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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:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07D 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07D 9/00 ;
Abstract
A coin discharge device has a removable coin tube cassette and an empty sensor,for accurately detecting the presence of coins within the coin tubes. A sensor mounting,is designed to withdraw the sensor,from the cassette accommodation part,when the coin tube cassette is removed from the device. However, when the coin tube device is inserted into the cassette accommodation part,, the sensor mounting,moves the sensor,into the accommodation part,so that it abuts one side of the coin tube cassette to sense coins therein.