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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yonezo Furuya, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07D 5/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07D 5/08 ;
Abstract
A method and device for detecting a coin, wherein one of a plurality of coils (,) is selectively connected to an oscillation unit (,) via a switching unit (,) and a coin is detected based on an output from an oscillation circuit comprising the connected coil (one of,) and the oscillation unit (,).