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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2006
Hideo Tanaka, Saitama-ken, JP;
Ryoji Yamagishi, Saitama-ken, JP;
Hideo Tanaka, Saitama-ken, JP;
Ryoji Yamagishi, Saitama-ken, JP;
Nippon Conlux Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
The object of the present invention is to provide apparatus for validating and paying out coins, which can guide metal fragments to the surface of the driving motor such that the guided metal fragments are attracted to the surface of the driving motor so as to prevent the metal fragments from entering the coin pay-out mechanism, thereby to prevent the coin pay-out mechanism from erroneously operating, and which can reduce the labor of the maintenance such as cleaning by accumulating the metal fragments at a given place. The apparatus of the present invention for validating and paying out coins comprises comprising a coin inspecting section for validating coins dropped into a coin slot, a coin sorting section for guiding the dropped coins either to a current coin channel or to a fake coin channel on the basis of determination of the coin inspecting section as to whether the dropped coins are current coins or fake coins, a coin container section for receiving coins categorized in their denominations so as to store the categorized coin for each denomination, and a coin pay-out mechanism for paying out, as required, coins as change from the coins stored in the coin container section, wherein a driving motor for driving the coin pay-out mechanism is located above the coin pay-out mechanism, one or more guidepaths are mounted at a slant so as to guide extraneous objects to the surface of the driving motor, and the guided extraneous objects are attracted to the surface of the driving motor by magnetic field induced by a permanent magnet in the driving motor.