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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2016
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshito Shibata, Tsu, JP;
Kazuhiro Tomita, Yokkaiti, JP;
Takao Okuhara, Yokkaiti, JP;
Takuya Fukuura, Yokkaiti, JP;
Katsuya Nakajima, Nagano, JP;
FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Kawasaki-Shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A coin processing apparatus determines an authenticity and a type of a received coin, holds a coin, which is determined to be an authentic coin, and then sorts and stores the coin for each type of coin and that further pays a stored coin in response to a coin drawing command. The coin processing apparatus includes a conveyor that conveys the coin. The conveyor includes a screw-type conveying member including a cylindrical shaft section, and a blade section provided on an outer circumference of the cylindrical shaft section in a helical fashion and protruding in a radial direction. The screw-type conveying member is rotated around a central axis of the shaft section so that a coin is conveyed.