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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
May. 13, 2003
Applicants:
Tien-yuan Chien, Taipei, TW;
Jyh-chyang Hsieh, Pate, TW;
Yeuh-ping Hsu, Sanchung, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Currency Technologies Corporation, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A power control circuit used in a vending machine having a bill accepter and vending main units controlled by the bill accepter is disclosed to include a pulse signal generator installed in the bill inlet of the bill accepter and adapted to generate a triggering signal upon insertion of a bill into the bill inlet of the bill accepter, a driver, and a trigger, which controls the driver to drive the bill accepter between the power-saving stand-by mode and the work mode subject to the presence of the pulse signal from the pulse signal generator.