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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1998
Shingo Kamiya, Hamamatsu, JP;
Minoru Ogita, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
In an informing mode, a coin box outputs informing pulses, the number of which corresponds to the number of remaining credits, in response to pulses supplied from a service providing apparatus (steps S to S ). The service providing apparatus counts the number of informing pulses to detect the number of remaining credits. In an accounting mode, when the coin box detects a pulse output from the service providing apparatus, the coin box decrements the number of remaining credits one by one for every detection of a pulse output from the service providing apparatus (steps S to S ). In this way, the accounting is performed by decrementing the number of remaining credits in the coin box by the number of pulses corresponding to the service compensation.