Coin placement unit for cash processing machine and self-checkout device including the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10930106-B2
Application number	US-201816485313-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 21, 2018
Priority date	Mar 2, 2017
Publication date	Feb 23, 2021
Grant date	Feb 23, 2021

Abstract

A coin placement unit is equipped with: a coin spread portion having two perpendicular wall surfaces and a recessed surface comprising a gutter-shaped recessed portion extending in the direction orthogonal to the perpendicular wall surfaces between the two perpendicular wall surfaces; a coin slot portion having a coin slot; and a ridge line portion provided between the coin spread portion and the coin slot portion so as to partition the coin spread portion and the coin slot portion. The coin spread portion, the ridge line portion, and the coin slot portion have the same width and are continuous in the direction toward a depth side.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A coin placement unit for a cash processing machine, comprising:
a coin spread portion including:
two perpendicular wall surfaces; and
a recessed surface, which is formed between the two perpendicular wall surfaces, and is formed of a gutter-shaped recessed portion extending in a direction orthogonal to the perpendicular wall surfaces;

a coin slot portion including a coin slot; and
a ridge line portion formed between the coin spread portion and the coin slot portion so as to partition the coin spread portion and the coin slot portion,
wherein the coin spread portion, the ridge line portion, and the coin slot portion have the same width and are continuous in a direction toward a depth side, and
wherein the coin placement unit further comprises an extension portion of a plate shape which is formed at an end portion of the coin spread portion, that is not on a side continuous to the ridge line portion, and which extends in a direction of separating from the coin spread portion toward a side opposite to the depth side without a step.

2. The coin placement unit according to claim 1 ,
wherein a highest point of an upper end portion of the coin spread portion and a highest point of an upper end portion of the coin slot portion are continuous,
wherein a height of the highest point of the upper end portion of the coin spread portion and a height of the highest point of the upper end portion of the coin slot portion are equal, and
wherein a height of the ridge line portion continuous to the recessed surface of the coin spread portion is lower than the height of the highest point of the upper end portion of the coin spread portion and the height of the highest point of the upper end portion of the coin slot portion.

3. The coin placement unit according to claim 1 ,
wherein the extension portion has a shape of a curved line in which an extension length of a front end thereof is, when seen from a front, shortened as being away from a center.

4. The coin placement unit according to claim 1 , wherein the coin slot portion includes:
a coin slot portion inlet, which is formed at an upper end portion of the coin slot portion, and has a substantially rectangular shape;
a coin slot, which is formed at a lower end portion of the coin slot portion, and is smaller than the coin slot portion inlet; and
an inclined surface, which is continuous from the coin slot portion inlet to the coin slot.

5. The coin placement unit according to claim 4 , wherein a surface forming a depth portion in a depth direction in the inclined surface has an inclination angle smaller than an inclination angle of a surface forming another portion of the inclined surface, and at least one rib is formed along inclination of an upper portion of the surface.

6. The coin placement unit according to claim 1 , wherein a boundary between each of the perpendicular wall surfaces and the recessed surface forming the recessed portion formed a rounded curved surface.

7. The coin placement unit according to claim 1 , wherein the coin slot has a substantially elliptical shape, and has a shape formed of curved lines each having a substantially semicircular shape, which are formed on both sides and face each other, and curved lines each having a substantially semicircular shape, and a central portion of at least one of two line segments protrudes outward.

8. A self-checkout device, comprising the coin placement unit of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Nec Platforms Ltd

Inventors

• Nakashima Takashi
• Hagiwara Natsuki

Classifications

• G07F19/202

  Depositing operations within ATMs (depositing in general G07D11/00) · CPC title

• G07G1/12

  electronically operated · CPC title

• G07G1/0018

  Constructional details, e.g. of drawer, printing means, input means · CPC title

• G07D11/009 Primary

  Depositing devices · CPC title

• G07F1/02

  Coin slots · CPC title