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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2003
Applicant:
Motoharu Kurosawa, Iwatsuki, JP;
Inventor:
Motoharu Kurosawa, Iwatsuki, JP;
Assignee:
Asahi Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07D 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A token dispensing device including a storing bowl for storing the tokens and having an upper opening and a lower opening, a rotating disk for dispensing tokens one-by-one in a rotating manner located below the storing bowl. The storing bowl has a convex section for creating a quasi-jamming condition for restricting the flow of tokens from the storing bowl upper opening through the storing bowl lower opening to reduce the load on the rotating disk. The rotating disk has at least one through hole for holding and moving tokens across a base plate. A motor rotates the rotating disk.