Coin processing apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9922485-B2
Application number	US-201615283852-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 3, 2016
Priority date	Oct 6, 2015
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A coin processing apparatus that 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 comprising:
a conveyor that conveys the coin, the conveyor including 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,

wherein the screw-type conveying member is rotated around a central axis of the shaft section so that the coin is conveyed, and
the blade section is formed in such a manner that a surface facing a downstream side in a conveying direction gradually slopes toward an upstream side in the conveying direction as the surface is apart from the shaft section in the radial direction, and
the blade section spirally extends around the outer circumference of the cylindrical shaft section to form intervals in the conveying direction, and has a height in the radial direction less than thickness of the coin to prevent the coin from being stuck in the intervals.

2. The coin processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the blade section has a trapezoidal shape as a vertical cross-sectional shape in a direction of the central axis of the shaft section.

3. The coin processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the blade section further includes another surface facing the upstream side in the conveying direction and sloping in a direction apart from the shaft section toward the downstream side in the conveying direction, and a top surface connecting upper ends of the surface and the another surface.

4. A coin processing apparatus that 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 comprising:
a conveyor that conveys the coin, the conveyor including 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; and

a bias unit that biases one end of the shaft section connected to a driving source in a conveying direction of the coin,
wherein the screw-type conveying member is rotated around a central axis of the shaft section so that the coin is conveyed.

5. A coin processing apparatus that 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 comprising:
a conveyor that conveys the coin, the conveyor including 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; and

a reverse roller that is provided in a rotatable manner around a central axis of the reverse roller in such a manner that the reverse roller extends in a direction perpendicular to the shaft section on top of the screw-type conveying member on a downstream side in a conveying direction, the reverse roller being brought into contact with the coin conveyed by the screw-type conveying member such that the reverse roller conveys the coin in a manner that the coin is stored one by one in a pitch formed by the blade section of the screw-type conveying member,
wherein the screw-type conveying member is rotated around a central axis of the shaft section so that the coin is conveyed.

6. The coin processing apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the screw-type conveying member is provided in such a manner that the screw-type conveying member gradually slopes upward as the screw-type conveying member is closer to an installation position of the reverse roller.

Assignees

• Fuji Electric Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shibata Yoshito
• Tomita Kazuhiro
• Okuhara Takao
• Fukuura Takuya
• Nakajima Katsuya

Classifications

• G07D5/00 Primary

  Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of coins, e.g. for segregating coins which are unacceptable or alien to a currency · CPC title

• G07D1/02

  giving change {(coin-actuated mechanisms in general G07F)} · CPC title

• G07D11/13

  with internal means for handling valuable papers · CPC title