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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1991
Nippon Conlux Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a method and apparatus for discriminating between true and false coins wherein a coin satisfying both the electrical success conditions at their lowest levels is regarded as a false coin, and a coin satisfying at least one of the two electrical success conditions at a high level is regarded as a true coin. According to the method discriminating apparatus is mounted relative to a predetermined passage along which a coin or the like to be discriminated passes, wherein true/false discrimination is carried out in accordance with whether or not the two or three different data detected from the coin and developed on a two- or three-dimensional coordinate system falls within a predetermined two- or three-dimensional function closed area. The apparatus includes: a coin passage along which a coin to be discriminated passes; exciting units mounted relative to the coin passage for exciting the coin passing along the coin passage; detecting units for detecting the state of the coin excited by the exciting units; and a unit for discriminating the coin between true and false in accordance with whether or not the data detected by the detecting units falls within a predetermined two or three-dimensional function closed area on a predetermined two or three-dimensional coordinate system.