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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2023
Applicant:
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Atsushi Miyashima, Izunokuni Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07D 11/40 (2019.01); G07D 1/06 (2006.01); G07D 11/14 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07D 11/40 (2019.01); G07D 1/06 (2013.01); G07D 11/14 (2019.01); G07D 2201/00 (2013.01); G07D 2211/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A checkout apparatus according to an embodiment includes a housing, a bill change machine housed in the housing to be capable of being drawn out from the housing, a coin change machine housed in the housing to be capable of being drawn out from the housing in a same direction as a direction in which the bill change machine is drawn out, and a lock unit configured to, if the bill change machine was drawn out, lock the coin change machine to be unable to be drawn out and, if the coin change machine was drawn out, lock the bill change machine to be unable to be drawn out.