Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Fuji Electronics Co., Ltd.

Yoshihiro Taniguchi

Takao Okuhara

Masashi Nagata

Yoshiyuki Fukushima

Yoshito Shibata

Masao Nakayama

Takuya Fukuura

Kazuhiro Tomita

Shojiro Onzuka

Shunsuke Kowase

Takeshi Oiwa

Tsuyoshi Horiguchi

Takuya Yamane

A coin storage device includes: storage compartments that store therein coins by denomination; and screw-type conveying members, installed for the respective storage compartments, each of the screw-type conveying members including a shaft having an elongated shape and having an outer circumferential surface provided with a blade portion that protrudes radially outwards in a spiraling shape, and conveying coins toward a front side by being rotated in one direction about a central axis of the shaft. Further, each of the screw-type conveying members includes an actuating portion to move center of gravity of coins accumulated on the actuating portion up and down periodically as the screw-type conveying member is rotated about the central axis of the shaft.

Coin storage device

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

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Yokkaichi, Japan

Yoshihiro Taniguchi