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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2004
David J. Wendell, Willow Springs, IL (US);
John R. Blake, St. Charles, IL (US);
Joseph J. Geib, The Villages, FL (US);
John C. Peklo, Lombard, IL (US);
Richard A. Mazur, Palatine, IL (US);
David J. Mecklenburg, Glendale Heights, IL (US);
David J. Wendell, Willow Springs, IL (US);
John R. Blake, St. Charles, IL (US);
Joseph J. Geib, The Villages, FL (US);
John C. Peklo, Lombard, IL (US);
Richard A. Mazur, Palatine, IL (US);
David J. Mecklenburg, Glendale Heights, IL (US);
Cummins-Allison Corp., Mount Prospect, IL (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for determining the denomination of a coin with a disk-type coin processing system comprises moving a coin along a coin path with a rotatable disk, generating an encoder pulse for each incremental movement of the rotatable disk, directing a light beam transverse the coin path, detecting the light beam with a light detector, developing a signal at the light detector indicating the presence of a coin in the coin path, counting a number of encoder pulses occurring while developing the signal at the light detector, and comparing the counted number of encoder pulses to a plurality of stored numbers of encoder pulses corresponding to the particular coin denominations.