the magnetism detection device. The magnetism detection device includes a transport path on which a coin is to be transported, detection coils arranged on at least one side of a transport surface of the transport path and along a direction crossing a transport direction of the coin, and a controller configured to detect a magnetic feature of the coin based on an output signal from at least one but not all of the detection coils.

Magnetism detection device, coin recognition device, and method for detecting magnetism using magnetism detection device

The present invention provides a coin recognition unit having high recognition capacity. The coin recognition unit comprises magnetic sensors each configured to collect magnetic characteristics of a transported coin; at least one optical sensor disposed with a space from the magnetic sensors and configured to collect optical characteristics of a surface of the coin; a glass plate constituting a transport surface on which the coin is transported and having a larger size than the coin; and a controller configured to control the magnetic sensors and the at least one optical sensor and perform a recognition process, the glass plate covering at least part of each magnetic sensor and at least part of each optical sensor.

Coin recognition unit

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Hyogo, Japan

Ryo Hasegawa