Coin recycle device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10896566-B2
Application number	US-201816114535-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 28, 2018
Priority date	Sep 4, 2017
Publication date	Jan 19, 2021
Grant date	Jan 19, 2021

Abstract

A coin input to a deposit opening is determined a denomination by a coin identifying device, and is allocated and held in a denomination storing and dispensing device in a course of being transported to a coin transporting and distributing device. The coin of a specified denomination is sent from the denomination storing and dispensing device based on a pay-out command, and paid out to a pay-out opening by a pay out transporting device. When the holding amount of the denomination storing and dispensing device becomes full, the coin is not allocated to the denomination storing and dispensing device by the coin transporting and distributing device, but is dropped to an overflow coin slot, guided to an overflow coin guiding tube juxtaposed to the denomination storing and dispensing device and held in an overflow coin storing unit arranged on the lower side of the denomination storing and dispensing device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A coin recycle device including,
a coin identifying device configured to determine a denomination of a coin input to a deposit opening of the coin recycle device by a user,
a coin transporting and distributing device configured to transport a genuine coin identified by the coin identifying device, and allocates the coin for every denomination,
a denomination storing and dispensing device configured to hold the coin allocated by denomination by the coin transporting and distributing device and that is arranged in parallel, and
a pay out transporting device, arranged along the denomination storing and dispensing device, and configured to transport the coin paid out one at a time from the outlet of the denomination storing and dispensing device based on a pay-out command toward a pay-out opening; the coin recycle device comprising:
an overflow coin slot integrally arranged with the coin transporting and distributing device; and
an overflow coin guiding tube arranged in parallel with the denomination storing and dispensing device configured to guide an overflow coin dropped to the overflow coin slot to an overflow coin storing unit; wherein
a collecting coin determining device arranged with the coin recycle device is configured to determine a coin to be collected and to output a collecting coin signal based on either a to-be collected genuine coin signal or a to-be collected fake coin signal, wherein the collecting coin determining device includes a to-be-collected genuine coin determining device configured to determine that the coin to be collected is a genuine coin to be collected; and a to-be-collected fake coin determining device configured to determine that the coin to be collected is a fake coin to be collected;
the coin transporting and distributing device is configured to transport the genuine coin to be collected based on the to-be collected genuine coin signal, and to drop the genuine coin to be collected in the overflow coin slot;
the coin transporting and distributing device is further configured to transport the fake coin to be collected based on the to-be collected fake coin signal, and to drop the fake coin to be collected in the overflow coin slot;
when the collecting coin signal is output based on the to-be collected genuine coin signal, the coin recycle device is configured to guide the genuine coin to be collected dropped in the overflow coin slot to the overflow coin guiding tube;
when the collecting coin signal is output based on the to-be collected fake coin signal, the coin recycle device is configured to guide the fake coin to be collected dropped in the overflow coin slot to the overflow coin guiding tube;
the payout transporting device includes a left guide plate and a right guide plate arranged on an upper left and right sides of a flat belt arranged between a front roller and a rear roller;
a pay-out distributing device includes a payout passage that is configured to guide coins paid out from an exit of the denomination storing and dispensing device to the payout transporting device, or a denomination guiding passage to guide the coins to a drop slot, a distributing body, a distributing body moving device and the pay-out distributing device;
a distribution body is selectively positioned by a distribution body moving device at pay-out position for guiding the coin to the payout transporting device or collecting position for guiding the coin to the drop slot;
the distributing body is selectively positioned by the distributing body moving device at a withdrawing position for guiding the coin to the payout transporting device or the collecting position for guiding the coin to the drop slot;
the distributing body moving device includes a solenoid, a rod body, an elastic body, and a coupling shaft; and
a distributing body position detecting device that includes a detection recess, a first optical sensor, and a second optical sensor formed in the rod body, and when the detection recess is detected by the first optical sensor or the second optical sensor, the position of the distributing body is discriminated whether at the pay-out position or the collecting position.

2. The coin recycle device according to claim 1 , wherein
a fake coin distributing device configured to allocate the coin to an overflow coin storage box and the fake coin to be collected based on a to-be-collected fake coin signal from the collecting coin determining device is arranged downstream of an overflow coin guiding tube lower end opening of the overflow coin guiding tube; and
the coin recycle device is configured to allocate the fake coin to be collected to a fake coin storing unit different from the overflow coin storing unit.

3. The coin recycle device according to claim 1 , wherein the coin recycle device is configured to output the collecting coin signal based on a contaminated coin signal.

4. The coin recycle device according to claim 3 , wherein the collecting coin determining device includes an image sensor.

Assignees

• Asahi Seiko Co Ltd

Inventors

• Umeda Masayoshi

Classifications

• G07D9/002

  Coin holding devices · CPC title

• G07D9/008

  Feeding coins from bulk · CPC title

• G07D3/14 Primary

  Apparatus driven under control of coin-sensing elements · CPC title

• G07D5/005

  Testing the surface pattern, e.g. relief · CPC title

• G07D9/004

  Coin packages · CPC title