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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2003
Applicant:
David Furneaux, Reading, GB;
Inventor:
David Furneaux, Reading, GB;
Assignee:
Mei, Inc., West Chester, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06M 9/00 (2006.01); G07F 9/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of measuring a characteristic of a container in a coin handling apparatus which involves generating a data set from an acoustic pulse reflected by the container and analyzing the data set. The analysis includes comparing the data set to one or more stored data sets. This is used to determine the height of a coin stack in a coin tube and/or to identify the coin tube.