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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7882942 | Coin bar storage A coin bar storage of the invention includes: a casing; a coin bar tray that is provided in the casing so as to be drawn out from and stored into the casing, and that has a plurality of set sections in which set coin types are respectively pre-set to assign a coin t... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7537099 | Coin discriminator where frequencies of eddy currents are measured A coin processing machine with a coin discriminator operated by a method is provided. The coin discriminator measures how a coin having an iron core covered by a layer of copper, brass, or bronze affects a coil when the coin is subjected to magnetic fields generated... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7341179 | Media cassette sensing system The invention provides a sensing system for a self-service terminal and a media cassette for use in such a self-service terminal. The sensing system for a self-service terminal comprises an aerial comprising at least one receive circuit and a processor arranged in u... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7191933 | Automatic fare paying device for vehicles and method A compact fare paying device has a housing for receiving a monetary member and at least one verifier unit in the housing for determining the authenticity of the monetary member. A storage device such as a safe can receive the monetary member or a return device can r... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7114648 | Networked time-keeping system Disclosed is time keeping system for an employer. The system includes one or more time-keeping network appliances. Each of these appliances includes a small web server. The system also includes some form of employee interface which enables the employee to submit, an... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7108120 | Coin inspection method and apparatus therefor A coin inspection method and apparatus capable of inspecting coins having different materials and surface patterns with high accuracy by a simple coil arrangement. An exciting coil is arranged in the vicinity of one side of a coin passage inclined at a predetermined... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7104384 | Method and apparatus for measuring the diameter of coins A method for measuring the diameter of coins in coin validators, comprising the steps below: The coins traverse an electromagnetic field which is formed such as to partially hide the field, at least also by their upper area. The field is ge... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7073654 | Coin selector for bimetal coins A coin selector assembly includes a coin passageway having at least a pair of thickness sensor unit operatively positioned along the coin passageway to provide respective measurements of the thickness of the coin. A comparing unit compares the respective thickness s... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071685 | Induction sensor using printed circuit A planar induction sensor for sensing of security features of documents having changing magnetic and (or) conducting properties is of a multilayer printed circuit board design. The sensor comprises a planar current transformer with a spiral-type primary coils and on... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6957732 | Vending machine having direct data link to cash dispenser A system which will allow a bill acceptor and dispenser to be incorporated into a vending machine operating on a standardized vending machine protocol to allow the vending machine to dispense change in the form of coins and/or currency according to the amount of cha... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6902050 | Coin mechanism of simplified construction and method of coin validity testing and vending machine operation The validity of a coin is tested in a coin mechanism typically used for vending products. A test arm which is integrally and resiliently connected to a back plate contacts a coin when the coin wheel is rotated, and the test arm resiliently deflects in response to co... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6742644 | Note acceptor-dispenser validator An acceptor-dispenser validator system for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip and/or currency into, and for distributing currency or a currency equivalent from, an electronic gaming machine or alternative type of customer service device is disclosed. The system includ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6705448 | Method and apparatus for validating currency Coins may be validated and denominated by comparing varying signals from coin sensors and checking whether a predetermined relationship between them is maintained, for example, as the coin moves past die sensors. In some implementations, each varying signal may repr... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6675948 | Method and apparatus for taking out information using magnetic sensor and carrying out test of article by using that information An apparatus adapted for testing, in a non-contact manner, true/false property of bill, coin or magnetic card to be tested, comprises a non-contact type magnetic sensor 1 disposed, at a predetermined position of a carrying passage of the bill, in a manner... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6667615 | Coin identifying device using magnetic sensors The present invention provides for a metallic surface identifying sensor including: a magnetic pole portion for detection which shifts facing a surface of a magnetic body to be identified having an uneven shape wherein the distance from the surface to be ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6600313 | Device for reading an elongate magnetic data carrier A device for reading an elongate magnetic data carrier attached to or embedded in an article, having an active read head adapted to have a lateral extent greater than the width of the data carrier, preferably four times greater, such that the magnetic fie... