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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2016
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshito Shibata, Tsu, JP;
Kazuhiro Tomita, Yokkaichi, JP;
Takao Okuhara, Yokkaichi, JP;
Takuya Fukuura, Yokkaichi, JP;
Katsuya Nakajima, Nagano, JP;
Norio Nakajima, Yokkaichi, JP;
FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Kawasaki-Shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A coin processing apparatus houses received coins for each denomination of the coins and dispenses the housed coins in accordance with a coin output instruction. The coin processing apparatus includes: a conveyance unit that conveys the coins that are received and stored in an input section upwards one by one along a predetermined conveyance path, allows authenticity and a denomination of each coin to be checked by a checking section while the coin is conveyed, sorts the coins checked to be true coins by denomination, and dispenses the coin checked to be a false coin; and a coin output suspending unit that receives the coin dispensed from the conveyance unit, outputs the received coin from a dispensing outlet when a coin output command is given, and feeds the received coin to the input section when a feeding command is given.