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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:
May. 23, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2004
Applicant:
Eiko Hibari, Kazo, JP;
Inventor:
Eiko Hibari, Kazo, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/74 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The coin-type determining device, for determining the presence or absence of inclined notches formed on the circumferential surface of the coin transferred through a coin transfer path, comprises: a plurality of notch detecting devices provided separately from each other with respect to an axis of the coin; a determining device for determining the presence or absence of inclined notches based on the difference between the notch detection results by the notch detecting devices.