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6539083 | Inductive coin validation system and payphone using such system A coin validation arrangement, usable for example in pay telephones, uses one or more inductive sensors having a small effective magnetic field so that the inductive sensor responds only to the material of a strip across the coin. Preferably a plurality o... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6378685 | Coin-receiving device A coin-receiving device including a coins-lump insertion part and a coin-sending device. A foreign objects separator catches foreign objects among inserted things and removes the foreign objects from coin-passage. The inserted items received from the coin... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6310475 | Magnetic sensor having magnetic detectors arranged in a direction orthogonal to a relative moving direction A magnetic sensor for detecting magnetic fields deriving from a magnetic body to detect any magnetic body on a non-magnetic body by moving relative to the non-magnetic body in prescribed relative moving directions along the surface of the non-magnetic bod... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6288538 | Recess and protrusion surface detecting device for an object and for coin identification A surface profile detecting device comprises a plurality of bar-like cores disposed in a line with predetermined intervals in a predetermined disposing direction. Each core has tip ends that are arranged on a single plane and which face a surface of an ob... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6057683 | Induction sensor having conductive concentrator with measuring gap An induction head for sensing a magnetic strip or other magnetically permeable security structures includes an exciting coil associated with an electrically conductive concentrator, which produces a primary field and induces a responsive secondary field i... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5609235 | Coin mechanism with magnetic coin discriminator A coin mechanism for a bulk vendor or the like is provided with a magnetic discriminating device, for selectively accepting coins having a magnetic component and rejecting coins or slugs which have no magnetic component. A magnet is lodged in the coin con... | 03/11/1997 |
| 4676358 | Coin control system A coin control system for determining whether proper coinage has been inserted to start a coin operated device. The coin in vertical orientation falls onto an inclined ramp, down which it rolls past a mechanism which detects magnetic materials. The coin r... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4591042 | Coin machine for a newspaper, magazine, food or other item dispensing apparatus A coin machine for collection and checking of different types of coins and for release of a device for dispensing goods when the proper number of coins for the item purchase price is inserted into the coin machine. The coin-checking device comprises a car... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4548220 | Device for checking metal pieces, more particularly coins A device for sorting and checking metal pieces such as coins, comprising: a first sloping rotary disk for operation as a separation disk, onto which coins are to be thrown in mixed types and random orientations and which is provided at its periphery with ... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4469213 | Coin detector system An electronically controlled coin tester which positions a sample coin in a magnetic field then passes a test coin through a similar magnetic field to create a null in a detector coil sensing the fields. The output of a square wave oscillator is different... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4437558 | Coin detector apparatus An electronically controlled coin tester which distinguishes between valid and invalid coins by subjecting both the token to be tested (test coin) and a fixed reference coin (sample coin) to similar magnetic fields and evaluating the quality of any null s... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4398626 | Low frequency phase shift coin examination method and apparatus A method and apparatus for coin examination which subjects one side of a coin to a low frequency electromagnetic field from a transmitter inductor driven by an astable oscillator and frequency divider, receives a portion of the field on the other side of ... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4361218 | Coin testing apparatus A coin testing apparatus (10) comprises a coin passageway, a coin track (13) along which coins pass on their edges through the coin passageway and an inductor (16) adjacent the coin passageway. The inductor is connected in an oscillating circuit (40) so t... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4234071 | Device for checking metal pieces, particularly coins A device for checking coins or other metal pieces has an electromagnetic detector responsive to the passage of the coins which produces an output voltage which varies as a result of the passing coins. This voltage is measured at predetermined periods and ... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4106608 | Gate assembly for a coin selecting and separating device A gate assembly for a coin selecting and separating device in which a first gate is hingedly connected to a main plate and is movable selectively between an open position away from the main plate and a closed position adjacent to the main plate, and in wh... | 08/15/1978 |
| 3992938 | Device for comparative testing of the metallic content of coins or the like The invention relates to a device which holds a coin within a moving magnetic field and provides a means for determining the metallic content of the coin based upon the resultant eddy current losses generated in the coin. The moving magnetic field is prov... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3980168 | Method and apparatus for authenticating and identifying coins In a coin selector, a coin moving in a nearly vertical path under the influence of gravity is first tested to determine whether it is made of a ferromagnetic or non-ferromagnetic, conductive material. If the coin is identified as one of ferromagnetic mate... | 09/14/1976 |
